New Comic Book Day IX

It's the last Wednesday before Comic-Con and the pull list is a little light this week. It is, however, chock full of potential deliciousness, with new X-men vs. Marauders, the somewhat rickety Grant Morrison Batman, World War shenanigans in Incredible Hulk, mystical Kung-Fu tournaments in Iron Fist, and the next stunning chapter of Sinestromania in Green Lantern Corps. That's why for this week's pick, I've decided to defy all logic and go with the book with the least chance of success. Mighty Avengers #4 seems like it's taken a grip and a half to come out. In all actuality, it may not be significantly delayed, but the story inside it sure has been. This is supposed to be this incarnation of Avengers' FIRST time acting as a team, yet somehow they seem to have done all sorts of @#$% in other books. What's worse, the big cliffhanger of the current story line (which won't conclude until October 31st) is that Iron Man might be dead, yet if this is their first time together and we've seen them doing things in other books with Iron Man, clearly the cliff is not very steep. In fact I think I can actually touch the ground with my toes from here. Don't get me wrong, Marvel's never been one to stress continuity and doing so would probably take the fun out of comics (see DC Comics and their eleventy-billion crises), but at this point, major events are happening in WWH, Silent War, both Avenger books, and X-Factor and they all seem to be happening years apart from each other, therefore ruining any sort of suspense regarding the fate of certain characters. Oh well, at least there's a naked robot chick.