Avengers/Invaders #4 - Rated 7 - Cap and Buck fight SHIELD. Eventually Bucky Cap shows up to chat with Bucky. The Avengers get intoa fight. Fight fight fight. Battle scenes

Invin Iron Man #4 - Rated 8 - You know what? I dont care about Stane and that BS, but the stuff with Pepper is awesome. If they dont hook up soon I'll be ticked.

Hellcat #2 - Rated 9 - The art and dialogue are so awesome. Patsy is just hilarious. This book is fantastic. Anyways, Patsy is sent on a mystic quest by some Eskimos to find a Windigo. Great great stuff.

NYX #1 - Rated 7 - Sweet! It's back! I missed Kiden. This issue is kind of a catch up of everything. Whos who etc. Its set some time after the original series. The 3 main characters all live toegether trying to make it through the day to day. of course something big is happening and does happen.

Spidy Loves MJ #1 - Rated 9.5 - Woohoo its back! And by Terry Moore as well! Once again this 1st issue is kind of a whos who catch up thing, still awesome though. Only real gripe was the art. Read this.

All I got was Venom dark Origin, which was really good.

Secret Invasion: Frontline #2 - Rated 7 - Keeping in the spirit of previous Frontline tie-ins, we get more of a real world perspective on the current big event. Ben Urich gets caught in a hospital when a Nitro-Skrull blows the whole place up. A cop gets in a fight with a Super-Skrull: New Warriors (mostly Nova and Firestar with some Speedball in the costume) and gets burned, but a civilian saves him, and then a bus driver abandons a bus-load of people and tells the injured cop to look after them. And regular, everyday employees try to get out of Stark Tower alive, but there's a bloodsucking Skrull in there with them. Also, Young Avengers cameo as they fight Skrulls in the streets.

Venom: Dark Origin - Rated 8 - Not keen on the art, but it works well with the story. We learn that Eddie Brock was never a good person. As a boy he kidnapped a neighbour's cat so that he could "find" it later when everyone was looking. He also figured out he could tell when people are lying, like how he could tell his father blamed him for the way his mother died during childbirth. In high school, around the time of the Watergate scandal, Eddie's teacher taught the class that journalists get to say what's true. No matter how a politician or anyone else tries to spin a scandal, a journalist can paint a different picture of the truth. Eddie lies his way into University for journalism and then lies to a girl so she'll help him find his apartment, taking her on a wild goose chase to the bad part of town just so he can spend time with her. But then they get attacked and she gets bumped on the head and he tells the attackers to take her and let him go, and Spidey shows up and saves them, but the girl only comes to afterwards and thinks Eddie did it. So he lies and tells her it was easy. Very solid story about a character I usually hate.

Hulk #5 - Rated 5 or 6, maybe - I'm still reading this because it's like a train wreck. I want to look away, but I can't help but stare in disbelief at how bad it is. Red Hulk and Thor face off and Red Hulk wins by grabbing Thor's hammer and leaping into space. Red Hulk isn't worthy to hold it, but Thor never lets go, until they get into space, where Red Hulk holds his breath and beats Thor up with his own hammer (with no gravity in place, there's nothing to hold the hammer down when Red Hulk tries to hold it). Then they land on the moon, where Red Hulk leaves Thor as he leaps back to Earth. Thor swears vengeance. A-bomb rescues Green Hulk from where he was still unconscious under the Golden Gate Bridge and they surface to find Iron Man, She-Hulk, Ares, Thing, Human Torch, and Namor offering to help. To be concluded next issue. Also, Red Hulk isn't Doc Samson. The recap page reads "So while Iron Man thinks he's figured out who Rulk is... 'Doc Samson' (in a speech bubble from last issue)..." I still say it's Emil Blonsky. 'Cause that'd be somewhat interesting, at least.

Iron Man: Viva Las Vegas #2 - Rated 9 - Thoroughly enjoyable. Pretty sure it's set in the movieverse. Pepper tells Tony about Elsa Bloodstone waiting to meet him. She says she thinks she caused the recent lizard invasion of Las Vegas. She was hired to retrieve a statue, which seems to be connected to the lizards, but she doesn't know who hired her and she was paid in cash, so her only lead is the statue. Tony hits on her a bunch and they go to see the statue. She deciphers some markings on the statue. "He whose limbs shatter mountains and whose back scrapes the sun." The statue awakens. It was actually Fin Fang Foom, frozen for some reason. Tony says he's met Foom before, and send Elsa back to the hotel while he finds somewhere to change. Iron Man saves some people and prepares to throwdown with Foom. Totally awesome.

The Eternals #3 - rated 7
"I had concluded Arishem was simply (misguided/malfunctioning) until I detected something anomalous...something so foreign to our function I could not immediately identify it...hatred."

Warning: It may not be possible for me to ever review an issue of the Eternals without fanboy gushing over how great Daniel Acuna's art is on this title. The story continues, with some very creepy scenes. Oh, and lest I forget - the Forgotten One, Gilgamesh, shows up and it appears there are a few things he may have misremembered.

Patsy Walker: Hellcat #2 - rated 7.5
"Belief is for the unknowable. Fear is for what we do know."

Kathryn Immonen's dialogue comes off with a peculiar, awkward style that seems like it should be annoying, but somehow comes off interesting and endearing. Patsy survives last issue's tentacle attack and gets recruited by an otherworldly group of witches to go on a mission that leads her to a very "naughty puppy." I'm with DarkCrisis on this one - this is a fun comic.

The Twelve #7 - rated 7
"So you're saying you're not thrilled."

This issue features the secret origin of Captain Tim, the Scourge of Crime. If that's not enough, the Phantom Reporter continues to slowly wake up from his long slumber and catch a clue or two about what is going on all around him.

and I still say it is Gen TBolt Ross

It's the real Doc Samson, the other one is none other then a skrull, who doesn't know Doc is the red guy.

I read this on wikipedia;

Red Hulk's identity has yet to be revealed within the comic series, but in an interview Marvel Editor in Chief Joe Quesada suggested it was Ares.

I've no doubt this is just another of Joephisto's lies, but it was worth noting.

Hulk #5 basically lost me on page 3. Rulk takes a full fledged Thor Hammer to the face! And is completely unfazed.

Now, it's one thing to show that Rulk and Thor are evenly matched, and that Rulk can come out on top. But to present him as so powerful that he can shrug off the Thunder God's hardest hit? Silver Surfer and Thanos can't even do that, let alone any version of the Hulk.

As for his identity, I hope it isn't Doc Samson because Rulk is a serious jerk, and Doc is a decent character. I'm pulling for it to be someone we already kinda don't like. Maybe Ross, that would make sense from a character POV (if not necessarily from a 'how the hell did he become Rulk' standpoint).

Red Hulk is the psionic essence of Bruce Banner that was unknowingly separated from him at the end of WWH. It possesses different bodies and because it is psionic physical force is of little use against it.
You heard it here first.

Eternals is a perfect fit for acuna, and im loving it nearly as much as on freedom fighters, flash just didnt really work.

as for patsy walker, well i tried the first one, and it read like a badly edited movie, plus its either intentionally skewed towards women or the author doesnt realize it which doesn't help my interest. (it also seems to hit a bunch of dull female stereotypes (shop-aholic/ditzy) and why introduce the clothes designer friend if she was gonna ditch him? at least the art is kinda snazzy and different. ill probly DL the second one as well, but its on the bubble....

Yeah, it's pretty much garbage at this point. I mean, Thor has the freaking Odinpower now. And Red-Hulk just punks him all over the place?

Lame. Classic example of Loeb being so bad with continuity Claremont is going "DUDE!"

It means no one has read the current Thor series, or up through the Reigning. Thor vs any Hulk (indeed every hulk ever) is a non fight. Thor says 'you loose' and the fights over.

Thor+Odin+Rune force, capable of destroying multiple Galactus level beings can't shut down Red Hulk? Yeah right.

I Cant even read Loeb comics without sighing sarcasticly to myself.


it seems these days Loeb is where good storys go to die.


he is killing ultimates too.

I agree on Hellcat being just a fun read. Easily the best thing to come out of Marvel Presents. I don't know how many other issues do it, but I also found it amusing the way they had her answering her own letters page (Hellpcat), in character. Which was a nice touch.

I also got Ultimate Origins 3, and I saw it as Ok, but nothing worth fussing over or anything like that.