For me, there were two issues packed into this one comic. I’ll critique both to be fair:

For one part of the comic we get MASSIVE exposition to not only get us away from Fear Itself but to explain the new situation with the T-Bolts. While Parker is more then able to keep this interesting I was wondering what happened to the exciting, no hold barred, Jeff Parker from the previous issues. Especially after doing a successful tie-in arc for Fear Itself. Again getting a feel for where this series is gonna go now is fine enough and Parker does a good job. But this comic can get boring to read sometimes and I felt like I said ‘get on with it’ a lot. At least Kev Walker’s pencils make it pretty damn gorgeous to read.

Then we get to the second comic in this issue and before I confuse you more, yes this is all just one story. But then we get a big, action packed second half to this comic and that’s where the issue comes alive. It’s a big creepy to say, but others have said it before, Nazi’s though somehow make a comic better. It’s because they are such easy targets and not likable at all so you’ll have more fun seeing them get killed. The moment the team realizes they are back in time and Nazi’s are attacking them; that’s when the book comes alive. There’s a moment I literally giggled with delight as Satana goes full out demoness on the soldiers. When the action gets going this comic turns into a whole other comic. That and Kev Walker just makes it look so much fun. Again Satana is going postal on Nazi’s which looks great (I like the effect of the ‘ghosts’ of Allie’s attacking Nazi’s), Moonstone is shooting anything that moves, and Troll spearing anything that moves looks pretty too.

I was worried for a bit about this comic. After the huge Fear Itself tie-in, I thought Parker had to tone down the action of the comic to explain what is going on. While I didn’t mind the huge exposition scenes, I also didn’t miss them once the T-Bolts started fighting some Nazi’s. Considering Kev Walker makes this a gorgeous looking book as always the second half of this book is more then enough for me to enjoy a comic. Now that we know where we’re at with the team, and what time period they’re in, I know Jeff Parker is gonna make this an extremely fun arc. Can’t wait to some Nazi’s getting killed by Man-Thing when the time comes!