Beyond all the jokes, Shinick does a good job of making sure that this series has an actual plot. An increasingly unhinged Phil Urich feels like Hobgoblin is dissing him through his high-profile return, since Phil knew that he had survived Norman's attack on him. But, it's his discovery that Roderick is in control of a amnesiac Lily that seems to really send him over the edge. Interestingly, Shinick sets up the possibility that Phil might actually win this one. Roderick seems to underestimate how angry the super-villains that he abandoned were, leaving Phil with something like a real Goblin Army. I'm intrigued to see what happens next issue. Moreover, the jokes really are good. The fake advertisements that appear throughout the issue were legitimately hilarious. For a tie-in series, this one is really carving out its own niche. Again, it's more of a "Goblin Nation" tie-in series than an "Axis" one, but I'll take it.
*** (three of five stars)
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