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Uncanny Avengers #2 was pretty good. Same old Cassaday.
However, I noticed some discrepancies between the art and story or some far fetched creative license. Haven't seen that in a while.
The book gets two power boys on art alone. The story is wobbly, some parts are really good like the premise of the Red Skull versus the mutants and Click Here For A Spoiler Rogue's major emotional reaction to Charles Xavier's corpse
and some parts are ... just aren't sensible.
Click Here For A Spoiler Havok gets a hug from a bystander just as Cap and Wolvie are debating Cap's P.R. plan of putting the pretty mutants out front too thick for my tastes.
I give it a low rating but I will probably be getting #3. Despite the fact, it dosn't feature any of my favorite characters. Cassaday's art is dragging me along ... and the whole impending red skull smack down.
the cover alone is pretty great, except for all those crappy advertisements ruining the 60s simplicity of the design.
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I enjoyed it more than # 1. I'm not 100 percent sold, but I will see this arc through at the very least.
WOLVERINE & THE X-MEN 17, 19, 20 & 21 (I somehow missed 18)
Now *THIS* is a book I don't mind paying $3.99 for. Not a worthless double-page spread in sight like in WAY too many DC books, and every issue is JAM-PACKED. These actually take TIME to read. And also, it's fun. Not outright comedy like DEADPOOL, but a more... I dunno, cerebral kind of fun, I guess you could say? Anyway, thanks, Peebs, for turning me onto it!
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Haven't read an X book in years and years, but I tried All New X-Men because it's a time travel story. Because I'm so out of touch with the group, some of the glitches that DrakeB mentioned just passed by me.
The book struck me as a good jumping-on point; there was enough explanation of why people were acting the way they were without retelling their history, so it was perfectly easy to follow the plot despite skipping what came before.
It's not entirely new as a story - young person confronts older self who has messed things up royally - but it's well done. The confusion and angst of the young X-Men who've been taken to the future is set against the confusion and angst of the current team trying to deal with a lot of problems. Not a happy reunion at this point, but everyone seems to be acting like a hero.
I just wonder where it's going long term. The young ones can't remain in their future, or there won't be a future, and if they go back to their own time, it's just the Same Old X-Men.
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All-New X-Men 3 was pretty good--establishes what the adult Scott's team/new Uncanny team will have to deal with.
One thing confused me, though...in this issue, Scott and Magneto break Emma Frost out during a prison transfer. She comes out pissed and saying that her telepathy is gone due to her being touched by the Phoenix Force.
BUT--wasn't she standing right next to Scott in #1, when the three were encountering the Australian time-freezing girl?
So I'm thinking either somehow in the span of one issue, Emma got caught by the po-po and lost her telepathy without anyone mentioning it, or Immonen accidentally drew her in when he was supposed to put in Magik or something.
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So I finally read Deadpool #2 (couldn't find #1) and...I thought it was hilarious! Just an all-around fun comic that just so happens to have jaw-dropping Tony Moore art.
Love the pastiches of the Presidents and love skirt-chasing Ben Franklin.
"Should we talk about the elephant in the room" - best line spoken in a comic book in about, oh, 25 years? Since the Heckler mini?
I think I'm on board for awhile! It felt good to have another funny comic in addition to Chew and Atomic Robo.
From: If you don't want my peaches, honey... | Registered: Sep 2003
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I'm interested in buying Avengers due to the line-up, but I'm going to wait until issue 2 because there wasn't enough info on some of the new members: Smasher, Captain Universe, Hyperion, to get my interest.
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I've started with Uncanny Avengers, All-New X-Men (or whatever the one with the original 5 in it is called), The Avengers (the one with like 20 members) and Fantastic Four.
Not sure what I think so far. My first complaint is one that I've always had: the same characters appearing in multiple group books. Do Cap and Wolverine really need to star in 2 or more Avengers books? Does Wolverine have to be in like 5 X-Men books? There are so many good characters out there without titles right now. Couldn't they get a home too?
Oh and I'm also reading Hunger Avengers or whatever that Kill All Teenaged Heroes title is called. Honestly I can't see myself continuing with it. With everything going on in the real world right now, I just don't think I can read a book about making young heroes kill each other to survive.
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In the 35 years I have been reading comix, I have mostly been a "DC guy;" I gravitated to their characters more, etc.
However, for about the third time in my comic reading history, I am starting to skew strongly toward Marvel (also toward Image, which has never happened)... or maybe just skew away from DC, b/c a lot of their recent product is leaving me cold (there are notable exceptions).
For Marvel Now, I am picking up the Hickman Avengers books, Young Avengers (really looking forward to that one), All-New X-Men, X-Men Legacy and trying Uncanny Avengers. Although not planning to do so, I have also found Thor and Hawkeye to be required reading. I was already reading FF and Fantastic Four and WAXM, so those were already on the list.
Wow, for me, that is a lot of Marvel titles!
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So far, of the Marvel Now titles I have picked up, I am on the fence about All-New X-Men and Uncanny Avengers, but I have really liked everything else.
Uncanny Avengers just hasn't grabbed me yet, and for All-New X-Men: although we haven't seen much of her, my first impression is that the voice of Emma Frost is All Wrong, but then I have never been a fan of Bendis anyway, so no surprise.
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I also going Aaron's Thor to be pretty awesome do far. It feels fresh with a grandiose-yet-viceral quality to it.
I think Marvel has *so far* been very smart to avoid some DC mistakes.
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