Avengers: Children's Crusade #9
By Zak Edwards
March 14, 2012 - 21:16
Marvel Comics
Writer(s): Allan Heinberg
Penciller(s): Jim Cheung
Inker(s): Jim Cheung & Miles Morales
Colourist(s): Justin Ponsor
Letterer(s): Cory Petit
ISBN: Jim Cheung
$3.99 US
After eight very confusing issues and a bloated one-shot to try to further bog things down, Allan Heinberg and Jim Cheung finally have a moment of clarity. Blame the schedule which, I have to admit, was pretty stable until the very end, but this story did not read like the original Young Avengers in all the bad ways. Gone were the wonderful character moments, team dynamics, and even the youthful uncertainty and issues of legacy of the original run. Instead, Heinberg has proven, by providing concrete evidence of the opposite, that less is more.
Throughout it all, though, the series has at least looked great thanks to Jim Cheung. His classic style, helped by Cory Petit’s lettering, has always been crisp and clear. Juston Ponsor’s bright palette should look familiar to Ultimate Spider-Man fans and works just as well here. Every panel has wonderful detail and Cheung handles the emotive issue with ease. Never melodramatic and always communicative, Cheung’s art is almost the counterpoint Heinberg’s scripting. Overall, the series has been disappointing but Cheung has nothing to do this feeling.
Grade: B+ On the way up just as things end.
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