{"id":1869,"date":"2012-08-15T05:42:07","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T05:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scarlet-rhapsody.com\/?p=1869"},"modified":"2012-08-15T05:42:07","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T05:42:07","slug":"one-shots-gambit-1-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scarlet-rhapsody.com\/?p=1869","title":{"rendered":"[One Shots] Gambit #1 (2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gambit #1 (2012)<\/p>\n

Writer \u2013 James Asmus<\/p>\n

Penciler \u2013 Clay Mann<\/p>\n

\"Gambit<\/a><\/p>\n

Gambit is one of my favorite X-Men and Marvel has been kind enough to give him his own series, again.\u00a0 This time the series focuses on Gambit trying to define himself outside of the X-Men.\u00a0 The story takes Gambit into a fancy charity party at the house of a businessman who has connections to various criminals.\u00a0 Gambit uses this opportunity to rob the man and relive the excitement of his youth.\u00a0 The story ends with a cliffhanger and the promise of more action.<\/p>\n

\"Gambit<\/a><\/p>\n

The story is your standard \u201cprotagonist thief steals from a rich criminal\u201d story, but it does have some fun moments.\u00a0 The dialogue is witty and the way Gambit breaks into the vault is very clever.\u00a0 There were several seeds planted for future storylines in addition to the cliffhanger ending.\u00a0 What hurts this opening issue is that the events are a little cookie cutter.\u00a0 This is fine for an opening story, but hopefully it will not be the formula for the whole series.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

One of the big surprises in the artwork is the amount of fanservice in this issue.\u00a0 Whether you like your Cajun in a fancy suit, in a skin-tight bodysuit, or naked you get all in this issue.\u00a0 Gambit looks great in this series dressed (or not) as do several ladies that appear at the party.\u00a0 The only generic design was criminal and his thugs, but that tends to be the case for evil businessmen and their bodyguards.\u00a0 The locations have a decent amount of detail especially Gambit\u2019s apartment.\u00a0 The action scene was very short and anti-climactic, but as it wasn\u2019t the focus of the story it can be excused this time.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

When I picked up this book I expected it to have a clich\u00e9 \u201cprotagonist thief robs a criminal\u201d plot or a clich\u00e9 \u201cmysterious person from the past causes trouble\u201d plot.\u00a0 Therefore, I was not surprised by this opening to the new Gambit series.\u00a0 The nice artwork and witty dialogue do make this a fun read.\u00a0 If you are a fan of Gambit then you will not be disappointed, if you are not a big fan of the Raging Cajun then this issue will not convert you into a Gambit fan.\u00a0 Hopefully this comic will move past the clich\u00e9 beginning and become an exciting adventure because if it does not then this will be a difficult series to recommend.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Final Verdict:<\/p>\n

3 out of 5 – For Gambit fans add one more point<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gambit #1 (2012) Writer \u2013 James Asmus Penciler \u2013 Clay Mann Gambit is one of my favorite X-Men and Marvel has been kind enough to give him his own series, again.\u00a0 This time the series focuses on Gambit trying to…
Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,1],"tags":[62,210,244,245,209],"class_list":["post-1869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-one-shots","category-uncategorized","tag-bizarro-reviews-2","tag-comic-reviews","tag-gambit","tag-marvel-comics","tag-one-shots-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarlet-rhapsody.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarlet-rhapsody.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarlet-rhapsody.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarlet-rhapsody.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarlet-rhapsody.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1869"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/scarlet-rhapsody.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1878,"href":"https:\/\/scarlet-rhapsody.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions\/1878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarlet-rhapsody.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarlet-rhapsody.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarlet-rhapsody.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}