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Meet the Skrulls #4 opens with a battle scene and ends with a shooting. Every moment in between is a goldmine of compelling action and deepening character. As the second-to-last issue of this spectacular spy miniseries, this issue is packed with reveals, returns, and reversals.
Savage Avengers #1 is gorgeous, but unsatisfying--not a meal, but a tiny snack.
Somewhere in the 1970s, writer Roy Thomas decided that it might be cool to create a team for Marvel that was based on the Justice League. Years later, the team returns again in the latest issue of The Avengers.
Williams delves a bit deeper into the inner psychology of romance in a world where love is outlawed in a well-constructed emotional narrative.
Dr. Strange contrasts against Galactus and Dormammu in a fun interaction that doesn’t quite live up to its potential.
Cyclops makes a big decision about the X-Men’s future and they tackle the Brotherhood.
Wolverine and Loki take on the Fraternity of Raptors!
No one told Kamala being the chosen one would be easy. No one told her she was the chosen one at all until aliens showed up and started making gelatinous copies of her family.
What lurks in the minds of the TIE Fighter pilot? This comic knows.
Loki gets as close as can be with his dear old dad
McGuire is able to build a story that allows some tenuous heroism to creep into its title character.
A somewhat intriguing look into the nature of history in a world of lies.
It’s difficult to tell exactly where the final story lands in an issue that is largely satisfying.
Miles Morales: Spider-Man continues to be one of the most charming, most classically “superhero” books on the stands.
Meet the Skrulls #3 is one of the most visceral, pulse-pounding issues to come out of Marvel in quite a while, and makes a good break from big crossovers and their incessant tie-ins. Do not sleep on this sleeper hit.
Spider-Man: Life Story #2 is relentlessly grim.
Rob Liefeld crawls out of the 90s to bring a new character to Marvel’s Pantheon. Who is Major X?
While the flashbacks do some work providing details about Apocalypse in the dystopian utopia of The Age of X-Man, they seem unnecessarily tacked-on to an issue that isn’t doing a whole heck of a lot else.
There are a few novel aspects to the issue that distinguish it as one of the better ones in the series thus far.
Logan ties up loose ends and prepares for the next stage of his journey.
