Well, here we are. Captain America is officially back. And yes, it’s not Steve Rogers, but his former child protege, Cold War brainwashing victim and the most unlikely badass in Comics, James “Bucky” Barnes, aka, the Winter Soldier. As if you hadn’t heard that by now.
I have to say, I find Brubaker a bit hit and miss. [...]

Every Wednesday we take turns to delve into our trusty longboxes, pluck out a dusty back issue at random, and give you our thoughts. We’ll also try and place it in the context of the time it was originally published.
The Genis-vell incarnation of Captain Marvel had been hanging on the edge of cancellation for so [...]

While Messiah Complex blows the X-Men line wide open, it’s easy to forget Astonishing X-Men - a kind of living fossil, now in the 4th year of its 2-year storyline. Where the delays are coming from, it’s not clear. Whedon says he’s turned in all his scripts. Cassaday was recently able to take time out to [...]

Despite my inherent anger at the prospect of replacing Ted Kord with some random new kid (knowing for the first time just how Hal Jordan fans felt in the mid-nineties, even though being a Jordan “fan” remains a bizarre concept), I gave the new Blue Beetle series a shot when it first launched. I’m glad [...]

Slott’s first arc on the character comes to an end, and it’s almost hard to know what to say. It’s been good. Really good. Whether or not you liked One More Day, it’s very hard not to argue that these last three issues comprise a really classic Spider-Man story. Or perhaps it’s more accurate to call it [...]

It’s all over! Best post-Morrison X-Men story ever! (and a lot better than most pre-Morrison X-Men stories too.)
It’s fair to say that a lot of recent Marvel crossovers have dropped the ball in the final act, whether we’re talking the dead-end plots of of House of M and The Other, the hastily rewritten garbage of One More [...]