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Amazing Spider-Man #557
Writer: Zeb Wells
Artist: Chris Bachalo
Publisher: Marvel

The latest Spider-man storyline wraps up and I’m mainly just pleased it’s over. I’m not a fan of Bachalo’s art and Wells first contribution to Brand New Day really just didn’t do much for me. Not that it was bad, but I’m not that into Spidey fighting gods and mystical…

Countdown to Final Crisis #1
Writer: Paul Dini
Artist: Tom Derenick
Publisher: DC

So here we are. Finally the countdown reaches 1. And what do we get? An epilogue. As I feared this whole exercise hasn’t lead into Final Crisis at all. In fact the only really significant bit seems to be the death of the New Gods which actually mainly…

Universe 0
Writer: Grant Morrison and Geoff Johns
Artist: Every Artist DC Has
Publisher: DC

I’m really not sure why this issue exists. We had a whole 52 issue series in the form of Countdown to Final Crisis that was supposed to set up… Final Crisis. But apparently it didn’t. So we have Universe 0, which is little more than a…

Avengers: The Initiative #12
Writer: Dan Slott & Christos N. Gage
Artist: Steve Uy
Publisher: Marvel

I love this series. Slott mixed together some unknown and underused Marvel characters and perfectly captured the feeling of the Marvel Universe immediately after Civil War. Issue 12 is his wrap up issue so written with Christos Gage (who takes the reigns solo next month).…

Well I’ve been frantically reading three weeks worth of comics to get myself caught up and I’m finally in a position to at least some comic book reviews again. Starting with the most important book I missed.

Final Crisis #1
Writer: Grant Morrison
Artist: J. G. Jones
Publisher: DC

As promised Final Crisis started with Kamandi and then zipped rapidly on to…