Nick Spencer - Review

Secret Avengers 12.1

I’ve been scathing about and disappointed with some of these .1 ‘jumping-on point’ issues, and I’ve praised a couple highly. I think this is the first one that seems to lie somewhere in the middle.

This Jimmy Olsen one-shot is a knitted-together set of scrapings, unwanted leftovers from DC’s back-up program last year. This run of ten-page back-ups in Action Comics was dumped mid-run when DC decided that people would rather pay $2.99 for less pages. Snappy, fun and hanging on the full, ridiculous history of Jimmy Olsen, these little stories are knitted into a really fun 70 page giant, which successfully manages to tell a new, contemporary, fun Jimmy Olsen story.

Infinite Vacation 1

I was very negative about Spencer’s THUNDER Agents a while back, but Will tells me he’s good, so I thought I’d give this a go. I’m glad I did.

THUNDER Agents 1

The perfect example of the worst of faux-clever post-Watchmen comics, not least because it’s another rethinking of a gang of old characters that DC bought in.

FA - The Comiczine

Secret Avengers 12.1

Jimmy Olsen 1

Infinite Vacation 1

THUNDER Agents 1