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4.0

Clearly, Mosley is a fan of classic Marvel, because this was very retro in very fun ways. It also makes sense that it’s polarizing, because older plots were more about exciting twists that often felt only foreshadowed but not explained, which is what the plot beats for this does. I think the art style would dip people off to this off the get-go, though. There are a lot of twists that are fun to roll with, for all the characters and how they know each other and how they relate to one another. It even gets into cosmic territory, which I love. And I think the foreshadowing Mosley does in later twists really showcase how much of a fan he is of those old comics, because he certainly drew from some esoteric material. It also inverts power dynamics in classic quests like this, which I thought was a breath of fresh air. Great stuff.