If you’ve not been paying close attention to the solicitations, you might be surprised to discover that this limited series - heavily pushed as being based on Iceman’s journey towards San Francisco - is actually an anthology. It’s much in the vein of the recent “Divided We Stand” 2-issue miniseries, with the added bonus that there’s [...]

Despite beginning from a standing start, Mike Carey has managed to turn Legacy into something genuinely different. Although the tale is obviously destined to be collected as a hardcover once the fourteen issue story is complete, the writer has still managed to deliver enough plot each month to satisfy those purchasing the title as an ongoing. [...]

As the only one of Marvel’s “Tsunami” marketing exercise to make it out alive, Runaways has struggled for popularity at the best of times. Following creator Brian K. Vaughan’s departure, the future of the series was more uncertain than ever, and a 6-issue run by Joss Whedon combined the writer’s stratospheric name power with the [...]

New Avengers, as a series, has become both incredibly rewarding and rather frustrating of late. During the whole Secret Invasion crossover, it’s been the main place to find answers to the myriad questions of how the Skrull invasion was achieved. As a result, we have issues like this - a brilliant issue of Fantastic Four, [...]

Although the X-Men franchise managed to break it’s “Annual” habit in the first half of this decade, it’s recently discovered an even more debilitating addiction: specials. Barely a month goes by without Wolverine embarking on a forty-eight-page killing spree, or a supporting character seizing their moment in the sun. It’s difficult to see a reason [...]

Although we’ve now reached the penultimate chapter of The Death of Captain America, Ed Brubaker’s intentions for the series are still something of a mystery. Elements from the writer’s entire run, even predating Steve Rogers’ shooting, are being called in, but an unexpected twist means that the conclusion of this epic may not be as [...]