This Wednesday, Marvel released a 64 page comic entitled Marvel: Point One, a collection of short stories that lead into Marvel’s major upcoming storylines throughout the next year or so. The $6.00 price tag is a little steep, but it’s the type of thing that regular comic book readers definitely want to check out.
Stories in his anthology come in wide variety, previewing future story arcs such as Ultron in Avengers and exciting new series such as Defenders and Scarlet Spider (which from the preview, looks just as good as I was hoping! J) Each of these stories are accompanied by the writer and artist of each accompanying titles, so it gives readers a good taste of which books they want to check out.
For me personally, I definitely have to add Defenders and Age of Apocalypse to my pull list. Defenders especially was awesome, and writer Matt Fraction’s Dr. Strange was very entertaining. The book also made me excited about books already present on my pull list, such as Avengers and the soon to be Scarlet Spider. I mean, did you see that Ultron art by Bryan Hitch? And Kaine is still just awesome, a great psychological character that somehow also works as a badass. It's good thing too that most of these stories seem exciting and generate interest; Marvel is going to need something to combat DC Comic’s massive sale lead.
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