Unless next issue is mind blowingly awesome, I'm dropping the series.
I was excited to hear about Millar and Hitch taking the series in a new direction, but from the moment I heard about an AI policing a world with no guns, before I even finished the issue, I had thought of eight different instances where this had already happened and ended in disaster. Have these brilliant scientists never seen a sci-fi movie before? I thought that's what nerds did growing up.
Also, I gotta add that it's completely ridiculous for CAP (whose name I find completely tasteless) to have completely wiped out, and I quote, "every super hero on [the] books" in eight minutes. Sentry alone should have been able to deal with a robot in no time at all. What really bothered me was the number of unregistered heroes who came for the fight too. Wolverine, Spider-man, Young Avengers, Hercules, Storm, there's no reason for them to be there. I counted seven unregistered heroes, and nine bodies I couldn't identify. As much as I enjoyed the art in the previous issues, this one really went down hill. Once the fight went outside, there were so many white dots (snowflakes, I guess?) that I couldn't tell what was happening at all.
Story: 2 - Average
Art: 3 - Good
Agreed-- this is the issue where the Millar/Hitch run completely went off the rails.
Not only were there, as you say, a number of unregistered heroes who came for the fight-- but we were told specifically that SHIELD sent them. So, SHIELD had their contact information-- knew where they were, contacted them, and "sent" them. Not ARRESTED them, but sent them on a mission. Is this book completely out of continuity, then? Or, did it occur prior to Civil War? Or perhaps does it occur at some point in the future, after Secret Invasion, when perhaps the Superhero Registration Act has been repealed?
I also agree that the art-- at least as far as the fight choreography-- was disappointing.
Posted by Jim on 04/10/08 at 06:42 AM