Irredeemable #29 Review
The deck keeps shuffling as everyone makes plans to stop the Plutonian. Today I will be reviewing Irredeemable #29. Please leave a comment to let me know what you think.
Irredeemable #29
So let’s talk about the book. Survivor manages to stop his teammates from killing him for lying to them and unites them in a common goal of killing Plutonian. Too bad he has already left with a bunch of their teammates as hostages. The Plutonian then heads out to find Bette Noir, his former love and teammate who tried to kill him. She seduces him into sparing her life. Meanwhile Kaidan manages to escape her captor, the zombified Scylla, Survivor’s brother. She heads off to find Gil, who quit the team, to get him to join her and Scylla’s ghost in stopping the Plutonian. At first, Gil doesn’t want to. Then, Scylla reveals a secret. There is actually a third brother. A triplet. With that brother’s power, they might be able to stop the Plutonian once and for all. And that’s the book.
So let’s talk opinions. This is definitely a set up issue. Every past plot thread is addressed and resolved except for Modeus and Qubit. Also, we get a nice general idea of where the next few issues are going. The whole third brother thing is kind of a nice way to get someone powerful enough to battle the Plutonian and actually give him some competition. A bit too convenient, if you ask me, but still a nice bit of writing. I was kind of waiting for Gil and Bette and the rest of the old Paradigm to get some face time. I knew they wouldn’t be forgotten. Also, it is getting kind of ridiculous watching Tony just dominate everyone and everything that gets in his way. That’s the only real complaint I have about this series as a whole. It’s exactly like Superman. Eventually, you run out of things for him to defeat. He is basically unstoppable. Superman, at least has Kryptonite. Plutonian’s Kryptonite is gone. Eventually you’re going to get sick of reading the same thing over and over again. I loved this series when it first came out because of the newness of it. Now its just the same story over and over again. I really hope that a new angle can be written into it. Modeus was the only X-factor and so far he’s barely played any role at all in the story. At least Luthor gets face time and you can see what sort of damage he’s capable of. Oh hell. I think I’m rambling. Does anyone read this thing? Am I rambling? Oh well. At least the art is still awesome. Nice, big images and clean lines. I hope next issue has some action in it and we get some battles going. It would also be nice for Modeus to finally make his move. That’s my opinion folks. Take it or leave it.
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6 Comments
Yeah, I read this. Well, off and on, anyway. Heh.
As to the book: you managed to neatly encapsulate the major problem I have with this entire thing: the fact that Plutonian is just too damn powerful! He’s invincible like Silver-age Superman, and good guy or bad guy, invincible is boring. There’s also the little fact that his primary goal in life just seems to be “break shit.” That’s all. Break shit and kill people. And when everyone is dead and earth is a new asteroid belt, then what? Squat in the ruins and mope? Go find another planet to wreck??
This series would have been 1000x better if all the other heroes and villains were more of a match for Plutonian and there was some sort of an agency like Marvel’s S.H.I.E.L.D. that could effectively pimp-slap capes that got out of control. At least then it would be more of a fight, and there would be some suspense as to weather he will win or not.
It would also be an improvement if Tony had a goal other than “break shit/kill people,” maybe something like “humans are too stupid and corrupt to govern themselves, they need a LEADER to show them the way, and since I’ve saved their worthless asses so many times over the years, who better than YOURS TRULY??” This would actually make for an interesting read.
Oh now *that.* sucks. All my lovely paragraph spacing went away. ^_^;
The “triplet” was a touch of genius. The symbol was there all the time! It’s because of things like this that I love this series. The details are really important.
I’m curious about the relationship of Plutonian&Bette, and if Alana Patel will return.
I agree with Pensol. We are nearly 30 issues in and the characters are becoming one note EXTREME parodies of themselves (which is sad because they were already paper thin analogues of more popular characters like Doctor Who and Superman) and story continues to spin its wheels with random violence masquerading as character development, so for me at this point I can’t bring myself to care about what happens next or ever with the title or its spinoff book. Sad state of affairs for a book that started off with so much promise.
Hello!
I completely agree with the blog author. The book is letting me down because Plutonian is effin unstoppable. It´s just getting boring.
Thank you guys for all of your comments. The fact that the Plutonian really is one note and unstoppable has always been both the blessing and the curse of this title. At first, it was awesome watching Superman cut loose. Now, its getting redundant and repetitive. I have no idea how Waid can fix this but he needs to try something. Personally, I feel that Modeus is the answer. He’s the Luthor here. He needs to finally be unleashed. Otherwise, the book should just end with Plutonian sitting on a burned out planet on top of a throne of skulls. The end.