About Heroes

Writer: Joss Whedon
Artist: John Cassaday

Delayed for.....how many months was it? Anbody?

Giant-Size finally wraps up Whedon/Cassaday's run on Astonishing, which for a 25 arc give or take it has lasted a damn long time.

Earth-bound heroes are alerted to the incoming threat the Breakworld has sent hurtling towards Earth in the form of a giant weird bullet. Spider-Man, Storm, Iron-Man, etc, all are putting their power together in harmony to figure out how to stop this huge threat. On the Breakworld, Colossus prevents the destruction of it by an insane rebel named Aghanne. During all of THIS, Kitty is still hurtling in space, inside the giant weird world destroying bullet, unable to phase through the metal, the metal itself meshing with Kitty preventing her from leaving. MEANWHILE on Earth... Spider-Man and all the others each fall into a mental trap somehow imaging themselves saving the Earth from the giant bullet...Spider-Man being the first to figure out something is wrong when he single-handedly stops the huge bullet with only his webs.....

Ok folks it's hard to write a review on this. The words "GIANT MAGIC BULLET" keep coming up and it's kinda hard to keep a straight face typing it out every time. The writing by Whedon throughout this Giant-Size is good, the pacing feels right, and there is a nice wrap up of things at the end after the world is saved. How is the world saved you may ask? Well, I called it in January when Kitty got stuck in the bullet so....yeah....how the world is saved from the giant bullet, I will not say but, if I figured it out in Jan., good chances are you can already figure what's gonna happen.

John Cassaday as always does a fantastic job with the art in this series...uncharacteristically though in this one-shot you look at the penciling of some of the Marvel characters that haven't shown up in this series (Iron-Man, the Sentry, Spider-Man, etc.) and Cassaday's penciling seems a tad below his normal high quality. The cover of this 1-shot is something to see as well, it being a full two page cover from front cover to back cover.

Final Impressions/Thoughts.

The story Whedon wrote and art Cassaday did for this series was great but, the delays ultimately killed the title. I can't remember how many times I picked up a new issue of this series only to think "What was going on in this title again" This run by Whedon/Cassaday is definitely a series to avoid in singles and a trade to buy right away.

B+

(Would have been a B- but the Beast/Agent Brand relationship was cute and made me smile)