The real comic book quickies 23/10/11

So have your comics been gid these last few months? Ours certainly have! Let me tell you about them!

FEAR ITSELF BOOK 7

Written by Matt Fraction art by Stuart Immonen

Well that's this year's marvel event over. I say that but the fallout's probably gonna run into next years event. Well this book has been crazy awesome - much better than flashpoint.The way I always put it is that Fear Itself had the better main book and Flashpoint had the better tie ins. Though now that I think about Flashpoint did have THOMAS WAYNE,  so I'll have to think about this for a bit. So this issue is the final battle with the Serpent and that was purty cool and it did have a few awesome moments that I won't spoil here besides the fact captain America has gone completely mental AND awesome! And Thor died. That's not a spoiler we knew months ago. And it wasn't a bad death, he died fighting the Serpent who was a dragon at the time and died pretty much like a Klingon. It's just that it doesn't seem like the Serpent actually hurt Thor in anyway - not a scratch. If it's a thing where if one dies the other dies it's not made that clear. The other thing is that we know Thor will be back, it's Thor he's not going stay dead for any amount of time and on top of that he's going to be back in time for the avengers movie. Marvel's not that mental. Yet. Now about that fallout I mentioned earlier, this comic has four epilogues. Basically, they are all just ads for 
up-coming comics and mostly aren't all that bad but that bloody first one god damn it's dumb. Sin's free. Ahagfshshsgzshashjgz!!! In the same bloody comics she's defeated in. AGHHGHGH! Still a good comic overall though.

JUSTICE LEAGUE #2

Written by Geoff Johns art by Jim Lee

MUCH better than the first issue. Last issue was way too slow but this issue picks up the pace and generally feels more action packed and fun. It's more of putting a team together and that's always fun. Best bit of the comic is when Hal Jordan calls up the Flash and's all like" DUDE HELP IMA FIGHTING SUPERMAN GONNA DIE NEED URS HELP". Much fun was had by all. We get to meet Cyborg's dad this issue. He's Gendo from evangelion. With #1 I wasn't getting all the love for Jim Lee's art but here it does feel more solid. The gumff at the back of back of the book lists Batman and Superman's first appearances as Justice League #1. That's kinda sick.

AVENGERS #18

Written by Brian Michael Bendis art by Daniel Acuna

WHYYYYY BENDIS? WHYYYYYY??? Kidding - it wasn't that bad. So finally after a looong looooong time the endless onslaught of pages of nothing but panels of the Avengers' faces talking at the camera has stopped. It's over. It took seven months. But its done. For now anyway, I'm sure it'll be back soon enough. I might cry. Anyway this is a comic of two parts, the first half is about a disgruntled SHIELD agent secretly gathering DNA samples of the worlds heroes. That's all fine and dandy but it means we have to sit through splash pages of past Marvel events and that includes Civil War and that's just painful. Marvel I was happy to just be all like "yeah Civil just never happened or just quietly sweep it under the rug when the Heroic Age happened so please don't bring it up now, OK?". The second half is your standard Bendis putting a team together story. Loads of heroes stand in a room blah blah blah.

Oh and Norman Osborne is free now. That's just dumb.

BLUE BEETLE #2

Written by Tony Bedard art by IG Guara

Ever see the movie star kid? Probably not. It was a kids film about this suit of alien power armour that is sent to earth for some reason and a kid finds it. Hilarity ensues. That's kind of what this book is about. This issue was much more fun than last, here we actually get to see the Beetle fight some dudes and that's always fun. I hear a lot of people saying this books treading a lot of past ground but I never read the old Beetle's series so I'm finding it fun. It's one of the few books of the New 52 that's a proper origin story which is a nice change and was probably done as most people don't know that much about this incarnation of the Beetle or maybe the Blue Beetle in general plus it'll make Jamie more of a rookie. There's also this alien army thing out in space that's cocooning planets. In issue 1 they only appeared in the past and it kind of looked like the Green Lanterns knew about them and were dealing with them but they turn up in the present day this issue and are still cocooning planets which is odd. I get that space is BIG and all and that there are only so many GL's but come on lads cocooning planets must kind of a big thing right? Crazy guardians.

BATMAN #2

Written by Scott Snyder art by Greg Capullo

Again HELLS YES! This was indeed awesome. Firstly the art is damn fine, it's just my sort of cartoony. Snyder is really pushing Gotham as a character. Last issue was about one of Gotham's newspapers this issue was about Wayne tower and its history with the city. Plus Batman fights some dudes and then fights an Owl Man. Gid times. Not much to talk about with this book it's just so much fun and so well written. I hear rumblings of the book taking a dark turn hopefully that won't happen or at least it wont go full grim dark cuz right now the books tone is just right.

SUPER GIRL #2

Written by Michael Green art by Mike Johnson

Despite the lack of mecha fights in this issue this comic still manages to be crazy awesome. It's basically the same issue as last month but instead of Supergirl fighting mecha for 15 pages this time she fights Superman for the whole book. That's crazy! Most fights aren't usually the main focus of a book but here it is and that's AMAZING. So Supergirl fights Superman then and she pretty much pimp slaps him around and it does look like he's getting hurt but its pretty clear he's holding back. There's this pretty cool page of Supergirl using her X-ray vision on Superman while she's punching him where it goes through multiple layers of flesh and bone so that's purty cool. And man the art is purrty too.

Next time! - More Power Rangers, Nobody's favourite superhero, and Barry Allen hopefully continuing to be less emo. Also, Spider Island has its exciting conclusion, so that may or may not be reviewed, depending on who writes the reviews!