Night Raid #10 — Damn It, Richards

June 7th, 2010

 

If I’m distracted, it’s because nothing happened.

Impressions:

An action packed episode from start to finish full of fireworks and some really impressive work from A-1. We got to see all kind of impressive psychic fighting and even some high caliber sniping action from Natsume. Ha. Just kidding. It was another 21 minutes of sad spies in the spring, posturing about the good of the nation, and Kazura looking conflicted before betraying the team, this time with even dodgier art than usual. Because bigger bombs are really that impressive. Not the psychics… himself included… that could simply assassinate anybody any time that they wanted. But psychics that have big bombs.

They want to have their cake and eat it too. Super powers and historical accuracy, and that doesn’t work at all. Can you imagine if Lex Luthor’s ultimate weapon was a bomb that was two or three times the size as conventional bombs? Superman would laugh in his face and then leave him on the beach for Aquaman to throw starfish at him. There’s a reason that Captain America doesn’t try to hunt down Osama Bin Laden. At least try to destroy Earth Prime or strap your bombs to the backs of a themed pack of animals. There’s a certain level of suspension of disbelief in any superpowered story so you don’t question why Peter Parker can cure vampirism but not cancer, but a bomb that can destroy the same amount of area in a few seconds as it would take your teleporting psychic five minutes to take down with a few sticks of dynamite makes all this drama over it is tiresome at best. If they wanted to play up the historical accuracy so much, then maybe they should have picked a cast other than the angsty Asian X-Men.

 

Preview:

Quick! To the conference!

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