Also this week:

ALPHA FLIGHT #12 - And another one bites the dust.  I can see what Scott Lobdell was trying to do with this book, but we've already got She-Hulk covering the comedy angle at Marvel right now.  And She-Hulk is much, much funnier.  In contrast, this is... just an ungodly mess, frankly.  It's hard to tell whether Lobdell actually had plots that were meant to spin out from this utterly bizarre ending (which dumps a duplicate Alpha Flight onto the Marvel Universe), or whether this is just a deliberately chaotic way of finishing the series.  And it doesn't really matter, because this is just plain incomprehensible, utterly devoid of internal logic.  Still, it's Alpha Flight - knowing Marvel, it can only be a couple of years before somebody tries to revive it again...  C-

CAPTAIN AMERICA #3 - This hasn't been getting quite as much attention as it deserves.  Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting have produced something very difficult here - a Captain America story that feels contemporary without seeming like a revamp.  It's like a sort of bridge between old and new Marvel.  Killing off the Red Skull back in issue #1 is actually a stroke of genius.  The character had ossified into a one-dimensional symbol of e-e-e-evil, and he just wasn't that interesting to read about.  But a bunch of characters who still can't quite believe he's actually dead... that's interesting.  A-

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

Next week, the late-running Astonishing X-Men #8 finally turns up, almost two months behind schedule.  Wolverine #25 wraps up "Enemy of the State."  New X-Men #10 starts a Prodigy story.  Cable/Deadpool #12 finishes the two-part "Thirty Pieces".  And X-Force #6 just plain finishes, thank god.  There's also a trade paperback collecting the recent Sabretooth miniseries, which I strongly advise you to steer well clear of.

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