Marvel solicitations for january 2011

[Red]

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=28981

Thor overload!

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Thor just-enough-load!

 

[Vartha]

I hope to the GODS that isn't Thunderstrike on the cover of 3
http://www.comicbookresources.com/n...s/marvelcomics/201101/116_Thunderstrike_3.jpg

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I don't think so. It says Thunderstrike gets stolen and an old villain returns, and that dude on the cover does seem to have a Skurge-like look to him.

 

[Vartha]

I don't think so. It says Thunderstrike gets stolen and an old villain returns, and that dude on the cover does seem to have a Skurge-like look to him.

Heh toldya that was bloodaxe in the street on the cover of #1. lol

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I wonder if that manifestation of Skurge that the Bloodaxe created in Eric's mind will somehow become a physical being now...

 

[Franklin Richards]

There's only one FF Anniversary Variant Cover???

 

[CrimsonMist]

Good to see Ultimate Avengers 3 ending in January. Hopefully that means PunisherMAX can finally get under way again by February. It's been too damn long.

 

[Tron Bonne]

Yay, finally more Casanova. I hope they just got straight into the third volume, but if they had to pause for reprints, they probably won't

 

[runawayboulder]

PunisherMAX is once again missing from the solicts.

Avengers #9 is bringing back The Hood. So much for this being a back to basics Avengers book. Bendis has gone right back to the type of stories we got for 5+yrs on New Avengers. And he's mixing in the Infinity Gauntlet and the Illuminati. Clearly Bendis has ZERO new ideas for this book. Avengers and New Avengers are both stretching him very thin creatively. He should turn Avengers over to someone else and just stick with NNA. (I nominate Jeff Parker.) NNA's initial arc has been much more entertaining with better art from Immonen than JRJR. The Hood also shows up in Academy which doesn't thrill me either.

As much as the Avengers line is starting to let me down, the Spider-Man line has me very excited. I'm really looking forward of this new era of ASM and hope that it becomes an era of redemption with Dan Slott firmly behind the wheel. ASM became extremely unstable at the end of BND, suffering from the rotating writers. The Osborn mini sounds great too. God, I hope Dan finally touches on the attraction between SM and Ms. Marvel when New Avengers guest stars in the book.

Captain America, T-Bolts, Punisher:ITB and Heroes for Hire will all be must have's.

I'm not too sure about the new DD direction. I've never read much of Black Panther outside of when he was an Avenger and after a monster run DD has gotten stale. I'm gonna remain faithful in Diggle though.

DeadpoolMAX concerns me that the MAX line may start to head in the same direction the Ultimate books did, what 616 character gets MAX'd this week. In the past few months we've gotten MAX versions of Kingpin, Bullseye, Hammerhead and now Cable.

The X-line looks solid except for Legacy, which I can care less about anymore. It has lost my interest and has become the red headed stepchild of the line to me. I love that cover to UXF #4.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I was a bit disappointed to see that the Hood would be in Avengers Academy. But who knows, Gage is a much, much better writer than Bendis and has done good work playing off of the Tigra/Hood feud in Avengers: The Initiative. Maybe he'll work his magic again and it'll be satisfying.

 

[runawayboulder]

I've never liked The Hood. There were so many other great Maggia bosses they could've elevated with the spin of the "next Kingpin".

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Hammerhead would've been my pick. I always wanted to see him step up to the big leagues and since he's vaguely superhuman, becoming the "Kingpin of Supervillains" would've been a good fit.

 

[hippie_hunter]

Nice to know that Marvel has finally confirmed with their solicitations that their "price cut" was nothing but a load of crap

Also no hope Deadpool #100? Boooooo!

 

[Colossal Spoons]

Land isn't allowed to draw Thor anymore

 

[Jennifer Walters]

Land shouldn't be allowed to trace draw anyone ever again.

 

[TimBisley]

I'm not usually too picky about the art work in a comic, but I don't like Land very much.

 

[Dread]

Hammerhead would've been my pick. I always wanted to see him step up to the big leagues and since he's vaguely superhuman, becoming the "Kingpin of Supervillains" would've been a good fit.

Count Nefaria would have been my pick. He's an old world mobster with enough ironic super-powers to sometimes smack even Thor and Wonder Man around, and has battled the Avengers before (and nearly beaten them single handedly).

 

[CantThinkOfAName]

Hobgoblin, people.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

I'm not usually too picky about the art work in a comic, but I don't like Land very much.

I usually don't mind his work but his Thor just doesn't sit well with my eyes.

 

[Drz]

Land shouldn't be allowed to trace draw anyone ever again.

Exactly. It's sickening to see him take the Wolverine wide-spread arms POSE YET AGAIN, not to mention the colorist coloring Wasp's hair all wrong aswell.

Glad to see Millar's Nemesis trade coming in January, i'll recommend that to tons of Villain/Batman/Joker fans. Secret Avengers solicitation is small, but kinda teasing. Bucky getting Scarlet as his Red Skull seems really cool idea, which reminds me that the 3rd Captain America Omnibus is closing in for the stores!

Thunderbolts receiving a new member seems intriquing, the cover doesn't show Crossbones so does that mean he's out of the team? Will Gunna replace him or what?!

 

[JewishHobbit]

I thought Bendis did good with the Hood, there was a great feeling about that whole story. The problem, for me, was the oversaturation of the character and his gang. It would have been a lot better if he were more limited but Bendis did ****e him out a bit too much.

I really enjoyed him in Remender's hands in Punisher though. That was a pretty good run of Punisher comics, and I don't even much care for the Punisher.

 

[runawayboulder]

Hobgoblin, people.

We don't have one right now....at least yet. Slott is introducing a new one soon and it would be too fast to elevate him(her). Roderick Kingsley's still sitting on a beach somewhere and Jason Macendale is still dead.

 

[Harlekin]

I'm getting a little sick of the blacked out/silhouettes covers. Beyond that, while I can dig the solicitation text of Age of X: Alpha #1 ("If you don’t know which side you’re on, check your DNA."), it really seems like another tired X-Men story. That franchise really seems to be creatively dead. And why isn't the F4 actually on the X-Men #7 anniversary variant?

Really cool cover to Ultimate Comics Thor #4 but I really did prefer it when there was some mystery to the character. Oh, and when did Ultimate Comics Spider-Man go back to its original numbering?

The Hood really has no business going after the Infinity Gauntlet.

Digging the cover to Ant-Man & Wasp #3, I might actually check that series out. And I'm glad that, despite the new Scorpion not being used by anyone, at least Monica Rappacini is still around and in charge of A.I.M.

"Plus: another illustrated chapter of the oral history of the Avengers!" (New Avengers #8) is just a really stupid sentence.

Is Thor The Mighty Avenger an ongoing title? I've seen and heard great things about it, but thought it was a mini.

I've been apprehensive about buying the 'dead' Chaos War tie-ins, but man, they do look to be awesome. Yay, Thunderbird!

Superior is just not going to go well, is it?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Thor: The Mighty Avenger is indeed an ongoing. It's Marvel's all-ages Thor comic.

I thought Bendis did good with the Hood, there was a great feeling about that whole story. The problem, for me, was the oversaturation of the character and his gang. It would have been a lot better if he were more limited but Bendis did ****e him out a bit too much.

I really enjoyed him in Remender's hands in Punisher though. That was a pretty good run of Punisher comics, and I don't even much care for the Punisher.

I thought it was handled pretty idiotically. The Hood just up and decides he's gonna be the kingpin of supervillains, and the other villains just miraculously fall in behind him? Ridiculous. He has no clout whatsoever and we didn't learn until much later that he had Dormammu's power behind him; he was portrayed every step of the way while he was coercing villains to his side as just some punk with a cloak that made him invisible and normal guns that shot normal bullets. It just didn't make sense. By the end, sure, I could see how Dormammu's power and the Hood's upstart attitude could've combined to create a charismatic leader for the villains, but the actual execution of the story was pretty poor.