New comic day hangover

Welcome back, friends.  With the brand new X-Men event launching this week, I would feel just terrible if I slacked another week, so we’ll play catchup.  For this edition, we’ll be looking at…

• Age of X: Alpha in which we get a new present in which there were never X-Men…except for the X-Men gathered.
• Justice League: Generation Lost #17 & 18 in which a new threat shows up to replace the threat just beaten.
• New Mutants #21 in which Zeb Wells’ run on the title ends well.
• Uncanny X-Men #532 in which the X-Men still have the sniffles.
• X-Factor #213 & 214 in which a member quits the team, but not the book.
• X-Men #7 in which the X-Men become heroes.
• X-Men Legacy #244 in which we get a Blindfold adventure.  How fun.

There will be a jump, and then there will be SPOILERS.  I’ll even tell you which member of the Fantastic Four died.  Let’s do this.

New Comic Day hangover

It’s been several weeks since I’ve picked up my new comics, so I’ll be going through the backlog on this, my 20th edition of the New Comic Day hangover.  20?  Really?  Where does the time go?

Anyway, this edition we’ll be looking at…

• Booster Gold #38 in which we get a trip to the past to set up a continuity issue.
• Justice League: Generation Lost #13-14 in which we get a whole lot of Captain Atom.
• New Mutants #19 in which we get more torture.
• Uncanny X-Force #2 in which Wolverine pisses off Angel.
• Uncanny X-Men #530 in which the mutants get the sniffles.
• X-Factor #211 in which we get back to Las Vegas.
• X-Men #5 in which we are still fighting vampires.
• X-Men Legacy #242 in which the rebuilding of San Francisco gets underway.

As a side note, I know I said I would be dropping both Uncanny X-Force and Booster Gold but since my comic shop had already ordered  me copies of these issues before I dropped them from my pull list, I did the decent thing and went ahead and picked them up.  The same will happen with next month’s issues.

Anyway – reviews (with SPOILERS) after the jump.  Let’s get to it!

New Comic Day hangover

Let’s get right to it.  This week, we’re looking at…

• Astonishing X-Men: Xenogenesis #3 in which a lot of talking is done.
• Justice League: Generation Lost #10 in which we learn what Max Lord is up to.
• Uncanny X-Force #1 in which the badass team gets relaunched with a not-so badass name.
• Uncanny X-Men #528 in which Hope does exactly the same thing as the last two issues.
• And X-Men Legacy #240 in which we get a kidnapping and a wedding.

There will be details past the jump and they will have SPOILERS in them.  You have been warned.

New Comic Day hangover

Yeah, I know that three weeks ago I said “hiatus complete” but I had some extenuating circumstances over the past couple weeks.  Two weeks ago I was too lazy – my bad.  Last week, Casey and I travelled to Chicago for the Wizard World Comic Con and the hotel I was staying in charged $12 for internet access.

But enough excuses.  Let’s make up for the lost time and hit the big list!  This week we have…

Astonishing X-Men #35 in which the story that took forever ends with a disappointing whimper.

Booster Gold #35 in which Booster realizes his trip in the past is not as innocent as he believes.

Justice League: Generation Lost #7 & 8 in which the JLI attacks Checkmate.

New Mutants #16 in which we get the back story of the hellish soldiers.

Uncanny X-Men #527 in which Hope goes after another new mutant.

X-Factor #208 in which Wolfsbane finds out her bf is shacking with a dude.

X-Men #2 in which Blade pops up for the vampire story.

And finally, X-Men Legacy #239 in which we meet Indra’s fiancée.

Please be warned there will be SPOILERS in the reviews following the jump.  I no longer feel bad.

Hiatus complete and the New Comic Day hangover

Hello, there.  It certainly has been a while, hasn’t it?  I took a much-needed break to get my thoughts together and to avoid bitching and moaning about the lack of X-News at Comic Con (all the new X-stuff came at C2E2).  With that break, I’m about two weeks behind on my comic day reports, but since I had zero books this week, I am not taking a moment to get caught up.  So let’s take a look back.

• Justice League: Generation Lost #6 in which the story takes a break to hop to the future.
• Uncanny X-Men #526 in which the X-Men start looking for new mutants.
• X-Men: Legacy #238 in which Rogue and Magneto head for India.
• New Mutants #15 in which the team takes a beer break.
• X-Factor #207 in which the cover gives away something not in the story.

Even though these stories are a week or two old, I’m still obligated to toss up a SPOILERS warning for the content behind the jump.  Let’s begin.

New Comic Day hangover

Big week this week with both of my DC books coming out, a few X-Books here and there and…what am I forgetting…oh yeah!  Second Coming ended!  How about that?  On the list this week:

•  Booster Gold #35 in which our hero gets tossed directly into a caper from the past with Blue Beetle.
•  Justice League: Generation Lost #5 in which the team takes a moment to interact and declare their mission statement.
•  X-Men: Second Coming #2 in which the X-Men deal with the costs of their victory.
•  X-Men: Hellbound #3 in which the time killing battle ends since the teleporters can return.
•  Uncanny X-Men: Heroic Age in which the X-Men get welcomed into the new bright and shiny Marvel U.
•  X-Women #1 in which scantily clad women make sexy poses.
•  And X-Force: Sex and Violence #1 in which a story that doesn’t need to be told gets told.

 There will be analysis after the jump and said analysis will contain SPOILERS.

New Comic Day hangover

Fifth week Wednesday’s usually are light on titles as the monthly paces are set around four-week months.  If you have any special books or Annuals coming out, fifth week is usually a place to do it.  A long time ago, they used to have fifth week events…but now they’re too busy producing blank covers to do that.

Oh, I’ve gotten distracted.  Here we go.

Astonishing X-Men #34 in which…holy shit!  Astonishing X-Men #34 came out!

Justice League: Generation Lost #4 in which I actually got the title this week.

Blah blah blah SPOILERS blah blah.

New comic day hangover

I’m back from my trip to yesteryear, complete with new comics!  This week we have:

Justice League: Generation Lost #3 in which the JLI fights a bunch of OMACs.

Booster Gold #33 in which Booster goes after Max Lord in the past.

Uncanny X-Men #525 in which the X-Men run around fighting.

X-Men Hellbound #2 in which different X-Men run around fighting.

Astonishing X-Men: Xenogenesis #2 in which I consider dropping the title.

SPOILERS will be included should you decide to join me after the jump for a look at these comics.

Retro Comic Day hangover

I have no new issues coming out this week, so as to keep the reviewing flow going, I’ve decided to hop into the time-mobile and travel back 11 years and take a look at what books I would have bought back in June of 1999.  Jeez – 1999 was 11 years ago?  Ouch.  This (that) month, we have (had)…

Uncanny X-Men #371 in which we get a needless crossover with the tech characters of the Marvel U.

X-Force #92 in which we take a brief moment to bring in a character from X-Men 2099.

Generation X #54 in which we get a big fight scene.

X-Men #91 in which we get more tech character crossover.

And that’s it.  By this point, both X-Factor and Excalibur had mercifully received the axe and neither X-Force nor Generation X would make it another two years.

I usually would warn of spoilers, but come on – these are 11 years old.  I’ll have them behind the jump anyway.

New Comic Day hangover

A light week for me this week, still trudging through Second Coming and finding myself increasingly fatigued by it.  We’ll get straight to it.

This week, I’ll be looking at:

Justice League: Generation Lost #2 in which everyone hates the JLI again.

X-Force #27 in which I get tired of watching the X-Men get their asses kicked.

And X-Men Second Coming Revelations Blind Science #1 in which…you know what?  I’m just amazed I typed that entire title out.

Discussion will follow the jump.  And there will be SPOILERS.  So click it or get lost.  Wait, don’t leave!  Just click!