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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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Ultimate Explanations - Ultimate Comics X-Men by Nick Spencer volume 2

 

Cover of Ultimate Comics X-Men volume 2


Review:

Author Nick Spencer is weaving in this collection a tapestry with many threads, all of which will pull taut the relationship between humans, mutants and the lands they control. So much betrayal is in these 6 chapters that new twists cease to surprise and by the end we're ready and almost eager for the fire to catch and spread around the world.

Issue #7 is the artistic highlight. Carlo Barberi does a stellar job with the fluid, dynamic layouts, centered around Quicksilver's multi-page sprint. His sister Wanda - the Scarlet Witch - has never looked hotter or seemed so scheming and manipulative. And the gradual reveal of the face at the end unfolds so naturally from one image to the next.

He repeats the hidden-face reveal trick in #12, although its effect feels more forced the second time, and is drawn out too long.

Paco Medina's three issues in the middle are a self-contained tale of the revolt at Camp Angel. The torture of Colossus and his eventual head-crushing revenge are gruesome enough to merit the T+ rating.

Ultimately, though, this collection suffers from too much explanation. A graphic medium like comics needs a "show me don't tell me" approach and there is too much telling, affecting at least three of these six collected chapters.


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Quicksilver's scheme to lord over the world's mutants goes horribly awry when his army of Nimrod sentinels goes rogue and commits mutant genocide. Val Cooper probes S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Nick Fury for information on the Ultimate X program, and the identity of world's most powerful psychic, Jean Grey, is revealed - but she may not be playing for the right side. And the mutants interned at Camp Angel stage a bloody revolt when they learn the true origin of the X-gene. The ghosts of the Ultimate Universe's past drive the world's mutants toward an explosive confrontation in this thrilling chess match crafted by writer Nick Spencer (Iron Man 2.0)!

Collects: Ultimate Comics X-Men 7-12

Authors: Nick Spencer
Artists: Carlo Barberi, Paco Medina
Published By: Marvel
Published When: Jan. 22 2013
Parental Rating: Teen
ISBN: 978-0785161349
Pages: 136 pages



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