AGE OF ULTRON #10AI

Review by: John42

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Story by Mark Waid
Art by Andre Araujo
Colors by Frank D'Armata
Letters by Clayton Cowles
Cover by Sara Pichelli, Marte Gracia, & Paolo Rivera

Size: 0 pages
Price: 3.99

Mark Waid wrote this! No Age of Ultron knowledge necessary. This is a one-off Hank Pym biography that’s simultaneously a gut-wrenching story of failure and loss and a genuinely inspiring story of self-actualization. In a sea of pose-striking badasses, Waid writes superheroes that feel like people- people I know, relate to, feel for. He writes characters with a full range of emotion, and Andre Lima Araujo realizes them with the best acting I’ve seen in a long time. I can’t imagine a reader who would not feel the Hank’s depression on page 1, or young Hank’s alternating delight and heartbreak, or the terror of the car-jack victim.

Also! Best recap page ever!

Sadly! They pay no attention to the slap behind the curtain, which makes me feel icky enough to knock the story down to a 4. If the aim is to make you feel for Hank in the face of his troubled history, leaving that out is cheating. It’s a testament to the extreme awesomeness of this comic that that doesn’t knock it down further.

A nice thing about the digital age is that, years from now, people won’t have to spend $20 on an Age of Ultron tie-in trade to read this.

Story: 4 - Very Good
Art: 5 - Excellent

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