Comic Wednesday rocked this week. A lot of my favourite titles came out and, while not all delivered the goods, they were still great reads. Even the titles that I consider sort of so-so or middle of the pack type books managed to impress me this week. I've got a solid six reviews for you today. I'll see if I can add one or two more before the night is through, but I won't guarantee anything. You can catch anything I didn't get to review tomorrow in the Quick Shot reviews. As always, let me know what you think of the books you bought this week. But, first, you'll have to read all the reviews after the jump.
ANNIHILATION: CONQUEST #5Written by Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning
Art by Tom Raney
Let's get this out there right now. I liked this issue, I really did, but, with only one issue left, I can't see how this series will end with any kind of satisfaction.
With so many things left unresolved in this penultimate issue, Abnett and Lanning decided to give us a series of "how'd Ultron get involved in all this" flashbacks as Ultron is being downloaded / transferred into Adam Warlock's body. I'm not sure how that even works, but I'm guessing lots of lube and duct tape was involved. Having deus ex machina High Evolutionary probably helped, too.
Pesonally, I didn't need another Mighty Avengers recap of how Ultron was defeated or find out that the evil AI killing machine has a distaste for his flawed human creators or any other random flashback moment. It was pretty obvious Ultron was assimilated into the Phalanx and took control. I didn't really need half an issue dedicated to it when we could be wrapping up all the other subplots or fleshing out other sections of the story.
As I said, Ultron is now in Warlock's body, making him a perfect organic being. He only hated humans and other lifeforms for their genetic failings. Warlock is perfect and now Ultron wants the High Evolutionary to use the 'perfect' Kree clone army he was building to transfer all the Phalanx into perfect organic bodies with which Ultron will use to get generic super villain revenge on Earth.
Meanwhile, the Kree sentry robots that Ronan has magically made immune to the Phalanx wipe out the entire Phalanx threat on Ravenous' planet and are all on their way to Kree-La to purge the planet of the Phalanx. I'm a bit confused at how this will work, as didn't the Phalanx take control of their own army of Kree robot sentinels back in the Prologue issue? Combined with any orbital defenses and the Phalanx and their Kree slaves, wouldn't they mop the floor with Ronan's battalion?
The only other thing of note is with Starlord's group. Groot "sacrifices" himself, with a little growth spurt from Mantis, by intertwining himself with the Babel Spire and igniting himself. While this seems great and all, destroying the Spire won't really do anything except open up Kree space to allow outsiders in. As far as I know, it doesn't really have any other tactical purpose and with the Shi'ar ruined by Vulcan and the Skrulls replacing Cap and the rest of the gang on Earth, there's not much left out there to come save them from this action, but maybe they'll surprise me with something.
Verdict - Check It. I love the series and enjoyed the issue, but I don't think this was a Must Read issue for anyone except the most diehard Annihilation fans, like myself. Final issue is doublesized, so maybe they'll be able to wrap up the numerous plot threads without rushing it.
AVENGERS: THE INITIATIVE #10Written by Dan Slott
Art by Stefano Caselli
So much happens in every issue of Avengers: The Initiative, yet I still leave each issue craving more.
Case in point, this issue gives us New Warrior flashbacks for the numerous former New Warriors in the Initiative, deals with some fallout from Slapstick's attack on Gauntlet, builds the relationship of Hardball and Komodo, has an awesome Taskmaster and Ant-Man scene, progresses the MVP / KIA plot and a whole bunch of other random stuff. It's a cornucopia of super hero goodness.
However, with all the good comes the bad. Slott likes to play with the unloved or underused heroes and villains of the Marvel Universe. People like Constrictor, the ex-New Warriors, Taskmaster, Ant-Man, etc. With this, it feels like he thinks he has free reign to do whatever he wants to them, including maiming or killing anyone that pleases him.
While a lot of these shock deaths or maimings are shocking and attention grabbing, after the 20th random beating, dismemberment or killing it just becomes a bit tired and overused and I'm kind of losing interest in the characters because of how he's treating a lot of them. While I'm still loving the book, I'm also finding it hard to keep the faith sometimes.
The best example of this in this month's issue would be when Constrictor meets up with KIA and has his arm razor wired into tiny little pieces. It's a pretty shocking scene, but at the same time, this entire arc has had people getting torn to pieces, mutilated, burned and "killed in action", robbing any impact the scene has. It's completely glossed over as well and we never go back to see if he's okay or anything.
Looking over this review, it seems like this comic is complete trash or I'm being overly negative, but that's not what I'm trying to get at. Anyone picking this up for the first time is going to probably crap their pants at how much shit just went down in this issue. Anyone who's been reading along the whole time is probably going to be wondering if their favourite Initiative recruit is going to survive another issue or if it's even worth getting attached to any of the new ones.
One of the things I really liked in this issue was Cloud 9 stepping up as a leader-like character. She heads to the barracks by herself and rounds up anyone she can find, which amounts to the nekkid Hardball and Komodo since Vance seems to be reforming the New Warriors with all the former members based on the ending of this issue (how's this play into the actual NW title?).
Later, when everyone is fighting KIA, Cloud 9 is front and center with the group and, while everyone else is shocked to see MVP alive, she's got the unphased confidence of a vetern as she spouts off something along the lines of, "Seen that before, you'll get used to it.".
Mutant Zero shows up again this issue and uses some kind of power to make Gyrich and herself invisible to KIA. She repeated the same phrase about how they are not there and he cannot see them. I'm not sure if it was something she had to do for the power to work or just random dialogue. Still no idea who this girl is supposed to be.
Finally, Taskmaster and Ant-Man were the best part of this issue and they only had one page together. Ant-Man hid, shrunken, under one of the Initiative members during KIA rampage in the base last issue. He's seen here checking to see if the coast is clear and only finds Taskmaster. Both ignore the distress calls from the others in the base and deside to sit down and watch Chuck on Ant-Man's iPod. We need an Ant-Man, Deadpool and Taskmaster series. Only good things could come from that.
Verdict - Must Read. Again, I really liked the issue, but I'm also getting tired of the random killing just for the shock value factor. There are better ways to make me care about the characters and I hope Slott tones it down a bit in future issues.
FANTASTIC FOUR #555Written by Mark Millar
Art by Bryan Hitch
I had nothing but good things to say about the first outing for Hitch and Millar last month and after this second issue, I'm still enjoying this book. McDuffie and the other various writers over the past couple years have had the odd arc or good issue, but these first two issues from M&H have been great. They aren't Ultimates good, but they're still incredibly fun and enjoyable reads.
As we saw at the end of last issue, Reed's old flame is building Nu-World, a man-made replacement for Earth, which, by their calculations, is going to be unihabitable in just 10 years time. Good to know.
I was hoping for a little bit more elaborate reason for this mass exodus homemade planet than basically global warming, but the reason is not that big a deal I suppose.
One thing I was a little disappointed about with this issue was the lack of Sue and Thing. Sue is nonexistant and Thing shows up for a panel or two. Johnny had a little screen time as he meets up with a super villain on his way to his band rehersal. She's hot and as they fight, they bust into an empty building and start making out. I got the impression this was staged and they've already met before, but it's never really made clear if this is the first meeting or not. Should be interesting to see where this ends up in half a year's time.
That left the bulk of the issue dealing with Reed and Alyssa on Nu-World. They're making the planet identical to Earth, which seems a bit stupid. I'd make it larger to accomandate the rapid growth rate of humans, maybe make a Pangea type super continent broken up by mass amounts of fresh water for crops and human consumption and so on. Cities would be redesigned for mass transit. Most cities grew from villages and towns into the sprawling mass of roads they have today. Traffic jams could be eliminated almost completely with a properly designed metropolis if people of Reed's level of intelligence were designing the cities. Instead, they are importing perfect 3D models of the cities on Earth, grime, graffiti, flaws and all. These are the dumbest smart people ever.
The only thing they are doing is eliminating deserts and replenishing rain forests. Oh, and building giant super sized Iron Man-like robots named after and painted in Captain America's colour. And the giant death robot will also replace all armies and law enforcement and punish anyone carrying weapons with impunity. Of course this robot goes rogue at the end of this issue.
I'm fairly anal over little things like this, but they are just nerd nitpickings. The issue and story are a fun romp of an adventure and I'm really enjoying it. Like I said earlier, this isn't the Ultimates and anyone coming in expecting that will be disappointed. My only real complaint is the lack of the Four in Fantastic Four with this Reed centric issue, but I'm guessing everyone will have issues like this over the run. Also, the art still has that magazine look to it's layouts, which I'm not enjoying. Most will probably overlook this small detail and I'm trying to myself, but it's still jarring to me at this point.
Verdict - Must Read. It's a fun read. Everything flows well and I'm just enjoying the hell out of this story, even with any and all nitpicks I have with the title.
NOVA #11Written by Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning
Art by Paul Pelletier
I don't know what to make of this. I liked the issue, but I don't see how this 'propels Nova back into the Annihilation: Conquest story'. This issue is basically "Hi, I'm Warlock (no not Adam Warlock) of the Technarchy and this is my origin and all the information on the Technarchy in one convenient package!".
I already know who Warlock is and I got a refresher on the Technarchy from Wkipedia after Magus debuted last week in X-Force, so I'm kind of in the middle on how useful this issue was. Abnett and Lanning do a great job diseminating all the information for the uninformed, but the story still read like an above average "super hero explains everything out loud" cliche.
I guess I should give a few details on the actual story. Nova arrived on the Technarchy homeworld last issue. He's nearing his limit with the transmode virus and it seems Worldmind can't find any life readings on this planet. He does detect some movement nearby and it turns out to be two giant robot-like behmoths fighting it out. The transmode virus goes into overdrive for some reason and it turns out it is because those two robots are actually Warlock and his adopted Technarchy son doing training exercises. The Phalanx are sort of like waste products of the Technarchy after they consume organics. They react violently to real Technarchy and that's what caused Nova's TO virus to go nuts. Warlock is able to force it into remission for him, but can't cure him, as he doesn't have enough power to do so unless he consumes organics, which he will never do.
From here, we are given the origin and 'what's he been up to' portion of the book. Nova explains the Conquest to Warlock, Warlock explains his quest to redeem the Technarchy and stop them from consuming organics and this ends with him declining to help Nova, as he doesn't have the power to do anything.
The issue ends with Gamora and Drax's transmode viruses going nuts and causing them to form a Babel Spire, which summons a Technarchy adult back to the planet, which is a bad thing in case you were wondering.
Verdict - Check It. Don't get me wrong, this still a great book, but Nova still has the virus, there's nothing new to do with Conquest and we're basically where we were four or five months ago in terms of story progression. Well written and great art, but kind of like filler at the same time. Doesn't affect my love for this series, but, objectively, I think it's a little hard to justify calling this a Must Read when so little happens.
THUNDERBOLTS #119Written by Warren Ellis
Art by Mike Deodato
How the hell did Ellis make Swordsman a complete badass? He needs to be permanently mind controlled by those telepaths in the basement because, while his creepy sister fetish was a bit interesting, he was basically known for being the guy Steel Spider punked, face smeared across a building and threw into a TV.
This issue has him tearing throw a platoon of guards and going to toe-to-toe with Venom - and winning. Yes, the same Venom that was eating arms and painted the base red with guards last issue. I'm putting the horse before the wagon here, as this fight ends the issue, but it was just too awesome to leave until the end of the reveiw.
After their bloody confrontation with guards, Venom and Swordsman meet up in a hallway. Venom wants to eat Swordsman and Strucker just wants to get rid of anyone in the way of his new reich. Basically, it boils down to the telepaths making them fight. Early on, it looked like Strucker was going to go the way of the Steel Spider, or even the guards from last issue, with Venom getting a few good swipes and crushing blows in, but the tide quickly turns as Strucker impales Venom. No problem, right? Venom's taken the sword before and symbiote should protect him. Well, last time Strucker's sword hit Venom, Swordsman wasn't holding it. With his mutant powers channeled through the sword, the symbiote is incinerated and the all to human Scorpion is impaled underneath to end the brutal encounter. I have no doubt Venom will recover through some symbiote healing mojo, but it would be nice to see this lead into a return of Eddie Brock as Venom.
Some other noteworthy goings on would have to be Osborn's apparent return to being the Green Goblin and Samson's insane mental defenses. The Goblin doesn't appear in this issue, but Osborn stormed out of his office ranting about taking care of things himself and showing them how it's done. In Samon's case, one of the telepath's decided to try and take a look inside his head, but being a psychiatrist somehow grants him the power to detect people messing with his head and he uses the power of gamma induced RAGE to expel her from his mind somehow. It was pretty cool to see, but doesn't make a lick of sense to me.
Verdict - Must Read. The plot is still a mystery to me, as we have no idea why these telepaths are doing this, how they still have their powers / why no one noticed they had mental powers before or who they are. It's basically just been Venom and Swordsman tearing everyone a new one. Great stuff, but we're going to need some story soon.
WOLVERINE #63Written by Jason Aaron
Art by Ron Garney
As I said last month, I'm giving this series another shot with new writer Aaron and this post-Messiah Complex follow-up. First issue was good, but nothing special. I didn't regret buying it or anything, but was hoping for more. This issue? This issue was incredible and made me glad I started picking this book up again.
The previous issue's main problem was the jarring shifts in story from past to present. This issue does a much better job of this and we got to see a lot of interesting scenes.
I particularly liked the gangster era team up between Mystique and Wolverine in the flashbacks of this issue. I don't know if it was meant to, but there's a scene that has Mystique talking to Logan about the members of her little racket, ranging from gambling to pickpocketing, and she tells Logan they're the best they are at what they do and I couldn't but think this was supposed to be where Wolverine first got his signature catch phrase.
There's several fun or memorable scenes like that throughout the issue. From last issue, we see Logan getting shot to hell by some townsfolk after Mystique set him up for a murder. They go to finish him off and call him an American and he tries to respond he's actually Canadian before getting cut off as they pump a few hundred rounds into him and dump his body.
Then there's when Wolverine catches up with Mystique and she's shapeshifted into a nun with a bunch of orphans in her care in a random tavern. They have a nice chat and Mystique brings up the point about how she's betrayed the X-Men a number of times before and there was never any major resprisal, so why now? Wolverine doesn't seem to have an answer, which disappointed me a bit. Is it just because Logan is Cyclops whipped dog that does whatever he's told now? Hopefully we get an answer to this by the end of this arc.
Continuing with the scene, Wolverine, who came her after being turned into Swiss cheese, spits up one of the bullets before he starts drinking. I don't know why, but this little touch during their conversation really stuck with me and I thought it was a cool touch. I guess it's all in the little things and stuff like this sticks out to me usually.
Finally, the scene ended with Mystique accusing Logan of sexually assaulting her and slaps him, which leads to some locals sticking up for the nun, letting her escape.
The last bit of the issue showed more flashbacks of Wolverine and Mystique becoming lovers and ended with a present day scene with Mystique impersonating a senator under the guard of a US military platoon.
Verdict - Must Read. I just liked everything about this issue. The cat and mouse game between Wolverine and Mystique worked perfectly here and the flashbacks were spliced in a less jarring way than previously and helped frame the story. With this and Logan on the stands, it's almost like it's the 80's again when Wolverine had nothing but awesome stories coming out.
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About the lack of Sue and Thing, I believe Millar said that his run on FF was divided into 4 4-part arcs focusing on the different members, with this being the Reed arc.
Thunderbolt was awesome. I find it plausible that a psychiatrist like Sampson, who could have access to telepaths, could detect it. What do you think of the Speedball developments? This series gets better with every issue. Now if it would just come out monthly.
If they can build reinforests why don't they do it on Earth?
Also I'm not an ecologist but I would think deserts exist for a purpose. Are you saying they are just building a copy of Earth instead of something original?. Just because you don't like an aspect of nature doesn't mean removing it from the ecosystem won't stuff it up.
mutant zero is jean.
cover worthy many times.
even people who don't read comics will know who she is.
and now what appears to be mental tricks.
jean.
No DC books this week?
Salvation Run?
simon dark?
Green lantern Corps?
Wonder woman?Booster Gold?
You are missing out dude!
@eric - Ya, I recall reading the same article from Millar, but I was still surprised she didn't even appear in this issue. Not even a cameo like the Thing or Johnny had.
@randallw - Ya, it's a little odd. They're making an identical copy of Earth with the onlyd ifference, geographically, being that they are removing the deserts (whcih technically would include the many arctic regions since the definition of a desert is by precipitation, not by how much sand there is) and upping the tree counts.
New York will be New York right down to the graffiti, which they say is a morale issue for them of whether to change things or not.
It's easy to bitch or nitpick about it when you look at it too hard, but I don't really mind the nonsensical nature of the project and it's a minor detail in the overall plot.
@sazyski - I was thinking Jean, since they said it's a prominent mutant that we will all know, but it's an Avengers title and note ven a main one like Mighty or New. I'd put more money on Madelyne Prior than an actual Jean Grey return. Although that's basically the same thing. Neither fits the atheltic and smaller figure of Mutant Zero though.
The mental trick reminded me of Wiccan from Young Avengers where he has to repeat a simple phrase for his magic to work. Maybe Scarlet Witch ahaha. It could also be illusion based alla Lady Mastermind (not saying its her, just powers like hers).
@anonymous - Oh, don't worry, I got all of those except Salvation Run and Simon Dark and a few others. I usually do these long reviews for whatever book strikes my fancy and I feel I have something to say about. Last week was all DC in the Wednesday reviews, this week its all Marvel. Completely random.
Take Booster Gold, it was great, but I couldn't really think of anything major to say about that would fill the usual length these reviews are in. I could do 200-300 words in tomorrows Quick Shots fairly easy, but it wasn't a funny issue and the action wasn't much to write home about. I enjoyed it a great deal, but it didn't strike me the way the books I did review did.
Same for the GLC fill in and Wonder Woman's issue.
I just want to be clear I don't go in thinking "Oh, not doing any DC reviews this week, mwahah *worship Stan Lee statue*". Quality doesn't affect the reviews either because it's really hard to write about perfect books with few flaws either.
It's like picking a book report for school. If you have to pick your book, you pick the one that's easiest to write about, not the one you like, but can't think of any contrasts or major conflicts that would fit the assignment.
You can look for the DC and other Marvel books tomorrow in the Quick Shots. Reading like 15 books that take 5-10 mins to get through each if you get no distractions plus writing the reviews takes up a huge chunk of time after going to the shop and back, so I can only do so many on Wednesday's as well.
@eric - oh ya, forgot to talk about the Speedball developments.
I don't know what to think anymore. There's all the nonsense that doesn't fit in any continuity timeline that I know of that happened in Jenkins Relentless mini and now there's the new non-pain based powers Bleedball is using here.
I'd like to ignore Jenkins stuff, so I'm enjoying what Ellis is doing with him. I hope Samson sticks around in this book with him for a little while so we can see more developments like this.
I find that the more you think about ANY of Millar's stories the less fun they are. Whenever I read something by Millar I try not to think too hard, otherwise the story falls apart, he is the comic equivalent of a summer action movie.
I would love for Sampson would stick around in Thunderbolts, but Loeb has him so there goes that. Marvel should let Ellis fix Speedball and be done with it. Also, since Jenkins thinks MySpace and YouTube are more important that ethics and morals I stopped taking anything he does seriously. Also how does the Penance series work with the Sub-Mariner series?
Finally, I would by a Taskmaster/Deadpool/Ant-Man series by Slott, unfortunately Way is doing a Deadpool series.
More like "The Weekly Marvel Jizzfest"
Samson using rage to expel a psychic attack does have precedents. The Hulk supposedly has a resistance to psionic attacks due to being really angry. I'm guessing Samson understands how to use the trick from therapy sessions. So, its a hokey trick, but not out of the blue.
I know, it's only a comic. It's just my personality to pick everything that doesn't make sense. A Friend of mine asked me the other week why I had to point out the problem with everything.
My husband has boxes of old comics (at least 20 years old) in excellent conditions. Are comics really worth anything these days? I think he wants to get rid of them. well at least he mentioned it awhile back.
Thunderbolts was great again, but the constant fill-ins because of Ellis being late (if Deodato is to be believed when he says the scripts are responsible for the delays) are really destroying the momentum of the book.
Yeah, I also can't really buy the idea that the superscience technology to build a complete duplicate Earth that's not only perfect but "better" than the original, is somehow lower/easier/more-within-reach than handwavily/magically fixing the environment of the existing one, but I'm not the one making up the rules.
That said, it's a fun comic, there are some enjoyable character bits and spectacular scenes like the empty ocean, etc.
The plot for ANNIHILATION: CONQUEST #5 was extremely bad. Points to make:
1) Ultron’s physical self never appeared in the MIGHTY AVENGERS #1-#6 arc. The robot controlled Stark remotely, manipulated computer networks via Stark, etc., so there’s no basis for supposing that Ultron was ever threatened at any point, including the final explosion in MA #6. Bendis’s story even made that point in MA #6 with Ultron appearing on a computer screen briefly at the end.
2) Whether the essence of Ultron floating around in the ether was a copy or the “real” Ultron, there’s still no plausible way for the essence to make its way to another galaxy, which is what the “Conquest” storyline requires. Take a look at the distances between galaxies: http://hypertextbook.com/facts/1999/SaraLi.shtml The cosmology of the Marvel Universe has historically been one of the universe’s weakest aspects, but still. . .
3) Mantis doesn’t have pyrokinesis. Giffen might have claimed she did in the STARLORD miniseries, Abnett & Lanning might have relied on the supposed ability here, but Englehart’s Mantis--the only valid version, to date--doesn’t have a trace of the ability. She also couldn’t make Groot “magically” grow without somehow feeding him the required nutrients.
I see this as yet another example of writers attempting to write beyond their skills or simply trying to fill pages with something, anything, that they think will look good when pictured, whether or not what’s happening actually makes any sense. If Mantis should die in CONQUEST #6, that would be a good thing, since the character appearing in this miniseries isn’t a valid interpretation anyway.
SRS
@steven -
1) Bendis kind of co-opted Ultron on the already planned Conquest, so I don't really consider any discrepencies there to be valid, but the way I understood it, she-Ultron was Ultron, even before the explanation in this issue of Conquest. The way I read it, and I could be wrong, was that Ultron escaped into the Avengers computers at the end of Mighty #6 before being destroyed by the computer virus and I guess beamed himself into space or something. WHere did it say he was remotely controlling Iron Man from afar?
2)Now this is just a bit of a nitpick. Avengers and just about anyone with a two way radio on Marvel Earth can make faster than light transmissions between galaxies for real time communication. Beaming Ultron's computer mind would be just as easy. I still don't get how or why he was beamed out into space like this though, but you can't really complain about space travel in comics.
3)I don't know where they got the pyrokinesis either, but as far as I know, Mantis has full control of any plant life, including a giant tree like Groot. She used to grow new bodies out of plants when she transferred to new planets. I didn't read every previous appearance of her though, so maybe your right on needing nutrients for this, but he could have taken them from the soil as well. THe pyro stuff is out of left field though.
And all props to Englehart as a writer, but Mantis isn't exactly a mainstream character and even in her Z-list status, she's about the most complicated, continuity wise, character I've ever encountered. Exactly which powers and events should be referenced in terms of Mantis? She's spanned at least 3 different publishers under various names and you can't exactly use those events outside Marvel for various legal reasons. Do you count retcons by Busiek and the whole Space Phantom nonsense, etc?
I think this new version of Mantis is a great change for the character and she's one of the more interesting characters to come out of Conquest.
I wouldn't call the plot as bad as you say it is. The only thing questionable is the explanation for Ultron and that seems to have been more in response to what Bendis went and did in Mighty when he pulled the rug out from under them.
It almost sounds like you are more concerned about Mantis' treatment than any other problems with the book based on the Englehart comparison and how you feel Abnett and Lanning are writing beyond their skill level.
My immediate impression is that you don’t read much SF, if any. The distances between stars, much less galaxies, matters in SF (it mattered greatly in “Star Trek,” for that matter), and it should matter in the Marvel Universe, too. The main reason writers can dismiss such issues, perhaps, is that they’re still using concepts (Kree galaxy, Skrull galaxy, etc.) developed by Lee, Kirby, et al, within the first several years of writing Marvel stories, when the stories were still aimed at children. The concepts should have been updated decades ago.
FTL communications rely on technology (hyperspace transmissions, hyperwave radios, subspace transmissions, etc.) to get around the light speed barrier. A writer couldn’t reasonably do that with Ultron’s essence. As for its essence re Stark, remember that Ultron’s body *never* appeared in MIGHTY AVENGERS.
I know Mantis as thoroughly as anyone besides Englehart does, probably, and can say that there’s not a trace of the actual Mantis’s personality in the Giffen or Abnett & Lanning miniseries. Remember that Giffen started out intending to do broad parody and then turned serious. The Mantis in CONQUEST is just strange and distant. If someone decided to do Spock as a gay Japanese-American, would you think that the characterization had to be judged on its own merits? Her history isn’t nearly as convoluted and complicated as you make it out to be.
SRS
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