Review: Wildcats 3.0: Year Two

Wildcats 3.0: Year Two by Joe Casey
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Joe Casey's reboot of the Wildcats franchise started off with a bang in Year One, but, unfortunately, seems to run out of steam near the end of this volume. This volume picks up immediately at the end of the last volume, and the larger arcs that have been developing continue for a while. There's plenty of strong build-up, but the final act's focus is such a shift in tone and content from the corporate/political intrigue that Casey was carefully crafting that it's hard not to feel let down.

The action sequences are still amazing, and the cast of characters is eclectic and fun, but what started off as a book about a really cool concept (what happens when super heroes stop being "super heroes" and start changing the world?) finishes up exactly like the books it was reacting to (i.e. lots of big dumb heroes punching the crap out of each other).

Not a bad book, by any means, but one that doesn't live up to the promise of the first book.

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