MARVEL NOW THEN, NOW THEN
All-New X-Men - While a neat brief interlude concept with the originals drifting in, another Bendis book but now fucking with all of the X-Men has been as legit bad as I feared. Keeping Young Jean Grey and Young Cyclops et al around for romantic pair ups is just not what I want from X-books when they'd just found their feet again post-Schism. Battle of the Atom has been 9 issues of stupid random future X-Men fanon fighting. Also Bendis assassination of Kitty as still some clueless hothead when WatXM had her as a damn good adult headmistress is disappointing. Her getting "attached" to the original five makes no sense at all.
Avengers - isn't an Avengers book. Its some high-sci-fi stuff happening that Hickman wants to write but with occasional appearances from Cap, Iron Man and Thor.
Avengers Arena - an enjoyable ride, if a little schlocky. Now we're close to the end, I fear retcons coming thick and fast.
Cable and X-Force - Larroca art made it a no-pick up, but I saw it had a cool artist on a flick through the other week. Temporary or whatever, its a long stretch to care for this set of characters in off-shoot adventures.
Uncanny X-Force - pretty bad. Art fluctuates between stylised and awful, and book doesnt seemingly have much of a purpose. Why there can be two X-Forces has never been explained.
X-Men - also lacking severe purpose, and sharing the same space as UXF as Team X-Women, but this time without Puck. An endearing Logan and Jubilee issue made me glad someone else can write Wolverine not as the most retarded character living, but then it got BotA event'd. Needs to prove itself bigtime.
Captain America - Great first arc, if it ended a little with typical Remender schlock tactics. Not sure how its going to hold up outside of Dimension Z. At many times it doesnt feel like Remender writing which is a good thing.
FF - sorry dudes, Allred has never been my jam. This book has never worked well in my eyes due to the occasionally great comic moments juxtaposed over a grieving father out for revenge for his disintegrated dead daughter. Book only ever lived and died as Hickman spillover in the past anyway.
Fantastic Four - Went nowhere, now the team switches up.
Fearless Defenders - Kept meaning to pick this up, kept forgetting, now dead. Blood on my hands.
Guardians of the Galaxy - more Bendis why. Somehow allowed to completely ignore all of Hickman's cosmic goings on, now with unnecessary Iron Man inclusion.
Indestructible Hulk - Started strong! Went nowhere. Bye.
Iron Man - The shittest run on Iron Man since Teen Tony. An achievement in assetry.
Morbius: The Living Vampire - lel
New Avengers - aka, Reed Richards and Black Panther continue Hickman's F4 run. Good stuff, but needs to go somewhere soon, although its been event'd.
Nova - lul
Avengers AI: Age of Ultron was not good. This didn't look good. No.
Secret Avengers - think I gave this an issue or two before forgetting it existed post Remender run.
The Superior Spider-Man - Slott schlock. Only Stegman art keeps me coming back, and thankfully the end is in sight.
Superior Spider-Man Team-Up: Yost does a Superior job of selling the character at all angles, but obviously stuck with total offshoot stories. Yost deserves the full Spidey run.
Superior Foes of Spider-Man: oddly heartwarming stuff that feels like the villainous counterpoint to Fraction's Hawkeye.
Thor: God of Thunder: Jason Aaron, I would make love-words with thee.
Thunderbolts: I remember some horrible art and Cuba and some shit. We out.
Uncanny Avengers: Droning crap. Just constant narration of how big the stakes are with barely anything happening between issues. Amateurish TEAM FRICTION and ROMANCE is also eye-rolly. Deaths and undeaths aplenty. Remender tropes unchained. Wolverine will be worfed and injected with some super-techno cancer every other issue.
Uncanny X-Men: Bendis worst X-book yet. A terrible team of new mutants, Bachalo's most phoned in art of all time, just no purpose at all.
Wolverine and the X-Men: Please Jason, make some mephisto-pact to never get event'd again so I can actually get the comic you want to tell of the new gen of X-Men students and a Wolverine thats worth a damn.
Young Avengers: didn't give it long before I bailed. Gillens lost it big time.
Scarlet Spider: dead
The best Spider-book.
Venom: dead. Had trouble post-Remender, hit a good groove recently, but deaded.
Hawkeye: Feels like its really squandered its momentum a bit too much. Retelling the same events 4-times was way too many.
Ultimate Spider-Man: even though his entire universe WILL die, we'll never be free of Bendis terrible cowardly Gary Stu of a Spider-Man. VENOM STING, the end.
Going forward, I'm not sold on the whole Inhumans thing (so like more mutants but not, great), New Warriors has the touch of death to it already with Nova and ragtag group despite it being Kaine Parkers new poor-fit home, and we'll see how that Invaders book shakes out.
