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[thebitterguy]

Got Issue #2 of 1602, and issue #6 of LoEG.

1602 has a bit of a sophomore slump with its second issue. The story is progressing oddly, and it paced somewhat strangely. Some bits seem extraneous ("how I long for a Room from which various Dangers would emerge!" What the fuck do we need THAT for?), but it's good to see the Black Widow in there. I wonder if we'll get Hawkeye or Iron Man anytime soon?

I want Iron Man to be a Golem. Yeeeaaah.

Dr. Doom is doing his thing, and it appears baldy is, indeed, the Vulture. We still have no idea what's up with Virginia (until next issue, of course. Why, oh WHY don't I wait for the trades?).

Issue #1 was very promising, but the second doesn't seem to be keeping pace. You can satisfy the reader with 'new' for a while, but when you stop with the new, the story itself has to entertain.

Got Tokyo Storm Warning #2 as well. Man, this book sucks. I was hoping that the second would be better, but the fights are so badly produced, and took up so much of the book that wasn't "scientifically impossible giant robots keep showing up in Tokyo to fight giant monsters, isn't that VIERD!?" that it's hard to read. I'll skip #3 (which promises THREE TIMES the badly produced robot/monster fight scenes).

LoEG #6 is good. I'll say no more, but the story was well wrapped up. I think a second sequel is pretty much out of the question, at least for this particular league. Good resolution. I was wondering when they'd just get a cold and die.

Comments

[radiumhead.livejournal.com]

You get the danger room remark, right? Remember, the X-Men have THE DANGER ROOM in their mansion?

Hawkeye would be easy to do, he's just a guy with arrows.Same thing with Iron Man, they just need a guy with armor.And i don't know why they don't have Wolverine...even without the adamantium, he still could have the bone claws.They could also have Thor.

[thebitterguy]

Oh, I got the Danger Room remark no problem. It just struck me as goofy and fairly un-necessary. And Hawkeye n' Iron Man are also fairly appropos (although IM would have to have some wack ass Magic/Alchemical armour or summat, really).

Thor, yeah (hell, the game involves problems with the weather; for all we know, there's a big 'ol hammer in the box). I don't know if Wolverine was introduced in time for the moratorium.

[jadasc.livejournal.com]

So... Rojhaz. Thor? I keep looking at him and seeing Thor.

[adders.livejournal.com]

Rojhaz = Rogers = Steve Rogers, Captain America. Note him throwing a tray like Cap's shield when Virginia is attacked.

[jadasc.livejournal.com]

Aha! Didn't think of that. And that makes Virginia the embodiment of the United States, with Rohjaz as her protector?

[adders.livejournal.com]

Interesting question, given her apparent metamorphosis...

[thebitterguy]

I'm curious about her too; she's a real person, so I was assuming she'd be just a normal jane, but her metamorphosis was hinted at in the first issue, so I'm wondering if there'll be other differences.

I did love Rohjaz. That was cool.

Hadn't the Roanoke colony already vanished by 1602, and Virginia with it?

She was supposed to have been born in 1587, putting her at 15, which is prime time for mutant abilities.

[mr-sarcasm.livejournal.com]

Yup, and note that Virginia turns into a big white owl-thing at the end. Much like "Snowbird" from alpha Flight.

[jadasc.livejournal.com]

Wait -- that was her? I thought that was a suddenly introduced new character. Okay.

[thebitterguy]

Yeah, but Snowbird is also post deadline, just like Wolverine. So it's not a pre-invention of her, unless Gaiman's doing something with the Inuit gods.

[adders.livejournal.com]

"how I long for a Room from which various Dangers would emerge!" What the fuck do we need THAT for?

I suspect the answer lies in this quote from Gaiman about the series:

"I will just say that if you try and read this as an Elseworlds story it's not really a narrative strategy that will get you very far. If you read it much more as a puzzle and as an adventure, things will start to become apparent as the story goes on. How the world got this way, whether we can get it back and what it means."

Read more here (http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=2406).

[thebitterguy]

Mega props for that article. It answered more than a few things. The Danger Room line still struck me as clumsy.

Hmm. Might be right about the box after all.

I still think the story seemed to hit a bump in this issue, but perhaps that'll be rectified in hindsight. So the story isn't "It's happening in this way" as much as "Why's it happening this way".

I can dig it.

[adders.livejournal.com]

I'm reserving judgement on the line until we find out what's going on. If it's indicative of a leak of the real Xavier's memories or aspirations into his Elizabethan analogue, it could be the first major hint we have of what's happening.

And yes, the weather situation does seem to point to Thor, given that Storm isn't going to appear, as she's not an early 60s character.