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The Ettatorial for the Week of 5-07-08
By Etta | May 10, 2008
A very small week of releases for me this week, only four, and every one of those was a Marvel book. Sadly, it seems a lot of the DC books I’ve enjoyed are switching creative teams or losing direction, and are losing me as a reader as a result. So you get weeks like this, with Marvel dominating my purchases. Seeing as it’s a small week, there’s only going to be one pick for it.
Mighty Avengers #13 gets the nod this week. While Secret Invasion #2 was also out this week, it’s this issue’s Secret Invasion material that really clicked with me. Continuing to use the Avenger books as fill-you-in material for the crossover, it actually has provided some of the best material the books have seen in quite some time. Using Mighty Avengers as a way to follow Nick Fury and his goings-on since his disappearance has been a stroke of genius, giving Bendis and Maleev more of a spy/espionage vibe to the book. This issue also gives multiple new characters to the Marvel universe, all of whom would fit in with the Young Avengers book (if ever it comes back), and all of which are so interesting I would love to read in a book all their own. Without giving anything away, this one shows that Nick Fury has his own force in play in the invasion now, and their pedigree makes them a force to be reckoned with. Bendis turns in some of his classic dialogue here, closer to his beginnings on Daredevil or Alias. Maleev’s art on the issue is again some of his best, standing out is his meticulous line art and detail work, without some of the static feel that his art occasionally has had in the past. I really loved this issue, and can only hope that the characters introduced here get more time with Marvel’s books, and that the Bendis/Maleev team gets to be the one handling them.
Well, that’s it for this week. A small week I know, but hopefully that just means next week’s releases will be bigger. We’ll find out next week, same time, same channel.
Topics: Comics, The Ettatorial |
Tags: mighty avengers.