Waiting for the Trade By Bill Miller Avengers: Heroes Reborn By Rob Liefeld, Jim Valentino, Jeph Loeb and Walt Simonson; art by Rob Liefeld, Joe Phillips, Joe Bennet and Al Rio. Collects Avengers (vol 2) #1-12   Why I Bought This: I love me some Liefeld art and I love me some Avengers. So even though Heroes Reborn is notoriously bad I grabbed it off Amazon after I had previously found issue one in a $1 bin and thought this is a promising start and the art is terrific so maybe it’s better than its reputation. Alas Liefeld only draws two chapters and as for the writing, read on. The Plot – The Avengers died fighting Onslaught only to be reborn in a pocket universe where basically their origin starts from scratch thus allowing us to see what the Marvel Universe would be like if it had been created by Image in the 90s instead.   (spoilers below)

Waiting for the Trade By Bill Miller The Infinite (volume one) by Robert Kirkman and Rob Liefeld Collects The Infinite # 1 –4. Why I Bought This: This was the last of my Free Comic Book Day pick-ups (although I still have another I haven’t reviewed yet). In this case I had just finished Walking Dead volume 1 about a month prior and between that and some Marvel Team Up I had read late last year I was quite impressed with Kirkman’s writing. On top of that Rob Liefeld is my all time favorite comic book artist, so this seemed like a marriage made in Heaven. Throw in the 20-percent discount for FCBD and I decided take chance on it. The Plot: The short version is some dude with over-sized guns and body armor (because it is a Liefeld/Image comic) loses a war in the future but manages to travel back in time to before the bad guys took over. He meets up with his younger self and begins to form a resistance cell against the incoming invasion. Much time travel shenanigans e...