New Avengers # 22 Review
This Review Was Submitted by Knightwingbk
Writer: Bendis
Artist: Lenil Yu
Is this issue as good as the last one? More or Less. This issue spotlights Luke Cage (obviously) as he wrestles with registering or not. This issue takes place during or after Civil War #2, so we all know that Luke Cage does not register, but his dialogue in this issue explains why. I have a question, Iron Man tells Luke Cage that if he does not register he will be a criminal again at midnight. So at midnight that night when the Registration Act passes, Luke gets a knock on the door. If he did want to register how does he do it? Shoot Iron Man an e-mail? How does one register anyway? Do you wait to be arrested to register or do you have to register before it’s a law at all? Where is the waiting period? The fight was awesome but why did they come at exactly midnight, did Iron Man shoot them that way? We get in this issue that Luke Cage is a family man first, and this issue shows it, as he sends Jessica and his baby to Toronto, Canada basically until this blows over. What she gonna live there for the next 20 years? Geez.
On some pages Yu's art was great, on others it looked really liney and scratchy. I know this is his style, but I have seen cleaner art from Yu. Also, it looks like it was not inked, but done digitally. Or was it? I can't tell it is so inconsistent in this book. B-
Am I alone in thinking that everytime they put a good artist with BMB, they get progressively bad? Finch, Mcniven, Deodato. Keep everyone from BMB
Great issue, seriously I love just about every single Civil War tie-in that comes out now (minus CW: X-Men, ugh). Cage's dialogue was great and struck on how everything about the Registration Act was wrong.