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February 7, 2012 2:06 pm I liked it, but this may be too decompressed. We get one character moment and one piece of action per book. That is a little light for a monthly. Normally I like to support non-Marvel/DC stuff I am interested in by getting the floppies, but I might have to switch to trade and hope for the best.

February 6, 2012 8:36 pm Portacio, huh? I guess his style is similar, but Whilce falls apart so quick nowadays. Apply a little time pressure and his work comes apart at the seams.

February 6, 2012 8:33 pm This was definitely one of those grab on a whim. Great creators but I have no idea what this is about, really. Except Thieves. I assume there is stealing in it.

February 6, 2012 8:31 pm Brian Wood Conan = Exciting Do not fail me Wood! That sounded vaguely dirty.

January 25, 2012 5:50 pm 20 pages for $4 and no Spider-man. Hmmm. I actually enjoyed the issue, but not sure about the value here. Are we done with longer length Spidey for $4 or is this an anomaly?

January 25, 2012 5:41 pm The Camuncoli art being mixed in not once, but twice just did me in. He is not a bad artist, but McNiven is so beautiful and clean that the transition was jarring x 3. If the story was any good I would have been really angry, but as it is I am just done with this recent foray into Cap.

January 23, 2012 4:54 pm I am pretending there are no issue numbers and am just enjoying the incredible storytelling. There. Stupid 0.5. Almost had it that time.

January 23, 2012 4:52 pm You are right, it looks crowded. Of course, this is hardly unique to Jim Lee. Most artists have trouble tossing together 5-7 heroes in an 8x10 space. I think Lee's very detail oriented style is a slight detriment, as in some cases a rougher, more suggestive style would make it look less busy. It is also a matter of personal taste. I tend to like simplistic covers that emphasize design and layout. You can give me the details on the interior of the comic. Others might like a cover that gives that a million things to look at, like a Where's Waldo image.

January 23, 2012 4:45 pm I haven't found much to interest me character-wise, but the continuing innovative art-storytelling from Manapaul will keep me coming back for a quite a while more.

January 23, 2012 4:42 pm My recollection is that Exodus started out mysterious and interesting, but then suffered from a power set that was not particularly original (super ESP, basically) and over-powered. He is also one of yet another mutants that has been around for millenia, which seems an over-used origin. How many "children of the atom" should there really be before the atomic age? Anyway, just because he was not particularly interesting in the past, doesn't mean a revamp couldn't make him interesting now. Take Rhino, over in Spider-man, who is now one the most interesting of Spider-man's villains thanks to Joe Kelly.