Post by Marv-El on Feb 3, 2022 15:53:49 GMT -5
Thoughts on #11-12
#11 is a great set-up, showing the trap set for Mac by his former boss/friend Jaxon. A terrific cliffhanger in showing the awesomely named Omega Flight ready to kill. The backup origin story of Sasquatch was good too. Walt mentions being part of a select intellectual group in college along with Banner, I'd be interested in learning who else was in that group. (The panel in question shows two other people, a man and a woman, along with Walt and Banner). The transformation scenes were brutal and vibrant in showing the initial rage and confusion over what happened to him. And we get the first questioning of what is really going on with Walt, why isn't he green if he exposed himself to gamma rays?
As for #12, I distinctly remember where and when I first read this issue. My dad had taken me by our local convenience store so I had bought AF #12 and Flash #335. Afterwards, my dad went to see a friend who was a local mechanic. While they talked, I sat on the hood on a junk car outside the shop and read both of those issues, starting with AF. I had bought sporadic issues of AF thus far but the cover really stood out on the rack, it was a double-sized issue and someone going to die?! Heck yeah, here's my dollar!
Cover to cover, it was (and still is) all out action and suspense. I found the death scene to be a punch in the face especially how Bryne framed it. With the countdown page, you think, okay, Mac is going to make it but then Heather, the interruption, the concern and BOOM! Fiery and brutal, Bryne adds that last moan by Mac of Heather's name as he falls, it still gives me chills. And the last page, Heather's reaction, it was and still is shocking. Most times, there is some question of did this character die? Not here, Byrne is very direct in showing what happened, leaving little to wonder about. While I think Mac is not the least interesting character (having him continue his journey into becoming a super hero, witnessing the bumps in the road per se, I think he stilll had great potential), his death scenes still stand to me as one of the most shocking and well done ever in Marvel.
As for the speculation on Flashback's power, I have to think there is also a spatial component to his temporal power as well. Else how were his dopplegangers able to reach Guardian? Smart Alec said he was the only one able to reach Guardian while in flight. How? Flashback can't fly. So he can materialize his dopplegangers where ever he wants regardless of height and/or distance?
#11 is a great set-up, showing the trap set for Mac by his former boss/friend Jaxon. A terrific cliffhanger in showing the awesomely named Omega Flight ready to kill. The backup origin story of Sasquatch was good too. Walt mentions being part of a select intellectual group in college along with Banner, I'd be interested in learning who else was in that group. (The panel in question shows two other people, a man and a woman, along with Walt and Banner). The transformation scenes were brutal and vibrant in showing the initial rage and confusion over what happened to him. And we get the first questioning of what is really going on with Walt, why isn't he green if he exposed himself to gamma rays?
As for #12, I distinctly remember where and when I first read this issue. My dad had taken me by our local convenience store so I had bought AF #12 and Flash #335. Afterwards, my dad went to see a friend who was a local mechanic. While they talked, I sat on the hood on a junk car outside the shop and read both of those issues, starting with AF. I had bought sporadic issues of AF thus far but the cover really stood out on the rack, it was a double-sized issue and someone going to die?! Heck yeah, here's my dollar!
Cover to cover, it was (and still is) all out action and suspense. I found the death scene to be a punch in the face especially how Bryne framed it. With the countdown page, you think, okay, Mac is going to make it but then Heather, the interruption, the concern and BOOM! Fiery and brutal, Bryne adds that last moan by Mac of Heather's name as he falls, it still gives me chills. And the last page, Heather's reaction, it was and still is shocking. Most times, there is some question of did this character die? Not here, Byrne is very direct in showing what happened, leaving little to wonder about. While I think Mac is not the least interesting character (having him continue his journey into becoming a super hero, witnessing the bumps in the road per se, I think he stilll had great potential), his death scenes still stand to me as one of the most shocking and well done ever in Marvel.
As for the speculation on Flashback's power, I have to think there is also a spatial component to his temporal power as well. Else how were his dopplegangers able to reach Guardian? Smart Alec said he was the only one able to reach Guardian while in flight. How? Flashback can't fly. So he can materialize his dopplegangers where ever he wants regardless of height and/or distance?