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Mister Terrific #3

By Hervé St-Louis
November 26, 2011 - 02:26

Mister Terrific fights Brainstorm who wants to eat his mind and become even smarter. How can Mister Terrific fight a villain whose very touch means his intelligence has been absorbed?

Gianluca Gugliotta and Wayne Faucher were credited as the penciller and the inker of this series on the cover but that was a mistake. Thank God for that. The real penciller and inker are Scott Clark and Dave Beatty. I hope the change is permanent because the other art team was threatening to kill this series which has so much potential in the bud. The work here is less unique and pure super heroics, but sometimes, that’s all that’s needed.

I’m still rooting for this series to work its magic and find an audience. I really like this character but there are a few plot holes. Wallace glances over core elements so quickly and then brings them back as if they had been well-established. He did that the previous issue with people knowing Michael Holt was affected by a temporary madness and quickly exonerated. This issue, he does the same with the extent of Mister Terrific’s secret identity. At first glance, it seems that everyone knows or can easily make tie the two. But apparently that’s not the case. There isn’t enough distinction when the character is a super hero and when he is a business man. The villain quickly figured out the secret identity thing and used it against Mister Terrific. The ideas for this series are good, but there are too many important points that are continually skipped over.

Rating: 6.5 /10

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