pick o the week 27.8.12

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

AMERICA'S GOT POWERS #3

 

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

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

 

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

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

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

comic book quickies 2/3/12

Its week five. WHAT ? How dose that work ? MIND BLOWN!!!

AVENGERS #23

written by Brain Michael Bendis art by Daniel Acuna

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JUSTICE LEAGUE #6

written by Geoff Johns art by Jim Lee

The justice league fights the final battle against darksied. Surprisingly this was really pish. Like it was really gid and really pish. As a stand alone issue it was amazing, full of over the top action and grate art with awesome splash pages. But as the ending to the first arc of this new era and the starting point for the age of heroes it just dosent live up to the hype. I don't want to say hype because I really wasn't hyped for this issue. I was angry really for how late it was and I was all ready cynical at the book in general for how poor the first issue was. Yeah that issue had buddy cop batman and green lantern but that's ALL it had. My dislike of it comes down to how they beat darkseid. Buy reset button. Well not really but it felt like a reset button ending. Cyborg boom tubes him home. That's it really. meh. Why is cyborg on the team anyway, I mean I do like him, he is pretty cool guy after all and I do get that you have to have a wild card on every super team these days its just he kind of ruins the all star vibe there going for on the book. It just felt very rushed like they were board of it and just wanted it over and done with already. We do get a back up story about the hooded woman Pandora. It's OK. Nothing amazing and I feel it spoils her just a wee bit like it was better when we knew less about her but because of the back up it dose mean we don't get any of that making of gumff at the back, none of that first appearance batman 2011 pish. So yeah that's a wee win for humanity there.

BATMAN BEYOND UNLIMITED #1

written by Nguyen Fridolfs art by Beechen Bretfogle. Yeah.

In a bumper double issue type thing the tomorrow night returns ! First the batman of the future fights against out of town jokers then with the help of the justice league bats fights even more jokers and human animal mash ups. Aye it was all right. Nothing too amazing happens. It was two comics in one so it was damn gid value. That's a plus. It seems to be going for an all star villain cast type of thing with big name villains from the tv show being set up for future appearances and that's cool. A little desperate but still cool. It dose feature the future justice league and maybe that's a big deal for some people , well DC seems to think so anyway but they just don't do it for me, ah duno there just nothing all that stand out about them. To me they kind of dragged the last few issues of the last batman beyond series down. Aww wells it is nice to have batman beyond back !

FF #15

written by Jonathan Hickman art by Nick Dragotta

Well the kids of the FF return to earth to help activate sol's anvil the super weapon from the last issue of fantastic four and are joined by the super team power pack. Gotta say I'm still loving FF. Now I had my doubts about it when they announced that the main fantastic four book was being brought back and that FF was still carrying on as well. You know auld marvel always out for your money. But dammn has it been awesome. Yes mainly because for Dr Doom and everything he says or dose's. Sadly Dooms not in this issue and the book suffers quite badly for it. They even try to make out the Dooms dead. Aye naw pal. Still pretty fun though and hopefully not all of you dropped it as soon as fantastic four came back.

The NU look comic book quickies 12/1/12

Week two week two its week two ! Have I explained the week system ? I feel like I have, I spose I could go back and check but that would take effort so here's a quick recap for you. Since DC launched the new 52 the weeks have been clearly defined as a four week cycle, last week was week one now that's a hell of a week with both action and detective comics oot. This weeks sort of a breather week as there's not too much oot to wreck the wallet with. Well now you know and knowing IS half the battle! Though you all probably know this already sorry to talk down to you my internet comic masters.

 

GREEN LANTERN #5

written by Geoff Johns art by Doug Mahnke

Sinestro leads his former people against his own yellow lanterns. Then his former people tell space Hitler to get the funk off world. So well played general public of korugar you've proved your already miles ahead of the marvel universes mental health. Pretty gid issue though I'm starting to wonder what sinestros long term plan is because the feeling I get from the events of this book are that its entirely possible that sinestro wants to be a proper green lantern again, there's really no reason for him to keep the ring on and he could have gone back to being his old self all ready. Maybe the grate space dictator just understands that he's part of a BUDDY COP TEAM and just gets at a very deep and primal level that to be a buddy cop is to be the most AMAZING thing in all creation, the very peak of all galactic EVOLUTION ! The guardians as of the last page of this issue are the big bads of the current ongoing arc. They actually say NOTHING CAN STOP US NOW !!! MAHAHAHHAHAAAHA ! Well they might not have laughed. There's a small chance I made that part up.

SUPERBOY #5

written by Scott Lobdell art R.B Silva

Super boy wares a bad ass hood and cape and turns his tron lights off to go rescue an old friend. He is only like three weeks old but he still gets to have old friends. So I'm sure last time I talked about how bi poler superboy is, like one issue he's all emo and thinks he's just a weapon but the next he's all its my life I'll live it the best I can. Well now I'm thinking its not the character that's bi poler its the entire book that's like that. So superboys back working for n.o.w.h.e.r.e which is like a less subtle nerve from neon genesis evangelion that's after “dangerous” teen meta humans. There gendo kills a bunch of his own mooks. I guess that all just fine and dandy. Not a bad issue by any means id just like it to be a little more consistent in favour of the those awesome I'm NOT a weapon issues.

 

FRANKENSTEIN AGENT OF S.H.A.D.E #5

written by Jeff Lemire art by Alberto Ponticelli

AWWWWWWWW HELLLS YES ! Frankenstein fights omac. AND IT WAS AMAZING. That's it really. This issue was part of a cross over with omac #5 but I never knew that till I read the first page of this book. WELL PLAYED DC. Wait not well played not well played at all, I might have got omac if I had known before hand. Happily you didn't have to buy omac to understand what was going on so points to franky for that. It was a nice all fight issue that starts with franky sort of on holiday in Tibet bringing the beat down to some man eating dwarfs. awesome. He gets called in by s.h.a.d.e and checkmate to bring in a run away omac. This leads to a fight and like I said earlier It was AWESOME. I went into this with some doubt think that it was a cheap cross over trying to drum up some new readers for omac but dammmm this is just what I needed after that last issue that left me depressed what with it reminding me of that god damn dark age comic that you can see still haunts me. It just left me with a warm fuzzy feeling inside my manly guts. Gotta say though the arts not for everyone with its sketchy jumbled look and even I found some of the panel layouts had to follow on first glance but give it a go its well worth a look.

Also what do you think of or new look ? Leave a comment and tell us what you think !

comic book quickies 16/12/11

This weeks quickies was a bloody struggle to write. None of the comics were bad in any real way but for some reason they were kind of a downer to read. Shame really hopefully ill be in a better mood for next weeks which thanks to my laziness is almost here !

 

GREEN LANTERN #4

written by Geoff Johns art by Doug Mahnke

BUDDY COPS ! YEAH BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDDDDY COPS !!! why do I like buddy cops so much ? I'm not really sure ..... its just that there buddy's that just happen to be cops. That just a cool concept right. So this issue Hal dosent DIE ! All right one down now just gotta see if batman and the flash are ok in there books. Back here we got the traditional hard ass cop aint so bad on the inside routine from sinestro which again how many people did he kill or is responsible for killing ? He is space Hitler after all. And that's all this issue is Hal and sinestro get captured. Yeah its one of those issues. Its defiantly an issue four all right like one of those inbetweens to pad out the story till the action happens in issue five. Not saying it was bad or anything its still full of buddy cop fun !

 

SUPERBOY #4

written by Scott Lobdell art R.B Silva

Superboy fights the diabolical might of Christmas carollers! then sets a Christmas tree ablaze with his firey soul ! And there's a bit of fan service too ! Anyone elles get the feeling superboys a wee bit bipolar ? He switches between likeable hero and a bit of a bastard at times and this issue he was kinda rocking a Scrooge vibe. I can sorta see ware he's coming from what with him being a living weapon and all that jazz its just weird that he flips depending on the issue or even the situation. The ending fight dose show that he's a good person at hart or at least that he thinks he is so that cool and it was a Xmas issue and we really needed one this year as DC issent putting out another larfleezs Xmas special. Poor show DC poor show.

 

FRANKENSTEIN AGENT OF S.H.A.D.E #4

written by Jeff Lemire art by Alberto Ponticelli

Frankenstein and the creatures commandos finish off the titans of monster planet and its pretty awesome. Sadly this issue was spoiled for me because there's a bit ware s.h.a.d.e busts out a new super weapon in the form of two giant spiked wheels of death and a army of robot red shirts. Now your probably thinking that sounds awesome and it is sadly it reminds me of a horrible dark age comic a read once ware there was big things killing a lot of dudes in kind of the same way that happens here. I know that's not fair of me but it was such a downer for me after the other issues were so damn awesome. On the bright side this first arc was only four issues long and not the standard five so no unnecessary padding here.