My Weekly Pull List - 12/21/11

Big ReGenesis week folks!  Sebastian Shaw, Blink, Kid Omega and...Nightcrawler?!  Kinda makes Storm joining the Avengers seem like not such a big deal any more.  And I honestly just want the current X-Factor storyline to be over so that  we can see Havok and Polaris return to the team!

Avengers #20 SH

Defenders: Strange Heroes #1

Fear Itself: The Fearless #5 FI

Generation Hope #14 RG

New Mutants #35 RG

Uncanny X-Force #19 RG

Wolverine & the X-Men #3 RG

X-Factor #229

FI = Fear Itself

RG = ReGenesis

SH = Shattered Heroes

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Marvel Comics On-sale - 12/21/11

Storm's first outing as an Avenger happens this week!  In ReGenesis news as Sebastian Shaw joins Generation Hope, the New Mutants hunt the rogue mutant Blink and fallout from the Dark Angel Saga over in Uncanny X-Force!  And find out the fate of Madrox and Layla in X-Factor!

Amazing Spider-Man #676

Anita Blake: Circus of the Damned - The Scoundrel #3

Avengers #20 SH

Avengers #20 (FF 50th Anniversary Variant) SH

Daken: Dark Wolverine #18

Daredevil #7

Daredevil #7 (MC 50th Anniversary Variant)

Deadpool Max2 #3

Defenders: Strange Heroes #1

Defenders: Coming of the Defenders #1

Fantastic Four #601

Fear Itself: The Fearless #5 FI

Formic Wars: Second Series #1

Generation Hope #14 RG

Hulk #46

The Incredible Hulk #3

Invincible Iron Man #511

John Carter of Mars: A Princess of Mars #4

Legion of Monsters #3

New Mutants #35 RG

New Mutants #35 (Pearson Variant) RG

Punisher Max #20

Six Guns #3

Thunderbolts #167

Ultimate Spider-man #5

Uncanny X-Force #19 RG

Uncanny X-Force #19 (Bradshaw Variant) RG

Venom #11

Wolverine #20 RG

Wolverine & the X-Men #3 RG

X-23 #19

X-Factor #229

Flash Review - 12/7/11

Hey everyone, I am so sorry for the incredible lateness of this flash review.  I promise that between today and tomorrow I will get all caught up on my posting for the website so just keep an eye out!  And without further ado...the Flash Review for 12/7/11!

Fear Itself: The Fearless #4 – Ugh…only issue 34 and I’m already bored to death with this storyline.  Just let Fear Itself die already!  It was a great crossover (with too many tie-ins to begin with) and now it’s done.  Do we really need to have this 12 issue epilogue to it also?  I’m way more into what’s going on over in the new Defenders title.

Journey into Mystery #631 – Not too much huge action in this one but lots of setting up future storylines happening here.  I’m curious about these All-Mother(s) ruling in Odin’s stead and what their little secret is regarding Loki’s future role since they clearing seem to be planning SOMETHING.  I’m so glad Leah is still around with Lil Loki even though Hela’s gone back to Hel (yes, with one “L”).  It’s great to have a separate title like this that doesn’t require me reading the main Thor title to keep up. 

X-Factor #228 – It’s starting to become a snooze fest in here with this Blood Bath storyline.  It was really fun and cool at first but now it’s starting to wear on (like the Dark Angel Saga) a bit too long.  So after another entire issue we still are not completely clear on whether or not Jaime and Layla are really dead and ReGenesis hasn’t even hit here yet!  They have one more issue to get that all cleared up before Alex and Lorna get home to see what the kids were up to while they were gone.

X-Club #1 – Exactly what I expected it to be.  Fun story, heavy on the comedy, and little on the world-scale drama.  With Danger often busy on the Extinction Team or serving as Warden, it’s easy to forget her place on the X-Club, since she is a hyper-intelligent consciousness,  so I am glad they decided to center the limited series around her.I continue to love Kavita Rao, Dr Nemesis, and Madison Jeffries’ dynamic as the quirkiest group of scientists/geniuses that have ever worked together (not to mention Kavita’s status as token human scientist now that Moira MacTaggart seems to NOT being coming back).  Looking forward to the rest of this series in earnest.

X-men #22 – I’ll admit that this series has gotten much better since its original horrific Curse of the Mutants arc but it’s still doesn’t give just cause for this entire series to continue.  The only thing that this title gives me is a place where Storm can be shown in some sort of leadership capacity as she deserves.  I like seeing vampire Jubilee is action as part of the team, as well as double agent Psylocke.  I only hope that Ororo can keep this dark team of X-men together and sane.

My Weekly Pull List - 12/14/11

 

::Sigh:: Yes Battle Scars and Avengers 1959 are still coming out, just grin and bare it like the rest of us...  Carnage returns for some cross country mayhem!Ghost Rider slips further down my priority list (close to last if not already there).  Joseph returns in Magneto: Not a Hero #2!!  And will Archangel survive the conclusion of the Dark Angel Saga?? (I know I listed X-Force last week but its coming this week instead, sorry)

Avengers 1959 #4

Avengers Academy #23

Avengers: X-Sanction #1

Battle Scars #2

Carnage U.S.A. #1
Ghost Rider #7

Journey Into Mystery #632

Magneto: Not a Hero #2 RG

New Avengers #19
Uncanny X-Force #18

Defenders Assemble! - Review Defenders #1

                And the fallout from Fear Itself continues!  The big difference this time is that it didn’t annoy the hell out of me to read it!  Since I have barely recovered from a nasty bout of Crossover Fatigue I am not really looking to keep reading about this storyline anymore then I have to.  In fact, I almost didn’t even buy this comic since there isn’t even anyone in it that I regularly read (I mean at least Secret Avengers has Beast), but after reading Marvel Point One and all the promo information that’s been pushed about this title, I felt compared compelled to at least give it a chance.  And boy am I glad I did!  I may not be 100% sold on collecting this title forever but this first issue definitely bought them a few arcs (much in the fashion that I gave FF a few chances to win me over).  On the plus side, this title DOES have a lot going for it.  Many of the original Defenders members who are returning are not quite the same as they were when they last were on the team.  Dr. Strange is no longer Sorcerer Supreme and is sleeping with graduate students;  Namor is now carrying a proud mutant flag and a torch for Emma Frost; Iron Fist has had more than one life altering event in his life; and Hulk is now…well…female and red.  Like I said, lots of changes. 

                First and foremost, my favorite character has to be Red She-Hulk!  I am not a huge Hulk fan as a rule but ever since I have been hearing about this crimson femme fatale, I have been very interested in her story.  It helps that original She-Hulk is one of my all-time favorite characters ever but I was instantly intrigued about the origins of this new hulk.  To find one that she was long time Hulk lover Betty Ross was a huge deal to me and only made her an even cooler character.  Of course liking the one character isn’t a reason to start collecting Hulk comics (especially since she isn’t really in all the issues) so her taking Hulk’s place on this brand new team book (after all, I DO love a good team book) was a dream come true.  This way I get to follow this amazing character without subscribing to a line of books where the main character doesn’t really interest me all that much. 

Another great character in this book is Nul.  As sick to death as I am of Fear Itself and its spin-offs, I was really into the characters of the Worthy and was somewhat sad to see them all evaporate at the end of Fear Itself #7.  But this book showed us two thing: first, that the Worthy aren’t completely gone and can be summoned without a host and second, all it takes to bring forth a Worthy is to shatter its hammer.  I sorta hope Valkyrie knows that over in The Fearless...  I did somewhat wonder why Dr. Strange had to be TOLD what was going on with Nul since I am sure there would have been news footage of the Bucharest attack, but this is fiction after all so a little suspension of disbelief is perfectly acceptable.

Add Wundagore Mountain and a quasi-intelligent, non-ragey Hulk guest appearance to this mix and you’ve got the makings of a great story!  There weren’t any major glaring problems in the issue worth talking about but it was only the first issues so anything can still happen.  It’s no X-men or Avengers so they don’t get a clear endless subscription but they have definitely bought themselves at least to issues 10 or 12 with stories like this.  If the writers can keep the excitement of this first issues going through every issues of this series, they will definitely have a mega hit on their hands!