After the way last issue ended and upon seeing the cover for this issue [Namor and Tony wrestling under water] who would have thought Tony’s part of the story would end up not being my favorite part.

“Pepper Potts gets to work”

I am absolutely loving what Fraction has done with Potts’ character, and her scenes in this issue are the best ones yet. Plus, these scenes give Fraction a chance to portray Osborn as the crazy mother fucker he really is.

That is not to say the Iron Man part of the issue was bad in any way, it was really solid. However, I’m not as infatuated with Namor as plenty of others on the internet so while those scenes were really good they were not my favorite.

Maria Hill’s part in this issue was rather short, but still well done and pretty damn frightening. I know nothing about the history of the Controller nonetheless I am excited to see where this goes especially considering what happens here in Issue #12.

As you can tell I am digging how Fraction has split the book up and I hope it continues after the whole Dark Reign thing fades away into oblivion and gets replaced by something else.

Since its inception this has been a nice book to look at when guys and girls are flying around in suits and shit is blowing up. In other areas though the art has often fallen flat. While not consistently I noticed in spots that it seems as if the art and coloring are starting to improve in some of these areas where they have been weak for the past year. Hopefully the trend continues.