Avengers #1 review

On Mars, a figure named Ex Nihilo is firing ‘origin bombs’ at Earth. Millions of ordinary people are being transformed into beings of the future, strange, gnarled souls. Earth’s mightiest heroes fly to the former Red Planet – suddenly it has become a verdant landscape – but are defeated by Ex Nihilo and his comrades, […]

Captain America #1 review

After years of super-serious, super-spy action, the Captain America series tries a new direction – Jack Kirby craziness. The relaunched Marvel Now! title looks back for inspiration to the Seventies, when Cap’s co-creator wrote and drew the adventures of the Sentinel of Liberty, and far-out was the order of the day. While incoming writer Rick Remender emulates The King’s […]

Amazing Spider-Man 573

Whoa, a little heavy on the brow, nose and jaw there, Mr Romita. Norman Osborn looks less like the Green Goblin than the Pink Platypus. Cover apart, John Romita Jr provides first class pencils this issue, as he has in the other five parts of New Ways to Die. Kudos, too, to inker Klaus Janson […]