He is the Star-Spangled Avenger. After leading the Avengers to “victory” against the Phoenix Five, Captain America has expanded the Avengers roster. He is also sporting a new uniform to go with the Marvel Now campaign. As Marvel’s “top cop”, Captain America slings his mighty shield against his foes, both old and new.
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Hulk has become somewhat of a fan favorite with The Avengers still fresh in the public subconscious, so it makes sense Marvel might try and capitalize on this boost in popularity by relaunching the emerald ape. The green goliath has always been a personal favorite of mine, the embodiment of being a slave to one’s anger, and lashing out at all around, hits a personal and sympathetic note with me, so is it any surprise I have been reading his most recent incarnation way of Marvel NOW? Find out if the most green giant is worth your green in this…
A new form of Marvel’s Illuminati has assembled for the Marvel NOW! Initiative. These bigwigs of the Marvel Universe have worked behind the scenes of some of Marvel’s biggest events. With the crisis revealed in issue #1, readers now get to see how these power hitters will interact with each other in a landscape affected by all the recent Marvel events, including the bad blood left from AvX. Away we go with a Major Spoilers review…
Or – “Still Not Sure How I Feel About This Idea…” I have recently realized something very odd that part of me already knew: Marvel Comics is always playing a short-term game. It should really have been obvious during the era of Avengers Assembled, or when Spider-Man’s identity was public knowledge for a year or two, but the editorial stance at the House of Ideas has openly become one of “Do some wacky stuff and we’ll pick up the pieces later.” To that end, we’ve gotten some great stories (parts of Fear Itself, the first thirty-odd issues of New Avengers,…
The government is up to its crazy antics again, attempting to make super soldiers using nanotechnology. With only John Ravane to hunt down some of the soldiers who’ve gone rogue, the clock is ticking before these sleeper agents begin to tear the U.S apart. Should we be worried? Major Spoilers finds out!
Steve Austin, astronaut, the man so awesome Daft Punk wrote a song about him. Having gotten to the bottom of the Bigfoot mystery, The Bionic Man now has to deal with finishing off the cyborg sasquatches and cleaning up the mess. Read on in this Major Spoilers review.
New York has been carved up into sections controlled by violent gangs who will stop at nothing to protect their turf. In this chaos, a group of not-quite-heroes in funny outfits find themselves caught in the crossfire. Warring factions as well as shadowy forces behind the scenes conspire to use and/or kill them, while the anti-heroes try to run the gauntlet to return to their home. It makes a good movie, but will it make a good comic? (Just go watch The Warriors, OK? I’ll wait.)
Or – “And That Gail Simone Always Seemed So Nice And So Normal…” Batgirl has been through some pretty intense stuff in her second run as a costumed hero, but nothing could prepare her (or the reader) for what happens next… Your Major Spoilers review awaits!
Saga has received accolades for both its story and artwork, and rightfully so. This month’s issue puts the focus on the bounty hunter known as The Will, hired to hunt down our main characters. Does this shift work for the book? Major Spoilers has your review.
What is the story of Seven George and his history with the sheriff and the town? Is he really possessed by spirits of dead warriors or has an alcoholic insanity gripped him? Read on in the Major Spoilers review.
How do you describe a book like Change? A Lovecraft-inspired love letter to the city of Los Angeles featuring a rapper, a screenwriter, a doomed astronaut and possibly Cthulhu himself? Major Spoilers tries to make sense of Change #2, or at least review it.
Or – “Fifty-Seven Heroes And Nothing On…” With Invincible always off in blood-and-guts land, it’s good that SOMEBODY in the Skybound universe has light-hearted adventures now and then right? Of course, there was a time when Mark Grayson was just a cool kid with super-powers and a high-school gig, but that won’t happen to the Guardians of the Globe, will it? Your Major Spoilers review awaits!
Or – “Do We Really Need The Secret Origin of EVERYTHING?” The announcement of this miniseries was met with varying enthusiasm, balancing excitement about Neal Adams return to the X-characters with trepidation that there’s so much X-Men product out there, and the quiet worry that he’s no longer the Neal Adams that he used to be. Five issues later, and The First X-Men project is in the can, but how does the last issue measure up? Your Major Spoilers review awaits!
Or – “Back When Marvel Used To Number Their Heroes For Clarity…” If you read the Marvel Universe handbooks (something that I always recommend, by the way), you may have noticed that Marvel has an an ongoing series of endless retcons and stories that tell the real truth about the truth about the stories we’ve already seen. Because of that, not only is Steve Rogers not the first Captain America (that would be his revolutionary war ancestor, also named Steve Rogers) but he wasn’t even the first Captain America of the second World War. Still, no matter how many people…