Weekly Pull List 10-30-2013

Only had one book this week. It was Battle of the Atom 2. The 10th and final installment in the crossover. Okay ending. Explosions, death, fighting. Future Jean uses her powers too much and explodes. Then we are hit with four epilogues. Four!! Not a great ending. It sets up that Wolverine and Cyclops are still mad at each other by having Kitty Pryde go back with Scott to the New Xavier School. I hate when the last issue in a story makes it feel like a waste of my time. Especially when it's 10 issues. A real disappointment since it doesn't feel like any growth happened or that anything or anyone is really different. I'd say this book was alright at best. 5 out of 10. I think the arc overall was okay and would have been better with a different ending so it will get a 7 of 10 overall.

Weekly Pull List 10-9-2013

Light week this week so it will be a short post. Which definitely helps to get it out in time. Oddly a Marvel-centric week. Battle of the Atom part 7 takes place in X-Men 6. It's a nice continuation of a fun, albeit convoluted story. There's a lot going on that isn't easy to follow, but it's easy to overlook assuming that the answers will actually come. The future "X-Men" reveal their evil intentions, but not yet their plan. This issue is decent but it's very useless outside the scope of the story. 3 of 5.

And the other book I picked up was Thor God of Thunder 14. Part 2 of the Accursed story. This book starts with the Dark Elf queen going to hide out with the mountain dwarves of Nidavellir. Thor is getting ready to head out when he is stopped by Volstagg and Freyja who have just come from the Congress of Worlds and they reveal that the council has planned for a League of Realms to hunt down Malekith. It's a bit Lord of the Rings with the elves, trolls, dwarves, etc joining forces. This book has moments of shear beauty when Malekith defeats another elf in a duel using sweet sorcery, great political talk, and even horror (when Malekith sneaks up on Thor in the dark with his glowing eyes). All around a great book. Jason Aaron kicks some ass  with his script and story, and Ron Garney is filling in nicely with the art.