Comments on: ‘Wolverine: First Class’ #18 Review: Multiple Choices

By: jrpbsp

jrpbsp — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 02:51:33 +0000

Actually I have been very disappointed in the frame covers. They all look cartoonish and ill fitting like they were sketch drawing that got inked and printed. I would have preferred they looked a bit more detailed and fitting.

By: Ace

Ace — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 00:15:51 +0000

Oh, and I love that variant cover.

By: Ace

Ace — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 00:14:52 +0000

I almost feel as if the scene would have fit better in a different story. Perhaps there was a need to break up the book with a wee bit of humor, but that particular gag appears and disappears randomly, almost as if it was a separate story to the one occuring in the book.

Maybe it would have fit better in an issue about media, or a story in which they were wandering around the streets (for a greater length of time).

Again though, despite that, it’s a very amusing scene indeed. And ultimately I feel as if the upsides of the joke outweighed the downsides of the story break up.

By: jrpbsp

jrpbsp — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:48:30 +0000

Well that is true it was kind of out of place but I thought a humorus scene in the midst of that angst worked well to break the tension. There were a lot of heavy ideas in the book for something aimed at kids, it needed at least one scene for them to giggle at.

By: DiG

DiG — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:09:41 +0000

Don’t get me wrong, I agree with the sentiment and it was humorous. But as Ace says, it was out of place, and knocked me out of the story.

By: Ace

Ace — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:42:44 +0000

I rather liked the bootlegger scene, I thought it was a humorous nod. With that said, it was both out of character and out of place. It was just sort of “there”. It felt more like a humorous fullpage public service announcement/ad than a legitimate page in the story. Even so, it was a very fun scene and an excellent issue.

By: jrpbsp

jrpbsp — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:28:25 +0000

This series, like all the younger aimed, I tend to take as more likely to skirt or break the 4th wall. The sequence was amusing but to me it was just nice to see some from the publishing side of Marvel making a stand. Since the issue was all about making stands for what you believe in, I felt PAD sticking in a little dig at pirating worked.

By: DiG

DiG — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:02:38 +0000

It’s funny. While I agree this is the best Peter David issue to date, I didn’t like the illegal movie script/DVD sequence. It felt so out of place and “broke” the reality of the story for me.

That said, I thought Francis Portela’s artwork was superb!