Well, sometimes real life gets in the way of blogging. Hence, a two-days late edition of This Week in Marvel Unlimiited!
I’ve been fairly upfront in this blog that I find the back issue library adds the most interesting thing about Marvel Unlimited every week. I have to say though, I don’t think I’ve ever been through a three week stretch like this one.
This week, the back issue adds are mostly just six issues (#7-#12) of X-Men Adventures, a mid-Nineties adaptation of the X-Men animated series. Marvel is very fond of adapting their animated shows into comic-book format; they do it with most of their animated properties. Now, if you enjoy those stories, this is a very good thing, as it completes the run. If you’re me, however, it just adds up to a massive shrug.
On the Marvel.com website, they’re also listing Amazing Spider-Man Annual #15, from 1981. I don’t have my tablet available right now, but I could’a sworn that on the tablet, there was just the X-Men Adventures issues. Anyways, this is an early Spider-Man/Punisher tale, written by Dennis O’Neil and penciled by the legendary Frank Miller. Well worth a read, imho.
On the “new” side of things we have 24 issues from the week of April 24, 2019. (My birthday! Woo! 🙂 ) We have three separate Star Wars titles (if you like Star Wars comics, MU is definitely the service for you; there are tons of stuff dating back to the original Marvel 70s comics.) Marvel Rising #2 joins this week (remember what I just said about Marvel loving to adapt their animated properties? Here’s a modern example.) Two other adaptations are worth noting: Wolverine: The Long Night Adaptation #4 ( adapting the scripted podcast from Marvel & Stitcher) and a prequel to Spider-Man: Far From Home.
We have three War of the Realms crossovers (Avengers, Uncanny X-Men & Venom) plus a single Age of X-Man one. The Avengers one is interesting; Agent Phil Coulson plays a major role… but he’s definitely not the Phil Coulson we all know from the MCU and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
The rest of it is a the usual grab-bag. Everything from a new issue of Moon-Girl & Devil Dinosaur to Mark Waid’s Doctor Strange. (I’m a big fan of Waid’s work generally; I look forward to reading this eventually.)
That’s it for this week. See everyone back here next Monday (I promise I’ll have the next one out on time. 🙂 )
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