Also this week:

INCREDIBLE HULK #76 - Christ.  Is that it?  Years of gratuitously convoluted conspiracy plot... and that's it?  The bad guy was just being deliberately confusing in order to confuse the Hulk?  That's it?  Blech.  It's hard to believe in retrospect how promising Jones' run seemed at the outset.  This is horrible.  Stay right there.  I'm just going to get some rotten fruit to throw.  What a mess.  D+

PROMETHEA #31 - We're nearly there.  This is the penultimate issue.  The last few issues have been pretty effective in setting up the apocalypse, but unfortunately we're back to lecture mode in this one.  For all that I have to admire the dazzling technique of Alan Moore and JH Williams III, this book has been hobbled time and again by its insistence on just telling us things rather than dramatising them.  If Moore doesn't think the subject can be dramatised then why doesn't he just write a damn textbook and be done with it?  Still, there's no denying the incredible quality of the art.  B

ULTIMATE ELEKTRA #1 - Despite the title, this is a sequel to the Ultimate Daredevil & Elektra miniseries, and it has just as much Daredevil as Elektra.  Or rather, just as much Matt Murdock as Elektra, since like the previous series, this is set in pre-origin days.  I could have sworn the previous book ended with Elektra going on the run, but it seems we're toning that down in order to have a workable sequel.  Pretty good, nonetheless, and Mike Carey's script is in keeping with the tone set by Rucka's miniseries.  Salvador Larroca returns on art (yes, he's doing two books a month), and while these quieter character stories don't strike as the best way to use him, it certainly makes for a good looking comic.  B+

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

Next week, Gambit gets his fourth series. Jubilee gets her first.  Exiles #52 begins a new storyline.  And it's guest artist time in Uncanny X-Men #448.  Hmm.

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