comics read, 1/8/13

I just caught up on reading stuff from the last three weeks or so.

First, above the cut: I subscribed to Loki: Agent of Asgard almost solely because of how impressed I've been with Al Ewing's work on Mighty Avengers. Frankly, Mighty Avengers seems to have most everything against it: it's got Greg Land on art and a relative unknown writing, its first three issues were tied up in a crossover that no one I know paid any attention to, and I, personally, have very little interest in the Avengers side of the Marvel universe. And yet Ewing keeps me consistently entertained while introducing and juggling a cast of characters I have almost no familiarity in. Even the Infinity tie-in arc felt self-contained enough to be comprehensible.

(Not that this is so much down to Ewing, but I also, it must be said, enjoy the fact of characters of color not only being the majority, but also walking on and off panel in cameos, completely unremarked upon. It's easy for me to forget how many such Marvel characters there are, because so often there's only one or two of them to a team.)

I totally understand if you just can't take the Land art on this book, but at the very least EVERYONE should pick up the three issues Valerio Schiti is arting, starting in February. And also everyone who's even marginally interested in the Loki comic should give it a closer look, because I expect Ewing to do good things on it.

Now, onto vaguely spoilery things.

( Mighty Avengers #4 )

( FF #15 )

( X-Men #9 )

( Uncanny X-Force #15 )

( Rocket Girl #3 )

( Pretty Deadly #3 )

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talking meme: Amelia and Sam/Amelia, for de_nugis

Amelia! Sam/Amelia! One of my very favorite aspects of S8; de_nugis knows which way my heart lies. Of course, there was no way this was going to be a short post...

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Note: If you want to comment to this post solely to tell me that you don't like Amelia or Sam/Amelia, please refrain. I'm often happy to hear about why people dislike things I like, but this is not one of those posts.

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ART

Forgot to mention that when I got back from the holidays, I had ART waiting for me. Specifically a print of this gorgeous angel!Abaddon piece by anobviousaside. Is it not so PRETTY? Guh. I'm going to frame it and hang it up. I figured with a whole apartment to myself, it was high time I looked into some wall decor of my own. :D

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