I haven't really talked about the 3 continuing segments in a while. There's still a Wolverine/Nightcrawler team up, a Ghost Rider/Doctor Strange team-up and a story starring the Young Gods, a kind of second rate Eternals.
The Wolverine/Nightcrawler story is pretty good. It's been setup as a whodunit with Nightcrawler being asked by his old German circus trope to solve a murder and Wolverine being called in for help.
Not so much of a fan of the Ghost Rider and Doctor Strange story. I like both characters very much. It just suffers from too much darkness as many stories starring Ghost Rider do. Doctor Strange stories have their share of demons and such. But their more like monsters from another dimension and not denizens of Hell like as in this story. Thus why I am not a fan.
I'm on the fence about the Young Gods story. Right now, the team of super-powered humans is divided into teams around the globe, trying to stop an ancient evil from spawning. The story is okay. The dialogue is awful. Like from a bad detective novel. But the art is amazing. Tom Sutton is an artist that I am pretty familiar with. I've seen his work in What If... (first series) and Amazing Adventures. But I didn't remember his female characters being so alluring looking. It must have something to do with the inks of X-Force's Jon Holredge. Sometimes, the right inker can turn a good artist's work into something great and that very well could be the case here.
The one-shot story is pretty good. It stars the knockoff Captain America, U.S. Agent. But the thing that sold me on this 8-pager was the villain. It's the Peace Monger. First and only seen in the pages of MCP #27, it was pretty cool reading a follow-up to that tale. It never felt like it was the last we'd seen of the Peace Monger with that story that starred the Native American superhero, American Eagle. But, this appearance will be the last we ever see of the villain unless somebody decides to use him in the future. But after nearly 30 years of obsolesce, I doubt we ever will.
An enjoyable issue with one segment that is just not my cup of tea.
Worth Consuming!
Rating: 7 out of 10 stars.
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