Spencer (w) and Lieber (a) and Rosenberg (c) and Cowles (l)
Boomerang's team has found him and his feeble attempts to convince them that it was Chameleon who betrayed them doesn't go over as well with them as it did with Owl. However, Owl backs him up and hires the team to get the painting back. They agree and Owl gives them a few more hired hands to help with Chameleon's security. When Boomerang, Overdrive, and Beetle make it downstairs, Overdrive takes the painting (a forgery, according to Boomerang), he aims for another new prize. Meanwhile, Hydro-Man has revealed to Hammerhead that Shocker has the head of Silvermane.
With Spencer and Lieber back and the main plot picked back up, the book immediately resumes its old tone and humor. It continues to be a sharp book, one of the funnier books on the stands from Marvel, and still manages to have a plot that's certainly compelling enough, which is all this one needs to be. I mentioned in the comments of Coby's Comics blog recently that it's possible my aversion to the new SECRET AVENGERS comes from the characters chosen to act the way they're acting because I don't buy it from those specific characters. This book feels very much like what that book is going for, something fun and exciting, while looking at characters from whom I can absolutely buy this sort of behavior. Really strong book right now.
Total Score: 5/5
Miles Morales: The Ultimate Spider-Man 2
Bendis (w) and Marquez (a) and Ponsor (c) and Petit (l)
Peter Parker is in Miles' room asking for his web-shooters back. He doesn't talk about how he returned from the dead, just citing that this sort of thing happens in their world, and he refuses to tell May about it because he doesn't want to give her a heart attack. After asking politely multiple times and being shocked by Miles' venom blast (accidentally), he knock Miles out and takes the shooters. Miles immediately believes it to be a clone and isn't sure how to handle the situation. Meanwhile, Spider-Man-like villains are robbing warehouses and Miles prepares to tell Kate his secret.
The book moves relatively well though it is absolutely loaded with back-and-forth dialogue. I have a number of complaints about that style of writing (all extremely well-documented, pretty sure that if you searched the phrase "back-and-forth" on this blog you'd get pages of responses) but here it works far better. It's not an action scene where such dialogue breaks flow and it's in a scene where a character would believably keep interjecting and the two characters may talk rapidly with one another. It starts to drag a little as it carries on but it works far better here than most of the other places I tend to point it out. More strong art from David Marquez here and we at least have a clear plot to talk about. Starting to feel like the name change to the much longer new MILES MORALES: THE ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN is in regards to the fact that Miles is set to join the 616 alongside, of course, the ALL-NEW X-MEN (WHY?)
Total Score: 4/5
Miracleman 7
Moore (w) and A. Davis and C. Austen (a) and Oliff (c) and Caramagna (l)
Dr. Gargunza explains to Liz about the situation in which they originally created Miracleman, Young Miracleman, and Kid Miracleman with alien-DNA and tech. They were meant to be the test subjects and Gargunza wanted to use it on himself, though he found that the process didn't work on people after a certain age that he had already passed. His new hope is to transfer his brain into the body of a baby already affected by the Miracleman process, AKA MM and Liz's baby. MM and Evelyn Cream turn up but Gargunza uses a trigger word he implanted to switch MM back to Michael Moran for an hour's time. He also sets an enhanced dog on the pair of them, which hunts and kills Cream before turning to Moran.
More excitement abound as Gargunza's inner-Doc-Ock comes out (YES, I'm well aware this all came out before the SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN switch but it's still a useful reference, OKAY, even if this one involves a baby and not a Spider-Man). Evelyn's demons finally catch up to him as the dog Pluto, changed by the trigger word Steppenwolf (pretty great), also catches up to him. Michael Moran's in something of a pinch as he faces Pluto with nothing but a revolver (which, you know, likely won't work) and the hope that maybe Miracleman will turn up again.
Total Score: 5/5
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