Fear Itself: The Home Front #1 review

Civil War: Front Line; Secret Invasion: Front Line; Siege: Embedded – Marvel’s gotten into the habit of publishing side series to show us how the big events affect the man – or minor hero – in the street. Or perhaps they’re intended as an illustration of the law of diminishing returns, as each has proven less enjoyable, […]

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 […]

Chaos War: Alpha Flight #1 review

I loved the original run of Alpha Flight, Canada’s super-team. Writer/artist John Byrne gave us a book in which the characters were new enough, the action far away enough from the rest of the Marvel Universe that anything could happen. Characters changed, left, loved, died … and then Byrne went too, and the book was […]

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 […]