Alright, so catching up on my comics reading via Marvel Unlimited (and other sources for stuff they still haven't added).
Guardians of the Galaxy (2008) and Thanos Imperative were great fun, but I was left wanting more in a lot of ways. Still a very worthwhile read.
In my Punisher readings, the Double Edge event + Ostrander's Punisher run ended up being incredibly mid tier and disappointing. Double Edge was built on dumb, and while Ostrander had some interesting ideas for the Punisher, they never really worked and got flushed after ten issues, when it turned into a f**king Onslaught tie-in and then a five issue X-Men adjacent arc. It all ends on a cliffhanger with an amnesiac Frank Castle, a plot point that drifts in and out of different guest appearances and ultimately amounts to nothing.
I've also read the infamous two miniseries with Angel Punisher. Christopher Golden is a good writer, and they're not horribly written, but they're awful as Punisher stories, not helped by the wholesale retconning of the character's lore to prop up the new status quo. And Angel Punisher only fights demons in the first mini, while the second is a crossover with Wolverine where he fights more f**king mutants. For the love of god, stop trying to turn Punisher into an X-Men book.
BTW, I also read Punisher Year One, a solid origin story written by DnA, of all people.
I've also continued reading through the Lee/Kirby Fantastic Four run, which is really fun even if it's dated as hell. That three issue intro to Galactus was awesome.
Ones I have less to say about:
Inhumans by Paul Jenkins - a really, really good twelve issue series.
Straczynski's Thor run - it's really great, but sadly ends abruptly and Kieron Gillen had to the cobble a conclusion together to tie up JMS' dangling plot threads.
Thor: God of Thunder by Jason Aaron - overall pretty awesome, but the third arc set on Earth wasn't as good as the previous two, and it basically just ended with an ad for another book, which was annoying.
And I've started Donny Cates' Venom, which so far I love.
