Of Ruse, Hope and Contagion
This book is hovering over some main character like Hope, and her quest for the 5 Lights, aided by Rogue; Emma Frost, trying to get away wit Sebastian Shaw, aided by Kitty and Fantomex. In this issue Hope gets in touch with the fourth light: a mutant named Teon (a Wildchild look alike) who´s completely dominated by primitive feelings. The bad thing about this piece of the story is the following: A) Where´s Storm? B) Teon in one scene is inside a night club and right in the next one he´s outdoors! (is that a power that he has?´Cause he´d jumped from country to country, but that should have been better explained) C) Where did Cannonball came from? D) The first 2/3 pages are a complete mess, left me totally confused. E) How did Teon found Hope out of the bloom? The writing wasn´t solid (things started happening without connection). The good things are: A) Hope has a hold on Teon and B) The 5 Lights is moving to Generation Hope, what leaves space to this book to grow in separate ways. In the other piece of the story (Emma and Shaw), the dialogues weren´t good, they were kind of cheesy and uninteresting, but the dialogues of Danger and Box were cool. In the art department this was the best issue of Portacio, no doubt about it, just a shame that it was the weakest in the writing. I guess the best in this issue was the Quarantine preview, hope it will be a better arc story.
I´ll give this 4 out 5 for Whilce Portacio´s efforts,´cause he really has shown improvement and dedication in this issue.
