Weekly Comic Review Round-Up

Josh and Elisabeth of TFAW.com - my personal mail-order comics source - take customer service to the next level by reviewing their picks and nix of this week’s releases.

Check out the funnybook Siskel and girl-Ebert’s takes on, among others, Buffy Season Eight No. 32, Siege and Siege Embedded (both No. 2), Ultimate X No. 1, and more.


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Ultimate X: Wolverine Jr. pops his cherry.
The world’s least subtle writer, Jeph Loeb, pounds us over the head with the “mutant-as-troubled-teenager” metaphor that has made all things “X” so successful since the Claremont days.

Ultimate X: Wolverine Jr. pops his cherry.

The world’s least subtle writer, Jeph Loeb, pounds us over the head with the “mutant-as-troubled-teenager” metaphor that has made all things “X” so successful since the Claremont days.


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Aw jeez - they’re letting Jeph Loeb back into the Ultimate Universe?
If the purpose of the post-Ultimatum reboot was to clear out the junk and keep what works, they should keep Ultimate Spider-Man and jettison everything else. If Bendis wants to use characters from other books in USM, let him.  Boom.  Ultimate Marvel: all killer, no filler.
One stipulation - and this is a deal-breaker, absolutely non-negotiable - different haircut for Peter! He looks like Jake from Squirt TV (back when he was a spunky 15-year-old, not his current incarnation as a creepy balding 30-something).

Aw jeez - they’re letting Jeph Loeb back into the Ultimate Universe?

If the purpose of the post-Ultimatum reboot was to clear out the junk and keep what works, they should keep Ultimate Spider-Man and jettison everything else. If Bendis wants to use characters from other books in USM, let him. Boom. Ultimate Marvel: all killer, no filler.

One stipulation - and this is a deal-breaker, absolutely non-negotiable - different haircut for Peter! He looks like Jake from Squirt TV (back when he was a spunky 15-year-old, not his current incarnation as a creepy balding 30-something).


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