Comics this week

For anyone who happened to stop by the blog yesterday at some point (hopefully no other times) and found it down, my apologies. Something was going on with my Google account that was shutting down most everything connected to it. Really hoping we don't have any more of those any time soon. Anyways, onwards we march.

Captain Marvel 14
The likely climactic conclusion of The Enemy Within storyline as Carol confronts Yon-Rogg and the Avengers back her up. I honestly can say I don't know what's coming in this story but it, so far, has shown me again that events are best left in small and capable hands only involving a couple of titles and with a very limited run. This has essentially just been an arc that's run through two books for four issues, not a full-scale event in the way Marvel makes them these days. Still hoping Infinity pans out; I'm not sitting here waiting for Infinity to be bad because it benefits me to have something to write about beside my usual "pretty interesting!" tag. I'd much rather be boring and have great stuff to read than be more controversial and have crappy books. Oh yeah, but this Captain Marvel is the book we're talking about right now and I bet it's going to be a good one.

Daredevil 29
This book almost didn't make the cut because, as much as I love this book, it always makes the cut and this seemed like one of the few times where I genuinely wasn't as interested in the story as I have been every other time. It seemed like a prime opportunity to get another book in, like X-Men or Venom or Hulk. However, after I'd written my other four entries and was picking out my fifth book, I looked back and decided that I'm not going to leave a book out for being too good all the time. Instead, we should celebrate how lucky we are to have a really great Daredevil book that examines his character without throwing him through the worst of the worst at all times. We have an undoubtedly fantastic issue coming to us as Daredevil examines his own character through the eyes of former bully Hackett, a man he hated before he was gunned down in front of him by someone with ties to the Sons of the Serpent. Should be a nice entry to the series, like every other one. This book is just good reading all the way through.

FF 10
This book continues to be fun and fresh and the plot is going to an interesting place right now as the FF jump into the timestream to try to find the Fantastic Four. The Julius Caesar alien was a pretty neat guy back in his F4 introduction and hopefully will continue to be so here as he guides the FF on to their next adventure. This book has been surprisingly fun as its continued and it's worth reading every new issue as the team finds out more about itself and as Fraction shows us more and more about the workings of these kids and these adults. Solid book, should be another neat, new issue. And don't forget, somewhere out there, Doctor Doom is still holding Alex Power's parents and using him as a spy on the FF.

Ultimates 28
The Ultimates Disassembled storyline continues as it reaches all kinds of crazy new heights. Following the apparent death of Antonio Stark, the villains of this book seem to only need one more Infinity Gem to really reshape the universe in its entirety to their whim. Cap and Hawkeye are captured, Ben Grimm appears also to have died, Sue is separated, and Fury's strike-force team is preparing but is probably a bit untrained and certainly not on the level of the Ultimates, who were already handily defeated by these guys. They have a Hulk with Infinity Gems. Formidable.

X-Men Legacy 14
Hopefully here we'll find out a little bit more of what Legion is up to in this arc as he's now taken control, without any sort of permission, of several British/United Kingdom superheroes and appears to have decided that he has to do what he has to do, even if the people he needs don't cooperate. It's not exactly what the X-Men and others worried about with Legion but it's certainly along those same lines as his tremendous power makes him a worry for everyone else in the superhero community and in the world at large. As someone who has loved David throughout this run, I'm very interested to see what's going on in his mind; we didn't get that last time as we focused the lens through Pete Wisdom. I'm not sure we'll get it this issue but boy, I'd like to know a little more about what's happening.