Top 100 Summer Comics #43
Sometimes you need a light-hearted and fun hero romp. Wieringo and Waid’s Fantastic Four sates this sweet tooth quite nicely. But when you are looking for something with a little bit more of a bite, the art of Mike Deodato comes to the plate perfectly. His style has grown over the years but the depth [...]
Top 100 Summer Comics #52
I’ve been thin on the posts this week, been crazy. But let me be brief on this one because I truly believeΒ there’s not a whole lot that needs to be said. Especially with everyone buzzing about the THOR movie trailer, this is an issue that needs a mere three content comments to sell it. John [...]
Top 100 Summer Comics… #81
Considering there were two coastal Avenger teams, it made sense. The Avengers took care of all dangers to NYC and the surrounding northeastern area. The West Coast Avengers pretty much just hung out in Malibu and waited around for Iron Man to show up occasionally. That’s how Clint Barton roles. But how about the Upper [...]
100 Days of Summer Comics… #97
It’s amazing what a creative team can do. Often we forget, and I think the comic companies do too, that a great character is absolutely nothing without a great writer and artist behind him. The Avengers have often been a testament to that. So when Brian M. Bendis and David Finch stepped up to the [...]
100 Days of Summer Comics… #99
#99 – Avengers #303 Let me set this up. The Avengers are essentially Gilgamesh, Captain America, Thor, the Invisible Woman and Mr. Fantastic. Huh? Weird right? Well by the end of this issue, the Avengers are back on the good foot. If you can’t tell, this issue has three things I’m a sucker for. One [...]
Lights out…
A funny thing happened last night, as I was preparing to do a couple of comicnoize posts. The power went out. Okay, no big deal. It’s 8 o’clock. Give it an hour, tops, I’ll be back in business. NOPE. Power came back today at noon. So in honor of CPS for taking their sweet time [...]
Avengers. Solo Avengers.
An interesting concept that I almost completely forgot about. A somewhat successful team book spawning a side book that showcased team members in solo adventures without the need for miniseries after miniseries. I think almost any fan could see that and both enjoy and recoil at the possible outcome. Solo Avengers (which morphed into Avengers [...]
New “Avengers”. Not “New Avengers”
It’s been a long time coming. Few things in comics are certain. But one to stand by is “no one stays dead forever”. And that counts doubly for good team books. I can say that the Avengers hit some skids. The stagnation level was at an all time high as far as I’m concerned through [...]
What If Syndrome.
Remember back in April, when I did a post on What If…? And remember how I mentioned that later stories had a tendency to devolve into a game of “let’s kill everyone we can, in really mean ways”? This is one of those stories… The Last Avengers Story. The name implies death, certainly, but it [...]
Setting the bar: Avengers cover art
For a long time, Marvel was dominated by their merry mutants. Before that however, the Avengers were the major force. And now, they’ve regained their throne. But as good as the series is now, without hindsight it will be impossible to really judge how great their reign has been. Looking back at the Avengers run [...]
