SON OF M #6 ADVANCE REVIEW

[Andrea Speed]

Reviewer: Andrea Speed andy@comixtreme.com
Quick Rating: Very Good

The consequences of Pietro’s actions are dire.

<a href="http://www.comixtreme.com/gallery/data/media/883/sonofm6.jpg"target="_blank"><img src="http://www.comixtreme.com/gallery/data/thumbnails/883/sonofm6.jpg"align="right" border="0"> </a>Writer: David Hine
Artist: Roy Allan Martinez
Color Artist: Pete Pantazis
Letters: Dave Lanphear
Editor: Tom Brevoort
Production: Brad Johansen
Cover Art: John Watson
Publisher: Marvel


The end of this miniseries seems to promise that a couple of things in the Marvel universe will be altered, at least for now. Pietro’s selfish actions have a much broader consequence than he could have foreseen, hurting nearly everyone else but him. A single pang of conscience has him doing a single good thing, but it no way negates all the damage done, although he’s not completely at fault for one thing - the government has to share some of that blame. I guess they wanted to prove that Pietro wasn’t the only one capable of being selfish and stupid. How will this have an effect on the whole “Civil War” thing (if it does)? I can’t say at this point.

But I can say it looks like there just might be another villain on the scene … or will there? Perhaps the opposite of a hero isn’t a villain; perhaps it’s a person who chooses to do nothing for anyone save for themselves. This has been a well written series by Hine, and even though in principal I object to any mutant who Marvel decided to hype as having their powers removed getting them back so soon (we all knew it was going to happen; I'd just hoped they could have held out for at least a year before giving in. It’s not like a whole bunch of A-listers were depowered anyways…) at least Hine is a deft writer, who made Pietro a pathetic figure reaching for a past glory, and turned him into a man who skates the edge of becoming a monster, although that wasn’t his intention. His actions also have a reaction he could never have planned, but will he take any responsibility for it?

The art by Martinez seems to have gotten stronger over the course of the series, although I do have an objection in Magneto looking so absurdly young I didn’t recognize him at first; Pietro actually looks older than him. Also, some of the facial close ups in the later part of the issue aren’t as strong as the close ups in the first part of the issue. But the scene of devastation is nicely done, as is the beginning action scene. The coloring by Pantazis has a subtle touch.

Maybe Pietro fans will be pleased; maybe they won’t. But you can’t say this hasn’t been interesting.

Overall:







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[Ammar Al Subahi]

[QUOTE=Andrea Speed(we all knew it was going to happen; I ’d just hoped they could have held out for at least a year before giving in. It’s not like a whole bunch of A-listers were depowered anyways…) [/QUOTE]

*makes popcorn and awaits the arrival of the Magneto fanboys*

[Ammar Al Subahi]

hmmm...there's something wrong with the Edit feature...

[T.C. Johnson]

it wouldn't let me edit a post either earlier. I just went to another webpage and came back and then it worked fine.

[Andrea Speed]

Weird. I'd best alert baldie boy ... er, Craig, to this.