Re-Reading: Solar #40

[xoken]

I thought we could do a book a day (that way people can read one every day or catch up on weekends), talk about it on its own, in the context of whats next, in regards to what expectations it creates and vote on how good it is. I don't have to be the one that posts everyday. If I miss a day or if someone wants to take over please do


For voting think of your single favourite comic book (not just VALIANT) as the benchmark - thats a 10 - and grade according to that.

Make sure to mention what you like'd about the book, what you didn't, what you wish they would have done, your favourite panels, lines of dialogue, little bits of trivia etc.

Solar #40

[magnusr]

The continuation and conclusion of last issue's story. And still it does not grab my attention.

/Magnus

[jedimarley]

Same here. I had to force myself to finish reading it. I felt issue #39 was a step foward in writing but then we get this. Weak.

[myron]

Same here. I had to force myself to finish reading it. I felt issue #39 was a step foward in writing but then we get this. Weak.

If you think these issues were weak and thin, just wait...they only get worse...

the ambiguously gay super hero issue(s) is(are) coming up...

[Daniel Jackson]

This had the possibility to be a good story, but they blew it.

[Todd Luck]

I missed last issue but I got this one.

Destroyer is kind of sad here. The way the scene in the future came off he looked about as intelligent as the child and it looked he was skulking away after losing an arguement with him.

Using the type of power he has to police a small rock in space seems kind of lame. As was the scene were he sheds the last of Phil's influence (wow, he grew a goatee, he's totally different now!)

The main story here is a really tired cliche. Pseudo-science and truama combine to cause the hero to occasionally black out and become a darker, split personality. I really hate this cliche. It's so overplayed they even did it to both Superman and Batman in subplots to horrible to even mention!

The one good thing I can say is atleast the flawed nuclear powerplants from A & O are mentioned. It's nice to know they weren't forgotten but nothings done about them here (I don't have next issue so for all I know that problem may actually get dealt with).

A 5.

[Zaphod]

maybe not the best place to post this and maybe its been addressed before, but was the story changed midstream or did anyone else notice how on page 22, panel 3 Phil has a green eye and a brown eye?

typically the visual cue that Immortal Enemy has possessed somebody.

that would have been much cooler if they went that route. I am catching up on books I picked up while reorganizing my collection, and I am missing quite a few monthly collectible pamphlets that come directly after this story, so maybe they did.

[magnusr]

maybe not the best place to post this and maybe its been addressed before, but was the story changed midstream or did anyone else notice how on page 22, panel 3 Phil has a green eye and a brown eye?

Which story page is that? I did find something like that, but it might just have been the colorist playing with the light in the scene.

/Magnus

[Zaphod]

maybe not the best place to post this and maybe its been addressed before, but was the story changed midstream or did anyone else notice how on page 22, panel 3 Phil has a green eye and a brown eye?

Which story page is that? I did find something like that, but it might just have been the colorist playing with the light in the scene.

/Magnus

ugh, the book is at home. heh. ummm, well in total it was 22 pages. I don't know minus adds what it was and the damned pages weren't numbered. It was only a few pages before the end of the book, and I think it was too obvious a green and brown eye to be just artistic license but who knows with that era of Valiant.

[JustCallMeAric]

I just flipped through the book and definately think its shading. Aren't his eyes blue and orange?