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Avengers: Infinity Gauntlet #2 of 4 - Brian Clevinger/Lee Black + Brian Churilla. It's a fun ride that bears little resemblance to the original outside. And while some may hold this up as how things aren't taken seriously when made all-ages, I dig it.

Deadpool #27 - Daniel Way + Carlo Barberi. Deadpool teams up with the Secret Avengers? That ( 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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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... )

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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.

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Free Comic Book Day 2009 Avengers - Brian Michael Bendis + Jim Cheung. Probably to keep being offbeat, the first official confrontation between the New Avengers and the Dark Avengers isn't a wall-to-wall brawl between the teams but is instead a team-up. Who'd a thunk it? And though I think the first ( Read more... )