coltrane68

February 18, 2010 5:38 pm

Great review - this will not gain DP any fans, nor will it lose any.

The only thing that grates at me is the use of Hit-Monkey, which is to be written by Way. It makes this issue a bit of a promo piece.

February 18, 2010 5:36 pm Good points all around. I think that Land is drawing the X-Men pretty well also, but his action scenes are so disjointed that it always takes two or three looks to have any idea what's going on.

February 18, 2010 5:34 pm

1. I agree - Nomad sux.

2. The slow burn seemed a bit too slow this month, but the writing was excellent as usual.

3. I actually thought Luke Ross brought his A game to this issue.

February 18, 2010 5:33 pm Fine review - this wasn't my POW, but it was 2nd in the running.

January 21, 2010 2:51 pm Loved the use of black & white. Complemented nicely by the "split" of the Sentry in Mighty Avengers (seen by Carla Sofen as laughably old-fashioned).

January 21, 2010 2:49 pm How do you make a Wolverine/Psylocke/Colossus fight with a Predator unexiting? By having the fight done off-panel by a boring character like Fantomex! Great work, Matt.

January 21, 2010 2:47 pm Good book, gruesome cover.

January 21, 2010 2:46 pm Not much to say about this issue - it's really good, but not the best of the A&L Nova. 4/4.

January 21, 2010 2:44 pm

For those who feel the need to make this a political story, it's not. I accept that there are people all across the political spectrum, all of whom need to be heard. Rather, it's a story about how the '50's Cap would react to a world he no longer understands. His instincts to gravitate towards separatist militia groups are perfectly reasonable in the Cap storyline. This is quite a gutsy issue, and I congratulate my man Brubaker.

By the way, Luke Ross did a fine job with this issue. True, his lines are more stiff than those of Epting, but let's not forget that he is constrained by trying to meet the Epting style.

January 7, 2010 9:14 pm

Love the list. If were to add anything...

1) Alias. I really believe that this was a game-changer. Took the concept of revisiting the minor character (as in Morrison's Animal Man or Moore's Swamp thing) and one-upped it by inventing a minor character and fitting her perfectly into historical continuity. Plus, the meta-comentary on comics was brilliant.

2) Fables. Shows that pure storytelling belongs in comics. Always did; always will. The art and Jean covers didn't hurt either.

3) Nova. Abnett & Lanning are reigniting everything I loved about the comics of my youth. Nova is the standout of the Abnett & Lanning line, and the A&L imagining of the Marvel cosmic universe is even better than the Jim Starlin era - which is saying something.