John Scott Comic Reviews

The two tales in this week's A + X involve Beast & Spider-Man along with Captain America and Quentin Quire. Neither one is a particularly strong story, but the Beast/Spider-Man one is definitely the better of the two.

This issue really doesn't have much to do with Age of Ultron, and I don't personally get what the epilogue is trying to setup (other than that now Pym is a badass with nothing to hold him back, and he has his own Avengers team now apparently), but this book left me actually liking Ant-Man, which is no small task. It's a good read, and you should give it a shot.

Unless you already bought parts 1-9, and need to finish your set, you don't really need this. Almost all the meat of the action was already in last year's Free Comic Book Day Point One book (literally, it's the same panels and everything), but now with context it all makes more sense. As long as you know that the take away of the series is time and space are now fractured, the details of the how aren't really all that important or that interesting.

This was a more laid back filler issue that was lite on the plot but heavy on the laughs, and I found myself laughing many times. Bendis as usual writes another good entry in this series.

It doesn't strive to be much, and it may be a little juvenile, but what it does it does well. It captures the look and feel of a Japanese Bishoujo book prefectly, just with DC characters. If that's your thing, you'll like the book, otherwise you can safely pass and not miss much. However, the mini series has proved popular enough (I guess enough people like boobs, because really, who doesn't?) that this transitions into a new ongoing series next week. Overall, I liked it, but wouldn't recommend jumping on here. It would be better to wait a week when the new ongoing series picks up and jump on there instead.

The story wasn't half bad, but I don't really see how it relates to anything else going on anywhere else on Earth-616. Hopefully the place setting will be finished soon and we can get to real story, but until then, just wait this one out.

I can't say I recommend this arc at all. If this is the starting point, I'm not sure I wanna see the ending.

I've read all of Hickman's run on both Avengers and New Avengers, but even so, I'm totally lost here. Hickman seems to think he's writing a season of Lost, with flash forwards and sideswides and backways, and like 6 different storylines running concurrently.

Unless you're a huge fan of the film or the card series, you can safely let this one pass. Besides, the Dinosaurs Attack cards we so much cooler.

The worst offense is towards the end of the book, there are a whole like 4 pages of just solid text and exposition from Cap, it's just not overly exciting.

On every page I was like "WTF is going on here?" and was eagerly awaiting the next page. I'm totally gonna be picking up the rest of this series. Not much Gorilla gunning in this issue as they have to establish the status quo first, but the next issue certainly looks to be exciting.

This follows up on IDW's ongoing series set in the JJ-verse, and lays the groundwork for the new movie, filling in some of the gaps between the two movies. The best part though, and a true WTF moment right on final page is the reveal of what I assume will be the series antagonist, a player in the Trek Universe we've heard much about but never actually seen in canon (unless one episode of the animated series counts, and it does not).

Definitely worth a read through for the sheer insanity of it, and for Phil Noto's beautiful flowing arrtwork.