marvel comics reviews
Marvel recently started a new edition of Star Wars comics. Most likely, this was at least in part kicked off by the excitement (and some trepidation) about the new movies coming. I’ve been enjoying the main Star Wars title, so I thought I’d check this one out. After all, Luke and Han tend to get a lot more attention than Leia, and I wanted to see what they’d do.
After a long break, a combination of winter hiatus and the run of the Agent Carter miniseries, Agents of SHIELD came back with “Aftershocks.” Leaping right into the midst of some new chaos, the show opens with a man who has skin grown over where his eyes should be.
Peter David has written a lot of comics. He’s come up with some new characters that have really impressed me over time. I actually read and enjoyed his run on the Hulk, and that’s not a character I’ve ever cared for. The man is impressive.
Annuals take a lot of different forms. The overblown, major event, link-them-all style seems to have died out, finally. I can’t say I miss those. This one features three different stories. As has been the case in Aaron’s run on Thor, three different time periods share the action. King Thor, ruler of Asgard, is far in the future, thousands of years from now.
Agent Carter finishes her limited series with “Valediction.” The show started with another episode of the Captain America radio show they’ve been using to either contrast Peggy’s life or as commentary on the times. This one seemed to be a dramatization of the mission where Cap crashed, which made a bit of the episode more poignant.
This is the final issue of this run. I’m going to be doing a separate piece later on why I think this series failed. Because, by most standards, if you only make it twelve issues and that wasn’t the plan from the start, something went wrong.
The current run of Moon Knight has had a lot more to do with the god Khonshu who resurrected Marc Spector, than many past volumes. I always sort of liked the uncertain approach, when you were never quite sure if Spector was given some kind of divine assistance, or if he was just both ferociously driven and possibly a bit crazy.
Agent Carter’s miniseries is almost over, and “SNAFU” raised the stakes a lot. It was a very tense, well-written episode, and managed to rise above many of the problems I’ve been having with the series. It was also a brutal episode on a few fronts.
The new status quo is slowly being established in Thor. The God of Thunder has made his peace with the new wielder of his hammer, even though he’s still trying to figure out who she is. Unfortunately, Odin is trying to work it out, too, and he’s nowhere near as forgiving. In fact, he’s pretty damn pissed off about her having Mjolnir.
“A Sin To Err,” is the title of the latest Agent Carter episode, as the series builds towards its finale. The Stark plot seems to have been mostly dropped by the writers, and even the cast, barring obsessive agent Jack Thompson. Now, the focus is on Leviathan, the mysterious organization that is lurking behind the scenes in Russia.
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