This Week in Comics

X-Factor 27
Chapter 11 in the ongoing series. Kind of a filler issue...some issues get resolved like the multiple man getting sent back through time (cool concept though!) Bet we see Layla down the line...two issues to go. Predator X is at the Mansion...big throw down in the next issue. Pretty decent this was the first filler art issue. Up to this point the issues have been well written and drawn but his one had the look of a last minute filler artist...got to hate that. Best thing about this series has been the cover art...fantastic.

Captain America Omnibus

Wow what a well written series. I admit I missed out on the Death of Captain America...I came in at Issue 26 having missed out on a beautifully scripted arc up to that point. When Marvel put these issue into their Omnibus edition I initially balked at paying $100 to read the issues. Fortunately Mile High Comics had their 40% after Thanksgiving sale so I snapped this up like a big dog. Finally got to read it over the Holiday Break and what a great series. I mean every issue led somewhere or provided some clue to the bigger picture. There wasn't any fluff or unnecessary crap that sometimes we have to put up with long term series (i.e. the author decided to mail in a story that month because he didn't feel like it). What amazed me was the tight group of actors. Reading the X-men through the years there is such a huge cast of characters that you that you can afford to go down on some tangent with B-list characters and get away with it. This one though as a tight knit group, a long standing history, and a take that certainly does not suck. My only real question is when Ed took this over and brought Bucky back into the mix, did he know about Civil War. His plots do get a bit of track due to the Civil War storyline...did he intend to really kill of Steve Rodgers from the beginning? Obviously it was a certain progression of his story up to Civil War and once the fall out occurred it made sense. Anyway it was a good read.