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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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Avengers Prime #1 of 5 - Brian Michael Bendis + Alan Davis. Gorgeous, simply freakin' gorgeous. And since it won't be tying into the continuity as it goes along it won't threaten to pull me in. It will, though, be completely outdated by the time it finishes. See, this entire miniseries, five issues, one every other month, takes place between ( Read more... )

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Cable #25 - Duane Swierczynski + Paco Medina. The final issue of Cable is a disappointment. They're trying to recall the feeling of the Cable & Deadpool series, even listing this as Deadpool & Cable on the cover, and though this does have a couple of laughs it is all meaningless. It's a flashback to the very beginning of Messiah Complex, and ( Read more... )

It's a week full of stuff. I'm profound. That means I approve of founds. Though I'm not sure what they are.

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Avengers: The Initiative #34 - Christos Gage + Jorge Molina. The series is winding up nicely with lots of action and a good number of character moments that have been wanted for years. Fits in perfectly with what's happening in Siege as ( 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... )

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Black Widow: Deadly Origin #3 of 4 - Paul Cornell + Tom Raney/John Paul Leon. Very well constructed, with a fairly straightforward presentation of her origin running parallel to a high intensity tale in the present about her past coming back to harm her friends. I'm interested in rereading it once completed to get the full flow.

Dark X-Men #3 ( Read more... )

Smaller week this time, had to wait for the paycheck to clear. But fewer comics means more words used per each. Seems fair, yes? Of course, you know that means next week is going to be freakin' huge, right?

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Deadpool #18 - Daniel Way + Paco Medina. Deadpool's plan for the X-Men comes full circle. Is he a hero? A masochist? Or just ( Read more... )