Ok catching up a little after picking up a few books last night , lets start with Marvel , who is planting the seeds early for this year's Avengers vs X-men book,... mean do you really think the Avengers can lose considering Marvel Entertainment owns the rights to the Avengers films and fox entertainment owns the X-films? Not to mention if you line up all the big guns the X-men are out classed even adding Phoenix to the mix and how divided loyalties are going to be considering Wolverine, Beast , Namor Quicksliver and now Storm have Avenger ties.
Ok before i go fan-boy on this Avenger's Annual comes up and after all the re-launches are we bothering to number them at this point ? Good art , what could have been an epic throw down turns into the Avengers using a bunch of clever tricks to school Wonder-man's team in minutes after they had clobbered Luke Cages guys , so Cage is just leading a bunch of b-listers even though they have Spider-man and Wolverine ?
Next up Hulk # 47, has the Red Hulk really carried this many issues ? The book trade places as for every issue Parker surpassed The Incredible Hulk he digresses into something like this father daughter non-sense which is the only reason i can see Ross-Hulk not punching Red-hulk back. I am kinda over Machine-man tagging along , why do Hulks need side kicks?
Avengers... I love the concept of the Dark Avengers , though this version is not really doing it for me aside from Skaar, which is the main draw for me , the new avengers art is waaaay better than that of the avengers book , i think this needs to change switch the artists or something. Osborn is more thoughtful in his approach to baiting the teams , though the main team hasn't really assembled in my opinion and would like to see how Norman does when Thor comes back , i'm guessing he is out of the picture because of what is transpiring in his own book? Thor wasn't pulled for me so not sure if i am behind on that one or not.
In other marvel stuff , Thunderbolts has stalled for me in their time travelling , which the X-men are following suit in this department. Need to catch up on Defenders and Alpha Flight. Spider-man is so-so and Venom seems promising as X-23 and Red Hulk are showing up.
OK dC ...going hit up some of the other books, Action Comics jumped the shark on some time travel but it is Grant Morrison so maybe he will pull it together, like he did with the return of Bruce Wayne, have like Jla , will see where Aqua-man is heading this weekend , Hawk-man was a mess and I ma giving Swamp thing another issue to bring in the actual Swamp- thing and spar me of the further adventures of Alec Holland. Yes i have a bit of dc catching up to do , i think the books i am most interested in like Cat-woman, and Dark Knight haven't come out , the last Bat-man and robin was meh, looked like different art to me .
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