Decent week, actually.

-Civil War Front Line Issue 2. I'm liking this. A lot. And the [Spoiler]Osborn[/Spoiler] stuff is such a tease

-Moon Knight 3. Haven't really read it yet, but it looks violent, and does the decent thing of explaining the whole backstory to us noobs. I'm still probably gonna drop it when the arc ends and go to trades

-52: Week 8. Not the first time I've considered dropping it.

-X Factor:Civil War tie in. Jamie Madrox: Agent Of Shield. Nuff said. Nice of them to put Quicksilver on the cover, and only on ONE internal page. But there's just enough here to keep me interested

-The Spectre 2. Yikes. Pfeifer has a lot to do in the final? issue - and he's not that good a writer to begin with.


Trades.
Fantastic Four (JMS)
Invincible Vol. 6
Supreme Power: Nighthawk

I hear you on 52. I finally dropped it from my online pull list. I like it and everything but it's just too expensive to follow on a weekly basis.

I wasn't too thrilled with "Front Line: Civil War #1". It was all over the place with the thinly veiled politcial mumbo-jumbo. I had a real hard time trying to swallow the Japanese-American internment camps.

I don't plan on looking for #2, so spoil me away.. what's the Osborn teaser?

He's watching Peter's press conference on TV, in prison, and someone asks Peter about Norman, and Peter says things about Norman that piss him off, and he starts screaming about Peter "breaking the rules", and a Shield Agent behind him asks him does he want to play by a new set of rules.


As for 52, it's nothing to do with the money (On a whole, with two jobs and no other financial commitments, I can afford a decent haul every week). I've only gotten into comics in the last two years, and trades notwithstanding, dont know the history of DC. If 52 hits me with something that requires years of background knowledge and shit - I drop the book. Simple as that. I'm nearly there. Am I supposed to know everything about the Sentinel thats chasing Animal Man and crew?

So Green Goblin might get in bed with SHIELD? That works for "Civil War"... since the government's already recruited Zemo and the Thunderbolts to "convert" other supervillains. Thunderbolts usually seems to operate in its own vacuum, so I'm glad that the supervillain recruitment subplot is being used in other books.

While I'm passing on "Front Line", I'm still giving Civil War a thumbs up, overall. I'll be kinda' ticked if Loki's behind the whole thing, though (remember the pony tailed guy in "New Avengers Annual"... smelled like Loki in a weak disguise to me).