God dammit Marvel! I havent brought a Marvel comic comic since AvX the reasons for this I will get into on a seperate post but after re-watching X-Men Apocalypse I felt the need to check in with the Children of the Atom, starting with Brian Michael Bendis run on Uncanny X-Men Vol 3, I mention this because this back reading directly impacted my choice of pick of the week.
My pull list;
Death of X #1
The Uncanny X-Men #14
Nightwing #6
Batman #8
Aquaman #8
Superman #8
Justice League #6
Green Lanterns #8
Green Arrow #8
He-Man/Thundercats #1
This wasnt an exceptional week for comics but it was a hard choice because the books that were good were really good, ultimately the pick goes to Death of X I hate where this appears to be going, I hate what I think Disney are going to do to Mutants and the X-Men in particular, but I am so invested in these characters that I am pulling for the X-Men to come out the other side and then Whup the Inhuams next month.
This book starts with my favourite X-Man Cyclops leading his team to investigate a distress call left by the multiple man Jamie Madrox on Muir Island, at the same time a team of Inhumans is intercepting a soon to be newly born Inhuman, this turns into a Hydra ambush with the squad of Inhumans fighting for their lives and the life of this new Inhuman, meanwhile the X-Men find hundreds of dead Madrox dupes and a dying Jamie Maddrox, and the big reveal, which may or may not be Marvels vehicle for writing out the X-Men for good, is that the Terrigen mist which creates new Inhumans is terminal to mutants and as the issue closes with the revelation that Cyclops is infected with the mist and with the Cyclops effectively declaring war on the Inhumans.
I like this even though I fear were it might lead, I dont give a flying fook about any of the Inhumans but I am buying into the story and really rooting for them to get their ass's handed to them. Also this is being written by Jeff Lemire so by default you just know its going to be great, the art is really strong on this book too but despite all that part of me does wish that Bendis and Bachalo were on this book.
4/5
Honourable mentions;
Aquaman #8
Still just absolutely really loving on this, this is one of those books I look forward too every fortnight and this new ark continues where the last left off, Black Manta the new leader of Nemo has weapon is heading for the surface and hes going to walk through Atlantis to get there, queue buckey loads of action as Aquaman and the Drift try to stop it in its tracks but the weapon adapts to every attack and doesnt miss a beat, elswhere Mera is undergoing her trials and education to be judged a suitable bride for Arthur, I am digging this sub story and it s a nice contrast the action, the issues closes with the reveal that this giant doomsday weapon is in fact Shaggy man!
3.5/5
Superman #8
The last issue was just excellent and maybe should have been my pick of the week and this is really strong too, Supes, Jonathan and Krypto get sucked to a Dinosaur Island by a misfiring science project, and after fighting raptors, giant Fish and Pterodactyls you start to see some clues as to where this story is heading which finally pay off with the finel panels when it is revealed that this is the cave that the Losers used during Darwin Cookes amazing New Fontier, now obviously this does not make a lick of sense but I enoyed this and I am going to be interested to see how this plays out.
3.5/5
Batman #8 and Nightwing #6
The enjoyable over the top romp of Batfamily vs giant monsters nears its climax, the issue closes with Batman racing to showdown with Hugo Strange whose dressed in a bat longjohns.
3.5/5
Uncanny X-Men #14
Lets be honest this is essentially X-Force of a few years ago, with team of edgy mutants including Archangel fighting fire with fire, I can live with that I dug the X-Force run, this series does suffer in comparioson to Brubaker or Bendis runs but taken insolation I dig it, and anythign where Magneto is the main character is going to have my money. We see the return of one of my favourite x-Characters in Exodus in this issue and he still has his warped hero worship for Magneto, hes been responsible for turning the brainwshed mutants into killers the =, Magneto rumbles him kicks his ass and puts him on ice as an insurance policy and Betsy finallly decides shes been lied to enough and leaves the team. 3.5/5
PS Green lanterns didnt suck! Am I warming to these characters? Maybe. Also Green Arrow is back on form and Mummra stabbed Prince Adam through the chest and then got the taken out by Skelator shut up and take my money.
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