Here we go folks, more comic goodness for you to read about - including one very in-the-news Marvel comic and some excellent non-superhero and spandex offerings. Enjoy and do feel free to let us know what you thought!
Astonishing X-Men #50
(Marvel)
Story : Marjorie Liu
Art : Mike Perkins (art), Andy Troy
(colours)
(Reviewed by Akshay Dhar)
There has been a lot of hype prior to
this issues release – all of it centred (as you can well imagine)
on the marriage of Northstar (a.k.a Jean-Paul Beaubier) and his
boyfriend Kyle. Let me put you at ease, no spoilers beyond saying
that there is no marriage in this issue – thats next time around.
This is just the build.
Overall a good issue and it continues
the fairly stable and good run of stories this title has had since
waaaay back when geek-dom's current messiah Joss Whedon launched it's
first arcs and shot Shadowcat into space on a giant bullet.
In this issue we find the story
continuing from last issue, with our heroes trying to track down the
source of their troubles. Iceman, Gambit, Wolverine, War-bird (of the
Shi'ar) and Northstar (the first 3 being reason enough for me to read
this series!!) are on the trail of whomever sent the Marauders after
them all recently and end up with more than they bargained for and
still more questions with little in the way of answers. We even get a
Black Widow cameo and more mysteries but it all does lead somewhere
by the end – where that is we're going to have to, what else, wait
a month to find out. We also have the relationship between Northstar
and Kyle under further strain and with all manner of emotional drama
– which in fairness is actually handled pretty well and all things
considered, it felt pretty realistic. A difficult challenge for the
best of writers when dealing with 'normal' folks and their issues.
