It’s really time to end this Bishop chasing Cable and Hope through time storyline.  It’s been nearly two years.  And it’s been about a year before the subplots were interesting enough to carry the story.  Still, this was a strongly written issue that looks like it may be leading to a new direction.  Dear God, let it be leading to a new direction.

I’m not entirely sure why we needed three teams of artists on this issue.  Ramos and Cuerva seem to be channeling Bachalo in Chapter One, and it looks great.  And Medina and Campanella’s Chapter Two  almost looks like Ryan Ottley penciled them.  Which is also a good thing.  But the Paul Gulacy’s Chapter Three should be taught in art schools.  Not because it’s good, but because the man has NO grasp of anatomy.  His panel placement is inspired, but his faces look terrible.  Heads don’t sit right on bodies, lips appear to be sliding off faces, and Hope seems to have dislodged her lower body before she kicks.  He also makes the characters look a bit more cross-eyed than they probably are.  I don’t think it’s intentional.  Really his art was bad enough to take the five from the first two chapters all the way down to a two.  I hope to not see him on a title again until he spends a year or two studying Gray’s Anatomy.  Maybe he can borrow one of the copies Rob Liefeld’s been given over the years.