Marvel Comics that Suprised you - Marvel Comics that Failed your expectations

[firstmode]

What comics has suprised you with how good they are?

Which ones have failed your expectations.

Suprised:

X-Force - Wow, I thought this was going to be stupid, STUPID. WOW, what a great comic, the art, the stories, the gathering of old villains, etc. WOW, This latest issue blew me away at the end!

Moon Knight - This is such a great title, Mixing a punisher like character with the supernatural. The dialog is great and the characters and stories are intresting.

The Immortal Iron Fist - I thought I would not like this title at all, but the story is so intruiging and the art and characters so well developed.

Dissapointed

X-Factor - Since the Messiah Complex I have just not been feeling this title.

Captain Marvel Mini - I thought this was going to be an epic Avengers sized story with solid characters, but it just felt kinda dry.

The New Warriors - Seriously, They should have kept the Order instead of this title. It was way better and had much better villains and characters.

[1WEBHEAD]

I expected Iron Fist to be awesome from the start since it had Fraction and Brubaker on the job but I had no idea that Planet Hulk would kick so much ass.

Another one that shocked me with it's greatness was The Irredeemable Ant-Man and The Order. Both books are dead now but it was fun while it lasted.

[Libaax]

Surprisingly good :

Nova
Annihilation
Captain America
Immortal Iron Fist
Nextwave

[Asian_Invasion]

Nova, Captain America, Immortal Iron Fist, and Thunderbolts.

[Libaax]

Best of them all was Punisher Marvel Knights/Max/One Shots

Before that Frank was the lame guy from Spiderman in the 70's. I saw that when i backread Spiderman.

It has been the best Marvel comic since then.

[PuppetMaster]

One of Nick Fury's solo. It was so boring... I tried to read it 3 times and I just can't.

[Magneto Rocks]

I had been really really hyped for Avengers: The Initiative and was pretty much crushed within a few issues.

[rZi]

I had been really really hyped for Avengers: The Initiative and was pretty much crushed within a few issues.

I'll second that.

I never ever thought it would appeal to me what so ever but X-Factor doesn't have a traditional A-Lister line-up, or the cool bases and super gadgets etc but i have fallen in love with it! I could happily read issues of just the cast sat in a room talking to each other, PAD can write interesting conversational dialouge really well.

[Evil-Spidey]

Suprised:

Ultimate Spider-Man & Daredevil Vol.2: Both titles have top quality from the beginning and are imo the some of the most enjoyable comic series on the market since they started. Maybe i shouldn't be surprised because both are pretty big name titles but the lenght of time (both over 100 issues) they deliever such quality deserves the respect.


Dissapointed:

She-Hulk normally i'm totally into those internet sleeping hits but i just can't get into this title. Maybe i just don't like how this character is handled.

Amazing Spider-Man since the death of Ben Reilly. There was a small hope when JMS came on board with his great first arc with Morlun and Ezekiel but that was already gone with the second arc.

[Dorsai]

Pleasant surprises:


The Immortal Iron Fist
The Iredeemable Ant-Man
Annihilation
JMS Supreme Power
Annihilation Conquest: Star-Lord
Baron Zemo: Born Better
Union Jack: London Calling
Planet Hulk
X-Men First Class
Marvel Zombies
The Sentry (first mini)
Runaways
Marvel Adventures
Marvel 1602
MODOK's 11
Jamie Madrox -- Multiple Choice
Neil Gaiman's Eternals
Gravity
S (the book with the public domain characters)
The Twelve (the other book with the public domain characters)
Kick Ass



Unpleasant Surprises:


New Warriors
The Order
X-Men: e is for extinction
Annihilation Conquest: Quasar
Annihilation Conquest: Wraith
Avengers: The Initiative (hit or miss)
Frontline
She-Hulk


Glad to see my list of pleasant surprises is much longer than the other. I also tend to avoid books I'm pretty sure I won't like and that keeps the unpleasantness to a minimum.

Most of these I read in collected form. But for all of these, I read at least one arc to get a feel for the books. Well, with the exception of Kick Ass which is only on its second issue.

EDIT: I read the post above and realized I forgot about She-Hulk. It is not a "bad" title but I really had expected so much more.

[deadpool2008]

I was shocked how good X-Men Legacy is. I agree with an earlier post. I remember the last time I picked up a DD book (maybe 4 years ago) and it was the best book I read. I pick up the the most recent issue this week and still one of the best titles out there. Impressive indeed...

[wooten16]

Goodness:
Kick-Ass
Thor
Iron Fist
Nova

Disappointment:
New Warriors
Logan
The Last Defenders

[deadpool2008]

[QUOTE=wooten16;6945140]Goodness:
Kick-Ass
Thor
Iron Fist
Nova

Disappointment:
New Warriors
Logan
The Last Defenders[/QUOTE

Man, well I was just thinking of picking up the first few issues of New Warriors, but there have been too many people Disappointed with it. This used to be my one of my favorite books back in the day....

[HeckBoy]

Surprisingly Good:
Iron Fist (I stepped into this series not knowing much about Iron Fist, but it has blown me away)
X-Force (didn't care for the original X-Force, but this version has got a hold of me)
X-Factor (it hasn't been the same w/o Layla, but I'll still give it a shot)
Nova (initially I thought he'd just be a 2nd-rate Green Lantern, but he's definitely grown on me)

Surprisingly Disappointing:
New Warriors (bizarro versions of characters I once cared about)
Last Defenders (I thought it'd be a nice romp, but it just didn't flow)
The Loners (started out alright, ended horribly confusing/lacking)
The Order (ditto)
Mighty Avengers (I was enjoying JLA so I thought this would be similar in terms of "classic" beat 'em down superheroics, but so far it's just been dull)
Runaways (since BKV left it hasn't been the same; delays dont help either)

[Chiasm]

Surprisingly good:

Nova - only picked it up for the Annihilation tie in but now its near the top of my favorite reads.
New Universal - I shouldn't be surprised since its Warren Ellis and he's being allowed to write a mature book.
X-Force - a bunch of main characters I really don't like (Wolverine, X-23, and Wolfsbane are in my bottom ten of X-men ever) yet I'm still enjoying it.

Surprisingly bad:

Amazing Spiderman since the retcon (I don't care about the marriage, I just want good stories and writing and this book has neither)
Mighty Avengers - atrocious use of thought bubbles and a lineup that bores me.
Young X-men - I want New X-men back.
Cable - I miss Deadpool.

[firstmode]

No one else had high hopes for the Captain Marvel Mini?

[Steven F.]

I think most people thought it would be good or even bad...and then thought it great after reading it. I imagine more people will have it on their pleasantly surprised list.

[Catlin]

Captain America was my pleasant surprise. I wasn't reading it, flipped when I heard they were bringing Bucky back, and borrowed a friend's issues to see what stupid way they magically brought him back. I ended up loving it all, and started picking it up after getting the back issues.

[Frank]

I wouldn't say it's recent but I remember how turned off I was by Neil Gaiman's 1602. And how incredible was The Eternal by Chuck Austen. Then Gaiman does The Eternals and guess what, it sucked! Who knew that Austen would top Gaiman? I thinl Gaiman does super-heroes it comes off totaly tame.

About Avengers: The Initiative, the thing is different than I thought it would be but no less captivating. My only problem and why I dropped it it's because I think the potential is hurt by having it being a training camp for teen heroes and in my opinion there have been too much of those at Marvel recently. It would be more attractive to me if it would be more about the super-hero teams of various states. You follow one team for a while and see what they are about and then maybe kill them(or not) and next arc it's about another team. That way you don't have to just throw a new title like The Order and make it sink or swim on its own. You test it as an Initiative team first. Although I do like the idea of Camp Hammond. I think it's awesome. Another thing is I don't like the artwork. I wish somebody bigger would be on it and with more traditional leanings such as Mike Deodato. Or Howard Porter.

[HeckBoy]

Surprisingly bad:

Young X-men - I want New X-men back.
Ah yes, I completely forgot about Young X-Men. It was that disappointing. But yeah, I want the New crew back. They had better reorganize the jr team once the X-Men officially come back w/ Uncanny #500.

[Young Avenger]

Surprisely Bad:

The Loners - I enjoyed the series until the final issue. Nothing got resolved. Nothing at all. Everything was left up in the air as if the book was prematurely cancelled.

[hawkeye comeback]

suprisingly good : young avengers

[Abrojo]

nice surprises:

Planet Hulk: never was a hulk fan till this
Annihilation: never liked cosmic marvel much till this.

ugly surprises:

Mighty Avengers: liked the characters, like the art. Writing and plot ideas didnt come nearly as good as expected for perhaps what should have been the Marvel flagship title postCW.

[Enyo]

Nice surprise:

The Twelve

Failure:

Captain America: The Chosen

[Babylon23]

Pleasent surprise: Young Avengers: I relly expected this title to be awful. The concept seemed remarkably stupid. Instead, I found this to be the only good post-AD Avengers book. Heinberg shows a healthy respect for character history and continuity without getting bogged down in details.

Big disappointment: Bendis Avengers: After months of awful Austen stories, I was eagerly anticipating Bendis' Avengers run. Then I get Disassembled, one of the worst Avengers stories ever written. Still, I gave him the benefit of the doubt and checked out New Avengers, only to find the title incredibly boring and bland. Then I tried Mighty Avengers when it began. While not as bad as New, it still wasn't great.

Pleasant surprise: Ultimate Spider-Man: The concept of starting Spidey over again didn't interest me in the slightest. It was really only Mark Bagley's artwork that convinved me to pick this up in trade, and I found myself engrossed in Bendis' vision of Spidey.

Big disappointment: 1602: Maybe I just expected too much from the writer that gave us Sandman, Black Orchid and the Books of Magic. The series started okay but really fizzled out in the end.

Pleasant surprise: Immortal Iron Fist. I'm a huge Ed Brubaker fan, but was incredibly disappointed with his work on Deadly Genesis and Uncanny. I didn't really know what to expect, especially since I've never been a big iron Fist fan. What I found was an intelligent, well crafted and strongly character-driven title.

[Abrojo]

I'll add as disappointment Punisher War Journal. After reading Punisher MAX, i took a swing at mainstream Punisher with who i thought was a decent writer and it was pure fail.

[Abrojo]

Still, I gave him the benefit of the doubt and checked out New Avengers, only to find the title incredibly boring and bland. Then I tried Mighty Avengers when it began. While not as bad as New, it still wasn't great.

Heh, interesting, i took the exact opposite way.

I tried Mighty Avengers and didnt like it all, then switched to New Avengers which has characters i like less and didnt find it that bad.

I guess it depends on expectations right? both are not very good and once we had out expectations shattered, we didnt find the other title that bad when its probably about equal in quality.

[Babylon23]

Heh, interesting, i took the exact opposite way.

I tried Mighty Avengers and didnt like it all, then switched to New Avengers which has characters i like less and didnt find it that bad.

I guess it depends on expectations right? both are not very good and once we had out expectations shattered, we didnt find the other title that bad when its probably about equal in quality.

I'm probably a little biased in relation to New Avengers. I'm a huge classic Avengers fan and the Scarlet Witch is my favourite character (hence my avatar). So after Disassembled, which I despised, I may not have given New a fair go. Plus, I had no interest in reading yet another title with Wolverine or Spider-Man, and Sentry bored me to tears. Plus, Bendis wrote an awful Cap.

Mighty at least has some characters that I like in it, most notably Ms. Marvel and Wasp. Plus, it feels a little more like an actual Avengers title in the style I prefer.

The other biggie was that I'd really enjoyed all of the Bendis stories I'd read up to Disassembled, so I had high expectations of him coming onto the book.

[Pyro]

Surprisingly good:
New Avengers - I didn't think I would like this book when it first came out, but I gave it a chance and I've been enjoying it for the most part ever since.

Young Avengers - It took me a while to hop on the bandwagon, but once I did, I was hooked.

The Order - when this book first came out, I dropped it after the first issue. Then, After Ezekiel Stane showed up in Invincible Iron Man, I went back and read the whole series, which I found so compelling that I read it straight through, but the ending was sort of lame. So, overall it wasn't great but it still surprised me with it's good parts.

Surprisingly disappointing:
Mark Millar's Fantastic Four - some people like it, but I find it unabashedly vacuous and shallow.

PAD's She-Hulk - I usually love PAD's stuff but I was not digging his new direction.

Brubaker's X-Men - He's usually a good writer but his X-writing has ranged from bad to lackluster. He's improving, though.

X-Men: Divided We Fall - I just have not been enjoying most of the stories being told under this banner, and what happened to a lot of my favorite characters.

The Loners - Like others have said, it started out awesome, but ended very poorly.

Joss Whedon's Runaways - Who knew that a book that was so good could become so awful in less than 6 issues.

New Warriors (current volume) - This has to be the most disappointing thing I can remember reading. I bought the first issue knowing Sofia Mantega was going to be in it, but after reading her awful mischaracterization I dropped it. I was on the verge of tears (not really).

I'm sure I have more in both categories but that's all I can think of right now.

[mikekerr3]

Surprisingly bad.

The last half dozen issues of the FF, they read like fanfic by a 12 YO Reed Richards groupie.

Surprisingly Good

Thor, Nova and the X-force are surprisingly well written.

Thought that I wouldn't like the Twelve and love It.

[scouse mouse]

Surprisingly bad:
New Warriors: Awful dialogue, poor choice of characters and terrible art work (especially the costume designs) made this easily my worst read.
Loners issue 6: Im only including the lame final issue not the brilliant 5 issues before it.
Joss Whedons Runaways: Really very bland and killed all the momentum that the stories had under Vaughn.
Spider man/Black Cat: Felicia Hardy as a rape victim? Urgh no way, I like to pretend that I never read this series and it actually doesn't exist!
Surprisingly good:
Incredible Hercules: Ive only picked up the one issue so far (SI tie in) but really, realy liked it! The artwork was good and the characterisation was spot on. A title I may keep getting after the SI story arc ends.
Avengers:Initiative: I had hoped it would be good, but it has consistently been one of my best reads each and every month. LOve it!

[Pyro]

Surprisingly good:
Incredible Hercules: Ive only picked up the one issue so far (SI tie in) but really, realy liked it! The artwork was good and the characterisation was spot on. A title I may keep getting after the SI story arc ends.Oh, yeah, I'd like to add this to my list as well. It definitely turned out to be a surprisingly good read every month. You should definitely look into the other issues too, I think 112 is where it started. It's been good from the start.

On another note, I noticed that a lot of us are picking relatively recent books. I wonder if this is because on average we haven't been reading for very long, or if we have poor memories? For me it's mostly the latter. I mean, I've only been reading for about 10 years, but that's still further back than I can remember.

[XPac]

Suprising good... Young Avengers.

The concept on paper sounded SOOO bad it wasn't even funny, yet it turned out to be one of the best things Marvel has put out in a while.

Suprisingly bad... JMS's Squadron Supreme ongoing.

Supreme Powers was a great book. But Squadron Supreme just kinda sucked.

[Tobias Drake]

Guardians of the Galaxy. I gave it a shot expecting to give it a couple issues run, then put it back down and never speak of it again. I figured "A bunch of superheroes running around IN SPACE", not really my genre. Time-honored classic, perhaps, but didn't really appeal to me. But it spun out of Annihilation and the significantly weaker Annihilation: Conquest, so it was worth giving a token chance.

And it was really good. @.@ It feels like a continuation of the characters in Annihiliation, and not the Flanderized versions of them that bored in the Dragonball Z Space Opera that was Annihilation: Conquest. It's only one issue in, but if the rest of the series retains the level of quality that the first issue maintained, my pull list may just have room for superheroes IN SPACE.

[Madrox84]

Hmmm, interesting thread...

When it comes to titles that surprised me and surpassed my expectations i would list the following:-

Captain America (by Brubaker, Epting, Perkins and Guice), i picked this up as i was a fan of Bru from reading Sleeper and Gotham Central. I have never been a Cap fan at all, in fact i loathed the previous volume of the title with the vengeance.

But Bru and his collaborators have made a Cap fan of me.

Immortal Iron Fist (by Brubaker, Fraction, Aja and company), similarly to Cap i was never a fan of the character. But this title has been pure 24-carat awesome.

Annihilation (by Giffen and company), i picked up the prologue one-shot as i had some spare cash and was hooked. I loved Annihilation.

Planet Hulk (by Pak and company), again i was never a fan of the character but really enjoyed this story-arc... Though i was disappointed with World War Hulk.

Incredible Hercules (by Pak, Van Lente, Pham and Sandoval), i picked this up because i was curious to see where the writers were going to go with Herc. And have loved every issue.

As for titles that have not lived up to my expectations, i would list the following:-

Runaways (by Whedon and Ryan), i adored BKV's run and loved the characters but Whedon has managed to kill my interest in the book. The story and dialogue have been awful... And the delays have not helped.

Astonishing X-Men (by Whedon and Cassaday), i was so looking forward to this title coming out. I'm a big fan of Whedon's TV series, and love Cassaday's art for Planetary. But apart from the first story-arc (which i enjoyed) i haven't been feeling this title.

And the delays, it has taken four years for 25 issues to come out (there have been 58 issues of adjectiveless X-Men in that time), and the lame ending have left me very disappointed.

Roll on Ellis and Bianchi... At least i'll be waiting for a well written story...

New Warriors (by Grievoux and co), i picked up this title out of curiosity when i heard that several former mutants would be appearing in it... Only to find that the names are there but everyone seems to be suffering from sponteanous personality change syndrome.

To make matters worse the plots are inane and the title is full of ham-fisted borderline insulting attempts at being 'politically aware'.

Grievoux appers to not only be a poor writer but to have no artistic integrity at all. He clearly knew that personality types he wanted to use, why did he not just create new characters? And i don't want to be hearing any 'the editors made him use those characters' arguements, if he had any integrity he would have said no and asked to be allowed to created new characters (even nw former mutants if needs be). Simple as.

Anyhow i should stop ranting about it now... But some of the characters that have been brutalised (Chamber, Beak and Wind Dancer) were among my favourite characters.

Rant over.

Young X-Men (by Guggenheim and Paquette), this title has disappointed me so far... The plot is transparent at best and full of plot holes you could fly an SR-71 Blackbird through, and everyone seems to be suffering from plot induced stupidity.

I'm giving it another two issues to pick up then i'm dropping it.

[rZi]

add Young X-Men to my list of dissapointments.

I like most people enjoyed New X-Men far more.

I don't dislike Guggenheim in general but he isn't winning me over at all. I can't think of a single positive review for this either, and it's a real shame as i love New Mutants/New X-Men etc

[Catlin]

Suprising good... Young Avengers.

The concept on paper sounded SOOO bad it wasn't even funny, yet it turned out to be one of the best things Marvel has put out in a while.

I forgot to include YA! I was so not into it when I first heard about it, but after my comic store owner cajoled me into buying it, I completely and totally fell in love.

[FanboyStranger]

Immortal Iron Fist. I've always disliked Iron Fist as a character, and pretty much just accepted that I would have to settle for having to see Iron Fist in every Luke Cage story, a character I've always liked but expected better work on, something that has only happened recently. In any event, IIF has pretty much blown me away by expanding the MU with previous Iron Fists and their histories. There's a depth of world-building being done in this book that Marvel as a whole hasn't really accomplished lately

[KetchFrayz]

Surprised:
Avengers: The Initiative
Captain America
Thunderbolts
X-Force

Failed:
Spider-man Brand New Day (except for Dan Slott's)
Young Avengers Presents
Mighty Avengers

[Agent_Torpor]

New Avengers has pretty much failed me. I expected much better than what I was given.

And as far as Guggenheim's Young X-Men, I knew it would be a half-baked turd when I read about the creative team. No surprise there, or any sense of disappointment.

[IronPalm]

Yes!
Moon Knight- Great title, exceeding my already lofty expectations

Iron Fist - I was already a fan of the character, but never thought that this title would be suce a pleasure to read every month.

Captain America - I know Brubaker is great but I was a little afraid after Steve Roger's "death" but the book is as good as it's ever been.

Thor - I am a hardcore fan but this book is better than I expected it to be. If I can just get past Coipel's pencils (and his Buffet-styled Thor).

Yuck!
New Warriors - Lost interest after Thrasher's identity was revealed....what a letdown

Black Panther - :evilangry:

Ms Marvel - So much more could be done with this character

[Monty_Cristo]

i'm surprised by the Last Defenders. i've always been a Joe Casey fan but didn't really enjoy the first issue of the book. but i collected the next two issues and reread the first. now i love the series. i just needed to get a feel for the history of the team/discover their rogues gallery. i love this book now. kind of weird since the only character, appearing in the book, i like isn't even on the team (yet).

[Agent_Torpor]

i'm surprised by the Last Defenders. i've always been a Joe Casey fan but didn't really enjoy the first issue of the book. but i collected the next two issues and reread the first. now i love the series. i just needed to get a feel for the history of the team/discover their rogues gallery. i love this book now. kind of weird since the only character, appearing in the book, i like isn't even on the team (yet).

Well, if you're vouching for it, i'll pick it up in trades. You can't go wrong with a solid rogues gallery in a team book.

[Monty_Cristo]

Well, if you're vouching for it, i'll pick it up in trades. You can't go wrong with a solid rogues gallery in a team book.

i can't judge it against the old series but i like what they are doing with this new book and the villains. i like the use of the Sons of the Serpent and this tech-sorceror guy. i wish they had actually shown Nightmare as well. i like the art. trade waiting might be a smart way to go. i think it'd read better as an entire story arc.

[SeritoNiN]

What I surprisingly liked:

Irr. Ant-Man - O'grady is the new deadpool, great series.
Kick-Ass - Man did this come out of nowhere.
Incredible Hercules - I really expected this to suck
Original Marvel Zombies mini - This was like kick ass, picked the first issue up not sure what i'd make of it, ended up loving it
Avengers: Initiative - Taskmaster, nuff' said.


What I had high hopes for and let me down big time:

Ultimates 2 - Too much like Ultimates1, get every character preoccupied with something else while the bad guys plan an invasion. It was great the first time around, the second time around, add with it the delays. Meh, it wasn't TERRIBLE, but it wasn't epic either.
Ultimates 3 - Here's the Ultimates volume that was just hands down TERRIBLE.
World War Hulk - It was drawn out, could have been done in 3 issues, and had a horrible ending.
Marvel Zombies 2 - After the first one, I had this on my radar, just didn't do anything for me. Typical Marvel milking a hit here until it's bled dried.(Ultimates 3 is another example of this)
Punisher War Journal - I love the Punisher, I hate the max book, so when I heard he was returning to the normal Marvel U (I hate the 616 term) I was hyped. Man, this one let me down something awful. I still have hope Marvel will come to their sense, get off Fraction's nuts and put a writer on the series that understands the character, until then, I look at the new issues on the shelves once a month and shake my head in sheer disappointment. I gave it 15 issues, and the first 3 were the only good issues, in part for being tied into civil war.
Daredevil - For a time this was easily my favorite monthly book, when Bendis was writing it. Brubaker's run has been horrible imo. Does nothing for me. Though I will admit this latest issue, with Rucka onboard, I felt was fantastic. Gotta give credit where it's due.
Hulk - I forgot where I read it, but I read this series was Marvels kiddie Hulk, it was the "Power Ranger" Hulk. Can't agree more. Red Hulk, Green Hulk, you can throw a grey one in here too, book still sucks. Ashame this is what Hulk is reduced to after Planet Hulk and ironic the only good thing anywhere near in sight is an ongoing based on hulk's son of all things.

Books that are relatively new that have disappointed

Fantastic Four Millar/Hitch - Man, this 4 part arc was just a bore fest, Hitches art is getting kind of repetitive to me and a cliched Dr. Doom story on it's way this book doesn't have me very excited, I dropped it last week with the latest issue.

Secret Invasion Mini Proper - For months I read and re-read all my new avengers books, mighty avengers books, disassembled, secret war, the illuminati mini, everything. Then the infiltration books crept out and I re-read those, I made my own little list of everyone I thought was a skrull. I really bought into this story. Then the main mini-series finally hit and man, talk about a let down so far. I feel like a guy who went to the bar, picked up the hottest women in the place, took her home, and ended up too drunk to cum. (yeah we've all been there, I need to learn to drink less). Anyways, issue 3 is on the horizon and there's still claims from marvel this story is gonna change the landscape, but so far, the main mini in almost 3 month's has moved the plot about 9 minutes, and here we are on the brink of issue 3 and we still haven't had any surprising skrull reveals. All this build up and build up and then the series hits, and it's just continued to be dragged on. Like World War Hulk, it's becoming quickly apparent to me, this series didn't need to be as long as they've decided to make it. Issue 2 could have been done in 8 or 9 pages, this didn't need to be 8 parts. Hopefully by the time issue 5 or so is out, I'll feel differently, but right now, this is House of M all over again. If it weren't for New and Mighty Avengers, which for me have been hit and miss, this series would be a total let down.

[mimic_616]

Suprise: Incredible Hercules :eek:

Dissapointment: Marvel Zombies 2 :mad:

[cdarlage]

Surprisingly Good

She-Hulk
The Twelve
Young Avengers
X-Force
Thunderbolts
The Order

Surprisingly Bad

Mighty Avengers
Last few issues of Astonishing X-Men
Thor (lots of people love this title, I was not impressed with it)
World War Hulk

[Don't pee in the (Dead)pool]

Surprisingly good: Ghost Rider, Incredible Hercules and Moon Knight.:cool:

Just awfully crap: Hulk, Secret Invasion and Amazing Spider-Man.:frown: