Paper comic books, what a concept. This time we’re dropping into Matt Fraction, Salvador LaRocca & Frank D’Armata’s Iron Man run. It’s an epilogue to their first arc on this title, a…
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Civil War: Epilogue
Yeah, I made my own epilogue out of 4 comics. What an industrious block of posts for me. Now that the smoke has cleared, there’s a few more things to see. To…
Civil War: Interlude 2
Another interlude already! This time out, we’ll look at 2 more issues of FF, and take a brief look at what’s going on in the Captain America tie-ins, because… well, because of…
New Avengers 06
Time to wrap up this team’s first adventure. We open on Spider-Woman yelling at Yelena from the distance that she’s really messing up, that Spider-Woman is a Level 7 SHIELD agent, that…
New Avengers 05
The way Jim Lee and his followers insist muscular men have these deformed, huge wrists is very funny to me. Like it’s Lee making a peculiar drawing choice, and then a literal…
New Avengers 04
“Why don’t women read comics? We just don’t know!” This month begins with Jessica Drew arriving at Stark Tower as Tony is talking to Maria Hill, acting head of SHIELD after what…
New Avengers 03
There he is, Marvel’s Superman. Or as close as he’s ever gonna get to it, at least. Well, we open on the SHIELD helicarrier early the next morning. Cap and Iron Man…
New Avengers 02
That’s a strong composition on that cover. Well. We’re right at the end of last issue. Spidey and Cap see Electro take his still-unseen passenger out of the prison on a wave…
New Avengers 01
The breakup of the Avengers was serious. The book stayed off the shelf for months to really show the impact of the team being dissolved. Just kidding, this issue came out the…
Avengers 503 & Finale
Big finish! Yes, really, this story is only 4 issues. Just maximum carnage in minimal space. It opens with a flashback drawn by Olivier Coipel. Real “pre-2012 depictions of women in comics”…