Kobik breaks along with the team, and Zemo is there to pick up some traitorous pieces. It's a strong, dramatic script undercut by relentlessly inept art. Am I talking about issue #12 or the title as a whole? Yes. The important takeaway for Secret Empire is that Kobik is splintered into fragments, and they're doubtless gonna turn into MacGuffins. Bucky is Zemo's captive, Songbird, Jolt, and Ghost survive, Mach X is MIA, and the rest of the T-Bolts have thrown in with Zemo with varying degrees of enthusiasm. When I downrate a comic this severely for its art - and make no mistake, this would be an above-average showing with a different artist - it's because art as bad as Jon Malin's actively impedes my investment in the story and sympathy with the characters. It makes the finished comic worse than the script, which is the opposite of the artist's job. more

What the fuck...