We open this story with our protagonist, Nicholas reading a story with an actual hero in it: an Iron Man comic. In it, Iron Man fights his most dastardly foe yet, worse than Iron Monger, Whiplash and AIM put together... Dr Destro, who has a big birthmark on his face, and, er... that's it. Wow, why wasn't he in the movies? Anyway, he's awaiting the birth of his new baby sister, Hannah. Hannah arrives, and I guess we've found out Dr Destro's secret identity, because she too has a weird heart shaped birthmark. Don't worry, I'm sure some guy spending all his evenings down at the local pub is actually Iron Man.
Over time, Nicholas starts to notice weird things aboutDr Destro Hannah, like her birthmark growing, and her eyes changing colour. Wait a minute... my god, Dr Destro is actually Mystique! Also, Hannah keeps trying to kill him. Typical baby sister behaviour. So, Nicholas comes to the obvious conclusion that Hannah is a monster, because of course he does. He tries to tell his parents, but they don't believe him (shock of all shocks), and tell him that there's a perfectly normal explanation for everything. "Dad, my sister's trying to kill me!" "Oh, babies normally do that. Now go do your homework." Examples of this: Hannah eats his home work("Nicholas, why haven't you done the homework? Did your dog eat it?" "No, my sister did.") Also, she tries stabbing Nicholas with a pair of scissors, and, when their parents notice, they tell Nicholas off for letting Hannah play with scissors. What, were you expecting not to get away with it? She's a baby, you fool. I know people say that babies can get away with blue muder, but I don't think they mean it literally.
Eventually, Nicholas' parents get a phone call from the hospital, saying that there was a mixup at the hospital. Well, it's lucky it's been less than 28 days, because the return policy presumably is still active. Thus, they take Hannah back to the hospital, to be reunited with her mother, who is presumably also Dr Destro, since she has the same birthmark. They take the actual sister, Grace, home, and everything's lovely once again. Except, wait - Grace suddenly says in a gruff voice that she's going to rip Nicholas' arm off! Don't worry, if that threat were any emptier, it'd be Hollywood's ideas barrel: there's no way a newborn baby can rip off a 12 year old's arm.
In what way was this supposed to be scary? Babies are about as scary as a full roll of toilet paper. Sure, they're annoying, but I wouldn't expect a story about them to be scary. Overall, the story sucks. It follows the template of Set up, False Climax, Crisis Averted, Identical Crisis that most of the earlier short stories seem to do. It's stupid and boring. Skip it.
Ooh, there's an end credits scene!
Over time, Nicholas starts to notice weird things about
Eventually, Nicholas' parents get a phone call from the hospital, saying that there was a mixup at the hospital. Well, it's lucky it's been less than 28 days, because the return policy presumably is still active. Thus, they take Hannah back to the hospital, to be reunited with her mother, who is presumably also Dr Destro, since she has the same birthmark. They take the actual sister, Grace, home, and everything's lovely once again. Except, wait - Grace suddenly says in a gruff voice that she's going to rip Nicholas' arm off! Don't worry, if that threat were any emptier, it'd be Hollywood's ideas barrel: there's no way a newborn baby can rip off a 12 year old's arm.
In what way was this supposed to be scary? Babies are about as scary as a full roll of toilet paper. Sure, they're annoying, but I wouldn't expect a story about them to be scary. Overall, the story sucks. It follows the template of Set up, False Climax, Crisis Averted, Identical Crisis that most of the earlier short stories seem to do. It's stupid and boring. Skip it.
Ooh, there's an end credits scene!
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