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Annihilation Book 2 (2007) — Illustrator — 134 eksemplarer
House of M: The Incredible Hulk (2006) — Illustrator — 71 eksemplarer
Counter X: X-Force: Rage War (2012) — Illustrator — 11 eksemplarer
The Darkness #74 - Crooked, Part 3: Black Teeth (2009) — Illustrator — 2 eksemplarer
The Incredible Hulk [1999] #86 — Illustrator — 2 eksemplarer
The Incredible Hulk [1999] #85 — Illustrator — 2 eksemplarer
The Incredible Hulk [1999] #84 — Illustrator — 2 eksemplarer
The Incredible Hulk [1999] #83 — Illustrator — 2 eksemplarer
The Darkness #79 - Regicide Prologue: Pros & Cons (2009) — Illustrator — 2 eksemplarer
The Darkness #73 - Crooked, Part 2: The Road to Hell (2008) — Illustrator — 2 eksemplarer
The Darkness #71 - La Bruja En Las Paredes (2008) — Illustrator — 2 eksemplarer
The Darkness #72 - Crooked, Part 1 (2008) — Illustrator — 2 eksemplarer

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Batman, Incorporated Volume 2: Gotham's Most Wanted (2013) — Illustrator — 138 eksemplarer
Talon (New 52) Vol. 2: The Fall of the Owls (2014) — Illustrator — 21 eksemplarer
Broken Trinity TPB (2010) 20 eksemplarer
DC Comics: The New 52 Villains Omnibus (2013) — Illustrator — 7 eksemplarer

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After his run on Black Panther came to an end, Christopher Priest began a short-lived ongoing called The Crew, a team book that included one-time Black Panther Kasper Cole (now the White Tiger) among its members. I wasn't super into Kasper part of Priest's Black Panther run, but The Crew was included in the Christopher Priest Black Panther: The Complete Collection volumes, which you can read for free on Hoopla, so I figured why not read it? (I'd already read the issues from the main title collected here, #50-56 & 59-62, so I did not reread them.)

It was kind of worth reading, kind of not. Certainly it wasn't worth it for Kasper, who continues to spin his wheels as a character, arguing with his girlfriend and expectant mother of his child, chasing promotion so he can afford to support his mother and girlfriend. The ongoing thing about his dad wasn't picked up at all, and by the end of these seven issues, Cole isn't really anywhere we haven't already seen him.

The other three members of the "Crew" (never called that in the story) are James "Rhodey" Rhodes, the one-time Iron Man and War Machine; Junta, a superpowered information broker whose mom is a robot who I think appeared in one issue of Black Panther vol. 3; and Josiah X, the son of a black man who was experimented on during World War II in an attempt to create super-soldier serum. The first few issues look at each man in turn; the "team" really only kind of comes together with issue #7, when of course the title was cancelled. Junta probably could have become fun with time, but the real standouts here are Rhodes and Josiah.Rhodes I don't think I have ever actually read a comic about before, but I liked what Priest did with him here; a man who use to be on top but has found himself at the bottom trying to climb his way back up using his sense of justice as a guide. I don't know how the character is in actual Iron Man comics, but I would read more stories about him if they were like this.

Josiah X (called "Justice" in behind-the-scenes information but not in the actual book) is a really interesting character, a black Muslim community organizer who dons Captain America iconography. Can such a man reconcile the contradictions that led to his own existence? How can he wear the emblem of the country that treated him and his father so disposably? Priest and artist Joe Bennett do their best work with Josiah, and unfortunately only scratch the surface of the character. I gather he hasn't really appeared since, but I am curious to pick up the Captain America: The Truth miniseries where his father originally appeared.

As I've alluded to, it's a bit of a slow burn, which was probably a mistake for a book that bundled together a bunch of has-been and also-ran characters; I cannot imagine it sold well at all. I enjoyed it well enough, but by the end of seven issues, I wasn't convinced we needed seven issues to see the Crew take down some pretty ordinary gangsters. A decent read, but not really for Black Panther–related reasons. I gather the Crew returns during Ta-Nehisi Coates's run, but not with this line-up.
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Stevil2001 | 2 andre anmeldelser | Feb 28, 2024 |
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nrfaris | 2 andre anmeldelser | Dec 23, 2021 |
This was another very good comic - but not without its issues. In particular, there was some odd plagiarism in Silver Surfer #2 which somehow slipped past Marvel Editorial. In particular, several backgrounds from Annihilius' throne room were lifted directly from Emperor Palpatine's Observation Room on the Death Star II in Return of the Jedi. I don't know how that got by, but it did, and I can't not see it.

Otherwise, this is some great writing, and a great cosmic superhero comic. I'm in for Book Three.… (mere)
 
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Count_Zero | 6 andre anmeldelser | Jul 7, 2020 |
The whole idea behind the positive and negative universes eating each other was fun. I don't read this for the science, after all. All these big players on a big scale story is so delicious.
 
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