Hawkeey vs Deadpool #2:

This comic continues to be awesome. I adore Duggan’s take on Deadpool, mixing in humor, action, and pathos in good measure. I mostly love the art, but I don’t quite like how Lolli draws Deadpool’s face sometimes. I don’t quite like how they downplay Deadpool’s past trauma with Typhoid Mary, though I suppose it does make sense for Deadpool’s character that he would forget or downplay it, covering his hurt with humor. We do get an interesting look into Deadpool’s brain in this issue.

Thor #2

While Issue #1 was a bit mixed; I felt for Odinson as he struggled with the fact that he was no longer worthy to wield Mjolnir, I was frustrated that we only saw the new Thor as an ending splash page. Issue 2 we finally get to see her in action, though we still don’t know who she is. She speaks in the formal Thor style, but thinks more casually.  (“Oh, man. oh, wow. Quick, say something badass”) She reminds me a little of Kamala as she struggles to learn what she can do, and since I adore Kamala, that’s  a good thing. The art is very lovely. I’m not loving it yet, but I’m intrigued enough with this Thor to stick around some more.

Captain Marvel #9

The flerken cat arc is over (which I loved), and a new one starts (which I somewhat liked). Carol and Tic come across Lila, a character I’ve never heard of before. Lila is engaged to some alien prince guy and she doesn’t want to go through with it, so ropes Carol into playacting as her mom to stop things. The story is cute, the art is cute, the rhyming got annoying very very quickly. Anyway, Lila also gives Carol a letter from home, and we get a dramatic reaction to the letter to give a cliffhanger ending for this issue.