Book: The Silver Surfer issue #3 by Stan Lee
Rating: 4 stars
My Review:
I have really enjoyed reading these issues of The Silver Surfer and issue #3 was even better than the last.
Finally fed up with people of Earth treating him unjustly The Silver Surfer takes his revenge by darkening the Earth. Norrin is such a good person that even his revenge wasn't too severe. He had cut off all the power and released a dense fog to cover the cities. He hoped that the people of Earth would learn to change after perhaps a little suffering. However, unbeknownst to The Surfer, an evil being on another planet called Mephisto senses the disturbance regarding the Earth. Mephisto has a vested interest in the evils of mankind and doesn't want The Surfer interfering with man's progress (or lack of).
Concerned with the unwavering goodness found within The Silver Surfer, Mephisto sets out to destroy him. But first Mephisto needed to acquire one thing for his plan, The Surfer's girlfriend Shalla Bal whom he placed on a space ship heading towards Earth. He knew The Surfer would regret his revenge and as soon as The Surfer was restoring the power and lifting the fog, the space ship showed up. Fearing the planet was under attack, militaries launched missiles at the ship. Not knowing who was in the ship only that it was from his home planet The Surfer went about trying to save it.
Once the ship crashed, The Surfer was finally reunited with his girlfriend but it was short lived because Mephisto appeared but quickly disappeared along with Shalla Bal. After locating Mephisto's planet, The Surfer was soon tested by Mephisto. Not succumbing to the likes of greed and lust, The Surfer fought with the evil alien to free Shalla Bal. This ended with The Surfer tricking Mephisto into freeing Shalla Bal. I'm glad they didn't get kill her off (which is something they do way to often now in comics) but she did get sent back home, which left The Surfer alone in the our hostile world without the love of his life again.
I really did like this, it was very entertaining to read. Reading these old issues of The Silver Surfer makes me miss how simple yet interesting comics used to be. Can't wait to read the next issue.
Book: The Amazing Spider-Man issue #4 by Stan Lee
Rating: 5 stars
My Review:
Now this was a good issue, Peter had a real challenge trying to stop the Sandman. So far, I think the Sandman has been Spider-Man's toughest villain because how can you stop someone who is truly hard to capture.
Spider-Man first went up against the Sandman as the villain was on his way to rob a bank. The fight didn't go too well for Spidey who inadvertently tore his mask and had to escape before the Sandman could see who he was.
I love the scene that takes place after that because while the Sandman was busy robbing the bank, Peter was at home trying to sew up his mask that is until his doting Aunt May entered his room. Peter had to quickly grab his robe (he still had his costume on) and pretend he was sick to keep his Aunt from becoming suspicious of him. This whole scene was really funny, but it also showed how much his Aunt cared for him.
The next day wasn't going too well for Peter, first he took a chance and went to get an advance payment from Mr. Jameson (he should have known that wouldn't have gone well), then at school he had to cancel a date with Liz, who was not too happy about it (aww, poor guy, he thought he would be too busy trying to capture the Sandman to go on his date but he couldn't tell her that of course). Not to mention he also had to deal with a bunch of jerks including Flash Thompson teasing and bullying him. And, lastly he had to stop the Sandman who wound up at the school after trying to escape the police.
Well at least Peter got a second chance to stop the Sandman, he had to use his brain to figure out a quick solution because his strength wasn't working since the Sandman could counter that. Peter might not have resolved his issue with Liz but at least his got his money from Mr. Jameson (minus a developing fee, that Jameson is such a jerk but not as much of a jerk as Flash was in this issue).
As I said this was such a good issue. It was a fun read and had Peter working hard trying to stop the Sandman. It also showed how crappy his school and work life can be sometimes.
