Marvel NOW! continues, and while there is yet again only one MN! title I have picked up, I did browse a few other comics in the store and was quite impressed by the current Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and IDW Transformers titles, so I may well pick them up in coming weeks as well as any MN! books I plan to try. A+x #1 [...]

Marvel NOW! rolls on, and once again there is only one title I picked up this week. A-BABIES VS X-BABIES (ONE-SHOT) Writer: Skottie Young Art: Gurihuru Publisher: Marvel Comics Rating: 1 / 5 Summary: Baby Captain America has his teddy stolen by Baby Cyclops. The Baby Avengers fight the Baby X-Men to get it back, until Baby Phoenix shows up [...]

Week two of Marvel NOW!, and once again there is only one title. However, it is an anthology, so there’s plenty to discuss. I’m not going to go into any great deal, and there are spoilers, but I will handle each story on its own. MARVEL NOW! POINT ONE Writers: Various Pencillers: Various Publisher: Marvel Comics Rating: 1.5 / 5 [...]

What a shock! With the Marvel NOW! soft reboot starting this week, and my commitment to reading floppy issues to get an on-the-spot feel for the line, I figured fairly impulsively that it might be time to once again bring back Comics Commentary. This week, though, there is only one title… UNCANNY AVENGERS #1 Writer: Rick Remender Penciller: John Cassaday [...]

Hey, gang. This is looking to be the last weekly Comics Commentary for a while, as there just isn’t enough worth getting at the moment to warrant weekly buying. I’m considering making it monthly, or else just focusing on trade paperbacks. We’ll see what happens. AvX VS #1 (Marvel) – 2 / 10 The art [...]

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #684 (Marvel) – 4 / 10 Where did Stefano Caselli go? I don’t want Humberto Ramos. The sad thing is that the story is so disinteresting that the arc was being carried by Caselli, so with him gone I have pretty much no interest in what happens next. On top of that, Silva [...]

AVENGERS ASSEMBLE #2 (Marvel) – 4 / 10 … I knew it wouldn’t last. The art was still fantastic, but I’m lost by the fact that the Avengers seem to be knew to the concept of a group of criminals based around the Zodiac, someone (we don’t know who since the speech bubble comes from off-panel) explains [...]

Despite Caselli’s art, and the usually good Avengers Academy, this week wasn’t very good. And I still don’t completely get why Spider-Man is dressing up as Deathstroke. AGE OF APOCALYPSE #2 (Marvel) – 2 / 10 Jean Grey gets hit by a cup and lots of people talk about what’s going to happen NEXT, but very [...]

Surprisingly not a bad week! Except for all the rubbish by BENDIS! and Remender, but it’s my own fault for even considering giving their books a go. AVENGERS #24.1 (Marvel) – 0 / 10 What utter, utter rubbish. The artwork wasn’t especially pleasant, but that’s okay; the writing, though, was horrendous. The Vision has no precedent for [...]

I’ve had major Internet issues for the past couple of weeks, which is why I haven’t been posting. Things are better now, but there’s still plenty of room for improvement. AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #682 (Marvel) – 4 / 10 I don’t really care why Spider-Man is now dressing up as Deathstroke. I also question the “science” [...]