I love these types of books when they are done well and curse the heavens when they are done poorly. This time I really don't know what to do. Expanding on old plots from books we have fond memories of is fine by me but the story has to be entertaining and well written to bring back that feeling of nostalgia and here it varies wildly. The poor man's Jim Lee artwork is so distracting at times because of an odd angle here or a feeling of being unfinished there that it takes away from the reading experience. I think the lettering in this issue is bad and that's usually a non issue but here it bugs the shit out of me for some reason. The overuse of Rogues accent really ruins many of the inner voice panels that are needed to set the tone for the issue and the opening is also kind of boring which never bodes well for the rest of a comic. I didn't hate this but it could have been so much more than it wound up being. I love Local Man by Seeley but so much of his other work turns out to be like this, a dud. more

More meaningless fluff to fill the shelves. Marvel should concentrate on quality over quantity and this book is nothing but quantity.

I'm not a big fan of this superstars thing going on. Back and forth on writers and jumping to stories that take place before current events doesn't make me want to come back every month and John Ridley is certainly not a Superman superstar. This feels as boring as Straczynski's grounded run to me and the art is a bit of a let down. This is no where near a $5 book.

I applaud Eve Ewing for not shying away from addressing Kitty‘s recent past, however, it’s just not possible to justify the murders she has committed during the Fall of X storyline. Kitty, one of my favorite X-Men ever, is a ruined character, and it isn’t Ewing’s fault. However, the issue of Kitty’s mass murder is brushed aside pretty easily, and this is a problem.

The art is great as usual,and the writing feels natural, but I feel this series is written for a younger generation with different sensibilities. Gen X guys like me just don’t give a shit about those teenager’s issues. So the question is, who is reading this title? The younger people that the series caters to or people like me, who just want a great superhero book, but are getting a lot of slice of life and social justice crap instead? more

The big problem here is there's not enough pages to flesh out the story. The what if series has had some good concepts lately but the writing never seems to do them justice. This issue heads in the right direction and hopefully the rest of the Galactus what if themed books are decent but with this page count and what seems to be middle of the road writers I don't have much hope.

This is a solid book with fantastic art and is a nice reconceptualization of superman lore without abandoning what makes Supes so great but I wish Aaron could be a little less heavy handed in his approach. I think a little more subtlety would go a long way towards turning this book from good to great. I do love seeing Clark was basically a reporter from the get-go and the final page really pulls at the heart strings. And Lara? IN LOVE. lol more

Bad. Very very bad.

All the pieces are there for something we haven't had in soooo long...a great WW comic, but here the pieces of the puzzle feel like they just don't fit together properly. I can see the image as a whole is beautiful but all the cracks between the sections mars the final picture. I've talked about it before and it continues to be the same situation every issue. I think this will be my last issue of this series as I hate bringing the score down on a series so many folks seem to enjoy and, if I'm being honest, I'm just tired of trying to like. I just don't think it's going to happen. more

I don't understand a writer's obsession with taking a street-level character like Elektra or Daredevil and bringing supernatural elements to them. It never works and it never feels right. Schultz is not an outstanding writer by any means. She knows how to do an action scene, but that's where her talents end. She doesn't know how to craft an ongoing story. In the Daredevil/Punisher story that was only several issues, she lost track of several plot points. I don't know why Elektra is still calling herself Daredevil. Can't she be called something else and have her own identity? This is a one-and-done for me. I'm dropping it.

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Ghost machine shows how to make comics great and Geiger leads the way consistently.

Gary Frank is back and the story is back on track as well. I’m still not sure why we have a Zebra sidekick in this book, but I’m confident that Johns is going somewhere with this.

Banger after banger in this series.

Expectations were high and Adams delivers.

By far the best Bat book this month.

Very poor art for DC's current big book they're trying to push. This issue was quite boring and the reveal of the bat suit tech origin was lackluster at best. My least favorite issue of the run by far.

Unintentionally goofy and dumb origin story. Imagine Snyder getting inspiration from chainsaw-man and my Heroe Accademia without getting it. Middle age man idea of manga without taste or creativity.

Marvel generally hides badly drawn books behind a great cover, but in this case the opposite is true. I almost didn’t want to read this book because of its crap cover, but I saw some of the interior art, which is much better. In the end, the book couldn’t quite deliver what I expected from this first impression. The story is a bit too simple, some of the characters are not my cup of tea and even the art couldn’t hold its quality over the course of the whole book (I’m not sure what each of the two artists is doing, but I suspect I like one more than the other).

I also noticed that this doesn’t feel like a first issue. The characters apparently know each other from Spider-Woman, but I haven’t heard of any of them and expected a proper origin story, but that’s not happening here.

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It’s fine. I mean that in a more positive than negative way though. It’s pretty much what you’d expect but the writing is fun and fast paced enough that it’s enjoyable enough to get through. I’m not expecting it to make my top series of the year list by any means but I’ll probably pick up issue two.

I don't care about a single one of these characters as they are just more variations on existing ones and I've also never heard of any of them except for Spider-boy. Steve Foxe is a writer I don't really care for and only read this to hate on it. All that being said....it's actually not that bad. I don't think this series will last long and if you invest in these characters you will be let down when Marvel probably just ignores them after the books cancelation but if your looking for something new with a cast of younger heroes then I'd suggest this title. The comradery is inspiring and the look into their personal lives gives the kids depth that is often ignored. There is plenty of action and the art is wonderful so while this isn't going to make my pull list, I did enjoy it. more

Classic storytelling in all its glory. I doubt they will explain why Grundy is with the IS and that takes me out of a story that feels like it was written in a time when continuity mattered, or maybe I'm just not up 2 date on his resurrection status. Either way this super fun.

Meh.

Great as always but I agree with the others on here. Too many plot threads without enough resolutions. I sometimes have to go back and read the previous issue to catch myself up....of course I am kinda old. lol

This series is TORTURE. Will this psseudo-Catholic claptrap storyline NEVER end? Why can't Foggy be pissed at Matt without being possessed by a demon? Matt attempting exorcisms? OMG. It's all nonsense. No pun intended, but this comic has gone
to Hell in a handbasked.

The art blends well with the macabre story eliciting a wonderful comic experience. Fans of elseworld\black label stories, Batman stories or werewolf stories will have a lot of fun with this comic and issue three moves this series along at a good pace. Man-bat vs werewolf is a definitely a great fight not to mention the Batman transformation. The price of the book drops the score a bit though.

We are Venom... I mean we are Adamantum...

The writing is lacking in this issue and it just feels like one Macguffin after the next just to forward the story. The artist is still doing good but must be getting tired of the story as well because some panels are just not doing it here, not like the details and beautiful work of issue #1 and #2.

This whole Adamantum thing or whatever is a common theme in Venom and now even Ultimate Black Panther with it's "anti-vibranium" concept. And you can see advertised on issue #5 Wolverine and the others possessed by the Adamantum. It should have said on the advertisement.

We are Adamamntum... Oh shit here we go again... more

Another epic comic this month!

So again I misjudged this book because I wasn't that impressed by the cover. I still wanted to give it a shot being WWII themed. So happy I did because just like my surprise from the gritty Sabretooth #1 this gritty Wolfenstein-esque comic was fantastic.

The art is just right and really gives you this Band of Brothers feel that takes a supernatural twist. I know this has been done plenty of times but this jumped you right into the action and wasted no time.

I love that between this and Sabretooth the writer and artist are not afraid to get bloody and violent in their panels allowing the reader to invest in the life and death situations of these dark worlds.

Of course Nick Furry has to be in this, so him teaming up with this Ghost Rider is gonna be crazy! Also I notice Szardos may be wearing an Eye of Agamoto around his neck? My only nitpick is why make Peggy Carter French resistance, I would have kept her as SAS or English? I mean she even still has the same name. Carter being either English, Scottish or Irish. So even if you made her Irish or Scottish it wouldn't be as far fetched as French. But still happy to have Peggy in the Howling Commandos going to be epic!

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New Gods #1 grabs the reader's attention by juxtaposing the cosmic and esoteric with the mundane and down to earth - which is a very clever thing to do, especially when you want to draw in new readers like me.

What caught my attention was not the writing though, but the beautiful art by Evan Cagle and colorist Francesco Segala. I haven't seen comic art on this level of perfection in quite a while. It's simply phenomenal.

In a time when most superhero comics seem to be written and drawn by people who have no idea what they are doing, New Gods is giving me hope for the genre. more

This was a waste of time. Bad writing, even worse art.

This is beyond eye-rolling. Greg Pak was involved in this??? The pandering is cringe worthy. This is "By Odin's fade" levels of bad. Ross just takes the classic misunderstanding between heros trope to new levels because the writers needed it 2 happen. Bad writing. Bad comic.