CAPTAIN AMERICA - Reborn #5 (OF 6) - Just when things were looking up for Steve Rogers fans, the Red Skull threw a familiar curve ball and took over Steve's body. FYI - "Reborn" has been extended to a sixth issue.



NOMAD - Girl Without A World #4 (OF 4) - Victory is not guaranteed as the Secret Empire's experiment at Rikki Barnes' high school is in full effect. Guest-starring the Falcon and the Young Avengers



HULK #18 - What is this dark new personality that is in control of Doc Samson?



AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #615 - Terrible deeds are afoot and signs point towards the Sandman.



ANTI-VENOM #3 (OF 3) - When the Punisher and Anti-venom team up, its a bad time to be a drug dealer in NY. This takes place before Frank Castle was beheaded and before he was resurrected as "FrankenPunisher", the undead.



BLACK PANTHER 2 #11 - While T'Challa prepares his forces for the Doomwar, the female Black Panther challenges Namor.



CABLE #21 - Tired of running and barely surviving, Hope is ready to come home to the present day. This is Bishop's last chance. Is Hope the mutant savior or its destroyer?



DAREDEVIL #503 - Matt Murdock slips further away as he tried to direct the activities of the massive criminal organization known as The Hand.



DARK AVENGERS #12 - The Dark Avengers hang by a thread at the mercy of the Molecule Man. One wrong word and he can make anyone cease to exist. So who's it gonna be?



DARK WOLVERINE #81 - Who is the son of Wolverine and what goes in inside his head? Moonstone wants to know.



DOCTOR VOODOO - Avenger Of The Supernatural #3 - Doctor Voodoo faces his greatest challenge to date as the evil that was foretold takes possession of the former candidates to be Earth's Sorcerer Supreme.



LADY ACTION SPECIAL #1 of 1 - From the pages of Captain Action comics.



MIGHTY AVENGERS #32 - The Mighty Avengers versus the Dark Avengers as Loki spectates from the sidelines.



REALM OF KINGS - Inhumans - #2 (OF 5) - Guest-starring the Mighty Avengers, but will their presence help the cause or hurt it?



SPIDER-MAN - Clone Saga #4 (OF 6) - The Retelling of the adventure continues.



THUNDERBOLTS #139 - T-bolts vs Agents of Atlas and not everyone walks away. Some run away. Some limp away. Some are carried away.



WHAT IF - Daredevil Vs Elektra - What if Daredevil served the Hand instead of Elektra and what if Daredevil died and was resurrected instead of Elektra?



X-FACTOR #200 - X-factor Investigations is back in NY and their first client is Franklin Richards. Where is the Invisible Woman ? Can you see her? and why is no one cooperating?



X-FORCE #22 X Necrosha - The "Blackest Night" parody continues as Selene does the unthinkable on Genosha while the X-men are besieged by the reanimated dead in their headquarters.

Spidey, Mighty, and then maybe X-Factor and Nomad.

I'm not sure about RoK outside the main book...

Mighty Tbolts Force

Captain America: Reborn #5 of 6 6/10

Where to start....The art is fine, and the dialog is good (I love Bucky's lines to Sin), but this is just dragging on and feels like a total rehash of old Cap stories.

It feels like the story is dragging on, although this issue has a nice big fight scene.

The main problem lies in this story has been done to death (pun intended). Skull cloning Steve's body, trapping him in the cosmic cube, Skull in Lukin's body with conflicting minds, etc. It's like there is nothing new in this story, but that it's a rehash of old Cap stories. A decent rehash, but a rehash none the less. Plus, it feels like one that was unecessary, as frankly Steve's death was totally unecessary.

Get Steve back in costume, and get on with it already!

*corrected slightly*

Skimmed RoK: Inhumans #2.......it's a MIghty Avengers/Inhumans team-up. It's ....ok.. but nothing special. The end is they think they might have found Black Bolt in the Fault. It's not grabbing me. Although I'm loving the RoK: Imperial Guard. That's good so far. Very..... "Aliens" so far.

And of course Nova and GotG are great! As usual.


ASM 615 was really solid! Me thinks the little girl is an extension of Sandman a la the old Batman epidsode where Clayface is the villian and he has a little girl extension that doesn't want to go back to him and befriends Robin. A lot of that feel.

And Sandman has learned a little trick: Multiple Sandmen. Lending itself to the little girl theory. Overalll.....I love the old school feel. Story and art are great! Can't miss!

Sandman had that happen to him before. After Venom (Eddie Brock at the time) bit off a chunk of the Sandman. Sandman disappeared and was later seen to be several different people at the same time, including a little girl. Most of the part merged back together, but it was questionable about if he had merged that lil girl part back into himself or not.

Well, Brubaker wrote this one. So I don't think you can complain about that...

You're right. Well, then Brubaker needs to get it together, because the series has dragged.

Well, at least it's not something Loeb wrote, but, really, you'd almost think so with the whole
"Red Skull Captain America" bit.

*SPOILER*

Did anyone notice the return of a major Marvel character in Cable #21?

It's Jean Grey!!!!

Actually, it's a little different this time. They seem to be working together instead of being different aspects of the same personality. More like Multiple Man I guess.

And I don't know what you guys are talking about with Realm of Kings: Inhumans, I really enjoyed that issue and it might be my favourite part of Realm of Kings right now. Of course, I'm a huge Inhumans fan, so that's not too shocking. It somehow made me not care that making Quicksilver a Skrull undermines Son of M, which was the best thing to come out of House of M.

Then you have nothing to worry about. There was never a Skrull Quicksilver. Quicksilver lied to the Royal family and said it was an impostor to get back in their good graces. He did this in Mighty Avengers #31 and in #32 they reinstated him as a member of the Royal Family and a hero with full honors. The only one who knows he's lying is his daughter Luna who, told him that she still loves him and will keep his secret but, can never respect him again.

I'm so very glad that I looked thru Dark Avengers. I bought the last issue where the Molecule Man owned them but, now I'm at a new level of disgust about the Sentry. Now, he realizes that he can do all of the things he does because he can control molecules and he just pushes Owen Reese around like he's nothing and blows him apart. That's why Reed, Tony and everyone else couldn't figure out why he can do what he does because he can control molecules. Riiiiiiiiiiiight! If anything, Reed should be one of the first people to realize that because of how many times he's fought Molecule Man before!! Bendis and Joephisto have been THE BEST help to DC Comics since Superman and Batman.

And for an alternate take, I think that Reed might have just deceived Sentry on that point. After all, does he really want this schizophrenic super-psycho to realize that he can alter molecules? It's clearly not a good thing when the Void has that ability.

Norman is definitely teetering on the brink right now, and I love it. In Dark Avengers he's losing control of Sentry and he's losing his mind. With Siege beginning, it's time for the downfall we've know n was coming since Norman took power.


Thunderbolts was good too. This is another team that's hitting its breaking point. Nuke is losing it big time, Ant Man is ready to bail after almost getting killed by friendly fire, and now that Nuke has ripped up Marvel Boy, there's going to be blood in the water.

Is that so? That's great, thanks for letting me know! I guess I'll have to pick up Mighty Avengers in trade to get the rest of this story, but I'm glad I can still look back fondly on Son of M.

I'm curious about one thing though, when did he get his speed back?