Spectacular Spider-Man: The Hunger

This trade, written by the pretty good Paul Jenkins (Why doesn't he have a regular book anymore, hmm?) is also only pretty good. Basically the plot is Venom's symbiont suit is leaving Eddie Brock and wants to permanently join up with Spider-man as its host, but Spider-man is all like, that would not be something I would enjoy. Anyway, they fight blah blah, and it turns out (SPOILER) Eddie Brock is dying of cancer which is why the suit doesn't want him anymore. Anyway, now the Scorpion is Venom but that didn't happen here, it happened later in Mark Millar's Spider-man. On great thing about this book is art by the amazing and highly stylized Humberto Ramos, so I think he's taking over Runaways which should be great.

RATING: 45%

Generation M

This series spun out of the events of House of M, a lame kind of storyline in which the Scarlet Witch uttered the words "No More Mutants," reducing the Marvel comics mutant population to 200 people. It was poorly executed and way overhyped, but Generation M by Paul Jenkins and Ramon Bachs was a pretty decent result. It follows a news reporter, Sally Floyd, as she writes a column about recently depowered mutants. For some it is great because they can now be eligible for professional sports (in the Marvel Universe mutants are banned from pro sports), or they are no longer a lizard person, but for some it is bad because they used to have fire for a heart (Chamber), or they liked being able to fly. This is woven with the story of a serial killer who is murdering depowered mutants and harassing Sally Floyd, and her own dealing with the recent death of her daughter, who had a mutation that caused her to start getting younger until she died. It's a great character piece that I definitely recommend picking up even if you haven't read House of M, which was awful.

RATING: 76%