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Running A Massive Spoiler For The Last Page Of Yesterday's The Movement, For A Reason

Published Thu, 05 Dec 2013 12:00:15 -0600

Despite my reputation, I'm not actually a big one for spoiling stuff. Certainly the idea of just running the last page of a comic book the day after it came out is a big no no.

Except when I think there's a good reason.

That's why this piece has the final page of today's Movement, by Gail Simone and Freddie Williams II, below.

So, if you were planning on reading it, you might want to stop now. However, it doesn't seem there are that many of you. The Movement is one of the worst performing titles in the New 52. The writer has a big fan base but it doesn't seem to have stuck.

Much of it may have been the original marketing push, it was promoted alongside the now-cancelled Green Team as some kind of anti-capitalist, pro-99%center, Occupy comic that's all worthy and not fun. This isn't the case, the book is political but it's a mixture of politics, and it ends up using super powers as a decent allegory for power imbalances – but with all consequences of this being examined.

I know, still sounds worthy. So here's a pitch, forget the writing, just check out the art. Hence the final page reveal.

If Freddie Williams II was an artist in the nineties, he'd be invited to form Image Comics. His work has grown into something organic, bouncy, detailed and reminds me of an earlier Greg Capullo or Todd McFarlane. It's exciting and is worthy of appreciation of its own. It's cool for kids. But not enough eyeballs are looking at it to appreciate it.

See, that's pretty kick ass, on a purely visceral, action-movie, Todd McFarlane/Michael Bay way. And the writing kicks it up a notch.

And, while Todd McFarlane isn't drawing so much, and is instead writing his thesis on the origins of life and the universe (more on that later), if you're looking for a decent balls to the wall action thriller that I style over substance, but actually does have some substance as well, give The Movement a try. And, hell, no one else is reading it, so it can be your discovery as well… look, it'll probably get cancelled soon, why not give it a try first? And you never know, the right kind of groundswell could just turn things around…

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