Cornbread's Favorite and Least Favorite Comics of the Week - 5/5

Favorite Comic: The New Avengers Finale

I was pretty skeptical about buying this book because of its 5 dollar price tag, but after giving it a read I was pretty satisfied with the amount of money I spent. I knew that this would be a conclusion of the New Avengers series, but after opening the first page I quickly learned that this was the finale of Siege as well; as I read the book it tied up all of the loose ends of Siege and brought it to a pretty good conclusion.

Brian Michael Bendis is probably one of the best conversation writers in comics, and this issue really showed that. The things that the Avengers said to each other during most of the big battles were pretty entertaining and witty. Im usually pretty satisfied with Hitch's art work and it was no different with this issue.

I was really happy that Ms. Marvel played a large role in this books story. She is a great character and I was pretty unhappy with the fact that her book got canceled. The main battle against Count Nefaria was really exciting especially because it exhibited the full extent of Ms. Marvel's powers and it was pretty impressive and drawn well.

There was never a low point of this book if you ask me, which is the main reason why I didnt mind the fact that I paid 5 dollars for the book. Bendis did a great job wrapping up the story line with this set of New Avengers, and I am excited to see what he is going to do with the next set.

8 out of 10

Captain America: Who Won't Wield the Shield Review

Marketed to readers as yet another Deadpool book, Captain America: Who Won't Wield the Shield was anything but that. Sure it has Deadpool on the cover, and has a short Deadpool story on the inside, but it is by no mean the main focus of the book.

The main story is actually pretty funny, featuring a number of Marvels most popular writers; Jason Aaron, Matt Fraction, Ed Brubaker, and Brian Bendis.

The book tells a few different stories aside from the main story, such as a psychedelic Captain America story that makes you feel like you just took a hit of acid.

This is definitely worth checking out, it had some good laughs, good writing, and was a fun read in general.



And Since it was almost Deadpool free it may even be Kevin Falkenberg approved!

Cornbread's Favorite and Least Favorite Comics of the Week - 4/14

Hey everyone, sorry these reviews are a little late. Ive been home on break from school and it just kinda slipped my mind. Anyways, here we go

Favorite Comic: Siege Captain America One-Shot

I was pleasantly surprised with this One-Shot. I dunno if it was because I read it after the Young Avengers one-shot, that it was better by comparison, or if it was because it was just written well. The art was a little iffy, but it wasn't that bad if my memory serves me correctly.

The thing that made the book so good was the fact that it was cool to see Cap and Bucky fighting together again, it was simply classic. The story focused on Cap and Bucky rescuing a family of civilians who were caught in the fall of Asgard from both the destruction of the fall, as well as protecting him from b-list (if that) villain Razor-Fist. Its a great issue to help introduce the relationship between Bucky and Cap to non-Captain America readers, which is good because its a tie in.

It is a solid issue, and not only preps new readers for how important Captain America (Both of them) to the Siege storyline, but it also presents a well put together one-shot featuring Cap that isnt essential to the Siege story-line; unlike the Loki one shot which finally illustrates what Loki has been doing the whole time since he egged Norman on to wage war on Asgard.

If youre a fan of Captain America, definitely check out this issue, if youre not a fan but would like to be a fan check out this issue, if you hate Captain America but thought that you should read this issue for the overall Siege storyline, then you can just forget about this issue because it isnt that important to everything as a whole.

7 out of 10


Least Favorite Comic: Daredevil #506

Although this issue wasn't terrible, it just was not acceptable for a book that was more than a month delayed. I picked up Daredevil after the events of issue #500 which follows Daredevil and his struggle to lead the Hand, and so far it has been pretty good. The first 4 issues were spectacular because of De La Torre's art, and the last two issues had a change of artist which really knocked the book down a few notches for me. Especially since the book shifted over the Matt's relationship with one of the Hand's sub-bosses Bakuto.

In this issue there was a decently interesting fight scene at the beginning of the book featuring Murdock and Bakuto, but it wasn't anything that great and kinda just seemed too drawn out. The book goes on to have more people bickering about Bukato and his misbehavior (much like the last issue) and quickly ended with a mediocre plot twist; which I wont reveal because that would just be too much of a spoiler.

I am just hoping this book switches back to being overwhelmingly excited like it used to be in the next issue, as well as that I hope that the next issue is on time so that I dont lose even more interest in what is going on in the story. I guess we will see what happens next time it's released.

The best part of this issue was the cover by Rivera


4 out of 10