About Heroes

Author: David Hine
Penciler: Jim Muniz
Inker: Kevin Conrad
Cover: Juan Doe

The second of David Hine's book this week and a second Decimation book at that. Mr. Hine and I seem to have a little disagreement here. I don't think Mr. M is that cool and he does. Other than that small issue of Mr. M he writes an okay story, with some let downs of course. I remember a time when this would have made an X-men issue instead of a limited series. I still don't see the point of all these series and none of them focusing on the characters that were once important. Yes I know, he uses Toad and Magma, but we all know who the real stars of the books are.

Jim Muniz gets the job done, but he is far from a good artist. When characters are just standing around he does fine, but when there is action happening in panels, all the characters seem to look 2 dimensional. Some of the characters looked a little warp when they are talking and the angles are really off. The cover makes up for what is lacking in the art department in the book. Although, Juan Doe (has to be a pen name) uses only three colors, this cover is probably the most eye catching on stands right now.

Pretty much what happens in this issue is: The Office of National Emergency gives a speech to the 198 mutants and wants to put tags on them to know their whereabouts. Of course this upsets most of them and Erg, yeah Erg the guy that got his nuts kicked so bad in the Mutant Massacre, speaks up and refuses. This is really pissing me off that the X-men are just standing around with their thumbs up their asses the government tags everyone. With the 198, they have the power to take down the five sentinels. Fuck, Jubilee could have done that by herself back in the day. Of course this isn't Hine's fault; he just has to play with what he's got. But he's got 198 mutants and he chooses to play with some District X's (a book I really enjoyed) lesser known characters. Erg is not one to stand up, hell if anyone out of that group of mutants should say something it should be the fucking X-men!!!

It's not all bad though. The scene where Magma finally confronts Empath was nice and it has been coming for years. This is a character that has been mind controlled by Selene and emotions played with for years by Empath. For her to finally take control of her life and confront that little prick was finally a closure to all the garbage she went through. We finally get a reason for Johnny D creating mini clones of the various 198 members. I really want to enjoy this book, because I liked Hine's District X so much, but its just doing nothing for me. C+
Click here to read the review with spoilers.