A twist too many imo, crossing the line from “oh!” to “oh brother.” There’s a certain vibe in this series that didn’t do it for me—it seemed like Ewing wanted this to be Emma Peel’s adventures rather than Janet Van Dyne’s.

While the action of this issue was supposed to leave the heroes feeling deflated, that was my feeling, too. It’s also bugging me that Steve looks like George H. W. Bush after years of steroids.

Robin is cracking me up.

I was worried that this team wouldn’t have much to do and would be quite tangential to the main action of the Fall of X. I’m very pleasantly surprised that this is not the case!

Just brilliant, what the comic book medium is made for, what it does best.

Inevitably it can't be as exciting and intriguing as the first issue, but the introduction of the Columbia student is really promising, and the rollout of the mythos is being perfectly portioned out.

Promising, but leans heavily on prior knowledge/interest in the character.

Crossjack is the Tom Jones of superhero comics. (The Henry Fielding character, not the singer.)

I've enjoyed this series tremendously, but the last couple or three issues have felt like treading water. It feels like either I have forgotten where the plotlines from the first 10 or so issues were going or the writers have junked them, or maybe the writers have forgotten them. Jack is in a weird status where he seems to feel he's been somewhat redeemed, but he's not making any progress in external ways and he doesn't seem to have an idea of what he wants to do with the self-confidence he's built up. He's no longer really trying to solve a mystery now. He's just reacting to imminent dangers, and when he does, the conflicts don't have enough action to be cool or enough emotional heft to be meaningful. Also, I'm just plain tired of Farmington; there's been too much weird stuff going on in this one small town—surely there's other weird stuff going on somewhere else that we can check out. I really hope that the series gets back on track.

Corsair's more of a lech than a rogue—I'm not looking forward to him sticking around. The best part of the issue was Perrikus's dialogue with Adani.

Incredibly powerful and original.

This issue, like much of the past few issues, is plainly set-up for some big confrontations down the road. This Sinister Six that Fisk has gathered and his suggestion that they make the hunting of Spider-Man a game suggest we are in for a lot of fun.

I really loved the banter here, even if the resolution was a bit of a cliché.