About Heroes

Writer: Jeph Loeb
Artists: John Romita Jr & Klaus Janson

After the abysmal Avengers issue, Fallen Son gets a little better, but not much. This issue's theme is "Bargaining" and features Iron Man, Clint Barton, and Captain America? Can you guess where this is going? Yup, you guessed it! Tony wants Clint, formerly Hawkeye, to be the new Cap. Clint even puts on "the flag" and goes out with Tony to try and capture Patriot and Hawkeye (the girl one, confused yet?). Clint lets them get away, and takes off "the flag," basically undoing whatever this issue tried to do. All this issue proved is that Steve Rogers is the only Captain America there can ever be. We all knew that to begin with. What am I missing here that makes this story one that needs to be told? Each of these issues seems to be missing a point, or even their theme. Like last issue, bargaining only came up once in the issue, the rest was focusing on the future of Captain America. This issue was a okay read, but in the end I still feel like I could have saved my $2.99 for another book next week. I feel like this book is an excuse for Marvel to print money, and ugly Michael Turner Variant Covers. In the end, since nothing really happened in this issue that "changed the landscape of the Marvel Universe" you could skip it and not miss anything.

Even the John Romita Jr. art is not enough for me to compel you to buy this book. JRJR is a master artist, one of the best when he's on Spider-Man, and maybe that's the problem here. For me JRJR is best on Spider-man. I liked his Eternals stuff but it just doesn't fit here. And the coloring by Morry Hollowell makes JRJR look like Steve McNiven in one panel. So if you are a McNiven clone, have Morry Hollowell color you, and if you're Steve McNiven, don't lose Morry, because you are not that good without him. I'll keep reading this series for the next two issues, only to tell you that you can skip it. Well, maybe the David Finch Spider-Man art might make me tell you to buy the book, but we'll see. C-