I enjoyed it except for the ending.

Finished up through #18 of American Vampire. Man, it's good.

Yeah.

Agree, especially



But the art was amazing, one of my favorite artists today. I do wonder if Avengers Academy take s soem fo the thunder away from Young Avengers.

Jimmy Cheung did a great job. I didn't read House Of M, so some of the angst was lost on me. I do think it was interesting that the basis of the story was originally a JB story.

What was based on JBs stuff?

The getting rid of Wanda's boys storyline was in Avengers West Coast 51-52 by JB.
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I have now caught up on many many titles (lots of time since the family are away)

Captain america (and bucky ) last 18 months worth.

Generaly very good up to the fist arc after it became & (the bucky story) goes downhill very fast after that (have now stopped buying it)


Captain america. 1-13

Like this one a lot, the first arc was very creative. very strong brubaker stuff.

Iron man (last 18 months or so)

Really like this book.

Winter soldier 1-7


Has immediately become one of my favourites

Thor: last 12 issues.

really like this, the donald blake story line is shaping up to be very interesting.

Hulk 1-9

Not sure about this as yet, the concept is interesting and i love the way dillon draws hulk, but it needs to start getting somewhere fast before i give up.

Red hulk

Still pretty strong.

Thunderbolts:

am really enjoying the timelost story.

AvX

dropped this, it is just not exciting me.

Night force:

have read the first 2 issues so far, really like it.

Huntress Mini

servicable, but not great

Hawkman 3-9

utter shit, now dropped

I have now read the following:

I Vampire 1-10

Love this book, beautiful art and very creative story +


T.H.U.N.D.E.R 1-6

Fairly generic, but decently executed.

I like that it follows the original story's history

Captain America: Winter Soldier Vol. 1 & 2, Red Menace Vol. 1 & 2 - I don't know why I wasn't reading this when it came out, but now I see what I was missing. Brubaker did a real good job in those issues before Cap gets capped, of course these books are missing a few issues(10 & 22-24), but since I didn't feel I missed anything they can be found in back issue bins to read...

Those are some great comics. I'd say all that stuff leading up to the Death of Cap was the best the series has been since the first Waid/Garney run.

I'd say it's the best the title has been since ever.

I like the early Kirby / Lee issues of Tales of Suspense when they brought him back. They're cheesy, but they have a verve and energy that is difficult to replicate.

Also, they managed to finish a story in less than 20 trade paperbacks. So there is that.

Ha! I agree on the Lee/Kirby Cap run. I love the Sleepers storyline and the Cosmic Cube stuff especially. I also like the Stern/Byrne run and the Mike Zeck and Paul Neary runs in the '80s.

I liked what I read of the early Brubaker run, too. One day I'll finish it.

Another vote for Lee/Kirby's Tales of Suspense Cap.The first one I saw was the MODOK tale.Captain America versus a giant flying head;if that doesn't make you a Kirby fan,nothing will.

I love the Lee/Kirby run, Engleharts run, Stern/JB and the Brubaker run. Liked Waids run but only in comparison to Gruenwalds awful run, doesn't hold up anymore.

Just read Creator-Owned Heroes (worst title ever) #2. The Trigger Girl story gets better. The post-apocalyptic muscle car story treads water.

The sheer volume of articles and columns is amazing -- I don't know why they didn't think of it before, to put a bunch more content in a book to make it worth the price of admission. It's so quick compared to drawing pages. The writers have extra time to basically "blog" in the book, with photos and interviews.

The Lee/Kirby run is just pure action. The Englehart/S. Buscema run was The Cap run to me before Stern/JB. No one ever rips Gruenwald's long run. I think it had some good arcs, the lows were really low. Don't forget about Dematiess/Zeck run.

Brubaker always calls out the Lee/Kirby, DeMatties/Zeck, Waid/Garney (1st), Stern/Byrne, and Englehart/Buscema runs as his favorites. He politely doesn't mention Gru.

Exactly what I've always had in mind with my manga type books I keep mentioning.



Sorry but for me, Gru's run was the worst. Some decent moments here and there but it never felt like Cap. And if memory serves me right, when Waid took over it felt like that for most fans and they were glad Waid was bringing back the real Cap.

I did like the Dematiess/Zeck run too. Just like Batman, theses runs showed different versions of the character. Lee/Kirby was action packed, Englehart was reflective and political, Stern/JB was pure superhero fun.

I don't remember Gruenwald's run being bad, but looking at mycomicshop.com, I bowed out early, around the time Steve Rogers was in the black suit as The Captain. It looks like he stayed on for a long time, and the covers look horrible.