The flip from the flat Spider-Aliens to the Loam - and the Vine - may be the strongest change re-written into the concept of the comic. While Harbinger is more than certainly the best comic - its foundation was a larger one, and stronger. Venditti and Nord need praise for truly writing such a brilliant comic into these pages. It exists more as a strength of writing - a good character - but one that is a copy of what came before. Now, the comic is a rich story. It is filled with strength, honor, and reckless abandon. Praise to the two for staying the course, as well. I will be interested to see Gilad run against here. Planet Death is a cool concept - and strange to take the ride so soon into the run of the comic. I would have guessed a little later - but interesting to see the factions rise within the tiers of the alien community from servant to its opposition - along with myriads of stops in-between.
This is what it came to.
I might have found it more satisfying to just put the book to rest at the end of the last issue. This trying to close back around - with a new suit/s and aliens that are hypnotized and introduced characters made a mockery of much of the series in the last issue. That's sad. Not that it was a great ending - but the way that it crumbled without the real focal direction of the book. It abandoned most of the old Troubleshooters - and granted - I made some serious fun of them in the run - but at the end, they were real characters - finally. But this train wreck? Really really bad. The art and the cover are pretty good, but that is it.