by Pkmatrix » Sun Oct 16, 2011 1:36 pm
Okay, since I just did Issue #6 (which, long story short, I HATED. A LOT.), I may as well try to do Issue #7.
- Still reeling from how bad Issue #6 was, I only bought the Powell cover of Issue #7. It was nice, Godzilla walking through clouds of smoke with lightning in the background and Woods/the girl watching in the foreground.
- Issue #7 opens "somewhere in the mountains of Asia", where a monk is reading a prophecy about sacrificing one's self to merge with a "dragon king" and become "a force of righteousness". A snake appears and he declares "It is awakening..." The next page confirms the great fear instilled in me by the first as it immediately becomes obvious he was talking about King Ghidorah, who seems to be buried in the mountain this monk's shrine is build on. He unlocks a door, tearfully declares he freely gives his life, and Ghidorah - clearly the GMK good-guy Ghidorah I just so happen to hate oh-so-much - emerges. T_T
- Cut to America. Woods and the little girl have stopped to take a break, and Woods muses on how she'll never know a normal life. He also flashes back to Godzilla destroying Washington, DC and Ogden being evacuated to...someplace...effectively writing the President out of the comic. Back in the present, a military jet flies over and drops supplies. While a crowd of people fight over it, Woods grabs one of the containers and slips away.
- Finally, for the first time in issues, we get back to Minette and Mallory in Paris. Apparently they've been wandering the abandoned city living like Queens, waiting for Battra to hatch from his cocoon. Also at last, Rodan shows up (why it's evidently taken him months to fly from Russia to France is not explained) and starts wrecking the city. Battra emerges from his cocoon and the two fight in a pretty cool sequence that, unfortunately, is cut short when the Evil Twins demand they stop. Why Rodan listens isn't explained. The two decide that, now that they have two monsters, they may as well cross the ocean and try enslaving Godzilla too.
- Back to Woods and the girl. She has a nightmare when the monster finder starts beeping. Woods wakes her, reassures her everything is okay, and they he start moving - putting distance between themselves and Angurius.
- I have no idea what's happening on the last page. I see Godzilla holding the Washington Monument, Godzilla looking back, then King Ghidorah. End.
[u]Overall:[\u] *SIGH* I'm going with 2 out of 5 (D+). Honestly? I don't know why everyone is calling this an improvement over last issue, it's only marginally better and that's just because it doesn't have anywhere near as stupid a storyline as the Mechagodzilla plot last issue. I just don't care what's going on here anymore. Woods has stopped interesting me by virtue of him doing nothing, they've written out Ogden (Really? They're just going to gloss over the collapse of the US government?), and Minette/Mallory would be interesting if they hadn't been ignored since they arrived in Paris. Whereas last issue was stupid, this issue just feels LAZY as hell. Everything in the last two issues should've happened over the course of two issues each (except for the Minette/Mallory stuff, which should've happened in one issue a LONG time ago).
You already lost my patience, comic, don't test me any further. >=(