Cloak and Dagger is a one shot( a single contained story) about the two characters Cloak(the guy on the cover in the background) and Dagger(the woman on the cover). Simple enough right? Cloak can teleport and Dagger can harness and manipulate light, I guess. Possible Spoilers after the cut
Dagger finds out that her and Cloak aren’t mutants, but have powers because of a drug they were injected with. When they are together Norman Osbourne is mentioned and they agree that turning on him was the right thing to do. So, even though this a one shot it might be a little confusing to people who don’t know anything about these characters.
YAY :
- Right after the cover I liked the artwork. It has a cartoonish look to it that reminds me of watching X-Men on Saturday mornings.
- They do, what I think to be, a great job introducing characters in the first couple pages. It gets to be a bit much when an obvious joke on that system just falls flat. Example at the bottom.
NAY :
- The story is pretty melodramatic. Are Cloak and Dagger lovers or what? Can they not become X-Men because they’re not technically mutants? Throughout the issue it seems like Dagger just cries about everything.
- For a contained story the ending to this isn’t very satisfying and is rather confusing.
This issue isn’t that enjoyable of a read, nor does anything that cool really happen. It also seems to create more questions than it answers. Dillon didn’t read this before he picked it to check out last week. Taking his words that these are cool characters who deserve a bigger shot into account I’m thinking maybe the writer just kind of dropped the ball on this one.
That “Yeah, Another One” was just too much for me.
