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Juggernaut recently went to Canada and beat up a civilian who was abusing Squidboy.  Now, he’s being held in a Canadian prison and Jennifer “She Hulk” Walters is serving as his attorney.  Conveniently, the Rhino is also in the same prison.  (What’s he doing there?)  Rhino tries to escape, and Juggernaut stops him. This makes the Canadian government get all soft on him and they decide to let him out of jail pending trial.  So he sleeps with She-Hulk. Believe it or not, this isn’t even the dumb part yet.  That’s coming now: A kid in a Juggernaut suit attacks She ..read more

The first issue of this arc was different from any Captain America story that preceded it, and it has its own post here. Now, we get an inkling of how rich Ed Brubaker’s vision will be. It will integrate esoteria with core concepts from Captain America’s half-century history. Last issue, Red Skull was killed by a mysterious assassin who stole the Cosmic Cube. This issue begins with SHIELD and Captain America investigating the murder. The clues lead to a spinter faction of AIM, who vow to burn the world down in Red Skull’s memory. Across these issues we see Captain America having repeated flas ..read more

I’m just gonna warn you: If you’re a huge fan of this band of space pirates, this post is going to disappoint you.  It’s going to be very brief because I only skimmed these issues.  I’m not a fan, generally, of space epics and I’m not a fan, specifically, of the Starjammers.  It’s mostly because nothing about them feels particularly interesting or unique—they’re all similar to lots of other genre books I’ve read.  And Scott “Cyclops” Summers’ daddy, Corsair, isn’t even in this story—for reasons that are unclear. That said, there’s nothing particularly wrong or bad about th ..read more

The latest revival of a Silver Surfer solo series is by husband-and-wife team Dan Chariton and Stacy Weiss. Silver Surfer creates an Ark to save Earth’s children. He identifies “special” or “gifted” children and takes them away from Earth. So, basically, he’s a kidnapper. The first part of the story (#1-6) is about the mother of one of the children (who is African American, drawing parallels to the past takings of African youth as slaves), and Surfer is the villain. She has a psychic bond with her child, which causes Silver Surfer to feel remorse about kidnapping her. Surfer is trying to keep ..read more

This is another dream issue.  Post coitus with FBI agent Cassie Lathrop, Wolverine has imaginary meetings with folks from his past.  Filler ..read more

These six issues are created primarily by Jim Starlin, and an extended, decompressed look at Thanos couldn’t be undertaken by a more qualified man. Thanos is to Jim Starlin what Moon Knight is to Doug Moench. “A tale of unnatural enlightments, futile longings, tenuous alliances, and bitter betrayal.” There’s really no better way to sum up the career of Thanos. Thanos decides to stop being such a bastard after having an epiphany, with the help of Adam Warlock. To start being a better person, he goes to a planet that had been ravaged by his former, evil ways and swears to make things right. An ..read more

My tendency on this site has been to write about miniseries in a single post rather than tease out each issue, unless I find myself with a lot to say about single issues of a mini. I don’t have a lot to say about A/T.  That’s not because it’s bad, it’s just because Thunderbolts hasn’t been my cup of tea for several years now.  There’s a lot of good in it, but there’s also a lot of the worst things about Fabian Nicieza as a storyteller: Too many characters, a lack of narrative focus, scattered and dropped plotlines…things like that.  He writes half of this miniseries (i.e., the ..read more

The story beats here are pretty generic: Wolverine takes out a coyote ring, i.e., human traffickers who smuggle people into the U.S. from Mexico.  Meanwhile, he’s still being tracked by FBI agent Cassie Lathrop.  She ultimately catches up with him and ends up appreciating how he breaks the law to help the downtrodden.  And then at the end she sleeps with him. The predictable story is bettered by the quality of the writing.  I like the art, too, although Wolverine looks much younger and almost appears to be Native American ..read more