Post by goldenfist on Aug 7, 2008 7:38:46 GMT -5
Read what Ign.com had to say about Secret Invasion Front Line
#2.
Front Line is the kind of book that you know whether you'll like or not before you even pick up the issue. It's the sort of thing that presents the villain(s) in a new light by using the average street-level civilian as a lens. Generally they manage to tell nice stories, but not ones that are necessarily earth-shatteringly brilliant or important. If you can enjoy it regardless of that fact, you'll find a lot to like. In that sense, SI: Front Line is business as usual.
This issue focuses less on Ben and the Front Line paper, and more on the characters introduced last issue and their various situations at the onset of the invasion. A minor problem for the issue is that a lot of it requires that you care about these average New Yorkers, and most of them are just cardboard cutouts created for the express purpose of being terrorized for five issues. But they're sort of beside the point, which is why it's not a very big deal.
The real enjoyment in the issue, then, comes from the imposing image of just one alien that, elsewhere, might be treated as just another soldier in the army that a hero's tearing through. As with the last installment, there's a real sense of fear in these pages that's created by the fact that the characters can't shoot beams out of their palms or rocket the Skrulls into the stratosphere. They can mostly just get mangled. When the Young Avengers cameo this issue and Wiccan is throwing a taxi around, it carries a sense of wonder that probably wouldn't be present if the same thing occured in Secret Invasion proper. That effect is something that SI: Front Line alone can achieve.
So if you're interested in the sort of comic equivalent of a good crisis movie, SI: Front Line is for you. I've got a sneaking suspicion that it won't be as important to the overall storyline and after-effects as Civil War: Front Line was, but it's still a solid, well-constructed affair that's worth a look.
Review Score: 7.0 Decent
#2.
Front Line is the kind of book that you know whether you'll like or not before you even pick up the issue. It's the sort of thing that presents the villain(s) in a new light by using the average street-level civilian as a lens. Generally they manage to tell nice stories, but not ones that are necessarily earth-shatteringly brilliant or important. If you can enjoy it regardless of that fact, you'll find a lot to like. In that sense, SI: Front Line is business as usual.
This issue focuses less on Ben and the Front Line paper, and more on the characters introduced last issue and their various situations at the onset of the invasion. A minor problem for the issue is that a lot of it requires that you care about these average New Yorkers, and most of them are just cardboard cutouts created for the express purpose of being terrorized for five issues. But they're sort of beside the point, which is why it's not a very big deal.
The real enjoyment in the issue, then, comes from the imposing image of just one alien that, elsewhere, might be treated as just another soldier in the army that a hero's tearing through. As with the last installment, there's a real sense of fear in these pages that's created by the fact that the characters can't shoot beams out of their palms or rocket the Skrulls into the stratosphere. They can mostly just get mangled. When the Young Avengers cameo this issue and Wiccan is throwing a taxi around, it carries a sense of wonder that probably wouldn't be present if the same thing occured in Secret Invasion proper. That effect is something that SI: Front Line alone can achieve.
So if you're interested in the sort of comic equivalent of a good crisis movie, SI: Front Line is for you. I've got a sneaking suspicion that it won't be as important to the overall storyline and after-effects as Civil War: Front Line was, but it's still a solid, well-constructed affair that's worth a look.
Review Score: 7.0 Decent