A blockbuster epic approached as a short story collection might sound a contradiction in terms, but is a concept very suited to Brian Bendis’s slow-burn writing style. With the casts of both Avengers titles still tied up in the Savage Land, the Secret Invasion’s mastermind continues his trip through the Marvel Universe’s recent past, showing [...]

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.
Secret Invasion has finally kicked off, and if we’re to believe the hype, Bendis has had [...]

Just as Gaydos returned for his stint on Alias’ Jessica Jones last week, so this issue of New Avengers sees David Mack returning to the character he had a hand in creating - Maya Lopez, the deaf hitwoman-turned-heroine known as Echo.
Little is made of Echo’s powers in this issue. From her appearances in Dardevil, we [...]

Once upon a time there was a book called Alias and it was, by a considerable distance, the best female-fronted superhero comic that has ever been published. It was written by Bendis, drawn by Gaydos, and for its entire run of 28 issues you could barely hope to encounter a finer title on the shelves.
Then, [...]

When Marvel brought back annuals after a lengthy absence from the shelves, they promised that they would essentially function as extra-sized issues of the parent series that would make them a must-buy. In the past, annuals contained extra-sized, though largely peripheral stories, and buyers treated them like the superfluous luxuries they were. While recently not [...]

Following a good few months of barely comprehensible stories containing tie-ins with comics that still have yet to see print over in Mighty Avengers, this issue finally regains some sense of coherance. The New Avengers track down the up-and-coming crime boss, the Hood, and decide to ambush him and his super-villain army, using only their fists [...]