I always feel it is unfair to review anthologies. Because sometimes the
writing is really good in one story and god awful in another. If I
average it out then someone picks up a book because I thought 3/4 of it
was decent and the one shittty story wasn’t bad enough to lower the
rating enough to make it not worth picking up.

With that in mind, I got
2 pages into this book and I just had to put it down to write how
stupid the writing on the Wolverine Punisher story was. Yes, Frank I’m
fairly certain people don’t make up common day to day phrases with the
situation you described in mind. This wannabe action movie dialog took
me right out of the book and reminded me of the early Image muscles and
pouch era of comic writing. And that story did not get better. Every
thought in Frank’s head was a cliche and trite. And I never liked the
Top Cow style of art. It just didn’t appeal to me.

As for the other
stories, the Iron Man 2020 story just seem hokey. Like someone in 1983
is trying to write superheroes in the future. It has all the
sensibilities of the Bob Layton Iron Man run, but none of the style.
The only thing I’ve liked about this story was seeing future versions
of heroes, and that has rapidly gotten old. I keep feeling like the
villain of this book is the captain of the Love Boat.

I did like the
next story, which is kind of odd, since I normally don’t like Frank
Tieri’s stuff. This was really well done and relied on the art too good
effect. Of course the actual narrative seemed like it was ripping off
every western from here to Unforgiven, but the action was nicely done.

And I, for one, an absolutely loving the Mojo story. I thought it was
over with last issue, but I’m glad to see it isn’t. I mean, sincerely,
the art is awesome in a creapy fat tub of lart way. The writing is spot
on. I loved seeing Indigo Murdock almost as much as Emma Robinson. Just
a wonderful part of the issue. I’m really glad it’s the last part
because it always ends strong.