Original Sin #8 Review: This is where the world BEGINS?
Reading time: 4 minutes
Another Wednesday ushers in the end of another event. Original Sin from Marvel is finally coming to a close. Author Jason Aaron and artist Mike Deodato write one of the weirdest events this side of the modern comic book series. Eight issues into the title, we are still getting flashbacks as to what happened towards the Watcher’s Death which incited the overall event. In truth, fans that have been studying the title long enough and following from issue one should in no way be surprised at the outcomes in this final installment of the series. There are some core elements laid down in the spy part of the Marvel Universe that likely will not go away anytime soon if we are lucky.
Superhero Comics don't change that often, even though we actually want them too. Hopefully these changes will really start to stick similar to the radical shifts in X-Men continuity.
These new status quotas for the characters will hopefully last long enough for artists and writers to really start to dig their teeth into them. This comic book has mainly been about one really unique aspect of the Marvel Universe; finding out what to do with original silver age Nick Fury. The character has been criminally underutilized for the last couple of years, mainly because the Marvel Universe has finally decided to write him out by including the new Fury in the group of heroes. This old Fury has gone out of hiding as well, making the new one struggle to find a role that is unique to him. The answer that this series paints is justified, and one that should serve to intrigue readers of the longtime Marvel U. Straightening out plot points in a story that actually makes sense is very difficult, which Jason Aaron may not always achieve in this series. It's undeniable that Original Sin some really strange pacing issues. For the amount of story these artists and writers are trying to tell, there just isn’t enough plot points to full a full eight issue event series.
This is frustrating, and did anger some of the long-time readers of this series, but it is hard to imagine the story told a different way without masking all the bits that didn’t work in the proper order. The final mysteries of the series that occur when the main plot is almost done are very enjoyable with managed expectations, Aaron is going to tell the story that interests him and not his entire audience. The author successfully continues the chapters of each character's lives, and molds something unique for each hero that he is trying to craft further and further. Some will be put off by the mad dash storytelling approach, and how we got to this final endpoint; because, as I stated earlier, this series is not perfect. The decompression really hurts a series that was supposed to be something more akin to four pages long; it was still nice to see this much attention being paid towards this side of the Marvel Universe which hasn’t been getting a whole lot of exploration these days as a result.
Deodato’s art continues to be as consistent as fans may expect. At some point in this issue, I finally got to the moment where the motion blur effects began to detract from the story being told. It was frustrating and obstructed the view of what I was trying to see, the art in this series has been stranger, as that is just the type of artist Deodato is. I don’t prefer his strange jagged lines and the way in which he renders characters bodies. His art did fit better in this story than some of the other assignments that have been handed to him over the past couple of years, as he is a very unique type of artist. It was refreshing to see him some place in the Marvel Universe that was tailor made for his type of art.
If you haven’t liked the past couple of issues of Original Sin, this one is not going to change your mind. However with all the series’ flaws, I can still appreciate the vast scope of what has been done within these pages. Aaron and Deodato have really told an event story so wildly unique and different, and nobody will ever copy any sort of story like it contained within the Marvel Universe again. This is a case where using the event is sort of like an infinite canvas that can finally be constructed to use whatever type of event structure that the creator is finally interested in telling. We need to celebrate a story like this for taking such wild chances with all of its characters, structures, art pieces, humor, plot points, and mysteries, Original Sin defied expectations again and again. Celebrate the last issue of the series with Deodato and Aaron while Avengers and X-Men: AXIS is on its way to tell a story that is hopefully as wholly unique as this one.
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