I may end up hitting the size limit here because I've got a lot of Hauls here. Since this is primarily a list, a very, very, VERY long one, I'm putting it behind a cut. I have additional notes on some things, but I'm going to do separate larger entries on some of the most significant things.

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Yeah, most of these are a lot briefer than I'd like...

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Captain America & The Korvac Saga #1 of 4 - Ben McCool + Craig Rousseau. Another all-ages retelling of a classic story, this time it's the Korvac Saga, one of my favorite Avengers tales of all time. I even wrote an essay on it. So I'm finding it weird to see it redone with Captain America ( Read more... )

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Ant Man & Wasp #2 of 3 - Tim Seeley. Our unlikely duo end up battling AIM to retrieve the digital heaven that Hank Pym had created for Bill Foster's soul. Seeley does a great job with this series, and both actions and plot points stem from the characters' histories.
“Halt in the name of science!”

Chaos War: God Squad one-shot - Marc Sumerak + ( Read more... )

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Astonishing Thor #1 of 4(?) - Robert Rodi + Mike Choi. Looks promising. The story has a couple layers to it and the art is simply gorgeous. Plus, it features the fan-favorite Ego, The Living Planet. What do you mean he's not a fan-favorite? I like him and I'm a fan, eh?
EDIT 2/4/11: I had been looking forward to this, but having read the ( Read more... )

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Chaos War: Chaos King one-shot - Brandon Montclare + Michael Wm. Kaluta. (I wrote about this when it first came out, because it's that good, so you might remember this write-up.) The welcome return of Kaluta's art to a full comic book. He's best known for his work on Starstruck and The Shadow, as well as a lengthy run on House of Mystery in ( Read more... )

Anthology week, evidently, with four different anthologies at once.

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Avengers vs. Pet Avengers #1 of 4 - Chris Eliopoulos + Ig Guara. Captain America, Iron Man, and Thor have been turned into frogs by ancient dragons led by Fin Fang Foom, and their only hope is the Pet Avengers. I don't foresee this as being my favorite Pet Avengers series. ( Read more... )

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Carnage #1 of 5 - Zeb Wells + Clayton Crain. The 90s return as Spider-Man and Iron Man become involved in a "Maximum Carnage" revival. Crain's art is still annoyingly dark, even in scenes of full daylight.

Chaos War #2 of 5 - Greg Pak/Fred Van Lente + Khoi Pham. The human heroes have all been immobilized, so Hercules has to recruit some more ( Read more... )

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Chaos War #1 of 5 - Greg Pak/Fred Van Lente + Khoi Pham/Reilly Brown. Hercules must lead the heroes against the most unrelenting threat the universe has seen since, well, ever. Yes, Hercules. It's fantastic, and quickly takes unexpected turns.

Deadpool MAX #1 - David Lapham + Kyle Baker. An idea long past due. Baker is drawing again instead of ( Read more... )

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Astonishing X-Men #35 - Warren Ellis + Phil Jimenez. The finale of Ellis' second story is a letdown. I understand doing the unexpected ending, but it's not satisfying. Yes, he did it on purpose, but considering how damn long it's taken for this to come out (it's taken almost a year for the 5 parts to be released), that's just bad idea. If ( Read more... )

Well, since I'm so abysmally behind in my comics reviews I'm going to mention a couple of things before they get two or three months out of date.

Justice League: Generation Lost #13 could in all seriousness be referred to as a game-changing issue (if they don't wimp out and unwrite it). It's pretty rare these days when I'm surprised by something and ( Read more... )