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A Whole Nother New World

On the rare occasion that I don't have a lot to say, I'm going to keep this week's Marvel reviews short. I found both new titles decent enough that I enjoyed, but nowhere near interesting enough to buy anther issue. Uncanny X-Force is a pretty standard X-Men book. It picks up right where the last series left (It seems to anyway. I didn't finish it out.). It's definitely the stronger of the two X-Force titles.













Young Avengers had pretty decent character development and some good art. I might have liked this a lot more if I were a little younger. It's a pretty good teen drama. Not enough really gets going enough to really spark my interest.

Deadpool is getting cartoonier. Very violent and funny. It culminates with a boxing match with zombie Lincoln and sets up a space battle with zombie Reagan next issue. My only issue is with Marvel's scheduling. They can learn a lot from DC about keeping a strict monthly schedule. The first three issues were released every other week, and this one took a month and a half to come out. That's awful. Unfortunately Tony Moore is not drawing the next arc, but hopefully that will give them time to catch up.

A Whole Nother New World

This was kind of cool, but ultimately disappointing. The art was good. It was pulpy. There were babes and dinosaurs. It was actually a lot more violent than you would expect from a Wolverine title from the past few decades. It's nice to see Wolverine take off his training bra and be a killer again.

The plot was a little thin, but that could build. I think its biggest detraction is that Wolverine is in his silly costume. It really just didn't fit the tone of the story and pulled me out a lot. I guess we're just long past a time where we can have a superhero running around being badass in a leather jacket. Or even naked with wires sticking out of him. Remember the Barry Windsor Smith Weapon X?

This is the best Marvel Now book. Crazy sci-fi action. Since John Romita Jr can keep a monthly schedule, I can't imagine the quality dropping.


















Although I've been enjoying Hulk quite a bit, I found this a little disappointing. It's pretty cool that Waid has been doing self-contained issues, all the while slowly building subplots, but this issue retreaded a lot that the first two issues already established. That being said, it was still a lot of fun and I am looking forward to see where these subplots are leading to.

I'm also very excited that Walt Simonson is coming aboard in April (and will be drawing Thor again).

Also noteworthy, I mentioned a couple months back that even though the Hulk is my all-time favorite character from my childhood, it's been now over nine years since I've liked the series enough to bu more than three consecutive issues. I will surpass that next month. I think I had a seven year run at that point, so that will be much tougher to break.

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So I got this a couple days ago. I wasn't too impressed with it at first, but it's really growing on me after a few listens. It's a little more straight forward than I was expecting for a Tomahawk album, but after the last album, maybe that's a good thing. Reminds me a bit of King for a Day which always kind of reminded me Jesus Lizard now that I think of it. Check it out. Spin will be streaming the album next Tues. I'll get a full review up on Target Audience sometime in the next week.

A Whole Nother New World

Between the new job, Wii U, and general holiday stuff, I've gotten a little behind with things. Luckily there hasn't been too much to get behind on. I'll catch up with three Marvel reviews right here:

I've never read a comic by Dennis Hopeless before, and one week about a month ago I got two. The first one I read was Cable and X-Force. This was a total suckfest. Thin story. Bad dialog. Just awful. Which brings me to the next comic...

...which I absolutely loved. I had pretty low expectations after Cable. This is obviously something that came about because The Hunger Games is so popular. As the cover suggests, it's a pretty close ripoff Battle Royale. There's nothing new about this comic, but it's really well done and compelling. Good characters and dialog. Honestly there are only two characters out of the sixteen that I even recognize, and I got a little teary-eyed at the end. This is the reason why I try to pick up as many number ones as I can. Because sometimes there's a book I have no interest in that becomes one of my favorites.

They seem pretty committed to the Battle Royale format. These are fairly obscure lower tier characters, so I can see that actually happening. I'm interested to see how far this can be taken as an ongoing series.

Denis Hopeless and Battle Pug's Mike Norton are releasing their new comic The Answer! through dark horse later this month. I'll have to check that out.

I just mentioned a comic brought about by the popularity of Hunger Games. Here's one that was put out because of the popularity of Twilight. From the cover, you might think this is a badass monster comic. But it's actually mopey teenager stuff. Skip it.