Also this week:

ALPHA FLIGHT #6 - End of the first arc, as the original team are freed and promptly head off into space.  Well, at least that provides a justification for getting them out of the way.  Of course, the characters are still complaining about the basic implausibility of Sasquatch rounding up a bunch of newcomers instead of just phoning the Avengers in the first place.  If it's such a silly idea (and it is), then why do it?  I know it's a comedy book, but the comedy ought to come from the characters, not from having the characters do stupid things and then saying "Gee, that was idiotic of me."  The title has its moments, but it's not really clicking.  The fact that the next arc is only two issues long, and that sales have been falling badly, leads me to wonder whether we'll actually see a solicitation for issue #9 in the next month's Previews.  Touch and go, I'd say.  C

CHOSEN #3 - Er... right.  Ah.  Mark Millar seemed to be on the right track with the first two issues of this series, which marked a noticeable change of pace from his over-reliance on shock tactics.  And then he pretty much blows it with a dodgy twist finish, a clunky political point, and an utterly silly line about rape which is meant to be horrific but just comes across as Millar falling back on old tricks again.  A shame, because the build-up in the first couple of issues had been pretty good.  C+

INCREDIBLE HULK #75 - The conspiracy storyline comes to a rather abrupt end - so abrupt that I almost wonder whether Marvel finally pulled the plug on the thing.  We're now into a much more conventional supervillain story, with Darick Robertson providing a good version of the Hulk.  Still, I'm mainly just pleased to see this storyline being wrapped up, even if it does come at least a year after the plot went stale.  Time for something else now.  Long past time.  B-

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

Next week, Cable/Deadpool #6 finally wraps up the opening storyline.  Exiles #51 has the second half of "Big M".  New X-Men #4 continues with the interclass rivalry.  Rogue #2 continues her new ongoing title, while in a curious example of cosmic balance, Weapon X #27 is the penultimate issue of that book.  Wolverine #18 continues the "Native" storyline.  X-Men #160 has the final part of the Xorn storyline.  And there's the second issue of X-Men: The End.  Yup, eight X-books in one week...

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