All this book tells me is that there's going to come a time where either Norman is going to have to take out Daken, or . . vice versa. We seem to have a battle of wills between these two. Norman is the leader . . the father figure, but Daken doesn't want to follow his lead anymore. For a while there I was thinking that maybe Daken's objections to Norman's methods were altruistic . . maybe he was trying to change his ways. He did go to the Fantastic Four for help afterall. But we see this issue that Daken hasn't changed a bit. Norman tried to set up Daken as a hero. He was going to have him arrest and take down 3 known villains, Emmy Doolin, Cutthroat and the Inquisitor. However, things didn't go as planned and the 3 of them beat Daken to within an inch of his life. Now he just wants revenge. Norman makes a deal with the villains that if they give themselves up, to Daken, he'll process them through the system and then turn them over to the Initiative. Daken goes along with it because by doing so Norman is giving him what he wants. But when he reneges on the deal, Norman blows up the house where they were all hiding. But this ends up working out for Daken anyways. He gets the villains out of the wreckage before being found by Norman, and walks out of the burning house with baby in hand for the heroic sound-bite. Now all he has to do is go back to the place where he was hiding them, and take them apart piece by piece . . which he does. The final one is Emmy. She tries to talk to him, plead to him, even find something in common. But, in the end . . he kills her anyways. However, with her final breaths, she does stand up to him . .'I'm not . . nothing. I'm the beautiful woman . . who let you live.' To me the final pages were the most moving of the whole book. It also showed us that no matter what Daken does, or how he acts . . at the core of his being he's still just an animal. And that's not going to change. Daniel Way and Marjorie Liu did a great job with this book. I can't wait to see the day when Daken and Norman finally square off. Stephen Segovia and Paco Diaz Luque do the art. I liked it. I thought it fit the book perfectly. And you gotta love that Greg Land cover.
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Wolverine #80 - Marvel
All this book tells me is that there's going to come a time where either Norman is going to have to take out Daken, or . . vice versa. We seem to have a battle of wills between these two. Norman is the leader . . the father figure, but Daken doesn't want to follow his lead anymore. For a while there I was thinking that maybe Daken's objections to Norman's methods were altruistic . . maybe he was trying to change his ways. He did go to the Fantastic Four for help afterall. But we see this issue that Daken hasn't changed a bit. Norman tried to set up Daken as a hero. He was going to have him arrest and take down 3 known villains, Emmy Doolin, Cutthroat and the Inquisitor. However, things didn't go as planned and the 3 of them beat Daken to within an inch of his life. Now he just wants revenge. Norman makes a deal with the villains that if they give themselves up, to Daken, he'll process them through the system and then turn them over to the Initiative. Daken goes along with it because by doing so Norman is giving him what he wants. But when he reneges on the deal, Norman blows up the house where they were all hiding. But this ends up working out for Daken anyways. He gets the villains out of the wreckage before being found by Norman, and walks out of the burning house with baby in hand for the heroic sound-bite. Now all he has to do is go back to the place where he was hiding them, and take them apart piece by piece . . which he does. The final one is Emmy. She tries to talk to him, plead to him, even find something in common. But, in the end . . he kills her anyways. However, with her final breaths, she does stand up to him . .'I'm not . . nothing. I'm the beautiful woman . . who let you live.' To me the final pages were the most moving of the whole book. It also showed us that no matter what Daken does, or how he acts . . at the core of his being he's still just an animal. And that's not going to change. Daniel Way and Marjorie Liu did a great job with this book. I can't wait to see the day when Daken and Norman finally square off. Stephen Segovia and Paco Diaz Luque do the art. I liked it. I thought it fit the book perfectly. And you gotta love that Greg Land cover.
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