MARVEL
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... )

MARVEL
Avengers Prime #2 of 5 - Brian Michael Bendis + Alan Davis. Gorgeous but, with having separated the three main players, the point of this series is eluding me. I thought it was to reconcile them, but they are spending a fair amount of time apart. We'll have to see how it works out in the end. In the meantime, the open Asgardian plot threads ( Read more... )

MARVEL
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... )

 MARVEL
Astonishing X-Men: Ghost Boxes #1 of 2 - Warren Ellis and Alan Davis, Adi Granov. I'm not sure yet what the point of this series is. It contains two stories, one of an alternate reality and one that is either an alternate timeline or a blatant line on the part of the character telling the tale. So, yeah, I'm not sure how important this is to ( Read more... )