Welcome Addicts to the inaugural week-in-review from ComicAddicts.com - a space we are planning to bring you a selection of the comics released that week in short, quick and easy reviews to help you see keep track of whats good and bad with each Wednesdays releases!
This week we kick-off our reviewing with review by Anubhav and Akshay, our comic obsessed work-horses who brought you the blow-by-blow every week for the DC Comics "New 52" releases.
First out of the gate, the hotly anticipated Avengers: X-Sanction by superstar creative duo, Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinessas reviewed by Anubhav Sharma
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Ah
Loeb, you make me sad.
Avengers:
X-Sanction reunites the Jeph Loeb – Ed McGuiness creative duo that
first brought us the Red Hulk (a.k.a "Rulk"). And its Déjà vu all over again. It’s
all back: mindless smashing, every character who is not the
protagonist is dumbed down, people acting out of character all over the place.
This certainly does not fit well with Loeb’s earlier amazing work.
Continuity errors aside (I thought Radioactive Man was a good guy
now?!), and despite some unexpectedly good character work in the future
sequence, this series does look like something you can miss, even if
you’re looking forward to Avengers vs. X-Men. There is some
extremely horrible dialogue involved, which, along with out and out
bad pacing, gives the reader the feeling of nothing really happening
throughout the issue. I’ve never been a very big fan of Ed
McGuiness’ art, but in some ways, it is the almost-saving grace of
the book with some big screen action and things blowing up.
As
a book I was really hoping to like, a big disappointment.
Verdict: 5.2/10
Next up we have a double review (in keeping with the New 52 reviews) of DC's reinvention of The Ray:
