Also this week:

CAPTAIN AMERICA #29 - As advertised, a throwback to conventional superheroics.  But fair enough, if you ask me.  They've tried the Marvel Knights approach for a couple of years, and it really hasn't worked out.  He's Captain America.  He wears primary colours and he beats people up.  The character flounders when you take him away from that.  This is the sort of thing you can imagine Mark Gruenwald putting out fifteen years ago.  In the current context, that makes it a break from the norm - and Robert Kirkman does do this sort of thing well.  B+

GUARDIANS #1 - Nothing whatsoever to do with the Guardians of the Galaxy, before you ask.  Or at least, not at this stage.  Originally solicited as an ongoing title, this seems to have quietly turned into a five-issue mini in the latest solicitations, which is about what you'd expect for a completely new property by a largely unknown writer (Sumerak is a former Marvel assistant editor).  However, it's really surprisingly good.  It's a bit like Power Pack's origin gone wrong - a delusional child with an overactive fantasy life leads a group of his friends to help an alien who's crashed in the area.  And then the alien goes home.  Years later, he still won't shut up about it, and everyone's just plain embarrassed to know him.  Very readable stuff, with beautiful artwork from Casey Jones.  Worth a look.  A-

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

Next week, Cable/Deadpool #5 continues the Facade storyline.  Emma Frost #13 begins the third storyline.  The New Mutants version of New X-Men reaches issue #3.  Weapon X #26 begins a Sabretooth storyline.  Wolverine #17 continues the Native storyline.  And more on Xorn in X-Men #159.

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