User blog:Mbarriosfuenmayor/Marvel NOW!: The Story so Far

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Now that we're in January 2013, we're still with three waves left from this whole status quo shake-up that represents Marvel NOW! and so far the response has been intermediate. Some New series became cool, other just plain indifferent. Here's my perspective of the Marvel NOW! Waves so far and what I expect from the fourth wave (January)

FIRST WAVE


 * 1) Marvel NOW! Point One: A good preview book, loved the Young Avengers preview
 * 2) A+X: Another way to bring back Marvel Team-Up, but a good initiative. So far, the stories were pretty good
 * 3) Red She-Hulk: Never been quite a Hulk Family fan, so I'm indifferent to this one
 * 4) Uncanny Avengers: One of the best of the Marvel NOW! line-up, good blend of mutants and Avengers and a very grim story arc with this whole "I'm taking Charles Xavier's brain to bond it with mine" plan of Red Skull
 * 5) Wolverine & The X-Men: The Frankenstein Circus story arc looked pretty amazing. Let's see if the bring the new Beast look to the series

SECOND WAVE


 * 1) All-New X-Men: I'm not precisely a "Huge" fan of Bendis' work but so far it's been good, from Scott becoming the "Che Guevara" of the mutant community to the original line-up confronting their present/future selves. Really looking forward for Jean's development from here
 * 2) Avengers Assemble: Love the new dynamic of "We're not just superheroes, we can have our fun too" with the bet thing. Are we possibly hinting a Hulk/Spider-Woman fling in the future?
 * 3) Captain America: Not so good, not becuase of the story but because of John Romita Jr's art...I don't see him as the proper artist for Cap
 * 4) Deadpool: HATED IT! The new team just screwed the very essence of the Merc with a Mouth. Where the Hell are the Speaking Boxes!? He talks but it makes no fun without his trademark boxes
 * 5) Fantastic Four: An interesting story arc with the cellular degeneration and Reed's time and space travel. Let's see how far will Reed's secret go and hope for appearances of old villains and allies as well
 * 6) FF: Good line-up...excpt for this Miss Thing girl. The only thing I can think of is "Lame and Useless"
 * 7) Indestructible Hulk: Hulk, Agent of SHIELD? Interesting proposal, but not rocking this armor thing (even though Mark Waid is AWESOME)
 * 8) Iron Man: THE BEST OF MARVEL NOW! Love Gillen and Land's work on Tony, loved the Extremis story arc and really looking forward for the God Killer. And also, rocked the new armors (all of them)
 * 9) Journey into Mystery: Not really into this whole Sif as a mad-as-hell asgardian non-stop fighter.
 * 10) Thor: God of Thunder: Good proposal of the "Three periods of Thor" but in the end is still another Thor book that might as well just take another volume
 * 11) X-Men Legacy: Never been into Legion, but it's a good kind of weird proposal for the X-Men titles

THIRD WAVE


 * 1) Avengers: Love Hickman's work, amazing storytelling and the best Avengers line-up ever (And a recomendation...read the issues with the movie score as a background...simply epic)
 * 2) Avengers Arena: Hunger Games/Battle Royal rip-off. Just like that
 * 3) Cable & X-Force: It's a good new series, but in my opinion is not soooooo huge, maybe in the next story-arcs
 * 4) Dark Avengers: Gotta say it, I like this new stage for the Dark Avengers of now becoming the heroes of a twisted alternate universe where the heroes are actually villains, a chance to be legit Avengers and kick some popular a**es
 * 5) Hawkeye: Even though I hate David Aja's art, it's awesome to read our good Clint Barton doing stuff outside being a superhero
 * 6) Thunderbolts: Amazing series, but hate Steve Dillion's art. Can't wait to see how the line-up will grow but these five are just the Black-Ops dream team come true

FOURTH WAVE

I've only read New Avengers and Morbius: The Living Vampire, both were pretty itneresting, still waiting for the remaining of the wave


 * 1) Captain Marvel: Seems that the future looks tough for Miss Danvers, but I hope the series can pick up
 * 2) Daredevil: The only "Fake Spidey" thing I might pick up, just to see how Daredevil will react (from some previews I've seen, he might be the first one to start catching up on this fiasco)
 * 3) Savage Wolverine: Honestly I don't see the whole point of ANOTHER Wolverine book, let alone him in the Savage Land...but it features Shanna the She-Devil so I'm waiting for some good sexy art for her
 * 4) Superior Spider-Man: I already gave my opinion about this in the other blogs
 * 5) Uncanny X-Force: Let's see if Psylocke has leading skills, but this team looks really deadly
 * 6) Young Avengers: Really looking forward. This one promises to be "The hilarious" comic book of the whole Marvel NOW! line-up

This is how I see Marvel NOW! so far, so, let's see if you guys share or disagree with this and discuss