I thought I found both of the new comics from this week I wanted, but upon a second glance, it was last month's issue of Fantastic Four. Oh well, leaves us with a Si Spurrier double feature.
Nimrod and Vulture discuss recent attempts to deal with the "Creepy Crawler", as he keeps interfering in their plans. Nimrod's also not pleased Toomes hired Silver Sable, who refuses to leave until the job is done, under the cover of "professional ethics." Which don't preclude her canoodling with Nightcrawler in her off time.
Spurrier and Pina spend 5 pages on Kurt and Sable talking on a rooftop, with basically all the panels focused on them from the shoulders up, because they're both naked. Then another page on the lyrics to a Lila Cheney song Sable apparently really likes. If it's so critical the comic end next month that they're double-shipping this month, maybe cut some of the filler and make it a tight 4 issues, instead of a bloated five.
Kurt abruptly leaves to try and talk to his mother again, only to get attacked by Feral, Cloak, and Dagger, turned into Hounds by Toomes experimenting with the techno-organic virus. Did Dagger get caught in some other comic, because she was just fine last issue. But I guess this is why she couldn't find Cloak last issue, so assume he got caught sometime between issues 1 and 2, and her between 2 and 3.
Kurt cuts his way out of Cloak with his weird glowy "hopesword", and then Mystique shoots Cloak in the head. They show the large exit hole, naturally. It only slows him down, though one can't help but wonder what happens once the techno-organic virus isn't around the heal him up. Not like Mystique would give a shit either way, even if her brain wasn't a mess right now. Kurt's still arguing with the little ghost Bamf, what ever it is, and Mystique pulls a fade again.
Milla's colors maintain the feel of the book with the shift from Garbett to Pina. The Hound designs are pretty blah, nothing really remarkable or memorable about them. Some bright yellow-white bits, the old "yellow network of lines against black backdrop" from Warlock in places. I'm sure ORCHIS doesn't want the Hounds to be individualized - they're weapons - but it's still not visually interesting.
Hum is trying very hard to stay out of what the preacher, formerly Mildew the Breaker, is doing. This new prophecy, which involves rewriting the end of the old world for a bunch of suckers. And a miracle, of course, or the appearance of one, which the mad illusionist is capable of creating.
Hum is trying to focus on names for the possible approaching baby, without alerting Serka to that fact. For her part, Serka is aware the gnomad is going to use his new weapon to kill the preacher. Which could solve their problem of all these people trampling their garden, or make it much worse. They choose to get involved, though Spurrier and Bergara ignore the crowds outside for the entire discussion. It's just Hum and Serka and the pieces of their life. Hum fussing over her, Serka slowly armoring up. Glimpses of their respective steeds. It's ultimately about them as a couple, deciding what to do.
The miracle does not occur, nor does Mildew die. It doesn't matter. People believe what they want to believe, the only apparent deterrent is to kill them, and neither of the leads are up to that. Though they both lie to the other about how things went, Bergara contrasting what they say in solid panels with the typical color scheme, against panels with no borders done in basic shades of yellow for the truth.
I mean, at least kill Mildew. Fine, he's a martyr then. But he doesn't benefit. Because he's dead. See if the threat of it's enough to make him change his tune, since this is all just a ploy anyway. Instead, Serka's got a notion to go on an extended vacation to seek a solution to the problem.
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