Review: The Four Horsemen #4-6

Wetched mowtahl! Yuuwd wiw make you watch whiwe he sucks the mawwow fwom yuh bownes!
–Famine (“Yuurd”)
follows Fudd after being super-punched in the mouth.

This six-issue follow-up to 52 features DC’s Big Three and a handful of others battling the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The series ended this past week and a trade doubtless will be released soon.

Is it worth reading?

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Novel Review: Spook Country

William Gibson made his name with the cyberpunk trilogy, written in the 1980s and set in the twenty-first century. Since the twenty-first century increasingly looks like something from a Gibson cyberpunk novel, he has been setting his recent work in the present. This novel follows Pattern Recognition. Although the two works share some characters, references, and plot elements, this is not in the usual sense a sequel.

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History of the Marvel Universe – Incredible Hulk

In addition to the existing chapters about Fantastic Four, Silver Surfer and Spider-Man, we now have an Incredible Hulk chapter in the “History of the Marvel Universe” series. Sadly, due to the loss of license reported here, some of the chapters I had planned to write (and looked forward to researching) won’t happen, as I simply won’t have access to the source material. I still plan to write an Iron Man column in time for the movie, followed by the Avengers, Captain America, Ghost Rider and the Uncanny X-Men, but new names won’t be added to the list.
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