Thoughts

Hinted at in the last issue – Cloak & Dagger are BACK! A duo that hold an odd place in my heart. On one level I thin the characeters are fascinating and will often pick up a comic that hints that they might be guest starring. On the other hand, there aren’t actually that many great Cloak and Dagger stories. They get added, sometimes, to good ones – and even provide a nice dark twist to the storytelling when they’re added. But they rarely feel essential.

In a previous Team-Up, Cloak and Dagger helped Wolfsbane and Sunspot deal with the fact they were injected with the same drugs that had originally created them. This story seems to go back to that, suggesting that the cure enacted by Cloak and Dagger hadn’t worked. And even had left the mutants more cursed by these powers, while the original duo were cured.

Going back to this storyline – with their powers coming through in even more dark and distorted ways – seems like a fun storyline. And you can tell Sienkiewicz is having fun with it in his presentation of the Dagger-ed Rahne and the Cloak-ed Roberto.

The only misfire is the implication that Cloak and Dagger aren’t interested in helping the mutants because they’re cured. This is such an obvious jerk move that will clearly be reversed to solve the plot it just makes them seem lesser characters.

Also Sienkiewicz is back on the cameos again. I still find them jarring. Having thought about it, I think the reason these don’t work for me is that the title – and the storylines – are so wonderfully outlandish that it is entirely possible that the important plot of an issue would entail Inspector Clouseau turning up. So when you instantly recognise the famous cameo but then have to mentally withdraw from the idea that it means anything it just takes you out the comic.

At least for me it does.

Fun Panel

Absolutely love returning to this location and seeing Sienkiewicz’s take on it. Even if the Cockrum injoke is just a bit too obvious.

Any Googling

Another curio here is Dani’s injury. Whih led me desperately searching for the source. Had I missed another issue? Apparently she’s still recovering from the Demon Bear injury. Which I can understand bar the obvious fact she was moving around fine in the annual.

So at least glad I’d not missed a comic!