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  • Avengers 7

    You can’t deny that at times Bendis is keen on LONG conversations with very little happening. He defines the tendency towards ‘decompression’ – which means telling stories that in years past would have taken one issue over six issues.

  • Ant-Man & Wasp 1

    I am genuinely surprised that comics as bad in every way as this get published by a major professional company.

  • Avengers vs the Pet Avengers 1

    Remember the 1960’s, when Marvel was ‘cool’ because they did flatulent cosmic bollocks like Silver Surfer, and DC wasn’t because they did all the stuff with Super-Pets? Well, time for us uncool ones to get our smug on, because Marvel, unexpectedly, has reversed the trend and restored fun to comics again.

  • Pride and Prejudice

    It is a truth universally acknowledged in the United Kingdom that our American cousins, unencumbered as they are by a great deal of history, (my local pharmacist having existed for almost as long as the United States) tend not to fully apprehend historical requirements in reinterpretations of classic literature.

  • X-Women 1

    Even the people who thought that dedicating a year to ‘The Ladies’ wasn’t sexist, with the implicit subtext that said ‘Ladies’ should bugger off to the kitchen or the bedroom every other year…Even they were smart enough to steer clear of this’n!

  • Captain America: Patriot 1 & 2

    At last, a ‘retcon’ that gets it right, not in the tired, “Everything you knew is a lie!” sense, nor the painfully Roy-Thomas “Why did Captain Turnip’s mask switch from full-face to half-face in 1943?” sense (Some people just own more than one hat, Roy…), but in a way that puts heart, rather than obsessive history or hollow spectacle, at the core of the narrative.

  • Strange Tales II 2

    Marvel lets a bunch of indie/underground types (most notably Los Bros Hernandez) at their characters, with variable but mostly enjoyable results.

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