It’s not as great as the previous arcs but I’m enjoying the origin story.
Okay, cool. Keep me posted? I am thinking I was going to pull away from Valiant as their recent 'We are not going to work on publishing new characters, but concentrate instead on movies' style of editorial process, not to mention the fact they lost a lot of great talent, but then I see they are now having a new Eternal Warrior series written by Vendetti, so that is decent news at least.
*fingers crossed*
Only was able to get a couple more in yesterday to finish the week -
Detective Comics #995
Detective Comics #996
Detective Comics #997 Freedom Fighters #2 Justice League Dark #7The Terrifics #5Aquaman #44Supergirl #26Batman #62
Batman #63Man Without Fear #4
Man Without Fear #5Captain America #1
Captain America #2
Captain America #3 Amazing Spider-Man #14Captain America #4
Captain America #5
Captain America #6 Captain America #7 - The repercussions from Hydra Cap continue and he just got jammed
Age of X-Man Alpha #1 - Make no mistake about it, I had no intention nor desire to read this but was absolutely forced to do so, although I was kicking and screaming the entire way. See, I can appreciate the Age of Apocalypse story, but I was out of comics at that time, certainly away from X-Men even prior to that, and so I never "felt" the way that most people did about that event. I understand its importance and I do enjoy, mostly, the impact that it had and the stories it contained (as far as the plots go), but I know I would have loathed it if I had read it at the time of its release (the art alone!!), so I just rolled my eyes when I heard Marvel was going that way again, but in reverse and now with Nate Grey. A character I just don't give a *BEEP* about.
But man, once again, I am happy someone else "made me do it".
I say that still not knowing why I feel that way. I mean this issue does little more than introduce us, in a cool fashion, to the five or six mini's that are being published starting today, but something in it hit me. I didn't want to like this. I didn't think I could. But I did. It is NOT a powerhouse issue. Nothing amazing happens. It is just a good issue #1
That art sure didn't hurt. Very clean, and very much in the appeal that Maquire has for me. That style, ya know? Not a lot of texture shading or musculature outlining and not filled with crosshatching, but just clean art. Not lacking in style (like a lot of Dynamite/Zenoscope comics), just clean freaking art.
I say give it a shot when it hits the MU, it may just get you excited like it did me.
Of course Uncanny starts today as well (sure it is really issue #11 but it is Rosenburg's first solo issue so sorta like a number one) and man do I hope that issue doesn't bring my fresh, under 24 hours, X-Men love back down to Earth.