Marvel Comics
Avengers the Initiative # 22
By Hervé St-Louis February 28, 2009 - 23:32
Publisher(s): Marvel Comics
Writer(s): Christos N. Gage
Penciller(s): Humberto Ramos
Inker(s): Humberto Ramos
Colourist(s): Edgar Delgado
Letterer(s): Joe Caramagna
Cover Artist(s): Humberto Ramos, Edgar Delgado
$2.99 US
It’s the New Warriors and the Initiative versus the Thor clone.
People die this issue. How many and will their sacrifice be enough to stop the
Thor clone, who knows.
There’s a serious problem when you keep wanting to drop a
comic book series, yet come back to it every month for some punishment. It’s
worse when you planted the idea in your mind that you can’t stand the artist,
yet, you suddenly start to find his work decent. But worse of all, is when you
don’t need to read every caption in the comic book to make sense of it. This
series has always been but a bundle of surprise for me. If even I can’t seem to
shake off the habit, I’m thinking other readers too will fall for it. I don’t
know what it is about these B characters that I don’t even care about. Even
with a new writer and artist, I’m back every month for more punishment. In
cases like these, when enjoying a stupid comic book where half of a cast that
you can’t identify fight a degraded Thor clone, it’s best to just go on and
enjoy the ride. No point feeling guilt anymore.
I said it. Ramos is becoming more enjoyable. His
figures have more shape and show hope that maybe one day, they’ll have spines supporting
their bulging muscles. My only complaint was the size of their mouth and how
screw they looked. But to Ramos’ credits, not reading the captions did not take
away from understanding what was going on. That means he’s a good storyteller.