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 50th 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 !
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