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

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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

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Comic Review: Thunderbolts #018

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Thunderbolts #018 - Comic Review

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Publisher: Marvel Comics

Title: Thunderbolts #018

Price: $3.99

Writer: Charles Soule

Artist: Jefete Palo

Thunderbolts #018 was the ending to yet another Infinity tie-in book and though the writing for this has been lacking, this arc has been a very fun read and I am actually sad that it is ending. In this issue we see the Nobili gangsters in their Inhuman transformation killing the other Mobsters, Punisher, Agent Venom, and Elecktra killing some mobsters, and Deadpool eating pizza! What more could someone want out of a book?

Story Summary(some spoilers)

The book starts off directly after Thunderbolts #017 and the Nobili family has been turned into Inhumans from the Terragensis mist. Joseph Nobili, one of the brothers, is finally able to create his art/paintings exactly as they were in his head. As he finally finds happiness one of the mobsters shots him through the head thinking that he is one of the aliens. His father, who always now has inhuman powers, is devastated at the death of his son and attacks the mobsters killing the group that was attacking them. After killing the mobsters, his other son, commits suicide by putting a gun to his head because he feels like no girl is going to like him due to his new form. From there, we see the Thunderbolts standing in the warehouse where the mobsters have been hiding out. Punisher is lead to believe that the Nobili family escaped the wreckage but it is then reviled that Agent Venom (Flash Thompson) stuck them with a part of his symbiote and will be able to track them down. Red Hulk (Thaddeus Ross) is busy detracting a villain named "Mercy" who believes that the humans want her to kill them. Ross is able to convince Mercy to kill the alien ships instead of the humans in return for a deal that they had made. Meanwhile, Deadpool is busy eating pizza at the restaurant he had been hunting down through this entire story arc. While eating pizza three mobsters walk in. Deadpool recognizes the mobsters, and kills them as if nothing happened. The team them re-unites and are now off to a special location to "re-charge" Red Leaders brain.

Review of the Book

The writing through this story arc has been really fun and really entertaining. This issue is as well very entertaining, but was not as strong as the other Infinity tie-in issues. I think that this is mostly because there wasn't really anywhere else to go with the story since it had all been set up in the previous issues. For an ending this book was pretty good and was fun to read. The art of this arc has been something I cannot stand. Everyone is basically a square person and it just does not work for this type of book. I wish that someone whose style matches the Infinity would have done this book, but beggars can't be choosers, as they say.

Pros, Cons, and Rating

Pros: Deadpool, good writing, fun end to the arc, and good setup for the next few issues

Cons: The Art.

Rating: 8/10. This issue is a good wrap up to the arc and is a fun read, especially if you've been following this series.

article by Matt Skajem