"Part 40"! Awesome. Looks like we'll hit triple digits in Spring of 2014.

I always love seeing the debut of the new Marathon thread. Bric, thanks for getting this one out on a Sunday when most people (like me) have the day off. Gives me something especially fun to do today and I think I'm going to try and knock out a handful of reviews.

We finally get Human Torch Masterworks V2 this month! I, for one, am going to be reading and reviewing the past six stories at the Review board and then finally posting a current Torch review in a current Marathon thread. I've forgotten what that's like.

The first thing I want to mention to anyone following along with the Marathon (and reading the developing Marvel Universe as the meta-narrative it was intended as) is that this month you must read both Avengers and Captain America (in Tales of Suspense) before reading the Incredible Hulk. The Hulk story seems to take place after those other two, which is messed up because (according to Marek) it originally arrived on newstands before Avengers and ToS...


"Now we're getting off focus." - the Elder Son of Storytime