Also this week...

SHE-HULK #22 - Peter David takes over the series and yanks it in a completely different direction by turning Jen into a bounty hunter and, more or less, promising to explain it at some later date.  This could easily come across as totally arbitrary, but David makes it work with some nicely judged "What the hell is going on?" moments.  I'm not quite sold on the new direction just yet, but they've got my interest.  B+

X-MEN: DIE BY THE SWORD #2 - The second part of the Excalibur/Exiles crossover sees a bit of fighting and a lot of wandering around the Exiles' pink castle.  The weird character design for Rouge (no, that's not a typo) is quite appealing, but the story gets bogged down with recently-introduced Exiles characters who don't have defined characters, and don't get them here.  Still, the series delivers what it promises, I'll give it that.  B-

There's more from me at If Destroyed, and if you're desperate for more Article 10 columns, you can always hunt through the archives on Ninth Art.

Next week, New X-Men #43 belatedly completes its lead-in to the big crossover, just in time for X-Men: Messiah Complex to kick off the main event.

back | continue