Civil War: Epilogue

The new Marvel Universe World Order has arrived.


Most of these comic reviews concern comics which focus on the deployment of the registered superheroes in the Initiative.

In "Civil War: The Initiative" Bendis and Silvestri introduce us to some of the characters in this new era. We see Iron Man, Omega Flight and Ms. Marvel.

It's a 38 page issue, cost about £3 and is virtually a total waste of money, paper and time. The only things I learnt were Iron Man's armour is now part of him and pours out of his skin. Say what? and eeew! Also Caps not dead according to Ms. Marvel (!) and the Thunderbolts are one weird team.

I could have speed read this in the shop and not missed anything really. I think Silvestri's art is over-rated as well. It's OK.... but not my favourite style.

Quite like the cover though. Rating 4/10.

"The Mighty Avengers" #1 by Bendis and Cho was much, much better. Good dialogue and great art by Frank Cho. Ms. Marvel was interesting in this title which will make it easier to drop her own in a couple of months.

I like the new team as it's a good mix of well known and new(ish) heroes. I'm looking forward to seeing what Bendis will do with Wonderman. I've always found him quite boring uptill now.

A neat and surprising ending as well. Rating 7.5/10

Fantastic Four #543 was a giant sized 45th anniversary issue. The main story was by Dwayne McDuffie and Mike McKone. I really liked their first issue on this title and although this was a little slow and was basically a set up to introduce the new team for next issue - it was still a good read. The signs look good so far.

Rating 7.5/10

She-Hulk #16. What more can I say about Dan Slott's writing on She-Hulk? Another great issue as Shehulkie continues to tackle all those bad guys that her cousin usually messes around with. Tonight it's the "Wen-di-go!". Wolvie joins the party but rejects her advances. Juggernauts Sloppy seconds? You what?

Top notch art by Rick Burchett by the way.

Rating 8/10

There's no doubt that the concept and storylines in "The New Avengers: Illuminati" are interesting. In issue #2 by Bendis & Reed with art by Jim Cheung Reed Richards collects the soul gems to make up the Infinity Gaunlet - just so nobody else can. This doesn't go down too well with all the other members and the divisions in the group start to widen.

I particularly like the fact that each member ends up with one of the gems. That is certainly going to cause problems and with it, some good storylines to look forward to. I liked this issue a lot.

Rating 8/10.