About Heroes

Story: Chris Claremont
Dialogue: Christopher Yost
Penciler: Michael Ryan
Inks: Rick Ketcham

While Mr. Claremont takes time to recover do to his recent health issues, Yost (New X-men) handles the dialogue while the basic plot is still under Claremont. When we last left the team Sage was being assaulted by EvilXavier, Black Tom is back (woodless and sporting that pimp ass goatee of his), and Dazzler was killed....again.

Let's get to the main part of the book. Black Tom is back and human looking again. He's got his pimp cane and pimp goatee, but his number one ho is on the side of the angels this time around. He explains that after M day he woke up human and became a different person. Now Cassidy claims to have lost his powers, but he is standing in front of Juggernaut channeling energy through a wooden cane aimed at some defenseless woman's head. He stated being a different person, that the Black Tom that killed Sammy was someone else....but isn't he technically doing the same thing here, threatening this woman's life. Juggernaut gets his old friend to turn himself in, so maybe there is more to Black Tom's story than just this. Sage psychically kills EvilXavier and ohh yeah...Dazzler gets all better....again.

I'm not entirely sure how this team is managing to stay together as team. Have they even announced they are a team yet? Hopefully that will be resolved as soon as Claremont comes back to the book, I wish him a speedy recovery. This book works as a classic superhero team book. All the characters serve a purpose on the team, other than the writer just saying...ohh he's a cool character I'll put him on my team book. It's has a very solid Claremont late eighties feel to it and that is of course a plus in my book. Michael Ryan is a good artist and can deliver some great action sequences, but we need a solid backup artist on this book. Ryan is notorious for being slow and can use a constant backup artist. Perhaps change them out every other arc. B