The Stop Button

Yost seems to be getting it. By it, I mean how to adapt. He doesn’t resolve the previous issue’s cliffhanger, which means he doesn’t give the reader information about supporting cast–Ferry’s still inept at differentiating, so why bother–but he also doesn’t explain the battle game.

Instead, details about the battle game come out organically in the story. Sure, there’re a few sentences of exposition, but they’re brief and in a lecture so they work.

Still, it’s hard to support the series. Yost isn’t making the same mistake he made last issue, but he hasn’t all of a sudden made Ender’s Game good. As a writer, one can see he’s just cashing a paycheck. I don’t think he shows interest in a single element of this issue.

And Ferry’s no more engaged. Without anything to design (with one exception), he’s just drawing mediocre action and abbreviated talking heads pages.

CREDITS

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