Or – “Strong Instincts Got Me Where I Am Today…”
Which is to say, the position of “Ineffectual Middle Management Suckup” with a part-time job at a comic store and a gig writing on the intarwebs. I will not say that I’m always right about whether or not a comic series will succeed. I rooted for Martian Manhunter, after all, and was a big fan of the recently deceased Shadowpact series. But, barring the occasional title for which I have an inexplicable fondness, my comic-picking thought process has a not-too-terrible batting average. When this book was advertised, I suspected that we’d be in for one of two possible rides: either we’d have the Alex Ross ‘Marvels’ experience (in which we were treated to loving examinations of iconic characters) or the Alex Ross ‘Universe X’ experience (in which we were inundated with hundreds of masked characters who were well-designed but essentially ciphers.) I hoped for the first, but expected the second… and one of my instincts was dead on.
