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The new Iron Man series continues to be underwhelming, despite solid art and some interesting story ideas. I don’t know what it is, but it just doesn’t feel exciting or important - and it should, considering the fact that Iron Man is one of Marvel's central heroes.

Although I miss Ivan Reis’s art, Portela‘s clean and elegant lines are perfect for the tale of the Sisters Hood and 1920s it is set in. As always, the story ends too quickly and I feel there‘s something missing that would make it perfect. But maybe that’s what draws me back to Hyde Street each new issue.

As great as Skinbreaker looks, the story is a repetitive string of conflicts that at first glance look meaningful, but that the reader ultimately can’t care about, since the book has never really shown the struggles the tribe has gone through and that the chief and former chief are now fighting over. At least we are introduced to a new color palette in a literally breathtaking underwater scene.

Despite the fact that this is a continuation of Punisher Red Band, a mini series I really enjoyed, Benjamin Percy gives new readers a good introduction to the Punisher that feels like an actual jump on point. New artist Jose Luis Soares is pretty good, especially at conveying the street level grittiness of Frank Castle’s world. The dilemma of Frank’s old alily Microchip and the mystery of his brai n injury infuse the enough intrigue into the story to make me want to come back for issue 2.more

A satisfying finale to a story that wasn’t really my cup of tea.

Excellent art and a story that makes the reader ponder some big moral questions rather than give a prefabricated answer. It’s nice to see that Marvel is still able to produce quality.

I think I haven’t read a comic this bad in years. It’s actually not even a comic, it’s what Jody Houser, who I’ve never heard of but who I suspect is not a comic book writer but some activist blogger, thinks a comic is. The plot, if you can call it that, is utterly confusing. The reader doesn’t get any sense of why things are happening or even where they are happening. The dialogue is clumsy and d isjointed, like a first draft. Plus, for a first issue, this comic doesn’t even attempt to give the reader an introduction to the characters, except some very vague hints through the art.
Speaking of the art, it’s clearly geared towards a Manga-reading female audience, so if that’s your kind of thing, you might at least enjoy the pretty pictures.more

X-Men #25 is in fact the better of the 2 books after the awful Uncanny X-men featuring knock off Universal Monsters. But thats not high praise at all. I'll say it now and later in this review- Current X-men Suck. Let's dive in - We get the team deployed to find the Morlocks in hopes of finding Doug Ramsey. Along the way a random story of Nazi mutant twins, nazis killing( hero’s kill right? The X- men are not heroes in this book) and a cool battle. Cyclops's team go back to being the Krakoa killers we got at that series end. Some will say it’s a political message and killing Nazi mutants is allowed blah . Idc about all that.Be heroes or don’t be heroes. Then we get the return of Crimson Commando who was last killed by Wolverine working with a group called O.N.E. Just what we need. Another group to be unfocused on. More cuts to the X-men talking about the actual plot while eating. Then more 3k nonsense in the back up story. Does this sound like this story makes sense or that this story crafted in a way that flows? NO. Do we get crowbarred into plot lines and crazy exposition just because and go nowhere with it? YES.
As mentioned before ,the X-men everything is really BAD right now. 98% of this stuff just sucks.So if you want Claremont type writing it’s not here. It’s never going to be here and this story isn’t it. But is it better than the usual xmen story we got in earlier issues ? Sure it is. more

Everything about this issue is garbage. Garbage writing, garbage art. Worst of all, Ryan North doesn’t understand the characters he is writing - or their powers.

Despite not reaching the quality of Tom Reilly’s artwork, Andrea Milana is doing pretty well. There’s some disconnect between facial expressions and the dialogue here and there, but overall, G.I. Joe 19 is a solid issue.

As much as I enjoyed last issue’s first part of the story arc, we’re back to lazy art and endless fight scenes. I guess there must be a reason behind the monsters’ attack, but we don’t really learn much about it this issue. All in all, the issue is light on plot and feels unsatisfying.

This issue might as well be titled “Jumping to conclusion because the plot needs us to”. Jed MacKay’s Unlikeable X-Men has become a little less frustrating in recent months, because as unrecognizable as Toy Daniel’s art has become, at least it’s not Ryan Stegman or his clone Netho Diaz. The way MacKay makes the characters arrive at convenient conclusions is completely mind-boggling though. Because Doug wants to go underground, he must be with the Morlocks. Because the stupid new mutant sickness didn’t exist in the future it must come from there. And 3K is clearly code for Make More Mutants, which gives away the identity of Dark Beast. WTF. How stupid does McKay think the reader is?
The rest of the book is going through the motions by bashing a few Nazis (everyone’s called a Nazi now, but the Strucker twins are the real deal) and encountering an old acquaintance. Meh.more

Let's get this right out in the open- I love the X-men. I grew up reading them and ever since Hickman left the X-men have been in deep decline. Krakoa was largely a mess and from the ashes is a disaster. when almost all the books in the relaunch are canceled I know I'm not alone in this thinking. I want good X-men books. So far this hasn't happened and this book doesn't turn that around.

We get essentially 3 different stories in this that barely connect. the Excessive exposition is clunky and just bad. Scott is highly unlikeable as the main star of his own book. Do I view him as a military commander or a survivor with repressed memories? Scott is once again back on this authoritarian nonsense that was never present to this degree in past X-men books. Antionio's art jumps between semi competent to unfinished sketches.

The whole premise of Scott losing his visor is cool and that makes me interested in the next issue. Not the characters or plot. it's not the worst new X book i've read this month in a sea of bad X-men everything , thats Storm. but thats not high praise. more

I’ve never been a huge fan of Scott Summers, and a Cyclops series seems like an odd idea, since Scott has never been known for going on solo missions. Anyway, I think there’s some potential, especially if the series functions as a tool for some character growth - hopefully into a better man than the terrorist asshole we’ve seen in the last fifteen or so years.

After reading the issue, I ’m not so sure this is going to happen. The series probably exists for one reason: Marvel literally throws any X-Men character solo title at the reader to see which one sticks. And they haven’t really tried Cyclops before.

I’m not sure this is going to help anyone though. Cyclops #1 is not the worst comic ever, but it’s also not very good. The writing is very simplistic, the art is pretty meh, and there’s nothing really new here to grab the reader’s attention. I guess this is going to be a mini series with no memorable consequences whatsoever.more

A fun little interlude. Marco Fodera does a good job filling in for Tom Reilly.

The finale of Punisher: Red Band doesn't hold back. All in all, this was a pretty good series.