Rudy gets a rude awakening in his first few days of community service, learning that with the keys to the infamous locker room comes a great deal of running, screaming and, in some instances, killing.
Red, white and blue never looked so good. The Captain America Corps are down to the wire. Writer Roger Stern and Phil Briones pack in the action of these major athletes as they try to prevent the unraveling of the multiverse. The culprit? A femme fatale harboring a grudge against Captain America abducted the frozen Steve Rogers from every possible earth.
X-23 #16 picks up right in the middle of the action of Issue 15, with Valeria Richards possessed by the King of Whirldemons, bent on bringing the rest of his people through a portal in Reed Richards' lab and onto Earth.
This is one of the most misleading covers I've seen on a Marvel book. Lucky for us, Misty Knight alias Control is not reforming Heroes for Hire with villainy at its core. Point one is really a done in one, well-written plain ol' Heroes for Hire issue.
Walter is forced to leave the lab for the first time in years when he and Olivia go to Massive Dynamic to examine files that may connect one of Walter's Cortexiphan test subjects to a new series of crimes.
Chuck must adjust to his new life as a business owner and being a spy without the Intersect in his head or the support of the CIA.
What happened? There I was, loving the shit out of All Star Western's first issue and along comes Issue Two, not exactly ruining my starry eyed attraction but certainly dampening it.
The story reads a lot like a buddy comic full of hijinks, reminiscent of the sort of comics that would've been popular during the actual WWII era. Even with the serious nature of their mission, the focus seems as if it's going to be on Bucky and Toro getting into trouble when left on their own. It is not, however, 1944 anymore, and this comic was written with an eye on the reality of history, not the glossy, propaganda version.
Paris is in ruins. Set and the Order have already destroyed it, so what can the Guardians do about it, when they fly in with all the bravado they can muster? Where do they get all that bravado, anyway?
llis has consistently been delivering solid comics with his run on Secret Avengers, and this issue is certainly no exception. It reads more like an espionage thriller than a traditional superhero comic, with action that moves the story along without ever hitting a lull.
