Comic book quickies !

 

Well holy god damn funk. This week was a week likes. No lies. God damn near everything was out. If I wasn't so cheap there'd be MUCH more here to review. But even then all this stuff that is here is fan bloody tastic. Comics like. Some times there aw just magical.

THE SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN #6

written by dan slott art by humberto ramos

So doc ock loses his shite this ish. Like really loses his shite. Live on the internet. Its not a pretty sight to see. Brutalises these two goof ball villains. Aye they werny funny and deserved a bit of a kicking new generation scumm that they are. But damn son. Ock takes it too far. Apart from that though. Really fun issue ! Yup. SS continues to be a hell of a vibey read. I mean its soo good I just assume all the hate for it has died down. I mean come on people. Big ocks quite the lad when hes not being a dick. That's gotta count for something. The science chef is still being a science chef. Fuck yas likes. Fuck yass. Part from that there's not much to say this week sadly. Things continued the way thieve being going. Ock STILL dosent gee a fuck. He's not even trying to stealth his way threw being peter parker. Its really quite endearing actually.

ALL NEW XMEN #9

written by brian michael bendis art by stuart immonen

It just keeps being amazing people ! The quality is off the FUCKING charts. This is big bendis at the top of his game ! Its a sight ! To see ! I have to shout this review at you ! Yes ! Its one of those comics ! We're at issue nine ! And it hasn't dipped in quality ! Like not at all ! Can you believe that ! Because I cant ! Maybe its some drug thieve concealed in the pages of the actual comic ! Yeah that has to be it ! Its the only explanation ! Ill calm doon now. I'm very sorry. Aye so. Every one who was being a lad is STILL a lad. And Cyclops is still the most loveable horrible bastard to ever live. Basically everything is right with the world. Even kid jean grey gets called out or her evil shite from the last issue. I'm blaming the 60s hair for it basically. And as the cover promises, mystic and sabre-tooth are cutting aboot toon. So really. You canny complain there. Special mention has to go to the art. Immonen is REALLY knocking it out of the park. Has to be said. The art is perfect to the tone. Its fast and floowy cartoony stuff perfect for banter but also action. Also I'm HIGHLY exited for the next issue which I hope is just cover to cover dick moves from auld Cyclops the ultimate bastard. So ayes. READ ALL NEW X MEN !

ULTIMATE COMICS SPIDER-MAN #21

written by brian michael bendis art by sara pichelli

I still quite like milles folks. It was a hard sell if you remember. I was fairly upset they killed off big ultimate pete. Guy died like a punk. A controversial statement I knows. But that's how I feel about the whole thing. And then we get miles. And you know me. I fear and despise any and all change. To be fair though. Big milies is an actual lad. The kid really won me over. Pretty much instantly. Him and big gahnk. Utter lads . I waffle on like this because I noticed were at issue 21 . has it really been that many issues ? Wowzers likes. I didny think it was anything like that. They just really wizzed by didn't they ? Not all were park knocker outers to be fair. Always readable Is the thing. Miles dad right. He's made of plasticine. Gets a wee bumped on the head then decides to die. Its like worse than the instant cancer. Now ayes. That could be realistic and aww that. But come on, mileses dad just likes to find new ways to be a cunt. He's down on super heroes for some reason. Probably because he's auld. He thinks killing hydra goons is a BAD thing. And now his just gona up and die at the drop of a hat. Fella needs to man up if you ask me.

 

SUPERGIRL #18

written by frank hannah art by robson rocha

Don't be fooled by that cover comic fans ! The writers have changed ! Apparently ! Now the change over dose seem quite promising. They seem to be adding power girl to the mix. Something I'm sure very few people will complain about. Big lex luther too. He seems to have a ranger team on the go as well. Is that a thing from the superman book ? Even if its just new its fairly nifty. Apparently supergirl got krytionite poisoning at the end of he'll on earth. Just another thing I missed. Don't fear though. Supergirl dose indeed fight a fool. So basically. Its still got the whole supergirl fighting vibe. Small victory right there. Arts quite funktastic too.

 

AMETHYST #6

written by christy marx art by marc anderyko

This is tough likes. I bring sad news. You may want to sit down. It may come as a bit of a shock. Ok ? Are you ready ? Right so. Amethyst. Its lost a wee bit of its swagger. Hhhhhm. God. It even hurts to type that. Now I'm not saying its suddenly goat shite. No. not at all. Its just lost a bit of its swagger. Back in the day. Like six issues ago it had such fantastic swagger. It brought us hope likes. It made our lives better. It was this incredibly girly comic that was AWESOME. You expect to see that kinda thing from anime not a big comics company like DC. What's the source of this swag drain you ask ? Wells its kinda muddied its epic world waters. Folk are just crossing over willy nilliy. Which dosent necessarily have to be a bad thing. Big constatine is generally always welcome. But not every other issue like. This month fucking eclipso jumped. That just sorta really sucks and feels more than a bit corporate mandatey. Fuck off eclipso is aw I can really muster from my brain. They do a fairly aw right job to integrate him into the word but I gotta say. It just dosent sit right with me. So yeah. Nothing out right bad and its far from hateful its just had a few wee miss steps. Hopefully over the next few months it can regain its lost swagger.

 

GREEN LANTERN NEW GUARDIANS #18

written by tony bedard art by hendry prasetyo , jim calafiore, javier pulido

Now in direct contrast to the comic above here we have a book gaining more and more swagger as it go's on . Swagger ascendant if you will. It really can not be stressed enough how much new guardians has improved since its zero issue. What's more amazing is it seems to be down to a change in artist. How dose that work ? Not sure. Like at all. I'm not going to question it though. Fucking love what this book has become. What is that you ask ? Pure awesomeness. Somehow. Possibly threw dark magic this book has gone from being very average to fooking brilliant. Ayes. Be happy for humanity. This first lantern arc has really accelerated the ladness even further. Last issue we goat kyle ryner channelling simon the digger. This ish we get the rest of the team channelling simon. Its .. its beautiful. I might actually have cried. Each member of the team refuses to except ANY of the first lanterns pish. Like no amount of it at all. THIS IS EVERTHING I WANT TO SEE FROM COMICS ! LONG MAY THIS RUN CONTIUE !

 

ACTION COMICS #18

written by grant morrison art by rags morales and brad walker

Ohohohohoh ! This is it sports fans ! The big one ! Morrison's last action comics. Tearing up a bit even now. So yes. Its utterly mental. In that very special Morrison way. And its very much the end. Its very last issue. Not in a kill em all way. More in things are kinda sorta explained kind of way. I thought it was AWESOME. Plenty of superman fighting crazy folk. Iv herd complaints of clunkiness. Fair play likes. Id say it was intentionally clunkie But that just might not work for some folk. It has an OMNIMON ending thaw. That's the best kind of ending possible for any story in any universe ! I liked this run. I have to say. Way back in the beginning I think its safe to say. The whole world was hyped. BIG grant Morrison on a superman on going. I think it went well. Though it was defiantly odd. The thing is we were ready for it to be odd. It was just a different kind of odd. A kind of odd that took us off guard. Its a shame really. Morrison's sort of slipped from his red ranger pedestal during the new 52. usurped by synder and the other younglings. Morrison probs dosny gee a fuck. So its fine. But it is something to keep in mind when thinking of the sheer depths of this generations giant bastardness. I will miss you action comics. Normally id say I'm looking forward to the next teams run but I here the next guy has already quit. Soo. Yeah. Lets wait and see what happens.

JUSTICE LEAGUE #18

written by geoff johns art by jesus saiz

BIG BARRY ALLAN. The greatest hero to ever live ! The man who takes time in one hand and space in the other and SMASHIES them together ! Why ? FOR LADNESS. That's right. That's how humanity's new GOD KING rolls. This week he took it upon himself to take up the comic relief slack left by hal jordan. It was a grate burden. But barrys MANLY back could carry it. So aye. Gid issue. Really quite liked it my self. Hell of a vibe. Putting a team together. Well more like adding new members to the current roster. That's fine though. It was done in a nicely casule way. Having the new members up to the watch tower for tea was a funky way to do it. AYES to be fair shit dose get a bit pair shaped. The metal man woman platinum go's a wee bit mad ted and the others have to take her down. A damn shame if you ask me. She seemed like a lot of fun. Well I suppose you cant have everything. COUSE big element woman might be on the team ! Yay ! Goota credit the goff on a good decision there. Its nice element woman's kicking about in this universe after her grate successes flashpoint. Aye. Very nice issue of justice league. Now aye it was a breather issue and it wasn't all that epic. But like I say. It was well done ! Not at all sure what the whole add super villains to the team thing was at the end of last ish. Maybe there going somewhere with that.

SAGA #11

written by brian k. vaughan art by fiona staples

Saga there. Being the most saga ish it could be. Like you know what I mean folks. You've read it. I diiny have to talk about it. I'm a gentleman after all. Saga though. What's it like. Just cutting about with the best banter. What more really is there to say. It has the best banter. The wills still being a lad. Surprisingly. We were told early on that he's a monster. So I guess we're building to something with him. Shames really that his awesomeness is soured in that way.

comic book quickies: its still march !

Fairly light week all in all. Took me by surprise it did. Still batman was out. That always makes it a solid week. OR DOSE IT. READ ON !

 

BATMAN #18

written by scott snyder art by andy kubert

Uuuuurrrhgh. Your going to hate me like. Canny be helped. I didn't think this issue was all that gid. Now calm doon. It wasny pish or anything. I just didny personally like it all that much. Its aww about them bastards. What's there faces. Canny mind there names. Like I could check. I have the comic right here. Kinda my point though. I don't care about theses characters. Its that brother and sister team from earlier in the run. Dave and not dave ill call them. Not dave is the one who saved batman after he escaped the court of owls maze thingy. You can already see why I don't like her. Both of them feel VERY fan ficy. There young and cool. Actual bastards. We get some back story on there bastard dad. Don't care. Just don't care. Now big batman himself is in the issue. Going a wee bit mad. Damien is apparently actually dead and bats taking his rage out on street punks. The main driving point of the story is bats isny sleeping and he's going to get himself killed if he dosent stop. I don't buy it. I feel like even though his son is dead batman wid be more controlled. Ayes he can go berserk but its only his son and really. Its kinda sucky that there going with the whole genre blind thing. When bats “died” at the end of final crisis did the bat family actually think he was dead ? DID THEY FUCK. I just feel the bat god should be aware of comic book death. Secondly. Get himself killed ? After a week of fighting street punks ? Get tea fuck. This is a batman were talking about. He is a god. He can do anything. Now ayes. New universe and younger batman. But come on folks. That's just weak. Thirdly ! Its not dave that snaps bats out of his funk. You see ware the fan ficky ness comes in now ? Now yes I will say not dave brings up some decent points. I cant really fault what she has to say. Its just coming from her it like a slap in the face. She's just some person. A bloody mortal. Some mook off the street. This issue dose have a pretty niffty fight with a venom infused dog. So it evens out in the end. Heh.

SUPERBOY #18

written by scott lobdell and tom defalco AND tony lee art by r.b silva and iban coello

Come on now superboy. Could you for one issue STOP with the god damn exposition dump intro. For god damn fuck sake. We KNOW your a living weapon. You TELL us that every SINGLE issue. Its driving me INSANE. I just cant take it any more. I kid. Its only a wee nit pick of mine. And who am I to complain about repetition. Likes. Superboy by the way. Its all right. like iv said before. Its no mind blowing and it defiantly has its up and downs. I should drop it. I cant though. I just cant ! Because madness. Also some issues I do quite enjoy. Like this one. It was pretty fun. I dunno why man. Maybe it just appealed to my monster of the week sensibility's. Its a sort of journey to centre on the mind plot. Superboys mind that is. That is some guy like accidentally then on purpose invades superboys mind. I say some guy. Its Dr pycho. No idea if he's new or not. Totes could be for all I know. I'm sorry my lack of DC continuity shames both me and my family. So the he'l on earth arc ended. I assume it went well. I don't get superman you see. Earth looks ok though. So alls well. Big lex luthor appearers at the very end here so maybe the book will be going somewhere at some point. Cools like. Its not like superboys been aww that meaningful a book up to now. Ill keep reading. Maybe it will get consistent at some point. Hopefully !

 

FANTASTIC FOUR #5

written by matt fraction art by mark bagley

See this pals. This right here. This actual comic. This is a episode of Dr who. Don't know what ell's to say. Just every single thing about it was Dr who ish. Like trope for trope guys. Its very much a time traveller messing with time story. This time it was accidental which was nifty. We even get a nice fillery money shot monster fight. Noice loikes. The fantastic four themselves are pretty un shocked by the weirdness of the other time traveller and his exploits. Fair play likes. They ARE the fantastic four after all. No matter what. Thieve ALLWAYS weirder shite. I quite like that running joke about them. I am likening this run. Its pretty much basic domestic FF nes. That's cool likes. That's pretty much what the four should be about. We do have the added benefit that its a road trip threw time and space. It could do with more Hawaiian shirts in my opinion though. Sues still the most hateful being in existence. Iv come to expect that. its just her thing. Aye reed kept A secret from you. CALM THE FUCK DOON. He's a bastard. You know this. And its no like sues the pinnacle of human morality. Big namor anybody ? So aye. Damn fine comic booking ! I do like it really ! Despite the horrible things I say !

 

AGE OF ULTRON BOOK TWO

written by brain michael bendis art by bryan hitch

Well this was a surprise. Genuinely didn't ken this was going to be a weekly thing. It is a weekly thing right ? Hella awesome stuff there marvel. Ayes they might have had this sitting for two or so years. But damn son. You canny beat momentum. Its just the best likes. Ayes. It will be expensive. But come on pals. EVENT MOMENTUM. its still very pretty likes. Ayes I guess that's the main selling point here. Big hitch is doing a bang up job. Cant fault it. Wells. I can. Though its probably just a nit pick. The book reads fast. If you get me. You start it and boom. Its done. Its just not very dense. I noticed it in the first issue but I thought id wait and see how things went before bringing it up. Maybe we've just been spoiled by big dan slott and his ultra dense spidy story's. Ayes. That might just be it. Plot wise this issue was fine. Weirdly about the black widow and moon night. Guh. Likes. They were cutting about nick fury's secret underground barber shop thaw. Always awesome when that pops up. Peter parker slept threw the apocalypse. Ayes. Bendis. Ill give you that. That was a nice touch. Still not buying ultron is capable of aww this shite. Really. I ask you. Evil robot invades and conquers earth. THE fuck is big DOOM at. Cant Imagen he'd stand for any of ultrons shite. Like not at all. The issue did have one highly enjoyable moment to be fair. CAPTAIN AMERICAS BACK ON HIS FEET. Safe to say. My expectation are high for the next ish.

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wells freinds. here we are. this is happening. BEHOLD ! the launch of mad hat tv !! this first one is a little wonky. but its a start !

 

 

 

 

Comic book quickies march whenevers

THE SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN #5

written by dan slott art by giuseppe camuncoli

Aye. So aye. Aye hi hi ! Big superior spider-man. That slott. Just blasting them out. No complaining likes. I here slight rumblings that it well end soon ish . Which if true is a damn shame. I'm fairly likening big doc ock and yami petes adventures together. Now ayes. Big ocks no aware of pete. Yet. Hopefully when it happens both party's will be cool about it and set out on a buddy cop adventure. This issue was pretty gid. Ock gets a new supporting cast member in the form of a crazy amazingly one piece ish science chef and he deals with massacre. Now ayes. Ock MIGHT have shot him. But I'm guessing because they didn't show the actual death that he's no actually killed him. We shall see though. Time will tell. Dinny ken how to feel if he has killed massacre. That's a step too far. Even if the bastard deserved it. Like the bastard REALLY dossny deserve to live. Aye. Now that's the point of his character. But I dinny know man. Him just killing folk left right and centre just kinda takes a lot of the fun away. Maybe its just me. When you start putting villains in story's that just kill folk it kinda takes some of the magic away. Like aye. The hero probably shid kill him. That just makes the hero less hero ish if you ask me. In super hero comics that is. And aye I know there's plenty of killers in auld spidys rouges gallery. I dinny like to think about it like that though. It spoils a certain amount of buddy copness for me.

IRON MAN #7

witten by kieron gillen art by greg land

Glorious ! Actually glorious ! The had me at iron man in space but then the backed it by actually making it good. It was a little concerning likes. The first five or so issues were classy monster of the week fun. Aye there was an over arching plot but the individual issues were ooo so monster of the week. So moving it to this we bit more ongoing plottyness was slightly concerning. Well not really. But it is marketed as a tie in / aftermath to last years A vs X. which is slightly weird considering we're now onto the next big event. Don't let it put you off though. Its cracking stuff. What's not to love. Everybody's at least a little fond of auld shell head and space its self is way wicked. Rad even. This issue we get big tony stark cutting about space jail dressed as a jedi bantering with his transformer lawyer buddy then shit gets amazing when tony takes to the arena to clear his name with a spot of gladiatorial combat. atualy love comics. Now aye. Greg land is STILL on art duties. Its still fine though. Id go as far to say it even looks a bit gid. Controversial I know. The glossiness just sort of works for this run. Its no bad thing. Also his name is fairly easy to spell. That makes me happy.

 

ALL NEW X MEN #8

written by brian michael bendis art by david marquez

Mmmmmmm. Ayes. Tasty comic right here. Damn likes. We live in a world. With a good x men comic. Now now. Calm doon likes. Calm doon. I troll. I'm sure there are some damn fine x men comics out there. It just was never my bag. I admit that. I'm just no a big x men fan. This though. Hot damn. This is an actual comic. I wasny too hyped when we aww herd big bendis was leavening the avengers and moving to x men. Aye I was aww like ill give it a go. Genuinely wasny expecting to like it. Not enough to continue with it. How god damn amazingly wrong was aye likes. Now one of my esteemed colleague said to me recently this was possible the best of the marvel now stuff. I kinda have to agree. The only thing that could contest it would be iron man. On its best day though. All new x men has been both constantly grate and cranked out at rapid fire pace. canny fault that. Like in no way. This ish mostly focused on angel and kid angel witch is gid. Kid angle seemed a bit fun and it was nice to see him get a bit of time to banter about. Also the avengers made an appearance. inevitable but very nicely done. They had to find out about the original x men being in the present at some point. And yeah. Jean grey is like waaaaaay evil. That's already a thing. For some reason. Cant really explain it or give you any context for it. Its not like she's a super villain. But if she was her actions would make more sense. Maybe scots just made of evil and contact with him turns others evil. Those wacky x men. What are they like !

AGE OF ULTRON BOOK ONE

written by brian michael bendis art by bryan hitch

So this happened. Genuinely wasn't expecting it so soon. It actually stealthed its way up on me. And it was fine. Nothing to flashy and nothing too bad. Well there was one thing but we will get to that in a bit. Aye. So ultron. Meh ? Is he really that big a deal ? I know it dosent really matter. But I duuno man. I like robots. Robots are way cool likes. I'm no knocking robots. And I know ultrons probably kicking about with an army or some super weapon shit but last time he started shite the avengers took him doon in like a arc. I mean. Just look at that cover. Do you believe he just took all those fools ? And FUCKING hawk eye is the last man standing ? I just dinny believe it. God damn hawk eye likes. Its mostly him we follow in this first issue. And I'm fine with that. Really I am. I'm sick to god damn death of hawk eye. But its only the first issue. And's I can take it. Ill complain if he continues to be the focus. So it seams ultron has won and the marvel heroes are cutting about a dark escape from new York future. Cools. Loota room there for fun stuff. This issue really didn't do much with it but really that's what most event number ones are like. Aye so over all it was just fine. Nothing mind blowing though the art was pretty gorgeous from hitch. Lots of wreaked architecture and that. Now see that one big thing that was wrong with it ? That be the last page. Offffft that last page likes. There's not a single thing they could have done that could be more offensive to my sensibility. Right. So get this. Big captain America. The legend of our youth. Is soo broken by the apparent victory of ultron that he has to sit in the corner and cry. Aye pal. FUCK NO. I don't care how badly the heroes lost. I don't care how many people died. I don't care how utterly hopeless the situation is. At no point would captain FUCKING America give up let alone sit in the corner and sulk. It widdny matter if he was the sole surviving human being on the planet. That man would be out there. Fighting the fight ! Did anybody see how he dealt with the last days of fear itself ? Shite looked hopeless then. His shield was broken. Dude just ladded up and carried on. Admittedly he went a little insane but he did so in a lad way. So aye. Little disappointed in you there bendis

 

HAPPY # 4

written by grant morrison art by darick robertson

Ayes. So. Spoilers right. Better run if you dinny wanna here em. Because son. I'm just goona spoil the ending. Ayes so right. Here we go. So happy right. I think happy has a happy ending ! I know right ? How awesome is that. now I say I think it has a happy ending. I could be wrong likes. I could be interpreting it wrong or missing the point of certain bits and the last page in particular. But if I'm right how awesome ! Bloody big morrision likes. He can certainly do the dark stuff all right but most of what iv read from him him has ended well. And now we can maybe even add happy to that list. Cracking stuff likes. Last week I talked about how morrison gets comics. And he totally dose ! Now this issue really shows that off with a big cavalry charge from an army of imaginary friends. I gosh darn love cavalry charges in fiction. Its those big damn heroes moments that really are a huge part of why I like comics and films and that. There those very special moments that get across the purest emotions and joys. So aye. Happy was pretty damn good. Bleak as ALL FUCK. But ultimately well done. And we hope. We really hope. It was a deliberate parody of the work of mark miller. We hope.

GREEN LANTERN # 18

written by geoff johns art by alex sinclare and ardian syaf

Cracking adventures in the death zone ! Goota tell you. That's one happening place like. Seems like every cunt is hanging about there theses days. Trendy ass bastards if you ask me. Well they are dead. So that's goota be a downer I guess Wells I spouse there only kinda dead. Its confusing. Still though. This issue we get the first meeting of simon baz and big hal jordan. It dosny go all that well. Mainly because of sinestro. That big bastard. He went a tad ring mad. Slightly understandable because the universe is in danger. Still not the lad thing to do. Aye so by the end of the comic sinestro and baz are once again in the land of the living but hals still stuck half dead. He gets a weirdly awesome moment ware he considers suicide so he can become a black lantern to escape. Lets see how that plays out. It could get AMAZING. So green lantern likes. Its a whole thing isn't it. Its kinda like DC's biggest thing. Kinda actually is likes. Well aye batman and superman and that. So yeah. Green lanterns like the third big dude in book terms. And has been for ages. That's pretty nifty loikes.

DETECTIVE COMICS #18

written by john layman art by jason fabok

Dinny let that cover fool you. This issue has almost NOTHING to do with the death of damian wayne. Almost comically nothing to do with it really. There's like a page ware big Bruce is at the grave and is aww. Damians deed. Aww wells. Lets go drop in on the penguin. See what he's up to. Now it be aww well and fine if batman was raging. Just dropping fools left and right. But naw. He's incredibly calm. You'd expect him to go brutalize the penguin. But naw. He just beats him doon wea the banter. Good likes. Must be those legendary bat god nerves of steal ! Why shid the bat god care about the fate of lesser beings ! I kid though. Its probably because its a different writer and or damian isn't actually dead. We will have to wait and see really. Gid issue though. Detective comics has this damn interesting vibe going on. Its really quite special when I think about it. Its realistic but fun. Actually its a bit more than that. Its kind of difficult to pin down or to put into words. Basically I like it. And that's just awesome. Its got the penguins patter doon. That's important. The previous run had some bits and bobs with the penguin but honestly they felt a little boring. not so here. The dudes a bastard AND fun. Good combo likes. Its helps that there's a penguin plot going on ware he's losing his shit. Both figuratively and literally. So aye. Good times.

 

GREEN ARROW #18

written by jeff lemire art by andrea sorrentino

REALLY quite likening green arrow. Yes. Yes . This is actually happening. Not to be disparaging towards the character or trying new things. You know. I think its safe to say we're all just set in our ways. Too auld to change or come to a new way of thinking about things. No ? Just me then ? Fair play likes. I'm a pretty static guy. Change to me is a little bit like the devil. Now this issue. This issue was incredibly metal gear. Green arrow go's and gets him self an otacon and stealth's about a office looking for clues. Then during the cliff hanger he seemingly falls to his death while his new otacon shouts arrow ? ARROW !! ?? so ayes. Hella metal gear. Now that's a very good thing. Like evanglion metal gear is a great thing to blot to an existing franchise. The writing and art also combine to make things fantastically 90s. again its one of those thing I find hard to describe. But it feels very 90s. Very late 90s at that. Hella x files ish if you get me. Like if 1998 was a comic. This comic would be closely related to it. Ayes. So amazingly good comic. Id recommend it to pretty much anyone. Aye. Its yin of them bastards.

Comic book quickies double feature

Wells I missed a week back there so instead of skipping a week lets just go a wee bit mad and power through seventeen comics. Leafing threw two weeks of comics has really shown me how much I actualy get and the sheer quality of comics at the moment. I'm my opinion at least. I'm sure every generation thinks there comics are the best. Lest see if I'm as justified I'm my beliefs as those other glorious generations that came before.

MASKS #4

written by chris roberson art by dennis calero

I fucking love masks. Genuinely fucking love masks. Both this comic and actual masks. There both just so amazingly cool. My love of actual masks go's back a hell of a long way. I'm pretty sure in primary school we were read a story about teenagers wearing masks. Now I'm pretty sure the moral of the story was mask are bad and we should just be true to our self. What I took away from it was how fucking cool masks are. Crash bandicoots tiki masks just reinforced this in my mind. And hell. Super heroes in general. Most of the bastards ware masks. Its a whole thing. Now masks the comic has been pretty damn good. The first issue had art by alex ross so it was interesting to see if the story could hold up by its self without a super star artists. And yeah. It totes dose. I was looking for a book that scratched that particular golden age noire hero book for a wee bit but in my experience not a lot of comics out there play the eras tropes deservedly straight. There's a lot of deconstructions out there is what I'm getting at. Lots of stuff about golden age hero's being real and bastardly because of the standards of the time period. NONE of that here. Just proper old fashioned putting a team together fun. It dose a damn good job being a team book too. I know who like two maybe three guys on the team are but the books dose a good enough job of making everybody likeable that I WANT to find out who the others are and what there deal is. So basically you should give masks a try. If nothing ell's I can say will tempt you. Just remember. ZORO IS ON THE TEAM ! How awesome is that !

GREEN ARROW #17

wtitten by jeff lemire art by andrea sorrentino

Well man this was a genuinely happy surprise. I'm not really a green arrow fan. What I know of him is what iv seen in the justice league cartoon and batman the brave and the bold. Iv not watched any of the new show even though this jumping on point issue is most likely designed to appeal to the shows fans. In the spirit of checking out new number one issues I gave it a try. And yeah. Hella good comic. Its an amazingly first issue first issue. If that makes sense. What with it being issue seventeen of the book. A LOT of my love for it comes from the art. Its gorgeous. Very scratchy and indi. Its quite trendy but might not be to everybody's tastes. Its very shadow heavy and the faces sort of lack detail. Its fine though. It gets the tone across perfectly. Its slightly difficult for me to judge how well it dose as a comic about an arrow themed super hero. Cause aye I here hawk eye over at marvel is knocking it out of the park right now. Fuck hawk eye though. Sick to god damn death of him. So aye. Really happy I gave green arrow a try. Its been trailed in the adds in DC comics for what seems like a wee while now and because of its slightly grim and gritty cover I was a wee bit put off. It delivers though and ill definitely give the second issue a go to see if it can keep up the good work. Stay tuned.

 

UNCANNY AVENGERS #4

written by rick remender art by john cassaday

Offft. Pals. Actual quality comic right here. It practically ooozies quality. I'm not even kidding. I'm exaggerating obliviously but I'm not kidding. That's the overriding vibe of uncanny avengers. Quality. The writing. The art. Utter quality. So much soo that its become my avengers book of choice since big bendis stepped down from writing duties. The red skull right. The red skull is possibly the biggest bastard ever to live. We all know that. Its just this book takes the time to really hammer that home. Every thing he say's and dose is just there to emphasize just how much of a cunt he really is. Now I know I shouldn't be surprised by this. Its not like the skulls ever been any less of a bastard lately. Its just so god damn entertaining to watch him be as hateful as he can be. Its EVEN more entertaining to see big captain America not take any of the red skulls shite. Like not even for a second. The red skull is cutting around with professor xsaviers brain combined with his own. He's probably now the most powerful psychic on earth. He can mind wammy ENTIRE city's and make them mutant hateing monsters. He can shut down folks brains before they can get close enough to attack them. Dose captain America gee a shite ? Dose he FUCK. Cap just runs up and paunches him. Like a hero. That's this comic. Villains being UTTER bastards and heroes being AWESOME.

 

THE FLASH #17

written by francis manapul and brian buccellato art by francis manapul

For the past god knows how many issues gorilla grod and his army have been attacking central city. There have been many gorilla puns. It has been AMAZING. Its pretty much been a wee flash event. Well not a event. Its not been marketed as such. Its just an arc. It dose have that summer block buster vibe to it. Like it could have been easily jazzed up into a big proper event. I'm guessing if there were more flash books like all the green lantern comics then it would have been. Also. There's a mammoth in this issue. That's really something. Most if not all comics should have a very special gust appearance from a mammoth. If you ask me that is. The flash is one of those books that always delivers. Some months you see that its out and your like aye ok that's cool. You don't get all too excited. Then you read it and remember. Its always gid ! Its just proper silver agey fun with less weirdness and more action. Now I'm sure the new version of the rouges will have taken some flack for gaining actual super powers but they really did well in this arc. Being less jokey and more aggressive to the flash while still maintaining the ability to buddy cop with him. Now that gorilla warfare has ended were being teased with the reverse flash. Hyped likes !

TEEN TITANS #17

written by scott lobdell and fabian nicieza art by eddy barrows

Ehhh. Guuuuuuuuuhhhh. Its grim likes. Ahh that's not fair. I really should stop getting teen titans. Though as we have hopefully established in the past. I'm fairly mad. So im a wee bit unlikely to stop. This issue was very guh. Not bad but not good either. Well to be fair. There was nothing particularly wrong with it. Its just kind of guh. Un memorable if you will. Tim drake is a colossal bastard this issue. now there's a very good plot reason for this. The thing is in this very un memorable issue his bastard ness will be the ting I remember. Also bunkers all about god now. seriously he gets like three things to say and two of them reference god in some way. Was he religious before ? Did I like miss a whole part of his character ? Its really grating. I sort of assumed all comics were very much anti religion. Like aye it exist in the universes of the charters but I don't expect any heroes to be religious. Well maybe dare devil. But he's already an ultra bastard as it is. The art is ... ok. Like it actually is. Every single thing is nicely drawn. Everything except the titans expressions. There ALLWAYS smiling. Dear god the smiles. The actual scary as all fuck smiles. I just don't understand the smiles. WHY DC ? WHHHHY !

AQUAMAN #17

written by geoff johns art by paul pelletier

Now see this here issue. Amazingly a filler issue. You know something ? I'm totes fine with that. Aquaman just got done with a big cross over event with the justice league. Needs some time to recover likes. Shit did get fairly real. A few city's were sort of sinked after all. Kinda. So aquaman is king of Atlantis again. That's happening. It is indeed a thing. Its ... cool ? I guess ? I suppose there will be a lot of drama from now on. A lot of chain of command shite. Shid be good. Also I should say this issue was INCREDBLEY aquaman. There was like whaling and eco terrorists and big curry got all protective of his sea critters. Really heart warming stuff. So really after all its probably not filler. Things do indeed happen. But it dose FEEL like filler. Not necessarily a bad thing to be. Filler every now and again can be a good thing. Give charters the time to breath instead of just lurching from one event to another. Aye so good issue. Go read aquaman.

FF #4

written by matt fraction art by michael allred

Totes a valentines day comic. And that's ok. She hulk go's on a date with ... someone. We're probably meant to know who he is but I'm afraid I'm not up to date on my she hulk back story. Most of the issue is wacky hi jinx with the moleodies trying to brake she hulk and here date up with the help of bently. The don't succeeded. Like at all. Its very shticky. But well done. If you get me. Like the past three issue's. FF is pretty rocking. It just succeeds in what it sets out to do. A modern age cutting about comic with a silver age skin. Gotta love that.

BATMAN INC #8

written by grant morrison art by chris burnham

Riiiiiight. Big ass big issue. This ish has some biiiiiig stuff going on. REAL big stuff. Maybe. Big spoilers pal . So if you don't want to here them id advise you to stop reading. Right. So . Wee daimion wayne is dead as fuck. Maybe. This is a comic after all. And on top of that its a Morrison comic. So I'm not really believing anything. Hell of a good way to die though. Fighting a fully grown clone of your self. That's fairly neat. Wee bastard go's down fighting too. Even gets a gid its been an honer speech in with greyson. Really cracking very actiony stuff. Basically everything you've come to expect from morrisons batman. So yeah. It will be damn interesting to see what happens. I cant see damion really being dead. But hey maybe it will. Not entirely sure why they'd want damion dead . Aye he's the scrappy doo of the bat family. But he's MENT to be a scrappy. Its his thing.

SAGA # 10

written by brian k. vaughan art by fiona staples

So there's this thing. This monster looking thing. And it use to be a planet. Ayes saga. I like what you did there. Yup. Another kinda late saga review. Apparently there was some sort of kill storm over in that there U.S of A. that delayed some but not all of the other weeks comics. Sagas soo good its cursed likes. So this issue we get flaming apes upside down space witches. Greate stuff pals. Greate stuff. Dosny matter one shit what I say here. Your already reading saga. Everybody is. That's sagas thing. And that's COOL. Were all connected by our love of this here trendy comic. Really makes you think.

GREEN LANTERN NEW GAURDIANS #17

written by tony bedard art by aaron kuder

Man. There's very few books out there that continue to surprise me with there goodness. Aye there are better book out there. Crazier books. More awesome books. But there are few that improve so dramatically. That iv read at least. Its STILL improving ! Ever since that mind boggling improvement of that zero issue that came out of fucking nowhere ! So big kyle ryaner channels simon the digger this issue. Dudes trapped in a series of alternate reality's. And he's not having any of it. Not for a single second. He's confronted by something bizarre and he's like no . To fuck with this. I'm a green lantern AND now WHITE lantern AND I WILL SORT THIS OUT. Fair play to him. He's really come a long way in theses last few issues. Most wrinkle ridden young man iv ever seen though. Yeah. If there's one complaint about the art is it makes kyle look like he's in his mid to late 40's. not entirely sure what that's all about.

VIBE # 1

written by geoff johns and andrew kreisberg art by pete wood

I had to buy this book. There was no way that I wouldn't. No way that I couldn't. I bought it for the vibe. The actual sheer vibe. So there's a super hero called the vibe. The world might not be real. Iv come accept that. Its probably just a thing. See this issue. This issue was a incredibly first issue ish. Even more so than that green arrow up there, dare I say hundreds of times more first issue ish. That's mainly because there's like ten first issues in here. All lovingly crammed together. Its something magical really. Its like big goff and the gang took every first issue trope they could think of and mooshed them all together in some sort of nightmarish comic making machine. It works. It really dose. I now know who vibe is AND like him. Chalk that up as a win big goff. Do I like him enough to take a gander at the new justice league of America book ? Ahh dunno man. Something just dosent sit right with me out that yin. I don't know why it exist and the team seems oddly weird. Oddly weird in that its going for realism I think and the whole corporate working for the man team vibe . I dunno man. Just dunno.

JUSTICE LEAGUE #17

written by geoff johns art by ivan reis and paul pelletier

Wells you canny complain that this wee cross over event dragged like. I really enjoyed it. It was loads of fun. It was an aquaman mini event for fuck sake. That just existing makes the world a better place to live in. this comic contains SEA HORSE CAVARLY. What ell's could you possibly want from a comic ? Well if its competent writing you want this arc also saw a return to form for justice league as a book. Maybe its just me but I wasn't really digging the post dark side stuff. It was too weak. I mean it wasn't the iconic powerhouse world saving id want from the flag ship justice league. Aye there was good bits here and there and the banter never really dipped. Its just shite like superman and wonder woman being an item. Ayes fun scene's did come from it but the idea its self is fairly shitey. This arc though. This arc has been focused. There was a clear threat and the battle felt epically done. Things happened and things changed. Aye I'm all for just having charters cut about and yes there's a hell of a vibe having the big guns of DC just cut about but when you've got all the A list lads together you really should put them to good use. The arts also a big part of enjoying the arc. They switched over aquamans regular artist for the event. Good choice I have to say. He dose epic quite well. So aye. I hope justice league continues to improve moving on from this and its post first arc lull.

ACTION COMICS #17

written by grant morrison art by brad walker and rags morales

Oh Morrison. Who dosnny love grant Morrison. Wee mad bastard that he is. Now we all know that. We all get that he wrights completely mental storeys damn well. But that's not why I like Morrison. I like Morrison because he gets comics. He gets comics are meant to be awesome. He gets superman isent a cunt. Aye he has flaws. Some times he can be too bizarre for his own good. A lot of this run of action comics didn't feel right on first reading. But here's the thing. As we near the end. Every things starting to click into place. And it is awesome. Superman is fighting the evil corporate multiveres monster superman from back in the zero issue. Shit gets fairly meta. The evil super man has a AMAZING line about super man being at his best when he's dyeing. You here that and your like. Aye. Kinda. But I'm not agreeing with you yah bastard ! Morrison's action comics is a difficult one to recommended. Yes its damn good. But I cant quite describe why it its good. And aye. Its quite mad. That's a good thing though. I wonder how well ill like it after the new creative team takes over. I liked the annual they did. So that's a good sign at least.