Secret War

The story is some incomprehensible nonsense about all the tech bad guys in the Marvel Universe working for some super terrorist, so Nick Fury sacrifices... you know what? It's got some pretty painted pictures and that's about it.

RATING: 35%

New X-Men Vol. 1: E Is For Exitinction

Grant Morrison's X-Men run was the most exciting and different direction the book had been taken in decades, so of course exactly one issue after he was done Marvel retconned it all away. Who better to follow one of the greatest writers of comics today than Chuck Austen? We can forget all that when we read back through his book, and the first trade captures the nuances of all the cast (Wolvie, Cyke, Jean Grey, Emma Frost, and Beast) perfectly, while adding the complications necessary to bring said characters to life. Sure, it's cool to hate Cyclops, but Morrison turns his dickishness into a kind of charm.

RATING: 95%

Wolverine/Deadpool: Weapon X

Wolverine is boring, Deadpool is hilarious. When you add them together you get, uh, mostly boring?

RATING: 24%

Ultimate X-men Vol. 7: Blockbuster

At this point, Mark Millar left the book, Brian Michael Bendis took over, and the whole thing began a 60 issue spiral into being a complete directionless mess. Oh well, at least Bendis is capable of writing Ultimate Spider-man in a hilarious manner, and he guest stars here as some group is after Wolverine for some reason, who cares.

RATING: 65%

Ultimate X-Men Vol. 2: Return To Weapon X

Ultimate X-Men really sucks now. I mean, it's probably the worst comic I get, but for some reason I force myself to buy every Ultimate comic that gets put out. It used to be really good (see vol. 1), but then it got only pretty good starting with this volume, and I can't seem to remember if the downward trend continued. In this book, all of the X-Men get kidnapped and forced to act as soldiers for some military group, but luckily Wolverine saves the day. It's fine, but it kind of seems pointless to revise the history of these characters if nothing new was going to be done with them.

RATING: 63%

Spider-Man/Wolverine

This team-up was a four issue limited series penned by Brett Matthews and drawn by a blind man apparently. The story is entirely mediocre, with some good jokes for Spider-man, which is all Spider-man really needs (see reasons why the first Spider-man movie wasn't that great). Anyway, it's way out of print, so I don't know why you would try to track it down because it doesn't make any sense (Nick Fury hires Spider-man to track down Wolverine for some reason) and isn't good.

RATING: 36%