This issue’s probably the best. Yost figures out how to summarize and capsulize a part of the source novel. He’s able to create a momentous vignette, one with lots of epical plot consequences.

However, it’s a story for a longer series–if he’d had twelve issues instead of five–and, at the final issue of the series, it’s too little, too late.

Marvel’s handling of the adaptation (series length and hiring Ferry aren’t Yost’s fault) is the problem. They’ve created an adaptation no one who hasn’t read the source novel would be able to understand. But it’s also an adaptation fans of the source novel probably won’t support because of all the abbreviating.

This issue also features more of Ferry’s lazy art, though there is some cool scenery. There’s a two or three page talking heads scene and Ferry’s incapable of keeping it going.

The series remains an interesting failure.

CREDITS

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