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SuperMegaSpeed Review Marathon

Three weeks of comics! Plus several recent back issues of Ms. Marvel.

World War Hulk #1 - This is gonna be good. Pak is a good writer - he's got some funny lines and good characterization and also makes the Hulk sufficiently menacing. And i love a good Hulk buster armor. But if the Hulk is serious, why didn't he kill Black Bolt?

Avengers #31 - God help me now that i'm used to Yu's art i actually kinda like it. Yeah it's scratchy and distorted but it has personality. Anyway, everyone is up and arms about the Avengers just fighting ninjas. In their earliest appearances the Avengers spent a fair amount of time fighting communists and men from forgotten cities who just used swords and a lot of other types of non-powered grunts. So i don't see the problem. If you only fight other super-powered types you forget why your characters are special. The ending is interesting, but let's see where they go with it.

Punisher War Journal #8 - Looking at the most recent sales chart, Marvel had a huge spike for this story due to what people thought was going to be a tie-in with the death of Captain America. It's a shame that it wasn't. A story about Punisher going up against the Red Skull's goons would be a lot more interesting than this slow-ass Hatemonger plot. The point of this series was supposed to be the Punisher taking a more active role in the mainstream Marvel universe. This doesn't fit the bill and it is taking way too long. Ironically the only thing keeping me from dropping it is that it won't ever end!

Iron Fist #6 - I'm liking this quite a bit. I enjoyed Luke, Misty, and Colleen. No complaints.

Amazing Spider-Man #541 - Like i said last issue, if this is supposed to be Peter lashing out in irrational anger over the injury to his aunt, it is taking way too long and we are losing the immediacy of it. And we know in the end that Peter won't kill the Kingpin because he already appears in other stories that take place after this one (I do appreciate the footnotes letting me know where this takes place in relation to Daredevil).

Annihilation Conquest Prologue - I'm glad i decided to follow this. It's quite good. I'm enjoying watching the new Quasar adjust to her new powers, i'm very happy to see the spaceknights, and i love who the bad guy is going to be. Now i'm going to have to pick up some crappy x-men back issues to figure out how the Warlock/techno-virus stuff i'm familiar with ties into the Phalanx stuff they did in the 90s. Real nice art, too. But i don't know why they're trying to pretend it's a mystery who Quasar has to find in order to save the galaxy. It's obviously Rocket Raccoon.

Daredevil #98 - Nice fight issue.

Fantastic Four #547 - This was very good. I love the Frightful Four and this is a good incarnation. Pelletier's art is really nice except he draws people with gigantic lips. McDuffie's got a great knack for witty dialogue and humor. Good stuff.

Captain America #27 - Super fantastic. And thank you for leaving the Black Widow's origins in the Cold War era, whatever the explanation for her youthful appearance is.

World War Hulk: X-Men #1 - My one problem with the WWH stuff is that i feel like i keep reading the same damn thing over and over again. Is anyone picking up this spin-off book not familiar with events in the main series? Did i need another recap? One panel could have done it, not half a page. But that's a minor complaint. This was very fun. I haven't been following the New X-Men but Gage does a great job introducing the characters and making me care about them. The question of how Xavier would have voted was an excellent one. And i don't care how much of a loser fanboy it made me, i got giddy when Wolverine showed up.

Iron Man #19 - Again, too much repetition with the main World War Hulk series, but at least this is the ongoing so people that just read Iron Man need to be filled in. Nonetheless, i like Gage a lot and this is nice art as well.

Hulk #107 - Gary Frank's art is awesome. I like that the Hulk series seems to be focusing more on the Hulk's supporting cast while World War Hulk proper will be following the Hulk himself. It seems like we might be setting up Mr. Perfect Amadeus Cho to be wrong for once as the Hulk will turn out to not be what Cho is expecting, but we'll see where that goes. Last issue it seemed like Mr. Fantastic was using Angel and Hercules as plants but in this issue they seem genuine. Hercules isn't that good an actor, even if Angel is. Again, we'll wait and see.

Ms. Marvel #14-16 - I picked these up because i couldn't resist the lure of MODOK and i'm glad that i did. This series has improved quite a bit from the early issues i've read. It may be due to the change in artist - i'm actually enjoying this art - but the writing seems improved as well. MODOK is awesome, even if he is dying - that scene where he hovers into the room with his henchmen and says "Kill anything that moves", that is cool.

By fnord12 | July 2, 2007, 7:19 AM | Comics


Reference from SuperMegaMonkey

As an aside, i actually thought World War Hulk: X-Men was pretty good; a better introduction to the new young X-characters than i'd seen anywhere else.    Read More: It's not you, it's... not me. It's the Inhumans.