Comic Review: Marvel Now! Point One – Forge

Issue: Marvel Now! Point One – Forge

Name: Crazy Enough
Published: 2012 by Marvel Comics

Blurb:

Creators:

Writer: Dennis Hopeless
Artist: Gabriel Hernandez Walta
Colorist: David Curiel
Letterer: VC’s Koe Sabino

Characters:

The Good: Forge, Cable

My Reading:

Marvel Now! Point One is a set of stories that feature some of the personalities of the Marvel universe and is basically a kicking off point for titles. This issue contains 6 stories with this one, Crazy Enough featuring Cable and Forge. This story is mostly focused on Forge and his experiences.

We start in a desolate area in some kind of ruin. Forge appears to be prospecting all by himself and it seems he’s been alone for a while. So long that he’s talking to the voices in his head. We find out that he’s searching through the ruins he built a while ago when he finds a machine he did not make.

This seems to be what he’s been looking for and he sets out to fix what’s wrong with it. There are gears hooked up to microprocessors powering hydraulics and everything is setup in a chaotic nature. As he begins fixing it, the space narrows and the machine closes in on him until he puts the final piece in place and things start working properly and the space opens up.

With everything working normally, he starts hearing a noise and what appears to be giant brain starts bursting forth from the machine. Forge runs from the brain and heads to a switch which he triggers and things start working as they’re supposed to.

As the story closes, he realizes he’s been working to fix his own brain and Cable tells him he’s now fixed it.

What did I learn:

• When I’ve never seen a character before, it’s not good to be introduced to him with an obscure, bizarre tale.

My Thoughts:

This short story is the first I’ve ever heard of Forge and from this introduction I’m not really driven to follow his story. Of the 6 parts of this comic, this tale was my least favorite and actually, I really didn’t like it. It just does not fit in with the rest of the issue at all and while the concept that he’s fixing his own brain is cool, I don’t think it works very well here. I get little sense of who Forge was, what he does, or what his comic is gonna be about. Walta’s art is done pretty well with good detail where I’d expect it and vagueness where appropriate but the bottom line is I’m not really incliined to follow this series.

My Rating: D

This comic can be found on Marvel Unlimited, Comixology or at your local comic book shop.