Posts Tagged ‘Brian Michael Bendis’
Daredevil v2 #056-081 by Brian Bendis & Alex Maleev
Bendis and Maleev are back for the second part of their epic saga. They picked a perfect place in the story to take a break, because the first arc "King of Hell's Kitchen" takes place 1 year later. Matt has really cleaned up his district, nobody dares to do crime in his territory. However he only pushed the problems to different areas, which is [...]
Daredevil v2 #026-050 by Brian Bendis & Alex Maleev
This is the run I've been wanting to read for years. To me, this was the peak of Bendis writing skills, before he started writing Avengers. Here he is reunited with his collaborator on Sam & Twitch, Alex Maleev. I loved that series, so I was happy to see them together on Daredevil. Their run is mainly a crime comic, smoothly mixed with [...]
Daredevil vol2 #009-019: Parts of a Hole & Wake Up
Issues 9-14 are Parts of a Hole, written by David Mack with continuing art by Joe Quesada (minus the fill-in issue 12). This introduces Maya Lopez who is the perfect mate for Daredevil. Her powers are to mimic any physical activity by just looking at someone else. So she can mimic someone playing piano, acting or fighting. This is not a [...]
Ultimate Origins
This is the story that supposedly tells the secrets about the Ultimate universe. Bendis said that some parts of this story were agreed on since the beginning of Ultimate Marvel, and they would tie all super-powered beings together. We already saw that many of the Marvel scientists were connected to the super soldier serum project, but here they [...]
Ultimate Spider-Man #112-128 + Annual 3
Here starts Stuart Immonen's run on USM and I couldn't have asked for a better successor to Mark Bagley. Immonen has his own style which is different from Bagley's, but at the same time it looks different than his recent work on Ultimate X-Men. His first arc is Death of the Goblin (#112-117) which is exactly what it sounds like. I like the way [...]
Mighty Avengers #12-20: Secret Invasion
The Secret Invasion tie-ins on this title were a little less successful than New Avengers. The good issues were about Nick Fury and his new group of super powered people. They are all young recruits that have ties to classic Marvel characters, but at the same time are not part of the superhero community. That's the only way Fury can trust them not [...]
Ultimate Spider-Man 79-111
In these issues, Ultimate Spider-Man has basically become the series guest-starring all New York urban heroes. Even the X-Men are featured prominently. In Warriors (79-85) the Kingpin is manipulating Spider-Man in order to maintain his control over the criminals in NY. He gives him information about his rival Hammerhead, and Spider-Man [...]
New Avengers #37-47: Secret Invasion
It's been many months since I last reviewed this title, but I've actually been reading it every month, following the big event Secret Invasion. But before that event officially started, we get the end of The Trust story arc which managed to elevate the Hood as a leader among the criminal community. He later on played a small part in the invasion, [...]
Secret Invasion #1-8
This was the big summer event (though it lasted 8 months) for Marvel and I was very excited about it going in. Bendis had been hinting at this storyline since he started on the Avengers, and the mystery of who is a skrull/who to trust was very interesting to me. The first issue starts the event with a bang. The invasion starts with a full on [...]
Ultimate X-Men 34-45
After the initial Mark Millar run, Brian Bendis steps in this series writing a team book for the first time. He starts focusing on Wolverine, who is aided by Spider-Man and Daredevil (both very familiar characters to Bendis). The plot revolves around rogue ex-members of Weapon X, who kill themselves rather than be captured. This is just the [...]
Ultimate Spider-Man #40-78
Ultimate Spider-Man continues to provide high school drama and comedy, mixed with superhero action/adventure. I must admit that this series really reminds me of Buffy the TV Show. There's a lot of character drama about teenagers, mainly Peter and MJ. But there are also a lot of other characters around them, either their classmates, or some new [...]
Ultimate Spider-Man 1-39
I've always wanted to read Ultimate Spider-Man, but they published this series so fast that I decided to wait and read a big chunk of issues all at once. There are now more than 120 issues out, so I think it's time for me to start. Also, Ultimatum seems to be rebooting the whole Ultimate line, so I think it's a good time to read all of Ultimate [...]
The Mighty Avengers #7-11
To complete the pre-Secret Invasion Avengers arcs, here is the very tardy storyline about Symbiotes/Doom. We've seen the ramifications of this storyline in New Avengers already, so I didn't really feel this was such an important arc. Bagley's art is nice, I was happy to see him on something other than Spider-Man, even though 1000 Venoms and [...]
The Mighty Avengers 1-6: The Ultron Initiative
This is the other half of the Avengers written by Bendis and it has a very different feel than New Avengers. We start with how the team was assembled, while at the same time witnessing the new team's first mission. At first it seems like a simple fight with monsters, but soon Ultron is back. It fits that it's a she, since Frank Cho is [...]
New Avengers: Illuminati
When I first heard of the concept of the Illuminati I wasn't sold on it. I thought it was just an excuse to have yet another secret society of superheroes. Reading this mini changed that impression though. I thought seeing these heroes band together and intervene in some of the important events in Marvel history was neat. The first three [...]
New Avengers #21-36
Bendis is really laying the ground for next year's big event at Marvel. So in preparation for that I am catching up on his New Avengers. Spoilers follow. His Civil War arc on New Avengers 21-25 showed us which side some of the Avengers chose and what were the consequences. Each issue stars one particular character and is penciled by a different [...]
New Avengers #1-20
When Brian Bendis took over Avengers, he started a truly new direction for this classic team. Here are my thoughts on his run so far. The first arc of the New Avengers brings a number of Marvel superheroes together during a prison break out. It being in New York, it is not surprising to see these characters together during a massive crisis like [...]
Ultimate Fantastic Four #1-32
Here I will review all Ultimate Fantastic Four issues so far, that is #1-32. They almost all collected in TPB so if you are interested I have included the Amazon links. This is a fresh re-imagining of the F4, and so far I like it. The first volume "Fantastic" is the origins of the F4, but this time there is no space shuttle and Doom's name is [...]
Secret War (2005)
After reading the Pulse I was curious about Secret War, and I was a little bit disappointed. Secret War is a standalone mini-series, which really didn't affect other series. It is not an event crossover like the original Secret Wars. This is the story of a secret mission started by Nick Fury involving some of the Marvel heroes. This mission [...]
The Pulse
Even though Alias has a n uplifting and satisfying conclusion, the story of Jessica Jones continues in The Pulse. This series stars the people working at the Daily Bugle, who hire Jessica for a new column about superheros called The Pulse. The first storyarc (Thin Air) is basically a Spider-Man story, from the point of view of the reporters. It [...]