Book Review Of The Month – Stan Lee’s Soldier Zero #4

Boom Studios

Writer: Paul Cornell

This book truly needs to be read with the first three. If you’re just coming into the series and pick this book up, you’ll be a little lost, trust me. In this story, Soldier Zero is battling Soldier One; this is the continuing fight from the previous book. The battle goes from the air to the ground and back again. Everything does come to an end but that leaves everything open for the next book and more issues for the main character to deal with.

For me, the action sequences were easy to follow and the character is one you can connect with. He is consistently talking to his armor which, quite literally, has a mind of it’s own. Living armor that talks to its host, I know it’s the premise of another comic book character but it does work here. Also, the art is not over-the-top and super realistic but it fits with this story being told and with the other books to the series. As for the writing, to me, the voice of the armor could have been a little different from the man inside of it. I will acknowledge thou, that’s just me.

Truly, this is a book that’s laying the foundation for more stories to come. That’s something that I have to remember when I reading books like this one. On a personal note, I am happy to see that they are showing some characters in wheelchairs. Sometimes, even in our society today, disabilities are not shown that often. Overall, I did enjoy it and would continue to read the series and not just because “you know who’s” name is on it. In my humble opinion, get book one and go to book four and keep going