A mix of styles, a cosmic mess
It's interesting how some projects are born and this one is a great example of an opportunity presented by Joe Casey from Tom Brennan, who wished to use the amazing covers of Gabrielle Dell'otto, and asked Casey if he could write a story to use them and the fact is Casey already had a story - the story has weak and strong points, and I believe the latter is basically for recycling, reintroducing or even breaking new characters, symbolizing a fresh restart for Marvel, or at least showing some good options - the dynamics behind Miss America, the Ultimate Nullifyer, Beakie and Angel were great, very intense, amazingly captured by Nick Dragotta (one of the best new artists in the market), his style was a true match to the plot, and Brad Simpson's colors gave a special mark, a distinct air to the comic, it almost looked like an Image publishing, not Marvel's. Unfortunally the whole cosmic thing and how things aprubtely changed and moved so fast made this series a little confusing and poor developed in those aspects, if Casey had focused more on the urban street like characters and the whole secrecy/spyonage SHIELD stuff, mixing the Greatest Villains' concept with the new Masters of Evil, without the whole cosmic stuff, it would definitely be a better and concise story - Casey isn't one of my favorite writers, I believe he had this tendency of getting lost or even too tangled up in his own story, but he did a very good job in the characters development and pitched a great comic book, but the great feat is Dragotta's art and Simpson's colors.
