I got a picture of the variant cover here. But I had to skip picking it up. Between all the variants I've been buying with Blackest Night, and the Flash and other stuff . . I just can't get everything. Plus, something I've noticed . . my guy gives me 20% off on my purchases. So that makes the $25 variants $20, and the $10 variants $8. Which makes it a little easier on the wallet. But . . I noticed a week or 2 later when you look up the books on Mile High Comics . . they're usually listed at the same price I paid, or even a little cheaper. If I bought the variants from them instead . . yes I'd run the risk of them not having them, or the value going up, as they did with the Batman titles, but . . with free shipping, it doesn't seem like that great of a risk. I'm not trying to be disloyal to my guy . . taking my business elsewhere, but . . with the value of the dollar being what it is now-a-days . . I have to watch how I spend every one of them. And this is already becoming an expensive 'hobby'. Anyways, I'm sorry about my little rant, but that's been bothering me the last couple of months. I've been wrestling with the decision whether or not to do it. Now . . on to Magog. Having read the Kingdom Come series, I'm familiar with what this character can become . . and his role in the destruction of an entire world. However, I also realize that this is a different character. Same name . . different person . . David Reid. So he could go a different path. I don't see that happening, but . . there's always the possibility. He's already butting heads with Alan over his methods, and 'the end justifies the means' mentality. But, being a soldier most of his adult life, and then being granted super-powers . . he sees the worlds problems from a different perspective than the normal super-hero.
He makes a few comments in this book about how he feels. "Sudan, Afghanistan, Haiti, the list goes on. Hell on Earth. Squalid pits of institutionalized suffering. Where are all the 'Heroes'? Give them an alien world in need and they're there in a flash. Give them a country in need and they turn a blind eye, start bleating about national sovereignty and exerting undue influence . . basically the same tired litany of excuses for not doing what they know is right." And this is the part that worries me about this character. He's not trying to be like Gog, or follow his influence. But he's already creating walls between himself and the rest of the super-hero community. Anyways, right now he's following the path of a new commodity . . 'wonder-tech'. "Meta stuff. The crap left lying around once the heroes have save the day." Besides the Justice Society, he's got his own help. Axel Baines watches over his base of operations . . a gas station in the middle of nowhere . . Ordell, West Virginia. The names bogus, but he's obviously ex-military, and a kind of tech-wizard. He helps his gather information and figure out where to point the gun. David also has a human side. In Ordell he's taken to helping a woman . . a waitress in the diner he frequents . . that is a victim of domestic violence. On the sly, he's trying to teach her to defend herself. But there's other story-lines developing here. First of all, while the JSA don't have him on a leash, they are keeping track of him . . visual and technical surveillance. Secondly, there seems to be another faction out there dealing in next generation ordinance. They haven't crossed paths with Magog yet, but they will because they see him as a threat. Overall I thought it was an intriguing first issue. I thought Keith Giffen did a great job with the story . . he brought a lot of 'stuff' to the table. There's a lot of different directions he can go from here. As a reader, I think he's going to have to develop more of the human side of David's character if he wants us to get 'bought-in' to the story. However, I do think that's possible. We'll just have to see. And if you've read my blog before, you already know that I'm a huge fan of Howard Porters. I think the guys a hugely underrated talent. I don't know if I necessarily like John Dell's inks over his stuff, but . . we'll see. I liked the first issue. The trick is to see where we go from here.
I got a picture of the variant cover here. But I had to skip picking it up. Between all the variants I've been buying with Blackest Night, and the Flash and other stuff . . I just can't get everything. Plus, something I've noticed . . my guy gives me 20% off on my purchases. So that makes the $25 variants $20, and the $10 variants $8. Which makes it a little easier on the wallet. But . . I noticed a week or 2 later when you look up the books on Mile High Comics . . they're usually listed at the same price I paid, or even a little cheaper. If I bought the variants from them instead . . yes I'd run the risk of them not having them, or the value going up, as they did with the Batman titles, but . . with free shipping, it doesn't seem like that great of a risk. I'm not trying to be disloyal to my guy . . taking my business elsewhere, but . . with the value of the dollar being what it is now-a-days . . I have to watch how I spend every one of them. And this is already becoming an expensive 'hobby'. Anyways, I'm sorry about my little rant, but that's been bothering me the last couple of months. I've been wrestling with the decision whether or not to do it. Now . . on to Magog. Having read the Kingdom Come series, I'm familiar with what this character can become . . and his role in the destruction of an entire world. However, I also realize that this is a different character. Same name . . different person . . David Reid. So he could go a different path. I don't see that happening, but . . there's always the possibility. He's already butting heads with Alan over his methods, and 'the end justifies the means' mentality. But, being a soldier most of his adult life, and then being granted super-powers . . he sees the worlds problems from a different perspective than the normal super-hero. 
He makes a few comments in this book about how he feels. "Sudan, Afghanistan, Haiti, the list goes on. Hell on Earth. Squalid pits of institutionalized suffering. Where are all the 'Heroes'? Give them an alien world in need and they're there in a flash. Give them a country in need and they turn a blind eye, start bleating about national sovereignty and exerting undue influence . . basically the same tired litany of excuses for not doing what they know is right." And this is the part that worries me about this character. He's not trying to be like Gog, or follow his influence. But he's already creating walls between himself and the rest of the super-hero community. Anyways, right now he's following the path of a new commodity . . 'wonder-tech'. "Meta stuff. The crap left lying around once the heroes have save the day." Besides the Justice Society, he's got his own help. Axel Baines watches over his base of operations . . a gas station in the middle of nowhere . . Ordell, West Virginia. The names bogus, but he's obviously ex-military, and a kind of tech-wizard. He helps his gather information and figure out where to point the gun. David also has a human side. In Ordell he's taken to helping a woman . . a waitress in the diner he frequents . . that is a victim of domestic violence. On the sly, he's trying to teach her to defend herself. But there's other story-lines developing here. First of all, while the JSA don't have him on a leash, they are keeping track of him . . visual and technical surveillance. Secondly, there seems to be another faction out there dealing in next generation ordinance. They haven't crossed paths with Magog yet, but they will because they see him as a threat. Overall I thought it was an intriguing first issue. I thought Keith Giffen did a great job with the story . . he brought a lot of 'stuff' to the table. There's a lot of different directions he can go from here. As a reader, I think he's going to have to develop more of the human side of David's character if he wants us to get 'bought-in' to the story. However, I do think that's possible. We'll just have to see. And if you've read my blog before, you already know that I'm a huge fan of Howard Porters. I think the guys a hugely underrated talent. I don't know if I necessarily like John Dell's inks over his stuff, but . . we'll see. I liked the first issue. The trick is to see where we go from here.
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