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"Old Things Surfacing" – Week One In Marvel Legacy – Venom #155, Spirits Of Vengeance #1, X-Men Gold #13, Jessica Jones #13, Royals #9, Iceman #6, Avengers #672

The first of the Marvel Legacy titles have landed, after last week's Zero Week with Marvel Legacy #1 – some with lenticular covers, others with Marvel value stamps, and all of them with an eye across them as their not-a-relaunch starts new stories, looks to their past with one eye and to the future with another. Leaving everyone looking like Maggie Smith.

So how do they compare?

Well, Iceman #6 by Sina Grace, Robert Gill and Rachelle Rosenberg sees the original Champions reconvene, to mourn the passing of Black Widow. Which means the next thing they must definitely do is join Iceman going to a gay bar on a date with the Champions as wingmen.

And Hercules proving himself hilarious – but nothing else. Axel Alonso is watching.  Hercules is also there to join the Champions dots over in Avengers #672 (and doesn't that feel good?) by Mark Waid and Jesus Saiz. As the generations clash, but a common cause is found the the day saved. And I just want to read more of this Hercules. He's basically how they write Thor in The Avengers movies – or especially in Team Thor.

And Champions member Ghost Rider also pops up in his book, Spirits Of Vengeance #1 by Victor Gioschler, David Baldeon and Andres Mossa, and they seem rather keen to bear in mind what Axel Alonso says as well.

Old things surfacing? Someone been reading the Marvel Legacy solicitations?

The Royals #9 by Al Ewing, Javier Rodriguez, Alvaro Lopez and Jordie Bellaire sees a Medusa looking to the past and recreating it for a moment…

But also getting very involved with her future. Knocking hooves, as it were.

Jessica Jones #13 by Brian Michael Bendis, Michael Gaydos and Matt Hollingsworth pits Jessica Jones against the Purple Man again, escaped from SHIELD security now that there's no longer a SHIELD. But it also gives other characters to take a look to their past as well. And a certain Avengers #200 issue that most people try to forget.

But Bendis never forgets. Occasionally, he ignores though… he should be careful, over in X-Men Gold #13 by Marc Guggenheim, Mike Mayhew and Rain Beredo, it's the writer that gets the blame from Mojo for slipping sales. Though he does seem to be confident about Marvel Legacy's chances of success and a reversal of Marvel's fortune.

Okay Mike Mayhew? That's permission from Guggenheim for you to fill the next issue of the comic with sexy dodos.

Venom #155 by Mike Costa, Mark Bagley, John Dell and Dono Sanchez-Almara also goes back to Eddie Brock's pre-Venom past, getting work as a reporter to fight battles researched by his street actions as Venom and it does underline that Peter Parker should have tried doing this as well. But, it seems the journalistic world has moved on.

We'd hire him!

What strikes most is how little these comics have changed. Anyone expecting big changes from Marvel Legacy…not yet. But there may be plenty of looking back over shoulders  at old things surfacing while trying to justify the new attention in weeks to come. But yes, that Jessica Jones cliffhanger, damn.

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