New Mutants #38 - Dan Abnett/Andy Lanning + Leandro Fernandez.

Imagine one of your favorite actors is playing one of your favorite characters, and they are doing an awesome job of it. That's close to how I feel with Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning writing New Mutants. The only thing that could make it better would be to have Bret Blevins back doing the ( Read more... )

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Annihilators: Earthfall #3 of 4 - Dan Abnett/Andy Lanning + Tan Eng Huat. The Annihilators and the Avengers try to work together but the Magus and his Universal Church of Truth keep upping the ante. Great character moments, great action, and great art. Unwaveringly as good as all the rest of the Abnett & Lanning cosmic books.
The Rocket Racoon ( Read more... )

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Avenging Spider-Man #1 - Zeb Wells + Joe Madureira. I've missed Joe Mad's art, though I have to admit that it did look better in the preview pages I saw of the art before it was colored. Anyway, lots of high octane fun and Wells' writing is as witty as usual.

Fear Itself #7.2: Thor - Matt Fraction + Adam Kubert. Thor's funeral gets more ( Read more... )

Been a seriously long time since I've done this. Here we go.

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Annihilators: Earthfall #2 of 4 - Dan Abnett/Andy Lanning + Tan Eng Huat. Clever writing, gorgeous art, and brutal action. This issue, like most of the Abnett & Lanning Marvel Cosmic books, is like a heavy flogging. It gives you a series of intense and surprising hits, and it leaves ( Read more... )

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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I've spoken before about how much I like the New Mutants. I didn't actually start collecting the series until right after the original one ended (issue 100), but they are the X-Men nearest to my heart. Sure, I got the series out of order, but I was the right age and I grew up with them, and vice versa.

See, the New Mutants, owing to the fact that ( Read more... )

Had a really great weekend, Becca danced fantastically, despite her feelings about it. But the home internet is being twitching, delaying the posting of the pictures that I would use as proof. Soon, I say, soon ( Read more... )

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... )