About Heroes

Author: Brian Michael Bendis
Artist: Leinil Yu
Colors: Dave McCaig

Brian Michael Bendis almost made something happen that would have made the fanboy in me just jump for joy (well maybe not that girly of a reaction). That's right folks in this very issue Wolverine orders a beer! Oh yeah! A fucking beer! All he needed was a stogie and it would have been all good in the….not even going to go there. But right before he could drink it, we are interrupted by the main story of this issue. Oh yeah the Hood makes his move in this issue too.

Its funny how much the last issue was just ass and how different this one was written. There is more of the blame game in this issue. Cage is just loosing it thinking that everyone around him is a Skrull, including his wife. We get a glimpse of how Clint learned to fight hand-to-hand combat and how much of a hard ass Cap used to be. While the Avengers are reunited with Jessica Jones and Wong; Madame Masque, Jonas Harrow, The Wizard, and Crimson Cowl have a meeting with the Owl. It seems the Owl has come in possession of the original Deathlock (Luther Manning) and is willing to sell him to the highest bidder. Unfortunately for Owl fans, he gets a few bullets plugged in him by none other than the Hood. It seems that Mr. Parker Robbins has been learning to use that Hood, because by the end of the issue he sneaks up on Wolverine. Hell, even Kraven didn’t let him sneak up on him, of course this Wolverine could be a Skrull.

I'm not sure yet how I feel about the Hood becoming the next Kingpin of the Marvel Universe. Brian K. Vaughn's six issue miniseries was phenomenal and one of my favorite miniseries of all time. I guess I could buy the fact that Parker Robbins would follow in his father footsteps and stop being an antihero to become the new badass of the Marvel Universe. After all, he's only had a total of 12 issues of characterization and half of those were leading to this new life style. I just hope we see more of a back-story so we know what makes him choose this new occupation. And hopefully with that back-story will also come an appearance of Sara, his baby, and the Nistanti.

This was a fun issue altogether and like I said Wolverine almost drank a beer, so that's always a plus. Yu's art is gorgeous; he's really starting to clean up most of his sketchy panels and seems to be going back to his older style, which to me was perfect. The muted colors used for the flashback was a touch of pure gold. It just dragged a little bit with all the forced blame game, but the other half of the book really balanced all of that out. B+