[caption id="" align=“alignleft” width=“210” caption=“Nick Fury deals with the fallout of his first major defeat in this week’s The Ultimates.”] [/caption] Pretty small comics week for me. All I had was the aforementioned Daredevil #6 and the two Marvel comics listed below. The end of Spider-Island was good for my pocketbook, but bad for comic excitement. FF #12 - Despite sporting an art style that did not jive with me, FF #12 was a solid effort by Hickman yet again. I’m interested in seeing what this book becomes now that Fantastic Four seems to be ongoing again. How long can a book about the Future Foundation carry without Reed, Sue, Ben, and Spidey? ...

[caption id=“attachment_249” align=“alignleft” width=“197” caption=“FF #12”] [/caption] Unlike last week, this week was a very small release week for me. It was all Marvel and it was mostly X-Men related. Wolverine Vol 4 #19 - Wolverine’s adventures in Chinatown come to an end. I enjoyed this issue more than the others in this arc. I think it’s convinced me to keep this book on my radar. I probably won’t be collecting it monthly, but I’ll check out future trades. X-Men Legacy #259 - This book finally joins the rest of the X-books in the regenesis story line. It’s the first X-Men legacy issue I’ve liked since they went to space. I heard Mike Carey is leaving the book after this story arc so I wonder if it’s going to go off in a new direction. FF #12 - This was an entertaining issue as can always be expected when Valeria and Doom are involved. I wasn’t a huge fan of the pencilling in this issue. I found it distracted me at points. I did love the cover, by usual artist Steve Epting, though!

[caption id=“attachment_242” align=“alignleft” width=“197” caption=“Uncanny X-Men Vol 2 #2”] [/caption] Eric’s Book: Eric: Welcome to Week 5 of Comic POW! I hope all our US readers had a great Thanksgiving Dan: We were too busy eating turkey to talk about comics Eric: Yeah, the timing just didn’t work out with comics being released on Wed. Dan: I didn’t even buy last week’s comics until this week myself ...

(The following contains lots of spoilers! So you may want to read Fantastic Four #600 first if you haven’t yet) Predicting the fallout from any given issue is a difficult thing to do within this storytelling medium. Authors are fond of misdirection. Small, seemingly unimportant events within any issue may later become extremely important via a planned storyline by the same writer or by a future writer who, like Grant Morrison, takes something that was never meant to have meaning and grants it utmost importance. Given that, let’s take a look at the possible important changes to the Marvel Universe post-F4-600. We’ll start with the obvious one - Johnny Storm’s return. ...

Happy Thanksgiving, Readers! No Comic POW! this week because Dan and I are busy with Thanksgiving stuff. But I hope to have some extra features up next week to make up for it! Enjoy!

Last week was a very heavy comic release week for me. I enjoyed almost all of them;Batman most of all, as you already know . [caption id=“attachment_217” align=“alignleft” width=“197” caption=“Amazing Spider-Man #674”] [/caption] Generation Hope #13 - I continue to enjoy the dynamic between all the members of Generation Hope although I feel that the book is suffering from being a monthly book that is trying to work on both the personal drama and the action and both end up suffering. X-Men #21 - This book continues to do a much better job post-regenesis of keeping me interested. The team is still out in Eastern Europe working on figuring out who’s buying black market Sentinels X-Factor #227 - the idea was great, but the fight was so chaotic I kept losing track of what was going on. Basically they’re trying to fight a demonic force that killed a kid’s mom and is now killing others Red Hood and the Outlaws #3 - I really liked learning more about the characters in this book. This is another book that feels like each month it has to make a hard decision about whether to focus on action or backstory and I like them both. Amazing Spider-Man #674 - the beginning of a new arc with Vulture as the main villain. It was just like almost all first arc issues - a lot of setup and not as good as I’m sure it’ll get when we’re deep into it. [caption id=“attachment_218” align=“alignright” width=“197” caption=“X-23 #17”] [/caption] ...

Since Avenging Spider-Man #1 came with a free digital copy, I decided to check out the Marvel Comic App. I don’t have a smartphone, so I had to check it out in Chrome. Marvel Chrome Comic app starts up I take a look around at the app. Along the top is the menu bar. In the middle they have a featured book and a free book available. Along the bottom they have their featured comic book runs. They’re arranged so as to mimic a bunch of books in a comic shop. It’s one of those things that looks nicer than it works in practice. You essentially have to go from back to front because going the other way makes the issues block the ones behind them. ...

[caption id="" align=“alignleft” width=“180” caption=“Morning Glories #14”] [/caption] This week’s got a really bittersweet taste to it with the cancellation of one of my favorites books, X-23. Let’s enjoy the last three issues we’ve got left, I suppose. Morning Glories #14 - This book reminds me more and more of Lost each month I read it. Definitely not for kids due to tons of salty language, but this story gets more and more interesting the more I read it. I worry that I’ll never be able to use it in a POW because of how complex it is, but the next really great one I get I’m gonna try it. ...

One of the local comic shops is having a huge sale today! So I thought I’d pass along the info to you guys. After all, who doesn’t like discounted comics? Comics To Astonish 18th Annual Fall Sale!!! Saturday November , 19th 12-8 pm BACK ISSUES 60% OFF SILVER/BRONZE BOOKS 20% OFF DISCOUNTED SILVER/BRONZE BUY 2 GET 1 FREE* DISCOUNTED TPB’S BUY 2 GET 1 FREE* DOLLAR BOOKS BUY 1 GET 1 FREE TRADE PAPER BACKS 30% OFF STATUES 40% OFF DC DIRECT FIGURES SINGLES $13.99 LARGE FIGURES $18.99 BOX SETS $24.99 MARVEL SELECT $18.99 MAGIC/GAMING CARDS PACKS 30% OFF SINGLES 50% OFF NEW BOXES $99.99 HERO-CLIX/DD MINI’S 30% OFF NON-SPORT CARDS 30% OFF** COMIC SUPPLIES 30% OFF ...

[caption id=“attachment_191” align=“alignleft” width=“195” caption=“Batman #3”] [/caption] Eric’s Book: Eric: Alright, it’s time for some Comic POW! Dan: Fight! Eric: So, for this week’s POW! I selected Batman #3, written by Scott Snyder with art by Greg Capullo. Basically, Batman is being hunted by some group associating themselves with the Owls of Gotham Lore. Last issue they tried to kill Bruce Dan: Are owls scary now? Eric: Well, according to Alfred, they hunt Bats, so perhaps they should be! ...