So, I wasn’t terribly impressed with the first issue of this series, but I thought I’d give it a little more time to get interesting, so I picked up the second issue today. I have to say, I will not be picking up the third. This title just doesn’t do anything for me.
The art looks like colored pencils, which I don’t care for, the writing is, again, filled with American bashing (which they have every right to do, and more power to them if they want to do it – but I also have the right to NOT buy it if I don’t want to read that crap) and the story just isn’t grabbing me at all.
USAgent is portrayed as a meat head loser hot head, which I don’t care for (that’s a character that could seriously be used better somewhere else…there is a lot of potential with a guy who will never be able to get out of the shadow of Captain America, and no one seems to know what to do with him…so they put him in this and make him into a total ass.), and most of the other characters I barely even know…and even knowing them…I don’t care about them.
I don’t expect this thing to go past the mini – and I’m officially done with it. I do not recommend buying it.
Actually, the comic is not that bad. The only “America-Bashing” in the issue is from the Registration Act context and it is from a Canadian point of view (no surprise there).
More importantly, it’s America-bashing in a comic book for Christ’s sake. Don’t be so sensitive.
USAgent has always had a chip on his shoulder. He’s always been somewhat of a jerk. That’s his character.
In addition, it features classic villains like the Wrecking Crew. If you don’t know who they are, then you must have just started reading comics within the last year or so.
Sure, it’s not the greatest series, but I would give it a B-.
I’ve been reading comics for over a decade. The Wrecking Crew are C level baddies at best…and I have no reason to care for them. I didn’t care about them before this book was published, and it has given me no reason to care about them now.
USAgent HAS always had a chip on his shoulder, but he’s also had some dimension to him in other books, here he’s written as a flat, one dimensional character, and I don’t care for it.