Also this week:

LORE #3 - I'm really starting to enjoy this book - a mixture of comics and illustrated prose which puts Ashley Wood's erratic visuals to enormously effective use.  Plus, it's often very funny (particularly the diary segments), and it comes as a pleasant surprise to see an interesting plot emerging.  The title seems to have gone largely unnoticed, and admittedly this isn't the best place to start - you'd be better going back to the beginning.  But it's a good book and worth plugging.  A-

THOR #80 - The first Michael Oeming issue, and a prologue to Avengers Disassembled.  Oeming immediately sets about turning the book upside down and slaughtering some long-standing supporting characters.  I'm not really won over by it.  It seems dreadfully rushed, and at times it's more like reading a precis of the story than reading the story itself.  Still, some lovely art by Andrea DiVito, and at least the plot is hitting the ground running.  B-

ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR #6 - End of the first arc, and this is really a bit underwhelming.  Everyone stands around talking at each other and waiting for a climax to happen.  It doesn't, so they have a fight and go home.  All rather underwhelming, and you'd expect better from Bendis and Millar.  A disappointing end to the first arc, which ends up as a decent beginning in search of a final act.  B-

There's a new Article 10 on Monday at Ninth Art.

Next week, sanity returns, as the numbe of X-books becomes almost reasonable.  District X #2 introduces Bishop to the area.  Emma Frost #12 finishes off the second storyline.  And Ultimate X-Men #47 should have more on Mr Sinister.  Oh, and a couple of X-related characters also crop up in Identity Disc #1, but I'm not treating that as an X-book.

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