The Modern Marvel Reader

[Comicopolis]

Guardians of the Galaxy #1. Excellent! Did they really do 16 covers for this?

 

Hawkeye #9. Superb!

 

Indestructible Hulk #5 & #6. Inexplicably poor.

 

Journey Into Mystery #650. Entertaining.

 

Morbius the Living Vampire #3. Slowly losing interest.

 

Powers – The Bureau #3. Super-powered sex goes bad – classic!

 

Red She Hulk #64. Somebody slept with the Mole Man!

 

Scarlet Spider #15. Spider nonsense.

 

Secret Avengers #2 & #3. Rubbish.

 

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Superior Spider-Man: #5, #6, #6AU, #7, #8. Kudos to Dan Slott as he’s managed to make this Spidey much more interesting than the original.

 

Thanos Rising #1. Most excellent.

 

Thor God of Thunder #6 & #7. Majestic.

 

Thunderbolts #6 & #7. Nice covers, poor story.

 

Ultimate Wolverine #1 & #2. Dull.

 

Ultimates #23. Interesting.

 

Ultimate X-Men #23, #24 & #25. Dull.

 

Uncanny Avengers #5 & #6. A couple of decent issues at last.

 

Uncanny X-Force #3. Yawn.

 

Uncanny X-Men #3 & #4. Decent reads.

 

Venom #32 , #33 & #34. Modern horror.

 

Winter Soldier #16, #17 & #18. Dull.

 

X-Men Legacy #7 & #8. Dire.

 

Young Avengers #3. Meandering.

 

Ultron AU #1. Interesting

 

Journey Into Mystery #651. A shaggy dog story.

 

Wolverine v5 #1 & #2. Intriguing.

 

A+X #7. Fun stuff.

 

Scarlet Spider #16. Stupid.

 

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All New X-Men #11. Started off so well but now is just silly.

 

Avengers #10. Tries too hard to be grand.

 

FF #6. Possibly the first appearance of comic book alien transvestism.

 

Fantastic Four #7. OK.

 

Guardians of the Galaxy #2. Excellent.

 

Captain Marvel #11 & #12. A couple of decent issues at last.

 

Captain Amrerica #5 & #6. Terrible.

 

Daredevil #24 & #25. Excellent.

 

Hawkeye #10. Still great.

 

Indestructible Hulk #7. Some ugly art in this book.

 

New Avengers #4 & #5. Getting interesting.

 

Iron Man. #8 & #9. A vast improvement on recent issues.

 

Iron Man #258.1. A comic book out of time.

 

Morbius the Living Vampire #4. Dull.

 

Red She Hulk #65. Not great.

 

Superior Spider-Man #9. Excellent!

 

Thanos Rising #2. Gripping!

 

Thunderbolts #8. Yawn.

 

Ultimate Wolverine #3. Terrible.

 

Ultimate X-Men #26. Boring.

 

Uncanny Avengers #7. Bad writing complimented by crappy art.

 

Uncanny X-Men #5. Double yawn.

 

X-Men Legacy ##9 & #10. More mutant misery.

 

Young Avengers #4. Mildly interesting.

 

[whetteon]

Love your post. Keep them coming!

[awakeintheashes]

I always enjoy these, Comicopolis. Really helped target some summer reading material to catch up on.

[bababooey]

Spiderman

I always read ASM/SSM & Ultimate SM when they come out - everything else seems to take time to get to. Enjoying both of these, moving Miles forward threw me a bit & gives me the impression that he might be on the movie clock like Doc Ock

I'm now torn on any return of Ultimate PP but Marvel being Marvel and with USM #200 coming out around the same time as second ASM movie. It makes you wonder whether they'd do it and possibly serve the Miles fanbase with an untold tales series covering time missed during this fast forward...

 

Avengers

1st New Avenger arc 1-6 after the arc was over I liked it - I enjoy how most characters are interacting with each other. Well written dialogue.

1st 12 Avengers issues - too many characters, too many super duper powerful characters - why even have Spidey, Shang Chi etc.. to appear for two panels or chop a robot leg - enjoyed the powered down recent issue w/Black Widow, Spiderwoman, Shang Chi & the new mutant punks.

As mentioned here both above Avengers books are trying very hard to be big, the New Avengers/Illuminati group did 'big' better.

1-8 Uncanny Avengers was uneven, I like the characters in it (esp. Wonder Man & Scarlet Witch) Hit & miss so far.

 

Other

Daredevil - finally got a missing issue & had a few to catch up on, still great - this usually gets read with the Spideys !

Bendis X-men books - great improvement over prior series - why? Because I couldn't read the other stuff!! After "auto-collecting" X-books for years I made an effort to get back on board with Schism & fell off after a few issues - hopefully this will continue to be interesting stuff. I'm a fan of Bendis.

 

Still have the rebooted Thor, Fantastic Four, Iron Man & might even attempt Ultimate Avengers.

 

Gave up on even trying to read some other stuff & have dropped quite a few titles with the Marvel Now reboot so far I'm pleased with what I bothered to read.

 

 

[Whizzer]

There doesn't seem much love here (or amongst our shop customers) for either FF book, both of which i'm really enjoying.

[Comicopolis]

FF #7 – Yawn!

Iron Man #10 – starts off intriguing then quickly turns into nonsense.

Nova #4 – made my eyes bleed and head hurt.

Thunderbolts #9 – they should cancel this book before it gets any worse.

Ultimate Spider-Man #23 – still a good read.

A+X #8 – one decent story, one terrible story – guess which one featured Deadpool?

Avengers #11 & #12 – still pontificating, still dull.

Daredevil #26 – magnificent.

Deadpool #10 – dire.

Fantastic Four #8 – a trip down memory lane.

Fearless Defenders #4AU – stupid.

Journey Into Mystery #652 – scintilating Sif!

Scarlet Spider #17 – midly interesting.

Superior Spider-Man #10 – still a great read.

Uncanny Avengers #8AU – pointless.

Uncanny X-Men #6 – intriguing.

X-Men Legacy #11 – dull.

Young Avengers #5 – disappointing.

 

[Comicopolis]

Age of Ultron: #6-#9 – I don’t usually like time travel stories in comic books but this has been pretty cool so far.

 

Alpha Big Time #4. Dull.

 

Avengers #11. Pedestrian.

 

Avenging Spiderman #20. A decent read.

 

Fearless Defenders #4. Interesting.

 

Nova #2 & #3. Shambolic and stupid.

 

Savage Wolverine #3 & #4. This is a great read.

 

Secret Avengers #4. Dull.

 

Thor God of Thunder #8. Hammer time!

 

Uncanny Avengers #8. Apocalypse dull.

 

Uncanny X-Force #4. Yawn.

 

Wolverine v5 #3. Interesting.

 

[vader2001]

Thanos Rising #2. Gripping!

 

 

 

Thanos Rising #3 and #4 are most excellent! I am really enjoying these! They keep getting better with each issue.

 

I also am enjoying the Nova series. I know you gave it a headache and your eyes bleed, but the wolverine and x-men that just came out is really awful! Bad art and story imo no redeeming qualities what so ever!

[Colicab]

What if.... AvX has been a really fun read so far. Loving Nova, Uncanny X-Men, and All-New X-Men.

[Comicopolis]

Avenging Spider-Man #21 – still a good read.

Captain America #7 – it’s like reading a Jack Kirby Cap book from the 70’s, it’s that bad.

Indestructable Hulk #8 – some ugly art distracts from an average story.

Morbius #5 – dull.

New Avengers #6 – more intersting than previous issues.

Savage Wolverine #5 – funny & awesome.

Venom #35 – school’s out and the book gets interesting again.

X-Men #1 – stupid.

All New X-Men #12 – excellent, a return to form.

Avengers #13 – I really don’t like this book.

Fearless Defenders #5 – Yawn!

Iron Man #11 – the revisionist origin of Tony Stark.

Red She Hulk #66 – a giant size Man Thing that talks!

Superior Spider-Man #11 – still a great read.

Thanos Rising #3 – Thanos sows his wild oats.

Thunderbolts #10 – boring.

Winter Soldier #19 – Cosmic Cube ! Shame how this book deteriorated in quality.

Alpha Big Time #5 – terrible art, terrible writing.

Avenging Spider-Man #22 – interesting.

Guardians of the Galaxy #3 – great book.

Savage Wolverine #6 – so bad it made my head hurt.

Thor God of Thunder #9 – still a great read.

Venom #36 – dull.

Wolverine #4 – disappointing.

 

[Comicopolis]

A+X #9 – pointless stupidity.

Age of Ultron #10 – enjoyable.

Avengers #14 – yawn inducing.

Fantastic Four #9 – hard to tell what is worse, the art or the writing.

Indestructible Hulk #9 – another book that started off good but soon sunk into formulaic nonsense.

Morbius #6 – back on track after some duff issues.

New Avengers #7 – Hickman proves that he can write two variants of world ending nonsense.

Superior Spider-Man #12 – still interesting.

Thunderbolts #11 – dumb.

Uncanny Avengers #9 – why have one stupid Avengers book when you can have many. The art on this book is shocking.

 

[Jackhartmann]

X-Factor 261 was a great read. One more issue.

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All New X-Men #13 – more excellence.

Daredevil #27 – still a great book.

FF #8 – dull.

Guardians of the Galaxy #4 – Tony Stark in bedroom failure shock.

Hawkeye #11 – a shaggy dog story. The worst issue so far.

JIM #83 – super.

Nova #5 – dire.

Scarlet Spider #18 – poor.

Uncanny X-Men #7 – great writing, great art.

Wolverine #5 – not bad.

X-Men #2 – much better.

Young Avengers #6 – interesting.

 

[gaz973]

X-Factor 261 was a great read. One more issue.

Sad that it's ending.

 

Ah well, probably better than a new creative team taking over and making it unrecognisable.

[Comicopolis]

Avengers #15 – dull.

Avengers A.I #1 – intriguing.

Iron Man #12 – science friction.

Red She Hulk #67 – formulaic.

The Superior Foes of Spider Man #1 – funny stuff.

Thunderbolts #12 – dull.

Venom #37 – OK.

Daredevil #28 – another fantastic issue, which even has a panel flashback to one of my favourite bronze age Defenders issue.

Fearless Defenders #6 – a decent read.

Hawkeye #12 – back on form.

Indestructible #10 – hard to believe that Mark Waid is writing this nonsense.

Secret Avengers #6 – another crappy Avengers book.

Superior Spider Man #13 – still great.

Uncanny X-Men #8 – back to being terrible with crappy art. Shame.

Wolverine #6 – not bad again.

Young Avengers #7 – a book with cool music references.

 

[Jackhartmann]

Ah well, probably better than a new creative team taking over and making it unrecognisable.

 

True. Now what to do with the huge stack of the comics after it ends....

[Comicopolis]

A+X #10 – some terrible art in this book.

All New X-Men #14 – still good.

Avengers # 16 – more New Universe rubbish.

Fantastic Four #10 – the best issue in a while, Skrulls turned into cows and a history lesson about Thomas Jefferson.

FF #9 – yawn.

Iron Man #13 – cosmic.

Morbius #7 + #8 – good stuff.

Nova #6 – different writer, same tosh.

Savage Wolverine #7 – banal.

Superior Carnage #1 – bloody.

Thanos Rising #4 – plodding on.

Thor God of Thunder #10 – dragging on now.

Thunderbolts #13 – no mercy. Finally an issue I like.

Captain America #9 – simply awful.

Hawkeye Annual #1 – cool.

Hunger #1 – somewhat stupid.

JIM #654 – pretty good.

New Avengers #8 – still ponderous.

Scarlet Spider #19 – silly.

Superior Spiderman #14 – still a good read.

Superior Spiderman Team Up #1 – a decent read.

Uncanny Avengers #10 – some of the worst dialogue I’ve ever read in a comic book and the artwork makes my eyes bleed.

Wolverine #7 – interesting.

Young Avengers #8 – a Sliders experience, and a pretty good one at that.

 

[gaz973]

I like your style of reviewing. I agree with some, disagree with some but always enjoy reading your opinions.