Good week for Marvel this week, only two issues I couldn't bring myself to read.
X-Men Schism # 3 of 5
The story continues to escalate and I still can't help but wonder what all that crap was in the "prelude" to this event. The Hellfire Kids Club attacks the opening of the Mutant History Museum in San Fransisco. The X-Men are on hand, and of course are the actual target as Colossus, Emma Frost, Namor, and Magneto are defeated. Idie, one of the newest generation's mutants is left to deal with the attack and has to deal with Wolverine and Cyclops arguing during a telepathic conversation. She attacks the guards left behind by the kids and gets out of the museum, but Frost and her team are captured.
Rating: Great
Generation Hope # 10
This issue tells Idie's point of view of the events leading up to and in Schism # 3. Nothing else to say in review of this issue, continues a great story.
Rating: Great
Uncanny X-Men # 542
The X-Men continue to try and stop Juggernaut before he reaches SF. This is a good issue, so good that it overshadows and basically negates the story going on in Thunderbolts. In this issue, Colossus, Kitty Pride, and Illyana travel to the dimension of Cyttorak, god of destruction who gave Juggernaut his armor. In order to stop him, Colossus agrees to become the new avatar of Cyttorak.
Rating: Good
X-Factor # 224
Every time I review one of these issues I say the same thing, Peter David does not write bad comics. We finally get the ending to the story of Rahne's baby. I really hope we get back to Darwin soon. Especially since in X-Men Legacy we are about to get the return of Rachael Grey and her team.
Rating: Great
Avengers # 16
Seriously, I love you Bendis. But whoever told you the idea of using talking heads during a comic event was a good idea should be shot, stabbed, downed, hung, and poisoned.
Rating: Not even worth me rating it, and I do this for free!
Invincible Iron Man # 507
Stark avoids dealing with his returning drinking problem and Pepper deals with the Hammer Corps in Paris. Of course the Serpent's forces have made their way into Odin's workshop and enact a plan to kill Stark. This is a good issue, but the use of Nordic runes to mask derogatory language is already old, just stop.
Rating: Good
Captain America # 2
This shit just got weird. So, Agent Bravo and some AIM guys got trapped in a dream world when the kid that controlled it went into a coma while they were using his dream world to infiltrate the AIM base. For such a weird story, you would think the writing would be bad, but its done rather well.
Rating: Weird, but good
Daredevil # 2
Captain America shows up to arrest Matt for what he did in Shadowland. The two fight and are amazingly evenly matched. Matt uses the "Bucky defense" saying he was mind controlled when he did what he is accused of. Steve agrees to give him a continuance. Foggy is sleeping with the A.D.A. who helps with the case they were working on. Matt goes in to investigate and gets captured and stuck in some kind of a machine.
Rating: Great
Venom # 6
Spider Island tie-in. Flash captures a huge spider creature that is walking across New York City. After he takes it back to base, and it quickly escapes from the lab where they are studying it, we learn the creature is actually a transformed Captain America. He is recaptured and restrained. All this while spider powered civilians run rampant on the city and Flash's father is dying in the hospital.
Rating: Great
Journey Into Mystery # 626
Loki continues his unknown quest to stop the Serpent before he gets to Asgard. He convinces a powerful demon in Limbo to give him "shadow" a powerful sword capable of cutting time and space. Finally he breaks the destroyer out of the Asgard armory and plans on unleashing it on the Serpent's Dark Asgard.
Rating: Good
Thunderbolts # 162
As I said earlier, this story arc is overshadowed by the arc in Uncanny X-Men making it nigh unreadable.
Rating: Bad
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