Marvel’s Super Hero Squad, a toy line aimed at the 7 and under crowd was an awesome thing. It often teamed your favorite super hero with either a classic baddie to fight or some obscure hero in which to team up with. And the series made variants- like you’d have regular green Hulk, gray Hulk, Planet Hulk Hulk, and Joe Fix-it Hulk. Then Marvel made a great TV series about the line and then a comic book.

Sadly, Marvel cancelled this line for reason undisclosed. They also cancelled the series AND the comic book!

So, it’s a digest like this that collects several issues that one must go to for their Super Hero Squad fix.

Yes, this series was aimed at kids, but like any good Disney movie, there’s something for everyone. Lots of great jokes and gags and they’re not all corny. A great gem. For those who have kids, love kids, or are a kid at heart, MSHS is a great bonding tool to introduce the next generation to Marvel Comics.

Worth Consuming!

A group of earthlings find themselves transported to a medeval style alternate reality full of myrth and wonder.

The premise seems great at first, especially with top notch Dick Giordano artwork.

Here’s my problem with this book. 1- the alternate earth dialogue is very jumbled. It’s a mix of Old English and Lewis Carroll jaberwocky.

2. I refuse to believe that having your switchblade magically transform into a huge broad sword will turn the average junky (who wants to kill his three partners in order to save his own skin) into a good guy.

3. I haven’t a clue what’s the deal with the main bad guys. There’s been very little character development and by the cliffhanger, the protagonists are nowhere close to achieving their goal of assembling a fairy tale version of the Justice League.

Thankfully, the artwork and the opening 10 pages of this book was very well done and it keeps this book from being a total stinker.

Yet, with all it’s plot holes, I must give this book a wishy washy rating.

Collecting the first 6 issues of Batman: The Brave and the Bold, this series captures the fun and nostalgia that is the essence of the Cartoon Network series of the same name.

Tons of fun team-ups as well as a nifty little secret called “Batman’s Secret Case Files.” Sadly, after issue 6, this segment was dropped. Bummer, it was fun and informative.

Worth Consuming!

Finally, Thor shows up and it’s the real honest to Norse god version, not this steam punk version from the year 5,000- though he’s in it too!

The walls of reality are crumbling and it’s up to the Thor Corps to put things straight. It’s a refreshing “Crisis” type tale that actually has a happy ending for all parties involved.

A rare gem- completely dated example of the 1990s Marvel scene but it’s like watching a MST3K episode. It’s sometimes so bad it’s not just good, it’s brilliant! Worth Consuming!

As the Corps are tossed throughout the timeline, it’s cameos and team-ups galore. It you love the Guardians of the Galaxy, Marvel Westerns, or the Marvel 2099 universe, then this is the issue of your dreams.

Spoiler Alert- The real god of Thunder finally shows up to team with Thunderstrike and the the rest. However, he doesn’t appear until the penultimate finale. Sorry, Thor fans.

Despite the near false advertising of the cover, this issue is still worth consuming!

So, I’m reading this book with no pre-conceived notions as the back cover doesn’t give any details what this book is about. By the mid-way point, I realize that this is a sequel to Superman: Metropolis. However, it doesn’t feel like a sequel. It’s more like a continuation because a vampire like version of Batman is in this volume and he was nowhere to be found in the first book.

Future research reveals that this book is actually the final book in a trilogy. Superman: Metropolis continues in Batman: Nosferatu. So, if you liked the first book, be sure to read the Batman sequel before reading this finale. I think this book would made lots more sense if I knew to do that before hand.

Worth Consuming, regardless.

A wonderful collection of the 1st 38 tales of the unknown Soldier, a pre-CIA operative whom the Allies use in both the European and Pacific theatres to perform covert missions deemed too impossible for the average G.I.

The bonus in these tales is that you get the origin story and get to glimspe what the Soldier looked like before and during disfigurement. I always thought the never showed his true face, but I was wrong! Awesome.

The only downside is that this book was published about 6 years ago and a volume 2 has yet to be released. Please correct this grevious error very soon, DC.

Worth Consuming!

The continuing adventures of G-Man and his older brother Great Man, sees the duo losing their powers after a mishap involving a misuse of of their magically blessed cape and belt. Billy Demon, Glendof (Wizard) Williams, Tan Boy, and their rest of the G-Man gang are here trying to help restore not only thie missing powers but generally order of the populace when G-man’s cape explodes.

Lots of fun with jokes galore. I actually like this volume better than volume 1 which is mostly a collection of internet comic strips a la Marvel’s Super Hero Squad. I hope there will be a volume 3 very soon.

Worth Consuming!

Issue two gets much, much better with the Corps being thrust through time battling such greats as Capt. America, the Human Torch and Toro, and others. Still no original Thor, but the banter of his replacements makes tihs a funny buddy cop type comic with adventure and twists on every page.

Worth Consuming!

I knew about Beta Ray Bill and Eric “Thunderstrike” Materson, but who is this Thor of the year 5,000?

This miniseries brings together the welders of the Uru Hammer who are not the Don Blake/Swedish contruction worker Thor is an epic battle to save reality from unravelling.

It’s fun, but I am having trouble getting into the plot because all three are characters I’ve yet to really connect with and the main reason I bought this book isn’t even in the book yet.

I consider it worth consuming, but be aware there’s no actual Thor in this book, just his imitators.