Combined, this's easily one more point in its favor.

[thanekos]

So as you've no doubt heard, there's some new Cloak and Dagger coming down the pike.

Three issues only, and courtesy of Spider-Island to boot, but its creative team of Nick Spencer and Emma Rios're definitely making it worth a look.





..the visual potential of their powers're gonna be utilized pretty cleverly.

(Also, love the drug dealer having apparently cottoned to his Spider-Island given powers.. he's adapted like the Shocker will in 669, but without needing to visit a tailor.)

The article that's sourced from also suggests Spencer's bringing that mix of high-concept and established property that makes his non-original work so interesting again (and it even sounds like the same enthusiasm as he had for Iron Man 2.0, to boot!)

Best part for me, though? The villain he's promising to bring in:

"Mister Negative will play a role in this story. Direct ties exist between these characters in terms of their origins, and beyond just that, the symmetry is just too perfect to be ignored," Spencer stated. "My hope is that Mister Negative will be Cloak and Dagger's Kingpin. Kingpin is a Spidey villain, but he's also Daredevil's greatest enemy.."

You know what that means, don't you? They're going to beat up Hammerhead and some of the sharpest dressed masked men in New York!

Also, they really are capitalizing on ties established in the crime boss's Dark Reign mini, which featured Norman Osborn reading to children, a corrupted Spidey beating on so many years of back pages, and the binary man's own for real origins as told by his dual self:



(Yes, Martin Li is not his real name. Nice twist, but a bit belabored, I thought.)



(That's probably van Lente's second most offhand, integrated origin.. first would be the one for Power Man and Iron Fist's Commedia Dell'arte, an object lesson in why you should never try to steal Baron Mordo's shit..

..unless, of course, you're Ulik the Troll. Then feel free to walk all over him!)

So we're guaranteed a fun visual and written depiction of two dualities; it's sure to be something for everyone!

(Like Spencer's Iron Man 2.0.. spend four issues on a brilliant man bringing it all down from beyond the grave, then two more on Jim Rhodes, Iron Fist and all the other Immortal Weapons versus a rather Serpentine Absorbing Man and what almost has to be Titania if the description's any indication?

Aces.)

Comments

[tsunamiwombat]

So, whats the deal with Spider Island? Everyone has spiderman powers now?

[thanekos]

Yeah; if 658's any indication, it's all Miles Warren's fault.

[proteus_lives]

Good origin. Good use of an old thread.

[selke]

I love the action art.

[tsunamiwombat]

By your powers combined, I am MR. NEGATIVE!

[batzarmy]

They could always Amalgam him with Two-Face and create : Double Negative!

[jcbaggee]

He steals from the rich to give to the rich!

Just when I thought I was getting out of comics

[jazzypom]

Too expensive, not worth the aggro or heartbreak, Spencer and Hickman are making me believe again. Cloak and Dagger? OMG.

[glimmung]

Wow, that art reminds me of Paul Pope. Thats a good thing.

[icon_uk]

Motto (with a bit of the lesser known Andy Fish too)

[turtlefu]

I am definitely picking this up, solely for Emma Rios. Her Osborn art was amazing, and she is one of the most kinetic artists working today. She needs to become a big-time artist!

[misterbug]

I still don't get how Hammerhead suddenly forgot the fact that he used to be one of the big guns alongside Kingpin, Silvermane, etc. Did he get hit on the head and wake up thinking he was only ever a hitman?

...Oh wait.

[hopeofdawn]

I dunno-I'm a huge Cloak and Dagger fan from way back, and the art on these preview pages just isn't doing it for me ... I hope the rest of the comic looks better. :(

[sigmund_droid]

i like the art, it reminds me of the original style of c&d

disaprove of mass spidey powers though

[rainspirit]

It's a crossover event. These things pass.

[rainspirit]

Ohhhhh man. This is getting me really excited for the Cloak and Dagger series.

Can't wait.