New Warriors #6 - "Defiant, Part Six" (Writer: Kevin Grevioux,
Penciler: Paco Medina, Inker: Juan Vlasco, Colorist:
Marte Gracia)
(jump to last issue)
While the rest of the New Warriors try to convince Night Thrasher not to disband the team, those investigating the identity of their funder come across some surprising information.
It's one of those issues where you kind of know what's going to happen because, unless the book is cancelled, the team's obviously not going to disband. Although there's some possibility for large scale changes, it would seem to be a little unexpected to get rid of major elements before they've even be developed at all.
Still, in all of that, there are some nice moments, and we do finally get something I've been asking for for a while - some more information on the team, like who's in it and who they used to be. Some of the choices seem a little odd, as the characters don't strike me as much like the ones we knew, but we haven't really seen much of them either.
Two minor details stand out, one for the good, one for the bad. The bad is that Sofia refers to "House of M" being good to Angel, when obviously she meant M-Day. House of M was the miniseries that started it, but it refers to an alternate universe almost nobody remembers, and so it's an inappropriate reference (unless Sofia somehow gained the ability to break the fourth wall). On the other side, there's a scene with an image inducer where the hologram is significantly taller than the person in side, and the art skillfully conveys this by having the image stare straight ahead while talking to people, when it should be looking down. Nice work on that one.
Overall, a fairly pleasant issue, and I'll be sticking with the book a while to see how things work out.
Review: 3.25 stars
-
Well, that's it for this week folks. Next week, according to the shipping list, there's just one book. That's Ultimate X-Men #89.
See you next time...
Peter Dimitriadis
Discuss these reviews in the forum
Jump to last review (Ultimate X-Men #88)
Warning: include() [function.include]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /home/number6/public_html/reviews.php on line 22
Warning: include(http://www.unreachablestar.net/tclose.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in /home/number6/public_html/reviews.php on line 22
Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening 'http://www.unreachablestar.net/tclose.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in /home/number6/public_html/reviews.php on line 22
Warning: include() [function.include]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /home/number6/public_html/reviews.php on line 23
Warning: include(http://www.unreachablestar.net/footer.htm) [function.include]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in /home/number6/public_html/reviews.php on line 23
Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening 'http://www.unreachablestar.net/footer.htm' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in /home/number6/public_html/reviews.php on line 23