The Stop Button

From the first page, Yost starts having adaptation problems. He’s artificially breaking a novel into issues, which means it has no flow to it. There’s no gesture to the issue. He can’t even come up with a good cliffhanger.

Worse, he’s now summarizing enough scenes Ferry can’t keep it straight. Some of those problems aren’t from Yost though. Ferry has one scene where he loses track of the characters in it. An indeterminate amount of time passes from panel to panel; it’s often confusing.

And since most of the characters are kids, Ferry’s stylistic choices fail. It’s impossible to keep them apart.

Maybe the worst is the final scene, when all the kids are in battle suits and there’s no way to tell them apart. But even if they were distinguishable, Ferry can’t make the action make sense. It’s too much going. He’s not an action artist, he’s a designer.

CREDITS

Writer, Christopher Yost; artist, Pasqual Ferry; colorist, Frank D’Armata; letterer, Cory Petit; editor, Jordan D. White; publisher, Marvel Comics.