As with last week, it looks like Marvel Unlimited are shifting from a focus on synergy (Silver Surfer to tie-in with Dan Slott's new series; a bunch of Captain America and Winter Soldier issues; a great selection of Spider-Man) to the coveted number one.
After over a year, Marvel have revamped the Get Started With Free Issues section on their site to a wider selection of issues, ranging from classics like 1602 and Marvels, mid-2000s works like Runaways, She-Hulk and Young Avengers, and naturally a number of Marvel NOW! titles as well. It's good to see an update; its previous spatterings of Heroes Return perhaps wasn't best representative of Marvel's output, and it's good to see the added diversity here too. Keep note there are some issues on the site: Captain Marvel links to the most recent volume, whilst Daredevil's page is empty (although they both work on the app.)
I've basically all of the issues before in their 'Marvel 700' offer back in 2012, but it's a good selection.
Not listed on the site is the finale of Dennis Hopeless' Battle Royale send-up, Avengers Arena #18.
Captain America and the First Thirteen #1 and Amazing Spider-Man #41 remain up.
Also, on a personal note: as my AS exams finish this week, I'll be able to keep up with the blog a little more regularly over the next two weeks. I've had some posts on Captain America: The Winter Soldier and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 drafted but not finished, so I'll see about posting them within the next couple of days.
Now, how's about we get some free Claremont X-Men? Anyone?
Thursday 22 May 2014
Tuesday 20 May 2014
Friday 16 May 2014
This Week in Free Comics: Marvel NOW!
Marvel Unlimited have made a number of Marvel NOW! #1 issues available for free, if you want to sample some of those story arcs.
Avengers #1 (On the iPhone/Android versions, this is enhanced for Marvel AR.)
All-New X-Men #1
Deadpool #1
Fantastic Four #1
Guardians of the Galaxy #1
Iron Man #1
New Avengers #1
Nova #1
Savage Wolverine #1
The Superior Spider-Man #1
Thor: God of Thunder #1
Uncanny X-Men #1
Avengers #1 (On the iPhone/Android versions, this is enhanced for Marvel AR.)
All-New X-Men #1
Deadpool #1
Fantastic Four #1
Guardians of the Galaxy #1
Iron Man #1
New Avengers #1
Nova #1
Savage Wolverine #1
The Superior Spider-Man #1
Thor: God of Thunder #1
Uncanny X-Men #1
Tuesday 13 May 2014
This Week in Free Comics (13/05/14)
Marvel Unlimited
There's people who read this series?
Hello, minimalist film poster.
Not only do we have another series which adds only "Last Stand" to the title (not a good sign), but it might not be a double negative, but jeez... that title is ugly. Cataclysm is one word too many.
Marvel Unlimited are also offering Amazing Spider-Man (volume 3) #1, including production drawings and everything, free to new Unlimited subscribers through their Comixology site with the code PARKER14.
Tuesday 6 May 2014
This Week in Free Comics (05/05/14)
Marvel Unlimited
A very neat retelling of Cap's Silver Age return by Mark Waid, recast in the present day. We open with an extended exploration into Cap and Bucky's last mission in April 1945, and it really does add a lot of depth to events glimpsed in panels in Avengers #4. Some panels are direct homages to the original issue.
Meh. Nothing much here. For a 2004 issue, it's more 2004 than Winter Soldier.
It's good to see a story from Sam Wilson's perspective - and in his native Harlem - but there isn't much to it.
I adore this issue. It's written by Kathryn Immonen; Ramon Perez's pencils really bring out a 40s sensibility. Immonen and Perez shape Cap and Peggy Carter to be adorable together in a way Tales of Suspense #77 (also reprinted in this issue) could not do.
A fun story by Kelly Sue Deconnick, which is able to spotlight Steve's girls, Natasha and Sharon Carter, together as spies and away from Bucky Barnes. It might say Secret Avengers, but Secret Avengers here is shorthand for Natasha and Sharon.
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