It´s Party Time
Gage delivers an issue filled with excellent dialogues, amazing interactions and terrific aproach to the characters, putting them into the most variety situations possible there´s in a party: from dating to fights, this issue is a great display of how good a comic book can be if the writer truly knows how to describe the characters, how to make each one be unique, how to create from individualism the great things that makes a team work properly and I guess this is the path that Gage is trying to walk here, showing the Academy in a party, relaxing and dancing, is in fact another lesson, especially for Reptil, that this is a team under construction, that there is a possibility that these children of bad guys can become villains, but there´s nothing certain in life, except from death, and even that is a theme in this fun, cool vibe issue - the dialogues here are fantastic, Gage teams up Hazmat with Mettle (like the cover suggests, but nothing too explicit, it´s more in the sub text), Spider-Girl with Reptil, Vance with Firestar (they have issues to work with), a couple of teachers (I don´t want to spoil anything) and Veil with Striker - the funny thing is that this issue was more focused in the fear that Striker, Reptil and Hank Pym were feelling - for different reasons, of course - but the way Gage managed this theme by using this different characters was very good - the dialogues between Striker and Veil, Reptil and Finesse, and Hank with Tigra only reflects this aproach of how fear can shake a person´s life, but we gotta move on - Sean Chen is an amazing artist, top class, and he nailed by capturing the great vibe of the party, especially putting Speedball as the DJ and by giving everyone attending the party great moves - there was nothing bad about this issue, just a little detail here and there, but nothing that could jeopardize the greatness of this issue! Highly Recommended!
5 out 5
