akbogert

A bit of an aside here, but since people were talking prices: while I'm glad that Ms. Marvel is $2.99 for readers with a medium preference, it's actually the most expensive book Marvel's selling for anyone who wants a hard copy and digital. It'd be "cheaper" if it came with the same digital bonus code that all their other books do, but as it stands it's actually the opposite.

Routine, cross-book failure of any editorial team (Avengers or X-Men) to catch and correct that simply speaks to me of the general disregard Marvel folks have for her. It's not that artists can't -- it's that absolutely no one in the line of production, even after over a year of complaining from fans, has cared to remind them to do so.

And if they don't care enough to handle something that simple, is it any wonder that nothing else about her character is being treated properly either?

Heh.

It's one thing more than crap: good covers. Otherwise yeah, I am severely disappointed, especially given how great the (roughly) same team was under Bendis before (and even during) Cataclysm.

This book is such a joy. It's basically like getting his Deviant Art profile writ large once a month, with more room to grow.

Ditto. I don't think I've ever vehemently disagreed with any of his reviews, even the ones I did disagree with somewhat.

Thirded.

I've been wondering if I should read this comic every month since it came out. And I've been reading it since it came out.

Love the new layout. I check this every week to double-check what I'm going to my LCS for, so thanks for always posting it!

That The Wake cover isn't going to be winning any awards, but I'm pretty darn excited to see what's inside.

Yeah, it definitely seems like it'd be a step backwards to more or less ignore the Marvel NOW approach to her, since that's undoubtedly the version many readers looking to read a new Spider-Woman book will be most familiar with (assuming the NOW initiative has actually accomplished its goal of bringing in newer readers).

It wouldn't, of course, be the first time that fans of a character read a Hopeless book and found recent history ignored and the character they loved unrecognizable, but then, hopefully that won't be the case.