About Heroes

This Review was submitted by Knightwingbk

Writer: Ron Marz
Artist: Greg Tocchini

I'm back! Been away a long time because of the winter holiday and break from school, but lets get back to it!

Ion is getting back up to speed. The last two issues have seen a re-emergence of the Tangent characters, and Kyle was apparently killed last issue. Here, we find out that he was instead transported somewhere, to another dimension, and he finds the two kids we saw in IC #7 who found the tangent green lantern on the beach. Captain Atom/Monarch shows up in an unexpected guest spot, and I'm glad he's not crazy. Or is he? Captain Atom is planning something, gathering forces and items for the future. He mentions that something is coming and that the dimension that they are in cannot be seen by the monitors. This brings up an interesting plot point. Two actually, 1) that Captain Atom isn't crazy and is planning something, and 2) that the Monitors are hiding something from the denizens of the DCU. With the recent teaser that DC released featuring Ion, I'd say that Ion is a must read book for hints about what is next for the DCU. This book was mainly more interesting from the hints than the actual plot, and the tangent characters featured on the cover are not in the actual book, but pick it up anyway.

Greg Tocchini is back on art after 2 issues without him, and he really shines in this issue. Captain Atom talks about visiting the Wildstorm Universe and the page where he does this is a great image. Everything just melds together, spinning and interlocking, like we are looking at all of Captain Atom's memories at once. Also, the fight scenes really fit his style. The more and more I read Ion, the more I feel like Tocchini was the right choice for artist on this book. B-