About Heroes

Author: Kevin Grevioux
Penciler: Paco Medina
Inker: Juan Vlasco
Cover: Nic Klein

I am so glad I gave this series a fair chance, because it is up there amongst my favorite comics to have debuted this year. Hell, with Civil War Aftermath and Initiative logos all over the first two covers I really didn't think this book would be on my pull list. I love it when I am wrong and to quote my friend Chris, pleasantly surprised.

The team loses two members when Longstrike is killed by the Zodiac and Sofia is severely injured helping the Warriors. After arguing over whose fault it really was that got Longstrike killed, Thrasher has enough and decides to disband the New Warriors. Sofia has a near death experience and the two detectives are still investigating the identity of Night Thrasher that leads them to technology from Wakanda and Black Panther. That really is all that happens in this issue, since it is mainly a brawl for the first half of the book.

Five issues in and we still don't know half the people that make up this team. It was revealed that Longstrike was Tattoo which makes me think that Phaser is Radian and that there are way too many of Morrison's X-men on this team. Now I really fear for the identity of Night Thrasher (damn, I hope he’s not one of the Cuckoos or Quentin). I wish there were more surviving members on the team like Silhouette or Rage.

It seems that with each issue Medina is producing some really kinetic shit. His pages have so much energy in them, from action scenes to facial expressions. Of course there is a drawback to his art and it's the way the characters look. Jubilee has never had a rack that big and Beak was never a supermodel. Although the story feels a little decompressed at times it is still a fun book to read and this is the closest I have seen Marvel rival the new Teen Titans book. Young Avengers who? A-