I liked that the twist about Santa Claus was that there really -was- no twist. He's very much the same as the Mundy folklore makes him out to be.
And the return of Flycatcher was heartrending, especially after the revelations in 1001 Nights of Snowfall.
A much-needed break in the current storyline, which has been extremely slow-moving.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
I absolutely loved that issue. Also worth picking up, BTW, is the Captain America vs. Iron Man Civil War special, which almost manages to redeem the whole Civil War arc by giving Iron Man something resembling a motivation.
Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
Civil War? Is Iron Man the Merrimack or the Monitor?
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
Iron Man is the clueless, morally bankrupt government stoo-...er, the complex and sophisticatedly characterized other voice in Mark Millar's oh-so-deep-and-meaningful story.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
I've got to say, PT, the ancillary books in Civil War have really been a lot more interesting to me than the core miniseries, which is thuddingly trite and obvious.
(Note: also as of this week's New Avengers, Wanda Maximoff is alive (having apparently suppressed her powers and memories) and has recently re-encountered Hawkeye. This means that all those fanboys who speculated that they'd undo Civil War by having Wanda change the whole freakin' world again are one step closer to being right.)
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
The ending of House of M revealed she was alive.
I flipped through that issue. I get the feeling Bendis is using this story -not- to set up a Wanda- Civil War reversal, but to add more "proof that Wanda was ALWAYS insane" justification.
Not in the least because two of Marvel's upcoming Avengers spin-offs (Mighty & The Initiative) seem to rely on Civil War remaining as the reality.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
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