Thanks for the links! My thoughts:
- Avengers: Initiative #8 looks great; return of Stingray & Eric O'Grady, and some Yellowjacket action!
- I am still torn on CAPT. MARVEL. Was never a huge fan of his and I still think his "Return" was one of the most overblown, dud stories I read in ages. But, it has Brian Reed, who can usually churn out solid reads.
- CAPTAIN AMERICA #33 looks good. I have a feeling once I read more I may really like Winter Soldier, which is good because he is apparently the star of the book now. By Dec. 2007 I will have already gotten the CA Omnibus and caught up on back-issues. I ordered the HC on Amazon tonight and while I won't get it until about the middle of October, I saved about 37% on the retail price (with FREE shipping). Which will come in handy as I chase down back issues. Yeah, I anticipate either liking it or at least reading some 30+ issues in one sitting.
- Not sure on the AVENGERS SPECIAL, seems a bit random. But I may get it.
- I am still sort of looking forward to Bendis amping The Hood and other villains in NA, just the Skrull story may officialy stand as a roadblock.
- THE ORDER hopefully won't be announcing cancellation by #6; it's sales really took a tumble with issue #2 and they better hold steady soon.
- I probably will get THE TWELVE. Some of the designs are outdated but it is about time someone played with Marvel's Golden Age heroes, since so many of them are now dead. Don't let DC have all the fun. JMS is doing fine on THOR, though, which means he may be due for a dud soon. Will this be it?
- It looks like Mike Carey will be taking on dangling plot points from Ellis' Ultimate Event dud of last year and making hay of it, as he is with SURFER recently. More power to him.
- After 2-3 years, they are pushing a secret to the horridly slow and late ULTIMATE IRON MAN? Ugh. Not interested atall.
- At this point I probably should start putting ULTIMATE X-MEN on "notice". It isn't bad, but at this point it seems as if Kirkman is filling the pages. It is ironic that considering that Ult. XM is the only X-Book that still has a mutant community, isn't a 4-12 book franchise, has much of the iconic cast intact and hasn't ridiculously overused Magneto, that Kirkman is choosing a direction that seems to bog it down with F-Listers, Time Travellers, and flirting with Aliens, all the things that tore 616 X-Books asunder.
- Partisan on ULTIMATES 3. At least it is a mini, perhaps showing the limit of Joe Mad's expected output.
- THOR #6 has yet another sort of generic cover; so generic it reminds me of at least 20 covers that USM had (Spidey on a wall, Spidey swinging, Spidey swinging on a wall, etc), but not bad. JMS is doing fine but a little too decompressed. And Thor better get some villains to smite soon!
- I will be getting the MUTANT FILES Handbook. Love those things.
- They are solicting the final issue of the Whedon/Cassaday AXM run, yet there is no cover image; not even a B&W. It is shipping...or is it (to play on the solict words)? If so, thank goodness to finally be rid of it.
- Considering it's low sales, wonder how long X-MEN: FIRST CLASS vol. 2 is lasting. I enjoy it, but I'd sacrifice it in a heartbeat for another 6 issues of THE LONERS
- IMMORTAL IRON FIST = Greatness, and #12 sells itself.
- Wizard named NOVA a Book of the Month? Good. Granted, hasn't every book been their "book of the month" at some point? Just once I'd like to see some cover tagline, "Wizard's Book of the Month from Jan. 1997!" somewhere. Jokes aside, Nova is good.
- It seems that November will be the month where we find out the "big bad" of ANNIHILATION CONQUEST and whether
photojones2's hunch is right or wrong. Considering the size of the Marvel Bullpen, this is like a fanboy's 1 vs. 100.
- No NEW WARRIORS, or did I miss it?
- December is when Slott's run on ASM begins! Hopefully, the best thing to happen to Spider-Man since getting to room with Firestar.
