I’m not going to focus on the subplots across these issues because…It’s really hard to care about them. The main idea is: Night Thrasher keeps doing weird and suspicious things like disappearing during battles. Jubilee is the first to suspect something sinister.
Plus, the original New Warriors are back as “Counter Force” but…They don’t do much.
Meanwhile, Tony Stark is increasingly irritated about the New Warriors’ ability to evade capture.
It comes to a head in a big battle with Machinesmith. (HE’S too big a villain for this team???). Night Thrasher sends the team after him to stop his deployment of a new techno-organic virus, only by the time the fight ends Jubilee figures out that there is no such virus. They’ve been manipulated. Jubilee confronts him…
And we close with yet another surreptitious meeting between Thrasher and Midnight’s Fire.
I’m not sure what it is about this series that I don’t like. I mean, I know what I don’t love…The art is cartoony and the writing is flat. The “plot” of the “sinister” Night Thrasher has been going on way too long with no forward movement. The “New vs Old” Warriors story also never really gets going. The characters all feel the same. The ideas themselves aren’t all bad, but the execution is so … Bland. And to top off my list of complaints, even though they are depowered these are some of the most interesting (and least-developed) characters in Marvel’s stable: Chamber, Angel, Beak, Jubilee…There is so much potential in the main conceit of this book, i.e., that depowered mutants can rely on tech to get powers back–but it never really takes off.
It’s a frustrating read.