Gambit #8 (2012)

Some Marvel characters are consistently portrayed as morally opinionated, like Captain America or Wolverine, having strong principled feelings about seemingly everything, and then there are the ambivalent characters, the Hamlets who hedge and debate on actions, like Gambit. In this issue, Gambit finds himself on a mission to save some college students on the High Evolutionary’s Island, and since the High Ev is the poor man’s Dr. Moreau, you get transformed creatures running hither and thither but without the deep background questioning of what it means to be human, or the horror of seeing these things, bogging down the narrative. The action is good, the self-questioning by the main character consistent with X-men going all of the way back to Claremont, but I like my heroes a bit more rigid in the wind.