F. Smith (w) and T. Moore (a) and Staples (c) and Caramagna (l)
Robbie has a chat with the spirit of vengeance that jumped in to save him when he was dying. The spirit's name is Eli and he promises that he can help Robbie take care of his loved ones and get vengeance on those who attacked him and his. This now includes the superpower-drug dealers who killed everyone at his auto shop looking for the missing pills and the car. He agrees to Eli's terms (becoming the spirit of vengeance) and the two find his missing car and the dealers, killing two henchmen and coming up against the head dealer, Grumpy, as he's just taken a bunch of those drugs.
The book continues to look unlike anything else on Marvel's market, which is both a startlingly good thing and a thoroughly confusing thing. It's still hard not to see this as looking somewhat cartoony (not necessarily helped by the high school protagonist) but it seems like it's getting pretty dark for that tone to hold up. Still, the book looks good when you set that strange tone aside and the story is compelling enough, as is Robbie as a character.
Total Score: 4/5
Total Score: 4/5
Avengers Undercover 4
Hopeless (w) and Walker (p) and Gorder (i) and Beaulieu (c) and Caramagna (l)
Arcade's newest Murder World stuff is, of course, streaming live so pretty much anyone who wanted to could see the young would-be heroes talk about killing and then kill Arcade and a SHIELD team shows up pretty quickly, armed to the teeth. They bring the kids in where we get a brief and fun little look at some of the people in the kids' lives (with a particular focus on Cammi and her recovering alcoholic mother) before their stolen away by Daimon Hellstrom and brought back to Bagalia where Baron Zemo espouses on how unfair it is that people with powers are forced into hero roles or called the villain. He offers them a chance for the alternative and asks them to join him.
Like with its predecessor (and really all the books that came together to form these two series, like RUNAWAYS, AVENGERS ACADEMY, and the various books in which Cammi showed up), this book's strength is in its humanity. These are real kids facing real decisions even as they deal with it on perhaps a greater and more dangerous scale. We care about what decisions they make and what happens to them. On top of that, it's a well-written and well-drawn book. Hard to ask for more out of this series.
Total Score: 5/5
Total Score: 5/5
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