Why This Is So Good: The first thing that is likely to grab you in this six-part story centered on the Fantastic Four’s The Thing, is the artwork.
Most Recent Trade: Pre-order The Thing: Next Big Thing, due out August 23, 2022 Simply put, this is just a very good comic, one that delivers an experience with superhero characters that’s so complex and steeped in ideas, it would be hard to pull off in any other medium. Cafu can do that stuff, for sure, but in this comic he’s also demonstrated a real knack for action storytelling choreography, making big fights clear in a way that heightens the stakes. It’s really smart and hard to predict, and it’s the best use of Iron Man I’ve seen in a comic in years, if not decades.įinally, it’s all brought to life by Cafu, who has a true knack for nailing the big moments here, the giant explosions, and larger-than-life squaring off between titans. We see Tony assembling a B (or C…or even D) list team of superheroes, we see him taking them to space, and we see him squaring off with an equally-matched villain from the Avengers past in ways that will give you vibes of Star Trek: The Original Series. That said, in between that intense examination, it’s also a total romp of a sci-fi superhero adventure comic that draws from deep cuts in Marvel continuity. There’s plenty of big superhero fighting (we’ll get into it) and sci-fi hi jinx (we’ll get into that too) in these pages, but it’s all driven by emotional complexity. It tackles his roots as Iron Man, his drinking problem, his troubles with relationships, and it tackles it well. Rather than deploying a quip machine Tony Stark like we see in the movies, this book really looks at Tony’s psychology, drawing it instead from his long history in the comics. First and foremost, it’s character driven, like all of Christopher Cantwell’s comics tend to be.
Why This Is So Good: Holy cow, where to start? This current run of Iron Man - which is a manageable two trades long at the time of this writing - is the ideal of what I want from my superhero comics.
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