Comic Review

[bluegargantua]

Hi,

So there's this 5-issue Marvel series out called "Super Villain Team-Up: Modok's Eleven".

It's up to issue 4 and I'm really enjoying the hell out of it.

It's pretty much what you'd expect: MODOK gets a bunch of third-rate Marvel villains together to try and pull off this massive heist.

There have been double-crosses, triple-crosses, and more to come. It's been a real hoot. I love stories like this because the bad guys can totally cut loose and because they keep screwing each over so much (and because the total body count has mostly been confined to other bad guys) it's easy to continue to root for them.

In general, I find bad guys more fun. In part because while most people are basically good, power is so very, very corrupting. If you had a super-power that you could exploit for some purpose besides helping other people out of the goodness of your heart, I doubt anyone I know could resist exploiting it a couple of times. So the ways in which villains abuse their powers is endlessly fascinating.

So this is really a pretty great little miniseries.

later
Tom

Comments

[editswlonghair.livejournal.com]

I heard about this series a couple of weeksa ago, and given my passion for capers, I thought I might dig it. But none of my usual sources for 'is this a good comic?' intel had even heard of it, so I was loathe to pick it up sight unseen. Thanks for the recommendation!

[bluegargantua]

Here's the basic litmus test for comics:

Is MODOK in it?

If yes: Comic is good.
If no: Probably not.

see? easy!
Tom

[editswlonghair.livejournal.com]

Yeah... I'm not a huge comic fan, so I honestly don't know Modok from Adam...

But I'll take your word on it. ;)