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Superior Spider-Man #10 – Review

Posted on May 23, 2013 by Hugo Robberts Larivière

SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN #10

By: Dan Slott (Writer), Ryan Stegman (Artist), Edgar Delgado (Colorist)

The Story: Spider-Ock has a lot to day in his first day of his new life, like thwarting evil, a family dinner, getting closer to getting a doctorate and being secretly the target of a bunch of criminals led by an old enemy of Spider-Man.

The Review: This series has now changed once more, which seems to be the norm so far, as it seems to just dodge a lot of our expectations. As soon as us readers were close to figuring out how this could play out, Slott managed to just go in a totally different direction by *Big Spoilers* removing Peter Parker from the whole equation. It was a risky move, yet he seems to be fully willing to play by this direction as can be seen in this issue.

In a smart move, Dan Slott tackles on throughout this book how the book plays out without Peter Parker and his memories, as stuff that had been to Otto’s advantage quickly seems to crumble a bit without his knowledge, which should give a bit of satisfaction for those who felt kind of cheated that Peter is not here anymore. It can be seen in various scenes as we get to see a lot of the supporting cast of Amazing Spider-Man reacting to the new attitude of ‘’Peter’’, like Mary-Jane, Carlie, J. Jonah Jameson and his father. All of these changes being acknowledged does lead to some interesting tidbits, like how Jameson and his father views the new way Spider-Man deals with criminals or how Mary-Jane believes that ‘’Peter’’ is behaving really strangely. It’s all neat stuff that does leave some place for some long-term planning and gives us a good bit of tension and interest on how these situations will develop.
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Nova #4 – Review

Posted on May 21, 2013 by Matt Sargeson

NOVA #4

By: Jeph Loeb (Writer), Ed McGuinness (Penciler), Dexter Vines (Inker), Marte Gracia (Colorist), Comicraft’s Albert Deschesne (Letterer)

Review: It’s a mystery to me quite how this happened, but Nova is undoubtedly the best cosmic book Marvel currently publish – this issue seals it. I never expected that from Loeb. I thought this’d be a big, dumb, brash piece of fluff – and it is, I guess – but it’s also filled with the fun of sci-fi, of explosions in space, of weird aliens aboard even weirder ships. Guardians of the Galaxy could learn a lot from this.

This issue starts with out with Sam Alexander, AKA Nova, apparently unconscious, left drifting through space at the mercy of the incoming Chitauri armada. Just as they’re about to scoop him up he blasts away with a glib cry (“Suckers!”) and weaves through the Alien hordes before crashing into the mothership: “All I have to do is find the generator or the power core or the thingy thing that runs this beast – and problem solved – Nova style.”
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Age of Ultron #8 – Review

Posted on May 20, 2013 by Matt Sargeson

AGE OF ULTRON #8

By: Brian Michael Bendis (Writer), Brandon Peterson (Artist), Paul Mounts (Color Artist), VC’s Cory Petit (Letterer)

Review: How crazy is Age of Ultron #8? “It’s insane. It’s—it’s a fantasia of insanity,” according to future/alternate Tony Stark. I’d say that’s pretty conservative. R Kelly would call it “crazier than a fish with titties.” Amanda Bynes would just do this. Though as good as those descriptions are, do any of them really do justice to the image of Morgana Le Fey flying into battle backed up an army of Dragon-riding Asgardian Doom-Bots!?!? Nah, not really. This ish is bugnuts.
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Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #23 – Review

Posted on May 19, 2013 by Matt Sargeson

ULTIMATE COMICS SPIDER-MAN #23

By: Brian Michael Bendis (Writer), Dave Marquez (Art), Justin Ponsor (Colors), VC’s Cory Petit (Lettering)

Review: Ultimate Comics Spider-Man is enjoying some well-deserved attention at the moment. And about time. It’s surely been one of Marvel’s best ongoing titles since…well, since #1 pretty much…and yet it’s hardly been given the same levels of praise and publicity as the company’s other top tier books – your Hawkeye’s and Daredevil’s. This is probably down to a combination of two things: 1) it has ‘Ultimate’ in the title, and 2) this Spider-Man ain’t Peter Parker. A shame, as it’s a consistently beautiful-looking book that draws the best from Bendis each and every month. With the last issue seeing an end to the Venom War storyline and, with it, the death of Miles’ mother, there’s been a surge of interest in the series that’s seen it hesitantly take centre stage. But it’s what it does under the spotlight that matters…and luckily this issue puts on a pretty good show.
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Avengers: The Enemy Within #1 – Review

Posted on May 17, 2013 by Minhquan Nguyen

AVENGERS: THE ENEMY WITHIN #1

By: Kelly Sue DeConnick (story), Scott Hepburn (art), Jordie Bellaire (colors)

The Story: It’s a pretty sweet life when you can call upon a god for lizard control.

The Review: I always find it rather irritating when instead of continuing a storyline in its own title, from which it originated and where it rightfully belongs, it carries over into a different title or into a new series altogether.  Seems like a mean way to force a reader to fork over some extra money to buy into books he wouldn’t ordinarily ever consider getting.  It’s only ever worth it if the story is truly big and critical enough to require extra page-time elsewhere.

At this point, it doesn’t seem like DeConnick’s story of Captain Marvel’s latest crisis fits that bill.  This issue doesn’t have any significant difference from a typical issue of Captain Marvel, either in tone, substance, or structure.  It simply follows from the events of Captain Marvel #12 and does little to expand the scope of the plot any further.  In fact, there’s no reason for Marvel to split this story into a mini besides taking advantage of the Avengers brand to boost sales and attention to an ever-weakening property (Captain Marvel ranked #120 in March, compared to #42 when it first debuted in July 2012).
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Avengers Assemble #15 – Review

Posted on May 14, 2013 by Matt Sargeson

AVENGERS ASSEMBLE #15

By: Al Ewing (Writer), Butch Guice (Penciler), Tom Palmer with Rick Magyar (Inkers), Frank D’Armata (Colorist), VC’s Clayton Cowles (Letterer)

Review: Jesus, is Age of Ultron still going on? Feels weird to think so sometimes…and I’ve been reviewing each and every issue. The thing is, it lacks a sense of importance; and some of that can be put down to the lack of tie-ins. Sure, there are many justifiable grievances held against Marvel’s usual approach to tie-in culture (gumming up the flow of our favourite series mid-run etc.) but one thing’s for sure: in the case of Secret Invasion, Siege et al, you at least felt like the events of those books were dramatically affecting the breadth of shared continuity. Not so much with AoU and the feint corona of books that illuminate it.
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Secret Avengers #4 – Review

Posted on May 13, 2013 by Hugo Robberts Larivière

SECRET AVENGERS #4

By: Nick Spencer (Writer) Luke Ross (Artist), Matthew Wilson (colorist)

The Story: S.H.I.E.L.D needs to take care of a platoon of sentient Iron Patriot armors, cue Bruce Banner.

The Review: I had another idea on how to summarize this story, one that would not have actually told what essentially happens, yet it would have been perfect in tone: ‘’S.H.I.E.L.D strikes back’’. In the two past issues of this title, we had seen how A.I.M had become a whole new thing, as we were presented to an organisation with a completely new and more focused vision, spearheaded by Andrew Forson, the scientist supreme.

Taking just where the last issue left us, we now get a fascinating concept about giving personality to a suit of armor, giving it sentience in order to accomplish some goals. With A.I.M having done so with the help of Mentallo, they try to create a situation in which S.H.I.E.L.D could look disastrous. This then leads to some scenes that shows just how Spencer can handle this title and how much it differentiates itself from other titles with ‘’Avengers’’ in their name.
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Ultimate Comics The Ultimates #24 – Review

Posted on May 13, 2013 by Matt Sargeson

By: Sam Humphries (Writer), Joe Bennett (Penciler), Ruy José (Inker), Matt Milla (Colorist), VC’s Clayton Cowles (Letterer)

Review: I’ve taken a l’il sabbatical from my Ultimate Comics Ultimates review duties of late. Partially this is the fault of Bioshock Infinite and Injustice: Gods Among Us – both of which give Heroin and Marshmallow Fluff a run for their money in the addiction stakes – and also because I thought it best to give Sam Humphries a break. Most of his issues I’ve…well, ‘savaged’ is a strong word. I’ve ‘lightly rebuked’ them? Yeah, that sounds better. However I honey-coat it though, here’s the main gist; this has not been a good run. At its best Humphries’ Ultimates has read like a parody comic flirting dangerously near Robot Chicken territory while at its worst it’s been one of the most depressing uses of a Marvel licence since *dry-heaves for a few minutes* that Hasselhoff Nick Fury film *vomits all over his keyboard*.
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Deadpool #9 – Review

Posted on May 11, 2013 by Hugo Robberts Larivière

DEADPOOL #9

By: Gerry Duggan, Brian Posehn (Writers), Mike Hawtorne (Artist), Val Staples (Colorist)

The Story: Deadpool tries his very best to help Michael as he has to deal with Vetis and the fact that he has to kill several people for him.

The Review: Color me surprised. I was not expecting so serious an issue of this title, one that had always managed to balance the funny and serious bits in a way that made sense with the titular character himself. We could always expect a good number of jokes during the more serious moments, which were not the most striking moment, to lower down some of the more dramatic tone of the story and the character itself.
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Avenging Spider-Man #20 – Review

Posted on May 11, 2013 by Hugo Robberts Larivière

AVENGING SPIDER-MAN #20

By: Christopher Yost (Writer), Marco Checchetto (Artist), Rachelle Rosenberg (Colorist)

The Story: Spider-Ock gets on a S.H.I.E.L.D helicarrier in order to free the Chameleon from their prison, just as the Russian are getting ready to do the same. What are the odds?

The Review: I do have to say it’s a strange time to be a fan of Spider-Man. It’s even a stranger time to begin reading Spider-Man, like I did, just as a big controversial change had been put in the series. While the change from Peter Parker to Otto Octavius has been a rather weird one for a lot of people, it can’t be said that it hasn’t given us some quality stories in both the main title, Superior Spider-Man and its sister title Avenging Spider-Man. While it has been fun to see just how Otto acclimates to the life of being a webhead, it has been a blast to see just how he interacts with the larger Marvel universe as well. Having seen him with the X-Men, the FF and Thor, it has been fun to read how he sees them all and it has given us some surprisingly fun stories to boot.
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Thor: God of Thunder #8 – Review

Posted on May 10, 2013 by Hugo Robberts Larivière

THOR: GOD OF THUNDER #8

By: Jason Aaron (Writer), Esad Ribic (Artist), Ive Svorcina (Colorist)

The Story: Present and Future Thor sails the cosmos in order to bring the battle to Gorr as the young Thor from the past learn how the slaves of Gorr fare and what are his plans.

The Review: Praise to the bearded writer of greatness for his adventures of the god of thunder, even though he seems to be unable to even come close to this level on his other titles, be it the tale of the Mad Titan or the stories of young mutants in school. May Jason Aaron find in his own mind the way to make this title consistent and he shall have a follower to buy this sublime book of the mighty shelves of his local comic book shop.

*Ahem*

So yeah, another pretty great issue of Thor: God of Thunder has been released, featuring the continuing tale of the gods of thunder from three ears converging to fight the god butcher. In this issue, we see two plotlines as we see just how young Thor fares as he has been captured by Gorr and put into slavery. Right there, we get to see his impetuous and arrogant side as he tries to rebel against his captor, never minding for once what it might entail for the others. As we see three new female characters (whose identity I shall not spoil) go toward him as they try to calm him down. In a way to teach him humility and the error of his current ways, the three females shows just what happens when a divine being rebels, as it leads to a pretty powerful scene showing just how far along in his plans Gorr has gotten.
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Iron Man #9 – Review

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Matt Sargeson

IRON MAN #9

By: Kieron Gillen (Writer), Dale Eaglesham (Artist), Guru eFX (Colorist), VC’s Joe Caramagna (Letterer)

Review: I’d call this issue a return to form if, as has sadly not been the case, any previously appreciable ‘form’ had yet been enjoyed during Gillen’s Iron Man run. It’s just lacked something. Greg Land’s artwork has been a sticking point for many (though I thought some of the criticism was unnecessarily harsh) but really it’s the stories that have failed to ignite. Unlike, say, Matt Fraction’s one-two punch of opening awesome on Invincible Iron Man (with The Five Nightmares followed sharply by World’s Most Wanted), there’s been nothing so far to convincingly set the series’ tone. When part of a new series sees its main character relocated to Space, yet still fails to achieve distinction? That’s when you know there’s a problem.
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Red She-Hulk #65 – Review

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Hugo Robberts Larivière

RED SHE-HULK #65

By: Jeff Parker (Writer), Carlo Pagulayan, Ray-Anthony Height, Wellington Alves (Artists), Val Staples (Colorist)

The Story: Betty and Aaron have to fight several villains on Mount Rushmore in order to access another part of the great machine.

The Review: I think this title has an unfortunate curse, one that makes it unable to be consistent in terms of quality, despite the best effort of the team working on it. Either they balance their action and development well-enough to give us a rewarding read, or something gets in the way of our enjoyment.

Here, what seems to be causing a bit of disappointment would be the setting of a routine of some sort in the book. Sure, Jeff Parker bring some good and original ideas in the mix, but somehow the plot of most issues so far seems to be ‘’exotic locale, fight bad guys, look at the machine’’, which then continues like this. We are sometime treated to the development of other situations, like the original She-Hulk meeting General Fortean or the Mad Thinker and his schemes.
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All New X-Men #11 – Review

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Matt Sargeson

ALL-NEW X-MEN #11

By: Brian Michael Bendis (Writer), Stuart Immonen (Penciler), Wade Von Grawbadger (Inker), Marte Gracia (Color Artist), VC’s Cory Petit (Letterer)

Review: The point’s been made by my fellow WCBR brethren that reviewing All New X-Men looks like an unenviable task. And they’re right. Not that it’s a bad comic; quite the opposite, as nearly a year in and I still find it to be one of the strongest all-round titles to come out of the Marvel NOW ‘situation’. Rather it’s the case that a lot of the time each issue feels filled to the brim with lots of great little moments between the many and varied members of its cast. Keeping track of all that over a few hundred words can get difficult, especially if you don’t want to make it look like you’re just transcribing the script wholesale. Woe is me, 1st world problems etc. I can deal. Once more into the breach dear friends…once more!
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Indestructible Hulk #7 – Review

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Matt Sargeson

INDESTRUCTIBLE HULK #7

By: Mark Waid (Writer), Walter Simonson (Artist), Andres Mossa (Colorist), Chris Eliopoulos (Letterer)

Review: Time travel and nostalgia: as storytelling devices the two are often intertwined, and both are rife at Marvel these days. All New X-Men, Age of Ultron, Fantastic Four, Iron Man…all currently employ elements of one or both in order to repackage familiar elements into new products that, with varying degrees of success, seek to entertain their oft-fatigued audiences. Sometimes they just try too hard, and the pastiche doesn’t connect. Less often it can feel like the creative team are barely trying at all, yet they achieve something true, something that reminds us that the best bits of the past are the elements that have and will always make for a thoroughly enjoyable comic; imagination, humour and killer art. Indestructible Hulk has all three in abundance.

This issue fizzes with that lightning-in-a-bottle magic produced by Mark Waid’s partnership with Walt Simonson. The story itself is a romp in the best sense of the word. Seeking the magical mineral Macguffin of Eiderdürm, Banner and his crew of action-scientists have ventured to Jotunheim where they promptly rock up against a band of angry Frost Giants.
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Winter Soldier #18 – Review

Posted on May 6, 2013 by Hugo Robberts Larivière

WINTER SOLDIER #18

By: Jason Latour (Writer), Nic Klein (Artist/Colorist)

The Story: Tesla Tarasova tells us her life story and how she views her training, her life mission and the world in general.

The Review: It’s not fair. Really, parts of me are right now enraged after reading this issue. Having finished analyzing the various elements that compose this story, I can only come to a single conclusion: it’s not fair.

Do not misinterpret this, as this statement is only my vision of a harsh truth, a thought on the fact that this title will be over soon, as it has been cancelled. How can a title that has grown to become so amazing be cancelled like this?*
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Infinity – Free Comic Book Day Review

Posted on May 5, 2013 by Hugo Robberts Larivière

INFINITY

By: Jonathan Hickman, Warren Ellis, Scott Edelman (Writers), Jim Cheung, Mike Zeck, Mike Mckone (Artists), Justin Ponsor, Chris Eliopoulos (Colorists)

The Story (The interesting one): Thanos sends assassins and envoys to other planets, demanding tributes for his crushing conquests of their ancient home.

(The less interesting ones): Thanos wants to crush a flower, because he’s a bad man! Meanwhile, we get a preview we have already seen of a book by an author many actually like.

The Review: It is pretty easy to completely disregard free comic book day. It is, after all, something that many actual fans of comics might not be so enthusiastic about, since most offerings are either tease at bigger things to come yet, or reprints of stuff we have already seen before. From a bigger perspective, this seems more like a move made to gather people who are not thoroughly interested in the media to begin with, to give them a taste of how versatile the market can be. Sure, there are some terrific books in these free selections, like Atomic Robo, Mouse Guard or any that actually create new and compelling content for people to enjoy.

Of course, what most people will look for is what kind of offering the big two is giving away this year. While DC side has already been explored, Marvel hasn’t, as they have decided to give us a proper tease of their next big event involving one of the most beloved villains of the Marvel universe: Thanos. While it is merely to set up the stage and to excite their fan base, how does it actually fare as a proper comic?
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Hawkeye #10 – Review

Posted on May 5, 2013 by Minhquan Nguyen

HAWKEYE #10

By: Matt Fraction (story), Francesco Francavilla (art)

The Story: As if we need any more reasons to fear and hate clowns.

The Review: You can give them different degrees of sadism, various choices of weapon, and some distinctive physical features, but at the end of the day, a hired killer is just a hired killer, an obstacle to test the protagonist’s survival skills.  The only time they start to take on importance of their own is when the writer makes an effort to give them a background and motivation beyond whatever contract killing they have going on at the moment.

In #8, the Bro Gang (for lack of a better name) took out a hit on our favorite archer, and last month, we got to see what the contractor looked like: wide and wild-eyed, with white face make-up and a painted teardrop an one cheek  Fine: he’s merciless and appropriately creepy, thus serving the story’s purposes.  But here, Fraction goes beyond the killer’s minimum qualifications, giving us a glimpse of the kind of man he is beneath the violent exterior.
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Iron Man 3 – Movie Review

Posted on May 4, 2013 by Minhquan Nguyen

IRON MAN 3

By: Too many to list—you’d best IMDB it.

The Story: Everyone should have an Iron Man suit for every occasion.

The Review: You know, if it weren’t for this WCBR gig, I probably would’ve waited a month or so to see Iron Man 3 at the dollar theater.  The ticket prices, even at the tepid student discount, are just getting out of control these days.  When the cashier told me how much it would cost for two tickets, I said, “No, no—I don’t want 3D or anything.  Just the regular screening will be fine.”  When he told that was the regular price, I almost left there and then, laughing hollowly.

At any rate, I’m glad I did see the movie after all, even at an exorbitant price, because it was pretty much everything you’d want from an Iron Man movie.  Maybe a bit too much of everything, in fact.  Clocking in at two hours and twenty minutes, or just a few minutes short of The Avengers, there are a few instances where the movie ever so slightly drags and you get a little impatient for it to just get to the point already.
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Age of Ultron #7 – Review

Posted on May 3, 2013 by Matt Sargeson

AGE OF ULTRON #7

By: Brian Michael Bendis (Writer), Brandon Peterson, Carlos Pacheco (Artist/Penciler), Paul Mounts, Jose Villarrubia (Color Artists), Roger Martinez (Inker), VC’s Cory Petit (Letterer)

Review: Regular WCBR readers will know that I’ve been a staunch supporter of Age Of Ultron. Amidst the general criticisms that it’s been sluggishly paced or too low on action and characterisation, I’ve instead found it to be a well-plotted and atmospheric success that’s offered a welcome change in tone to the more overt histrionics of other Marvel event books. It’s been bleak but beautiful, the hypothetical death rattle of the Marvel Universe. But everything that’s occurred in those first six issues has really just been a set-up; a teaser playing up the eventual reveal of what happens when the past is definitively altered in a final act of desperation by the heroes of the present. With Ultron retroactively defeated, what exciting new world has Bendis created for us? If the Rabbit never existed, what now rests in the Magician’s hat? Well, it’s just the Magician’s hand. And he’s giving you the finger.
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Thanos Rising #2 – Review

Posted on May 2, 2013 by Hugo Robberts Larivière

THANOS RISING #2

By: Jason Aaron (Writer), Simone Bianchi (Artist), Ive Svorcina (Colorist)

The Story: Thanos grows tired of school and a lot that entails to it as he tries to make his own discoveries at his own paces, leading to some revelations about just what kind of a person he is.

The Review: These are strange times for Jason Aaron. With multiples series written by him coming out at the moment, we are treated to superb books like Thor: God of Thunder or to books that are struggling like Wolverine and the X-Men. This mini-series about Thanos, though, has been unfortunately much more akin to the latter, with the first issue of this mini-series being kind of a letdown. Considering the talent behind it, can this issue redeem the direction and the general atmosphere that we know both the artist and writer can deliver?
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Superior Spider-Man #9 – Review

Posted on May 2, 2013 by Hugo Robberts Larivière

SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN #9

By: Dan Slott (Writer), Ryan Stegman (Artist), Edgar Delgado (Colorist)

The Story: Otto Octavius fights Peter Parker in his mind to see just who shall inherit the body of Peter Parker and the actual role of Spider-Man.

The Review: Wow…

Okay, I cannot discuss this issue without giving away a lot of story details, so be warned, for there is SPOILERS here.

When Dan Slott said there would be a lot more hate for him with this issue, he was certainly not kidding at all. With the result of this, dare I say it, absolutely epic battle in Peter Parker’s mind, being completely bonkers, it is hard to see just how much guts Slott has as a writer.

The issue begins by dealing with the tease of last issue right there, with Otto having discovered that the memories of Peter Parker had a life of their own inside his brain. Peter, being in his brain, even began to have some sort of control over his body, so to make sure he does not become a major problem, Otto decides to wipe him out from his brain entirely. What happens then is something that is masterfully told as we one more fight between Otto and Peter, this time in the very mind of Peter and Otto.
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Wolverine and the X-Men #28 – Review

Posted on April 30, 2013 by Hugo Robberts Larivière

WOLVERINE & THE X-MEN #28

By: Jason Aaron (Writer), Ramon Pérez (Artist), Laura Martin, Matt Milla (Colorist)

The Story: As it turns out, the students of the Jean Grey School for higher learning are not so impressed with Dog and his class as Wolverine comes around to show them what kind of man he is.

The Review: Well, as it turns out, the conclusion here is much stronger than the actual story we got here. Could it be because of the fact that Jason Aaron used more character analysis here rather than mindless action? Could it also be because it delivers a somewhat satisfying conclusion to a storyline that had its share of small ups and crushing downs?

The answer for both these questions would be a resounding yes. Here, we get a higher focus on the real stars of this book: the students. As pretty much of the action in this arc had been focused on Wolverine, his brother and the students, it is much more interesting to see the students interact with each other in stressful situation, to see them evolve and adapt. Close to every students get a single moment, be it Broo that shows he still has some kind of intelligence under all that new savagery, or Eye-Boy who shows just what kind of stuff he can do with eye powers (even though that particular moment was almost ruined by the thought bubbles. No, I will never let that go.) By focusing on the way that the students become a bit more united, it makes the ending a little bit stronger as a result.
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A + X #7 – Review

Posted on April 29, 2013 by Matt Sargeson

A+X #7

By: Zeb Wells, Christopher Yost (Writers), Dale Keown, Orphans Cheeps aka R’John Bernales & Chris Turcotte (Penciler/Artists), Norman Lee (Inker), Morry Hollowell (Color Artist), VC’s Clayton Cowles (Letterer)

Review: “Thor and Iceman team-up in one of the most visually amazing tales you’ve ever seen!”: thus reads the solicitation for this month’s A+X, and, for once, the marketing team ain’t blowing smoke up your apertures. See that cover? Yeah, that’s Orphans Cheeps. They are oh so good, a burst of retina-crumbling illustration so awesome that…wait, I’m getting ahead of myself. There’s two parts to this book after all and each are enjoyable in their own right. Let me wipe the ocular slobber from my cheeks, run down what else this book does well, and then I’ll get back to the praise-makin’.
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Journey Into Mystery #651 – Review

Posted on April 29, 2013 by Hugo Robberts Larivière

JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #651

*100th review. Hurray!*

*Ahem.*

Kathryn Immonen (Writer), Pepe Laraz (Artist), Jordie Bellaire (Colorist)

The Story: During the night, one of Volstagg’s children wanders in Asgardia, meeting Fenris, the wolf of mythology. Hilarity and wonders ensues.

The Review: From what I can see of the Asgardian side of the Marvel universe, all is well. We get Kid Loki in Young Avengers, our main and most important character in Thor: God of Thunder and pretty much everyone else, yet mostly Sif in Journey Into Mystery. With such a large cast of possible character and a whole world full of mythology and possibility, would it ever be possible for Kathryn Immonen to take full advantage of such a rich mythology?
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