Thanks partially to Victoria Day Monday, and to the fact that I forgot my wallet at home yesterday, I’m two days late getting my comics this week. Go me. Oh well, let’s get to it!
The Mighty Avengers – Secret Invasion tie-in!
I liked this one a lot. We get to see a lot of backstory with the Skrull Jarvis, and how completely he infiltrated the Avengers and Stark’s files. The rest of the book is about the internet fan-favourite, The Sentry, and how he handles being told the invasion is his fault. In short: he doesn’t, and it’s kind of awesome. Not to give anything away, but the Void makes its return and I’m liking where this is going.
Let’s see if it ends up somewhere awesome, or if Sentry ends up in his usual “interesting, but misused” category.
JSA
The brawl with Gog continues… or is it really Gog? JSA is consistently the best team book in DC’s catalogue, far outshining the supposedly premier JLA in my eyes, and this issue’s no exception. The entire issue’s one massive donnybrook, with the rolling dust cloud ending up in Africa, and a big teaser for the next issue and the next year of JSA books. Good stuff, though I’m a little confused about Green Lantern and his shadow-powered son. Is that Kingdom Come Lantern or Earth-1’s?
Captain America
Brubaker’s determined to write a story which encompasses the full breadth of Captain America’s entire history, and so far it’s blowing my mind. There hasn’t been a clunker issue in the entire run, and everytime he builds to something and I say, “WHOA!” he finds another way to top it.
This issue, we have the usual cast of villains (Skull, Faust, Zola) furthering their mysterious plot, which we’re only now starting to see the shape of. Nevermind the Ultimates title, this is the real Grand Theft America, with a plot to put Skull’s man in the White House, and bring Captain America back…
A showdown’s coming. Fantastic.
