Fear Itself: The Fearless #7 – Finally something worth my $2.99. This pointless series continues to drone on but at the very least something in it has caught my interest. I’m still bored to tears by the entire quest for the hammers, but I love Brunnhilde’s backstory more and more with every issue. She’s been around for years and always depicted as a hardened warrior, but now we are seeing another side of her more and more. This other side of her has grown more than a bit weary of her long life and yearns to find her way to Valhalla, where she has led so many other brave warrior souls. Watching her give away her apple of Idunn was both powerful and sad and I am curious as to the fate of this character following this series (especially in light of her appearing in ads for upcoming Secret Avengers issues).
Generation Hope #15 – I’ll say it again folks…Hope Summers is SUCH a brat! It truly sucks that she is going to be so integrally tied to the Phoenix Force because that girl seriously needs her ass good and kicked. She chose to stay with Cyclops following the Schism so that should afford him a modicum of respect. At least as far as giving him a second to explain when he says that someone is a homicidal lunatic! Then again, why would she worry what anyone says when she can just…you know… control all the lights and make then do whatever she wants! Uh uh…not ok people. So now she is flat out controlling the poor kids instead of just influencing them and insisting on former murderer be allowed to pal around with them. I hope that during Avengers vs. X-men, Wanda kicked her square in the teeth at least once. Oh and Kenji is creepy as hell.
Ghost Rider #8 – OK they bought themselves a few more months! The Hawkeye cameo was kinda cheap but they made it work and more importantly they brought Johnny Blaze back in (after he was missing for a while) and gave him a purpose. I don’t think we needed 8 issues to figure out that Alejandra was insane and Blaze needed to train her but whatever we got there! Here’s to not seeing Steel Wind and Steel Vengeance anymore…those chicks bugged me out a bit.
New Mutants #36 – Great ending to a good story. It lagged in the middle a bit but finished up strong. I was a little iffy on the entire Diskhord storyline for a while but the whole alien angle and chaos energy was actually pretty cool. I’m a bit disappointed that Blink didn’t stay with the New Mutants but at least at the new school she’ll be with Husk (probably the only X-man she ever had any positive contact with that’s still alive). I just hope they actually feature her in the school’s titles and don’t let her fade to the background.
Secret Avengers #21 – I know I’ve complained about the weirdness and pointlessness of these Secret Avengers stories before…but this one really takes it! I’m barely even sure what happened in this issue but I DO know it included some giant disgusting slime monster that grew larger by vomiting up more of itself, if that even makes any sense. The only good thing that I can say about this issue is that it seems like the end of a bad era of storytelling and that next issue (where it seems like Hawkeye joins) brings promise of better issues.
Uncanny X-Force #20 – I mean really, what’s to say…this title is just back to back hits every issue. Yeah the Dark Angel Saga went on a little too long but not one issue was what you would call “bad”. This current installment was no different. With no British based book currently running, Captain Britain and his Corp. have been left hanging out in comic limbo so it’s nice to see him. That being said, what a douche! I mean I get where he’s coming from, Fantomex may have crossed a moral boundary when he killed Apocalypse Jr. but still, they should account for who the boy was. Additionally, Jaime’s sane?? I know he resurrected Betsy in the past and seemed a bunch more together but this version of sane Jaime was so put together it was just flat out weird. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was all an act and he planning some craziness in the next issue or two. Some complaints though… They need to stop teasing us about Betsy getting her original body back. We all know that Marvel is never going to switch her back and even if they did it would never last forever. And does AOA Nightcrawler HAVE to be such an ass all the time? You’re a guest in OUR dimension buddy so let’s try to be a little more polite and grateful.
Uncanny X-men #5 – The cover with Psylocke fighting some bat creature left me a bit skeptical but this actually turned out to be a really good issue. I really liked seeing storylines carrying over from the “Wolverine group” to the “Cyclops group” and watch Psylocke navigate the tricky waters of playing both sides of the fence. And how it must have hurt to have to listen to Magneto take the moral high ground over her. When a world class terrorist is looking down on your extra-curricular activities you really need to start re-examining your life. One minor details that bothered me though was Scott’s comment to Ororo “I didn’t make you my second so you could guilt trip me”. No you idiot, you made her your second because who else deserves it more than her? She is the only person besides Scott who has run the X-men on her own and he acts like it’s a privilege to be his second in command. HE should be slapped.
X-Club #2 – I still maintain that this series is pointless and didn’t need to happen. I could have been a cute little story arc in one of the regular titles as a way to feature the X-club in a way that didn’t cost an extra $2.99. However, listening to the inner monologue of Dr. Nemesis for the entire issue was frigging hilarious! I am not entirely clear on exactly what is going on with those weird time slips we were seeing but I do know whoever thought up the creature feature at the end of the issue should be lined up along with Secret Avengers’ writers and shot. Why is it slime monster week at Marvel??
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