razzatazz's Stormwatch #4 - The Dark Side, Part Four review

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    The final issue of the first arc doesn’t fix anything for this series, not does it make anything particularly worse.  There is still generally a lot going on here that doesn’t have much back story to it.  For instance the power struggle for control of the team between Adam and Engineer is well handled, but hasn’t really been built up all that well to already reach a kind of crisis point here.  The character development for the other characters is well handled as well at times, though at some points this is just allusion to their publication histories elsewhere.  The battle against the alien comes to a somewhat expected solution but the way the team got there was inventive at times as well.  Overall, just about at the point the rest of the series has been at.  It will be interesting to see where they go with the second story arc.  

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