Comments on: Coming Up: Marvel Comics Due December 2010

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Wed, 29 Jun 2011 11:47:12 +0000

[...] they’re collecting One Month to Live in paperback. This immensely forgettable miniseries came out in hardcover in January, and I can’t imagine demand drove this choice. In the brave new world we face, it [...]

By: Chad

Chad — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:59:01 +0000

Based on the recent past of Marvel events, I’m guessing that you can skip most of the Chaos War tie-ins. At least that’s what I’m doing — If it ain’t written by Greg Pak or Fred Van Lente, I’m skipping it. Which means I just buy eight comics. We’ll see if I get a complete story.

I also loved Incredible Hercules, especially when its backup was Agents of Atlas. Now THAT was a comic for which I was willing to pay $3.99.

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 02:04:51 +0000

I agree that too many titles with the same character actually makes me less – much less – interested in any of the titles.

That, and massive crossover events.

So, you can probably guess that I’m only buying one title between the big two at the moment (and for the past several years).

By: Johanna

Johanna — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 13:35:57 +0000

I should have checked more about the Avengers reprint history — that’s what I get for writing late. Thanks for the background, readers!

Basque, thanks for confirming my impressions of that miniseries. I hadn’t realized the issues all had different creators, too. I’ve actually found a Thor book that works for me — more on that soon.

JD, all those spin-off projects are likely intended both to attract those interested in the upcoming movie and provide material for books to have out at the time of the film release. But yeah, it’s an immense amount of overkill.

By: JD

JD — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 11:45:43 +0000

As far as ongoing series go, I can see the logic with the Thor titles : there's the ongoing, firmly-in-continuity Fraction title, and the awesome back-to-basics, young-readers Landgrige/Samnee Thor: the Mighty Avenger. Fair enough. But for some reason, Marvel have decided to publish an absurd amount of Thor-related miniseries : the First Thunder origin-retelling, the angst-ridden For Asgard, Astonishing Thor, Ultimate Thor, a Loki miniseries, a Warriors Three miniseries, a Thunderstrike miniseries, and also something called Iron Man / Thor... Overall, that makes 11 Thor-related issues in December, which is just insane.

By: William George

William George — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 11:16:25 +0000

I loved Hank Pym the Scientist Supreme Wasp. And I thought that version of the Avengers was killed before it’s time.

By: James Schee

James Schee — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 05:54:13 +0000

There’s a male Wasp? Wow… and his name isn’t an acronym for White Anglo Saxon Protestant?:)

How many Thors are there? There’s the series… and a sort of animated/family one right? Oh right.. didn’t they announce something about Thunderstrike coming back? Weird…

Avengers Assemble sounds fun, its been a long time since i read he first few of those. (I need to track down Avengers Forever and read it some day).

Weird.. I seem so out of touch with comics. I liked Hercules for the same reasons too… then stopped reading comics for along time. I was bummed to read that they’d killed Herc off, now before I even read that story they bring him back.

By: Ralf Haring

Ralf Haring — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 04:35:48 +0000

They collected their Avengers run even back when Harras was EiC in the horribly overpriced collections of the time (4 issues, $20 or something like that). More recently during Quesada they did oversized hardcovers of which I think these are the softcover equivalents.

http://tplist.millarworld.net/avengers.html#v3
http://tplist.millarworld.net/avengers.html#sshc

By: Basque

Basque — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 04:26:40 +0000

I read all five issues of One Month to Live and it was completely forgettable. It lacked cohesion (as you would expect from a five-issue series with a different creative team on each issue). I was waiting to see how the last issue would tie it all together, but it was a huge disappointment. The only issue I really enjoyed was #3 and that was entirely because of Shane White’s retro-looking art. Otherwise, skip it.

I also decided to skip Chaos War for exactly the same reasons stated in your post (19 books at $4 is way too much.) And I feel similar frustration over the sheer number of Thor books. Although I must say that I’ve really enjoyed the first two issues of Matt Fraction and Pasqual Ferry’s run. I’d recommend ignoring every other Thor title and just getting that one. (It’s the one simply called Thor.)

By: Augie De Blieck Jr.

Augie De Blieck Jr. — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 03:18:06 +0000

Yup, I can confirm it: I have the first two volumes of “Avengers Assemble” on my bookshelf by Busiek/Perez. And I’m pretty sure they made another couple books in the series, though I don’t think I picked them up for one reason or another…

By: Caroline

Caroline — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 02:15:45 +0000

I’m pretty sure that Avengers run has been collected before, but I think it has been out of print for a while. . .

You’re right, though, the Marvel lineup is pretty cluttered with duplicate books and ones that are a little unique (like Young Allies) don’t necessarily get a chance to shine. Too bad!