Ion # 8 Review
This Review was submitted by Knightwingbk:
Writer: Ron Marz
Artists: Paco Diaz, Yvel Guichet, & Joe Rubenstein
Greg Tochinni gets a month off, and his book falls by the wayside. Paco Diaz does some of the art chores in the beginning and end of the book but Yvel Guichet does most of it, and poorly. Guichet's style is so drastically different from Diaz and even Tochinni's that I almost wanted to put the book down, it doesn't flow at all. Where is Tochinni's assistant that's helped him out on the last two issues? Couldn't he do this issue? Or even let Paco Diaz do the whole issue, he's a very capable artist.
The best part of this issue are the first 4 pages and the last two. In these six pages we see the continuation of the plot threads from the last 7 issues of Ion. We see the monitors, all four of them, discussing Kyle Rayner's fate, and whether or not he will live or die. Marz writes them like they will kill Kyle themselves if they have to. In any case, they are giving Kyle a chance to prove himself, again. The last two pages deal with the guardians, who are questioning Alex Nero, who impersonated Kyle in the first 6 issues of the series. The very last page deals with the Lantern that washed up on a beach in Infinite Crisis #7... Paco Diaz does the art on these 6 pages and does a great job; let's get him on a regular book again.
The rest of the book is an ancillary story about Kyle trying to right the bad things Alex Nero did while impersonating Kyle. He travels to a barbaric world and battles a beast Thunderdome style to quell a local war. It's interesting, but the poor art make it seem almost unnecessary and almost skippable. Take a look at it in the shop, but this issue is not a necessary buy to get the Ion story. D
