Careful with that milk barf!
The plot that Bendis is building is very interesting, especially because he's recycling Norman Osborn in a very intelligent and cool way, focusing on how he can be such a genious industrialist and marketing guy, in a complete different way of how he aproached the character in the Dark Avengers stint - one of the funniest things is that everyone is already expecting and antecipating that Norman will crack and be defeated, what is something pretty obvious (and that's something bad, because I really would like to see Norman win, instead of going to jail or worst, dead again)! The best about the narrative was definitely how Osborn decided to play his cards: seizing the bad moment in which the Avengers are being seen in the general population thought, he chose to slander them and give the people a third way, his non Steve Rogers sanctioned Avengers (after Wonder Man's Revengers, what will they be called? Normangers?).
The art is completely top notch, Deodato creates amazing environments, outdoors and indoors, also is great to see him penciling Spider-Man, Wolverine, all characters that have such significance in his career - in this issue he was less focused in anatomy and muscles, what made it more light to apreciate, and the colors renderend by Beredo were impressive, lots of surfaces and cool effects. I'm a big fan of Deodato's style and he delivered 100% here: spacecrafts, great shapes, this issue wasn't about action, it was about story development and Deodato rules in his storytelling!
The bad things about this issue were about Daredevil (terrible dialogues with Squirrel Girl and the fact he didn't get Hand's lies - or at least he hasn't shared his suspicious with anyone, Logan even asked: "what?" and he told "nothing", that was lame) and the whole dialogue involving Gorgon and Madame Hydra, too obvious and boring, it would be best if Bendis left it with a nuance, instead of showing so explicitly about her plans.
Overall it was a very good issue, showing another breakfast scene, decent dialogues (the best involving Spider-Man) and the great art of Mike Deodato, that's enough reason to me!
3.5 out 5
