It's a preview on multiple levels.
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scans_dailySo now that John Steele's been reintroduced and the Shadow Council's been established as a threat, Brubaker's off Secret Avengers.
Nick Spencer's on for four issues, taking the cast through Fear Itself, and then Warren Ellis's coming in for a very, ah.. spiritually successive six.
Perhaps the latter's why last month's Point One issue wove semi-realistic espionage dynamics together with universe-specific concepts, featured competent protagonists working under a very specific methodology, and was self-contained overall.
The latter was the beginning, the former was the end; one set up the story's conflict, the other provided a sort of resolution to it.
Considering the first's scope, Negative's presence in the second was interesting; if nothing else, it speaks to how relatively successful he is as a new villain, turning up in books entirely unrelated to him (To Serve And Protect's Anole/Rockslide story, One Month 2 Live) in his function as Chinatown mobster.
It's in that capacity Spencer'll be writing him during the Cloak and Dagger mini, so I thought this also a preview of that.
If it's an accurate enough one, then, he'll definitely be letting a bit more of that Martin Li affability bleed through..
(Those are the most casual his Inner Demons've been yet.. the most eyehole-y, too.)
..tempered with a bit of his darker side, of course.
(I take it he didn't spring for the flamethrowers?)
Perhaps given to a little less mercy..
..but definitely to a quick hand.
(What, no shadowy charge-up of the blade?)
Yes, he should definitely be a fun Cloak and Dagger foe, combining some of Spencer's favored traits in the writing of main villains as he does: urbane subtlety, wearing suits, and ruthlessness.
(The would-be Cap was also pretty good, though definitely more misguided idiot. Loved the panel that followed his "YOU'RE A CORRUPT SUPERCOP, CAPTAIN AMERICA!" rant..)
Nick Spencer's on for four issues, taking the cast through Fear Itself, and then Warren Ellis's coming in for a very, ah.. spiritually successive six.
Perhaps the latter's why last month's Point One issue wove semi-realistic espionage dynamics together with universe-specific concepts, featured competent protagonists working under a very specific methodology, and was self-contained overall.
The latter was the beginning, the former was the end; one set up the story's conflict, the other provided a sort of resolution to it.
Considering the first's scope, Negative's presence in the second was interesting; if nothing else, it speaks to how relatively successful he is as a new villain, turning up in books entirely unrelated to him (To Serve And Protect's Anole/Rockslide story, One Month 2 Live) in his function as Chinatown mobster.
It's in that capacity Spencer'll be writing him during the Cloak and Dagger mini, so I thought this also a preview of that.
If it's an accurate enough one, then, he'll definitely be letting a bit more of that Martin Li affability bleed through..
(Those are the most casual his Inner Demons've been yet.. the most eyehole-y, too.)
..tempered with a bit of his darker side, of course.
(I take it he didn't spring for the flamethrowers?)
Perhaps given to a little less mercy..
..but definitely to a quick hand.
(What, no shadowy charge-up of the blade?)
Yes, he should definitely be a fun Cloak and Dagger foe, combining some of Spencer's favored traits in the writing of main villains as he does: urbane subtlety, wearing suits, and ruthlessness.
(The would-be Cap was also pretty good, though definitely more misguided idiot. Loved the panel that followed his "YOU'RE A CORRUPT SUPERCOP, CAPTAIN AMERICA!" rant..)
