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| GIANT-SIZE LITTLE MARVEL: AVX No. 4, November 2015 |
Despite documenting the twins’ exploits with both the
Guardians of the Galaxy and the Inhumans, as well as the series’
diminutively-sized titular characters, Skottie Young’s all-too familiar
storyline for Issue Four of “Giant-Size Little Marvel: AvX” doubtless
disheartened many of the book’s 28,025 buyers with its worrying repetitiveness
and over-reliance upon endless panels simply portraying Iron Man, Cyclops and
their respective team-mates furiously yelling at one another. Indeed, this
seemingly incessant conveyor-belt of shouting, threatening, arguing and
gesticulating even appears to get too much for the Inkwell Award-winner
himself, who towards the end of the eighteen-page periodical goes so far as to
have an extremely agitated Zachary and Zoe scream at everyone to “Shuuuuutttt
Up!” as they’ve “had just about enough of all of you!”
Admittedly such reservations about essentially reading the
same plot repeatedly over the course of a couple of comics doesn’t necessarily
apply to the entirety of this publication’s narrative, with the American
author’s decision to incorporate the wide-ranging physical enhancements of the
Attilans’ mutagenic Terrigen Mist arguably producing some of the series’
biggest laughs yet; “Ha Ha Ha! Hey we’re the Inhumans! Join us and you’ll get
hit with a green fart cloud, wrapped in to a rotten egg and turned into one of
these! Ha Ha Ha!” But even this sequence ultimately results in yet another
round of everyone just squawking at one another after Black Bolt flattens the
X-Men’s sarcastic leader with a single sound, and Zoe matter-of-factly hints she is “thinking of jumping over the zombie wall and calling it a
day.”
Potentially of far more interest is Young’s ‘last gasp’
suggestion that perhaps the twins would actually prefer to join the Brotherhood
of Evil Mutants rather than one of the superhero teams. Swiftly attired in
black capes and cowls, courtesy of the speedster Quicksilver, and surrounded by
the villainous ‘cutesy’ likes of Magneto, Loki, Doctor Octopus, Ultron and
Venom, this plot development seems a far more likely source of inspiration and
levity than the Fairbury-born writer’s mundane re-treading of old ideas. Sadly
however, such a diabolically intriguing opportunity is infuriatingly never
actually explored on account of the mini-series ending without warning or
resolution on that very splash page…
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| Words and Art: Skottie Young, Colors: Jean-Francois Beaulieu, and Letters: Jeff Eckleberry |
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