A Few Thoughts on Comics from The Past Couple Weeks

Yesterday was Opening Day for the new baseball season and is therefore an unofficial holiday in Milwaukee. There's drinking involved so it's very serious in its unserious way. That's besides the point as I'm here to catch up on comic reviews. I've got quite a pile from the past couple weeks and I'm going to try doing brief reviews of each. Slightly different than the normal pattern. Let's see if this works.

New Avengers #63 - fight scenes and flashbacks. Some of the characters that primarily only appear in this book have a 'status update' to take them into Siege and prepare them for what lays ahead. Solid.

Mighty Avengers #35 - the team has mostly fallen apart, a massive Avengers villain makes his presence known, and Hank Pym acts weird. Big 'oh wow' moment at the end. The book seems to be building to a punchline of sorts. It's almost a pity that the Avengers as a whole are getting rebooted as it feels like this book just got settled and now is having to cycle through ideas before they could wear out their welcome.

Thunderbolts #141 - the team is sent to steal something from Asgard as part of Siege. They do the bad things you'd expect and then the Mighty Avengers show up. That might give away some of what happens in the other book but maybe not. Acceptable.

Uncanny X-Men #522 - the entire issue involves the rescue of Kitty Pryde. Rough art, some unclear storytelling pages, and no real action makes me wonder if this was dramatic or boring. Leaning towards boring. The X-Men have largely become a joke and that's rather sad.

The Marvels Project #7 - The early days of Captain America is World War II. Win!

Army of Darkness #26 - Ash has been taken over by Hell's Prophet. I'm not sure if this storyline is an interesting way to provide some epic quality to Ash's story or if it's a boring addition of other 'powered' people into this universe. Debating dropping the book.

Thor #608 - considering Thor's barely in this, maybe this should be Tales of Asgard. Interesting 'fill in the gaps' issue surrounding Siege but not really a Thor issue as such.

Project Superpowers Chapter Two #7 - Public domain World War II heroes return. I'm not sure I understand what's going on here. Should have cut this ages ago.

Transformers Last Stand of the Wreckers #3 - action packed, lots of twists and turns, I still enjoy this story.

Zorro #20 - lots of issues of this title have been told in flashback. This is no different. Zorro continues to play cat and mouse with the government yet it's not getting old because there's a feeling of progression, that things are changing in reaction to his actions. Good stuff.

Avengers The Initiative #34 - pretty much all Siege related fight scenes and revelations. Not bad for the middle of a story.

Secret Warriors #14 - Death and explanations. Are all spies double agents or are some triple agents?

Captain America #604 - feels appropriately gritty. At the same time it has the scale of a movie. Good deal.

Doctor Who #9 - beware what the trees are hiding.

Amazing Spider-Man #626 - bad things happen but at least Pete finally gets to explain some things to some people and that gets better for him. It's something anyway.

Futurama Comics #48 - just plain silly in the best possible way.

I still have about another dozen or so. We'll pick this up again later.