SonorousStar

April 25, 2012 8:56 pm Unfortunately, I think it's all too late for the MAX line. It started off as kind of a daring, more adult look at Marvel heroes (remember Cap and Ant-Man were in ALIAS) but soon all the A-list characters apart from The Punisher (who, let's face it, is barely scarping A-List status) were soon off limits leaving only C-List characters that creators could really go to town with because they were not in danger of being in a mega blockbuster anytime soon (Foolkiller, Wisdom, Rawhide Kid etc). What is needed is for Marvel to use MAX to take chances and create new characters like The Hood, Destroyer etc which would dip into areas that established Marvel properties just cannot go.

April 16, 2012 12:59 pm Not sure that Eckhart has the dangerous glint in his eye that Heath has. I think I'd go for John Hamm, while he's not A-List he's got a mysterious, guilty side to him that means you can forgive him for some of the unforgivable mistakes Heath makes.

January 26, 2012 10:52 am Does anyone else see a chicken?

January 3, 2012 5:26 pm Love this. All the arrogant, snarky X-Men in one series makes for fun times and great one-liners :)

January 3, 2012 5:25 pm Jeff Parker is absolutely smashing (no pun intended!) on this and Thunderbolts.

September 27, 2011 10:19 am Never really been a fan of Bagley's art, which is one of the main reasons I never really got into USM while he was the artist. And that cover is one of the ugliest things I've seen for a long time. Weak drawing and bad design - how did this ever get through! Still, I'll give it a shot since Bendis is normally pretty reliable especially on creator owned material.

July 26, 2011 11:49 am They forgot "Unnecessary," "Un-amusing," and "Uninspired."

Really, Frank Millar (a reasonably intelligent man, far as I can remember, though god knows there hasn't been much evidence of it in the last decase or more) has turned a knee-jerk, immature reaction he had 10 years ago into an infantile story that is just a bit of an embrassment for all the fans Frank Miller used to have. No wonder DC washed their hands of this mess: This is the comic equivalent of all the idiots that went round attacking and killing anyone they thought looked like a Muslim after 9/11 or the sort of thing even Chuck Norris would have scraped off his shoe in the 80s! No amount of money will buy back your artistic integrety, Miller!   

July 21, 2011 9:19 pm The original Wrightson Frankenstein was absolutely amazing! This looks just as good! Wrightson has still got it in spades. Let's appreciate the great masters while we can.

July 19, 2011 6:22 am So looking forward to this issue too! Props are due to Jonathan Ross. He's ben a massive comics fan and collector for years and recently took a break from his "day job" as a television host (on the level of Letterman in the UK) to live his dream and... just write comics. Good for him. He may not be a great writer yet, but he is spending the time to learn and improve his skill. Living the geek dream! :) 
 

July 15, 2011 12:04 pm He was the first person to ever charge me for a sketch. This was in 1988 at UKCAC comic con in London when he had only just started on Punisher. Paying for sketches was unheard of at that time in the UK. I knew he was a businessman way back then! :)