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A review by tempscire
Operation: S.I.N. - Agent Carter by Kathryn Immonen, Michael Komarck, Rich Ellis, Ramón Pérez, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby
2.0
My exposure to the awesome Peggy Carter comes solely from the movies and TV show, so this was a new foray into the original, blonde comics!Peg. I don't think I really liked it, or at least, it couldn't compare to Atwell et al. I knew going in that despite the cover, this wasn't the MCU/Atwell Peggy, and I was trying to modulate my expectations throughout, but I don't think I was successful.
This Peggy does know how to kick ass, though apparently she's officially (as in "on paper") out of the game, as opposed to working for the SSR or heading up SHIELD. She didn't seem quite as clever as the Atwell Peggy, though, and then the way the plot went... I don't know. Weird. She kinda takes a backseat ultimately while Howard does science at the end.
The plot can be boiled down to "Howard has a homing beacon for an alien ship in Siberia, and there's an alien among the gulag'd Soviet scientists who are actually being worked by Hydra." Relatively straightforward when you put it that way, right? But other stuff happened that was forgotten about, and there was a werebear for some reason...? I think he and the other female protagonist go the way of the Winter Soldier, though.
Anyway, it just wasn't working for me, and I can't put my finger on exactly what was wrong. The weak plot? The flat-ish characters? (There were certainly moments of 'aha, that's totally a Peggy or Howard moment!' but few and far between, and the kind of on-screen banter we see just didn't carry through the written dialog here.) Peggy being blond and American? The not-that-appealing-to-me art? (Loved the chapter page illustrations, though.)
There's also a short story at the end showing a snip of Peggy's and Captain America's relationship during the war (again, this is blond French Resistance-Peggy). They were both assholes (especially Cap, who felt like a Captain of the bad aspects of 'murica) and I found no charm in this depiction.
This Peggy does know how to kick ass, though apparently she's officially (as in "on paper") out of the game, as opposed to working for the SSR or heading up SHIELD. She didn't seem quite as clever as the Atwell Peggy, though, and then the way the plot went... I don't know. Weird. She kinda takes a backseat ultimately while Howard does science at the end.
The plot can be boiled down to "Howard has a homing beacon for an alien ship in Siberia, and there's an alien among the gulag'd Soviet scientists who are actually being worked by Hydra." Relatively straightforward when you put it that way, right? But other stuff happened that was forgotten about, and there was a werebear for some reason...? I think he and the other female protagonist go the way of the Winter Soldier, though.
Anyway, it just wasn't working for me, and I can't put my finger on exactly what was wrong. The weak plot? The flat-ish characters? (There were certainly moments of 'aha, that's totally a Peggy or Howard moment!' but few and far between, and the kind of on-screen banter we see just didn't carry through the written dialog here.) Peggy being blond and American? The not-that-appealing-to-me art? (Loved the chapter page illustrations, though.)
There's also a short story at the end showing a snip of Peggy's and Captain America's relationship during the war (again, this is blond French Resistance-Peggy). They were both assholes (especially Cap, who felt like a Captain of the bad aspects of 'murica) and I found no charm in this depiction.