Also this week:

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #509 - Marvel have hyped this issue on the basis of two things - it's the start of a new storyline, "Sins Past", and it's the first issue with art by Mike Deodato Jr.  Deodato seems to be back in favour after a few years when a lot of dodgy work was appearing under his name.  His recent work on Hulk and, for that matter, Witches has been attractive, though, and he makes a good match for this title, with likeable versions of Peter and Mary Jane.  This, of course, is the Gwen Stacy storyline, an idea that doesn't immediately appeal to me.  I doubt they'd do anything so crassly foolish as to bring her back from the dead, but tinkering in long-gone history doesn't do much for me either.  B

CAPTAIN AMERICA #28 - The final issue under the Marvel Knights banner before the book is sent back to the mainstream Marvel editors.  Which, by the way, leaves me wondering what happens to Captain America & The Falcon, which also shipped this week - do we really need two Captain America books?  (Since I'm on the subject, Captain America & The Falcon #4 features staggeringly ugly art, even by Bart Sears' standards.  I really don't understand why Sears or his editors think this stuff is appealing.)  Anyway, the Marvel Knights approach hasn't worked for Cap, although Robert Morales' brief run has clicked a little better than some of the material that came before.  I honestly don't think the character has the weight to stand up to this kind of approach, and he's better off with a more old-school direction.  Morales signs off with a two-part time travel storyline that hovers on the edge of incomprehensibility and features a lot of nudge-and-wink stuff about comics being really popular in another timeline.  Nice art from Eddie Campbell, though.  C+

QUEEN & COUNTRY #25 - Hey, a single-issue story.  Queen & Country doesn't do many of those.  Tara goes off to Switzerland to catch up with her estranged mother, who's about to get married to somebody half her age.  Meanwhile, there's some reshuffling going on back at the office.  A good character piece, with strong art by Steve Rolston.  Besides, it makes a nice change to get the character away from work for once.  A-

Last week's Article 10 is still up at Ninth Art.

Next week, it's relatively quiet for a change.  Ultimate X-Men #48 continues the serial killer arc.  Wolverine / Punisher #4 wraps up the Peter Milligan miniseries, and X-Statix #24 continues the Avengers arc.

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