Marvel Comics Presents #153

For an issue full of multi-parter middle chapter segments, this one's pretty good. 

The best of the bunch is the Vengeance story. It focuses more on Michael Badilino's life and career as a cop more than it does on the Spirit of Vengeance. Plus, the new character of Rebecca Taylor has been a delight. She adds that Lois Lane romantic foil/secret identity snoop factor that has been missing to just about any Ghost Rider story for quite some time.

Next up is the Moon Knight story. A major case involving the leader of a white supremacist terror group is now in deliberation. Moon Knight knows that one of the juror's families are being held hostage in order to insure a hung jury. Only, the hero doesn't know which jury member's home is being held captive.

The Wolverine story is my 3rd favorite story. Logan must keep his beserker side in check when some criminals from his past come back for revenge on him and lover Tyger Tiger.

The War Machine story at this point ranks in at last. It's not a terrible story. Just the dialogue is very corny like something you might encounter in an ABC After School Special. Rhodey is trying to confiscate stolen Stark Tech while trying to get some teen gang members to go straight.

I appreciate the efforts to help kids do right. But there's a real disconnect between how writer Len Kaminski (Iron Man) thinks early 1990s LA gang members talk and how a former air force veteran should relate to them. That being said- the artwork (by New Warriors' John Czop) and the overall plot, where War Machine decides to join one of the gangs to stop the violence and killing was superb!

Worth Consuming!

Rating: 8 out of 10 stars.