We close this block with this bittersweet tribute to Mike Wieringo. He was working on a What If thing about the so-called “New Fantastic Four” from FF 347, 348 & 349 when…
Tag: Vision
Civil War 7
I am soooooo glad this dumb series is nearly over. It’s just the… everything else that we have to deal with now. Well, and also this issue. And if you’re expecting a…
Civil War 6
Ok, back to the main book, finally. Back cover: We begin in Arizona, where a new team of Champions created by Stark, Richards & Pym are being trained. They’re all named after…
ASM 537
Check it out, it’s the Amazi Spider-Man. Like… oops. We begin with Peter Parker waking up in the motel, putting on a hat and sunglasses and quietly slipping out for a paper….
Punisher War Journal V2 2-4
More punishing time, and given that Spider-Man’s in these, but not much, we’re just gonna take them all in one post. Like so many comics, these take place in some nebulous time…
Civil War: Interlude 3
Interlude time yet again. I thought I’d put it between the 2 other Spidey series. Throughout Civil War, what Cap and Iron Man were doing in their own titles seems like it…
New Avengers 18
I suppose it must be noted that, by this time, Iron Man has undergone the Extremis process, which means he now has a thin first layer of his suit stored inside his…
Young Avengers 11 & 12
The Young Avengers. I think I’ve mentioned them in passing a few times, but there’s been no reason to get them on the blog until the tail end of their series. Created…
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”…
Avengers 500 & 501
When we found out Bendis got Avengers, obviously, we were excited. I had recently bailed on the book for the first time since the Busiek/Perez #1 we very very briefly looked at…