Comics Day

The Amazing Spider-Man 540
Back in Black continues as Spider-Man continues to search for who shot Aunt May and who hired the gunman.

Black Panther 27
This continues from Fantastic Four with them returning to Earth with the newly resurrected Gravity, only recently dead from the Beyond! miniseries. An invader from the Negative Zone runs rampant in the Baxter Building and the solution to the creature is worse than the problem with the Four on a Skrull world with the monster and the Marvel Zombies gating in. Finally, an intermediate link between 616 and the Ultimate universe.

Countdown 51
Continuing in the weekly format pioneered by 52, Countdown is not quite as tied to real-time as 52 was, thus allowing for more common storytelling. Darkseid is back, planning to rearchitect the universe(s), the Monitors are back and there is dissension in the ranks as to how to deal with "world jumpers, the death-cheaters and the other criminals who defile the multiverse". Mary Batson, Mary Marvel has finally woken up from her coma, but with no powers and the brush-off from Freddie Freeman, and no word from her cousin Billy Batson, formerly Captain Marvel. I loved 52, and I'm looking forward to what this is counting down to, perhaps a Zero Hour?

Green Lantern Corps 12
Guy Gardner is framed for the murder of two corpsmen, and Mogo, the Green Lantern planet is being corrupted by the yellow motes from the Sinestro Corps. I'm really looking forward to the coming showdown between the GLC and Sinestro's Corps.

The New Avengers 30
We find out who Ronin is, Clint Barton, formerly Hawkeye, also, fairly recently returned from the dead from House of M. Another appearance by the Mighty Avengers looking for the team, lots of Ninjas, an in dialog recap of the past few years/events and how they might be tied together with a puppet master pulling everyone's strings, and Doctor Strange gets stabbed. I'm not sure I like the artwork, it's a little rough for my tastes, I prefer a more realistic to slightly cartoony look.

Nova 2
Nova returns to Earth, he freaks out his family, Tony Stark tries to sell him on joining the Initiative, and the Thunderbolts show up for the Penance(Speedball) and Nova meeting. I'm only disappointed that he and Iron Man didn't fight. I find I hope that Iron Man gets his ass kicked in every appearance now. I suppose that's what World War Hulk is for.

Outsiders 47
Checkout continues from Checkmate, as the team has been captured by checkmate and then are given a briefing on their mission to take out Oolong Island, recently seen in 52. I'm probably going to be dropping this, it just isn't as enjoyable to me as I was hoping.

Ultimate Power 5
The Ultimates, Fantastic Three, X-Men, Nick Fury, a helicarrier and Spider-Man cross over from the Ultimate universe to the Ultimate Powers universe searching for Reed Richards. the alien infestation continues, Thor, Human Torch and the Invisible Girl go up against Hyperion, poorly. News is quietly spreading among the heroes that Fury is hiding something about what happened. I'm curious which heroes are switching universes when this over.