I totally agree, LB. For someone to purposely do a silent issue, that's lame.

What this DOES prove is that Hama comes from the generation where the pictures can tell a story w/o us needing to know much. THAT is something a lot of current-gen artists can't do. Yeah, YOU DREAMWAVE!!! Comics are so text oriented, it really can bog things down.

I think it's the next issue where Grunt says, "hey scarlet, what happened to ya? You were doing your parajumping yearly thingy and BAM, you're gone..."

I wondered too WHY she was captured. But at the same time, it was a way to intro the red ninja which I could care less about. Shoulda left THEM back in #21, DD!!!