A little about me, I’m Ian I am a father to an adorable 1 year old daughter, husband of 5 years to 1 exasperated wife and I am OBSESSED with comics. I have been reading comics for around a year now. Was originally a huge Marvel fan, then big 2 now I will read anything with pictures and words I love everything to do with the art of comics 
. I’m still very much a newbie to this here review malarkey, so please all feedback is welcome love it hate it find it pointless? Got a recommendation…………Let me know on Twitter I’m always on and always up for chat/debate! Catch you all next week!
So this week, seeing as I missed last week is a 2-4-1 bonanza kids! I will be reviewing both IDW’s Doomsday.1 #2 and Indestructible Hulk #9 so buckle in….
The thrilling tale of seven adventurous astronauts, who watch in horror, aloft in the International Space Station, as most of Earth is annihilated by a titanic solar flare.
Let’s start with Doomsday.1, here is a book I was seriously excited about #2 for. I went in blind, read the blurb on the net before picking up #1 and was seriously pleasantly surprised. Issue #1 sets up the story… the thrilling tale of seven adventurous astronauts, who watch in horror, aloft in the International Space Station, as most of Earth is annihilated by a titanic solar flare. They manage to dodge this solar flare but now they have to make their choices about how and when they can return to earth, the issue was fast paced and I could almost go as far as describing it as cinematic, I loved the art….bold lines and old school colouring! It is a 4 part mini series so issue #1 was all you would expect from it as such, no fuss no guss!
We find our protagonists now back on earth, which has descended into a Mad Max type post apocalyptic nightmare.
In these kind of stories the writer doesn’t have time to digress or pan out to slowly like in a 10 or even 6 parter. All this kept in mind issue #2 couldn’t have been in more of an opposite vain, although the pacing was as fast as issue #1 the story seemed to be drawn out, it felt as though it could have been half an issue in the series instead of a quarter of a whole overall story. We find our protagonists now back on earth, which has descended into a Mad Max type post apocalyptic nightmare fighting to survive after being tricked into a prison by what used to be the prisoners who have over run the prison and are dressed as guards. They take Hikari to a separate room and strip her in order to take ‘turns’ as she is the first female they’ve seen for a while. She is saved by Yulia who was hidden in the back of the truck they were brought to the prison in, they then hatch a plan to escape with their other friends………thats pretty much the whole of issue #2, in a nutshell!
I think what most disappointed me about it was that issue #1 was so good and this just felt like a filler issue, which as discussed in a 4 part mini-series has no place, story – wham bam thank you ma’am!
So on the scale of river or life I give it …………life but on the condition that issue #3 is like issue #1 and not #2 please and thank you.
And so onto Indestructible Hulk by Mark Waid.
Waid is making Hulk look effortless to write and has a fan in me outright!
What a series so far Mr. Waid has put together here, starting with the Marvel Now! I started reading from issue #5 and was quickly reminded why The Hulk is in my top 2 super heroes. Waid has approached the series writing Banner as a similar character to that played (superbly in my opinion) by Mark Ruffalo in the Avengers movie. The guy who is always angry but can control it. Banner goes to S.H.I.E.L.D and offers them the use of The Hulk in exchange for their help. Throughout, Banner is always calling someone once a week just to check in, to make sure S.H.I.E.L.D aren’t mistreating him or plotting against him. Issue #9 is the perfect jumping on point for anyone not collecting Hulk but wanting to as that’s all the recap you need to be honest. Issue #9 reveals the shady character that Banner confides in as none other than everyones favourite lawyer Matt Murdoch aka Daredevil himself! This leads to them both running around Hells Kitchen causing much mayhem including Daredevil stepping into a packed bar full of bad asses!
Issue #9 reveals the shady character that Banner confides in as none other than everyones favourite lawyer Matt Murdoch aka Daredevil himself!
The new artist in the hot seat, Matteo Scalera has a style which is perfect for Daredevil’s New York, its a gorgeous issue and one I would actively encourage anyone and everyone to get. Waid is making Hulk look effortless to write and has a fan in me outright!
River or life……you need to ask, life all day!
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Posted on June 26th, 2013
Category: HANMORE UNCHAINED, REVIEWS
Tags: Comic Reviews, Doomsday.1 #2 Review, Hanmore Unchained, Ian Hanmore-Farrugia, IDW Publishing, Indestructible Hulk #9 Review, John Byrne, Mark Waid