here we go

Several books to hit first off i will go with the one fresh in my mind Thor issue 620. Before getting into this book, writer Matt Fraction , who was hyped as a glorious savior of the book is underwhelming me and to be frank makes me skeptical of the Fear itself hype. When finally something does happen after the boring build up, it is scattered and senseless , the art which was first redeeming seems to lack similar focus , it's a as much of a mess as the sill intergalactic blood bath pitting Odin and his army of pokemon, who hold no explanation and seem random, i mean really magic can make alot happen particularly when you are a god but this doesn't flow with his character i don't buy it and its a travesty of continuity .
Next up Hulk 30 well the Impossible man is in the mix , the art is great , the story is silly, the two Hulk merging , is back to the kind of kindergarten writing i might expect from a cartoon, think animaniacs more than brave and the bold or young justice, ok is guess dc at least has marvel in the cartoon dept.
Next Avengers, the theme seems to be balance, as this book now lacks it as if Bendis is taking cues from the Matt Fraction school of writing , all the teams are dispatched, Red Hulk kills a sea monster , there is the moment when namor doesn't trust ross to give him the gem and hands it to Thor , which i will give Bendis that one , and it leaves us with the Thor vs the amped up Hood , and i guess the Red hulk will be in the mix as well
ok best of the batch is Greg Pak's Hulk 623 the savage land is the new vampires for marvel , he does need to explain ,how i dinosaur could hurt the hulk ? i'll re read it but are we saying it's because he wasn't healed yet ?
any way the writing aside from that is good but it feel like , when a band is trying to re create a success ful album than making fresh songs, it feels like we are going back to planet Hulk which tells me its time for pak to move on , i know people want him to be the next peter david , and world war hulk , planet hulk was a good run but it ended there is the looks of it, and now we are going back to remember our former glory

Catching Up

I feel pretty caught up on the Marvel U at least , this week have done some intensive reading , but lets see where we are with the staples first. Spoiler Heavy if you aren't caught yourself.
Hulk- the Art continues to be good awful but over the years i have weathered bad art so i keep buying , red hulk's absorption power being defined a little more is something i of course enjoy as it brings in the fantasy realism to adhere to with his myth. i am not sure what the fascination is with the savage land and monster island these days , or the island of olympus if we are going to jump over into incredible hulks which is rather entertaining and continues to be the dominate Hulk title thanks to greg pak , we shall see how this Skaar in the savage land story goes the whole chaos war thing really seem a st reach to work the Hulk into didn't seem like the story flowed into very well, but after such horrid things as hulked out heroes i guess thats no longer a concern.
Ok read the Second Coming trade and was very entertained , felt like it wrapped up ties on some stuff and made the xforce make sense -in a similar fashion to how the Illuminati's chickens have been coming home to roost in avengers -if i was writing x-force or avengers- i would say it was time for the x-force to come up on steve rogers radar, i could see it crossing over into secret avengers after all hank mccoy is working for steve so is that a key fact he managed to not bring up with his boss after he took offense in the kind of force cyclops was having them use in second coming. Speaking of which i guess i'll use this time to say - i hope steve upholds his word and expels Iron Man from the team , though with the movie coming out of course it wouldn't stick - until then i think the best team would be
Thor, Bucky Cap, hawkeye, Ms Marvel,RED hulk Spider woman- never any need to have spider man and woman on the same team however scarlet witch and Vision would be on board in place of spider woman and red hulk if it was up to me , which is saying alot consider i'd kick the ross hulk
SPIDER MAN - ok caught up on this big time thing i was missing an issue inbetween which fleshed things out with Kingpin, black cat, Octavius and co- mmm think the avengers thing is better handled in new avengers and left as easter eggs in amazing- still spider man as a team player doesn't work for me , nor thing or wolverine as an avenger - the art is better than hulk but a lil calvin and hobbs for me.
Avenger's academy - maybe its Tigra but is feels like west coast avengers to me , not to say its not a fun book,
thunderbolts - has its moments vs hyperion could be fun i don't think the squadron supreme really belongs on earth , i would have as show to get them off the planet but think they would be a great addition to make the cosmic brand more fun, they need some good old spandex fun out there in all there kree malarky
Brightest day - same complaint i have read in other places and then again we run into the problem i often have with dc which is a cosmic mish mash you can't follow -the hawk people story line lost me on the love dragon- the aqua man segment is the strongest hands down , i didn't see black manta cutting off Aurthur's hand even with the redundancy aside -would like to see more done with some of these characters in a more cohesive fashion, i similar problem with green lantern-so far with dc teen titans might be the most approachable book, i need to plow into some green lantern trades , flash never does anything for me , young justice even seem more cohesive than alot of the parallel universe crap they con volute things with