This Week In Comics (for August 2, 2006)

I'm fairly confident this will be a light week at this house, too. On the list you've provided, we have only two titles scheduled to ship, though a couple more have possibilities (those being FF and 52).

Jam it back in, in the dark.

This week, we get Ultimate Spider-Man, Uncanny X-Men, and the latest Inquest.

I have an idea about how to make these threads more interesting. Maybe we could review some or all of what we get in a given week. Obviously, if there's a thread on it, like Civil War, the review should go there. It would really be great to start this week, considering the light load.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I didn't intend for the reviews to be mandatory. This thread just seems like seems like the ideal place to do it, as well as discuss comics that don't have their own threads.

I really hope FF helps explain Civil War #3...

Double Post:
So, this week in comics, Ultimate Spider-Man was rather confusing. Much like most stories in comics these days, I'm sure it'll all be explained later. I'll just have to be patient. Overall, the issue is fun, but the story moves very little. The issue consists a fair amount of Peter having conversations and running places. The fight in the issue makes little sense, at least to me.

This week in comics, we get a story in Uncanny X-Men that could have been told last month, providing better chronology. In any case, the issue is fairly straightforward, though there are a few (more or less) plot problems.

Spoiler:

Isn't Smasher of the Imperial Guard dead? I thought he died during that Shi'ar stuff during Morrison's run. How is he in this issue?

This week in comics, from what my brother tells me, Fantastic Four makes Civil War #3 even more confusing, since:

Spoiler:

Thing decides to fight on neither side in the conflict, yet he's clearly fighting pro-registration in Civil War.

Can neither company do a major title-spanning event and get all the facts straight?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

It is for that reason that I tried to think of reason why Thing appears in that issue. The best I could determine was that both he and Invisible Woman were Life Model Decoys used to possibly convince opposing heroes to join their cause.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Yes, but in the previous FF issue, he was already starting to question which side was right after seeing police quelling Yancy Street protesters. And those events appear to take place in the early days of the Act, not after a few weeks (where the fight presumably happens).

And, yes, Sue was there. There's one shot (I think right before Iron Man and Cap shake hands) where she's part of the pro-registration group standing in the background.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by acid

The new Batman titles rock my socks.

Dini is great at writing single issue Batman stories (hooray for less year long arcs). And Morrison, well he's Morrison. He's great by default.

I respectively disagree, mainly for his work in New X-Men and All-Star Superman.

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