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Gambit #8 (2012)

Gambit #8 (2012)

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VERY FINE/NEAR MINT
Written by James Asmus
Art by Pasqual Ferry
Cover by Pasqual Ferry
Receiving a distress call from an imperiled ESU archaeology team, Gambit makes a detour on his way back to the Big Apple and heads to the Forever City! But how exactly will he outwit the hyper-evolved locals and snatch the students (and some loot) from their clutches?
Date Available: 01/23/2013
BONUS REVIEW by Gary Owens


Some Marvel characters are consistently portrayed as morally opinionated, like Captain America or Wolverine, having strong principled feelings about seemingly everything, and then there are the ambivalent characters, the Hamlets who hedge and debate on actions, like Gambit. In this issue, Gambit finds himself on a mission to save some college students on the High Evolutionary’s Island, and since the High Ev is the poor man’s Dr. Moreau, you get transformed creatures running hither and thither but without the deep background questioning of what it means to be human, or the horror of seeing these things, bogging down the narrative. The action is good, the self-questioning by the main character consistent with X-men going all of the way back to Claremont, but I like my heroes a bit more rigid in the wind.

I give it 5 out of 10 Grahams


VERY FINE/NEAR MINT
Written by James Asmus
Art by Pasqual Ferry
Cover by Pasqual Ferry
Receiving a distress call from an imperiled ESU archaeology team, Gambit makes a detour on his way back to the Big Apple and heads to the Forever City! But how exactly will he outwit the hyper-evolved locals and snatch the students (and some loot) from their clutches?
Date Available: 01/23/2013
BONUS REVIEW by Gary Owens


Some Marvel characters are consistently portrayed as morally opinionated, like Captain America or Wolverine, having strong principled feelings about seemingly everything, and then there are the ambivalent characters, the Hamlets who hedge and debate on actions, like Gambit. In this issue, Gambit finds himself on a mission to save some college students on the High Evolutionary’s Island, and since the High Ev is the poor man’s Dr. Moreau, you get transformed creatures running hither and thither but without the deep background questioning of what it means to be human, or the horror of seeing these things, bogging down the narrative. The action is good, the self-questioning by the main character consistent with X-men going all of the way back to Claremont, but I like my heroes a bit more rigid in the wind.

I give it 5 out of 10 Grahams


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