 Alright I read through most of the books in that grab bag of comics that I introduced a few days ago and I'm gonna give you brief reviews of the things. First of all this this series that I couldn't I couldn't figure out what it was supposed to be last time it's just called FF that's the title of it that's not short for anything it's just called FF this is apparently issue 16 and it's also apparently if it wasn't the final issue then it was the climax of the story and consequently I had no idea what was going on and it was just completely incoherent. While away on their cosmic family vacation the Fantastic Four left the young and brilliant children of the Future Foundation in the care of Ant-Man, Darla Deering, Medusa and She-Hulk. Soon after the Fantastic Four left a scarred traumatized older John Storm returned claiming the team had all died at the hand of Doom the Annihilating Conqueror. In Latveria Doom used the cosmic power siphon to steal Annihilus and kid Immortus's powers. Doom also kidnapped Alex Powers as parents to blackmail Alex and the killing old John Storm and delivering the multilinear chrono stellar manifold to him. Ant-Man discovered his plan and used the manifold to launch a sneak attack on Doom from Oatu the watchers home on the blue area of the moon. The attack was a success, Doom's defenses were destroyed, his stolen powers dispersed and now it's all come down to this Ant-Man versus Doom. Okay, see this this is what it's like to follow mainstream superhero comics. It's like following a soap opera. If you miss even a little you have no idea what's going on and you don't know who any of the characters are. I said before that I liked that I liked Alred's art well I'm not crazy about the art in this book. Apparently the watcher has a girlfriend and apparently she's pregnant. There is this one interesting thing here that explains the Ant-Man, Giant-Man's powers that come from the pine particles that Henry Pine has discovered and how they're they're actually responsible for the density powers of the vision and also the invulnerability and immortality powers of Wonder Man that they're all aspects of the same particles. That was kind of interesting but other than that yeah I just and the the living tribunal showed up for some reason. Yeah I yeah I don't know and this thing here Marvel Knights 4 that's the name of the series just 4 and that's not short for anything because if that's not confusing enough from 2005 I think this is really bad art and really bad color. The way the big comics companies these days farm out color work to basically to private individuals they end up with this really sloppy muddy color work and the way the wavy word balloons have a white to blue gradient in them and they're all the same like that I find it really grating on the eyes. This book by the way has an appearance by Sharon Ventura the she thing there is a she thing and apparently she's never been killed off she's still out there somewhere look at this shitty art look at this but halfway through the book it turns into a retro pastiche with art by Ron Friends a really good retro Kirby style retelling the the Fantastic Four's first encounter with the Black Panther from the Invisible Girls perspective where she almost had an affair with Chala this really nice retro work here I really like the look of this and the two of them were smart enough to decide against it yeah I recognize this this art by Ron Friends immediately he does a really good retro Kirby style for these purposes anyway otherwise not a very good book this thing here that I couldn't I couldn't tell what it was supposed to be last time it's called The Great Ten I guess this is the title of the book up here along the top edge Thundermind versus the God of War the interior of the book is a mess this is another example of really bad art and art design this is evidently the title page can you even see where the title is where the lettering is on this page it's up here it says The Great Ten and it has the a subtitle here book three the jewel of the lotus can you read it can you even see it and then there's all these characters here with their names written below their pictures can you even see their names I'm right in front of this page and I can't I can't even see the lettering much less read it this is just a lost cause without even trying to read it it's yeah I read this thing as a on the cover it has the dog driving but this is some kind of cop drama anyway I had no idea what was going on here it was just some kind of private investigator corrupt cop drama thing I didn't know what was going on I didn't care okay now we're getting into the interesting stuff this thing called east of west issue 25 coming in on it really late this is actually kind of interesting I wasn't sure exactly what was going on but it's some kind of a Native American mythology thing and it was interesting I kind of like to learn more about this it's hard for me to describe what was going on here because again I'm coming in in the middle of something and it was difficult for me to understand what I was even reading even though it was intriguing so it'll be that much harder for me to describe to you but yeah this is something I felt like was worth checking out now this here this Mark Miller book called reborn uh issue three at least I'm coming into this one somewhat early apparently you know these flying elephant things encountering a flying lion dragon apparently these characters have died this woman here that's her father and they've both recently died and this is their afterlife and it turns out the afterlife is some kind of high adventure fantasy realm I definitely wanted to know more about what was going on here and I like the art and uh so I may look into this I may try to find a a graphic novel version of this I read the first part of this seven to eternity and and I liked it the art was good it's it's about a family an outcast family who's been surviving in the wilderness keeping out of the keeping themselves out of sight of the evil ruler of whatever planet or or universe this is and uh it looks like the time is up the authorities have decided to come for them so I read issue number one and I definitely want to keep reading so yeah this looks like it might have been worth the purchase and then there's this this was my favorite of the bunch I was actually really impressed with this again this is a issue three there's seemed to be a lot of issue threes and all this I said when I when I look through these books quickly before I said that I like to the art here is very fluid very it has a vitality to it it looks like it was done with pencils and with ink wash rather than traditional black ink on paper and the the dialogue is really good too it appears to involve a kind of reinterpretation of north american folklore I'll let you read the dialogue between this bear and this catfish here all the dialogue is like this very very entertaining very witty and ironic I definitely want to get the rest of this series there's a great deal of this book where there's storytelling there's visual storytelling without dialogue and I had said in my last installment of odd comics I looked at that Steven Universe comic and and criticized it for not having enough of a story there was very little dialogue in that book and the problem was not that there wasn't enough dialogue that there wasn't enough wording the problem was that what little was there didn't contain much this is an example of how comics can be used effectively to do visual storytelling while the dialogue balloons can be few and far between people who don't like like here's a double page splash with just one panel no dialogue at all not even sound effects and it's great art people who don't read comics people who've never read comics when you hand them a comic book what they tend to do is they'll read the few words that are in the balloons and they'll disregard the art altogether they don't know how to to look at comics they're literally illiterate when it comes to reading comics it has to be learned if you didn't grow up with it then you have to learn it and this is an example of great visual storytelling in comics and I want to get more of this so can I can you see that Eric Powell yeah congratulations Eric Powell on your work on Hillbilly you won me over and I'll definitely look up more of that okay I think I've talked long enough please remember to press that like button it helps my videos get seen and then subscribe so you can come back next time I do science fiction book tv and movie reviews all the time and please consider becoming a patron there's a link in the description below