FCBD Civil War II review

An Inhuman predicts that the mad god Thanos is coming to Earth in search of a Cosmic Cube. The Avengers are waiting for him when he shows up at Project Pegasus. They take him down, but one Avenger is seriously hurt. And one dies. Have you read any Marvel event since Avengers Disassembled in 2004? […]

Avengers Vs X-Men #12 review

And so it goes. Another Marvel event ends, this one with several bangs and the odd whimper. The bangs, you’ll be unsurprised to hear, come as the Scarlet Witch and Hope Summers join forces to attack Cyclops. He’s turned Dark Phoenix and is popping up across the globe to rain fire from the sky, cause […]

Avengers Vs X-Men #6 review

The Phoenix Force has touched five members of the X-Men, giving them the power to change the world. It’s a week after the end of last issue, and Cyclops, Emma Frost, Namor, Magik and Colossus have spent the intervening time doing good. They’ve fed the hungry, stopped wars, ended the energy crisis and they plan […]

Avengers: The Children’s Crusade #9 review

Last issue, Stature died fighting Dr Doom. Now the question is, should the assembled Young Avengers, Avengers, X-Men and X-Factor allow Iron Lad to take Cassie’s corpse into the timestream in the hope that future medicine can bring her back? The answer leads to the brutal loss of another Young Avenger, a second going down […]

Avengers: The Children’s Crusade #8 review

Dr Doom has the power of a god and he intends to rule all … benignly. ‘I shall make ours a planet free of poverty, disease and war.’ Former mutants will have their abilities returned, dead heroes will be restored. He doesn’t ask that the world’s peoples bow before him, just that they accept his rule once […]

Avengers: The Children’s Crusade #6 review

Her memory and sanity restored, the Scarlet Witch resolves to undo the madness of M-Day, when she depowered most of the world’s mutants with three little words – ‘No more mutants’. Before that, she learns that Speed and Wiccan may be her lost boys. The meeting between the three, which is as poignant as one […]

Avengers: The Children’s Crusade #5 review

Back from the future, Iron Lad helps the Young Avengers in their quest to restore the Scarlet Witch’s powers and memories. This involves a trip back to the day the Avengers Disassembled, the day Cassie Lang’s father, Ant-Man, died, I’m not complaining that previous issues have been character and action-packed, but it is refreshing to […]

Avengers: The Children’s Crusade #4 review

Four books into this nine-issue series and the action is immense – two teams of Avengers, Dr Doom and Magneto, all battling for the heart and soul of Wanda Maximoff, heroine turned menace. She’s not a menace when we meet her this issue. She’s just a Gypsy girl with no memory of her former life, […]

Avengers: The Children’s Crusade #3 review

In which the storyline doesn’t advance much in terms of resolution, but the character dynamics are a joy. At the end of last issue, the Young Avengers, hoping to track down the missing Scarlet Witch, were in Transia and apparently about to meet Dr Doom. That’s pretty much where we are at the end of […]

Avengers: The Children’s Crusade #2 review

How do you solve a problem like Magneto? That’s the question in the second issue of this mini-series starring the Young Avengers. Having learnt twin members Wiccan and Speed – his kinda, sorta grandsons – are planning to find their mystic mother, the Scarlet Witch, the Mutant Master of Magnetism wants in. After all, he […]