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, [...]

For those of you who, like me, have been getting slightly upset that Secret Invasion has been stretching out mere moments into entire issues, well, good news - stuff actually happens in this one. Important stuff. Look away if you don’t like spoilers, because I AM going to discuss what happens, as well as what doesn’t [...]

There are some interesting parallels between the first two books we’ve looked at this week, with Thunderbolts also acquiring a new writer as it dives into a crossover. Unlike Fabian Nicieza, Christos N Gage enjoys the advantage of having a clearly apportioned segment of an overall story to tell, but chooses to save this element [...]

Alright, forget the cautious optimism of my last review. Let’s have our cards right out on the table – Captain Britain and MI:13 is the successor to Ultimates 2 as Marvel’s best current ongoing superhero comic, Paul Cornell is absolutely brilliant, and in a world where All-Star Batman and Ultimates 3 top sales charts, it’s [...]

It’s becoming a cliche to complain about event pacing, but seriously, this is getting a bit trying even for a practical Marvel Zombie like me. While almost every page of this series looks positively frenetic, there appears to be almost nothing going on in terms of actually moving the plot along. Instead, we spend every issue [...]

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 [...]