March ended with Strange, Galactic Forces on the Rise. X-Force, the team book of the week with 25 points, answered one of Marvel’s most recent mysteries: What is Kid Cable’s origin? The answer was similar to his elder self’s background. A time-displaced soldier set out to correct the time stream, and like the original Cable, he was also pursued through time by his cloned-nemesis Stryfe. The latest reunion of Cable and Stryfe nearly proved deadly for Warpath, but the reunion of the Marvel Rising team proved informative for the young heroes. Squirrel Girl treated Ms. Marvel and Miles Morales to a tour of Empire State University. Their book earned 22 points and set up a conflict with the Arthurian sorceress Morgan le Fay. Galactus appeared in a fairly low-scoring Fantastic Four team book (14), as well as the Doctor Strange solo title, which scored 14 points as well.
In his book, Doctor Strange had to deal with the threat of Galactus being transported to the magical realm by an alien sorcerer attempting to save his planet from the Devourer of Worlds. Strange earned 12 points on the week, most for a character besides Marvel’s flagship characters Spider-Man and Wolverine. The top solo title belonged to Amazing Spider-Man once again thanks to the numerous characters involved in Kraven’s latest hunt. Amazing was also the overall book of the week with 49. It beat the other consistently high-scoring Avengers: No Road Home event book which put up 43 points. Wolverine’s biggest title came from the second-place event book, Hulkverines. The middle issue of the three-part event earned a review score of 29 points and featured the trio of rampaging characters team-up before having to face some of their main antagonists, the Leader and the Weapon X program, working together in the finale.
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Key: TU – Team-Up; LT – Lead Team; SC – Save Civilian; CD – Character Development; DA – Defeat Antagonist.
| Age of X-Man: The X-Tremists #2 (27) |
| Blob – LT Colossus Iceman – Ice, Ice Defensive Jean Grey Jubilee – Energy, Melee Magneto – Magnetics Nature Girl Nightcrawler – Teleport Northstar – Flight, Speed Psylocke – Telepathy, SC Storm – Flight, Weather X-Man – Flight X-23 |
| Amazing Spider-Man #18 (49) |
| Black Cat Captain Marvel Iron Man – Flight, Repulsors Spider-Man (PP) – Agility, Sense, Webs Vision – Energy, Flight War Machine – Flight, Repulsors Antagonist(s) Anaconda Arcade – Business, Tech Armadillo Beetle – Flight Black Ant Frog-Man Gibbon Killer Shrike Kindred King Cobra Mad-Dog Man-Bull Owl Puma Rhino Scorpion Slug Squid Stegron – Claws Tarantula – Melee Taskmaster – Tech, Vehicle Toad Vulture – Flight, Melee, Wings White Rabbit |
| Avengers: No Road Home #7 (43) |
| Conan – Durability, Weapon, TU (Scarlet Witch) Hawkeye (CB) – TU (Hulk) Hercules – TU (Spectrum) Hulk – TU (Hawkeye), LT Nightmare – Teleport Rocket Raccoon – TU (Hulk) Scarlet Witch – Magic, TU (Spectrum) Spectrum – Deception, Energy, Energy Offensive, Flight, Intangibility, TU (Scarlet Witch), LT, CD (Accepts that she is losing her humanity) Vision – Energy, Flight, Heal, Strength, TU (Spectrum), SC Voyager – Teleport Antagonist(s) Nyx – Creature, Durability, Flight, Magic, Melee, Teleport |
| Black Panther #10 (7) |
| Black Panther – Projectile, Suit, Weapon, TU (Nakia) Manifold – Teleport |
| Black Widow #3 (17) |
| Black Widow – Agility, Deception, Espionage, Melee, Tech, TU (Tyger Tiger), DA (Madame Masque) Tyger Tiger – TU (Black Widow) Antagonist(s) Baron Zemo Madame Masque – Weapon Sabretooth – Sense, TU (Black Widow) Taskmaster |
| Daredevil #3 (10) |
| Daredevil – Melee, Sense, Will Power Punisher – Explosive, Gun, Melee, Weapon Antagonist(s) Kingpin |
| Doctor Strange #12 (14) |
| Doctor Strange – Artifact, Deception, Flight, Magic, Magic Defensive, Magic Offensive, Telepathy, Teleport Silver Surfer – Energy, Vehicle Antagonist(s) Galactus – Energy |
| Fantastic Four #8 (14) |
| Brainstorm Human Torch (JS) Invisible Woman – Invisibility Mr. Fantastic – Intellect, Stretch, LT Powerhouse The Thing Antagonist(s) Doctor Doom – Intellect, Tech Galactus |
| Hulkverines #2 (29) |
| Hulk – Durability, Melee, Morph, Personality, Strength, TU (Weapon H) Weapon H – Claws, Claws Offensive, Durability, Heal, Sense, TU (Wolverine) Wolverine – Claws, Claws Defensive, Claws Offensive, Heal, Sense, Vehicle, TU (Weapon H) Antagonist(s) The Leader – Creature, Gun, Teleport, Weapon, TU (Dr. Alba), LT |
| Invaders #3 (16) |
| Captain America – Shield, SC Human Torch (JH) – Flame, Flight, Vehicle Iron Man Winter Soldier – Bionics, Espionage, Melee Antagonist(s) Namor – Business, Flight, Water |
| Ironheart #4 (11) |
| Ironheart – Computer, Melee, Repulsors, Suit, Tech Wong Antagonist(s) Midnight’s Fire – Assassin, Melee, Weapon |
| Marvel Comics Presents #3 (22) |
| Captain America – Melee, Weapon, SC Doctor Voodoo – Magic, Telepathy, Teleport, TU (Spider-Man), DA (Doctor Druid) Spider-Man (PP) – Agility, Melee, Sense, Webs, TU (Doctor Voodoo) Wolverine – Claws, Claws Offensive, Durability Antagonist(s) Doctor Druid – Magic |
| Marvel Rising #1 (22) |
| Inferno – Flame, TU (Squirrel Girl) Ms. Marvel – Grow, Size, Stretch, TU (Squirrel Girl) Spider-Man (MM) – Webs, TU (Squirrel Girl), SC Squirrel Girl – Creature, Strength, TU (Spider-Man), LT, SC Antagonist(s) Morgan le Fay – Creature, Magic, Possess |
| Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur #41 (15) |
| Doctor Strange – Magic, TU (Sleepwalker) Moon Girl – Computer, Creature, DA (Bad Dream) Sleepwalker – Energy, TU (Doctor Strange) Antagonist(s) Nightmare – Flight, Magic, Melee, Size |
| Mr. and Mrs. X #9 (18) |
| Gambit – Energy, Energy Offensive, Melee, Projectile, Tech, Thief, Weapon, TU (Spiral) Rogue – TU (Spiral), CD (Overcomes her fears to regain control of her powers) Antagonist(s) Mojo Spiral – Blade, Melee, Weapon, TU (Rogue) |
| Spider-Man/Deadpool #48 (14) |
| Deadpool – Fourth Wall, Gun, Weapon, TU (Gwenpool), LT Gwenpool – Fourth Wall, TU (Deadpool) Spider-Man (PP) – Crawl, Melee, Weapon, Webs |
| Superior Spider-Man #4 (15) |
| Brothers Grimm Dansen Macabre Digger Skein Spider-Man (OO) – Crawl, Melee, Strength, Suit, Tech, Webs, SC, CD (Embraces what it takes to be a hero) Antagonist(s) Master Pandemonium – Creature |
| X-Force #5 (25) |
| Boom Boom – Energy Cannonball – Flight Domino – Gun, Weapon Kid Cable – Bionics, Computer, Melee, Telepathy, Teleport, Weapon, LT, CD (Reveals his origin) Shatterstar – Weapon Warpath Antagonist(s) ADAM Unit Zero – Melee Stryfe – Melee, Suit, LT |
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