Picked up my books yesterday and finally getting some reading in.
Transformers is still really, really good. I was worried about losing DWJ on art when it was first announced, but Jorge Corona picks it right up without even losing a beat - still a gorgeous book, and I still can't wait to see where we go from here. Love getting some good focus on Soundwave for a bit, and it'll be nice to see the Decepticon POV shift more to him for now.
As much as I've enjoyed Hulk so far, I think these couple Frozen Charlotte issues haven't been very good - maybe if it had been condensed into one, but its felt really dragged out. I don't think I necessarily agree that I want major movement in some greater plot but I hope it moves a little quicker from here on. I'm excited to see Voodoo next issue.
I'm still liking Iron Man more than I think a lot of people have been - even if this week felt more like padding than anything else. Considering how high the stakes were going into this, an issue that's like 70% Tony's internal monologue feels like it really messes with the pacing. I guess they probably need to slow it down an issue to keep at a certain pace with the X-Men books I'm not reading?
Amazing Spider-Man is fucking awful, but no surprise there. The way Wells has decided to turn Hallow's Eve into Ben's shitty evil sidekick, gleefully torturing people instead of the anti-hero she had previously been set up to be just because he hates women or whatever his problem is feels awful. Everything about how Ben is depicted is still awful too. The nicest thing I can say about it is at least JRJR's art is contained to just the cover this issue.
Edge of Spider-Verse was a lot more fun at least. Star-Spider is a neat new Spider and I'd absolutely be down to read a whole mini dedicated to her. Web Weaver continues to be one of the better Spiders introduced in the last round or 2 of these books. I appreciate that they seem to have dropped the angle of some larger story going on - I don't need another big, dumb Spider-Verse crossover every five issues, I'm perfectly content to have Edge as a self-contained anthology series. I'd rather it just being an ongoing than restarting every year as a 5 issue mini but what can you do?
Ultimate X-Men is still interesting but I don't know if I'm in it for the long haul. I like this version of Storm a lot more than the one we met in Ultimate Black Panther, at least based solely on first impressions - but I also don't like Storm very much and this is a pretty fresh take while that one just seems more like the classic character put into a new environment. The art is great of course, and like everyone else says, it really just feels like a manga which is neat. There's something about it that just isn't all the way grabbing me yet, but I like enough individual elements to keep at it for now.
Overall pretty good week as long as I ignore ASM
