Zone of the enders hd xbox/ps3

Its like gundam BUT IN SPACE !!!! ... ... oh wait.

Now here's something that I was damn well looking forward to and a rare thing that lived up to my expectations

Both zone of the enders games are high speed giant robot space opera action games from the beautiful beautiful mind of big hideo kojima of metal gear fame. In both games you pilot the mighty mecha jehuty. Most probably a super prototype wielding stylish homing lasers and way cool laser swords as well as some pretty nifty upgrades you pick up threw out your funky space adventures. Combat in both games is damn solid. The jehuty has to defend itself from gangs of roving enemy mecha. Taking each one of the enemy squad on one by one is the way to go. For me at least. Maybe I'm just pish but there's something to be said for utterly destroying a squad one by one. Taking out there boss first lowering the fighting ability as the rest of the squad as they shite themselves as they see there boss gutted before them. This is slightly less relevant in the second runner as combat there is much more beefed up and all round more epic and you'll be wrecking a lot more peoples shite than in the first game.

Now I'm no fancy smancy city slicking game reviewer person. I couldny properly tell you if this new updated version of enders looks or plays any better than the ps2 originals. Bad ayes you see. And I'm pretty sure hd is a myth. Or at the very least. Witchcraft.

All I can talk about is my GUT FELLING. Now let me tell you son. These games make my GUT feel damn magical. Aye the mecha totally have cockpit cocks. Because Japan. Well no. because kojima.

Now out of both of these games the second runner is almost definitely the better game. But HOO LEE FUCK. The VIBE of the first game. It brings tears to my manly grizzled eye sockets. Its that elusive magical summer of our youth vibe. Yeah all of the first game is set on-board a space colony set a drift in the harsh void of outer space but it still manages to be summery. Well I spose its orbiting Jupiter. Hmm from now on lets all think of Jupiter as a summer planet. Whilst there might might not be any actual summer vibe elements in the game it certainly FEELS like they are. When I play the first enders the world feels young. Its a very similar vibe to metal gear solid 2. that's what I take away from it anyway.

Now to be fair the protagonist of the first game is just a tad emo. Leo's a pretty cool guy though id say. He gets over his whiny-ness. Not fully in the first game but quite amazingly by the second. Now I don't think we'd complain all that much about getting to pilot a giant robot. But fair play likes he's a kid after all and he dose kinda sorta kill a hell of a lot of people. Bad people aye. Still people though and we do get to see leo's palls killed off in a rather grizzly fashion at the very start of the game. So fair play likes.

Now I quite like the game play of the original. I can see why a lot of people wouldn't though. There's a fair bit of padding. Which I'm sure a lot of people could deal with but On top of that though is a fair bit of backtracking. Hmm well now that I think about it. Padding and back tracking are basically the same thing. Ayes wells. Its got both and I can see that being a hurdle to enjoying the game for some people. I still quite like it though. To me its weirdly warm and fuzzy. To me there's something just so solid about it. The back tracking gives the space colony a certain amount of charter. Now you could probably archive that without the need for clunky back tracking but its there and its totally a thing you should be aware of.

Its also a shot game. Hopefully that willny bother you.

The second runner though. That's ware shite gets all out epic. Its very much a sequel. Every things bigger and better. The jehutys weapons and ability's are more killy and there's more enemy's to be killed. And yes. The UNIVERSE is at stake. Now its definitely the better of the two games but personally id have to say it has a lesser vibe. Better but lesser. Its totally a real thing. Its a much improved game in almost all ways and the anime cut scenes are much welcomed but I duno man. Its not as the worlds young ish as the first game. That's not a legitimate complaint I know. Its just something that sticks out to me. Its far from vibe-less likes. its just worse vibe for being better.

The second runner is named as such as the jehuty has a new pilot for the game. Dingo. Aye dingo. Damn funny name it has to be said. He's more your manly man han solo type in contrast to the very shinji ikari-ish leo. I like him. He's a lot of fun. Despite being wired into the mecha to stay alive he manages not to be depressing. I count that as a win. Leo dose make an appearance in the second runner however. And in doing so he pretty much defines LADNESS. Cutting through the sky's of Mars in the vic viper. Its something id recommend you see for yourself.

The game play of the second runner is FAR less repetitive than the original. No real back tracking to be seen if memory serves. Some damn interesting boss fights thrown about keep things fast moving and interesting much like the fist game but to a grater extent here. Them bosses do get hella crazy and show off what the jehuty is capable of and they appeal to my sense of fuck yeah ness. Combats changed up from the first game a bit. Like I said earlier every things more epic. You have more fools that need a killing and more killy guns to do that with. The enemy mechas seams more fragile to be fair. You'll be throwing a lot of them into walls. Death comes to them faster that way. The new enemy types are much appreciated adding to the two iconic types from the original.

This hd collection also comes with a disc containing the demo for the upcoming metal gear rising revengeance. See that's utterly. Perfect. Fooking amazing really. See the first zone of the enders came with the demo for metal gear solid 2, its famously the reason anyone bought the first game and why every charity shop in the land has a copy of it and as a terminally nostalgic man it makes me damn weepy when history repeats

 

Theses are two fantastic games that in my opinion defiantly deserves at least a wee play and this hd collection easily lets you archive that. As I said I cant tell you how well this stands technically as a hd release on its own but as two games blue tacked together its bloody amazing.

Fucking love giant robots.

Comics the now

Hullos !

 

Comics right now are pretty damn good. I cant really remember a poor week for ages now. I guess there's a few reasons for that. I'm buying a wee bit more books now. Long gone are the days of only picking up amazing spider man. Damn they were good times. Now marvel has caught up with DC and have started putting out there new stuff. I'm a bit bummed that there renumbered books haven't had a synchronised launch but that might have been a bit too much like the new 52.

Aye I think ill still call it the new 52 on here despite it being auld and not exactly the same 52 books. Its been damn good though. Kept up the pace pretty well. Batman's been there top book since day one and I'm still loving it. The book got off to a rocking start and even though I had my doubts when it looked like that bat god would break snyder pulled it back in style with the silliness of the end of the court of owls and this new bat perfecting his YOUR INSANE paunch. Right now bats is onto another mega arc with the joker back in town starting shite. Its damn good. Ideally id just want an instant bat god win. But for the sake of drama its damn gid.

Action comics its fucking insanely brilliant. Like fucking insanely god like in its awesomeness. At times. Sadly its has its ups and downs. Now the downs arny really downy downs there just not highs. Which is a shame. Now that last issue just gone. #13. hoo lee fuck. Had me crying manly tears. Superman rides to the rescue of a mission to mars base and its apparently British crew. Super man at his supermanyist. A fusion of superman , Dr who and gurren lagann ! At times it felt like Morrison was writing it just foe me it was that spot on to what I like to read about.

Aquaman by the way. He's a bit of a lad. Well no, not really. He's just the standard man on a mission character the big goff likes to write. The aquaman book though. Now there's a hell of a lad. Like all comics its had its ups and downs. Its opening arc had some gosh darn fantastic moments. Establishing everyone in the DC verse thinks of aquaman the way the real world thinks of him. Id have personally like to see him just being the brave and the bold version but the loser hero was an alright way to go. The recent aquamans 90s anti hero team arc could have went badly but the team showed there true colours as not an anti hero team at all but a RANGER time. That last arc had a hell of a Saturday morning cartoon vibe. Its geof johns I know that's his thing but god damn it was glorious. It was the atlantian millennium items that did it for me.

The guardians of the galaxy continue to be moustache twirllingly evil. Its damn entertaining to watch. Sinestro and hal were finally getting down to the serious business of being buddy cops in space but they got sucked into a death hole. So theirs a new green lantern kicking about earth. Surprisingly cool dude. The preview images made him look quite the dick. Running about with a gun. We dinny need another John Stuart. Well no another current comics John Stuart. A justice league cartoon John Stuart would be joyously welcomed with open arms at this point. Aye so the new guy. What's his name. Cool dude. Canny fly yet. Drives construct cars. As fast as the flash. Like I said. Surprisingly cool dude.

Now marvel. Marvels fucking insane. Like proper loopy. Not entirely sure why. But they are. Big news was amazing spider mans getting a renumbering after issue 700. that's a huge kick in the balls. I feel like they renumbered it before and it didn't take. So we're all probs taking bets as to when it resets. Bigger news was that it might not be peter under the mask after 700. now that's probably the biggest ball kicker of the year. Maybe that hole Disney star wars thing. Its defiantly a big deal. Now normally with this kind of thing you'd just write it off as a desperate attempt to build up hype for a book. But here's the thing. Marvels fucking insane. We're at the point ware they could actually kill off peter god damn Parker. In the year of his 50^th anniversary and a recent film release. Now I'm not all that up to date on it but hopefully its just dan slott the eternal lad taking the piss. But if not. Calm the fuck doon marvel.

 

 

Now despite there insanity they do make quite fine comics. Avengers vs X men was pretty well done in my opinion. Not to everyone's taste I expect. It really was a lot of fighting. But I have to stress. Damn good fighting. Cyclops. Cyclops is an utter bastard. But a loveable bastard. He's just so amazingly evil. That's what I took away from A vs X. I know that's not always been his character but its some thing for him to do at any rate. Marvels moved on from civil war a bit. Now there bastard of the event is at least employable evil unlike Tony stark was back then.

I picked up Two X books in the aftermath of the event. Not really an X fan but I thought id give them a chance. Uncanny avengers just blew me away. Two things did it for me. The the just plain awesome casual vibe. And the red skull stealing prof X's brain. HOW AMAZINGLY RED SKULL IS THAT. Aye prof X has been dead for two hole seconds and BOOM red skulls in there. No hesitation. Proper old school villainy. Now this Wednesday just past big brain Michel bendis swaggered into the room and slammed all new x men on the table. It was actually pretty good. Staggeringly. Now the full impact of the first issue was spoiled by previews but the idea of getting young Scott summers to come to the future and talk some sense into himself is a damn amazing idea. Nice one bendis.

The fantastic four books missed a trick. They ended there current run going to save Dr doom from a universe he crated that turned against him. Aye naw pal. That might be actually what would happen given the circumstances and dooms actual character. But that's not what would happen to the lad doom. Lad doom would never need the fantastic four to rescue him. Lad doom wouldn't need rescuing at all. Lad doom would be off conquering universe's duel wielding infinity gauntlet like the ultra lad he is. Now to the books credit despite this fall at the very last hurdle the issue did have some fine moments and quite doomy lines form the lad himself. Sad that the run over really. The new runs just kicked off. Bit to early to say how its going but baglys art it is grately appreciated.

I decided to pick up iron man. Juuuuuuust as the book was gearing up for its final arc. Gotta say I like what I read. Very very metal gear solid ish. Sad I missed out on the hole run now. Might have to go pick up the trades at some point. Actually I don't think iv bought new trades outside of xmas presents since I started buying comics by the monthly format two or three years ago. Damn likes. That's something for me to think about. Picked up the new number one with him in his new black and yellow armour. Only one issue down of course but so far its not as good as fractions run. Not bad though. A few nice bits here and there. Gotta wait and see ware it go's

Lastly iv been venturing into deeper comic waters. The darker depths of indi comics. Well indi-er than the two big company's. Saga is a damn fine piece of comicbooking. Its the new one by that there y the last man guy. Now a fair bit of it is quite out there for my taste but that's offset buy its incredible comic booky-ness. Its about a couple and the new born child escaping from two factions at war with each other. IN SPACE. Grant Morrison's new book, happy is hopefully a piss take of mark millers indi books in particular and mark miller in general. It is defiantly a piss take but hopefully that will be made official eventually. Happy is a charming Christmas tale of a scumy scum bag and his tiny wise cracking flying purple unicorn buddy. It be horribly depressing if its not a piss take. So you can see why I want it to be one. Has to be. Hopefully

Also I'm back !

pick o the week 24.9.12

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Ayes this is happening. I can feel it even now. The worlds a better place for it all ready. The suns blazing and aww the doom and gloom has collapsed in on itself like some sort of doom and gloom based cake that's capable of collapsing in on its self. I'm not a bakery scientist so I'm not sure of the logistics there. Shame that's all contradicted by the fact its autumn and the weathers decided to be utter shite not five minutes after that lad summer has been laid to rest in his jewel encrusted coffin.

Point is new guardians wasny shite. And I diny ken about you. But that's mind blowing. There I was rocking threw last weeks comics and BAM. New guardians knocks it out the fuckin park. The book grabbed me by my non existent collar an was aww HEER MATE ! SEE THIS SHITE ! ITS WELL WRITTEN ! SO SIT THE SHITE DOON ! AND READ IT ! New guardians speaks with an aggressive Scottish accent in my head now. It probably sits and reads the papers in a pub some ware. Its turned into that sort of guy.

 

Things happened in that issue man. The actual honest to god things. Cool things. Things WORTH talking aboot. That's something magical. Many things are capable of bringing a tear to my ruggedly manly eye socket and the quality of this issue was one of them. The bits that made it my pick o the week were the numerous moments of awesome like kyle rayner being able to channel the power of the other lantern cores to smoosh black lantern zombie mooks but also the wee touches like kyle referring to Hal jordain as “colonel jordan” and carol ferris's new less skanky costume.

 

Aye so basically its was a damn fine issue from a book iv come to not expect all that much from. I really REALLY hope new guardians keeps this going. Since issue one hit iv always hoped it live up to its potential as the ranger team lantern book. Hopefully this change in its levels of awesomeness its the book wakening up to what it can be. Power rangers. IN SPACE. But EVEN MORE SPACEY!

pick o the week 27.8.12

Aye Ah pretty much died of laziness back there. I said id try to keep things moving. Keeps things updated. I failed. I apologise. Wont happen again. Though it probably will. Comic book quickies was getting a bit draggy to be honest. Just kidny put all my soul in to it any more. So lets put quickies on hold for a wee while and try something a wee bit different for a bit. I say different its really an easier to do quickies. Less effort yay !

AMERICA'S GOT POWERS #3

 

Yup my first pick of the week is Americas got powers #3. A book ware super powered humans fight in a tournament themed satire of current day talent shows.

I quite like Americas got powers. Its quite a nice solid read. Now that's really perplexing for me. Normally id look down on team millers output. Now yeah I know its Jonathan ross and image but ross and miller are totally bros like. I was fairly cynical about the book before issue one hit the shelf's but in the spirit of the new 52 I decided to give this new number one a try. I have to say I was fairly blown away with how not horrible it was. I was sure the book would be full of hateful characters and gore but I was pretty well wrong . Now aye there are hateful characters but there written to be hateful not unintentional hateful and there were deaths but they weren't overly violent. Yeah so surprisingly good. To me at least.

 

Now its not like the books all rainbows and sweeties but every time something looks like its going to end badly or turn out horrible the book takes a side step into not nastiness. Like in issue two we see that a lot of the super's that take part in the games are apparently killed or critically wounded. Now that something id find very heavy and bleak but the cliff hanger at the end of that issue reveals that the super's in this particular universe cant die and are almost immortal. Now again that could have gotten fairly bleak with the super's living forever in perpetual agony. But no they can heal as well.

Now again that's the main thing I take away from issue three, things could have gotten really bleak and unpleasant again but weirdly for the third issue in a row they didn't. This time a machine is introduced that trades a super's powers to someone ell's. It also leaves the super a withered husk. Now see that's ware I was all ohh aye dropped the not nastiness ball there ross. But no. the super's just regenerate over time.

Really I guess you cant go wrong with a tournament arc. It really is the greatest story format of all time. Maybe some competition from buddy cops though. Hmmm buddy cop tournament arc... very promising.

comic book quickies 7/8/12

ACTION COMICS #12

written by Grant Morrison art Rags Morales

Superman LIKES. My actual word. No words. No ACTUAL words. Damn fine comic.

DETECTIVE COMICS #12

written and art by Tony S. Daniel

You know something man. I'm quite enjoying this arc. Mind blowing likes. Its still that gritty brown shooter vibe batman with silly silver age hints but this arcs been weirdly more enjoyable than the ones that came before it. Well really its been massively more fun than that last penguin arc. This mad radiation lad story's kinda the same deal but its been less confusing and more action packed. Well more fun action. Aye so its nice to be able to say nice things aboot detective comics for once. Its been a long ass time since I was able to do that.

JUSTICE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL #12

written by Dan Jurgens art Aaron Lopresti

That's it done and dusted. The JLI are dead. Well surprisingly not. Most of the members make it to the final curtain alive and well and there's a JLI annual coming up. So that nice. Shame the book never really went any ware. Which can be fine at times. Not all books need a hardcore get things done shit gets real plot but when the second half of the run kicked in everything started to decline. Thoughts glorious six or so issues were damn fun and action packed. Then again those long lost days were the best damn days of our youth. The second arc started well. Buddy cop batman a booster gold is all comics really need to be. Some ware along the way though the plot took a turn toward the dramatic. Sadly dramatic. Things just kept happening. Weirdly realistic and un fun things. I don't know man. I just don't understand kids theses days and there dramatic comics.

AVENGERS VS X-MEN #9

written by team marvel art by adam kubert

YES what a comic. What a god damn amazing comic. Spider-man. Really its insanely dumb to say at this point. But my god. What an actual lad. Takes down two of the phoenix five with spider banter and SHEER not giving up-ness.

comic book quickies 31/7/12

Gotta say this was a this was a damn satisfying and hefty week that I thinks to do with green lantern being delayed and popping up here.

THE FLASH #11

Written by Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato art by Marcus To

Barry Allan is now the bartender for a rouges bar. FUCK YES.

AQUAMAN #11

written by Geoff Johns art by Ivan Reis

Damn likes. Damn ! I get that big goff john's writes reconstructed Saturday morning cartoons with ranger teams as far as the eye can see and magufin based plots. I really love that. Aquaman has been like that but on ACID. But an inconstant acid. Not so this month. The Saturday morning cartoon ness hits you in the face like a sledge hammer this month. A blazingly sunny and warm sledge hammer. The relics held buy aquamans team are the millennium items. I never got that before. I'm so sorry. I failed you an a very basic reference level. Not digging the aquaman killed black mantas dad plot line but it wasn't as big a deal this issue. Its still a deal but not as big a deal. Still damn solid book.

GREEN LANTERN NEW GUARDIANS #11

written by Brain Tony Bedard art by Tyler Kirkham

Its still terrible. But I quite like it. Its shite. Not badly written shite just auld pre awesome shite. Like it be a fine ass comic if it had been released in the seventies or eighties. Its just going on. Still trucking away doing its not being a ranger team thing. I'm still buying it so that's something.

TEEN TITANS #11

written by Scott Lobdell art by Brett Booth

Aye so its still pretty middle of the road clunky stuff. That said it has been getting better every issue thought it still has a long way to go before ill call it a damn gid read. Getting there though. Getting there.

FF #20

written by Jonathan Hickman art by Nick Dragotta

Space ! I always wanted you to go there. Quite liked this issue. Some nice we bits of banter with the ff being the ff which is something I'm always wanting to see.

GREEN LANTERN #11

written by Goff Johns art by Doug Mahnke

Buddy cop based comment !

BATMAN INC VOL 2 #3

written by Grant Morrison art by Chris Burnham

So I here DC were pulling this issue from the shelf's over the Denver shooting. I don't really see why. There's one panel ware a teacher pulls a gun on a classroom. No one gets shot though so un less I'm missing something big id have to say DC are over reacting a wee bit. What can I say about the actual comic. Bat cow makes another ladish appearance. So that's nice.

THE AVENGERS #28

written by Bendis art by Walter Simonson

Gotta admit it. Bendis you magnificent bastard king. You've pulled it back. I opened up this issue and was all like BENDIS whhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhy !!!!!???? see there's no proper speech bubbles in this entire comic. It has like a booky thing at the side that's like narration. I knows. Its so bendis. BUT the actual content of the issue is god damn awesome. To me at least. Red hulk soldiers off to utopia to assassinate Cyclops. Gid solid plan there. The bit that pulled bendis back for me was when rulk de hulks into thunderbolt Ross and infiltrates utopia big boss style. Fuck yes. Admittedly I don't read much hulk comics so this might be a conmen thing but this just blew me away when I read it. I was all ready to rage and then ross's manly moustache pops into view. Well played bendis. Well played. Really I think I have Stockholm syndrome for bendis's avengers. I genuinely don't know how ill feel or cope when he finishes his run.

comic book quickies 23/7/12

BLUE BEETLE #11

written by Tony Bedard art by Ig Guara

Its all right. Its weird likes. I really shouldn't have liked this issue but for reasons I quite lock down I quite like it. The book really is doing the third beetle a big injustice. Big jamie on the run from home living ruff on the streets of new york really shouldn't be what this books all about. But it is. And I don't mind as much as I should. Its probably because its not offensively or even boringly bad. Just not hitting the right vibe bad. Booster gold put in an appearance this moth. Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay ! Sadly its to fight the beetle and not be bros or buddy cops like they should though I should say it dose look like there's still room for that to happen. You see what I mean about missing the vibe ? Seeing booster on the cover this issue gets you thing aye ! Booster will show up and sport Jamie's shite out even just a wee bit. But naw boosters just adds to the beetles problems. Still I go to give them credit for sticking with this whole narrative direction you get a lot of points for stick with it ness from me.

SUPER GIRL #11

written by Michael Green and Mike Johnson art by Mahmud Asrar

Iv said it quite a few times this past year. Super girl is god damn AMAZING. She just wont stop punching dudes. That's a pretty simple thing I knows but you'd be surprised by how menny comics just fly by without nary a single punch being thrown. Comics ware theses nothing but endless talking and DRAMA. Now don't get me wrong not every comic ever should be wall to wall fisty cuffs. Just most of them. So like iv said many times before supergirls one of those books. Aye sure there is plot happening and there are characters wandering aboot that plot which is nice to see but the book knows what its aboot. FIGHTING. That's really grand to see theses days. Right now supergirl herself isn't the greatest of character and really needs to settle in and talk things out with superman. But she's getting there.

JUSTICE LEAGUE #11

written by geoff johns art by jim lee

Still not digging the league. This arcs been just a wee bit pish really. Things happen and I'm like so what ? The books not really had any meaty meat to it since darksides defeat. Honestly I couldn't tell you this arcs villains name. Thieve got all the big guns on board and not doing anything with them. I'm not expecting massive revelations and wham moments every issue but I was sort of expecting consistent epicness. Cyborg exists. I noticed that this month. dosent do much elles. Which is a shame what with him being the wild card on the team. He's a cool guy and a want to see him justifie his place on the team. But naw he's just the leagues teloporter. The book still has the banter at least which should be half the battle but I'm just not getting the books vibe. They did that silly hero vs hero fight when emotions run hight thing. Do people like that ? I always thought that was bad writing. Well nah that's too harsh more like writing from another age. That's fair enough if your writing a throw back styled book and I know the the big goffs a silver age lad but I doubt that's what he's going for here.

AVENGERS VS X-MEN #8

written by team marvel art by Adam Kubert

I don't know what the actual word on the street is but I get the terrible feeling that were slowly spiralling towards mutant victory. That's pretty sickening to me. See its been a fun read so far but a vs x has made me fairly anti mutant. I'm pretty sure that's not what forty plus years x books have been shooting for. This was namors big day out issue and it went quite well I think. He gets both the phoenix and the shite kicked out of him. I like namor. He's a bastard. But a fun bastard. Most of the time. You cant deny that he forms a damn fine buddy cop team with Dr doom. Aye so a vs x has been a load of fun despite the shilling of the x-men its just going to interesting to see if marvels as mental as they look.

comic book quickies 16/7/12

Aye well I kind of gave up back there for a while. Not really sure what happened. The reviewer soul just sort of left me. Don't know what happened. Think it might have been the relentless march of time. Dark times. But fear not. I see ware I went wrong. So I set forth to set things right. I secluded myself in a cabin down in the woods then I grew a damn narly beard. Then all I did was chop wood all day long. Training for this day. Montaging. So iv shaken off my funk. Lets talk aboot comics !

SUPERBOY #11

written by Scott Lobdell art R.B Silva

Aye it was gid. My Reviewer powers have returned ! Well to be fair this months issue was pretty fun. IT HAD A GIANT ROBOT. Love me some giant robots. So bunker from the teen titans was guest staring this month hanging out with superboy. They fight crime together. You could almost say they were buddy's. Buddy cops ! Supes gets that S tattoo that he was sporting on the cover of teen titans #1 waaaaaaaay back when the world was young. So that's nice. Only took them them about a year. Really I had completely forgotten aboout that wee detail it was sooo long ago. Nice comic though. It had a nice summers day vibe to it and it definitely had plenty of fighting in it. Well maybe it didn't. But fighting a giant robot counts for double if not triple the amount of awesome points fighting some other random dude would.

FRANKENSTEIN AGENT OF S.H.A.D.E #11

written by Matt Kindt art by Alberto Ponticelli

Wellity welliity. Mad mystery stuff going on here likes. Fairly tempted to say mad mystery shite. Its that mad. Well its not mad. We've all seen madder is what I'm trying to say. We do live on there internet after all. Quite like me some Frankenstein. Plenty of action to be had and franky is such a bad ass lad. Sure there's some times wares he's a bit to grumpy for my likening but I guess that's the character. I still here from certain peoples that they still just don't like the art. Fair enough likes its not for everyone though I do think it fits the tone of the book pretty perfectly. Really it could only be better for me if it was drawn in the 70s scooby doo style. Ayes id pay good money to see that.

BATMAN #11

written by Scott snyder art by Greg capullo

Its the big final of the night of the owls. Batman busts out his special no your insane technique Lets meet back here in a month to see what the worlds like post owly night.

A VS X THE FIGHTS #4

fight 1 written by Rick Remender art by Brandon Peterson

fight 2 written and art by Kaare Andrews

Gotta say I quite like the the fights. Why wouldn't aye. ITS ALL FIGHTANG. Some of the match ups werny the ones I was waiting on the egege of my seat to see but the book knows what its and isn't trying to be anything else's and its definitely got the right SOUL to it. Fight one was damn decent with daredevil vs psylock.e Nice fighting but it did bring up the fight that the x-men are full of shite with the psychic ... eh shite. Psylocke canny mind crush dare devil because of his super senses. So would that protect every avenger with powers like that ? Like would spider-man be able to power through with his spider sense ? Interesting to think about at least. Fight two was bull. BUUUUUUUUUULLLLLL MAN. Thor vs god damn Emma frost. Who really likes Emma frost ? Fan service aye I get that. But DAMN shes HATEFUL. Is that the point internet ? Are we meant to hate her ? Is that the point ? TELL ME !

DEATHSTROKE #11

written and art by Rob Liefeld

The 90s ultra lad dose not disappoints. Well actually to be fair now aye its terrible. But that's fine. I still like it. Yeah the arts probably worse than it was back in the day. Fair enough. The plots dumb and a wee bit boring and contradicts itself every other page. Aye those are totally accurate things about it. But cooooooooooome oooooooooooooooooooooonnnnn its the big lad liefeld ! There's really not much more I can say to convince you. Well I could but they'd be terrible terrible lies.

Short and sweet this week. Gotta relearn my killer skills and develop a work ethic. See ya next time !

comic book quikies 12.1.12

What did I just say not five minutes ago. Time moves way too fast these days. Its Tuesday again. How the actual hell did that happen ? I could swear I had more time to play with. Really it this point its more spooky than confusing though it still is confusing. HOW DOSE TIME WORK.

GREEN LANTERN #10

written by Geoff Johns art by Doug mahnke

I'm sorry I complained about this arc way back when it started all those years ago. Yeah its only been about four months but still. Aye so all this indigo tribe pish has turned out to be be pretty damn gid. Finally stuff is happening again with hal now fully aware that the guardians are mad bastards. You'd have thought he'd have noticed sooner but meh he's had a lot on his plate that auld Hal Jordan. Mainly being kirk from star trek but still. I'm still not all that happy about sinestros buddy cop development but he was more lad-ish this issue so ill let that slide. For now. They really need to make him a full buddy cop sharpish. Its been ten god damn months and he's still space Hitler. Thought at this point space Hitler is more of a heroic good guy than the guardians of the galaxy. It will be interesting to see ware the blue space lads go wither there plan for ULTIMATE POWAH. I'm guessing nowhere but maybe the big goff lad will surprise us.

SUPERBOY #10

written by Scott Lobdell art Sebastian Fiumara 

Again this issue really surprised me with how much I really enjoyed it. Don't know what to say. Maybe it was the change in art that did it for me. Cuz the art was really nice all sketchy and stuff. Plot wise it was superboy and wonder girl lost of a desert island. They weren't really lost as they can both fly and it was more of a jungle island but lost on a desert island was the vibe the comic was going for. Castaway on a desert island ! That's what I'm getting at. Comic did get me thinking can wonder woman fly ? I really should know the answer to that . She is one of the big three over at DC. Never really read wonder woman so I cant be sure. Ill have to look into that. Aye so this comic was a lot of fun. Which is good. Comics should be fun. Not dark and depressing point making things. No they should be fun like batman paunching dinosaurs into space ! Batman dosent paunch any dinosaurs into space in this issue. I'm sorry. Batmans not in this issue at all. This issue DOSE have dinosaurs though. Which is cool. Dinosaurs are one of those basic ingredients in awesomeness. Your comic not awesome enough ? BOOOOOOM drop a dinosaur in from orbit ! So yeah this is one of superboys happy issues. He still brings up the fact he's a living weapon but he dosent go all angsty about it. Count that as a win.

FRANKENSTEIN AGENT OF S.H.A.D.E #10

written by jeff lemire ? i could sware it was the new guy. mind blown. art by Alberto Ponticelli

Aye so its all change this issue. Well that's what I should be saying. The writers changed so that should mean all change every ware. But naw the new guys just carrying on ware the other dude left off. Maybe I'm just jumping the gun and this new guys just a gust writer but I remember being told that frankys book was getting a change of creative team. I was disappointed to here that as this book had been damn entertaining up to this point. Gotta say though this issue was still pretty gid. A little confusing in places and a little rushed but still pretty gid. I think its because the auld artist stayed on. I say stayed on this might be a interlude guest spot issue thingy. Anyway it was gid, lots of fighting lots of bug men. Lots of poetry. Eh not really my thang but I see ware there age going with it. Oh wait no actually I don't. There a mystery developing I here that's totally out of my grasp. I get the feeling that references are being made that I don't get. Fair enough likes. Gid issue of a gid book.

BATMAN# 10

written by scott snyder art by greg capullo

THOMAS WAYNE jr !

FANTASTIC FOUR #607

written by Jonathan Hickman art by Giuseppe Camuncoli

Dose anybody care about the black panther. I'm not putting anybody down. Id genuinely like to know. I dunno man something about the auld lad rubs me the wrong way. He's just so smug. He's probs not but I cant stand all this pish about wakanda being all super advanced. He keeps talking about it and I'm like GET TO FUCK. It just gets to me is all. If it had all this powah why dosent someone invade and take it over. Aye I here dr doom tried and failed so I'm going to put that one down to a doom bot. Aye I'm playing favourites. So what about it. Norman Osborn tried to invade asguard so its not like there aren't people out there crazy enough to try try and take a super advanced nation on. Aye ranting about stuff I don't understand all right. Still a good issue all right.

DEATHSTROKE # 10

written and art by rob liefeld

See right canny really defend this comic. Like I said last time. Its bad. Really really bad. But that's not the point. Not the point at all. See its a comic written AND drawn by rob liefeld. We live in a world ware that's possible. Logically I'm not sure how to think about that but it makes me feel happy. Yes I do like liefelds work ironically. How can you not. Its so very bad that it becomes so very funny. There is a part of me that genuinely likes his work. All the shoulder pads and pouches. All the bad art and grim dumb plots. Its so 90s. Yes I'm terminally nostalgic but not for 90s comics as I never read American comics back in the day and only found out about the dark age relevantly recently so I cant claim that its nostalgia that blinds me to the truth. Stll ill chance my luck and say I thought this issue showed signs of improvement in both art and story. Now it was still bad. There's this one page of lobo riding a motor cycle that's hilarious. Aye so I liked it .

comic book quickies 12/6/12

Ahh this week. I don't know what happened to this week. Well I do. But its not that much of an justified reason. I'm lazy all right, I shouldn't have left it this long to write this quickies. But I did. And know all the shame in the world has saddled up to my front door. Its a hefty shame. It weighs down on my shoulders. Like some sort of hefty weighty thing. But you got to know I'm like an auld man theses days. Time flys by so god damn fast. See last Friday. That just happened but it feels so long ago to me. The sinister thing is that the opposite is true. See Christmas ? That feels like last week. Half a year ago feels like last week you see what I mean ? Its sinister this adult time. It trys to mess with your head. Your sitting there aww like I can put off this weeks comic reviews for a wee while then boooooooooooooom its the space year 3029. so my point is I'm just lazy.

ACTION COMICS # 10

written by Grant Morrison art rags morales

Action comics is gid likes. I'm almost positive iv said that before but I'm going to keep on saying that. Mainly because it is gid but also that's all I can really say about it. Overall its pretty gid. Some issues are not all that gid but most are fairly gid and there are some that are damn gid. Its been like a year so I feel I should clarify that when I say gid what I really mean is that its good. I'm Scottish you see. Hopefully iv beaten that fact into your face by know. Action comics might not be everyone's cup of tea. Its weird like. Course its weird its Morrison after all. But damn its weird. Not out of this world. Heh. Out of this world. Superman. Heh. Yeah its not offensively weird and its not too mind bendingly weird. Yet. And I think we can all agree its not Japan weird. No its just got this weird tone to it. And like I said during its first few moths I found it hard to get to grips with that tone. To grapple with it if you will. To grab it with BOTH HANDS. I personally love it. Its like the big guy of week one. The big boss if you get me. Always the first to be read. Like last month the cover was all this issue superman of earth 23. so aye that shites totes getting read first. You know to drink in the madness. Aye so this issue was gid.

DETECTIVE COMICS #10

written and art by Tony S. Daniel

Detective comics. Its quite pish really. Well to me anyway. I'm no a big fan of the overly grim and gritty style of writing's comics. Well that is until I am. Depends how well its done and what type of grim and gritty it is. I'm probably too quick to brand something grim and gritty ill admit that. But see this detective comics run. Its just so god damn brown. Batman for the cod generation. Hmmm that's harsh. And not particularly accurate. Grungy is another word id chuck at it. The art dose have that blurry grungy vibe to it. And that's nice. Cant accuse it of not sticking to its guns in that way. Though I suppose it has gotten just a tad sillier of late was 60s batman grade villains making appearances. There's been this back up story featuring two face. I'm like aye two face he's a bit of a lad. But hoo lee hell I just really don't care. Like at all. AT ALL. If the main story's brown. The back up is some sort of new as yet un discovered ultra brown. Now that dosny make it instantly bad. Its just I go to read it and I cant. Its grittiness is paralysing. So I'm not giving this book a fair chance. I'm sorry. If something epic and blazingly soulful happens suddenly ill let you know.

JUSTICE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL #10

written by Dan Jurgens art Aaron Lopresti

Why justice league international. Why. You were a lad. No you were more than that. You were MY lad. What happened to you ? You used to be the guy. Back in the day you were more justice leaguey than the main justice league book. But now. God. Look at you. Your about average. HOW DID THIS HAPPEN. You had a gid team. Not a grate team but ll the pieces were there. Plenty of lads. The problem is nobody really got to do anything. Yeah you beat tron lined kirby space miner dude. Fair enough likes but that was a hell of a long time ago. Yeah damn. Those were the glory days. But now its the end of days. The JLI is ending. Depressing. Why DC. Why. Yeah its not been as gid. But harsh likes. Ill miss you JLI you were a lad. Ill never forget that. You are a lad. Manly tears people of the internet. Manly tears

MUDMAN #4

written and art by pual girst

Buy mudman please. Its so very very gid. Its about this guy with mud powers. He's a lad. You knew I was going to say he was a lad and I just did. Right there. Because he is. Hmmm how to explain. Its a very well written and drawn comic. Hmmm well that was short. Its a very British comic. Now not in that novelty all Britain is England and of Britain is London kind of way. No its got that special laid back casual tone to it. And there's this bus likes. The sheer VIBE. Of this bus. It's practically indescribable. Its an actual British bus. Pretty standard stuff I here here you say. Naw pal. That bus made my day. What ever day that was. Last Friday or was it Saturday ? See what I mean about time moving too fast but also way too slow ? So the Paul girst lad. He's knocking the book out the park. Aye very American way of saying its damn fine comic but I feel a book this good deserves it. People should read mudman. Its very gid.

AVENGERS VS X-MEN #5

written by team marvel art by jr jr

So I hope you all remember what Tony stark did during civil war. I remember. You should all remember. He was a god damn Nazi. An honest to god Nazi. I'm not joking and I'm not taking the pish. I want to like iron man. But god damn do marvel make it hard to like that negative zone concentration camp building bastard. Id welcome it if marvel ever tried to do a new fifty two style reboot so that all the insane character ruing things stark did could be washed away. Now I have to say with this issue stark might have puled it back. He built an iron mecha and used it to kill the phoenix. It was glorious. And I know what your saying. I can here you now. But stark has built mecha before. Aye fair enough. Last time I noticed was the hulk buster armour from world war hulk and that was no that flashy. Aye so big lad stark might and I say might just have pulled it back. Oh aye this comic was avengers vs x-men. Sorta forgot about that what with all this mecha talk. Aye so Cyclops's x-men team is the phoenix now. Yes all of them. Yeah Cyclops was a MASSIVE bastard before but god damn he's more unbearable now than ever. Also namor king of the oceans has fire god powers now. Aye naw pal. I hope the ocean takes namor aside at some point down the like and asks him what the shite he's up to. Aye so a quite liked this issue.

WORLD EXCLUSIVE!

World Exclusive! Joe's FPS Zombie Robot game, a charming indie title that is not a aaa game on store shelfs, will be available soon. Corporate restructuring has mean that the entire 3d modelling department needs replacing, but Creative Director Joe Morgan Assures us that won't stop him, in an exclusive interview with madhatpirates own Craig.

"Joe Morgan It'll look and feel like a proper game, and the players won't know the rooms are being randomly generated. if the generation code goes well, each room with have a lot of variety, and is only built when the player goes through the door. it will never be revealed."
"Craig Hamilton people will know"
"Joe Morgan they will not"

Voice cast is as yet unknown, but Jennifer Hale and Dunban are probably safe bets.
  

comic book quickies 30/5/12

AMERICA'S GOT POWERS #2

written by jonathan ross art by bryan hitch

This second issue has less fighting and more plot development as well as more time spent on the back story of the world. We learn that super powers have turned ever non powered person in the world into a god damn Nazi. Maybe there just being overly American. Its hard to tell. Amazingly the hero Tommy is still a pretty cool guy and is even aware that he could become a bastard because of the type of world that he lives in. the nature of the actual Americas got powers tv show is pretty damn grim and this issue really dosent hold back on this as we get a montage of injuries and deaths the show inflicts on these super powered young people. So that's all fairly grim but the end of the issue reveals that those with super powers in this universe cant truly die and can even heal there injuries. So yeah that's kinda cool. I did enjoy this issue but the nature of the show was a real downer but the reveal that ever ones fine was sort of a pick me up. Its still fairly grim that these super people are put through horrible events for nothing and when they lose there imprisoned for what could be forever. Americas got powers continues to surprise me with how much I'm enjoying it. We're two issues in and the main hero isn't a bastard. Id call that a win.

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL #39

written by Briann reed art by lee garbett

This. Was. Grate. Its a wonderful life plot in reverse and with spider-man. So the world would be a much better place if peter Parker never existed. Norman Osborn invents the cure for cancer. Norman the god damn Osborn invents the god damn cure for god damn cancer. Aye. In a world ware there's no spider-man for him to go loopy over Norman Osborn invents the cure for cancer. Not reed Richards. Not Tony stark. Not even hank Pym. Norman Osborn. NORMAN OSBORN. Oh wells this was a damn gid read with a fine mix of comedy and heart. Basically uncle Ben is a lad. He's still a live in this new time line but he knows he'll die if he helps peter put things back the way there meant to be but he like you gotta go live peter. Why ? Because I'm a lad that's why. The main point this book is trying to hammer home is that the world is probably better off without spider-man but peters friends are much better off with him in the world. Yeah id rather have the cure for cancer. Its all silly though. Spider-man has saved the world a thousand times over and and if he never existed at all there'd probably be not much left of the world by this point. A damn fine comic that's well worth a read.

BATMAN ANNUAL #1

written by scott snyder art by james tynion

Well this was depressing. Is that the point of Mr freeze story's ? I haven't read enough in continuity freeze storeys to know. Well this issue was all about him. Well it was all about this new version of Mr freeze for this new universe. Gotta say I don't like this new version all that much. He's just a crazy bastard. I get that to tangle with batman on a regular basis you've got to be pretty out of your nut but this Mr freeze is just a little off for me. Spoilers but this new ice guys wife isn't really his wife and is just some random woman that was frozen back in the 1940s that freeze is obsessed with. Ok so it was a cool reveal and a new take on and old story. Fair enough. But isn't that point of Mr freeze that he's a tragic villain doing criminal acts to save the woman he genuinely loves ? Isn't he meant to be less insane than your regular bat bad guy ? Isn't he meant to know on some level what he's doing is wrong but is blinded to reality by genuine love ? Isn't that what's cool and different about him that makes him an interesting character ? Well maybe this version is more appropriate for a darker batman and might fight in well with that darker rouges gallery but I really don't dig him. Apart from that the annual was pretty gid. Freezes banter with the penguin was entertaining and I was surprised to see the plot tied in with the current night of the owl's arc with freeze giving the owls there regenerating powers. One thing that gets me though is why do prisons and asylums keep super villains costumes and there tech on-site. Isn't that just asking for trouble ? With freeze I can kind of understand why they keep his suit there in case they have to move him but for the love of fuck why don't they keep his stuff in a heated room? Comics man. some times they just get to me.

FF #18

written by Jonathan Hickman art by Nick Dragotta

This was some damn fine comics fun right here. Nothing big and nothing fancy. Just loads of fun. Jonny storm is left in charge of the FF when everybody ell's is off world fixing a kree sun. hilarity ensues. I quite like when anything happens the to the FF the answer is all ways a field trip. Here's no different with Johnny leading the kids on a trip to the negative zone and like I said it was a lot of fun. Its just nice to see johnny being king of the negative zone and its not like he's bumbling his way through. No he is lord and master of the negative zone and the bugs that inhabit the zone treat him as such. Well they did. For like ten pages. The bugs demand free elections and johnny's weirdly cool with that. And then they go ahead and vote for annihilus. Gotta say the bugs were being kind of awesome here. There plan was just to vote there old leader back in. it might work. Its not like johnny storm of the universe famous fantastic four can deny them democracy. So I'm still loving the FF. Now I had my doubts about the book back when the main fantastic four book came back from the dead. I assumed the the FF would become the filler book. Now it kind of has but not really. Its the kids book. Which Is a good thing. This is the is book ware we get to see the foundation being the foundation. Something we didn't get to see during its first fifteen issues or so.

comic book quickies 28/5/12

THE FLASH #9

Written by Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato art by Francis Manapul

Now this was a hole lot of fun. Its the flash vs gorilla grod. Nice classic super hero action but at the same time it drives the plot forward quite a bit. I quite like that the writers are trying to tie the speed force into other aspects of DC continuity. Here they have gorilla city being built around the “light” which is later shown to be the speed force. Well maybe that's always been the case. Research ? What's that ! Also this issue Barry comes down with a case of explosive amnesia. He dose get over it fairly quickly but I personally found the resolution satisfying plus it had the classic sliver age vibe the comic was going for. We find out that the flash's true destiny is to run. He's literally told that he keeps the planet safe just by running. FUCK YES.

AQUAMAN #9

written by Geoff Johns art by Ivan Reis

Silly Aquaman you don't belong in the rainforest. This book is still trundling along nicely. Yeah its mainly the art that's keeping it worth reading but the story's not half bad either. Also the fact that Aquaman has his own book again is crazy cool. This issue we get a little more insight into Aquamans team. This time focusing on the prisoner. Sadly the issue wasn't spent in a welsh village with psychedelic spy action. Its nice to see that every time a new character is introduced they turn out to be a better Aquaman than Aquaman is. By that I mean Aquaman is the generic guy of the aqua family. He's got super strength, can breath underwater and can talk to fish. Cools. Have you seen the shite mera can do ? Crazy tidal wave telekinesis type shite. Not that that's a bad thing. I do like generic red ranger Aquaman but is definitely a thing that exists. Spoilers guys but at the end of the issue were told that in a fit of rage after black manta attacked his dad Aquaman killed black mantas dad. Eh naw pal. I know your trying to make Aquaman all gritty and cool but that's too far geoff. I'm willing to see ware this is going but I really don't know what to think if this is played straight.

GREEN LANTERN NEW GUARDIANS #9

written by Brain Tony Bedard art by Tyler Kirkham

Hmmm. Now this is tricky. I quite liked this issue. In fact it was pretty fun. So that's really cool coming from a book that's been pretty disappointing for most of its run. This issue we finally, FINALLY get the fight between the blue lanterns and the reach that was promised WAY back at the start of the current blue beetle run. And its a lot of fun. I totally forgot that the beetle suits could change form. It feels like an age since that gimmick was used in the actual blue beetle comic. I'm not really sure why but blue lanterns are just plain awesome. Dunno why. There are sort of weak and don't do all that many plot relevant things as well as being space hippies. But dammit there cool. Maybe its the combination of my favourite colour and the emotion hope. So yes the month brought a nice step up in quality that I hope continues.

TEEN TITANS #9

written by Scott Lobdell art by IG Guara

Here's the thing. I missed part three of the culling. It happened in this months issue of legion lost. Now I would have got it had I known that the culling was going to be one of those events ware you had to buy multiple books. But I didn't know soon enough so I missed it. Here's the thing though. I don't feel like I missed anything. Sure things must have happened in that legion lost issue but I'm guessing nothing major. To be fair I have quite enjoyed this wee event. Nothing really blew my mind but nothing really offended me ether and I cant accuse it of taking too long or losing it's momentum. That seams to be a thing about event comics this year. Even marvels avengers vs x-men is running every other week.

FANTASTIC FOUR #606

written by Jonathan Hickman art by Ron Garney

Damn there's no slowing down these fantastic four books likes. Last week we had an awesome if a little heavy point one issue and now just a week later we have this crazy fun fantastic voyage one and done standalone issue. That's all this issue really is, a fantastic voyage to the centre of the fantastic fours post man willie lumkins brain to kill some cancer dead. Its a simple story but its done just so damn well. Every point plot and trope you'd expect to see is here and played straight. Gloriously straight. Its one of those issues ware the fantastic four do very fantastic four-ish things and the fantastic voyage is one of those story's you or at least I Imagen happen to the four all the god damn time.

BATMAN INC SEASON 2 #1

written by grant Morrison art by Chris Burnham

This was AMAZING. I knew it would be and it more than lived up to my expectations. Which is rare. Most times I over hype things in my head. This did have a tough act to follow. The main bat book has been god damn spectacular for nine solid months. Never doubt Morrison though. This was crazy awesome. Its got batman and robin being batman and robin. Fighting crime. HELLS TO THE GOD DAMN BELLS. Plot wise leviathan is starting to take control of Gotham and has put a bounty out on the head of Damien Wayne. That's the basic plot summery but that in no way dose it justice. Every page is overflowing with STUFF happening. Both visually and with glorious dialogue. So I'm really looking forward to the months to come as we now have two dam gid bat books with both this and synders batman. Yeah I here good things about batman and robin but meh I dropped that back at issue one. I gave it a chance and it was too un fun. So Morrison's bat god is back ! Canny wait for more.

comic book quickies 16.5.12

AVENGERS #26

written by Brain Michael Bendis art by Walter Simonson

Well this wasn't what I was expecting at all. This world man. Its crazy. You go to your friendly neighbourhood comic book shop to pick up a copy of the avengers and what do you get ? A story all about the secret avengers! This world man I'm telling you its totally mental sometimes. Well I suppose its more a noh var spotlight issue so that's cool. We really don't know all that much about the young kree lad, its not like we learn all that much more about him here but whatevers. Now it is sort of weird that captain America sends this avenger team and not to mention his close friend Thor on what he calls a suicide mission. I like to think his reasoning is that Thor died pretty recently and just came back so he probably wont die any time soon.

BLUE BEETLE #9

written by Tony Bedard art by Marcio Takara

Now this was ok. Just ok. It was a slight step up from what we've had from this book recently. So that's something at least. The main problem I have with book is Jamie isn't having fun. The scarab battle suit isn't any fun. The beetle place within the world of the new fifty two isn't any fun. So I'm really not digging this blue beetle on the run arc. Its just not what I want from the character. All DC have to do is have Jamie in some fun super hero adventures where he's a inexperienced rookie. Now they kind of have that going on here with the star kid vibe the first few issues had and you do get the point that Jamie has no idea what he's doing or how to be a hero but there still missing that vitally important fun part.

SUPER GIRL #9

written by Michael Green and Mike Johnson art by Mahmud Asrar

Now this was a damn good comic. Damn good. I'm tempted to say this was the best issue of super girl that iv read since issue one. It was just so darn fun. And as you'd expect from I comic I really liked it did have a lot of fighting. Which is always funky. Now I did think that last issue was a good change of pace breather issue and I did kind of want that to continue. I would have been really happy if supergirl just sat around all issue chilling with her Irish gal pal. Well I guess that wasn't to be. Oh wells wall to wall fighting is just as good. I know a lot of people out there think fighting alone cant carry a comic and I'm willing to concede that's partially true but I have to give credit to this comic its some what interesting fighting. Now its nothing mind blowing but its not like its supergirl spamming one paunch over and over and suer girls powers were going mental and that led to the standard not trying to hurt civilians routine that I'm glad dint take the dark path and have her kill or maim anyone. Yeah so supergirls a kinda sorta solid comic.

JUSTICE LEAGUE #9

written by geoff johns art by jim lee

This was interesting. Not great. But interesting. Really it was just a lot of set up and not very justice league-ish set up at that. Like the last few issues it felt very small. Well not very small but smaller than it should be for the big super star flag ship that it started out as. There was time spent showing that the justice league are people too and that they have there own emotional problems that will most likely pay off further down the line but I dunno man all of the emotional problems felt quite hollow to me. I like to think that by the time they all come together to form the league they'd have all there shit together. Now I know I'm alone in this but I really don't get what the big deal is with jim lees art. Yeah there was points in the first five issues ware I could kind of see what people liked about it but not here. At least when non super powered stuff was happening. The back up story still shows billy batson as being a bastard. Yes I'm sure the big goff lad is building to something and billy probably will get some charter development to become an actually likeable. now yes he dose shown signs of development this issue but right now he's still a bastard. Which is really odd. After flashpoint I'm sure everybody was fine with that version of captain marvel becoming the actual version. Its just weird is all.

AVENGERS VS X-MEN #4

written by team marvel art by jr jr

Sow how powerful is the phoenix force ? Yeah I know it can destroy planets. Big deal galatus dose that every other day. The fantastic four can take galatus so can they take the phoenix ? Well the x-men were able to defeat it back in the day so I'm pretty sure the avengers alone could take it. Yeah I'm saying the x-men suck ass. Deal with it. They make so much the phoenix being this world ending thing but I just cant get into that. I'm my head I see it as just another x-men villain. This issue was sort of terrible. Very little actual fighting going on and yeah there was a lot of one off panels showing fighting happening but there just there to advertise the tie ins. I know that's the done thing for events theses days but I still don't like it. Emma frost trys her hand a narrating this issue and as you'd expect she's just terrible at it. Somehow it still feels like a ninety's anti hero doing the voice over commentary. Now don't get me wrong I love the ninety's as much as the next man buy this was just an odd choice. So big wolverines back on the avengers side by the end of the issue. That makes his fight with captain America last issue totally pointless. Yay marvel !

A VS X THE FIGHTS #2

written by steve mcniven and kieron gillen art by john dell and salvador larroca

Now I suppose I shouldn't complain about the lack of fighting in the main avengers vs x-men book when we have this lovely little title that's all fighting. First up we have captain America vs gambit. Thankfully cap won. Can you imagine if they had written gambit as the winner ? MADNESS. Now don't me wrong I like gambit that lad can totally rock pink but captain America is a living legend and I don't get how someone can get it in there head that they could take him. Second fight is spider-man vs colossus. In latveria. I like how the avengers think hope is hanging out in latveria. It just makes so much sense ! Oh wait no it dosent. Now the fight itself was quit gid as it was basically just spider-man vs the juggernaut and the comic gives the fight to colossus. Naw man. Just naw.