So yeah, this is the second This Week in Marvel Unlimited post today, as I completely failed to do one last week. If you’re enjoying the column, you might want to check out the first part of the double-shot right below this one.
On the “new” side of things, we’re in the week of June 5th, 2019. Age of X-Man presents Prisoner X #4, and Uncanny X-Men continues on its merry way to House of X/Powers of X with issue #19. War of the Realms reaches #5, with another five crossover issues becoming available. Black Cat gets a new series and Marvel continues to mine Mark Millar’s Old Man Logan story with Dead Man Logan #8 and Old Man Quill #6. Meet the Skrulls finishes with issue #5 and Domino: Hotshots reaches #4. The most interesting thing to me in the “new” column is Incredible Hulk: Last Call #1.
I was late to the game when it came to Peter David’s award-winning twelve-year run on the Hulk. I started reading it at the very end, actually, with the stories that came out of the Heroes Reborn storylines. Still, good stuff, and I have to say that David’s farewell issue, featuring a future Rick Jones who man or may not be paralyzed, was fantastic.
I eventually got the chance to read the entire run thanks to, (you guessed it), Marvel Unlimited. David’s entire Hulk output is available, and if you’re a subscriber it is well worth the read.
Last Call #1 is a one-shot by David with one of his best known Hulk collaborators, Dale Keown. I know nothing about it, but I know that it’s jumped pretty high on my “to-read” list. Unfortunately the list keeps growing larger and larger, but hey… there are worse problems around than too much reading material, right? 😀
The backlist is really, really short this week. There’s three issues of The New Defenders. That’s it. It fills in some holes towards the end of that run, but there are still a lot of issues missing. For example, this add gives #138, #148 and #149. There are no issues between #138 and #148. #150 is available, and #152… but not #151. It’s funny how Marvel Unlimited goes sometimes.
That’s it for this week. Tune in next week to see if I get the column out on a timely basis again! As always, please feel free to leave comments; I’d really like to see them. Au revoir!
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