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2009 09 19 admin Marvel
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The Right Tool for the Right Failure

I didn’t always, but I really like the Authority.
I’m sure somewhere Warren Ellis has said it smarter or better or not even this at all (seriously, YOU try and predict that man!) but it’s kind of the logical extension of the Justice League.  If people as powerful as Superman, Wonder Woman and Batman just hung [...]

2008 10 08 admin Image
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All You Need to Know – New Avengers #45

Hey, did you read House of M?
It was an 8 issue comic series back in 2005 that led to the Decimation of the oodles of random mutants that had cropped up over the years in the Marvel Universe.  A population control problem, it cut down all the X-Men to all the ones everyone liked (which… [...]

2008 09 25 admin Marvel Comments (0)

All You Need to Know – New Avengers #44

A customer came in with a handy little heft of Marvel books and he wasn’t sure on New Avengers.  Issues had been hit and miss with him and I properly bit my tongue and tried to sell the book as the Secret History of the Secret Invasion.  The customer perked up as Secret Invasion was [...]

2008 09 04 admin Marvel Comments (3)

All You Need to Know – Mighty Avengers #17

The new issue of Wizard that comes out today promises on the cover to have Bendis reveal all about the Avengers, or at least what sounds like yet another iteration of the team that seems to have at least Cap, Iron Man and Thor in it that’s going to come out of Secret Invasion.  Dear [...]

2008 09 04 admin Marvel Comments (3)

All You Need to Know: New Avengers #43

You might have noticed that there was no recap for this issue.  Despite returning to ‘present’ time, despite the good push this particular story had when we first saw Ka-Zar and Spidey hash things out in the Savage Land right around the first issue of Secret Invasion when all the Marvel heroes that arrived on [...]

2008 08 21 admin Marvel
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Bane of My Shelves: Hulk #5

It’s sad how much I keep coming back to this.  I keep thinking no one’ll care or it’s been too long or it doesn’t even matter but then I go to work and see that cover with Thor and Hulk pummeling away and think, “What on Earth happened?”
How did Loeb do it?  What is GOING [...]

2008 08 21 admin Marvel Comments (6)

All You Need to Know: Mighty Avengers #16

I think I understand.
So, Bendis needs to write this big Secret Invasion plot and work out a complex timeline for events to occur and hand them down the lines of editorial and otherwise, create this massive summer event.  He seems like a hands-on kind of guy, not one to sit on the sidelines and work [...]

2008 07 20 admin Marvel Comments (3)

All You Need to Know – New Avengers #42 and Mighty Avengers #15

Okay, so I was minding my own business on the week of June 25th, seeing as it was my birthday and whatnot when I was DELUGED by Avengers titles.  Everyone Marvel could think of came out that week, leaving me no choice but to read all of them.
Let’s start at the beginning, the two major [...]

2008 07 07 admin Marvel Comments (1)

All You Need to Know – Mighty Avengers #13

Ares is on the Mighty Avengers, right? So we get one Avenger for a few panels! YAY.
I’ll just come out and say it: this should have been a mini called ‘Nick Fury: Secret Files’ or something. I think it does a disservice to the Avengers to have him take over BOTH [...]

2008 05 07 admin Marvel Comments (3)