Categories: Comics

This Week on Marvel Unlimited: 04/19/2021

After a few weeks away from this, I’m back. Only 10 new books this week, including a bunch of King in Black; the only #1s released are tied to the event.

New This Week (Published 01/13/2021)
Amazing Spider-Man #57
Chris Claremont Anniversary Special #1
Immortal Hulk #42
King In Black: Gwenom vs Carnage #1
King In Black: Planet of the Symbiotes #1
King in Black: Thunderbolts #1
Marauders #17
Star Wars: Darth Vader #9
S.W.O.R.D. #2
The Union #2

Notes: King in Black issues: KIB: Gwenom vs Carnage, KIB: Planet of the Symbiotes, KIB: Thunderbolts, The Union, S.W.O.R.D….Amazing Spider-Man continues the Last Remains arc…Storm vs Calisto in Marauders…the Chris Claremont Anniversary special celebrates 5 decades of his stories with a Moonstar/Shadow King new story…

Best of Last (few) Week:
Eternals #1: I almost gave up on the issue halfway through…there was a lot of exposition setting up the book, which almost took me out. The second half of the book was a lot better, but it vaguely tied into the Neil Gaiman book, which took me a little to remember what had happened. If there wasn’t a movie coming out, I’d probably have passed on it.
Hellions #8: I love this book; read the full review here.
Marauders #16: Kate and Emma confront Shaw about murdering Kate; they have a little fun with him by turning off his powers. This is setting up the power struggle that’s coming within Hellfire Trading. I’m a huge fan of this series.
M.O.D.O.K.: Head Games #2: M.O.D.O.K. needs help getting some “fake” memories out of his head, so he turns to Tony Stark. It’s a fun issue.
Star Wars: The High Republic #1: A solid intro, but it did spoil the first High Republic novel. Full review here.
Wolverine #8: AKA issue #300. Wolverine finds out that his past is coming back to haunt him…again. What’s Maverick up to? It’s a set up issue, so I’m expecting the next one to be better.
X-Factor #6: The team is investigating the death of Siryn, but she’s not cooperating about the cause when she’s resurrected. It’s setting up an interesting dynamic within the team. This continues to be one of the better X-books.
X-Men #16: As the X-Men deal with the fallout of X of Swords, Cyclops and Marvel Girl decide there needs to be an old school style X-Men team; rather then picking them, the team will be elected by the people of Krakoa. OK issue.