Preamble Nick Spencer likes big stories. He is the master of the long game as shown in Secret Avengers and his creator owned Morning Glories. But then someone had to go and give him the keys to the Avengers! Situation Report Avengers World: Ascension continues to build three seemingly unconnected stories. First, an Avengers […]
Avengers: Adapt or Die (Comic Files)
Preamble Infinity is over, so Jonathan Hickman and Salvador Larroca can let the Avengers just sit back and relax right? Nope, there are still potential global killing problems to face. And Steve Rogers and Tony Stark are reviewing if the team has the right mix. It is kind of like Avenger draft day. Oh, and […]
Avengers World: A.I.M.PIRE (Comic Files)
Preamble I really came to love Nick Spencer’s run on Secret Avengers. I loved his A.I.M. vs. S.H.I.E.L.D. storyline and it felt like a big spy movie every month. But he abandoned me for Avengers World with Jonathan Hickman as co-writer and Stefano Caselli as artist. As I sat with pen in hand reading Avengers […]
Secret Avengers Vol. 3 #7 (Comic Files)
Preamble Seriously, do you know how hard it was to not tell you that Deadpool was the big reveal in Secret Avengers #6?. Seriously I was pumped, but since the Tradd Moore and Matthew Wilson cover of Secret Avengers #7 lets the cat out of the bag, and is brilliant, I can now tell you […]
Secret Avengers Vol. 3 #1 (Comic Files)
Preamble I admit it, I am hesitant. With the beginning of Secret Avengers Volume 2 I was in the same boat. I was not familiar with Nick Spencer’s writing and the whole concept on the team but they had Agent Coulson to draw me in. But then by the middle of Spencer’s run I was […]
Secret Avengers #16 (Comic Files)
Preamble I am a simple man with simple tastes. All I want I really want is a great tie-in S.H.I.E.L.D. comic that features Coulson and the bus crew. I want stories to be suitably finished. And I want to make sense of the All-New Marvel NOW!. Seriously is the next issue of Secret Avengers #1 […]
Secret Avengers #15 (Comic Files)
Preamble We are in the back half of Nick Spencer and Ales Kot’s “How to MA.I.M. a Mockingbird.” And with the All-New Marvel NOW!’s shadow looming just two months away, it is time to start wrapping nearly a year of story up. But will it resolve in a way that has made a long-term investor […]
Avengers: Prelude to Infinity (Comic Files)
Preamble Infinity is coming, Infinity is coming! Actually it came and if you follow this crossover monthly, well likely over. Infinity did not work for me in single issues. Most of that had to do with the feeling I was not getting all of the story since I was not reading all of the issues beyond the […]
Secret Avengers #14 (Comic Files)
Preamble As Secret Avengers #14 begins, Taskmaster is dead! Our hero, my Deadpool stand-in, has served S.H.I.E.L.D. well, but alas he was one step behind the one who betrayed him. And one agent gets the answers to the question that has been bugging her, who am I? Situation Report Taskmaster is dead and the Scientist Supreme […]
Secret Avengers #12 (Comic Files)
Preamble Congratulations Secret Avengers, you have reached a full year in giving us 12 issues of spy versus spy excitement. Issue #12 marks the end of the title’s first year and a new addition as Ales Kot joins Nick Spencer in writing the closest thing to a Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. tie-in book we have. […]