Storyline: The Visitors
Date: July 16th, 2008
Price: $3.99 US
Writer: Mark Millar
Artist: Tommy Lee Edwards

Synopsis: They’re coming for us. The most dangerous villains in the Marvel Universe are here—in our world—and they’re not taking prisoners. The only people who stand between salvation and destruction are 13-year old Toby and his dad, who once was friends with the enigmatic Clyde Wyncham.

Opinion: We have reached the middle of the new series, 1985 and so far it’s been a let down.  Don’t get me wrong the concept is really cool; for those of you who are new to this series the whole idea is that all the comic book characters, good and bad, have descended into this small town to… well we’re not really sure why they’re there yet. Anyway it’s narrated by the older version of the 12 year-old boy who lived though the whole experience. The idea behind the story line is great except the series has yet to amaze.

Read my full review after the jump.

So far most of it has been narration and this issue is no different. The “older/wiser” version of our 12 year-old continues to drone on about the happenings instead of showing us. Another problem I had with issue #2 has been resolved with very minimal impact to the town or to our narrator. A man was electrocuted at the end of the second issue, but in this story he is mentioned very briefly and has been found dead, not really very climatic. 

If the concept of the story is the invasion of the comic book characters shouldn’t more things be happening then people dying ?!?! This whole issue focused on the death and destruction of the town. Just fantastic except let’s have more of a plot twist, death is pretty final, what about some of the people living to help the good or the bad?

The other issue I keep having with this comic is my own doing. I am new to the comic book world and therefore the characters they keep mentioning mean nothing to me.  This is particularly hard when they don’t explain their powers or abilities.  For instance part of the story has the bad guy Capitan America always goes up against controlling hundreds of people with his mind and forcing them to do things they don’t want to do. I have no idea who this nemesis of Capitan America is, I have no back story, no knowledge of what he’s done or not done so I can’t get excited about him or about any of the other comic book characters that have made appearances so far. At the end of the issue is a big green dragon??? No clue.

It’s really hard to get into a story when I don’t understand the characters involved. On a semi related note I’ve run into this problem before, it seems like the comic book industry is a big club and you have to know the history of all the characters to really enjoy the new stuff coming out. This is absolute BS, if the industry wants to enjoy new clientèle it needs to be easier to get involved in new story lines. Just my 2 cents.

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