The origin story in particular was so abrupt ("ZAP - You have powaz"?) and the mirrored sequences with their families are soo predictable.

I read this blog avidly, so let me know if this title throws some major interesting twists and just improves in general. Until then, I'll be saving my hard-earned dollars for something readable.

I agree the art is much better this month but I don't think the story is all that bad. In fact your review lowered m expectations and I ended up enjoying the book more. lol

Heck, one of my best friends owns “A Contract With God” but has never read a single Spirit story.

Heck, I own A Contract With God, Name Of The Game, Life On Another Planet and The Plot, yet I've never read a single Spirit story.
The art style looks quite different and y'know, just cause I like his Human dramas, doesn't mean I'll nessecarily like his superhero/crimefighter book.

If this still holds true than Bobby does not need to be in his ice form to use his powers heavily -- he only should be in his ice form if he's in the middle of a battle where he is in danger of coming to physical harm.

That means Marvel doesn't need to explain the phyiscal impossibilites of his abilities.

He need not be in ICY form to do so.
It just LOOKS cool when he is.

I would imagine that SOME amount of power or effort (and definitely moisture/temperature control) goes INTO making himself ICY, so if he performs a BIG feat, he may want to de-ice himself and send that extra power/effort/temp/moisture to the intended task.

Just snowballing* a concept.

*(minds outta the gutter, people.)

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...how does Bobby create all that ice when he’s not iced up?

Turning into ice is simply one aspect of his abilities, not the whole shebang. Coating things in ice is a separate part of his mutation.

Cooke just needed a little time to set up the base before he started building the pyramid.

I often see people in blogs or on message boards complaining that DC and Marvel have become cynical and shitty and have stopped producing "pure" superhero comics. I often wonder why they don't just jump ship and pick up INVINCIBLE or DYNAMO 5 (and those are just two examples). Is familiarity with the characters really that important?

If you like superhero comics published from the 60's to the 80's and you wonder why DC and Marvel aren't doing anything that enjoyable lately, you should simply quit and find some Image comics. Spider-Man won't go back again.

And John - I know both Callisto and Marrow are still alive, but Storm didn't know either one of them would be. Who knew Marrow had two hearts????

Huh.

I thought it was pretty, and all the bonus materials were cool but I had HUGE problems with the storytelling.
Too many characters introduced in too short a time, and the background information was given to us kind of haphazardly. Great concept, but this issue was fairly muddled.

Perhaps I have no taste.

This series is so canceled, but I really hope they keep Eric O'Grady around, as he could be a fun character to follow. Perhaps in a "Loners" miniseries, or as a moral barometer for the Runaways, or maybe he can join The Great Lake "Whatevers" and appear in all their one shots. Or maybe Marvel should just bite the bullet, make it a MAX, and give all the pervy fan boys the cussin and boobies they wish they could see. The sky is the limit, I say!

2. Greg... You say MacDuffie was correcting Marvel's mistake of killing Gravity, but you're wrong. MacDuffie was the one who wrote that death, and it was his plan to bring him back all along.

I’ll point out that both Marrow and Callisto are still alive. So Storm’s only an attempted murderer.

Yeah, she even had an all girl three way with Callisto at the end of The Arena storyline in X-treme X-Men.

She's clearly just jealous of the Silver Surfer's ability to finish the job right.

(And yes, I hate myself for making fun of Sean Phillips as well... but the dude does look exactly the same as him).