About Heroes

Author: Mike Carey
Penciler: Humberto Ramos
Inker: Carlos Cuevas
Edgar Delgado

Not much to say about this issue since it was just a series of fights and is literally action packed. I love to see the Marauders take the X-men by surprise and when I say X-men, I mean the Astonishing and New teams as well. The part that really drew me in was the name game I was playing at the end. I don't think it’s quite hit me how much these characters really sucked back in the 90s, but still fun trying to identify them. So yes, Exodus, Random, Frenzy (Cargill), Tempo, and Uniscione(?) are back by the end of the issue. Even though three of these characters were on the side of the angels in the past, it'll be fun to see how they don't bother explaining why they are bad again.

Finally Endagered Species seems to be going somewhere with the inclusion of the Black Beast character. Good to see Claremont isn't the only writer that remembered these AoA characters. Although putting a spear through Sugarman's head wasn't a bad idea. The issue was okay, nothing big happen, but you put Marauders in a book and for some reason the inner child in me comes out and I fear for the lives of the X-men. Ramos' cartoonish exaggerated figures are a better fit for an action packed issue. They still don't look like X-men at times, but you can easily tell what is happening between the action sequences. However, I wonder if he was sober drawing a few panels. B-