RANT: Dave's Marvel Rant: UnlAccess,H4H
Dave Van Domelen
Dave's Marvel Rant:
Unlimited Access #4 (of 4) "Extended Remix"
Heroes for Hire #9 "Sides of the Coin"
These are gonna be pretty brief...I've got a headache, not much to say
about these two anyway, and other books I'd rather expend my effort on.
Spoilers....
Unlimited Access "Combined Forces": Various amalgamations, many fight
scenes, and a time travel twist which has Access win before he even started
the fight. I'm not even going to touch the plot beyond that, since I don't
need to make my headache worse.
What made this issue enjoyable (albeit probably not three bucks worth of
enjoyable) was the banter, both between unamalgamated characters, and between
or by the amalagams. Like Captain America Jr, who says "UNCLE SAM!" to
transform and has access to the trickiness of Nixon. (Strength of the Union,
Trickery of Nixon, Compassion of Carter, Indomitability of Lincoln, Military
Leadership of Eisenhower, Powers of the States, Oratory of Adams, Doctrine of
Madison?) Probably the cleverest (and scariest) amalgam, though, was of
Mastermind and DeSaad. Maximum ability to cause psychological pain, man.
Heroes for Hire "Conflict of Interest": The narration gets out of hand
again, methinks. After what I'm guessing is a friendly poke at Seagle's
style in Alpha Flight, the narrator complains about how the plot is too
convoluted. I wonder what DRHenry's Law says about the *narrator*
complaining about the plot?
Anyway, myriad subplots, references to Avengers #1 and far too many cats
(and a Totoro again) later, we get to the meat of this issue. Danny and
Luke, both hired to find the Punisher, but from opposite sides of the
equation. And, against the cliches which Ostrander seems to be trading on in
this series, they don't have a knock-down-drag-out over it. They talk it
over, come to a mutually agreeable solution (they help Castle clean out a
crack house, then he'll come quietly) and implement it. Not *their* fault
Castle escapes again over in Spider-Man. Definitely a better outcome than I
think most expected from this conflict.
Dave Van Domelen, "You're the White Tiger and you've come to Wundagore
Mountain, seeking refuge for Thena of the Eternals and her children. Okay,
okay -- you're not *really* the White Tiger. *She's* the White Tiger.
You're -- whoever you are. It was a narrative ploy designed to create a
deeper sense of involvement and -- oh, skip it." - narrator, opening captions
of Heroes for Hire
Theodore Jay Miller
dva...@eyrie.org (Dave Van Domelen) wrote:
>Dave's Marvel Rant:
> Unlimited Access #4 (of 4) "Extended Remix"
> Heroes for Hire #9 "Sides of the Coin"
> These are gonna be pretty brief...I've got a headache, not much to say
>about these two anyway, and other books I'd rather expend my effort on.
>Spoilers....
> What made this issue enjoyable (albeit probably not three bucks worth of
>enjoyable) was the banter, both between unamalgamated characters, and between
>or by the amalagams. Like Captain America Jr, who says "UNCLE SAM!" to
>transform and has access to the trickiness of Nixon. (Strength of the Union,
>Trickery of Nixon, Compassion of Carter, Indomitability of Lincoln, Military
>Leadership of Eisenhower, Powers of the States, Oratory of Adams, Doctrine of
>Madison?)
Strength of the Union is good; all I could come up with for U is
Ulysses S. Grant, and if you have Eisenhower, what does Grant add:
ability to drink heavily?
For C I was thinking Crockett (Davy), an American hero though not a
President. He could provide Tracking skill or something.
Lincoln was Wisdom in the story.
And Doctrine should be the Monroe Doctrine, not Madison, right?
It could be the power to resist foreign influences such as hypnosis
and mind control.