Now Point One

First off sorry the post is later than I said it would be. Returning to work, 4 am job, kicked my sleepy butt harder than I expected. I'll adjust expectations to Thursday evenings from now on. It doesn't help that I spent all of Wednesday playing Marvel's Legendary instead of reading everything and writing down my thoughts. Then when I got home I ended up playing Minecraft since we set up a new server. Alas, I did get some comics read. Haven't gotten to DC stuff, Black Widow, or X-Factor yet. Not the order I read them in but we should definitely start off with All New Marvel Now Point One.

I don't know what I was expecting when I cracked open Point One. My worst fear was that I would have paid $6.00 for a book of previews. My best hopes was that chief creative officer Joe Quesada would have guided a few artists and a few writers into a story that neatly flows into one another setting up the first major story arc of ANMN. I don't know if that is what Joe really does or anything but they mentioned him in the back and I got what I asked for. Six stories all tied together by one man. Loki Laufeyson.

...Loki, Agent of Asgard, © Marvel, ANMN Point One

In short, Loki is collecting the 5 keys to a chest that was left to Thor by his parents for the day that he ascends to ruler of Asgard. Each runed key was obtained from one of the stories. Loki gets all the keys in the end of course and gets Gram from the box. Sword belonging to Sigurd.

© Marvel Comics, ANMN Point One

There was a second story set up in this issue. Probably part of the same series just less directly connected so far. The Kree empire seeks an object of great power that appeared on earth during the second world war. This object was then split up into three pieces and hid in various places around the Earth. Three heroes were the only ones to know the location of the pieces.

Now, the only place in Point One that I truly felt lost was right there in the top panel on the right. You can click the picture to make it bigger usually on my blog. Who the crap is Jim Hammond? Now of course I Googled it because I provided you with the link and everything. Well it turns out that he goes all the way back to Timely Comics, what Marvel was born from. Interestingly enough Bucky, Namor, and Jim Hammond are all some of the biggest names to carry on from Timely Comics and they just so happen to be the ones trusted with guarding this ancient artifact. So I give Point One a .8/.10 My score is definitely helped out by getting the book free from the local comic book shop.

© Marvel
Savage Wolverine 14

Now on to Savage Wolverine.  Avengers World should probably be next but I'm reserving that review for Saturday with Fantomex. This comic is from Richard Isanove, a French Writer/Artist specializing in the noir. First off I love when the same person is doing the art and the story. I feel like less is lost in translation. I'm trying to pay more attention to who writes stories and who does art so that I can better recognize books that I want to read based on them. According to Wikipedia this is his only book he wrote for and so far I'm liking what I read. I love the minimal use of lines and they way he conveyed attitude in this book.

I wasn't too sure about picking up Savage Wolverine at first. I feel like there is a bit too much Wolverine saturation. They even joked in Avengers about how he is on too many teams. I'm still not positive what it was that made me pick it up. I'm glad I did though. At the moment they are keeping him out of the super hero setting. That may be what the whole Savage Wolverine series is but I haven't been inclined to pick on up until now. I love watching Wolverine do something less grandiose. Besides surviving gunshots the the face of course. I'm already hooked on the story.

© Marvel, Savage Wolverine 14.Now

 I don't like picking up comics in the middle of their runs and feeling like I missed something. This is why I am excited about the ANMN so much. Beforehand there wasn't really any Marvel comics that I was picking up at the store. I was wanting to keep up with Superior Spider-Man but didn't like that I wasn't starting from the beginning. Now I have a chance to start a few off from a good jumping on point. I think Superior Spider-Man is even supposed to have a jumping on point here with the Green Goblin taking over the city. Maybe it isn't but shit. I'm jumping in there anyways.


Well that is about it for me today. Avengers World and Fantomex coming Saturday. I'll talk a little about the other comics on Tuesday unless I read them and decide to talk a lot about them. Thank you for reading.
!Victor!