Gotta admit I’m reading way fewer comics than I should these days. No, it’s not that I’m going older; perhaps it’s because I’ve been a little busy recently? Nah, that’s bull… it certainly hasn’t stopped me in the past. I think the real problem here might be that I haven’t really gotten into any of the recent events.
Thor’s on-going storyline with Mephisto and the Aesir is interesting enough; but that’s a single storyline—hardly enough to satisfy me seeing that it’s a monthly release. What I need is an interesting event; one that arcs into multiple other stories and comic books.
Doomwar was ace but was over too quickly—and I’ve gotta say I wasn’t a huge fan of the art style; Reign of Kings wasn’t quite the epic I thought it would be (War of Kings, on the other hand, remains one of my best Marvel events in recent years); Dark Reign was a blast for the first nine months or so but it slowly lost pace and could have ended better. On the DC side, the Death of Bruce Wayne and War of Light are events I’m yet to explore, even though I intend to… and back to the Marvel Camp and the on-going Infinity War—eh, haven’t we seen that before? So, and this is where I began, Shadowland seems to offer something different: intrigue; there is something morbidly fascinating about the anti-hero that eventually totters over the brink and into the dark side. DareDevil seems to have done just that in this arc, and with even the Avengers unsure as to whether to interfere with the Hands presence in Hell Kitchen, there is so much room for this to become the true event of the year…
I’m just on issue #1, and haven’t read the rest of the released arcs, but already I like what I see.
