The first half of this two-issue arc has a whole bunch of character development. The problem is that I don’t care about any of these characters. First of all, the pacing of pthis book has been fits-and-starts, with the first six issues seeming to focus on team formation but … This just doesn’t feel like a team yet. Plus, I don’t even know who they all are. Nothing has been done to make most of them stand out as interesting so I still need a playbook. Finally, the attempts at character work really end up just being the young team members trying to figure out how to use their technology and wringing their hands about being an underground group that hasn’t registered.
As for registration, we see that Tony Stark’s Initiative now has its own version of the Hitler Youth…
This doesn’t work for me. I know Tony is all-in on the whole centralization of power thing, but it’s not true to his character to put children at risk–and that’s obviously where this is going. Anyway, they’re led by Ultragirl, who used to be a member of the New Warriors.
Other older New Warriors appear throughout because…I don’t know. Because they wanted to call this arc “reunion.” But it’s really just about Night Thrasher and Midnight’s Fire.
Midnight’s Fire shows up on the very last page of issue #7, but I really didn’t know who he was because it’s just a picture of him looking mad.
Silhouette is there too, but didn’t come with Midnight’s Fire. So I guess it’s a coincidence? I cant tell.
They punch each other for a bit until they stop and talk it out.
Turns out that Midnight’s Fire and Silhouette have registered so they have an issue with Donyell leading an unregistered team. (Huh??? These characters have all been outlaws from the beginning! This doesn’t make sense.)
And of course at the very end of the issue, Midnight’s Fire gets into a limo with a shadowy figure who is plotting something bad and the New Warriors are at the center of it. Because of COURSE there’s a conspiracy. There’s always a conspiracy.
This book is just bad.
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