Vril Dox is one cold, calculating SOB. Which is why I think he's such a great character. At the end of last issue, Starro the Conqueror was getting ready to take over the Dominator homeworld. That mission is completed this issue. However, Fleet Admiral Xylon does escape and he sends out a sector wide emergency transmission. This puts everybody on alert . . if the Dominators can fall, so to can anyone. The good thing about all of this though is that Vril is continually building his core-team. The Khund Amon Hakk rejoins up with Vril . . even though he hates his guts. "I hate him so much I can't think straight . .!" As does Ciji, the Durlan. Wildstar finally returns with Scilica, but her command functions have been wiped, so she can't control the millions of LEGION peace-keeping robots spread out over the sector. That's what Vril was trying to do. So, he has to fall back to a more basic protocol. "It's called the 'Iron Curtain' protocol. It was meant to keep enemies out, but it will keep you fenced in. Right now, on every planet with a LEGION contract, my peacekeeper units are abandoning their posts. They will no longer follow your orders. Only one imperative drives them now . . a dormant command I hard-wired in their systems . . all ten million of them. They're taking up equidistant positions, forming a closed perimeter around Maltus and the Dominator homeworld. Each peacekeeper has a force shield emitter with enough range to overlap and link up. I'm sure you're familiar with the concept of a shield wall . . but you may not know that my 'father' invented the strongest force fields in the universe back when I assisted him. I've sealed off our little corner of space, Starro . . prepared the battlefield, if you will. You could just go home. The subspace rift through which you arrived is within our invisible box. But what you will not be able to do is slip on little starfish past my sentries. Dox out." So basically what he's done is lock Starro in a cage and piss him off. "Angry people make mistakes. Our chances of success just went from zero to about seven percent. We're going to need more help if we expect to improve those odds." Tony Bedard is doing a great job with this story. I like the way he's got everything so intricately weaved and connected. I would imagine that Vril isn't the type of character that you can write from issue to issue. You need to know 8 or 9 issues out what he's up to. He's got schemes within schemes and just because he feints one direction now, doesn't mean that you know where his ultimate goal is. I also enjoy Claude St Aubin's pencils. I think he's getting better with every issue. Since we don't have a regular Legion title right now, or stories . . at least until Adventure Comics starts up again . . this is a fantastic replacement.
Thursday, July 09, 2009
R.E.B.E.L.S. #6 - DC
Vril Dox is one cold, calculating SOB. Which is why I think he's such a great character. At the end of last issue, Starro the Conqueror was getting ready to take over the Dominator homeworld. That mission is completed this issue. However, Fleet Admiral Xylon does escape and he sends out a sector wide emergency transmission. This puts everybody on alert . . if the Dominators can fall, so to can anyone. The good thing about all of this though is that Vril is continually building his core-team. The Khund Amon Hakk rejoins up with Vril . . even though he hates his guts. "I hate him so much I can't think straight . .!" As does Ciji, the Durlan. Wildstar finally returns with Scilica, but her command functions have been wiped, so she can't control the millions of LEGION peace-keeping robots spread out over the sector. That's what Vril was trying to do. So, he has to fall back to a more basic protocol. "It's called the 'Iron Curtain' protocol. It was meant to keep enemies out, but it will keep you fenced in. Right now, on every planet with a LEGION contract, my peacekeeper units are abandoning their posts. They will no longer follow your orders. Only one imperative drives them now . . a dormant command I hard-wired in their systems . . all ten million of them. They're taking up equidistant positions, forming a closed perimeter around Maltus and the Dominator homeworld. Each peacekeeper has a force shield emitter with enough range to overlap and link up. I'm sure you're familiar with the concept of a shield wall . . but you may not know that my 'father' invented the strongest force fields in the universe back when I assisted him. I've sealed off our little corner of space, Starro . . prepared the battlefield, if you will. You could just go home. The subspace rift through which you arrived is within our invisible box. But what you will not be able to do is slip on little starfish past my sentries. Dox out." So basically what he's done is lock Starro in a cage and piss him off. "Angry people make mistakes. Our chances of success just went from zero to about seven percent. We're going to need more help if we expect to improve those odds." Tony Bedard is doing a great job with this story. I like the way he's got everything so intricately weaved and connected. I would imagine that Vril isn't the type of character that you can write from issue to issue. You need to know 8 or 9 issues out what he's up to. He's got schemes within schemes and just because he feints one direction now, doesn't mean that you know where his ultimate goal is. I also enjoy Claude St Aubin's pencils. I think he's getting better with every issue. Since we don't have a regular Legion title right now, or stories . . at least until Adventure Comics starts up again . . this is a fantastic replacement.
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