Written by Joe CaseyArt by Sean Phillips
I miss the days when Wildstorm was pushing the envelope of super-hero comics, even though I was one of the last people to catch on to what they were doing (ie., Stormwatch: Team Achilles was my gateway).
This book reads like Casey was working hard to move Wildcats to the place he envisioned, but to do it slowly and organically instead of suddenly. He could have pulled a 'five years later' sort of thing and dumped us right into Version 3.0, but instead, he took his time to establish the prominence of Halo Industries to the book, and to build up characters like Noir and introduce others like Agent Wax.
This volume is mostly about a powered serial killer hunting down anyone possibly related to Lord Emp, and how the team decides to deal with him, except the characters are better developed than at any previous point in the book's various runs.
I regret not having been aware of this stuff when it was originally coming out, but I also enjoy being able to go back and get caught up now.
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