Rogue #4 // Review
She punches one security guard. Then she kicks another. She’s not going to have problems dealing with security at all. She trains with Wolverine. There aren’t going to be very many people who are going to be able to sneak-up on her. So she doesn’t really have to think all that much about the figth that she’s in at the moment. She’s going to be thinking about other things. Like who the hell John Stelton is. She’s got bigger mysteries to deal with in Rogue #4. Writer Erica Schultz continues an enjoyable action/adventure mystery with artist Jim Towe and colorist Espen Grundetjern.
It's not a good time to be handling this sort of thing. Rogue has her head mixed up. And she is not necessarily in a good position to be able to handle the difficulties that come along with being where she is. Her powers are fading in and out in different ways. And to make matters worse, there's a TV news crew that has shown up. The security seems to be going after them as well. Innocent lives are in danger and she's going to need to do something about it. And she's going to have to do something about it without full control of her powers.
Schultz give usRogue a very sophisticated inner focus for the issue. There's a lot going on in her past and a lot going on in her present. Rogue is still learning how best to handle the situation. But she's had quite a bit of experience at this stage. And she knows what she has to do. There's a certain sine about her approach to things which seems to be interacting with adversity in a way that heroes rarely get the opportunity to do.Schultz’s script does more than simply play with the concept of revelations about who she's been in the past. It actually engages in inner conflicts that seem a lot more interesting than the average superhero story.
Towe’s arch shoots across the page with a great deal of momentum. The kinetics of the superpowers feel suitably impressive. Rogue’s more reflective moments hit the page with some degree of depth at awell, thanks in part to the work of continues an enjoyable action/adventure mystery with artist Jim Towe and colorist Grundetjern’s coor work. The title character is allowed to have a lot of different moods. That's very cool. It's really cool to see a very complex psycho emotional state brought to the page as the title character delves into information pertaining to vague memories she seems to have.
Schultz is weaving a rather intricate background for Rogue that embraces the kind of complexity that works really wellMutant end of the Marvel Universe. There are a lot of moving parts to navigate around. Schcultz and company manager of remarkably articulate, little personal drama that also happens to feature a lot of reflections on certain themes that have been echoing throughout the Marvel Universe. Schultz has a really solid handle on a one-person super-powered drama.
