“Yesterday’s” Comic> Exiles #2

“Bloodbath”. As if you needed proof this was a 1990s comic book.

Exiles #2 (of 4)

Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (September, 1993)

“Fugitives”

WRITER: S. Gerber

PENCILER: R. Phillips

INKER: K Braunch

COLORIST: M. Baumann

LETTERER: P. Owsley

EDITOR: Chris “I’m important enough to get my full name printed” Ulm

Catapult and Mustang failed to save the boy, or stop one of the bad guys, going by Bruut. They do manage to escape the police and return home, where the doc decides to go on a rescue mission, with the whole team. Amber decides to go through with the process but they won’t be able to right now. Meanwhile, the boy’s body seems to reject the cure/transformation stuff just as the Exiles launch their attack. The tank explodes, but is it the kid or the evil doctor that gets turned into the monster man attacking our heroes?

These characters are so uninteresting that I have to look up their names to remember them. Ghoul, who has done almost the least of the characters, is only memorable because of the Ultraforce cartoon. Catapult is a surfer boy a-hole not because of the annoying surfer talk but because he couldn’t care less about the boy’s dead mother. The reading list is calling this essential but that and the fact that it’s a four issue miniseries and there are two left after this are the only reasons to continue. There’s too many characters at once and a poor job of making any of them interesting. I can’t even get this review past two paragraphs. That’s how little I care abou this comic, so it better prove to be essential soon.