I have to say . . I'm pretty impressed with Jonathan Hickman's stories so far. Obviously I've been reading his work in Secret Warriors, but . . it's a little different for this book. I'd even go so far as to compare him to Geoff Johns in that he takes a character, in this case the Mole-Man, and focus' on a different aspect of his personality or behavior. Basically . . redefining the character. He doesn't change the Mole-Man. If anything his arguments with Ben confirm that he's still the ego-maniacal tyrant that he's always been. However, in a more enlightened conversation, he does express how he's basically trying to take care of his 'people', and in his own way prevent them from having to deal with the petty things that people on the surface face. However, there's a new problem. The High Evolutionary had built a hidden city for him to work on his experiments. In it he built an ascension engine. But after time . . it started to devolve his experiments. He and the rest of his New Men were forced to flee. But the ascension engine was never shut down. Now, some of the Moloids have begun to live in the city, becoming more evolved and intelligent. As a result they're starting to make some of the bad decisions that surface dwellers do. And, they want to raise the city to the surface as it was originally intended. Which is why the Mole-Man gets the Fantastic Four involved. One of the interesting scenes was when the FF come across the resting place of the future Galactus . . where Reed buried him. It was also interesting seeing the different underground cities as they make their way down. In the end though, the city does indeed rise and they're requesting to be treated as an independent nation-state within the continental US border. You just know that's not going to go well. Anyways, all in all I thought it was an interesting book. I don't think this is the last that we'll hear of this . . it seems to be a set-up for something bigger, but . . I also don't think we'll be seeing this in the next issue. Jonathan seems to be setting up some nice story-lines in this book, for later exploration. I can't wait to see where they all lead. Dale Eaglesham is back on the art this issue. I miss him over in the JSA, but . . if he's gotta go somewhere, I'm glad it's this book. His style fits it perfectly.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Fantastic Four #575 - Marvel
I have to say . . I'm pretty impressed with Jonathan Hickman's stories so far. Obviously I've been reading his work in Secret Warriors, but . . it's a little different for this book. I'd even go so far as to compare him to Geoff Johns in that he takes a character, in this case the Mole-Man, and focus' on a different aspect of his personality or behavior. Basically . . redefining the character. He doesn't change the Mole-Man. If anything his arguments with Ben confirm that he's still the ego-maniacal tyrant that he's always been. However, in a more enlightened conversation, he does express how he's basically trying to take care of his 'people', and in his own way prevent them from having to deal with the petty things that people on the surface face. However, there's a new problem. The High Evolutionary had built a hidden city for him to work on his experiments. In it he built an ascension engine. But after time . . it started to devolve his experiments. He and the rest of his New Men were forced to flee. But the ascension engine was never shut down. Now, some of the Moloids have begun to live in the city, becoming more evolved and intelligent. As a result they're starting to make some of the bad decisions that surface dwellers do. And, they want to raise the city to the surface as it was originally intended. Which is why the Mole-Man gets the Fantastic Four involved. One of the interesting scenes was when the FF come across the resting place of the future Galactus . . where Reed buried him. It was also interesting seeing the different underground cities as they make their way down. In the end though, the city does indeed rise and they're requesting to be treated as an independent nation-state within the continental US border. You just know that's not going to go well. Anyways, all in all I thought it was an interesting book. I don't think this is the last that we'll hear of this . . it seems to be a set-up for something bigger, but . . I also don't think we'll be seeing this in the next issue. Jonathan seems to be setting up some nice story-lines in this book, for later exploration. I can't wait to see where they all lead. Dale Eaglesham is back on the art this issue. I miss him over in the JSA, but . . if he's gotta go somewhere, I'm glad it's this book. His style fits it perfectly.
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