Comic book quickies

This weeks quickies aren't as late as you think. Thanks to the easter weekend we didn't get comics until Friday. Gosh darn Friday ! Weels. Canny really complain. It certainly adds to the event vibe.

THE SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN #7

written by dan slott art by humberto ramos

Hmmm. What happened this issue. Nothing. Well that's a big smelly lie. Things did happen. Important things I'm sure. But vibe wise. Noting really all that crazy. Like big dock ock dosent kill any fools. I don't think anyway. It certainly feels like he just wants to kill every god damn fool in existence. I could be very wrong but was the doc always like that ? Yes he's a villain and a bad man. But is he a mad dog killer ? I dunno man. It just dosent sit right with me. Now to be fair. The avengers do lad up this issue and finely call ock spidy up for his shite. Its about time really. As iv said before. The doc REALLY hasn't been trying to hide the fact he's taken over petes body. Its a wonder its taken this long for even the avengers to notice. And that's ware the issue ends. A cliff hanger for the fight with the avengers. What happened to me man. Im slightly down on this issue. Perhaps I'm slightly fed up of ock spidy already. Is this slott fatigue ? No slotts skills are as killer as ever. It must just be my souls on the blink. So ayes. A slight lull in the cracking ness but don't quote me on that. I may just be going a tiny bit mad.

ALL NEW X MEN #1O

written by brian michael bendis art by stuart immonen

Oooh the contrast likes. Between all new x men and age of ultron that is. See are the core of all new x men it feels right. Like there are a million liitle things that make up its amazingness. But at its core it just feels right. Age of ultron ? Just dosny. I don't know man. Maybe big bendis was in a bad place when he wrote it 2 years ago. Or maybe he was just feeling particularly evil. Who knows. ALL NEW X MEN THOUGH bloody marvels stuff. See that auld mad Cyclops. You can really count on that bastard to really deliver on the crazy. Bam just turns up. Spews insanity on EVERYTHING. Then just assumes people will think hes in the right. Again I goota say. He's the most hateful bastard to ever live and damn entertaining because of it. a little more swagger and a little less crazy and Cyclops could approach kabi levels of arrogant ladness. Bam still wont accept he was responsible for killing prof x despite being entirely responsible for killing prof x. it scares me that there's probably people out there that are on his side. I call theses people anti lads.

 

AGE OF ULTRON BOOK 4

written by brian michael bendis art by bryan hitch

Son. Come here. Take a knee. Right. See age of ultron. See like. The whole entire thing so far ? Yeah. I'm still not buying it. Now let me be clear. When I say not buying it. I mean I don't buy the the actual events of the comic. Not that I don't physically buy a copy of the comic itself. That would be mad. Ted. So everyone's just dieing like punks. Yes that kinda sort of fits the the dystopian tone of what there going for. But come on son. Big she hulk gets wasp stinged to death. Naw loikes. Ulton mooks arny freiza likes. They canny do the death death beam. Its aww just a bit sad really. Folk just diny get to be awesome. Aww in a bid to big up ultron. And like I keep saying. I just don't buy it. Big luke cage died too. Cant make up my mind which death was more disappointing/ insulting. I guess cage would win out seeing as his death happened off panel. Off panel. IN THIS DAY AND AGE. God damn it likes. Now there is justification. That emma frost can read his mind from off panel and he must have been aww charred up from surviving that nukeular blast. Another me would call that niffty. Goota say though. I don't think anyone should die alone. Even if he didn't want to be seen aww broken up and that. At the very least cap shid have went to his side. Fuck. If it works out they themselves don't burrie cage. I might not know how to cope. Aye. So age of ultron. Its like a more depressing flashpoint but without lad commander Thomas Wayne. That might not be that bad a thing to be. It COULD get better. I here it might be going some ware. Lets wait and see shall we.

MASKS # 5

written by chris roberson art by dennis calero

Got to give credit ware credits due loikes. To the writers and that. Basically big zoro is spot on. Every thing I could want from him cutting about. So really no matter what happens in the narrative from here on in I really cant complain about it. Big zoro is a absolute lad. All is right with the world. So much like last time we talking about mask I still really quite dig it. Maybe that's not everyone's experience. It could just be the novelty factor for me. Iv not read that much of dynamites noire output. Well maybe one or two green hornets when the seath rogan film came out. But that's about it really. So its possible masks anint all that fantastic to you's all. Shame if that's true cause god damn. Its quite rocking. Its sort of undersatedly prefect. Like its a fantatic read but its no gonna change the world if you get me. Every things played so straight but with enough of a nod and wink for it to get by. Ayes you could probs throw the age auld too many characters complaint at it. But ken what pal. Its fine. The amount of characters is just fine. And if I might add. Dandy. Bit of a mystery building to. Quite appropriate considering the whole detective hero crew the super lads have put together. Though I do fear that when the big bad is revealed he or she will be somebody that we're meant to know and I wont get the reference. Yes. I still bring shame to my family with my lack of auld comic knowledge I must train harder !

GREEN ARROW #19

written by jeff lemire art by andrea sorrentino

Have I mentioned how amazingly metal gear green arrow is right now. Because damn son. It just amazingly is. Now that in its self is a damn magical thing. Beautiful almost. But green arrow isn't satisfied with just being the most metal gear comic on the shelves, no. no at all. This issue busted out some cutting edge shonnen vibe. Now not necessary the most shonneny tropes but shonnen tropes non the less. What I mean is we get a lot of green arrow being amazingly outclassed by fucking everyone. Like he him self says. He got beat up by a little girl. Hell of a vibe. Really. I'm genuinely surprised to be reading a green arrow comic. I don't think I can get over the sock. Its fallen into the category of comics that I really don't have much to say about because there just so damn well made. Really every single panel in this book is a absolute joy to look at. Well maybe that's a bit much. Maybe it really just is the sheer metal gearness. We do indeed get a triumphant reprise of arrow ? Arrow ? ARROW? Mmm that's sweet likes.

 

GREEN LANTERN #19

written by geoff johns art by ardian syaf and szymon kudranski

Suicide ! Hasny worked ! Yet ! It takes hal the whole god damn issue to jump off that god damn cliff. It was the most modern god damn example of pacing in comics iv ever god damn seen. See when the first thing hal didn't do was jump off the cliff and become a black lantern. I was aww like. Really goff ? Its gooning to be like that is it ? Your going to squeeze in an issue of filler here ? Yes. Yes he did. To be fair. Fillers the wrong thing to call it. Things did indeed happen. Sinestros home planet was destroyed. Like hella causally. I think. The first lanterns aww aboot the reality warping. I just assumed it was alternate future stuff happening. BUT then the dead from that planet started falling into the death zone. Which I assume remains un effected by the first lantern. So I don't know man. Big stuff is happening and that. But it dosent feel like it. The events sort of lack paunch. Its hard to describe really. I guess this must be a bit what an x men fan feels like. Lurching from one event to another. Oh proper x men fans. You mad cunts.

ACTION COMICS # 19

written by andy diggle art by tony s daniel

Diglett dig diglett dig trio trio trio ! I feel that's all I need to say on the matter ! Really ? You want more ? Sometimes internet folk can be bastards. So yes. This was absolutely cracking. Which is like the biggest god damn shame. Really it is. Andy diggle wrote this one issue and this one issue only. Which is quite the bummer. From what I'm able to take from this issue he really quite got superman. That's slightly somewhat a rear thing this these days. To often to writers cut about calling him sort of nazi. These writers of course were born before the invention of laddnes. Spawn of the moore devil they are. Basically not to be trusted. This issue pretty much had everything you could want. It had clark and lois bantering, super man flying about like super man, lex louthor being the most arrogant bastard on the planet who isn't doctor doom and in a nice touch, GIANT MECHA. Yes if there's any sure fire way to get me to like your comic its stick a bunch of giant robots in it for your hero to paunch the fuck up. Supergirls writers get it. Ill go out on a limb here and say putting giant robots in your comic id the most important factor in comic making. Ayes. Even more important than banter. So ayes. Its a hell of a shame diggle had to leave. Not really sure what his reasons were. But ill miss this superman run that never was.

 

DETECTIVE COMICS # 19

written by john layman and james tynon iv art by jason fabok, andy clarke , henrik jonsson, jasson masters , mikel jannin

Here's the thing. I totally forgot this was a thing. Shame on me. It has to be said. Well ladies and gents. Here it is. Detective comics # 900 ! and it was fine. Not too shabby if you ask me. It could have sucked but amazingly like I say. It was fine. Do you actually care ? That's the real question. Probably not is thing. Cant really say that's a bad thing. Its not the most eventy event comic out there. Despite what it is. Its not a bad comic. Not by any means. I really enjoyed it. That's probably because its just a regular issue of detective comics but with extra flashy bits. And see those flashy bits. Not that flashy. The regular story is quite fun though. But at this point that is to be expected. Laymans detective comics has been generating quite the vibe. Awesome, gritty and more than a tad silly. Its a potent combo. The main plot is the introduction of man bat into the new 52. I think. Most of what I know about man bat comes from the ultra amazing first episode of the 90s batman cartoon and I just assumed man bat existed in this current batmans back story. You know. What with talia all ghuls army of man bats. But what ever. It was quite a nice wee done in one zombie ish plague plot. Oh my god. I almost forgot. We get some wee bits with the bat family. Hoo lee fuck. There such giant irredeemable bastards its almost comical. Fall out from the death of the family stuff. Bastards like. Utter bastards.

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 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 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.

comic book quickies 5/5/12

ALL DC ALL THE TIME yeah I forgot to buy avengers vs x-men this week. THE SHAME. Well the first week of the new 52 cycle is a pretty solid week. It used to be four DC books for me but I dropped red lanterns and detective comics has been pretty meh since issue two. Yeah its still a solid week in my head. This week also has the first ( I'm pretty sure its the first ) annual of the new 52 verse with teen titans and the first part of the culling arc.

ACTION COMICS #9

written by Grant Morrison art Gene Ha

AWWWW HELLS TO THE BELLS. Hells to the actual bells. This comic man. THIS COMIC. Superman of earth 23 is Barack Obama ! Well not really. But basically its him. Grant Morrison by the way. That's it really, this comic is so amazingly Morrison in every single way. Its got multiveres craziness going on with cosmic horror superman, thought powered music machines and lex luthor being an utter LAD. Action comics still continues to be very un -first-arc- ish. Now I know it sounds like I'm saying that like its a bad thing but its just a curve ball of a book is all. I'm not complaining. I'm getting exactly what I want from a comic and I don't know what to make of it. We're NINE MONTHS IN and we haven't seen what superman's up to in the present day. Yeah I'm sure that's what the main superman book is for but know we're off galavanting round the multiverse. Now that would be a problem. If this comic sucked. But it dosent. Its AWESOME.

DETECTIVE COMICS #9

written and art by Tony S. Daniel

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JUSTICE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL #9

written by Dan Jurgens art Aaron Lopresti

So omac is on the JLI now. Kinda. Well cools I guess. I felt really bad for joking about omacs book after it got cancelled so its nice to see he isn't lost to comic book limbo. Sadly that's all that really happened this issue. Hurry up and get gid again ! A MAN CAN ONLY LIVE OFF THE BUDDY COP VIBE FOR SO LONG !!!!

TEEN TITANS ANNUAL #1

written by Scott Lobdell and Tom DeFalco art by Brett Booth

The titans are dumped in an underground facility to compete in a meta human tournament arc. Well kinda. Its more Spartacus than strongest under the heavens dragon ball z style. Which is unfortunate. I can see it now, all neat and tidy one on one fights with contaminators and what nought. Maybe even Mr. Referee could make an appearance. Yes its a real shame. Now this was fairly ok. It probably didn't need to be an annual but I get what it was going for. Now there was A LOT of fighting in this. Which is way cool. Unfortunately a lot of that fighting is between the titans and fellow heroes the legion lost who I totally forgot were a thing. Yeah its got that hole misunderstanding causing heroes to fight heroes before they team up to fight a common foe going on. So not that grate a book but a step up from most of the past issues.

comic book quickies 6/4/12

ACTION COMICS #8

written by Grant Morrison art Andy Kubert

And the day is saved thanks to superman ! Proper superman action ! With superman being very superman-ish ! Now it was an odd run to get to this point. Don't look at me like that, yeah its Morrison so it was all ways going to be odd. I get that but what I mean it was odd in tone even for him. I think its the visual aesthetic of brainiacs tech. I duuno maybe its just me but it all just looks so 90s. Now I like the 90s but its really weird to see that kind of stuff in the first arc of a new superman book. That said it was not what I expected the first arc to be. Like at all. Now I guess that's a good thing and the superman's origin has been done so many times that big grant Morrison just went a different direction with it.

DETECTIVE COMICS #8

written and art by Tony S. Daniel

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JUSTICE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL #8

written by Dan Jurgens art Aaron Lopresti

Justice league international ? More like buddy cop batman and booster gold with tag along kid batwing. Am I right lads ? Yeah not so much time spent with actual JLI this issue and the time the book did spend with them was ever so slightly rage inducing. So batman's mind fuck of a line from JL#7 regarding the JLI as a joke isn't referenced at all. Which is good. Because batman has boosters back. Its his thing. So the surviving members of the team aren't allowed by the Chinese woman from the U.N to go looking for there attackers. Now august general in iron like a lad rightly says the U.N cant stop them from acting on there own as individuals to which what's her name from the U.N says she'll use the media to destroy them. Ok fine. But guy gardner is right there ! He should be like fair enough use the media and ill go get the green lantern corp and we'll peel china off the face of the god damn planet ! Not really digging the taking apart of such a young team. Yeah buddy cop batman and booster gold more than make up for it but still.

AVENGERS VS X-MEN #1

written by Jason Aaron, Brian Michael Bendis, Ed Brubaker, Jonathan Hickman, Matt fraction, art by John Romita jr.

Well here we are auld friends the yearly marvel event is finally upon us. Now I like marvel events, yeah they come too often and don't matter for shite but I like them. There fun. But dammmm how dumb dose avengers vs x-men sound ? It just sounds spectacularly lazy. But you know what ? This first issue was pretty gid. It played out exactly how I wanted it to play out. See Cyclops is insane. Like FUCKING INSANE. To the point that magneto is the one telling him to calm doon. MAGNETO. Just think about that for a moment. So the phoenix force is returning to earth and the general opinion is the the x-man (x-woman?) hope will be its host so captain America go's the x-men to take her into protective custody. Fair enough likes. Cyclops is INSANE though so he dosent want the avengers help and starts a fight with cap. That punk Cyclops is so out of his skull that not only dose he think he can take the avengers he thinks he can take CAPTAIN AMERICA as well. Naw pal. Just naw. So since I don't read x-men I quite liked this comic. Like I said it played out just like I thought it would, Cyclops being insane and captain America being a lad. Yeah it has those first issue problems of set up and not that much actually happening but despite that it was still damn gid.

GREEN LANTERN NEW GUARDIANS #7

written by Tony Bedard art by Tyler Kirkham

Right something went majorly wrong some ware down the line in the creative process for this book. Seven months in and we still don't have a juice bar. Unforgivable. How do you put a team of lantern rangers together and not write in a juice bar in ? At this point id accept a juice bar space station or even a space ship that had juice bar on it. The book itself is still so-so. Its trying to make larfleeze a credible villain. Yeah. Not buying that. I get that he may have killed more people over all than space Hitler but I just cant see him as a big bad. Its not a bad comic but it is wasting its potential as as power ranger themed lantern book.

MUDMAN #3

story and art by Paul Grist

It exists !!!

ULTIMATE COMICS SPIDER-MAN #9

written by Brian Michael Bendis art by David Marquez

Stealth deadpool combines with the vulture !!! well no. but sort of ! Not a lot to say about this one folks. It was gid. Plenty of action and plenty of bendis-ish-ness . Wooooo shortness !

comic book quickies 9/3/12

ACTION COMICS #7

written by Grant Morrison art Rags Morales

So superman dose things. And there awesome. Like really really awesome. So the story's back to the past after that amazingly weird yet amazingly fun interlude. So Lex luthor, Jimmy Olsen and Lois Lane walk in to a bar ... and just sort of hang out there while the worlds sort of ending around them. I like this. And its nice to see lex as just a guy that can hang out with people rather than the complete monster final form lex that he will one day become. The hanging stuff was just so battle city-ish. Its still an odd opening plot for what's meant to be the first ever superman story. This issue helps a bit with some nice belief in superman stuff and supes dose finally get his proper costume so that's nice. Now I am likening Morrison's action comics its just been a bit hard to love it. Its not like its been bad or anything it's just not been that solid in its awesomeness and it was a bit shakey when superman had a brief bout of emoness back around issue two. I do look forward to it every month and it is the first comic I read every week one. So I do like it. I just wish I liked it more.

DETECTIVE COMICS #7

written and art by Tony S. Daniel

Guhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Batman fights some guys on penguins ice casino. I really don't care any more. This comics just so guhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Ya get me ? Its just trying too hard to be grim and gritty. But I cant say that because these past two issues have featured silly villains in the back ground. aahahahahahahah! But on the other hand the actual main villains are a snake dude and a some eye patch lady that I'm not learning the name of and will just refer to her as eye patch lady. Now these two bad guys plans are so very, very meh. Making the comic so very, very meh. This book has gone from being the B batman book of its first few issues to being the brown shooter of batman comics. Now I do like brown shooters but this is just too brown even for me. BROWN. Its not getting dropped though. Well at least not till we find out what happened to the GOD DAMN JOKER. Its been like SEVEN MONTHS. Afdfjkjhgfdsasdfghjhgfdsasfghjhgfdsasdfghjkhgfdsdfgh ! Those DC LADs what are they like. Now on the positive side this issue did feature the bat sub. Now it was only one splash page but its appearance brings this book up to passable for me. YAY BAT SUB !

JUSTICE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL #7

written by Dan Jurgens art Aaron Lopresti

The JLI cope with the aftermath of the U.N bombing. Now lads this is a weird one. I really don't know how to feel about it. The JLI takes a massive beating. Like the comic plays out the bombing for tragedy. Like people die. TEAM MEMBERS DIE. Now it is comics we're talking about so I'm not buying the team deaths but there are civilians that die and some of the team are very badly injured. Now all of this is done fairly well its just that this turn for the darker and edgier feels VERY forced and contrasts horribly with the past six issues of fun. The bomb thing feels hugely weak. Yeah it was surprise attack but the team was beating down kirby space god miner guy like only two issues ago. I'm sure they survived a crash landing from SPACE at the end of the last arc. Yeah we get that the JLI are mostly human and arnt god amongst men like the real justice league but this was the wrong way to show that. Batman dose get to be an utter LAD this issue so its not all bad .

comic book quickies 3/2/12

So red lanterns got dropped. Its last issue was just too much for me. It wasn't easy for me to let go of but I gave it five issues and then issue five happened in all its horribleness. So its dropped.

ACTION COMICS #6

written by Grant Morrison art Andy Kubert

Superman fights a tentacle monster, a dinosaur and a GOD DAMN BULL ! First things first this Is a damn hefty comic like yeah it has a back up story that certainly adds to the heft but the first story is just so damn packed its unbelievable. Now I was a wee bit sleepy when I was reading comics this so that may be part of why it felt like it just wouldn't end but reading through it again it still seems jam packed with just plenty going on. I barely got the gist of it the first time through but it made more sense to me than last issue maybe because superman punches dudes. I like that. Now this two month interlude seemed pretty mad when I first herd about it seeing as stuff had just gotten real back in issue four what with that hole brainiac thing going on but after this issue id say it was still mad but at least it was fun and justified in a timey wimey way. I'm likening the back up story's as well so far thieve acted as the books hart when compared to the main story's action silliness and this book really needed that, well it still would be awesome without the backups but its much more awesome with them if you get what I mean. This time the back up was about Clark leavening smallville for college and putting his affairs in order. It was incredibly nostalgic. I can totally get behind that.

DETECTIVE COMICS #6

written and art by Tony S. Daniel

Batman shoots a guys toes off. Yeah. Because he's the god damn batman. Right so there's two books going on in this issue. Two books with two very different feels. First we've got the grim dark brownness of batman fighting small time crooks like he's been doing from the start of this new detective comics run which was fine back in the day ( back in the day being six months ago) but now its really starting to drag. The second part of the issue is EVERYTHING to do with the penguin who is written like he's straight out of the Adam west show. NOW THATS AWESOME. Its mainly the wahs he puts into his speech but that's enough for me to love it. It also looks like penguins putting a team together and that's always fun. We also get a sixties TV batman style cliffhanger ending that's even ice themed. So yeah I'm likening the fun parts and really getting board with the grim dark brown parts but like I said above I was just a wee bit tired when I was reading comics this week maybe a wee bit too tired to enjoy this yin properly it really felt like it wouldn't end but not in a good way like action comics.

 

JUSTICE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL #6

written by Dan Jurgens art Aaron Lopresti

OH MY YES. What a comic. So gid. So damn gid. Like when I read this book I feel like I'm reading a comic. You get what I mean ? Like it has action and characters. So this is like your standard issue six aftermath plot that you get after most five issue arcs come to a end ware you take an issue out from the action to evaluate what just went down and to set up plot points for the next arc. Now that's what this issue is but it dosent matter in the slightest mainly because at the start we get BUUDY COP batman and booster gold. Yes shit just got real. Remember way back at the start of this book how I said that how batman always has boosters back no matter how bad it look like he's screwed up ? Yeah we get five hole pages of that here. And it is GLORIOUS !!! I really have no way to put into words how awesome batman's faith in booster is. Then rocks fall and the party dies.

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comic book quickies 6/1/12

 

Holy hell we're back at week one again ! One more month and it'll be SIX MONTHS since the new 52 started. THATS HALF A YEAR !!! HOW THE BLOODY HELL DID THAT HAPPEN !?!?!?!

ACTION COMICS #5

written by Grant Morrison art Andy Kubert

Well it's the SHOCKING never before told .... origin of superman. Huh? Yeah its superman's origin again. That's cool I spose. Well worth a interlude for. So superman's mum and dad are trying to get off krypton's as it about to explode. Its all very sci fi and the only really awesome thing that happens is krypto the superdog mauling ghost general zod. Really that was the highlight of the issue for me nothing ells really popped out because most of it was just the origin and the rest was ma and pa kent finding supe's. We get the origin of that tin foil goat from issue two so .... yeah GO MORRISON ! I feel like there's a joke in there but I'm missing it. It wasn't a bad issue but I'm back to feeling that Morrison's action comics hasn't been all that grate. Don't get me wrong its been a gid read so far but its not lived up to the hype. Mainly because the opening arc has been so un-opening arc-ish. Well at least for superman. Morrison's superman so far hasn't lived up his batman, memetic badass that he is but maybe old superman just need a healthy run up.

DETECTIVE COMICS #5

written and art by Tony S. Daniel

Batman fights small time crooks and a NINJA JOKER then has to deal with crowds that have gathered at a shine for the joker outside gotham park. Gid issue not much to talk about really. It was setting up the penguin as the big bad for the next wee while which is awesome as that meaty doll maker dude was just too meh for my likening. That hole shrine to the joke thing didn't really bother me at first but the more I think about it the more it seems to fly in the face of my belief that the general public of the DC universe was less MIND BLOWINGLY INSANE than that of the the marvel universe but I guess this is a new world and its young too so maybe it just needs the insane beaten out of it. Fun comic though and I'm glad it at least took a short brake from the grim dark meat thang its been rocking since issue one.

 

JUSTICE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL #5

written by Dan Jurgens art Aaron Lopresti

WHAT A COMIC LIKES. A proper pure comic that's not bogged down with blood or gore or hate or death or bleakness or hipsterness or emotion. Just a pure comicy comic from the 80s, the nice 80s not the grim dark Allen moor 80s you always here about. So the JLI fight the tron lined apocalyptic space miner in what looks to be the final battle of the arc. And its epic. There's also banter. MUCH banter. Between HUMANS. Man what a team book! hopefully its doing well in sales id hate for it to be canceled. And the art is AWESOME. So bright and vivid. Also there is tron lines.

 

RED LANTERNS #5

written by Peter Milligan art by Ed Benes

Ware JLI is a ture 80s comic red lanterns is very 90s. In a bad way. It's got rob liefeld-ish art but that's not really the main problem that honer belongs to the fact that not a bloody thing has happened. Pun intended. Ohh things have happened not actual things though, not thing things that actually matter. And I could get into that I really could, like iv said before I like filler but the problem is northing really awesome has happened. At all. I cant really remember anything about the last four issues other than grim dark stuff happened and it was red. That's about it. There's been this B plot running though the book about these two guys who's granddad was murdered by some street punk well that came to a head this issue after one of the dudes is arrested for getting back at the punk. That's all fine and dandy but when the dude resists arrest THE COPS BEAT HIM TO DEATH. TO FUCKING DEATH. ON THE STREET. BRITISH FUCKING COPS. AGGGGHHHHHHHH! TO DEATH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yeah red lanterns is getting dropped.

MUDMAN # 2

written and art by Paul Girst

Ohhh the contrast ! Mudman is awesome !! very very awesome. In much the same way that the JLI is. Its just a pure comic made of fun. And mud. Its also got quite the heft to it, like its just a nice book to hold. Maybe that makes me sound just a tad mad but the paper quality is just wonderful. You may notice I really haven't talked about what actually happened in the comic that's because I find it hard to talk about things I like, there's only so menny times I can say some thing's awesome and I really like mudman. Its just so awesome. Ha! GO READ IT NOW

comic book quickies 8/12/11

Hey there internet pals looks like we're back to week one again and that's cool week ones a gid solid week though it dose feel like it took longer to get back here than it did the last three times most likely because of that pesky fifth week last month though looking on the bright side I don't mention filler or even buddy cops this week I know that cuz I'm writing this first wee bit last, spooky I know but it makes sense don't it ? This way iv gathered all my feelings and thoughts so that way I can tell you about them up front and how cool is that !

ACTION COMICS #4

written by Grant Morrison art by Rags Morales back up written by sholly fisch art by brad walker

Superman fights brainiacs beano robot mooks then has a boss battle with Lois lanes not boy friend who's been turned into the boss mook that I thought was the rebootaverse's version of the super hero steal but steal turns up later to pull off a big dam heroes moment so I guess the other dudes just some random dude. see I think I get this book now, its very silver age-ish. Now I know that's a no brainer what with grant Morrison and all but its oddly silver age-ish like a kind of mixture of things but again Morrison..... not sure how to put my feelings about the book so far into words. This issue was a step back up after the dip in quality after issues two and three as there's plenty of action here all right including one hell of a robot/tank combination megas xlr style! The arts back to being gid again what with it being the A artist and instead of making of gumf at the back this time we get a back up story to justify its price point ware steal fights not steal. I'm kind of enjoying the ride so far but its been a bit ruff in places.

RED LANTERNS #4

written by Peter Milligan art Ed Benes

Atrocitus begins to suspect that giving bleez her free will back and accidentally making her his own personal starscream might have been a bad idea plus we get the back stories of three red lantern mooks. Nothing really important has happened yet and its not been an overly fun read so far like I said last time its kinda grim maybe less grim this issue but its all very serious and not all that rage filled yeah the red lanterns are angry all right but not to berserker levels and I know that's most likely a decision made so they can tell story's with the characters without every issue being bllllaaaaahhh were so angry but like I said nothing all that interesting has happened yet and it feels like the plots just a little stretched which is a little sad as I think most of us really want a red lantern book though I don't think any of us would know what would actually happen it but we still want one. Red lanterns are cool after all.

DETECTIVE COMICS #4

written and by Tony S. Daniel

Batman fights joker imposters controlled by a new grimdark 80s meat and flesh styled villain called the doll maker to save commissioner Gordon and a little kid who turns out is a bad guy. SHOCK. This was all right not that grate but not so bad either. Its still suffering from being outclassed in pretty much every way by the batman monthly and the fact that the joker hasent been seen since issue one dosent help much either instead we get the dollmaker and I'm really not digging him mainly cause he's that grim dark type of villain who's main shtick is harvesting organs and cutting dudes faces off and that's really not my cop of tea. To be fair on the book though I think it is fulfilling its purpose of giving the rebootaverse its grimdark hard-boiled batman book quite nicely and since the same guys drawing it as well as writing it the art machies the tone of the book perfectly.

JUSTICE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL #4

written by Dan Jurgens art Alberto Aaron Lopresti

The justice league international fight mole people underneath giant tribal robots and then come face to face with there first big bad, a jack Kirby style space miner resplendent in tron lines. A damn fine comic and damn fine team book. The JLI really feel like a team now and well they have felt like more of a team than the actual justice league since issue one. Doovay davey keeps saying to me that this books just like a proper 80s comic and hell yes it is. Its just so god damn colourful and the batters just so gid and the team is less serious business and just plain more fun than most teams out there. It defiantly gets a glowing recommendation from me.