Apr. 16 – Avengers: Bloodties, Fantastic Four, and X-Factor

Avengers Vol. 1 #269 by Bob Harras, Steve Epting, and Jan Duursema (1993) Avengers are so boring in this era. This whole event should have just been in X-books. Grade: B- FF Vol. 1 #1-2 by Jonathan Hickman and Steve Epting (2011) Hickman’s Reed is complex. He honestly had me convinced Reed was going to

Apr. 14 – Avengers and X-Men: Bloodties and Fantastic Four: Three

Avengers Vol. 1 #368 / X-Men Vol. 2 #26 by Bob Harras, Fabian Nicieza, Steve Epting, and Andy Kubert (1993) Not a good start. The Avengers sections are painful, and it’s mostly due to the sheer number of word balloons and captions Harras uses. Many of the characters act irrationally. Literally only Wanda seems to