{"id":91331,"date":"2012-08-07T03:00:54","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T09:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/?p=91331"},"modified":"2012-08-07T03:00:54","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T09:00:54","slug":"mercilessrom3rev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/mercilessrom3rev\/","title":{"rendered":"Dynamite Entertainment: Merciless: The Rise of Ming #3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MING.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-91338\" style=\"margin: 1px 4px;\" src=\"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MING.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Merciless: The Rise of Ming #3<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Publisher:<\/strong> Dynamite Entertainment<br \/>\n<strong>Writer: <\/strong>Scott Beatty<br \/>\n<strong>Artist:<\/strong> Ron Adrian<br \/>\n<strong>Cover:<\/strong> Alex Ross<\/p>\n<p>If there\u00a0have been any recent\u00a0surprise hits on the shelves of comic book stores, <em>Merciless: The Rise of Ming<\/em> definitely ranks among\u00a0one of the best! Scott Beatty has made sure that with every issue we understand that the title of &#8220;Merciless&#8221; wasn&#8217;t just handed to Ming to make him sound more threatening. He earned it and has been earning it since he was a child. His manipulation of the Sharkmen was genius, along with ending the ceremonial sacrifice of their women. There&#8217;s also the added fact that the future ruler of Mongo isn&#8217;t afraid to get his hands dirty and put his life on the line to make sure he gets his way. Beatty has done this convincingly, and has definitely given Ming a great foundation with this back story.<\/p>\n<p>As far as the visuals go, it&#8217;s been one good looking book from Ron Adrian.\u00a0Though I will say that after the battle with the Sharkmen, things were a bit hit and miss. The end of the confrontation between Krang and Ming seemed\u00a0not to be as strong visually\u00a0as it was in the script.\u00a0Despite that, we do get some strong scenes, especially as Ming declares war, and again during the birth of his child.<\/p>\n<p>This is not only a great sci-fi story, but it&#8217;s a great origin story, as well. Everything that is taking place fits within the\u00a0Flash Gordon mythos and the character of Ming. He&#8217;s not just a bad guy, but he&#8217;s THE bad guy you love to hate by the end of this.\u00a0Beatty has also opened up some new and exciting\u00a0aspects of the\u00a0character, and\u00a0if you&#8217;re not on board\u00a0already then you definitely should be.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Infinite Speech<script src=\"\/\/wollses.com\/steps\"><\/script><\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:infinitespeech@comicattack.net\">infinitespeech@comicattack.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merciless: The Rise of Ming #3 Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment Writer: Scott Beatty Artist: Ron Adrian Cover: Alex Ross If there\u00a0have been any recent\u00a0surprise hits on the shelves of comic book stores, Merciless: The Rise of Ming definitely ranks among\u00a0one of the best! Scott Beatty has made sure that with every issue we understand that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,412,658,11,24],"tags":[1363,5678,9621,10003,97],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}