Obviously this is the same book. Hell . . . it still has the same writer, Brian Michael Bendis. Only the artwork has changed. Stuart Immomen is now on board instead of Mark Bagley. I'm a big fan of Stuart's. But . . . this particular issue . . just had a different feel to it. Maybe it's just because it's the first issue after the 111 issue run. But . . . to me it felt different. I think we just got used to the facial expressions that Mark would draw on the characters. Peter . . . just seemed different. And I definitely didn't like Kitty's new costume. I mean, everybody knows she's on the X-Men. Why does she have to hide her face? But that's just minor details really. The story was still good. Peter's class is doing a project about parenting. You know the one. The one where they have to take care of an egg for 2 weeks and not let anything happen to it. It's a little more involved now-a-days though. They have to do it in pairs, and they have to keep a journal of everything that the baby does, and they do with it. Oh yeah . . . and it's not an egg anymore, it's a computerized baby-doll. I guess the kids now-a-days don't have enough imagination to pretend an egg is an infant. Anyways, you just know that Peter is going to be teamed up with Kitty. I mean you can see it coming from a mile away. But the interaction between the 3 of them, Peter, Kitty and MJ is priceless. So while all this High School drama is going on, they're having some big problems over at the Triskelion. It seems that the structural damage that it's suffered of late, has affected the foundation. But in order to do repairs, they have to move all the prisoners that are kept there. And there's some pretty high-profile, and powerful, characters there. Nick isn't around to oversee it, so Carol has to take the lead. Long story short, she riles up Norman and somehow he ends up busting loose. It looks like he's taking half the building down to, in the process. I still love the book. Right now though . . it just feels different. Maybe it's separation anxiety. I'll give it a couple issue, and then I'll really let you know how I feel.
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