I've been delaying putting this up because someone hasn't gotten around to reading them yet, but i can delay no further!

Incredible Hulk Hercules #113: I'm really enjoying seeing Ares as a bad guy in a good guy role, which is given more play here than in Mighty Avengers. Ares was an Avengers villain for a long time, and it doesn't make sense that he would suddenly become heroic (not saying that Bendis' stories are illogical, just that he hasn't devoted time to this aspect). Pak writes Hercules and Wonder Man well, and i'd like to see him doing more in the mainstream Marvel Universe. I also think he's setting up his supposed Mary Sue character up a bit. Clearly Cho should be helping the refugees at this point. His obsession with attacking SHIELD instead is showing a flaw in his character, something we haven't seen before, and a good move from a character development perspective. Also, should it bother me that this version of the Hercules and Nessus the Centaur myth is different than the way it was depicted in the little-read Hulk: Hercules Unleashed one shot from 1996? This website says "the trauma at the time and the millennia that have passed since have dulled Hercules' memory. He has told differing versions as the mood suited him." I guess that covers it.

Iron Fist #12 - While this is very good, it's a shame that they keep needing to bring in art help. Although i want to say very loudly that I'D RATHER HAVE FILL-IN ART THAN WAIT 3 MONTHS FOR EACH ISSUE! I'm having enough trouble remembering the intricacies of the intrigue and the history as it is. I'm looking forward to re-reading this as a whole when it's all done.

Hulk isn't mainstream Marvel Universe?

Hulk in a gladiator persona living on an alien planet isn't mainstream Marvel Universe, no.

If I write a story about the FF in the Negative Zone I haven't written a mainstream Marvel Universe story? or the X-Men living living as outlaws & not running a school? Or the Hulk as grey & smart & in Vegas? or Spider-Man as married? Or shift them all off-planet and have them fight to the death and have major changes in status quo while there? These are not mainstream Marvel Universe stories?

stupid comics. you want me to read comics?? where's my heroes for hire, damn you!

instead i get whiney matt murdock. "oh, my life is so hard. i'm a rich, blind lawyer with super powers who gets all the hot chicks. why does everybody hate me and kill all my girlfriends? boo hoo."

go suck an egg, daredevil.

It's tragic because he can't see how hot they are.

Oh please. Daredevil isn't blind. Did you know that he can "see" colors by feeling the degree of heat they give off? The man has flown planes. He knows what type of women he's sleeping with. You never see him walking around with the Ogress or Pink Pearl and going "What? She's beautiful on the inside.""