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Cloak and Dagger #1
Marvel’s most-requested duo return in this all-new one-shot, spinning out of X-MEN: NATION X! Cloak -- dark, brooding teleporter. Dagger -- deadly, shining mistress of light. Having quit the Dark X-Men, Cloak and Dagger find their partnership strained as they struggle to fit in among the mutants of Utopia. But when a new menace targets Cloak, Dagger must make a fateful choice for both of them. Guest-starring the X-Men, and written by Stuart Moore (WOLVERINE NOIR) with stunning art by Mark Brooks (YOUNG AVENGERS). One-Shot/Rated T
First published January 1, 2010
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Stuart Moore
398 books69 followersSTUART MOORE is a writer, a book editor, and an award-winning comics editor.
Among his current writing projects are THE ZODIAC LEGACY, created and cowritten by Stan Lee and published by Disney, featuring an all-new team of teenaged super heroes in a series of illustrated prose novels and graphic novels; DOMINION: LAST SACRIFICE, a comic book series for Amazon/Jet City; and THANOS: DEATH SENTENCE, an original Marvel prose novel. Recent work includes EGOs, an original comic book series from Image Comics, and GARTER'S BIG SCORE, an original ebook novella for Kindle. He also contributed two series, TEACH and OUT WITH A BANG, to the launch of the online comics app Stela. Other comics work includes WOLVERINE NOIR and NAMOR: THE FIRST MUTANT (Marvel); FIRESTORM (DC Comics); assorted Star Trek and Transformers projects; and the science-fiction graphic novels EARTHLIGHT, PARA, SHADRACH STONE, and MANDALA. Prose writing includes the novel version of Marvel’s CIVIL WAR, and Disney Worldwide's JOHN CARTER: THE MOVIE NOVELIZATION.
Among his current writing projects are THE ZODIAC LEGACY, created and cowritten by Stan Lee and published by Disney, featuring an all-new team of teenaged super heroes in a series of illustrated prose novels and graphic novels; DOMINION: LAST SACRIFICE, a comic book series for Amazon/Jet City; and THANOS: DEATH SENTENCE, an original Marvel prose novel. Recent work includes EGOs, an original comic book series from Image Comics, and GARTER'S BIG SCORE, an original ebook novella for Kindle. He also contributed two series, TEACH and OUT WITH A BANG, to the launch of the online comics app Stela. Other comics work includes WOLVERINE NOIR and NAMOR: THE FIRST MUTANT (Marvel); FIRESTORM (DC Comics); assorted Star Trek and Transformers projects; and the science-fiction graphic novels EARTHLIGHT, PARA, SHADRACH STONE, and MANDALA. Prose writing includes the novel version of Marvel’s CIVIL WAR, and Disney Worldwide's JOHN CARTER: THE MOVIE NOVELIZATION.
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May 1, 2015
Shallow Buddy Read.
It doesn't get any more B-List than Cloak & Dagger, does it?
I was hoping to find out a little bit of their origin, or some kind of background story on these two, but I'm not much more enlightened now than I originally was.
I did learn that someone injected them with something that gave them their powers. And that Ty is a big old cheater, and Tandy puts up with it.
Ty is 'confused' and keeps teleporting back to his old neighborhood to...get perspective? Anyway, he ends up smooching an old flame. She does call him out on it, as she's rescuing him from the demented chick. And he has the nerve to pull out the classic "Well what about the guy you were hanging out with?" line. Her guy pal is gay, though, so his argument falls a bit short.
I would have thought it would have been Boot-In-The-Ass time, but they just go off and snuggle in an abandoned building or something.
I'm guessing that this was just something that Moore decided to put into the one-shot to make Ty look...cool? From the snippets I've pilfered off the web, this isn't a normal thing in their relationship.
At any rate, I wasn't impressed with the overall plot.
They aren't mutants, so they sort of get pushed out of Utopia. And there's some weird military cult that believes they can brainwash people with powers into 'seeing the light' and not using them anymore.
I'd like to read more about these guys, but this was definitely not the place to start. At least, not for me.
It doesn't get any more B-List than Cloak & Dagger, does it?
I was hoping to find out a little bit of their origin, or some kind of background story on these two, but I'm not much more enlightened now than I originally was.
I did learn that someone injected them with something that gave them their powers. And that Ty is a big old cheater, and Tandy puts up with it.
Ty is 'confused' and keeps teleporting back to his old neighborhood to...get perspective? Anyway, he ends up smooching an old flame. She does call him out on it, as she's rescuing him from the demented chick. And he has the nerve to pull out the classic "Well what about the guy you were hanging out with?" line. Her guy pal is gay, though, so his argument falls a bit short.
I would have thought it would have been Boot-In-The-Ass time, but they just go off and snuggle in an abandoned building or something.
I'm guessing that this was just something that Moore decided to put into the one-shot to make Ty look...cool? From the snippets I've pilfered off the web, this isn't a normal thing in their relationship.
At any rate, I wasn't impressed with the overall plot.
They aren't mutants, so they sort of get pushed out of Utopia. And there's some weird military cult that believes they can brainwash people with powers into 'seeing the light' and not using them anymore.
I'd like to read more about these guys, but this was definitely not the place to start. At least, not for me.
May 2, 2015
Tandy and Tyrone have always had a...complicated relationship. It's not quite "Ultimate Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver" complicated, but there's some co-dependence and sexual tension there that the "opposites attract" theme just can't help but suggest. Plus the whole "I'll feed you my light, that will take your pain away" thing.
This one-shot was a little too squicky and angsty for my tastes. These two could be low A-list if they were taken more seriously, or given a better mission than "saving kids from drugs" (which is a byproduct of them being created in the 80's when Marvel took money from Nancy Reagan or the shadowy propaganda machine behind the 'war' on drugs).
Not to mention completely pointless - why tease us with any glimpse of T+T if it's going nowhere? It'd be like giving us an episode of Batroc the Leaper on vacation in Hawaii - who cares?
This one-shot was a little too squicky and angsty for my tastes. These two could be low A-list if they were taken more seriously, or given a better mission than "saving kids from drugs" (which is a byproduct of them being created in the 80's when Marvel took money from Nancy Reagan or the shadowy propaganda machine behind the 'war' on drugs).
Not to mention completely pointless - why tease us with any glimpse of T+T if it's going nowhere? It'd be like giving us an episode of Batroc the Leaper on vacation in Hawaii - who cares?
June 17, 2015
I like Cloak and Dagger from All-New Ultimates. But I don't care for Tandy's "traditional" suit here, as it makes it look like she has a secondary power of keeping that thing in place when it shouldn't physically be possible. Yes, I know I'm talking about a book with mutants and superpowers. No, I don't care.
As far as the plot goes, it seems strange to me that they would use a one-shot to introduce these villains, as we barely have enough time to show them, defeat them and have them escape before the book is over. We know just about as much about them at the end of the book as we did in the beginning, and as far as I can tell they have yet to show up again.
As far as the plot goes, it seems strange to me that they would use a one-shot to introduce these villains, as we barely have enough time to show them, defeat them and have them escape before the book is over. We know just about as much about them at the end of the book as we did in the beginning, and as far as I can tell they have yet to show up again.
July 4, 2019
Having read this directly after the previous Cloak and Dagger comics (1950, 1983 and 1985) I definitely enjoyed the modern artstyle, vivid colors and lighter narration. However I don't really understand the need for this volume. It's a one-shot issue that barely adds any knowledge on the two superheroes or progresses with their story, the plot merely gives us the chance to encounter some new villians, with a very weak and hurried introduction. The entire confrontation takes up only a few pages and the volume closes with their escape and a vague promise that more will follow.
I liked the mash-up with the X-Men but don't really feel like this comic did much for Cloak and Dagger.
I liked the mash-up with the X-Men but don't really feel like this comic did much for Cloak and Dagger.
July 22, 2018
I love the characters and I wish Marvel's new series can make them come back. Their constant fight for recognizing who they are mimic our our rights so much, sometimes I wonder if, in some ways, we are not Cloak and Dagger in one body.
The art is wonderful but it suffers from the perspective we man want to always see women dresses as if they are going to have their uniforms ripped apart at any moment.
The art is wonderful but it suffers from the perspective we man want to always see women dresses as if they are going to have their uniforms ripped apart at any moment.
November 1, 2016
Even for a one shot comic if feels like it's lacking something. I actually like Cloak and Dagger as characters but this didn't really add anything to their story.
September 30, 2017
Looking forward to the TV show.
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