Marvel Comics: Comic Book Buy List - Week of March 5th 2014

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Oh my goodness I am absolutely terrible at balancing my time aren't I!? Insanely sorry for my lack of posts and I'm sorry as well for missing this past week's Movie News Overview videocast. I'm going to be posting a lot more starting this weekend so be on the look out for some more posts I have planned! This week in Marvel we aren't getting to heavy of a load but we are getting some AWESOME books out that's for sure. I had an incredibly hard time picking which book should be at #3 so be sure you check out the Notable's section this week because every book mentioned in this list deserves to be read (in my humble opinion that is!) Anyway, enough jibber jabber from me, let's see the top 3 Marvel Comics out this week!!

The Punisher #002 - Comic Review

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The Punisher #002 - Comic Review

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title: The Punisher #002

publisher: Marvel Comics

price: $3.99

writer: Nathan Edmondson

artist: Mitch Gerads

Story/Premise

For years, The Punisher has waged a war on crime in New York City with an array of very large guns, but a lead on a major source of drugs, weapons, and more has set his many sights due west. NOW! Frank Castle's in the City of Angels, looking to give the devil his due. Things aren't all they appear, though, with a highly trained military hit squad hot on Frank's tail. Caught between a posse of Punisher predators and targets of his own one-man-war, Frank's manifest destiny may be a shallow grave!

Marvel Comics: Comic Book Buy List - Week of February 19th!

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Marvel Comics: Comic Book Buy List - Week of February 19th 2014

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A new week means new comics! The last two weeks have had an awesome selection of new Marvel books coming out, and this week is no exception. February has been a strong month so far for Marvel's releases and I think that this week is going to be one of the stronger weeks we've gotten so far. Going into this weird "All New Marvel Now" re-launch of a re-launch I wasn't sure exactly how well the books were going to be and wasn't really sure it was for. I still don't know why Marvel did this soft re-launch of sorts, but the books have been exceptional lately! It's easily some of the best writing we've gotten from Marvel in the last year (just my opinion.) So enough of me talking! Let's see what made the top 3 list for this week's All New Marvel Books!

Comic Review: The Punisher #001

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title: The Punisher #001

price: $3.99

publisher: Marvel Comics

writer: Nathan Henry Edmondson 

artist: Mitch Gerads

Story/Premise

For years, The Punisher has waged a war on crime in New York City with an array of very large guns, but a lead on a major source of drugs, weapons, and more has set his many sights due west. NOW! Frank Castle's in the City of Angels, looking to give the devil his due. Things aren't all they appear, though, with a highly trained military hit squad hot on Frank's tail. Caught between a posse of Punisher predators and targets of his own one-man-war, Frank's manifest destiny may be a shallow grave! 

Review of the Book

When Marvel announced that Frank Castle aka The Punisher, was getting his own on going series once again, I was really nervous. Why was I nervous? I honestly have no idea, but since Castle is one of my favorite Marvel characters I was scared that he wasn't going to be represented the correct way. Well, I was wrong. And was I wrong big time! This book gives you everything you want out of a Punisher title! Gore, action, brutality, twisted acts of violence, and awesome hilarious dry humor! Plus, there is a Danny Trejo cameo in the beginning of the book which gives the book some extra points in my mind. The writing from Nathan Edmondson does a perfect job of capturing the brutality and essence of who Frank Castle really is. In this issue, we are introduced to a few new characters I expect that we are going to be seeing a lot of in this monthly title. Officer Sam, who I suspect will be a love interest some time down the road, Lou, who is a cook in a small diner that Frank seems to frequent often and an arms dealer from the military who Frank uses to get his array of bad ass weapons. Upon the first look of the art I was not a fan, but as I continued reading on, I found that the art style of Mitch Gerads fits this book perfectly. I've always been more a fan of the very clean and crisp art style, versus the sketched out looking art, but Gerads does an amazing job of blending the two styles enough to where it feels like a gritty and dirty book. Overall I really loved The Punisher #001 and it reminded me exactly why I love the character of Frank Castle so much. The only thing I am concerned about is whether or not Edmondson's writing will be able to stay constant and give us something as fun as this issue every month, if this series stays constant with how good this first issue is, I have a feeling that this monthly, ongoing title, could turn into Marvel's own "Breaking Bad."

Why to buy & Rating!

WHY TO BUY!

It's brutal, gory, intense and hilarious all at the same time, plus you get a cameo of Danny Trejo! The art and writing compliment each other perfectly and give you exactly what you want out of a book starring The Punisher!

RATING!

8/10(B+)

Written by Matt Skajem

Marvel Comics: Comic Book Buy List - Week of February 5th!

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From one side of the comic spectrum, we switch over to the other with Marvel's comic book buy list for this week! There are A LOT of Marvel books coming out this week, so obviously everything couldn't make a list, but if it didn't make the Top 3 be sure to look in the notable section at the end to see if your favorite book made it! 

#3

Title: The Punisher #1

Price: $3.99

Writer: Nathan Henry Edmondson

Artist: Mitch Gerads

Premise: For years, The Punisher has waged a war on crime in New York City with an array of very large guns, but a lead on a major source of drugs, weapons, and more has set his many sights due west. NOW! Frank Castle's in the City of Angels, looking to give the devil his due. Things aren't all they appear, though, with a highly trained military hit squad hot on Frank's tail. Caught between a posse of Punisher predators and targets of his own one-man-war, Frank's manifest destiny may be a shallow grave!

#2

Title: Star Lord: Annihilation Conquest #1

Price: $7.99!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHH!!!!

Writer: Keith Giffen

Artist: Timothy Green

Premise: Peter Quill is Star-Lord once more, but will he embrace his legacy?The techno-organic Phalanx have overrun the galaxy, and it's time for Star-Lord and his ragtag team of cosmic cult favorites — including Bug, Captain Universe, Deathcry, Mantis, Groot and Rocket Raccoon — to suit up and become legends!But this no-win, no-tech suicide mission starts off bad and rapidly gets worse.As hordes of the Phalanx close in, one team member might have to make the supreme sacrifice!Relive the birth of the motley crew that became the Guardians of the Galaxy!Collecting ANNIHILATION: CONQUEST — STARLORD #1-4.

#1

Title: Loki: Agent of Asgard #1

Price: $2.99

Writer: Al Ewing

Artist: Lee Garbett

Premise: Old God - New Trickster! Kid Loki's all grown up - and the God of Mischief is stronger, smarter, sexier and just plain sneakier than ever before. As Asgardia's one-man secret service, he's ready to lie, cheat, steal, bluff and snog his way through the twistiest, turniest and most treacherous missions the All-Mother can throw at him... starting with a heart-stopping heist on Avengers Tower - and the death of Thor! And that's just the beginning! Would we lie to you? This is LOKI, true believer - we're lying to you RIGHT NOW!

What do you think of the Marvel buy list this week? This was probably the hardest Marvel list for me to make with all the titles hitting the shelves this week! Do you think this list is correct? Is there one book you think deserved to be on this list that didn't make it? Sound off below in the comment section and tweet us at @4theFan with your opinion! 

Other Notable Marvel Books out:

Ms Marvel #1

Superior Carnage Annual #1

New Avengers #14

Written by Matt Skajem