Captain Britain and MI13 #10-13 - Chris Sims promised me Dr. Doom vs. Dracula On The Moon!, but all i got was a brief conversation. These issues suffer from the same problem as the Secret Invasion crossover - too straightforward. It's like they're overcompensating for the too-many-wacky-ideas-at-once approach of the original Pete Wisdom series. These issues are OK, but they're pretty much at the bottom of my pull-list (or, i guess, at the top, since i save the best comics for last).

Daredevil #118 - Continues apace, is good.

X-Force #14 - Must... resist... impulse to buy Cable parts of this crossover. Look, people, these guys can make Stryfe interesting, and they're responding to my demands to include Apocalypse. How can i not like it? And they threw in Deadpool for laughs as well.

New Avengers #52 - Spider-man's funny. And the scene with him worrying about using a stolen Quinjet was a nice character moment. I like the Dr. Strange Quest for the New Sorcerer Supreme plot, but at the same time i don't want anyone besides Dr. Strange being the Sorcerer Supreme (and certainly i don't want some other b-list magic character getting the title. I could accept Wiccan, or someone new, although i suspect it'll be Strange in the end anyway (or a reversal in a few years). MightyGodKing has been making some great pitches for letting him write a Dr. Strange book so we have to keep Strange as the Sorcerer Supreme to give him his chance.).

Guardians of the Galaxy #13 - Man, this is so good, this should be the main storyline in this War of the Kings crossover. And that's not even taking into account that scene with Rocket Raccoon and Starlord planning their strategy, or Cosmo telling telepathic jokes.

Captain America #49 - I always went with "Anti-Commie Cap", but if "Fifties Cap" is a mouthful, i guess that is too. I thought that whole sequence was more Bendis than Brubaker, but i liked it. A lot of references and continuity here (including some revisions - which i suppose are necessary - to Peggy Carter) that probably aren't noticeable at all to people who haven't just read through all of the 70s Cap stories, but are a nice Easter egg for those who have. Plus, i really liked Luke Ross' art. First time i haven't been disappointed by the lack of Epting.

Hercules #128 - If it wasn't for the footnotes, i wouldn't have realized that this Typhon was the character from those old Avengers issues. That Typhon didn't have snakes for feet, after all, although i have to admit they are a vast improvement. As always, this is a super book. I find the way Dietrich Smith draws Hercules' body hair to be extremely disturbing, though.