Avengers: Endgame

The family went to see this on the opening day.  Well worth it and could well be my favourite although I'll reserve judgement until I've seen it a few more times.

The plot, which is probably full of holes if held under scrutiny, was fun, surprising and emotional.

A great end to the MCU Infinity Saga.

Jim Starlin's Thanos Saga

Inspired by Infinity War and the fact that I have all the comics from Starlin's original saga from the 1970s - I thought I'd read them!

It all starts with his first appearance in Iron Man #55 but then moves to Captain Marvel where Thanos gets hold of the cosmic cube and CM goes all cosmic and aware!

Thanos is actually defeated at the conclusion of the story in issue #33

Strangely the story also includes a few issues Daredevil - basically because Moondragon, also of Titan, is introduced.

and an issue of Avengers with a classic cover.

After the conclusion of his CM run, Starlin moved onto Warlock (Strange Tales and then published under Warlock's own name)

I decided to read that from the beginning as it all ties-in eventually.

 There was some great Starlin art in those issues.

Eventually the story concludes in two 1977 Annuals.

And that was that for a few years. Some classic issues in that run.

So, for a change, I've got to read plenty of original issues (27 altogether).

Back to Teen Titans next.

Avengers Infinity War

So Part 1 of the Infinity Saga film has landed and it's great. I've seen it twice and although, of course, it's not perfect it is still an awesome achievement to include so many heroes and Thanos in just one film.

It's certainly meant the value of my Iron Man #55 which is the first appearance of Thanos has increased.

The Great Lakes Avengers

The Great Lakes Avengers debuted in West Coast Avengers #46 which is a cracking issue by John Byrne.

Actually reading this issue made me want to read the rest of his run even though he's not very kind to the Vision and the Scarlet Witch.

Anyway Dan Slott took this odd bunch of characters and wrote a 4 issue mini-series where they actually save the world but not without suffering a few casualties along the way. This was one of Slott's more humour orientated books but the drama works to.

I'd picked this up having had it recommended on the greatest Dan Slott stories ever told last May pretty cheap. It was well worth it.

Two new trades

I thought I should purchase the first trade of Batwoman with J.H. Williams on art before reading the one I bought the other week.

Lockjaw and the Pet Avengers was a bit of an impulse buy but it looks kinda fun and it was cheap.

Captain America Masterworks Vol 4

This hard back edition of Marvel Masterworks is vol 93 in the masterworks line but also Vol 4 reprinting Cap's adventures. Vol 3 will be out in paperback in approx a year but this volume and subsequent ones are many years away from the softcover treatment. Although I would have liked to get the official vol 4 I haven't spotted it available in this country and anyway £25 for a masterworks volume is about standard.

The stories in this look great. I recognise some of the artwork from old British reprints but it will be a treat to read these in colour and in their entirety.

More Masterworks

 Two Masterworks vols have arrived in the post recently.

Avengers Volume 5 completes my Avengers run! Yay! This was one of the criteria I gave myself before I start (re) reading my Marvel collection in order from the very start. In fact it was the main one. But with all the stuff I've got lined-up to read I and the chance to still acquire the odd Daredevil, Cap or X-Men Masterworks I think I am going to start at the beginning of 2015.

Now there's advance planning!

I also got this regular version of Iron Man vol 6. Forbidden Planet managed to send it in the end. This is the version that I really wanted not the limited edition I got in a panic 2 months ago.

Anyway, that limited edition will now go on ebay.

Added to My collection: Great Lakes Avengers

Picked up all 4 issues of this mini mega cheap from ebay (£2.20). The trade is out of print and hence copies are rare and expensive so I was ecstatic to pick this up for such a price!

Another of the Greatest Dan Slott stories acquired!

Avengers/FF Annual x-over from 1985

I read these two annuals which I bought from Fantasy World back in 1985 because Bronze Age Babies were doing a review of them on their site and I thought it would be nice to chip in with a comment.

Unfortunately, what with the Olympics and all that, I've only just finished both double size-issues so it's a bit late now. :-)

I thought they were a bit harsh at first, but although it's an interesting experiment to merge the end of the story at the end of each annual, the FF annual in particular was a bit of a mess in terms of script but fantastic with Byrne and Sinnott on art.

Avengers Movie

As this is primarily a comics related blog, I feel I'm allowed to mention that I saw the new Avengers film this week.

Can sum it up in one word - Excellent!