Preamble As Secret Avengers #2. “Secret Histories: Part Two” begins I find myself asking…who is that man in the eye patch? Will Ed Brubaker confirm who it might be? Or will I be left howling in a Fury about who this villain might be? Situation Report Someone has hacked the Secret Avengers roving headquarters […]
Marvel Team-Up #103 (Comic Files)
Preamble As you may have figured out by now, I have a pile of Marvel Team-Up issues that I have never read. Sure they are over thirty years old…but they are new to me. When I saw an issue with Ant-Man on the cover I was interested. And then I discovered that it was Scott […]
Secret Avengers Vol. 1 #1 (Comic Files)
Preamble I’ve read all of Secret Avengers volumes two and three. But I never read what I have called the Captain America Secret Avengers. So now with my second favorite S.H.I.E.L.D. title cancelled, it is time for me to dip into the past and catch the original version of this team written by Ed Brubaker […]
Daredevil: Devil at Bay (Comic Files)
Preamble Maybe if I click my shoes three times I will find the Daredevil title that I love. I have heard a lot of good things about Mark Waid’s run with the hero. So with Daredevil: Devil at Bay serving as a Marvel NOW! jump on point it seemed like a good volume to try […]
Avengers A.I.: 12,000 A.D. (Comic Files)
Preamble Sam Humphries’ Avengers A.I. gave us a different kind of Avengers team, one lead by a human and composed of artificial intelligences. Avengers A.I.: 12,000 A.D. brings this short lived title to an end. But the creative crew is able to give the team one last run against their greatest artificial nemesis, which is […]
Captain America: The Iron Nail (Comic Files)
Preamble Author Rick Remender and Steve Rodgers have been through a lot together since the kickoff of Marvel NOW!. Remender has provided Rogers an entire lifetime in another dimension, given him a family and stood beside Rogers as loved ones passed away. In Captain America: The Iron Nail, Remender takes Rogers on one last ride […]
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 […]
All-New Invaders: Gods and Soldiers (Comic Files)
Preamble I have spent a lot of time studying World War II. But I have never read any of Marvel’s premier World War II superhero squad, the Invaders. The team of Captain America, The Original Human Torch, Namor and Bucky sounds cool to me but that has never lead to action by picking up one of their stories. […]
Original Sin #8 (Comic Files)
Preamble New comic day was a busy night. But there was a comic burning in my bag (actually two of them) and I knew I would not be able to sleep until I finished Jason Aaron and Mike Deodato’s Original Sin #8. I needed to know so much. Would Nick Fury live? Who killed the […]
Original Sin #7 (Comic Files)
Preamble In the last issue of Original Sin, Nick Fury suited up for what could have been the last time. Fury is under attack from every corner as villains and Avengers look to make Fury pay. And Jason Aaron gives us a big clue to who might have killed The Watcher! Situation Report Nick […]