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    Picked up Saga too, I agree that I am going to need more that “we’re running away” real soon to stay interested. This plot is crawling, but the human centipede, Prince Computer, Lying Cat, and such keep me coming back every week.

    Other pick ups:

    Journey Into Mystery #640: I swear these things are like weeklies at this point. My one complaint about Kid Loki is that he can be a little too precocious in his mischief sometimes. I just miss evil Loki every so often. This issue makes it look like he might be starting to return to form.

    Secret Avengers #28: The AvX crossover here started real strong and has gotten progressively weaker. It ends with this issue and I suspect my readership of this book will too.

    Dark Avengers #2: Much stronger than #1, but WTF!? Let’s introduce an entirely new Dark Avengers team in issue #1, barely say anything about them or give them any time to get us interested, and then completely abandon them in issue #2 so that we can focus the whole issue on the time traveling Thunderbolts team that the Dark Avengers are supposed to be replacing.

    All I learned here is that the old Thunderbolts team is way better than the new Dark Avengers team. I mean, Ragnarok is seriously the most boring character ever created.

    The Twelve, Vol. 2: I eschewed the last six issues so that I could wait to read them all at once. I suspect that how much I like this series and how good it actually is have almost nothing to do with one another, but damn I sure like it a lot.


  2. Definitely noticed the uptick in art for this round of AvX. I like that Cyclops is actually a badass for once. I think the weirdness of Saga is what keeps me intrigued. It’s certainly not the main characters, as I completely forget what their names are. But the half-ghost girl & definitely Lying Cat are high points. The TV people as well.

    You are correct in your theory that comics have started coming out more frequently. Marvel upped the number of books that are coming out bi-monthly. Check it out:

    I think all the Avengers books have just turned into so much junk. They were really a high point for a few years; hell even the relaunch of Avengers last year or so when the Hood tries to get the Infinity Gems was AWESOME. Then it just kind of disintegrated into blah.

    I leafed through the new Dark Avengers/Thunderbolts book…was thinking the same thing. WHY did they introduce that other team last issue?

    Completely ignorant of The Twelve. I will investigate.


  3. The Twelve is a J Michael Straczynski book. I know he can be polarizing. I personally like him a lot.

    Premise is that the during the (Marvel) Civil War the government finds a bunch of old Golden Age superheroes that were trapped by the Nazis during WWII and cryogenically frozen. Hoping that this group (of twelve) would be more willing to work with the government due to the fact that they are from the 1940s and were basically GMen to start with they defrost them and try to assemble them into some kind of team.

    The crossovers with the main continuity don’t go a lot further than that aside from a few Easter Eggs and one or two cameos, but the series is definitely interesting. All of these characters were actual Golden Age heroes, although most never had their own book. It is interesting to see how JMS reinvents them.

    Keeping with the theme the whole thing is twelve issues long and it is all available now. It went on hiatus for like two years when JMS left Marvel. It looks like he may have been setting a few of the characters up to continue afterwards as an ongoing series, but then he left for DC so I guess we may never know.




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