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Of Embassies and Origins - Justice League International Part 2 (Eaglemoss Collection v77)

  Review: Since we are doing a series of reviews focusing on Booster Gold over his nearly 40-year history, we include this one as a collection of some of his earliest appearances, dating to late 1987. That places the original publish date of these tales while his original solo series was still going strong.  This book is a beautiful, glossy hard-cover with smooth and heavy-stock paper inside, although the sometimes-low print reproduction quality leads to blurred and hard to read word balloons on occasion. It is also a rare book here in North America, as Eaglemoss Collections targeted UK fans with this series. At this point in the history of the 1987-rebooted Justice League, they have gained official United Nations recognition and sanction. To ensure their reach truly is global, they rebrand as Justice League International (as does the title of the series!) and they open new headquarters buildings around the world: New York, Paris and Moscow are included here. As this is a product of 19
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When you live by the sword... Uncanny X-Force Volume 6: Final Execution - Book 1

Cover of Uncanny X-Force - Final Execution book 1

 

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"Sometimes to truly save lives the only option is to take them." This is the central tenet of the X-Force, the group of mutant assassins who are willing to kill in order to save lives. But does the threat need to be a clear and present danger? What of those with propensity or potential to kill later?

In this collection, author Rick Remender plays with these tensions and moral conflicts. The foundational assumptions of X-Force cut both ways and their enemies here know how and where and when to hit them. A disgustingly bloated, pus-filled Wolverine barely survives one attack. Fantomex does not. Psylocke faces the demons of her past and the monsters of her future.

It is this future self that drives the more interesting question behind this story: how moral is it to pre-emptively take another's life? Psylocke, Wolverine and others are horrified at their future selves and how easy it would be to give into the temptation. Once the killing starts, it is easier to do so again, and with a lower threshold of evil to merit the punishment.

The art duties in this collection are shared by three artists. Phil Noto's middle section is the most memorable, a graphic, gory, sexy stretch that encompasses the gruesome sight of the bloated Wolverine gutting himself to remove the poison, on one page, while a multi-page sequence covers the in-their-underwear duel of Mystique and Fantomex as they come to blows after their night of sex. Julian Totino Tedesco's work also stands out, showing the young-and-old contrasts in the characters when they jump 30 years into the future. The grey hair and age wrinkles on Wolverine, Psylocke and Punisher are very well done, aging them but preserving their recognizability.



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The end of X-Force? The secret mutant hit squad X-Force has fallen to its lowest point. Its members have sacrificed much, and two have left the team. It's a terrible time for a new, deadlier-than-ever Brotherhood of Evil Mutants to strike at X-Force's heart. This is a Brotherhood like none before. Each member, each attack, has been designed specifically to hurt X-Force in the worst way possible...by a mastermind who knows all of X-Force's weaknesses.

Collects: Uncanny X-Force 25-29

Authors: Rick Remender
Artists: Mike McKone, Phil Noto, Julian Totino Tedesco
Published By: Marvel
Published When: April 30 2013
Parental Rating: Teen
ISBN: 9780785161844
Pages: 112 pages


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