Hi all, each week I'll be taking a look at some of the latest comic book releases (as every Wednesday is "New Comic Book Day") while also spotlighting some of the previous week's releases.
So here's my pull-list for the 13th Feb:
Amazing Spider-Man #15 - We're 15 issues into the latest volume of Spider-Man which, while good, has yet to live up to the standard that Dan Slott set for the last few years. It's been a good read so far, so here's hoping it can.
Spider-Man/Deadpool #46 - Spidey and Deadpool are knee deep in the negative zone with Blastaar and a couple of Eternals. That sentance alone is enough to want to buy this.
Dead Man Logan #4 - "Old Man Logan" is on borrowed time (conveniently when the modern-era Wolverine has come back from the dead) and is looking to take down Mysterio to stop his future from ever coming to pass.
Avengers: No Road Home #1 - I've not been liking the main Avengers series, so here's hoping this can fill the Avengers-shaped void in my life. I've not read anything on it so am going into this one blind!
Red Hood and the Outlaws #31 - Jason Todd has been one of my favourite characters for years since his rebirth in "Under the Red Hood". I wasn't keen on what Grant Morrison did with him during the period where Bruce Wayne was "dead" but since the New-52, Todd's adventures with a motley crew of DC characters has been my favourite offering from DC. Currently Red Hood is trying to close a case that he and his best friend - Roy Harper - opened shortly before Roy died...
On to the biggest thing for me from last week's releases... Uncanny X-Men #11.
Now, I've been a massive fan of the X-Men for as far as I can remember. I've seen every cartoon, watched every movie (at the cinema too) and read virtually every comic (excluding a few tie-ins). To me, the X-Men are Marvel's premier team. Or at least they were, until a few years ago when they were suddenly dropped from the focus of Marvel due to Fox getting a percentage of comic sales and not wanting to allow their characters to cross over into the Marvel Cinematic Universes. Over the last few years we've seen both Wolverine and Cyclops go through hell, character-wise, and then get unceremoniously killed off.
But all is not lost. The house of mouse recently purchased Fox and therefore Marvel now has all of their character rights back which has led to an almost-instant revitalisation of the X-Men, starting with Wolverine rising from the grave (in a very convoluted mini-series that has seen so many delays that it still hasn't finished, nearly a year after it began) as well as Cyclops returning in Uncanny X-Men Annual #1 the other week and an epic, 10 part storyline (Disassembled) that saw X-Man (Nate Grey from the Age of Apocalypse universe) decide to try and create peace by brainwashing the world and led to a finale that saw virtually every member of the X-Men wiped out at the story's conclusion (thankfully we know this has actually been Nate taking them into an alternative universe of his own creation, so we know they'll be back at some point).
Uncanny X-Men #11 opens with Cyclops trying to make sense of what's happened while also checking in on the status quo of mutants in general (we get a few cameos from Multiple Man, Chamber and Blindfold as a result) and features a fantastic little scene where Cyclops visits an anti-mutant rally and inadvertently comes into conflict with Captain America. Thankfully this is settled amicably instead of a re-hash of their AvX rivalry, and Scott decides to broadcast a message to the world asking for any mutants to meet him where it all began. We then get Scott standing on the ruins of the original Xaviers school, only to be joined by the Reavers, the Sapien League, the Purifiers and many more villains. Donald Pierce throws out the traditional "Looks like you're going to die alone" style hrase only for a speech bubble to appear saying "He Ain't alone". Then we get a glorious SKINT splash image and Wolverine joins the fray. We then get some beautiful pages of Scott and Logan anihilating absolutley everybody that's coming at them followed by a brief acknowledgment between the two to end this issue. BUT WAIT! There's more! This was marketed as the return of Cyclops (and it was) but after the story ends we get the full return of Wolverine or rather the events from Cyclops' story from Wolverine's perspective. The whole issue is incredibly well done and really makes me hopefull for the X-Men's future at Marvel, once more.
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