One of my favorite periods of Avengers history is when the West Coast Avengers were around. The rivalry between the two teams sparked off some great drama as the East Coast Avengers thought of themselves as the “true” Avengers while the West Coast Avengers (or “Wackos” as they were also called) suffered a serious inferiority [...]
Tags: Avengers, Brian Michael Bendis, Dark Avengers, Jim Cheung, New Avengers
With this weekend’s announcement of the cancellation and relaunch of Ultimate Spider-Man without Stuart Immonen, I fleetingly imagined that the followup announcement would be a relaunch of Immonen and Warren Ellis’s Nextwave. But even as I fancied that notion last night, I figured that it was probably more pipe dream than reality. This morning, a [...]
This fanboy rant is brought to you by the letters B, M, and B. Remember when the X-Men books were the home to Marvel’s melodrama? In those pages, you would find missing babies and characters always returning from the dead? You’d see Wolverine drinking beer and smoking cigars. And occasionally you’d even get Jessica Drew, [...]
For a long time now, Bendis’s New Avengers has been on the cutting block for me but I’ve never gone through with it. Since the launch of the title, something’s never felt right but I always thought that the promise was there for something great. I enjoy the first story, gloss over the whole Sentry [...]
Tags: Avengers, Brian Michael Bendis, New Avengers, Secret Invasion