Spider-Woman #1 review

When this series relaunched with #5 a few months ago – yes, I see the #1 on the front, but this is Marvel – I appreciated the craft, but the hipster Marvelousness of it all meant it wasn’t for me. I like my Spiderwoman creepy, something she hasn’t been since about 1980. Still, I’m always […]

Spider-Woman #5 review

It’s her fifth issue, but really, this may as well be Spider-Woman #1, with Jessica Drew having left behind the Spider-Verse shenanigans of earlier issues to embrace a new direction in a new costume. She’s quit the Avengers and severed her SHIELD links in the hope of helping ordinary folk while living a pleasantly mundane […]

New Mutants #37 review

I love it when comic books do holiday issues. This week DC tackles St Valentine’s Day in Batman: the Brave and the Bold #16, while Marvel takes up the love theme in New Mutants #37. But while I adored the former, I didn’t love the latter. The idea of lava lass Magma going on a […]

Widowmaker #1 review

Someone is killing spies and Black Widow and Mockingbird are on the hit list. Their mutual ex, Hawkeye, joins them on a trip to Russia to sort things out. Mockingbird’s employee, the mercenary Dominic Fortune, goes along to stir. Russian metahumans show up, and Hawkeye is being framed as the master assassin dresses up in […]

Hawkeye & Mockingbird #6 review

Did I read the end of last issue incorrectly? I swear there was a strong indication this month’s comic would flash back to Clint and Bobbi’s break-up conversation in the desert. Well, it doesn’t, instead giving us the strongest issue of the book since the first couple. It’s a collection of scenes moving the characters […]

Hawkeye and Mockingbird #5 review

“Can we go back to fighting scientists in Spanish castles? Or even Kang? I’ll take on Kang again.” So says Hawkeye, and so say I. For five issues now, he and Mockingbird have been tangling with Crossfire and the Phantom Rider. And while I’ve had plenty of good things to say about this storyline so […]