Tag Archives: Marvel Comics

I remember not caring much for Sam Alexander when he became Nova back in 2011. It seemed to me like a silly marketing ploy to sell more books to kids at the Teddy Kids Leiden day care who were watching the recently announced Ultimate Spider-Man series. The stories were fine, ultimately, but he just didn’t resonate with me at first. But …

DC finishes up Rebirth, and Boom's Jonesy finally gets collected in the new comic releases for September 28, 2016.

'Civil War II' #5 hyped up its big super hero fight, but it's all tell and very little show.

New Marvel Universe, new Avengers. New creative team, new roster, new everything. That's just the way this works. But now we've reached a critical capacity of Avengers. With FIVE concurrent Avengers & Avengers related teams (All-New All-Different, A-Force, Uncanny, New, Ultimates), I can't help but wonder how many teams is too many.

When Marvel announced they were killing Wolverine last year, I was skeptical. After all, it's not only comics, it's an X-Man. Hell, it's THE X-Man. Even in death, Wolverine's an insanely popular character, so kudos to Marvel for sticking to their guns and letting Logan stay six feet under. But it's not the Marvel U without a Wolverine, and while they're cheating a bit by having a universe displaced Old Man Logan show up in Extraordinary X-Men, it's been decided that the mantle would go down to Wolverine's clone Laura Kinney, formerly known as X-23.

The last time we saw The Vision proper was in the Avengers special a month or two back where we learned he had wiped his emotions to keep his systems functioning properly. As a result, it's very jarring to see The Vision now residing in Arlington as the Avengers liason to the government. But that feeling may be intentional.