How ‘bout a good comic, for old times’ sake. This time out, New Avengers is drawn (and inked) by Leinil Francis Yu, a superstar of the moment I don’t think has been on the blog yet. Yu essentially became a big name artist from his very first issue of Wolverine. His style made you take notice. I saw it in ads and immediately thought, “Wait, who’s this?” I bought a bunch of really bad Wolverine comics because of him. He’s already pretty big, but he’s the guy who draws the next big event, and he’s still a major draw today (As much as any artist is anymore, at any rate). Due to the nature of these tie-ins having to support the main book, time becomes very fluid. Here, we rewind to just before the Registration Act went into effect during Civil War 2. Dave McCaig colors.
Jessica with the important questions. The whole “everyone with powers has to be a cop” angle is patently insane, and clearly tacked on to make registration seem worse in view of the meager arguments against it. What about all the mutants? They get their powers as early as, like, 10 years old. You gotta be a 10-year old cop?
Complicated. Jessica says she has to take the still-unnamed Baby Cage and flee to Canada, and she wants Luke to come with them. But he says he’s not leaving. That he wants to let the people of the neighborhood see what the government does to him. He says he’s got unbreakable skin and he’s been to jail, they can’t do anything to him. So, after a tearful good-bye, Jessica bundles the kid and a bunch of their stuff into a car and drives way. As he’s watching them go, a neighborhood kid asks Luke if he’s going to sign. He says he’s going to go sit in his home and bother no one, something they should all be allowed to do.
The miscommunication required for Gabe Jones to be colored like a white person seems like it should have been corrected before this got to print. Cage proceeds to go to war with the stormtroopers, really destroying his building, endangering the people he says he’s fighting for, but of course it’s not presented that way. The SHIELD guys get him with a “genetic paralyser” that seems to be doing its job, and then an old man shoots at them with a regular gun.
I looked up the timeline because I couldn’t remember. They had not yet revealed to the public who this Daredevil was, so he’s not telling in the comic, either. Thus, as they get Luke to his feet and start fighting their way through the goons, Luke’s best friend in the whole world pretends to be someone else, and gets away with it, which all seems really wrong. Anyway, they steal a tank.
The rebels seem to have the momentum at this point. I didn’t read the Iron Man tie-ins. I kind of want to this time through, just to see what they were like. Well, anyway. A mere nine posts after Civil War 2, let’s take a look at Civil War 3…