This is one of those books that I feel is getting better. I liked the first story arc, but really, it was just the kind of thing I'd expect from the MidNighter. Now that Keith Giffen has taken over on the stories, we're getting some new ideas, and fresh perspectives. I think that there's a lot of room for this character to grow. And I think Keith will take us on that journey. This issue Jon Landry is on pencils, and I gotta say . . I'm kind of diggin' it. He's almost got a little J Scott Campbell style to him. Especially on his women. Anthem sends one of their response teams, Liberty One, after the MidNighter this issue. Actually, he went to their door to ask some questions, but it gave them the perfect opportunity to make it look like he attacked them. Anyways, there's a couple of girls on the team, and when Jon draws them, you'd swear they came right out of a Danger Girls comic. The MidNighter starts doing some digging this issue, and finds out that there were other towns, besides Harmony, that were basically obliterated by some post-humans. That's when Anthem swoops in, offers the town protection, and then puts them under their thumb. It seems like a classic protection scam, but on an amped up scale. And they're really good at playing the media. They have their own post-human teams. But in the media, nobody questions that. They only see that they're taking down proposed post-human threats. Which thereby legitimizes and escalates the value of the services they offer. They're building their own media hype. So to end this issue, MidNighter is taken in to Anthem custody, and in the sewers, where Mindy the tech-geek provides him with intell, a Bellweather shows up and shoots her. It seems like this op has really gone in to the crap-bin now. But that just gives him more to work with next issue.
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