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Quicksilver: No Surrender
Quicksilver: No Surrender #2
RACING OUT OF THE PAGES OF “AVENGERS: NO SURRENDER”! Even at the best of times, Pietro Maximoff has found a way to become his own worst enemy. And as he fights for survival alone, at the edge of reality, his personal demons loom larger than ever. Can Quicksilver overcome his flaws and find his way home? Or is he doomed to be lost forever?
22 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 13, 2018
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About the author
Saladin Ahmed
482 books1,770 followersSaladin Ahmed was born in Detroit and raised in a working-class, Arab American enclave in Dearborn, MI.
His short stories have been nominated for the Nebula and Campbell awards, and have appeared in Year's Best Fantasy and numerous other magazines, anthologies, and podcasts, as well as being translated into five foreign languages. He is represented by Jennifer Jackson of the Donald Maass Literary Agency. THRONE OF THE CRESCENT MOON is his first novel.
Saladin lives near Detroit with his wife and twin children.
His short stories have been nominated for the Nebula and Campbell awards, and have appeared in Year's Best Fantasy and numerous other magazines, anthologies, and podcasts, as well as being translated into five foreign languages. He is represented by Jennifer Jackson of the Donald Maass Literary Agency. THRONE OF THE CRESCENT MOON is his first novel.
Saladin lives near Detroit with his wife and twin children.
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June 14, 2018
A beautifully colorful book. I like the isolated focus on Quicksilver’s character, but damn, shots fired America!😜
January 22, 2019
Talk about using gypsy stereotypes to either fool the “progressive” crowd or not being able to realize how many stereotypes you used in your story.
I read this issue because some blogger claimed that in his issue Pietro (aka Quicksilver) "explores his Romani roots", even though considering how I know Marvel and that "progressive" blogger, I highly doubted that from the start. And I wasn't wrong, at all,
Granted, this is not the only issue with this story, the whole thing is bad. Ignoring all the stereotypes used, Quicksilver himself comes across as a giant idiot. Is he supposed to be written this dumb? Plus, the art is weird looking. The colors are one thing but the drawing style is a no-go for me.
And when the comic came to his “Romani roots”, oh boy did it get bad. You see, he came to the place his parents raised them (didn't they constantly move around?) and he is back home for the first time in god knows how many years and the first thing he thinks about is how they were really poor (not “American poor”), how his mother would apologize to dropped bread and he rants about Europeans (isn't he one?), how his people where enslaved for 500 years and how "they" have no words for that theft and how Americans are almost worse with their stereotypes.
There was something about being chased out and a camp... Apparently this is what said blogger meant with exploring Romani roots: ranting about bad Europeans and Americans, stuff that sounds like the most silly made up superstition (apologizing to bread? Really?) and just straight up retconning the past of these characters. Plus, 500 years of slavery was specific to Romanian roma and Quicksilver is not Romanian. But apparently the author either doesn't know or doesn't care. I would suggest the latter because for some reason the Romani Holocaust is missing from this. Wouldn't that be a perfect opportunity to shit on “Europeans?”
But more on that later. There was something about “His people”. Are these people (these houses look totally fake btw.) in the village Romani? Then why where they chased out? Or are they not Romani? This is confusing.
Also, Magneto did not claim to be his father. He believed it and both their faces and DNA evidence said the same. Is this part of the bad retcon or is Pietro just deliberately written to be this whiny? And damn is he whiny here. I read this character years ago and he was not this unlikeable asshole than.
Not that the story makes sense in and of itself Damn this thing is badly written. And why is Magneto's base in.... Is that Japan or China? Sure it could be Korea or Vietnam, but how likely is an American author to choose those locations in East and Southeast Asia? Is this a story by editorial mandate or is the writer just that bad?
And speaking about shitting on Europeans, I think that was the real intent of the author and to do that, he basically used several gypsy stereotypes:
1) Eternal aliens: Pietro apparently doesn't consider himself a European despite his looks and the centuries long European history of his people (which should be obvious by their names alone)
2) Lack of intelligence and sophisticated thought: Pietro has no real introspection into his actions and surroundings despite all the obviousness around him.
3) Eternal thieves: In regards to his family, there is no talk about any attempts to find a real job just excuses for stealing and based off what I read about Pietro himself, he is also never shown to find a real job despite his powers obviously giving him the means to do so.
4) Lack of locality: Not only does he throw in Romanian history into someone not from Romania, why does an eastern European have an Italian name? “Wanda” is at least polish in origin, even though that makes it a Central European name in origin not Eastern European.
5) Lack of trust of “gaje:” Pietro apparently has very little faith in his teammates
6) incredible superstition: his mother apologized to bread for dropping it, I have never once heard of a superstition that silly
7) lack of the Romani Holocaust: There is this still strong stereotype that the Romani Holocaust either did not happen (aka it wasn't a genocide) or the Romani were not really affected by it. And you would really think that someone from a fictional country between Romania and Serbia and who likes to shit on Europeans would know that as both countries definitely send “gypsies” to their death, especially in Serbia, where the Nazis reported that the Jewish question and Gypsy question had been solved.
And here is the main problem with Pietro's cultural background: There is almost nothing. Only the mentioning of some food they ate and the silly superstition. That was it. Nothing else. So the blogger must have had a really idiotic definition of “Romani roots.”
Combine that with the idiotic story and Quicksilver being so unlikeable and you end up with an issue that is mostly a big waste of time.
I read this issue because some blogger claimed that in his issue Pietro (aka Quicksilver) "explores his Romani roots", even though considering how I know Marvel and that "progressive" blogger, I highly doubted that from the start. And I wasn't wrong, at all,
Granted, this is not the only issue with this story, the whole thing is bad. Ignoring all the stereotypes used, Quicksilver himself comes across as a giant idiot. Is he supposed to be written this dumb? Plus, the art is weird looking. The colors are one thing but the drawing style is a no-go for me.
And when the comic came to his “Romani roots”, oh boy did it get bad. You see, he came to the place his parents raised them (didn't they constantly move around?) and he is back home for the first time in god knows how many years and the first thing he thinks about is how they were really poor (not “American poor”), how his mother would apologize to dropped bread and he rants about Europeans (isn't he one?), how his people where enslaved for 500 years and how "they" have no words for that theft and how Americans are almost worse with their stereotypes.
There was something about being chased out and a camp... Apparently this is what said blogger meant with exploring Romani roots: ranting about bad Europeans and Americans, stuff that sounds like the most silly made up superstition (apologizing to bread? Really?) and just straight up retconning the past of these characters. Plus, 500 years of slavery was specific to Romanian roma and Quicksilver is not Romanian. But apparently the author either doesn't know or doesn't care. I would suggest the latter because for some reason the Romani Holocaust is missing from this. Wouldn't that be a perfect opportunity to shit on “Europeans?”
But more on that later. There was something about “His people”. Are these people (these houses look totally fake btw.) in the village Romani? Then why where they chased out? Or are they not Romani? This is confusing.
Also, Magneto did not claim to be his father. He believed it and both their faces and DNA evidence said the same. Is this part of the bad retcon or is Pietro just deliberately written to be this whiny? And damn is he whiny here. I read this character years ago and he was not this unlikeable asshole than.
Not that the story makes sense in and of itself Damn this thing is badly written. And why is Magneto's base in.... Is that Japan or China? Sure it could be Korea or Vietnam, but how likely is an American author to choose those locations in East and Southeast Asia? Is this a story by editorial mandate or is the writer just that bad?
And speaking about shitting on Europeans, I think that was the real intent of the author and to do that, he basically used several gypsy stereotypes:
1) Eternal aliens: Pietro apparently doesn't consider himself a European despite his looks and the centuries long European history of his people (which should be obvious by their names alone)
2) Lack of intelligence and sophisticated thought: Pietro has no real introspection into his actions and surroundings despite all the obviousness around him.
3) Eternal thieves: In regards to his family, there is no talk about any attempts to find a real job just excuses for stealing and based off what I read about Pietro himself, he is also never shown to find a real job despite his powers obviously giving him the means to do so.
4) Lack of locality: Not only does he throw in Romanian history into someone not from Romania, why does an eastern European have an Italian name? “Wanda” is at least polish in origin, even though that makes it a Central European name in origin not Eastern European.
5) Lack of trust of “gaje:” Pietro apparently has very little faith in his teammates
6) incredible superstition: his mother apologized to bread for dropping it, I have never once heard of a superstition that silly
7) lack of the Romani Holocaust: There is this still strong stereotype that the Romani Holocaust either did not happen (aka it wasn't a genocide) or the Romani were not really affected by it. And you would really think that someone from a fictional country between Romania and Serbia and who likes to shit on Europeans would know that as both countries definitely send “gypsies” to their death, especially in Serbia, where the Nazis reported that the Jewish question and Gypsy question had been solved.
And here is the main problem with Pietro's cultural background: There is almost nothing. Only the mentioning of some food they ate and the silly superstition. That was it. Nothing else. So the blogger must have had a really idiotic definition of “Romani roots.”
Combine that with the idiotic story and Quicksilver being so unlikeable and you end up with an issue that is mostly a big waste of time.
July 31, 2018
It felt like the plot didn't really advance too much: like I could describe everything important in a sentence or two. I suspect that my liking issue #1 came at the expense of shoving some of the setup (that is required at the start of any series) back into issue #2. But I expect I will enjoy #3 more than this one.
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