Review of "Maximum Security - Dangerous Planet"
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Review of "Maximum Security - Dangerous Planet"
"A Very Dangerous Planet"
40 pages
$2.99 cover price
Writer - Kurk Busiek
Artist - Jerry Ordway
Inks - Will Blyberg and Paul Ryan
Colors - Jason Wright
Letters: RS at Comicraft
Editors: Tom Brevroot, Bob Harras
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Reading this review may spoil your enjoyment of the comic! I highly suggest that if you are interested in purchasing and reading this book, you do so first - before you read this review.
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Summary: Ego, the living planet, has gone psychotic and is attempting to "awaken" other planets in his quest to find other being of his kind. The galactic council considers what to do about the problem of Ego - and the problem of those meddling humans!
Maximum Security is a vast crossover throughout the Marvel comics. This is the biggest crossover I have seen since "Infinity Crusade". I think at least one issue of every Marvel super-hero comic will have this crossover.
Kurt Busiek is at it again. If you have been following his amazing story telling skills in "Avengers" and "Avengers Forever", this series may be for you. To me this series most resembles "Avengers Forever" where Kurt blend past, present and future timelines to form one cohesive Avengers tale.
In the opening segment, Charles Xavier, otherwise known as the X-Men's "Professor X", is leading a band of "impure" skulls on a raid of the skull infant hatching site. The Skrulls kill any infant hatchling that is not "genetically pure". Professor X, ever the champion of life and those born with mutations, steals the impure hatchling before they can be terminated. A direct violation of Skull law!
In Maximum Security the galactic council; made up of Skrulls, Shi'ar, Badoon, Kymellia, Troyjans and many other races humanity has encountered, has taken up a two-fold problem.
First, what to do about "Ego". In Ego's attempt to waken his breather, he approaches a planet and attempt to "speak" to the sleeping intelligence of the planet. If the planet does not awaken, Ego get angry and destroys it. Never mind all those intelligent life forms on it. That is of no consequence to Ego, refers to the life forms as "microbes". (Sheesh! Talk about being insulted!)
Second, what to do with the bumbling, interfering humans. The go about the galaxy imposing their will on their "superiors". Values of morality and supposed decency that
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