Bought/Thought for June 23rd, 2010, with SPOILERS!

[WOLVERINE25TH]

I dropped it by #10 'cause I was just bored by it. Then when I heard it was rebooting I picked up the last two issues for cheap later on.

 

[Phaedrus45]

YAH!!! Finally got my internet back up and running today! My Cable modem was screwing up all week, and by the weekend, I'd be on for fifteen seconds, and then my modem would reboot .. over and over and over again.

Anyway, just some quick comments regarding a few of THIS week's comics...but, not this weeks (as in today's). I'll let someone else get that ball rolling. I'm too busy getting my internet fix back on before I read anything new.

Essential Captain America Vol. 5

Even though I have pretty much every issue in this book...there is one that I don't, and it's a must have for me. It's the Marvel Treasury Captain America Bicentennial issue!!! This sucker was massive; and, Marvel is kind enough to finally reprint it in this edition of Essentials. Awesome, awesome, awesome.

Avengers #2

Boy, did I want to talk about this after I read it. Now, I'm a bit more calm, and don't have the same gusto to tear the issue apart. I'll just say this was one big steaming pile of crap! It's been a while since a Bendis comic has illicited such a negative reaction out of me. Hell, even Spidey's one-liners were extremely lame throughout.

X-Men Legacy #237

Chapter 12 of Second Coming keeps the story moving along nicely. Cable's team manages to destroy the Nimrods of the future...and, Magneto gets a few shots in; but, it's done with pretty quickly. Some of Land's art draws me away from the story...but, overall, I'm still loving this X-Event.

Amazing Spider-Man #635

Grim Hunt Chapter 2! Wow, this is turning out to be one of the best Spidey stories I've read in ..... GOSH, I don't know how long!!! It's even better than Slott's big issue of Spidey from last year! I think what's best about it is that it so closely resembles the same kind of storytelling that makes Brubaker's Captain America and Daredevil so spectacular. I'm just amazed, especially after a rather ho-hum Gauntlet that's taken up much of this year. t:

Namora One-Shot

This was only alright. It almost feels like a story that belongs in an oversized Agents issue, where we pay $4.99 for a main story, and this would be the bonus. I've read much worse (See Bendis Avengers #2!!!)...but, I'm also getting a bit tired of how one of my favorite Marvel writers, Jeff Parker, is shoving the Agents down our throats at every turn.

 

[WOLVERINE25TH]

I actually scored the Bicentennial Battles issue reprint for free. A former colleague was part of a book group that bought comics together and read them, then got rid of them. We had our meetings at a school so he brought them there for us and the kids. I took that one, amongst a couple of choice others. I also wanted to do it for the Index, but it got assigned to someone else. Ah well.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I liked the Namora issue. I don't mind the Agents being "shoved down our throats" (plus, I don't actually think that's happening). They could use the exposure if their series is going to have any chance of surviving. Parker's churned out a fantastic mini-series, an equally fantastic ongoing series, and the beginnings of yet another fantastic ongoing series so far, so it's not like there's any kind of creative failure. Marvel's just trying to make sure the Agents find a decent audience. I'm still pretty sure this new ongoing will crash and burn and no one will care about the Agents in another couple years, but at the very least, this is one situation where we can't possibly complain that Marvel didn't do enough to try and make the series succeed.

 

[Judge Holden]

Avengers 2 was TERRIBLE. Just terrible. For the first time in a long long while i actually struggled to finish the comic because it annoyed me so much.

How does dialogue that poor get past the editors? Tony Stark's in particular was just utterly atrocious.