Elektra #1 - This definitely started off on the right foot and seems like it might be good. It was nice to see Elektra acknowledge other parts of her life (e.g. ballerina) and then explicitly decide to accept that she's best as an assassin, so that if, for example, you remember the Peter Milligan run it's not those other aspects of her life are being ignored. And this was a good set-up. I have to take off some points for the "this new villain is so badass that he beat up established badasses like the Marauders and the Taskmaster", but just a few, and seeing the rival assassin's unique way of accessing Bullseye (who hasn't been miraculously healed) was pretty cool too. All that plus Monster Island. I thought the impressionistic art worked well, too.

Daredevil #2 - Really loving Mark Waid's Daredevil run. That's right, San Francisco already has a blind super-hero, and Waid is going to explore that. It's really a classic style comic book, but with modern scripting and humor, and maybe a little less positively, the tendency to make all the third rate characters that never really made it into disheveled loses, but we'll see where Waid goes with that (certainly the Shroud has masqueraded as a crime lord before, but i never saw him run alcohol through a coffee filter he pulled out of the trash). Samnee's layouts make a single issue feel full of content.

Original Sin #1 - I don't know why i decided to get this: it certainly is a zero issue, giving us origin recaps for Kid Nova and the Watcher, and it's fine for that. Nice scripting by Waid and nice art by Cheung. It doesn't tell me anything about what the Original Sin event will be like, since that won't be by Waid, but i knew that going in, so again, not sure what i was thinking with this (it's a $4.99 book, too!).

She-Hulk #1-3 - Heard good things about these about this series so thought we'd give it a try. Issue #1 started off really great, and i hope that'll be more like the way things go for now on. She-Hulk pursuing a legal matter for the widow of Dr. Jonas Harrow against Tony Stark; that's great, every issue should be something like that. The next two issues were not quite as good, though. First, the main plot, featuring She-Hulk trying to get sanctuary for Kristoff so that Dr. Doom can't extradite him back to Latveria, seemed a little too serious and high stakes, and it seems like it might continue into next issue and be a little more action oriented. I did like the continued set-up of She-Hulk's private practice and her weird new assistant (considering the hypnotism on display, i have a weird and unjustified expectation that it's really Xemnu the Titan in disguise, but it's funny regardless (i *will* allow that monkey to continue to be in the book)). I think the idea that she's renting a building full of other super-powered people is a bit too much and may result in some Deadpool or Dan Slott style humor that i'm not really hoping to see in this series, but so far that was ok. I did like the art (if you're turned off by the covers, as i initially was, the interior art is nothing like that). It's something closer to Samnee, possibly by way of Allred. One big problem with the art for me though is the two page spreads where (as usual) there's no indication that you're supposed to start reading across the two pages instead of down like you do every where else. That caught me at least twice. And the big spread of She-hulk's eyes wasn't as impressive as i guess it was supposed to be and seemed like a waste of space. But overall i think this has promise.

I do have some continuity-ish concerns. The first is in issue #1, where the description of the history of Tony Stark's companies seemed wrong to me "Mr. Stark's original company was Stark Industries ceded to Mr. James Rhodey and renamed Stark International." And that's before the Stane takeover? That doesn't sound right. At the very least, the man's name is James Rhodes. "Rhodey" is a nickname. The depiction of Kristoff in issues #2-3 seems totally different than any version of Kristoff i'm familiar with. It's entirely possible i'm misremembering or there are things i'm not aware of (the story references Accutech, so someone did some research), but without footnotes, there's no way to indicate to me what i may be missing.

I got Original Sin because it was written by Waid. I'm happy to know he isn't writing the whole thing, so I can probably skip it.