Art: Peter
Krauses’ work on Irredeemable is my favorite on the shelves today. His
work captures the spectacle that is a superhero comic, while
simultaneously conveying the emotion this story calls for. 

Difficult choices:
Choosing the best of several bad options always makes for good drama,
Mark Waid is masterful at this. This issue primarily focuses on a Batman
like hero named the Hornet. I won’t spoil it, but the Hornet makes a
sickening choice in order to keep the Plutonian’s power in check.
Despite the ruthlessness of this choice, the reader can still empathize
with Hornet’s choice. If a writer can get his audience to sympathize and
more importantly empathize when a character does the wrong thing for
the right reason, he or she has done their job.

Exposition: Half
of this story is exposition, so I assume that some could argue that the
story doesn’t move forward, or that there isn’t any immediacy, I would argue that the flashbacks actually propel the story forward. 

 Bottom Line: Mark Waid has created a world that has storytelling legs for years to come. Irredeemable is a must read.