# This Week on Marvel Unlimited: Most of the Summer

- Link: https://www.nyrdcast.com/this-week-on-marvel-unlimited-most-of-the-summer/
- Published: 2020-10-06T10:00:29-05:00
- Author: Eugene Tierney

Holy crap!!! Marvel dropped much of their summer content this week; everything they
released from April to August, along with some stuff from September. We get some
X-Men, Empyre, and books of variant covers. This is a full week.

_****Please note that the italicized and starred titles below were removed after
the list was made. I don’t know when these title will show up. There were some really
good titles pulled.****_

**New This Week**
Amazing Spider-Man #43Amazing Spider-Man & Mary Jane: The Variant
Covers #1Ant-Man #4Avengers #33Avengers of the Wasteland #4Avengers of the Wasteland#
5_Black Cat #11*Black Panther and the Agents of Wakanda #8*Black Widow #1*Bring 
on the Bad Guys: The Variant Covers #1Carnage-ized Variants #1Daredevil #20*Deadpool#
5*Deadpool: The Variant Covers #1Doctor Doom #7*Dr. Strange #5*Empyre: Avengers*
Empyre: Fantastic Four*Excalibur #10*Ghost-Spider #9Hawkeye: Freefall #5Magnificent
Ms. Marvel #14*Marauders #10Marvel: The Action Figure Variant Covers #1Marvel’s 
Spider-Man: The Black Cat Strikes #4Miles Morales: Spider-Man #17*Ravencroft #4Revenge
of the Cosmic Ghost Rider #5Scream: Curse of Carnage #6Spider-Man Noir #2*Star #
4Star Wars: Doctor Aphra #1Strange Academy #2*Strikeforce #8*Sword Master #10*Taskmaster#
1*Uncanny X-Men: The Variant Covers #1Venom #25Venomized: The Variant Covers #1X-
Men: God Loves, Man Kills Extended Edition #1*

_Notes: _Revenge of the Cosmic Ghost Rider is the limited series finale…Marvel’s
Spider-Man: The Black Cat Strikes is part of the Gamerverse…Avengers starts the 
Age of Khonshu, which features Moon Knight taking on the Avengers…Doctor Aphra is
a continuation of the last series, moving to right after the Empire Strikes Back…

**Best of Last Week**
Falcon & Winter Soldier #2 – The title characters take on 
a train full of Hydra agents to try to learn who Baron Zemo’s protege is. Instead
they find Zemo on the train. They are forced into a partnership to take down the
Protege. Solid issue, if not predictable. There is really good dialogue, which saves
the recycled story type.

Giant-Size X-Men: Nightcrawler #1 – Nightcrawler leads a mission to find out why
the house of Xavier at Greymalkin Lane isn’t responding to Krakoa. It’s an OK issue.
I enjoyed reading it, but it really wasn’t that memorable and doesn’t add much (
as of right now) to the overall Krakoan story.

Hellions #1 – What happens when you take all mutants and put them together? You 
get some conflicts. How do you handle those responsible for the conflicts? Send 
them to Sinister. If you are wondering why Havok is on the cover, it’s because he
loses control and almost kills some humans. This was a good set up issue and I’m
looking forward to seeing where this goes.

Road to Empyre: The Kree/Skrull War #1 – This set up follows a Skrull sleeper family
living on Earth preparing for war. It gives a little insight into the Skrull thinking,
but really didn’t have much value. I’m waiting to see if this family has some kind
of impact on the bigger story; if so, this issue has a little more to it than I 
initially thought.

Star #3 – Star recounts why she hates Captain Marvel, and it really didn’t hit for
me. The main character really doesn’t have much going on to drive this story; the
bad guys wanting to hunt her for the reality stone really isn’t the main story, 
and I feel that it could carry the book more than her discovering her identity. 
It might work for others that know her full story.

Star Wars: Bounty Hunters #2 – I generally like Star Wars books, specifically when
Boba Fett and other bounty hunters are involved. This story really isn’t doing it
for me. It’s slow and not really moving the overall story. I really feel like the
story from 1 and 2 could have been combined.

Wolverine #2 – Wolverine has killed his team and doesn’t remember or know why. He’s
working with a CIA agent to investigate the Flower Cartel, who’s using Krakoan flowers
to make a new designer drug. It’s an interesting story, but very slow. I’m going
to stick with this one though.

X-Men #9 – The Summers Brothers get the Brood Kings Egg into space with a hoard 
of Brood following. We learn that the King Egg is the highest in the Brood heirarchy
and that the Queens want it destroyed to keep their place in the Brood. Broo ends
up consuming the egg, which makes him the ruler of the Brood. It’s interesting that
the X-Men keep expanding outside of Krakoa (Jamie Braddock rules Otherworld with
Betsy as Captain Britain), Masque has a retirement community in Arizona, Cannonball
is with the Shi’ar). The best thing about this book is many of the arcs are only
a couple of issues, rather than the standard 6 issues we see in most series.

X-Men/Fantastic Four #3 – The X-Men and Fantastic Four get to Latveria Island to
discover Doom is going to fix Franklin and Excalibur has agreed to it. Magneto is
upset that the Red Queen has agreed for Krakoa without the Quiet Council’s consent(
although Xavier is good with it). We also get a group of X-Men with Sue trying to
free some mutants that are “captive” after they agreed to stay on the beach of the
island.

**Retro Review: **Wolverine: Origin 1-3

As I’ve consolidated my floppy collection, I noticed I didn’t have a full run of
Origin II; I picked up the missing issue and decided to give both parts a read. 
I was able to get Origin 1-3 in last week.

One of the best parts of this series is using Rose as the focal point and seeing
the events through her point of view. I remember how much the story was a “shocker”
at the time because they set it up for the reader to believe Dog was Wolverine. 
Making James our hero was a nice twist; making Logan his father was even more so.

The story was very well written and gave Wolverine a lot of depth. Paul Jenkins 
left a lot of questions after each issue and answered them with the next. This was
one of the books that really got me into a deep dive of his work (on top of the 
fact he’s a great guy in person). The art is very stunning. The color really captures
the story, avoiding bright colors.

I remember loving this series when it came out, and it has held up so far.

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