Oh, God, it burns to think of someone else doing the follow up story to this one. OUCHYYYYYYY!

Millar, this was your best story that I have read. So well put together. You should make puzzles. I don’t understand how one can come up with such a great scheme involving so many characters, so much action, so many mistakes, chances, mishaps, and in the end tie them up with such a personality-displaying, simple, and perfect line by Nick Fury, “…”

C’mon, you didn’t think I would give away the line did you?

“Enemy of The State” was excellent. I am surprised that Marvel didn’t push for a stand-alone Wolverine miniseries, and I am thankful that they didn’t. There are too many potentially good series out there that could use a hand-up by a writer with a great story, but instead the story gets made into its own thing, while the series suffers under writers with less vision. This is not meant as an attack against Rucka (who I think is great, and I loved his work on this book, but he is at times too patient, too slow) but rather part of what has become my new anthem: “Stop starting the series over again. Stop wasting time with miniseries, and put all that talent into the principle series, themselves.”

As for the art in this issue: John Romita Jr. is often a great artist, but many times over the past few months he has been rushed, or something. You can look through these books, or even “Black Panther,” and you can see moments of brilliance in his work. Unfortunately, these moments get overshadowed by the sketchy, Sunday Morning Comics-style that can only come from a guy with no time. I am not a great artist, but there are many frames in this book that I could draw with my feet. Then there are these great shots that I know I could never in my life come close to drawing, so what is the friggin’ deal? I am stumped. I am telling you Mr. Quesada, you got to lay off this guy! Give him assignments more in advance, or something, but stop breathing down his neck.