> I intend to pick up the trade of Ellis' Thunderbolts to try it, but nobody has particularly drawn my attention to the work of Fraction and Parker. What are they doing and why is it good?
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Ellis' Thunderbolts are pretty good; it's no Nextwave, but it's an interesting read.
Matt Fraction's been writing Punisher War Journal, which has its highs and lows, and the recently-started Order, which is pretty good, and he's co-writing Iron Fist with Brubaker. Iron Fist is a series that's 50% awesome, and I'm betting all of that is Fraction's doing. My favorite thing of his, however, is Casanova, but that's published by Image.
Parker is currently writing a bunch of all-ages titles for Marvel; he worked on Marvel Adventures: Avengers for a year or so, where we had the All-MODOK Avengers, and Ego the Living Planet hitting on Earth. Good stuff. He's also writing X-Men: First Class, a "year one" sort of ongoing about the original five X-Men.
Marvel isn't exciting me much now, but there's some good stuff hidden in there. I'm quite excited for the new Omega the Unknown series by Jonathan Lethem and Farel Dalrymple. Utterly gorgeous---!
