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.

GREEN LANTERN #17

written by geoff johns art by dan jurgens and phil jimenez

So I missed the ending to the third army arc. It happened in like green lantern corps or some shite. And am fairly ok with that. Normally it eat away at me, but I dunno. Its no like I don't care. Its just I don't mind as much. I don't particularly like theses family cross over events the force you to by ALL of a certain family of books for so many months. Now normally the storeys are perfectly fine its just as a marketing tactic its damn obnoxious. So nea idea how that third army thing went down . From this is I assume the first lantern got free and started shite. Not entirely sure how to feel about them going straight into another event straight after the last yin with no issues to breath. It feels a bit tacky but it dose mean there's no filler and what iv read of it so far dose look good. Simon baz being a green lantern is still a thing. Bravo big geoff. I'm not entirely sure why he exists. But I like him. He carries a gun but he's not a marine type. That's awesome. He kinda is just rookie hal Jordan.. now that's not a bad thing. But it possibly is a thing. This first lantern stuff dose look cool it has to be said. Very cosmicy. Very epic big continuity stuff. Love to see that kind of thing in comics theses days.

SUPER GIRL #17

written by mike johnson art by mahmud asrar

Oooooooooooooohhhh huh hoooooo ! Folks. Hot damn. I love supergirl. Iv said it like every time I review it here. Aww this book is about is supergirl fighting folk. Like every single god damn issue. Last issue she fought the flash. That was brilliant. GREAT use of big barry allan. Amazingly flashie that was. This issue she fights wonder woman. You might be able to guess that from the cover. The fights fairly rocking. Supergirl super sayians herself out of wonder woman's lasso. Yasssss likes. Now aye. Supergirl is fighting for the wrong reasons and she technically been on the side of the villain for this h'el on earth cross over. That's fairly sucky. Has to be said. SHE GETS OVER IT THIS ISSUE THOUGH. So she finely notices h'els machine MIGHT not be the totally legit sun powered time machine he made it out to be. I'm damn glad I gave supergirl a chance all those months ago. That first issue promised an action series wea loads of fighting and despite a few instances of cutting about for the vibe its totally delivered. Did I mention that a panel implies the flash evacuated the ENTIRE population of Tokyo in under five minutes ? Fuckiing love comics.

 

AMETHYST # 5

written by christy marx art by aaron lopresti

 

So amethyst then. Another seemingly incredibly girly looking comic that I like. I blame sailor moon likes. If iv not said it enough before amethyst is pretty damn cool. A pal of mine recommended it. A younger me wouldn't have given it a chance. It would indeed looked too girly. What a bastard younger me was. Its a fun wee and creative fantasy world playing up the modern guy sent to a fantasy world trope. Just that the modern guy is actually a modern teenage girl. and she's not annoying. That's kinda crazy, you even get the feeling her characters been well thought out. I know ! How awesome is that. She complains but she's not whiny. Her dialogue feels genuine and she can kick some amount of ass. Its win win likes. This issue is her retuning fantasy land from her real world adventures with big Constantine and the boys. Its a hell of a comic guys. Id recommend it to pretty much anyone. There is a back up too. A very 70s horror action comic. Its got its charms buts not in full swing yet so I think ill wait a bit to comment on it. Its worth saying the book is actually called swords and sorcery FEATURING amethyst. Its totes just amethyst to me thaw.

THE SUPERIOR SPIDERMAN #4

written by dan slott art by giuseppe camuncoli

Superior spider-man is the best comic ever made ! That's right internet. Come at me. Is there still hate for superior ? Out there on the big wide netoverese ? Aye its shit they cancelled amazing. I can totally get that's a wound that will never truly heal. You know until they inevitably bring amazing back. So just enjoy the ride pals. The vibe is good. The vibe is AMAZING. Big YAMI peter parker. I don't thing the people of this world get just how much banter yami peter parker is capable of. Its off the FUCKING CHARTS. AND SEE DOC OCK. Aye he's a bastard. But he's a FUN bastard. I just don't get why you can read this and hate it. Its exactly the same as the rest of slots run but possibly even more fun. Even if pete was properly dead you know he'll be back some day. But here's the thing. He's still in the game ! And he's docs yami ! What's not to love ! Some times well most times I just don't understand the youth of today. Goona just calm doon. Deep breaths likes. Everything is fine. A lot of stuff happens this issh. That massacre guy escapes and cuts a bloody swathe across new York and doc spidy go's back to college. Awesomeness right there slott . Also we were teased with the return of the green goblin. Yassss.

Few ! Its done ! it took 14 hours but its done ! And all it cost me was my sanity.