#wu5

Hoo boy, okay first thing’s first, the art.

The four issuse of this part of Worlds Unite were drawn by Edwin Huang, who’s illustrations are usually more fitting for comic covers because damn his pencilling leaves a lot to be desired. I don’t have have any problems with the guy nor his style (the Mega Man cast and backgrounds look great!), but he draws the Sonic cast so blandly. They looks a trifle more...gormless with their expressions and don’t use their eyebrows to express themselves like any of the other artists do it. Even Ron Lim remembered to give them facial expressions!

And that’s not the only gripe with the visuals. His colours had been relatively fine beforehand, but its in Worlds Unite where the faults in Gabriel Cassata’s colouring really start to show. Its extremely flat, and at this point I guess I should just accept that shadows are non-existent and backgrounds are only going to be simple colour gradients!

The next three issues are gonna be almost entirely big ol’ fight scenes, but I appreciate a large majority of this one has a lot of downtime, where the heroes can actually interact with each other and allow them to be actual characters instead of fighters in a big crossover battle. Sticks adds a little bit of fun into the mix, even when she’s interacting with the literal Plot McGuffin Xander, and in the bottom of every subsequent page there’s the progress of Sigma and his Mechaniloid army, showing the growing threat that the good guys will soon face.

I must say, this is a damn-fine cover by Spaziante! It certainly fits as the first issue where the huge squad of heroes confront Sigma’s army...