Marvel in August

Marvel Comics has released their August Solicitations. Some thoughts:

Ultimate X-Men #50 - "It's the moment you've all been waiting for - Gambit returns to Ultimate X-Men!!!" Who writes these solicitations? "The moment you've all been waiting for..." is like the comic solicit version of the movie trailer's "In a world..." And anyway, I wasn't waiting for this.

Ultimate Nightmare - Warren Ellis is always strong, could be interesting.

Ultimate Elektra - Regular Elektra's book was cancelled, why should we think Ultimate Elektra will be any different?

Avengers Disassembled - Marvel has found another way to siphon money from my bank account -- by putting Bendis on yet another title.

X-Men: The End - "The End" books have been hit or miss for me. Hulk was good, Punisher okay and Wolverine thus far underwhelming. But since I love the X-Men, I will be getting ALL of this.

Other notes - The cover to Cap & Falcon shows Cap kissing Scarlett Witch - a new romance between two long-standing characters that wasn't started by Chuck Austen! Waid's FF is excellent - one of the best books out there... Do we really need more Rob Liefeld art much less an X-Force series? Marvel Knights: Spider-Man has been excellent but why are the Dodsons out for the new story arc? Recently I've been underwhelmed by Amazing Spider-Man and Supreme Power -- enough to probably stop getting them soon. On the flip side, Daredevil has been excellent and Rucka has made Wolverine much better.