A Few Thoughts on Comics from this week

Lots of starting this week or re-starting as the case might be.

I had grown a bit uncomfortable with the relaunch of the Ultimate Marvel line as Ultimatum wrapped up. Ultimate Spider-Man and Ultimate Avengers both arrived this week and both were good, at least as good as the books were before the big change. Ultimate Avengers starts three weeks after Ultimatum and features the appearance of a freaky new villain. Spidey is six months after Ultimatum and spends much of its time setting up the new status of the book, with much the same humor style as before. So far, so good. We'll see where this goes for awhile.

The Marvels Project is a miniseries set at the beginning of the 'Marvel Age', 1939. The expectation is that the story will show some of the connections that existed behind the scenes, things that act as the 'origin' of the 'Marvel Age'. It's done by Brubaker and Epting, the guys that have been making Captain America so interesting for the past few years. Nazi scientists experimenting with Atlantians? Fury and Dugan to sneak Erskine out of Germany? Neat!

G-Man: Cape Crisis is a silly kid super-hero story from Image. G-Man's powers come from his magic cape. His school friends want to fly and have 'super toughness' as well. He's smart enough to not share, at first. This is funny, cute, and innocent enough for kids. I like it.

Didn't I just get a Hack/Slash last week? I did. The next issue came out this week. It doesn't quite explain what I expected but it does wrap up a number of storylines and resets the normal. The story felt important. I honestly thought things would get worse than they did. Good stuff.