Gamma Flight #2

Gamma Flight #2

Marvel Comics 2021

Written by Al Ewing & Crystal Frasier

Illustrated by Lan Medina

Coloured by Antonio Fabela

Lettered by VC’s Joe Sabino

THE BIGGEST REVEAL OF THE SUMMER! Who is after Gamma Flight? You’ve been calling for them since IMMORTAL HULK’s early days — well, True Believer, we’re here to deliver. Come to GAMMA FLIGHT for all the radioactive wonder you’ve been missing — and the characters you love to hate.

Granted I haven’t been reading the Hulk book Immortal or otherwise so this is my first exposure to this group and I have to say I’m loving every single moment of this. Turning Doc Sampson into a green Bigfoot is fantastic and I’m such a huge fan of Puck and even the Absorbing Man & Titania so this is the kind of limited series that thrills me to no end. Now with Skaar showing up and leaving him to go against the Doc, Titania and Stockpile well that’s not a fair fight at all. Still what I love and what freaks me out are all the fingers that come out of Skaar’s face and body. One aspect of this book that is so appealing to me is that it is a diverse group of characters whom you wouldn’t normally see together but are finding a way to work together and make this grouping work.

I am a huge fan of the way that this is being told. The story & plot development that we see through how the sequence of events unfold as well as how the reader learns information is presented exceptionally well. The character development that we see through the dialogue, the character interaction and how they act and react to the situations and circumstances which they encounter do a spectacular job in fleshing these characters out even further. The pacing is superb and as it takes us through the pages revealing more and more of the story, the more I wand to see and know.

I am a fan of the way that we see this being structured and how we see the layers within the story continuing to grow, evolve, strengthen and even newly emerge. The layers of course have the characterisation, the plot twists and the reveal in them and whether or not they work with the main arc or swirl around it they add this great depth, dimension and complexity to the story. How we see everything working together to create the story’s ebb & flow as well as how it moves the story forward is achieved extremely well.

I’m really loving the interiors here as well. The linework is clean, crisp and strong and how we see the varying weights and techniques being utilised to create the detail work that we see is astoundingly good stuff. I’d like to see more backgrounds so they really flesh out the moments and expand how we see things. How we see the composition within the panels bringing out the depth perception, sense of scale and the overall sense of size and scope to the story is well done. The utilisation of the page layouts and how we see the angles and perspective in the panels show a remarkably talented eye for storytelling. The colour work is phenomenal! All these greens with their various hues and tones within them being utilised is so well rendered that its just amazingly impressive. The other colours we see and how their hues and tones are being utilised to create the shading, highlights and shadow work is rendered exceptionally well.

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There is something about this that is exciting beyond reason. The Hulk and his supporting cast of characters have always been able to morph into whatever is needed at any given time and depending on who is doing the writing we’ve seen some extraordinary storytelling come from the franchise and this is one of those that can proudly take its place among those. With some phenomenal writing and really in-depth and interesting characterisation with these dynamic and exciting interiors we’re really being treated to something extraordinary in the making.