S.H.I.E.L.D.: The Man Called D.E.A.T.H. Review

Finished reading S.H.I.E.L.D.: The Man Called D.E.A.T.H, this brings an end to writer Mark Waid's series as he brings over more elements from the TV show as well as diving into a large part of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s fifty year history. The book opens up with a story about Quake and her father Mr Hyde that retcons the main Marvel version of Quake's origin and her relationship with her father to be more inline with the TV show. The second story sees Mockingbird working with Coulson and agent May in tracking down an underground surgeon who has been turning his pacents into animalistic creatures. The next story expands upon the original S.H.I.E.L.D. story by Jack Kirby which captures Coulson's attention which leads to him tracking tracking down D.E.A.T.H. after being given an invite to meet him. The following story sees agent Fitz teaming up with Howard the Duck as reality is causing things from different time periods are appearing in New York due to a disruption in the multiverse. The penultimate story has one of Nick Fury's old war friends Dominic Fortune coming to S.H.I.E.L.D. in hopes to reclaim his casino boat after actually gambling it away. The last story has the team traveling back in time thanks to the help of Heimdall to stop an assassination on Odin's life which leads to a war between Asgard and Earth. Overall this was a good book as it continues to use the main characters form the S.H.I.E.L.D. TV show in great ways with how they interact with different characters and the history of the main Marvel universe. The story centring around Quake is great for new readers to comics who have started reading because of different TV shows and films but for long time readers it may raise a few eyebrows. There is a nice amount of comedic moments woven into the book especially within the Howard the Duck and Dominic Fortune stories. The artwork in the series continues to be a great choice with the different artist styles working in sync with each story writer Mark Waid has wrote while the transition between some works extremely well especially with the man called D.E.A.T.H story where it uses the older Jack Kirby and Jim Steranko artwork as flashbacks gels incredibly well. 7/10.