New Warriors #9 - "Thrashed, Part One" (Writer: Kevin Grevioux,
Penciler: Paco Medina, Inker: Juan Vlasco, Colorist:
Marte Gracia)
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After anothe battle with supervillians in which Night Thrasher is nowhere to be found, Jubilee vents to Jono. Meanwhile, Night Thrasher continues to be mysterious and devious.
This is a slight uptick from last issue, but it does continue to highlight one of the problems of the book. The cast is just too big and too undefined. I have trouble keeping most of the characters and their abilities straight. It doesn't help that most of them are barely in the issue, or that they suddenly decided to completely redesign Wondra's costume for some reason. We're already 9 issues in and we're not really getting to know these characters. We get two or three pages on intensive backstory on the cops that have been investigating the New Warriors, but little on the characters that make up the team itself.
Now, some of the plotlines here are still engaging... I do find myself curious enough about what Night Thrasher's planning to keep reading, but it can only hold on for so long. There are also a few more minor issues, I'm also not entirely sure Grevioux has Jono's voice done (even ignoring the lack of a comically transcribed british accent). And seriously, the New Warriors better not expect to keep their identities secret for very long if they keep shouting out each other's real names in the middle of fights.
Review: 3.25 stars
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Well, that's it for this week folks. Next week, according to the shipping list, it's another skip week. Nothing I'm interested in buying.
See you next time...
Peter Dimitriadis
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