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Pick of the Week: Wolverine #18
This week was nice in that I got to review two books I actually enjoyed a whole bunch: Wolverine #18 and Fear Itself #7.2.
However, the former takes the cake for how much it makes me feel like I’m watching Big Trouble in Little China. It therefore automatically becomes my pick of this week’s comics.
Some tidbits:
- Fat Cobra makes an appearance, which can only make the issue better. If you want good kung fu in Marvel, you have to go with one of Matt Fraction’s Immortal Iron Fist creations.
- The Jade Claw is a sexy, threatening villain. The “my cheapest bra cost more than what it would take to feed your family for a year” line illustrated her power in one sentence.
However, it’s weird to think about international drug queenpins still dealing with mundane things like bras. - I really like it when Wolverine takes a break from brooding and almost becomes a straight man to the Gorilla Man/Fat Cobra hi-jinks. It’s good to see the character portrayed in a lighter tone every once and awhile.
- My only real complaint is that it doesn’t really fit into the Regenesis event, and that it seems really mislabeled as such. It seems to be a “tying up loose ends” type of story, but I didn’t need the false advertising.
Other than that last point, it’s a really good issue. I blogged about next month’s Wolverine cover last week, so you should pick that up as well to round out the story.
Till next week, cheers! Reblog, like and retweet if you like this!
Also: would this maybe be better in a vlog format?
Defenders #1 variant cover by Stuart Immonen
Oh, Doctor Strange: horribly utilized, but absurdly interesting.
Today’s Comic Purchases: 6/1/2011
Hello ladies and gents! Here’s my picks for this week’s comics. I picked up:
- Sweet Tooth #22 (Vertigo, Jeff Lemire)
- Superboy #8 (DC, Jeff Lemire)
- Secret Six #34 (DC, Gail Simone)
- Avengers Academy #14.1 (Marvel, Christos Gage)
- Fear Itself #3 (Marvel, Matt Fraction)
- Amazing Spider-Man #663 (Marvel, Dan Slott)
Good haul this week; I don’t really like Marvel’s “.1” series of issues, but I picked up Avengers Academy for completion’s sake, and because I’m really liking this series. Fear Itself surprised me with some twists, but Secret Six was definitely this week’s pick. Check it out!
Here’s the reviews I did for ComicVine for four of the above issues. Spoilers abound, people!
