Reviewer: James Hatton
Story title: N/A
Written by: Rob Rodi
Penciled by: John Higgins
Inked by: Sandu Florea
Colored by: Estudio Fenix
Lettered by: Dave Sharpe
Editor: Warren Simons
Publisher: Dan Buckley
I’m not a fan of cheap ploying, and the idea that Identity Disc is coming out repeatedly on the same week as Identity Crisis, makes me think Marvel’s trying to pull a sly one on us all. On the other side of it, the book has Deadpool and that makes me feel warm and fuzzy about it. Then again, Juggernaut’s in it, and he’s supposed to be a good guy. Though, we do see a well written Bullseye…
I’m torn. Really.
Story!
So, Kaiser Soz.. pardon, I mean Mister Silver has gotten some of the roughest baddest of badassed villains to join together to look for the infamous NOC Lis.. pardon, I mean ‘Identity Disc’. It’s a neat ploy, but the Disc seems a bit useless given how the public identity of most of these folks is slowly but surely becoming public knowledge thanks to Brian Bendis.
If the list actually had the phone number of Joe Quesada, now that would be impressive.
Anyway, the groups are set into teams to go do minor missions to lead up to the big steal. Vulture and Sabretooth make the odd couple who have to do some creative thieving. Bullseye and Deadpool are stealing a key that unlocks any system. You know, almost like the box in Sneakers. Oh, and Juggy is on Recon – because his partner, the Sandman has died again.
The story is not badly written, as Rob has all of the character’s voices down, but the plot is so laden with rips from other movies and glitches in WHEN this book is happening it starts to feel a bit confused. If you imagine you are reading this book five years ago, then all will feel alright – except for that whole Usual Suspects, Mission Impossible, Sneakers thing.
Art!
The art isn’t horrible. I’m ok with putting that as my high rating on it. Certain characters don’t have a whole helluva lot of consistancy, and Sabretooth hasn’t worn that outfit since the mid 90’s. It’s a bit dark in the coloring department…
Look, I’m not trying to be a total buzzkill on what is a fun title to read, but it’s a nitpicky book. I dig the cover, and would probably buy a poster with that big group of bad guys in one spot. I dig the concept. I think the characters are all on the spot. There is just this untangible wrongness to the book that is hard to place.
..I’m sorry, I’ve gone completely off track…
Overall!
It’s a fun book. It’s a heist story that has quite a few plotholes that I am doing my best to look over as I’m a fan of villain groups doing evil things without good guys showing up. I’m going to read it until the end, so we can find out that Mister Silver is really the Vulture and get it over with.
