I picked up the first Nextwave trade and was quite entertained. I felt it had an energy that a lot of the more cynical and polished modern material lacks.


I'll probably pick up Iron Fist in a collected edition. I'm more or less avoiding all the tied-in mega-continuity spin-off stuff from both Marvel and DC so I might miss The Order, although I hear some good things about it (hadn't heard the writer's name though). I really don't like the Punisher as a character so I avoid his titles like the plague - he's a murderer and he deserves life imprisonment. Unless that's the premise of the book, I find other attempts to depict him as a hero very disturbing.


I may take a look at the marvel Adventures stuff if there's a budget collection. How good is X-Men: First Class? If it's revisionist and doesn't respect the source material I'm unlikely to get on with it.


I was just outside the blast zone of Steve Gerber's brain exploding when he heard they were bringing Omega back without him. I didn't have a lot of sympathy with him this time since:

A. Like the rest of the stuff he did back in the 70s it was work for hire, and he knew it.
B. It was by far the worst work he did, utterly directionless, shoddy, and with no redeeming features.
C. He's consistently turned down work for Marvel over the Quesada tenure with the exception of one Howard the Duck limited series.
D. The new author - a Gerber fan - apparently did him the courtesy of contacting him and was not treated well.

Good luck to the new crew, I say.