The latest issue of the recently re-branded Captain America and the Mighty Avengers is one part epilogue and two parts subplot set-up. It’s like one of those classic X-Men “down” issues, except with a severe lack of backyard softball. For a title re-launched during the “good is bad” shenanigans of Marvel’s fall event, Avengers & X-Men: Axis, this issue tackles the theme of public persona damage control in a pretty straightforward fashion. However, for all its addressing, punctuation is at a minimum as the pages just loll by as a largely uninspired twenty-page segue. [Read more…] about CAPTAIN AMERICA AND THE MIGHTY AVENGERS #4 Review: “Operation: Hot Mess- The Aftermath!”
Marvel Reviews
Messiah CompleX Overview
2005’s ‘House of M’ had transformed the X-Men’s world, decimating the mutant race. But by 2006, the Marvel writers started working towards a grand crossover that would move the X-books into a new phase – an arc that was finally unveiled in the 2007 event ‘Messiah CompleX’. [Read more…] about Messiah CompleX Overview
Spider-Verse #2 Review! – “Second Verse, Same As The First”
Can you believe that Spider-Verse is almost over? Just a few more weeks, and ‘every Spider-Man ever’ will have definitely been in a comic book. But not every Spider-Man has been able to make a meaningful appearance in Amazing Spider-Man or Edge of Spider-Verse or Scarlet Spiders, even in a story as sprawling as this has been. And so we have the second of the two anthology books called simply Spider-Verse. [Read more…] about Spider-Verse #2 Review! – “Second Verse, Same As The First”
STAR WARS #1 Review: “The Force Reboots!”
The story goes it only took two words from Marvel Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso to Thor writer Jason Aaron for him to hop on-board the comic relaunch of one of pop culture’s most beloved franchises. Those two words: simply “Star” and “Wars”. [Read more…] about STAR WARS #1 Review: “The Force Reboots!”
AVENGERS #40 Review: “A Song of Fish and Cats!”
Spoilers abound in this latest portion of Jonathan Hickman’s ramp-up to Secret Wars. Well, it’s not so much spoilers– plural- as it is a single one that informs all of the action within this oversized issue. For those following since Hickman assumed control of the Avengers franchise back in late 2012, there is tremendous payoff regarding one of the major backbeats of the Illuminati-centric New Avengers portion of his story. Like, “Holy-insert-expletive-of your-choice, I can’t believe that actually happened!” amounts. [Read more…] about AVENGERS #40 Review: “A Song of Fish and Cats!”