2.238 (603) West Coast Avengers #10 ...

Wow it's ... it's just wow! That's how I feel about the first year or two's worth of issues from the old WCA series. Firstly the stories are interesting with a good combination of lighter moments (mainly from Hawkeye and Mockingbird) as well as character developments (Wonder Man and Hank Pym) to the usual bad guys trying to takeover

But this issue is a true testament to the strength of the series

Simple clean lines gives us the ideal way of drawing super heroes accompanied by colours that literally pop and prop up the line so well ... loved it!

In this issue, we start off with the Thing actually wanting to join the WCA. And Hawkeye deciding to choose the Thing instead of Firebird (religious sort of gal) ... however, this is just during the Thing's own title where he mutated into something more rockier. And so as expected when the time comes for the press, he skipped town

We spent the rest of the issues following the WCA as they go about trying to find out where is Ben since they didn't know about his mutation and so many times they come close until ... a villain called Headlok decided to ambush them with the help of the Griffin. Now we are not told at this point why the 2 villains decided to just jump on our heroes because hey there should be a plot right? So if you are jumping into this series here, then we will keep mum

Suffice to say that as this is a told in one type of tale we did get resolution in the form of closure on the Thing's status. And boy is it a sad ending

Ratings: 7/10