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Let's see what's new in algo land...

Finished the last arc of Avengers Assemble, which is also the only arc I've read.. mostly because it had Anya.
It was an inhumanity tie-in, but also required zero knowledge of the event, which was nice (the heck was with that thing!?) essentially, Anya need help tracking down a cocoon and in each issue a different set of Avengers help her, it was fun, had good art, and it never took itself too seriously, so it was nice, kind of an Avengers lite if that makes any sense.

First issue of All-New Ultimates was... a major letdown, the last few issues of Spider-Man had built up the team and made it look like a very promising read, but the book is fairly monotonous, the chemistry the characters previously had was lost, the dialgoue wasn't very interesting and the art oscillated between decent to kind of awful honestly.
And it had one of the worst moments in recent Ultimate Spider-Man memory where Miles and co esentially stand around meanwhile a mutated villain murders a cop, Miles was literally between the two, so he could have stopped him, but he just moved away... that was seriously dumb.
I'm kinda bummed that a book with such an interesting cast turned like that. :P

Loki: Agent of Asgard was seriously fun, it was definitely aimed at movieverse fans with a Hiddleston influenced Loki, but the book recognizes this change and explains it well while introducing the main mistery at the same time, the art is nice, the diaogue engaging and the pacing good, plus it seems every issue will be it's own stand alone story, a plus in my book.
First issue starts with Loki literally backstabbing Thor, and the second one places him in a Speed Dating circle, what else could you want?