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I also got the TPB of Sentinel, the Marvel comic about a highschool kid who finds a wrecked mutant-killing robot in a junkyard. I can’t put my finger on why this comic appealed to me the first time I looked at it, months ago. The writing is pedestrian, and the character designs so simple that nobody ever changes clothes, even over the course of weeks.
On the upside, Marvel has produced digest-sized books with full color art for eight bucks, which seems like a development worth encouraging. (The paper’s pretty low-quality, but you can’t have everything.)
On Thursday I found the other Marvel pseudo-manga TPB I’d been waiting for, Runaways. This is much better than Sentinel. It’s about a group of teens who discover that their parents are super-villains. It’s not as good as Y: The Last Man (also written by Runaways writer Brian K. Vaughan), but it is good, and I’m up for getting at least the next TPB (assuming it actually lives that long) to find out where it’s going.
My weekly scan through the New Comic Book Releases List revealed that none of my regulars came out this week, so I was up for some experimentation. On
womzilla’sI also got the TPB of Sentinel, the Marvel comic about a highschool kid who finds a wrecked mutant-killing robot in a junkyard. I can’t put my finger on why this comic appealed to me the first time I looked at it, months ago. The writing is pedestrian, and the character designs so simple that nobody ever changes clothes, even over the course of weeks.
On the upside, Marvel has produced digest-sized books with full color art for eight bucks, which seems like a development worth encouraging. (The paper’s pretty low-quality, but you can’t have everything.)
On Thursday I found the other Marvel pseudo-manga TPB I’d been waiting for, Runaways. This is much better than Sentinel. It’s about a group of teens who discover that their parents are super-villains. It’s not as good as Y: The Last Man (also written by Runaways writer Brian K. Vaughan), but it is good, and I’m up for getting at least the next TPB (assuming it actually lives that long) to find out where it’s going.