Post- Age of Ultron

You know we are dealing with the same mess we had a few weeks ago, there isn't really anybook I'm finding that entertaing though the Avenger's Enemy Within book was the best of the bunch, Iron-Man being a cosmic character seems like they are reaching, Thor has great art but is an obtuse read that suffers from the time travel plague sweeping across the company as a whole. Can you think of any book where it's not mucked up with time travel, body swtiching or alternate reality? Daredevil is the only one that pops into my head, though the rather underwhelming Thunderbolts counts. The Hulk will end up in some sort of return to the savage land with the Raw Hide Kid showing up and riding dinosaurs so that sounds like another time slip of a mess.

Defenders now has a Wonder=woman knock off, why not make Valkyrie your Wonder-woman kncok off? Then bringing in Neil Gaiman's Angela character to end the Age of Ultron, is Joss Whedon in charge how did we end up with so manny warrior women, not that I havea problem with them, some of my favorite marvel characters are women,...She-hulk, Tigra, Wasp and Scarlet Witch. Why not further develop those?

So we can agree Age of Ultron is a flop, it should have taken place in the Ultimate Universe, so looking ahead we have this Infinity which will be rehash of the Infinity Gauntlet story, bringing Thanos in and ramping up Guardians of the Galaxy for the big screen, we know Captain America,Thor and Spider-man have movies coming out so expect them to be spotlighted.So Captain America should have his other worldly adventures wrapped up by septemeber, according to sollicts the God-slayer thing gets drug out in Thor til August, and Expect Peter Parker to be back by the time the sequel hits. So with Movies and now ..television entertwined with who gets a push, expect more from SHEILD, the rumors of Luke Cage debunked so J August's character will get a push who ever it might be. Then on Marvel's slate it's Ant-man, Dr.Strange and Black Panther, so by the fall the seeds will start being sewn to increase awareness of those characters. Falcon should get more face time since he is in Cap 2, he is already being shocased on the Avengers Assembled Cartoon, Winter Soldier...well he has had his own book and since he is the villain in this then, I don't know. He seems a weird choice for a villian to me.

Speaking of Villians , the other heroes aside from Dr.Strange have a fairly weak rogues gallery and Black Panther barely has one at all, I mean Klaw? Man-Ape, though I suppose they could take him to the Savage Land or something. Ant-man has ...Ultron, then Egg Head and I suppose any of the masters of evilm I think he would be a good gateway to bring in Vision and Wonder-man. Joss confirmed this week that yes, Scarlet With and Quicksliver will be in the Avengers sequel, I thin this will help phase Rober Downey jr out. I'm fine with an Iron-man less team. They will more than liely follow the books and have the team drop down to Cap, Hawkeye, Scarlet Witch, Quicksliver and bring in Black Panter though Captain Marvel is suppose to show up.

Marvel studios has an aversion to characters keeping their mask on so hows that going to work with Black Panther? Will Dr.Strange be in Blu pajamss? At 45 MArk Ruffalo knows the clock is ticking on him as Banner in a stand alone and just think how bad an Iron-man four without Downey will flop as they are saying the character is enough like James Bond that anyone can play him. How long with the Comic book movie trend last? Regardless Marvel needs to step up to the plate and start writing books that have me looking forward to my weekly comic book store run rather than just me making it out of obligation, because once we reach that level of apathy do you think we will pay for movies?

Thor 1 and Marvel Now checkup

Along side Uncanny Avengers , Thor of Thor God of Thunder,I s avast improvement from the directin the book had been nosediving into under Matt Fractiong. It's no mystery that Uncanny Avnegers is going to be plagued by shipping delays , which I think is going to hurt the book in th umber same and marginally readers will forget about or have a hrd time caring during the gaps.

Thor excels more in the art than story which I see getting bogged down in being told from three timelines past, present and future, visually the future one looks cool inhospitable destroyer armor if not a little too much like Odin, but it see,s a distraction, the flash back parts are tolerable if handled as thei re now if the writer fails to keep it balanced it will be hardcore ,e to care about the modern story and want to read the character int he context of the a never books instead.

My only complaints with the art is the present day Thor should not be much smaller than the future Thor, he,s a little too skinny like the movie Helmsworth Thor and his armour need to dhre a little closer to the classic look.

Red Shehulk continues to best one of the better books, she's fun as an anti hero scuffling with the Avengers and then it gets questionable with all new X- men being a disappointment on how it's being handled with Beast going back in time to get the past Scott Summers to stop the Scott Summers he is now and this new team of original X-men look like their main objective is going to be to stop this new brother hood of evil mutants, which I'm fine with Cyclops being a bad guy now, I think Cable wold have been a better fit for the time traveling.

Deadpool goes to show having a comedian write a comic only sound alike a good idea on paper, I am not sure he is that familiar with eh character shis voice sounds off and vs the dead presidents thing is sill and from the solicits looks like its going to be dragged on for far to long.

Fantastic Four, was a snooze fest,the art was fitting but it is a jumbled up space Brady Bunch book none of the characters felt like they were where they needed to be even with Ben going to talk to the Yancy St gang felt like it was reaching for something that wasn't there.

New avengers...mmm tho book seemed a little off to me there are wrapping this story up at a snailsace is Matt fraction wiring is book now if not who where it is need to stop taking notes from him on pacing.

Amazing Spider-man , a lot of the ideas in this book unshaven sounded good in the planning stages but it's a mess with the two hobgoblins fighting and teaming up and spiderman using goblin weapons to fight goblins well that my friends is what you call the shark.

I'll try to catch up on at least the batBooks today not sure if d/c has anything else remotely interesting, I look at the books on the rack and nothing seems appealing int the least the Lantern books look even more painful than ever.