Iron Man time travels back to the days of knights and stuff. I was excited when Mike Grell came on board, but he’s not doing very good work here. And frankly, given that the DC Comic Warlord is one of his best works, this arc in particular should have been a lot of fun ..read more

Look! The cover of issue #46 is a wonderful tribute to Apocalypse Now. Home Base’s Agent Pratt returns and attacks Banner, but Sandra Verdugo is also alive–and she intervenes to save him. Pratt’s nearly invulnerable so he survives Verdugo shooting him in the face repeatedly. As for Sandra, she is a kind of vampire (but not actually a vampire) who needs blood to regenerate–but doesn’t have to kill her “donor.” At one point, she takes blood from a kid with leukemia and cures him… Which brings us back to Banner’s cancer. Sandra can cure him by transferring her blood to him–but it stops him from ..read more

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I like this sketch for many reasons. Four are obvious ..read more

This “return of Doctor Octopus” story starts with some well-done, quieter moments at Peter Parker’s apartment.  All his friends are there to play a video game marathon, and there are several moments with Peter trying to help Flash engage.  (Flash suffered catastrophic brain damage due to an attack by Green Goblin.)  We are shown hope that he is actually starting to recover motor and brain function. For the main event, Doctor Octopus attacks.  He tells Spider-Man that he will force him to unmask in Times Square.  His arms are more powerful—due to tinkering—and Spider ..read more

Hey!  Where did Todd McFarlane go? This story suffers from his absence–but it’s still pretty good ..read more

This issue starts with a check-in on “Home Base”–the clandestine group behind the last attack on Hulk. We learn that their spy codenamed “Mr. Blue” (who recently betrayed them) had a camera and tracker installed in her eye–but it has stopped functioning. So they have implanted a new one in Doc Samson. Samson is tracking Banner and locates him, seemingly leading Home Base right to him. But Samson figures out that they have put a camera in his eye and solves it by wearing an eye patch–and he provided a false location. This enables Banner to flee. Due to his failure to successfully manage Samson ..read more

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