Marvel Comics: Comic Book Buy List - Week of February 26th

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Alright! Another week, more new comics! Sorry for the delay on the buy lists this week! Work can get pretty crazy! Anyway, there's definitely some Marvel books worth mentioning this week! Without further a do! Lets get to it!

#3

Title: Guardians of the Galaxy #012

Price: $3.99

Writer: Brian Michael Bendis

Artist: Sara Pichelli

Story/Premise

"THE TRIAL OF JEAN GREY" PART 4! A surprise ally from one character's past comes to help, but is that enough against the most powerful army in the Universe?

Opinion:

So far, "The Trial of Jean Grey" has been an awesome and exciting crossover between the Guardians and the X-Men. It's really interesting to see how the X-Men from the past react to the Guardians, especially Rocket and Groot. If you've been reading this crossover so far you know that it's been a bit of a ride. If you like space adventure and aliens I would definitely pick up this book!

#2

Title: Fantastic Four #001

Price: $3.99

Writer: James Robinson

Artist: Leonard Kirk

Story/Premise

"THE FALL OF THE FANTASTIC FOUR" PART 1 The world's greatest comics magazine begins anew with Marvel's First Family, the Fantastic Four! But as the brilliant MR. FANTASTIC, the compassionate INVISIBLE WOMAN, the ever lovin' THING & the hot-headed HUMAN TORCH embark on a strange mission, they aren't met with new beginnings, but an untimely end! As the family of cosmic explorers head towards their darkest hour, who could possibly be behind their downfall? And how is one of their oldest enemies, the sadistic dragon known as Fing-Fang-Foom involved? Prepare for the fantastic!

Opinion:

The reason that this book made the top 3 of the buy list this week is mostly because I'm intrigued to know why exactly Marvel wanted to do another Re-Boot of Fantastic Four when the last run just ended a few weeks ago. According to the solicitations It's going to be interesting to see how this story plays out with it being apparently "the end."

#1

Title: The Superior Spider-Man #028

Price: $3.99

Writer: Dan Slott

Artist: Giuseppe Camuncoli

Story/Premise

"Goblin Nation" #2 (of 5) Goblins! Spiderlings! Super villains! Giant robots! It can only mean one thing: ASSAULT ON SPIDER-ISLAND!If you want to see people standing around talking, read another comic. Want to see heroes having a fist fight, go somewhere else?You are IN the GOBLIN NATION and this is ALL-OUT WAR!

Opinion:

This I think is obviously the #1 Marvel book coming out  this week as it is almost every week a new issue comes out. The anticipation behind this final story arc is incredible and if the last issue of SSM was any indication on how the rest of this arc will go, this issue will be absolutely no disappointment. If you've been reading Superior before this issue, keep getting it, if you are yet to pick up this title, pick up the last two issues a long with this one so that you kind of know what's going on!

Notables 

Deadpool #024

Thunderbolts #022

Uncanny Avengers #017

Written by Matt Skajem

The Superior Spider-Man #027.Now - Comic Review

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title: The Superior Spider-Man #027.Now

publisher: Marvel Comics

price: $3.99

writer: Dan Slott

artist: Giuseppe Camuncoli

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I had another hard time putting this list together for the Marvel books coming out this week. There aare about 5 books in total that I think you should go out and buy this week, which is why we have that cute little notables section at the end of the list! With that being said, there are A LOT of awesome books out this week from Marvel, so lets see what made the Top 3 list!

Comic Review: The Superior Spider-Man #025

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title: The Superior Spider-Man #025

price: $4.99

publisher: Marvel Comics

writer(s): Dan Slott & Christos Gage

artist: Humberto Ramos

Story/Premise

Otto Octavius, the Superior Spider-Man, in a life-or-death struggle against the original Superior Venom! Plus: With one last goblin on his side, the Goblin King's court is now complete! Guest starring: The Avengers!

Review of the Book

With this issue of Superior Spider-Man being the final in the Darkest Hours story arc, I feel like I was expecting a bigger, and bit more complex ending to the arc then what we got. This issue was not bad by any means, but I can't sit here and say it was a 10/10 book either. It was a fun ride and we finally got the "return" of *spoiler warning* Peter Parker! Well, kind of. I was happy yet annoyed at the same time because, well, IT'S PETER! I was annoyed because it's somewhat of a plot hole. How did Peter's conscious come back when in issue #09 he completely forgets who he is? *spoiler over* Most of this issue consisted of us seeing an all out brawl between the Avengers, and "The Superior Venom" which was epic and crazy! Finally the Avengers get called in, and they're finally doing something about Spider-Ock! But yet when the dust settles, they still think everything is fine and dandy once Flash has the symbiote? The issue ends with the Avengers as well when we see Tony looking through the files and finding something out about Spider-Man that we all don't know and Captain America saying "That's it. Time to bring in Spider-Man." Okay? Wasn't that supposed to happen in this issue? I'm kind of irritated with the fact that most of the MU's character's intelligence has had to be dumbed down in order for Spider-Ock to continue on. Even when Stark was going through the avengers files, Spider-Woman was trying to tell him that he isn't a Skrull so there isn't anything to worry about. I don't know if it's just me, but I really think that they would realize something is still up. Which, they somewhat did after the fight, and THANK GOD Tony Stark still thinks something is up. So I'm expecting that the next issue we will see the Avengers really confront Spidey while Hobgoblin and Green Goblin are going at it. Speaking of Goblins! We see the introduction of a new Goblin! It's a certain little police lady turned Goblin and I think it'll be interesting to see how big of a role she plays in the upcoming Goblin arc. We may have also found out who is behind the Green Goblin mask because he nonchalantly said that he's Norman Osborn. Do I think he really is? No. I don't think it's Slott's writing style to just put something out there, and as he said in a recent interview, "there's always a twist." The best part of this issue in my opinion is definitely the development right now going on with all the Goblins. Kingsley, and the Goblin Army are an awesome side story going on, and next issue it all comes to a head and I cannot wait! Slott is doing a fantastic job of developing that side story! Overall the writing in this issue stays constant with how the writing has been in the entire Superior Spider-Man series. Absolutely AMAZING at times, and just average or below average at other times. I think the only reason I'm disappointed in this issue, and somewhat in the arc, is because I was hoping we would see an all out brawl between Agent Venom and Spider-Ock, but hey! It was still fun seeing Spider-Ock bond with the symbiote. The art by Humberto Ramos in this issue is standard Ramos art though I think it felt a bit rushed in some parts of the issue, but is still very well done as it usually is. Overall, the Darkest Hours story arc was one of the better arcs from this series so far and with the ending of series coming up, I'm interested and excited to see what the final chapter has in store for us! 

Why to Buy & Rating:

WHY TO BUY!

Good writing, good art, interesting plot changes, great story development(specifically with the Goblins! Kingsley, and the Goblin army were the best part of this issue)

RATING: 8/10 (B)