Thursday, February 05, 2009

CBR Review: The Age of the Sentry #5

I recently reviewed The Age of the Sentry #5 for CBR and, in the process, wrote the following sentences: "Issue five contains two 10-page stories featuring the Silver Age Sentry as well as a one-page Marvel Fruit Pie parody ad, and one page that takes place now featuring the narrative frame of the previous stories. Firstly, the Marvel Fruit Pie parody ad: please just stop these. Why is it that every comic that flashes back to the Silver Age feels the need to include a fruit pie ad? The joke has worn thin and, let’s be honest, wasn’t that funny to begin with. It’s just a groan-inducing cliché at this point."

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