With no shortage in the PPC of posts which have highlighted the schemes of
Kang the Conqueror, a character who continues to hold my interest to this day, it's probably no surprise that I felt drawn to a limited series launched in the fall of 2021 featuring this man whose mindset and history have been explored so
many times but who still manages to reveal facets that bring something new to his story and would be worthy of publication. Yet for the self-titled
Kang The Conqueror, co-writers Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly have taken several elements that have had their day in prior stories (e.g., Ravonna, Rama-Tut, Dr. Doom, Immortus, et al.), and have chosen to re-present them from the perspective of the young man who had just taken on the mantle of Kang and set out on his road of conquest (as opposed to Steve Englehart's "
reflections of the pharaoh" approach where Rama-Tut, at 60, had come to regret the path he'd chosen as Kang). That being the case, I had to bear in mind in reading this first issue that, while the Marvel of today continued to rely on its past characters' motivations and ambitions up to a point, it had long since cut the cord to being bound by how their past writers had laboriously shaped and molded the character of Kang.
Nevertheless, Lanzing and Kelly's first page does a fair job by analogy of presenting Kang's legacy as we have come to know it, setting the mood for what is to come--and in so doing, aptly summarizes the often frustrating and, at times, self-defeating schemes that Kang has embarked on to no apparent avail.
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