For a final issue, this one was actually pretty decent. It wraps up the story-line where the people were stealing the boxers abilities. Last issue, while trying to figure out what was going on, Ted went investigating and ended up trapped in the contraption that he had come to destroy. This Dr. had figured out a way, basically, to sap the knowledge of fighters and then transfer it to younger people. The problem? It left the people giving the knowledge in a stroke-like state. Which is how Ted starts out this issue. But with his friends help, particularly Alan, he finds his way back. This time when Ted returns, the Dr. has given all the young boxers his abilities. Now comes the question . . can be beat himself? It was a nice story of tragedy over triumph, and was particularly heart-felt because he had done all of this for his old friend Jimmy Deacons. I was started to get a little bored with all of these Wildcat issues, but . . I have to admit that I enjoyed this one. Mike W Barr did the story, with Shawn Martinbrough on the pencils. However, this is another book that has sadly reached it's end. This one is particularly sad though because we're not going to have this outlet anymore for all of these JSA characters. Yes we'll see them every month in their own book, but . . you can only focus on so many characters in 20 pages a month. And, especially in the JSA, there's a lot of interesting and deserving characters. DC must have some big plans for the rest of the summer, and into the fall, because this is now 6 titles that have fallen to the wayside in as many weeks. It'll be interesting to see what they use to fill those empty slots. But I have to say, overall, this title ended on an up note. But I'll still miss it.
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