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Tweak says, "Resonance!"

pyrotwilight (pyrotwilight) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-10-30 21:32:00

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char: red inferno/seth aiden, char: red tornado/ulthoon/john smith, char: t.o. morrow/thomas oscar morrow, creator: ed benes, creator: j.p mayer, creator: jose luisi, creator: kevin vanhook, title: red tornado

Red Tornado #2
In the last issue you were introduced to Red Torpedo and re-introduced to Red Volcano as Reddy searches for his robo siblings, now it's time to meet the Inferno, Red Inferno!

Continuing with Torpedo and Tornado we see them get under attack from Jets at Pearl Harbor where the two are flying around. Torpedo during the course of defending herself performs an attack that looks like she was going to kill those in the Jets.

After giving us less than satisfactory answers on whether she would've actually killed them Torpedo gives her origin story to the group.

"Us?" Not sure if that means she actually met her other siblings before. Probably.

She presumably is talking about Volcano though it'd be a twist if it were the decommisioned Inferno...

After hearing the story the duo catch wind of the situation with Volcano and Morrow. The two rather easily free Morrow but Volcano escapes so as to not fight both of them at once.

Now we turn to Golden Valley High School where Traya goes to on Wednesday to take advanced music lessons. There we see young Seth Aiden being bullied on by his peers.

I won't respond to the fellow boys fondling him but it seems little old Seth has a secret even he doesn't know about.

Seth Aiden is...the RED INFERNO! One of his smaller abilities is common sense. I'M ON FIRE. I also find it amusing he has an arrow pointing down to his...chest...that's it.

Immediately after this Seth run into Volcano who looks ready to pop his block off.

I'm interested in seeing what happens with the robo family. Volcano will likely be defeated but what of Torpedo and Inferno? Torpedo seems slippery as an eel someone who doesn't seem to want to be good or evil but simply free like a river flowing. Inferno had no clue he had powers so hopefully we'll see what the story with that is. Seems very Victor Mancha-esque.

What are everyone's thoughts. Like, dislike?

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	bluefall 2009-10-31 02:25 am UTC (link)
	at its worst. You're not giving VH enough credit. He can do much worse narration when he tries. When writing Oracle, for instance. I mean, this may be tortured, but from what I see here, at least it's not glaringly out-of-character. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thokstar 2009-10-31 02:33 am UTC (link)
	If I recall, Oracle: The Cure didn't have nearly as much scene-setting narration as Red Tornado does. When I say at its worst, I'm really talking about the use of that device (as opposed to Van Hook's worst story: I'll cheerfully admit that the underlying story here is much better than the underlying story of Oracle: The Cure.) (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

bluefall
2009-10-31 02:39 am UTC (link)

Ah, I gotcha - I speak in the sense of quality, as opposed to quantity. His narration here has an overwrought excess to it, not just in the sense of there's too much of it, but in the sense of the sentences themselves are awkward and overselling his story. I consider that poor writing, in any quantity... but I consider it less poor writing than awkward overselling sentences that are also glaringly OOC (even if there are more of them this time).

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