Pull list for 4/30/08

Black Summer #6 (of 7), $2.99

Blue Beetle #26, $3.50
Jack Of Fables #22, $2.99

New Battlestar Galactica Season Zero #7 (not a photo cover), $2.99

Avengers Initiative #12, $2.99
Giant Size Avengers Invaders #1, $3.99
Immortal Iron Fist #14, $3.99
Marvel Comics Presents #8, $3.99
New Avengers #40 (Secret Invasion Tie-In), $2.99
X-Men Legacy #210 (X-Men Divided We Stand Tie-In), $2.99

Mighty Avengers #12

Triumphant return of Nick Fury after events of Secret War. Except it's all flashback. He discovered Skrull invasion before anybody else, inserts spies into SHIELD.

X-Force #3

Purifiers recovering badasses, alive and dead, infecting with Technarch via captured infant technarch harvested from Magus at the bottom of the sea. Rahne is recovered, jacked up on heroin but not a lethal dose - awkward if she's pregnant.

Ms. Marvel #26

Carol trying to escape her apartment where her own strike team tries to apprehend her for apparently killing her allegedly Kree boyfriend and being a skrull. Machine Man is a creepy fucker - "Do you know why I joined operation lightning storm? In exchange for a life model decoy of Monica Rambeau. I asked that the LMD be programmed to cry all of the time. I found it amusing. The robot girl that cries." She fights the skrull, both are apprehended, she sees through another skrull posing as Agent Sum. She kills skrull 1, causing skrull 2 to offer possibly alive boyfriend in exchange for escape.

Pull list for 4/23/08

Batman #675, $2.99
Fables #72, $2.99
Justice League Of America #20, $2.99
Spirit #16, $2.99

Hack Slash Series #11 Seeley Cover A, $3.50
Transformers Spotlight Grimlock, $3.99

Mighty Avengers #12 (Secret Invasion Tie In), $2.99
Ms Marvel #26 (Secret Invasion Tie In), $2.99
New Exiles #5, $2.99
Thor #8, $2.99
Uncanny X-Men #497 (X-Men Divided We Stand Tie-In), $2.99
Wolverine First Class #2, $2.99
X-Force #3 (X-Men Divided We Stand Tie-In), $2.99
X-Men First Class Vol 2 #11, $2.99

Hedge Knight II #6 of 6

Ser Duncan wins fight against Lady Rohanne's champion in the river, is injured. During his recouperation Lady Rohanne weds Ser Eustace, apparently they bonded after the fight. She acknowledges her feelings for Duncan, tries to give him her horse as a token. He takes a large lock of her long braid as a token. The end.

Pull list for 04/16/08

Brave And The Bold #12, $2.99
DMZ #30, $2.99
World Of Warcraft #6, $2.99
Annihilation Conquest #6 (of 6), $3.99
Avengers Initiative #11, $2.99
Captain America #37, $2.99
Ghost Rider #22, $2.99
Incredible Hercules #116, $2.99
Iron Man #28, $3.99
X-Factor #30 (X-Men Divided We Stand Tie-In), $2.99
X-Men Divided We Stand #1 (of 2)(X-Men Divided We Stand Tie-In), $3.99

Pull list for 4/9/08

George R R Martins Wild Cards Hard Call #1 (of 6)(Eric Battle/Arthur Suydam covers), $2.99
Serenity Better Days #2 (Of 3), $2.99
Justice Society Of America #14 (Regular Alex Ross Cover), $2.99
Criminal 2 #2, $3.50
Fantastic Four #556, $2.99
Hedge Knight 2 Sworn Sword #6 (of 6), $2.99
Wolverine #64 (X-Men Divided We Stand Tie-In), $2.99

Young X-Men #1

Blindfold sees future of Young X-Men where one of them dies. Cyclops begins to assemble new team, introduces them to "Danger Cave". Also, Cyclops blasts Marco in public, causes damage 'because he can'.

Logan #2 of 3

Flashbacks, flashforwards. Logan postcoital with japanese widow. Crazy American comes back, shoots Logan in head. Widow uses husband's sword to attempt revenge, is skewered on bayonet before Logan recovers. Logan understandably pissed, massively injures american. Guy doesn't have healing powers, but is unphased by extensive injury. Also, Hiroshima gets nuked.

"Nah, the bomb ain't my mother. She's just the girl who made me a man."

Midnighter #18

Midnighter lookalike gets onto the Carrier, has specialized plan to defeat each member of The Authority. Takes down Engineer with subsonics/induces coma with flash pattern in eyes. Midnighter prepares for return of guy, plans on massive beatdown. Apollo taken down by solar flash overload in tooth spit at him. Flying girl taken down with pheremone implants/suffocation. Hawksmoor distracted by nuke in Rio De Janeiro and thrown through door. Spirit of 21st century sends him 'return to sender' back into Midnighter's hands.

Series cancelled with #20.

The Atom #22

Ryan finishes fight against thing from his blood. It apparently killed Panda. Burns creature with acid, but neutralizes before completely losing hands. Monster shrinks and gets away. Ryan builds tracker. Cute girl with crush on Ryan moves in across the street. Ryan tracks down monster, but town councilman is a gun nut and refuses to let Ryan in. Ryan lets him get eaten. Uncontrollable shrinking continues, Ryan puts on dwarf star suit to slow it down. Cute neighbor tries to call Ryan but is attacked, drawing Ryan over. She spooks, runs gets absorbed, Ryan gets absorbed but something happens with his belt. Guy shows up claiming to be the real Atom, will stop the monster.

Project Superpowers #2

Black Terror, Green Lama, American Spirit conclude fight with Dynamic Family - turns out they're all robots and orchestrating huge Watchmen-esque economic manipulation worldwide. They teleport away after Green Lama wrecks skyscraper with tree. Death-Defying Devil deals silently with riots in Paris. The Scarab encounters Samson in middle east - apparently nothing can hit Samson. Blue Beetle has power to never be caught on digital media, etc. Also flies and super strength. Pyroman freaks out after coming out of urn, burns Hollywood hillside. Black Terror vows to kill American Spirit for trapping him, but will work with him for now.

The Twelve #4 of 12

Excello can't stand EM overload, reveals he had a plan for if he slept for 60 years, has fortune to build fortress. Black Widow killed some guy. Laughing Mask tracked down by the police for using guns in vigilante activity(needed to catalog guns as evidence, will probably be used to frame him in future). Blue Blade tries to recruit Rockman for acting gig, learns about Rockman's empire. Great underground war was what drew him from his Princess. Phantom Reporter's first article published about how he's not a hero and how things aren't so black and white without huge enemy to align against like WWII.

Dark Tower:The Long Road Home #2 of 5

Sheemie experimented on by robot in the Dogan("North Central Positronics Psychic Enhancer Assistant"), Roland still in the eye of Maerlyn. Roland encounters Marten there, manages to come conscious while being carried across crappy bridge. Apparently orb trying to use him to escape by being dropped. Very 'One Ring'. Sheemie has teleportation powers now.

Annihilation Book 1 - TPB

Section 1 - Drax the Destroyer #1-4

Drax on prison ship, crashes in Alaska. Other survivors co-opt nearby townspeople to salvage technology to flee. Drax dies in conflict with survivors. Body recovered by messed up little girl Cammi, hatches new intelligent body. Drax hunts down remaining survivors, is nullified in countermove by super skrull of summoning interstellar authorities.

Section 2 - Annihilation:Prologue

Nova Corps summoned back to Xandar - highest priority alert with Annihilation wave having broken through the Crunch and destroying power station/jail. Annihilation wave cuts off Corps before they can organize, kills entire planet except Nova. Attack forces revealed to be controlled by Annihilus.

Section 3 - Annihilation:Nova #1-4

Nova survived, is summoned by Corps' worldmind and receives download of Nova force and entire Xandarian worldmind. Accidently unleashes Nova energy trying to destroy remaining Annihilation forces, develops fear of unleashing power. Encounters Drax and Cammi, destroy planet by using starjump within gravity well. They show up at another planet that Quasar is trying to help evacuate. Energy spikes attract Annihilus himself. To cut off the head, Nova and Quasar head straight for Annihilus. Annihilus absobs Quasar, Nova manages to have worldmind connect to hivemind and command attack of own fleet. Nova flees with Drax and Cammi, all colonists survived. Nova no longer afraid of power, has worldmind onboard with idea of kicking ass.

Not as good as Fables or Ex Machina, but this blows away the Civil War BS that was happening at the same time.