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Fear Itself #7.1: Captain America - Ed Brubaker + Butch Guice. Oh, for fuck's sake! One of the numerous problems with Fear Itself was the death of Captain America (Bucky) in issue three. He didn't appear in issues one and two so he just showed up do die. That's bad storytelling. And it didn't feel real in the slightest. Then we get this ( Read more... )

Such a Thor week. Four different Thor comics, you'd think I like him a lot more than I actually do. It's also a week devoid of anything X-Men related which is just bizarre.

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Ant-Man & Wasp #1 of 3 - Tim Seeley. Hank Pym, the original Ant-Man now calling himself the Wasp, finds himself forced to work with the incorrigible Eric O'Grady, the ( Read more... )

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Age of Heroes #4 of 4 - Jonathan Maberry + Shawn Moll do a Black Panther tale bridging Doomwar and Klaws of the Black Panther. An ice-entombed Captain America is central to the story by Elliott Kalan + Brendan McCarthy. There's a useless 2-page Zodiac piece by Joe Casey + Nathan Fox that's supposed to be a teaser, but doesn't let you know ( Read more... )

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Deadpool Team-Up #891 - Frank Tieri + Chris Staggs. It's DP versus Mr. X, written by X's creator. It's more fun than I expected from Tieri, but the real surprise was actually with the coloring by Dan Brown. The pastels (yes, pastels) looked like they were done with washed colored pencils, and worked well with Staggs' exaggerated cartoon ( Read more... )

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Deadpool Corps #4 - Victor Gischler + Rob Liefeld. This series is a bit of a mess, and when I say that I'm not talking about Liefeld's art. Even with a goal of “go stop that guy” for the arc, it still seems to wander fairly aimlessly. This title is teetering on the edge of being dropped, the main thing saving it being my love of the character ( Read more... )

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Fantastic Four #580 - Jonathan Hickman + Neil Edwards. This issue was bad in so many ways, which was surprising since I've mostly been enjoying Hickman's run.
Edwards' art, well, I wasn't surprised that I didn't like it too much because I haven't like it so far. It's just not polished enough yet to be on a big mainstream title. Don't get me ( Read more... )

Hello, boys and girls, this episode of Weekly Haul is brought to you by the number 3 and the scientist Erwin Schrödinger. That's right, three of this week's comics mentioned the Austrian theoretical physicist famous for possibly killing a cat. And some other things, but mostly people think of that poor little kitty cat existing both dead and alive ( Read more... )

eeep, big week. Ugh. At least quite a few things came to a close.

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Avengers vs. Atlas #2 of 4 - Jeff Parker + Gabriel Hardman. It's got the Agents of Atlas written by Jeff Parker... it didn't even need an appearance by the original Avengers to make it cool.
The Jimmy Woo back-up by Scott Kurtz + Zach Howard is enjoyable proof that other people ( Read more... )

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Avengers vs. Atlas #1 of 4 - Jeff Parker + Gabriel Hardman/Takeshi Miyazawa. It's written by Jeff Parker and co-starring the Agents of Atlas. It's pretty much a given that it's an excellent read. Parker's writing of the New Avengers is smoothly spot on, displaying as great a skill with the top tier, mainstream heroes as he has with the Atlas ( Read more... )

One and a half weeks worth of comics this time, so I'm going to try to be quick and brief.

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Astonishing X-Men #33 - Warren Ellis + Phil Jimenez. The uber-decompression continues with what amounts to an hour in the life of the X-Men. It may end up being a decent story once it's all together, but the issue-to-issue experience is a disappointingly ( Read more... )