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The next few issues will feature fill in artists and will focus on one member of the team per issue, and presumably those artists will have more of a say in the script than in other comics as well. In this issue's case, Michael Lark is the guest artist, alongside Matt Hollingsworth on colors and two inkers in tow. As Dr. Strange has often been attached to the Defenders franchise for what seems like the longest time of the founders, starting off with focus on him seems appropriate. In summary, the Hulk sparked the assembling of Women's Puma Usain Bolt Shoes a new incarnation of Defenders to track down Nul, who had possessed the Hulk during FEAR ITSELF and was now detached from him and causing destruction across the physical and mystical planes. Unable to battle Nul himself (which would risk being possessed by him again), the Hulk suggested Red She Hulk (his ex Betty) fill his spot on the team, while leaving Strange to re assemble the rest of the founders (Namor and Silver Surfer) alongside another newcomer, Iron Fist. The mission against Nul caused the team to stumble into New Wundagore in which they "liberated" a strange cosmic machine from Prester John and the New Men which Strange had seen in mystical visions. In this issue, Dr. Strange attempts to devise the meaning of the machine, while examining his own lot in life and having a grad student who he had a casual fling with back in issue one return to complicate matters. Strange learns the machine can apparently grant wishes, as a beloved ex from his youth literally appears in physical form from his memories, despite her being dead in "real life". When the grad student borrows one of Strange's magical tomes for her thesis on magic, a low level magician named Tyson plans a scheme to blackmail Strange into opening up his storage of enchanted tomes for his twisted purposes. Lark's artwork is at home with a plot revolving around Dr. Strange, with Hollingsworth's colors flanking it nicely. More to the Mens Puma Suede shoes point, Fraction writes a simple tale in which he focuses on all of his characters as they come into contact with each other. While Strange and his own midlife crisis is the centerpiece, Fraction also gives time to Molly the grad student, Martha the conjured ex and even Tyson, the ambitious wanna be mystic master. There sheer amount of narration boxes on the panels could be annoying if they weren't as effective Women Ralph Lauren Olympics at projecting the character's point of view and voice as they are. 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In recap, the alien Collector (who is the New 52 version of Brainiac), who played a role in the demise of Krypton, has set his sights on Earth, the new home world of Krypton's sole survivor (aside for Supergirl). His gimmick is selecting one city to "bottle" for historical collection purposes before destroying the Puma Running Shoes rest of the world; the iconic "Bottle City Of Kandor" is the city Brainiac chose from Krypton which was shrunken, and a large section of Metropolis (New Troy) was chosen from earth where Lex Luthor, Jimmy Olson and Lois Lane are all within. He is forced to choose between his old and new worlds, and stumbles upon his new costume. The character conflict with Superman is effective, and the re imagination of Brainiac is very clever. The artwork by Morales is exceptional, and is backed up well by Rick Bryant on inks and Brad Anderson's colors. Overall, this was the first issue in months which genuinely felt as great as the first couple of issues, and hopefully there will be no further strange detours in the general plot. Vaughan and artist Adrian Alphona as part of the failed TSUNAMI imprint back in 2003, the RUNAWAYS quickly attained cult status and survived in print across three volumes, three creative teams and 62 issues of material. It seems every teenage franchise which debuted since has to go through an unofficial rite of passage and team up with the RUNAWAYS to please fans new and old; the YOUNG AVENGERS (who debuted in 2005; more on them later) teamed with the RUNAWAYS twice in two mini series. Had YOUNG ALLIES lasted beyond six issues, they would have met them as well. Now that AVENGERS ACADEMY is nearing a 30th issue, it seems about time for the Avengers cadets to go through the process as well. He is joined by artist Karl Moline, who worked alongside Gage for a stretch of AVENGERS: THE INITIATIVE issues and previously filled in for Mike McKone earlier in this series' run, with inks by Jim Fern and colors by Chris Sotomayor. The plot is simple and goes through basic motions; the Runaways need help from the Avengers in this case to be re united with their pet dinosaur Old Lace which leads to a predictable battle with the Avengers cadet before they team up. The other standard storyline for Runaways appearances in other superhero books is the adult superheroes seeking to "take them in" for foster care or other "safe keeping", especially as some of them are minors; two of them are under 14 years old. At the very least, Gage acknowledges the prior predictable storyline with the characters themselves, and has fun having his kids meet Vaughan's kids. He captures the voice of the Runaways well, and while this the second "talking heads" issue in a row, the conversations are all amusing or interesting. The beginning bit with Striker "coming out" to a press conference is also hilarious. The Runaways seem like a natural fit for the Academy, although the seeds of them remaining differing groups is also sewn. An issue with this many characters on panel should be a mess, but instead it works out quite well for all of them. It was good for this old RUNAWAYS fan to get another dose of the franchise one last time, and the next issue can't be anticipated enough. OBLIGATORY REVIEW AVENGERS: THE CHILDREN'S CRUSADE 9 While not as bad as FEAR ITSELF, in the end this series has been a well intentioned disaster on nearly every front. Creators Allen Heinberg and artist Jim Cheung ended their first volume of YOUNG AVENGERS back in 2006, and Marvel kept that franchise in a lock box in many ways for almost five years waiting for these two to return on the series. Cheung is hardly a speedy artist and Heinberg has done all but admit that his TV writing work is his "day job". Utilizing artwork from years earlier, this mini series started in 2010 and was slated to ship one issue every two months, and even under THAT schedule, this series has run late. While the artwork by Cheung alongside inks by Mark Morales and colors by Justin Ponsor has always been great, Heinberg's script has often been the stumbling block. He has mainly relied on the old Hollywood script trick of making teenagers seem reasonable and justified by painting almost every adult around them as either a lunatic or a jerk. Aside for Billy Kaplan/Wiccan, most of the Young Avengers have been lost in a sea of guest characters like Dr. Doom, Magneto, the X Men, X Factor, and the Avengers. The positive side of this series is that this series returns Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch to the Marvel Universe in a habilitated way, since Dr. Doom has been used to explain her shocking shift in character back in 2004. The negative side of this series is that it depicted a lot of adult heroes acting foolishly (the X Men and Avengers literally dismissed Wanda's promise to "re power" millions of mutants in a battle over who got to punish her worse) as well as have killed off several characters in the finale. This finale itself is a soul crushing affair. Stature (Cassie Lang) and Vision 2.0 (Jonas) are both killed off. Scott Lang/Ant Man has been resurrected and mourns the loss of his daughter, but aside for two lines, he vanishes from even background panels midway through the book. The Young Avengers break up, two members ditch the superhero game entirely and the entire issue seems to be too busy to accomplish a lot of things well. Billy and Teddy/Hulkling's relationship gets a good scene and the last page is a bit more upbeat, but the sheer loss of potential from this series is almost as galling as it taking almost two years to ship nine issues of material. This series seemed to be too busy to accomplish a lot of things well while also running at least 1 2 issues too long. Stacked alongside a regular issue of AVENGERS ACADEMY, the contrast in quality is stark. Instead, Marvel waited almost half a decade for this story, and this story isn't anywhere near good enough to reward that investment of time. While the growth of Billy, the redemption of Wanda and the positive depiction of his relationship with Teddy are strengths, this is not a series I will be remembering too fondly. Other Good Reads: Justice League International 7 (DC Comics); Amazing Spider Man 681, Venom 14, Villains For Hire 4 Winter Soldier 3 (Marvel Comics)