Editor's Note: Angel: Revelations #4 arrives in stores tomorrow, August 27.

As the conclusion rapidly approaches in Angel: Revelations, Warren is forced to take action for his fellow students. He helps his best friend who is plagued by a priest overstepping his boundaries in a sexually deviant way and he manages to deliver his peers from a burning school. All this comes, of course, with the stress of new-grown wings.

For the last several issues, I've been troubled with the same problem. In the first issue of this series, a terrifying man with a large hat murdered a woman and stole her child. He promised, from there, that he would target Worthington next as he saw him to be a veritable hell spawn. My troubles come from the fact that this was the last we saw of this scary man for the next few issues. He up and disappeared. It was as if Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa pushed him out of the story. It bothered me because the man was such a forceful presence that I felt that he would have done nothing but improve upon the already great storyline. But that issue was resolved here in part four. The man makes his return, and it is both shocking and visceral at the same time.

Up until this issue, I'd say that the strongest point of this mini story has been the art. There's so much passion and force to what Pollina draws that it physically makes readers stick with single images for a longer amount of time. That doesn't change here; the moments of iconic stature feel epic and important, so much so that I stared at one particular image for a good five minutes. It came around the fourth page, and it was incredible.



Warren's positioning, body posture, and wing length and presence all make the scene heavy with thought and pressure. It's a great moment. But, like I said, this issue is the first moment where I saw Pollina falter a bit. It came during a group action sequence. Rather than singling out moments of conflict and focusing on impact and delivery, Pollina chose to simply pile up bodies caught in combat. The effect diminished the overall appeal of the work and took some of the iconic feeling away from the book itself.

I can safely say that after this chapter in Warren Worthington's story, I'm considering picking up the collected version of the tale. I've become intrigued by Aguirre-Sacasa's plot, and Pollina's art is enough to lure me in for several return reads. The story's presence in the Marvel Knights line has become a great addition, and I hope that others treat themselves to the experience as well.

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