Comic book word talk. The first. January. 2014. part 1 of 1.

Backs.

Comic book quickies then ? Ayes ? Cools.

I'm pretty sure these comics came out this week. But you know. Time. That whole thing. Not really sure how it works any more at the best of times. Then big x-mass hit and I have no idea. Like its Sunday as I sit here and jab my hand sausages on the keyboard to type this outs but it may as well be Tuesday or some shit for all it feels like.

So ayes. Comics. Cracking stuff. Lotta stuff going on in them. I think. Probably. Its been awhile since I did a proper run down of a weeks comics. Stuffs apparently changed man. I was operating under the impression marvel were the hated mad men . Running about naked in some field somewhere killing off beloved cultural icons and replacing them with mad scientists. But of course. I was wrongly wrongers on the most basic of basic fields. Fields of. Like. Reference . Not sure what I'm trying to say any more. Basically folk hate DC and not marvel. Well people prolly hate both. But people are hella hateful hipster fucks. So that's a given. I can kinda sorta see what folk are saying about DC . I can. They seem to have weird relations with there creative teams. And theres been a slew of cancellations. Then there's the out right dickish bat woman affair. Don't care though. Genuinely don't. Iv become something of a DC fan boy over the past few years. Not sure how or why. Probably just find there books more entertaining. Like marvels entertaining ayes. But in that special lunatic way we discussed before.

Comics !

The flash #26

low five ?

written by christos n. gage art by neil googe

Mmm. Good comic. Hella gid comic. Its got all this crazy amazing goodness all up in it. Goodness that I'm trying to explain here. The pages. They had this thing in them. Goodness ! Ill stop now. Well. No. ill still be talking what with this being the first entry. Barry. Allan. Full. Stops. Barry allan is a bloody machine of good times. He turns up. Dose SOMETHING. Anything. normally running but not always. And then things just tend to work out well. He's just the single most solid guy in comics. As iv very likely harped on about here before. Of course I have. There's not been a bad issues of the flash since the reboot. That could well change though. That cracking first run came to an end last month ish. So I had my reservations about this isssue. Those reservations were hella fucked up during the reading process thankfully. Because flash #26 is Barry Allen is the solidest guy ever- the issue. It helps that its just stand alone filler. This like evil pilot woman is aww going about being a thief and a killer and such. But like as a SKY PIRATE. Ayes. Perfect. Job done. Ima going hame. When I got hame I read on. And my word. The whole issue is basically look what the flash can do. Like aye he's super fast yeah. But he's also you know. Basically a god. With the most broken power set in the history of. Of. Of. Em. History ! Barrys cutting about running on CLOUDS. Straight up. Hella just running on clouds. To catch a plane. There's even a wee flash fact box there. Explaining that yes. Barry is basically god. Well worth a read. Not a jumping on on point what with it being stop gap filler so its more a stand alone treat for the senses. Sense ? Vision ? Senses I guess if you also make your own sound effects to go along with the comics. Which I of course. Totally do.

swim in the sky ! fight dah powah !!

aquaman #26

written by jeff parker art by paul pelletier and netho diaz

Ahh duuno. It was like aquaman. Its a comic. It has pages and panels and coulers and like lines and guff. I ain't in no frame of mind to judge the quaintly of anything right now. I'm still crazy buzzen from Dat flash issue. Like damn sons. Its kinda the prefect comic. That iv read. This month. Its a shame likes. Id totally put it high on my list of the best comics of 2014. but I totes wont remember it loikes in December and of course I wont make a best of list. I don't have that amount of dedication or effort in me. Don't be ridicules. Oh ayes. Aquaman. Big aquaman. Cool guy. Kinda gets hella fucked over as we well know. By popular culture and that. I likes him though. He's like. Got a trident. Annnnnnnnnnnnd. Hes a cool guy. Ayes. This issue big Arthur curry fight like a giant squid /kraken /cuthulu/ kanju beasty. Which. Aye. Of course he dose. Its an aquaman comic. Not much to report really. It was pretty dullish. Again. Like not really bigging up aquaman here as I prolly should. Its hard. Iv always said they should have taken the opportunity of the reboot to make the new 52 aquaman basically the same as he is in the brave and the bold cartoon. Big and brash life of the party legend of human being fish man thing. But naws. They went the acknowledging him as a joke route. Which . Ayes. Did work out pretty well for a while there. Mainly what with it being a goff johns book. But the goff lads hella left nows. It looks to be pretty stormy WATERS ahead for the new creative team. Yes. I'm very proud of the thing I just said. What of it.

patty cake ? is that what that hand game thing is called ?

superman unchained #5

written by scott snyder art by jim lee

Not sure if iv reported this here on the auld blog. If I have I'm sorry for repetition . I am truly sorry if there's repetition here. On the auld blog. But we have to talk about it. See lex luthor. The arch Nemesis of the man of steal. Lex lets cut about in green in purple power armour luthor. Lex luthors SUPER into papercraft. Like big lex was using papercraft things to explain shit to super man in issue one or two . Back then it was only like a page or mibby two of lex with like a pop up book style thing that he had obviously made during his time in prison. It was weird then. But like only kinda. It wasn't a big deal then. Like it wasn't charter defining. Then that last issue happened. And yeah. Lex luthor is SUPER into paper craft now. Like has these wee bone tools specially for it SUPER into it. Like his papercraft has articulation SUPER into it. Its kinda the most magical thing. I don't even want lex to be a villain now. I want his entire deal to be paper craft. I want him to just be cutting about the dc world. Being the go to papercraft guy. Teaching classes. training noobs. Sadly as aww fuck. Lex Luther the paper craft king isn't in this issue at all. Aww we get are plot points from the first transformers film/ overtones of the over arching plan of the reapers from mass effect. And superman being superman. Which ayes. I do hella appreciate that. Kinda just wanted an ish of lex carefully folding up his own set of justice league papercaft dolls. Always next ishh. Always have to hauld on the the hope.

I here comic sans upsets folk. Dont particularly get it myself.

Comic book quickies

SAGA #12

written by brian k. vaughan art by fiona staples

The single best episode of meet the author ever ! Well maybe except for that one issue of animal man with big grant Morrison. Saga there. Just cutting about. Being amazing again. No surprise really. It is saga we're dealing with after all. Its strange. Its only been in my life a short while. But its hard to Imagen comics without saga any more. That's something for me to think about. I here this issue generated some amount of controversy. Don't really see it my self. Last issue was amazingly more explicit. Oh wells. Maybe that's a part of the controversy. Apart from that it just a very bantery issue, like cover to cover banter. Little bit of fighting here and there. But mostly its banter. In lesser hands that could have led to disaster. But of course that's not the case here. There's like a squirely medic / mouse thing and a Cyclops man. Its pretty rad. Has to be said. Damn you saga ! Your just so damn good I don't really have much to talk about. I know I say that about a lot of stuff. But saga likes. It really is that way. Course you already know that. You read comics therefore you read saga. Or do I have that wrong. I have herd rumours of possible spots of resistance. Hmm. Ill have to send the storm troopers to investigate. Stay tuned.

THE STANDARD #2

written by john lees art by john rector

Now this was cracking. I liked this second issue a lot more than the first one. Maybe that's because we got to hang about with auld man standard. Now I liked kid standard. Booster gold that he was, its just that I was sold on auld man super hero cutting about and with this issue we finally got that. And I have to say. It was done pretty well. Like it could have been hateful. It could have been aww auld people are terrible and made fun of them. But no. auld man standard is quite the lad and he's handled with dignity. The wee authors note at the back of the first issue talked about not wanting to be grim dark and that shines threw more here. Auld man standard could have easily been a joke. About how ageing destroys you. About the loss of innocence and all that pish. Amazingly though. Genuinely not the case here. That really makes me happy loikes. Its nice to see ladness spreading from my home land. The art seemed to be upgraded just a little bit. Maybe its just me. But it seemed a little a sharper. Less amiutureishh. Maybe that's a little pretentious for me to say. But this time the art did seam to be improving. I like it ok ! If you fancy a wee bit of indi superhero action the standards your man !

AGE OF ULTRON BOOK #5

written by brian michael bendis art by bryan hitch

So guys. Like still. How can I say this again. Yeah. Still not buying this whole ultron thing. I here terrible terrible things said about it almost non stop. I can totes get that. Its been fairly horrible so far if we're being honest. I really should be one of the people complaining about it. Here's the thing though. It just dosent bother me all that much. Like if this was the actual marvel universe id be actually fuming. But for now its just a wee alternate time line. Now yes. What with the timey whimey developments of this issue and the spoilery covers for upcoming issues there is room for this wee abomination to become very very real. And when that day comes you can be damn sure ill be out there on the streets screaming and weeping. But right now. No matter how much it should offend me. It just dosent. So bendis right. The actual fuck were you on when you were wrighting this. Like I can get going for grim dark ware everyone dies like punks. But come on son. This isn't even good grim dark. I might go as far to call it sloppy. It feels like a bad tv show. Made for the syfy channel. Yes there's spectical but it also feels somewhat cheap. And FUCKING everyone's out of character to some degree. Something that once again would have me rageing. But dosent. So once again. Lets wait and see. Easy dose it. Easy dose it. The marvel lads MIGHT be going some ware with this event. But if they don't. Holy fuck why ?

UNCANNY AVENGERS #6

written by remender art by daniel acuna

BOOOOM oh mah god oh mah gawd ho my actual cracker eating god. This was BLOODY fantastic. Cover to cover a joy to read. A real sight to behold. So its a flash back issue to the days of kid thor. Well young man thor. Lad thor lets call him. I here the main thor book has this time of thors life pretty well down but it was nice to see it presented so AMZINGLY in a avengers book. So lad thors cutting about with the Vikings and that while kang stirs up shite with apocalypse. Its. Magical. Again I cried a little. Partly because I wasn't expecting it to be all that amazing and partly because it was just that god damn solid. Maybe its just a novelty to me. But apocalypse just cutting about in a tavern and beating the shite out of thor is perfect. It probably be my moment of the week. That is if fantastic four wasn't out. More on that bellow. Thor also pulls off one of my all time favourite tropes. The big damn heroes moment. FOR LONDON. The gods have not abandoned us indeed. It just has fucking everything ! I really can say more than that. Also. The art. gorgeous man. I feel like the artist did some issues for bendis late in his avengers run. I was having some flash backs to pink hulk super adaptoid norman ozborn. Not necessarily a bad thing Ill have you know.

 

FANTASTIC FOUR #6

written by matt fraction art by mark bagley

Let us for a moment consider the extreme ladness of ben grimm. The thing. If I was pushed for my top 5 marvel characters. The thing would defiantly be up there. The sheer absolute ladness he generates is the stuff of legend. The saga of ben grimm should be taught to our young. From their earliest days they should be taught about his amazing adventures and his continuing ladness in the face of the universes dickery. Yes he's a monster. A hulking rock man. So fucking what. At no point dose he let that stop him from cutting about. Making scooby doo sandwiches. Watching tv. And pulling off kamina level fuck destiny shite like he dose this issue. Gotta give even more credit to fraction here. You got me you hipster bastard. You really did. All issue the thing is set up for a fall. The recap blurb reminds us he's been having anger problems. Hulking out into lava thing. We open on him fumbling with asprens. But he holds it together. By the end though. Dose he fall ? DOSE HE FUCK. The four are cutting about the big bang. See a guy strapped to a rock floating threw pre existence. The debate helping the guy. Sues aww like what do you think about this ben. But ben. Bens already outside. Gonna help the guy. WE'R THE FANTASTIC FOUR SUZIE PANTS. WE DONT JUST LET NOBODY DIE. THESE ARE THINGS BEN GRIMM SAYS. I really canny stress it enough. This may be my top moment of there year so far. And if you've been following me recently you'll know I think very highly about the quality of current comics. So that's gotta tell you something about this amazing scean. So ayes. You goota read this book !

BATMAN #19

written by scott snyder art by greg capullo

Well likes. This was batman. Being batman. I canny man. I just canny likes. Argue with that I mean. Those of you with long memorys will ken I really hate when batman isn't being batman. Now yes I do go on about the bat god a lot. Maybe too much. That's fine. I can deal with that. But stuff like the first volume of hush. Really gets my goat. When I read a batman comic I want to see batman being batman. Doing batmanny things. Like cutting about gotham. Paunching folk. Driving about in the batmobile. We don't get a hole lot of that here but It gets across that vibe quite nicely. Its bizarrely fresh. Sharp and crisp. That or iv gone quite mad. Its better than last issue. That's possibly what I'm trying to get at here. Ware last issue felt terribly fan ficy this one felt properly batman. There's a bizarre cold open. Yes. Probably clay face related. Or a subversion of clay face related shite. So really its all good in the hood. Or should I say cowl ! Ho ho ho ! I'll be quite now.

SUPERBOY #19

written by scott lobdell art by r.b silva

See this. This might be they single most un laddshishly hateful comic iv ever read. Now. That may be amazingly harsh. And I'm sorry for that. But deer e o me. What the hell guys. Just like. Its hard for me to describe to you. I wouldn't call it conventionally hateful. Its not like anything remarkably annoying happens. Its just all kinds of blughrg. Likes. Likes. likes. I'm trying to focus on the content of the actual issue right now. But I cant. MY MIND WONT LET ME. It dosent want me to remember any of it. Now don't get me wrong. It wasn't bad bad. Just dark agey in its plot. So much irrelevant shit happens. So many justification's and motivations that you meant to take on board but your like. Naw. Fuck that son. So at some point in the future the meta humans go to war with normal humans. Just naw. I'm not having that. That's cunty writing. That's something a writer from the mid 2000s would come up with. Superman wouldn't allow that. And if he's dead then his descendants wouldn't allow that. LADNESS itself wouldn't allow that to happen. So yeah. Don't go out of your way to read this comic because iv made it out to be terribly bad. Its not actually aw that. Its just weirdly offensive to my sensibility's. Sometimes I wonder if I should mellow out more when reading suprerboy. I'm not saying I should turn my brain off. Just look at it from a different angle. Up there I complained about it being dark agey. I like they 90s loikes. From time to time I like 90s comics. Maybe that's what there shooting for with superboy. I dunno man. Sometimes I just don't understand this crazy mixed up world any more.

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: Oh god Its April

FF # 5

written by matt fraction art by michael allred

How fun is this run ? Amazingly fun. That's my thoughts on ff. When I talk about it with the lads I'm like did you read ff ? And there like aye. And I'm like. Its still fun like ! The source of that fun comes from its modern age comic wearing the skin of a silver age comic ness. Now there's plenty of books out there that do the silver age vibe quite well. Sometimes though there compromised by the sliver ages oddness. That might sound quite wrong. You'd think you'd be aiming for oddness with a comic that's going for the silver age tone. Well ayes. You are. Sometimes that oddness gets in the way of awesomeness is the thing. And no matter what. That's a terrible thing to be. So thankfully ff avoids that trap quite nicely. Well. It did avoid it. Until this issue. Things got a little too bizarre. No. not too bizarre. Bizarre isn't necessary bad. Things just felt a little unexplained. A little not all together and as polished as previous issues. That's fine though. I'm sure things will be explained down the road at some point. Plot wise. Auld man johnny storm has gone quite mad ted. Fair play to him. He's auld. If I was auld I would probably go quite mad ted too. Medusa though. She's ALSO gone quite mad ted. Only thing is she hasn't got the being auld excuse. Ayes I guess she was a villain back in the day. Again its one of those things that will be explained down the road. It just comes off more than a little wtf at the moment. Now don't get me wrong. I'm not really complaining about things not being fully explained. I know thats no the vibe fractions going for. Its just a wee nit pick is all. Still a damn cracking read. id Possibly recommend it to folk just getting into comics. Its got that classic marvel Kirby swagger with modern writing flash !

AGE OF ULTRON BOOK 3

written by brian michael bendis art by bryan hitch

The sheer still not buying it of ultron. By the way. Seriously. Loikes. Ultron being this big bad romping stomping all conquering robit. Naw likes ? Like fair play. Its an event. You can big up whoever the fuck you want to be your big bad. I understand that. Like I can totes get it. Like maybe one day marvel will big up Howard the duck as the new world conqueror. Its fine. Its just one of those things. They did it last year with the phoenix. Now that fire bird was way bigged up. It shouldn't have been that over powered. Thing is I bought it. The phoenix is cosmicy enough to have room to big it up in that way. Ultron though. I just don't buy it. Fuck knows why actually. I'm all about robots. Robots are way cool. I'm fine with robots cutting about being god level bastards. Super robots are basically my soul. Its just ultron. I just don't believe he could take the ENTIRE marvel universe. Not for a god damn second. Now again to be fair spoilery developments in this issue make it some want debatable if its actually ultron that's been starting shite. So maybe all this wont actually be an issue. Yes. Issue ! This issue was OK ! Kinda ! Well it was really more of the same. Lets me see if I can sum up the vibe of this event so far with a wee moment from this issue. Black panther dies by falling down some stairs. Guy survives the apocalypse. Dies falling down some stairs. Yeah. That's basically age of ultron on a nut shell. Everyone's lost there plot armour. Or more accurately there ongoing universe armour. I get the feeling we're going to see a lot more folk die like punks before this is all over.

UNCANNY AVENGERS #5

written by rick remender art by olivier coipel

Wellity wellity, now here's a thing. Wasny expecting this. Its a new arc ayes. but damn son. Hella first issue vibe right here. I guess we can think of the first arc as the zero arc. And a vs x as the minus one arc. I liked it I really did. Just wasn't expecting it is all. It may make the first trade awkward and or short. Hella sunny issue though. Has to be said. Its nice the creators get that. Wonderman likes. He's still not over his shite. It sad to see really. Back at the end of bendis run he suddenly ladded up and stopped being a bastard. It was rushed and not well explained. You know what. Nobody cared. Ladness is ladness likes. Shidny let logic get in the way of it. Not at all likes. Apart from that almost everything ell's was pretty fine. Plenty of action mixed with nifty banter. And the wasp is on the team ! Yay ! I like the wasp. Mainly because of the avengers cartoon aye and its true the actual wasp can be quite the mental. Never know man. She could be fun here. Maybe. Hopefully.

BATMAN INC #9

written by grant morrison art by chris burnham and jason masters

Here we go ! The bat god UNLEASHED ! MY OH MY. THERE YOU WERE ! Just sitting there. Being a hipster bastard. Likening scott snyders batman. Thinking its the one and only. The boom ! Morrison explodes back on to the scene. Then you remember. He never went away. Your mind has just been clouded by this generations sickness. I pity you I really do. Gid comics likes. Gid comic. While this issue did have plenty of action it really was more a transnational issue. Transitioning from batman finding out demean was dead to batman fully hulking out into the unstoppable bat god. That's fine and dandy likes. Hopefully the next few issues will just be bats soloing the world. All as it should be. David cameroon makes an appearance this issue. Bizarrely. Not really sure how to react to it. What with him being written surprisingly laddishly. Still not really accepting deimans death. It just dosent feel any kind of right to me. Wells. I guess we just have sit about and see how things go. Still. Big batman inc. bloody good comic booking.

AQUAMAN #18

written by geoff johns art by paul pelletier

What's the deal with Atlantis ? Is everyone from there a bastard ? Short answer. yes. Long answer. Yes. Every single atalntian is a bit of a cunt. Even aquaman himself is quite the grumpy bear. Its a real shame. Yeah I still morn the loss of what could have been. With the full retcon of the new 52 we could have had big brave and the bold aquaman cutting about the proper dc u. being a ultra lad. Now aye. That's not a new complaint of mine. Your probably sick of me going on about it by now. Really. I bring it up again because aquaman is now king of Atlantis again. And see Atlantis. Its like waaaay drab. Its meant to be the fantastically amazing undersea kingdom. Its quite shite though. Like its all very drab and un appealing. And all the population are to a man. Cunts. Like everyone is just horrible. Not really sure what the goff is trying to say here. Foreign people are terrible ? Fish men aren't lads ? Don't trust those who ware sea shells are clothes ? That really dosent seem like something big Mr Saturday morning cartoon would normally write about. Genuinely don't know what's up with Atlantis. Its meant to be this big thing. That this mystical city actually exists. But know one cares. Because its shite.

THE FLASH #18

written for brian buccellato art by marcio takara

Big Barry Allan. Big Barry Allan the god king of humanity. Big Barry Allan the god king of humanity IS BEING A BAR TENDER AGAIN. Yes ! This is his second ever shift ! Yass likes. The world is just that little bit better now. Like I'm pretty sure barrys ladness just made the weather better here. Really cracking issue too. Which was a little surprising considering it wasn't written by big francis manapul and instead by the other co writer on the book. Hopefully manapul isny off the book forever. But I dunno guy. I could totes be fine with buccellato deaing a wee run. His banter was quite enjoyable. I'm glad likes. It could be cause for much tears. But its no ! So happy days there. It was a nice wee issue all right. For a moment there I was going to say it was self contained all done in one. But that's a lie. It dose give out that vibe though. Sort of breathery but not really. Ayes its a damn strange beast. Defiantly not complaining though. Its still damn good flash. Really I'm quite happy to be reading the flash. He's just one of them amazingly super heroy super hero's. And this is quite a key point. Not a bastard. Remember that folks. Big Barry Allan isn't a bastard !

 

TEEN TITANS #18

written by scott lobdell art by eddy barrows and rodney buchemi

So. this wasnny all that bad. As much as that pains me to say. Ayes. That's really the core evil of this book. As iv said many a god damn time before. Teen titans is one of those books I should damn well drop. But I cant. Half due to my own madness and half due to it sometimes being pretty rocking. Damn ! Now this issue wasn't that rocking. The horrible thing is. It wasn't all that bad either. Its really quite worrying. So this issue was kinda sorta a requiem issue. Kinda sorta in that lasted about four pages. Basically tim drake is quite the bastard. I think we all knew that likes. Yes maybe there's some sort of devil in him. Somehow he's made me not care in the slightest The rest of the issue wasnny bad though. Nothing utterly hateful happened. I don't think so anyway. Pretty standard stuff really but with just enough banter to keep it going. So ayes. Teen titans. Its fairly all right. Except when it isn't.

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.

Comic book quickies 13.2.13

God damn. Time likes. It just wont stop. Well another week. Time for more comics. Aw right week. Not too packed but the books that were out were of nifty quality.

BATMAN #17

written by scott snyder art by greg capullo

Things are going to get fairly controversial here quite soon. I'm sorry for this in advance. Now I think this last issue of the death in the family arc was a massive let down. After reading it I lost a wee bit of my faith in humanity. As a species we may have lost a good ten or so years because of this issue. I really, really thought we were past this at this point. I thought we were better than this. Its a damn shame likes. This issue in my opinion is the first dud issue of synders run. Well aye the annual had a similar problem in shiteness to be fair. Now put your torches and pitch forks down. Most of the issue was out right cracking. Proper batman being batmanny stuff. Lot a great moments and some fabulous joker banter. The image of bats ayes being broken and STEAMING will probably stay with me for some time. Like pretty much everything the problem lies with the ending. Its amazingly unnecessary. Hatefully unnecessary. Just goona out right spoil it here. Run for the hills if you don't want to here. Basically the bat family no longer trust bruce. FUCK THAT. That's something that would have flew twenty to twenty five years ago. But holly fuck not today. The youth of today will read this comic and be inspired by it. They will think that's the way to write comics. You can see why I think this will set the world back. Batman is a god ok. He's not a cunt. Well he kind of is but not in a bad way The prep time batman may be nothing but an internet joke but that's what batman IS in our harts. He's an amalgamation of all the batmen we've ever watched or read. He's spent the last seventy years becoming a god and while this batman may young that's no excuse for failure like this. This whole arc was about the joker being the voice of people that think batmans better on his own being a grim and gritty bastard. Now I may be horribly wrong here but I'm pretty sure that's meant to be taken as an insult. Batman has a team that he kicks about with. Its a whole part of his history. Gona just deal with it. By making the bat family untrusting in bruce just makes them horribly unlikeible. Its a huge miss step if you ask me. Your basically saying the jokers right and those that believe his view that bats is better off alone is right. Dose snyder actually believe that ? I don't want to believe that. Now aye this is just comics. Nothing really matters on the actual story level. Things will eventually be fine. But like I say I worry for this issues effect on comics to follow and its influence on other writers. Synders batman run is beloved and a lot of people are sure to read it. I thought we were nearing a new era. A new age of comics. A neo modern age. Stuff like slotts run on spider-man and almost all of snyders batman pointed to more ladness in comics. Probably shouldn't jump to conclusions though. Ill see how this disappointing plot line turns out. Its very likely I could be calling it genius by next month.

FANTASTIC FOUR # 4

written by matt fraction art by marck bagley

Sue storm is a terrible human being. We all get that right ? She's just awful. I'm not even sure what it is I dislike about her. She's just so deeply not nice. Its maddening. It may be because her sole charter trait is being a mother. Now being a mother that's also a super hero. That's fairly nifty. Shame she dosent carry it off well. Now being a mother in fiction means that she's totes rocking the trope of a mother will commit genocide to save her children. Now aye. That might be a very true fact of life but come on people ! Lets get past that ok ? Now aye. I don't have any specific examples to throw at sue. But for fock sake guys. That's like basically her. Also I'm pretty sure she slept with namor. I bring this up because this whole issue was about how awesome she is. Now iv read this issue. That's why I'm reviewing it right here. Why is she so awesome ? Read the whole issue. No actual clue. Basically she hot. I think that's what the issue was getting at. Now that I actually think about it. Maybe that's the joke. Maybe everybody's aware of how amazingly un likeable she is and this issues shilling of her was all in jest. Lets hope likes. Reed richards ain't no lad either. He pissies all over the prime directive in quite a spectacular way to declare his un dieing love for sue. If it wasn't messing with the whole culture of a alien race I could totes get behind it. Basically thank fuck the things on the team. His massive ladness keeps them readable.

THE STANDARD # 1

written by john lees art by jonathan rector

Purtty nifty wee indi super hero book. First issue was a little rough but I'm willing to see ware it go's. There's a fair bit o gorn and cynicism in here but its tempered by old fashioned hope. Id say its too early to tell which way it will go but the mission statement by the author at the back gives me hope. I quite like it when the writer of a book gives a wee word about what's going to be happening at the back of the first issue. I spose it just there because that cant have a letters page. Still nifty as fuck to me though. The plots really just ok. There's two heroes called the standard. One who kicked about the golden/ sliver age and the second standard is the firsts side kick whos taken up the mantle. The second standards basically booster gold. A celebrity super. Nothing rang wea that. Nothing too ground braking either. Now I really cant judge ware the book will go. Its looking like it will take shots at grim and gritty tropes but it dose have them same tropes as part of the plot. So like I said. Its hard to tell ware this series will go just on the strength of this first issue.

 

AMERICAS GOT POWERS # 5

written by jonathan ross art by bryan hitch

So still amazingly were now five whole issues in and the hero of the book is STILL a lad. Yes the world and almost every other character in it is AMAZINGLY EVIL. But the hero is STIL a hero. Maybe its just me that's hung up on this. But in this day and age the very fact that the hero isn't even a little bit of a cunt is something to marvel at. In my book at least. a character that previously seemed like a bit of a lad dose seem to go a wee bit power crazy but that is done by having david tenant turn into giant man. Don't know how to feel about that. This books main problem is its loss of momentum. Its a real shame likes. It started so god damn well with that double first issue. Kinda goat board of the whole hunger games / running man plot. Its aww right likes. Its just no tournament arc though. To be fair this issue is more world plot stuff happening. The evil American military decides to just bomb all the super powered teens. Because evil.

KATANA # 1

written by ann nocenti art by alex sanchez

So I gave kantana go this week. Cant say I regret it. In the last year or so I decided to give more comics a try. Number ones that is. Within reason though. I'm no goona actively depress my self by seaking out comics by the dark creators to read. So I picked up this issue and gave it a quick flick threw. Art wasny bad so I gave it a chance. It was a fairly good read. Some parts were slightly hard to follow but that may just be my ignorance of the charter coming into play. What's here though is good action and by the end of it I didn't dislike katana. Id call that a win like. So this book is part of a new line spotlighting the new justices laeuge. It will be interesting to see what that books all about because right now I'm not entirely sure why its happening. Its a weird back and forth comics have. They have a big super hero team gain new obscure members that go on to have interesting story's but eventually they have to put the iconic team together. Its a whole ting.

SUPERBOY #17

written by tom deefalco art by r.b silva

So hell on earth is still going on. Not really complaining just it feels like there's been a hundred issues of it all ready. Cant really complain about that either as iv been missing the superman issues as I only get super girl and super boy. Its not all that bad. Probably unnecessary. Its totes one of them cross overs ware you need to buy comics you don't usely buy. He'll is a bit of a weak villain. He's curb stomping everyone. Not sure how or why. And bloody super girls like actually in love with him. Maybe. Sucks if she actually is. Could turn out well if she's not. A few nifty things have come out of the cross over though. Like batmans hella pimpy fur snow gear and super boy having to ware superman's suite for plot reasons leading supes to cutting about in his action comics causal jeans and S logo t shirt. Iv most likely said before but even though supermans the last hero you should give a causal costume too this one bizarrely works on him. Not actually sure what happened this issue. Aye the plot advanced but there was this silver surfer bug dude and galactus looking guy. I'm pretty sure drugs were involved with the writing of this issue. That or it was intentionally written to appear like it was written on drugs. I liked it !

comic book quickies 30.1.13

Hey there sports fans. Light week all right. Only five books to pick up. Damn solid though is the thing. Makes a change it has to be said. Each week has been jam packed with comics for ages now. Iv been considering dropping a few things. But GOD DAMN. Every things just too damn good to let go. Quality is like way high across the board. And even the titles I should realistically drop I cant. Because of madness. Blue beetle has ended. To be fair. I think. I did here it was ending quite awhile back. Again to be fair I can see why. The beetles book just wassny living up to what it could be. It wasny overly bad. Just meh. It went with the hole jamies life is shite angle and I don't get why any one would think that's a good idea. Damn shame really. The blue beetle deserves a well written and fun book. Hopefully he'll get another chance some ware down the line.

Any way on to this week !

TEEN TITANS #16

written by scott lobdell and fabian nicieza art by brett booth

Right so here me out on this one. Actually surprisingly good. I know right. There's something about that cover that makes me feel guh. Its just weirdly meh. Enthusiasm drainingly so. BUT the actual comic was pretty damn decent. its the second teen titans issue tieing into the batman death of the family cross over arc threw the connection with red robin. We do get a few appearances from the other titans but there basically here to comment on there cross over with red hood and the outlaws and set up further plot points for latter issues of titans. Most of the meat of the issue is red robin and red hood being buddy cops. It works. Red robin is a tad unbareble for my likening. Were always told how smart he is and that's never really followed up on with anything all too memorable. Red hoods kind of a lad in comparison. Jeason todds has been getting some good press from me lately. He's been fun in actual batman and in batman inc. now there both buddy coping because thieve been kidnapped by the joker. Right so the joker likes. He references kirks fight with the gorn. That's the best use of the joker since marvel vs dc. Witch admittedly was just the other week for me. The death of the family tie ins have been pretty fine if you ask me. Almost everyone of them has been over shadowed by the actual batman book but that's been knocking it out of the park so that's to be expected.

THE FLASH #16

written francis manapul and brian buccellato art by francis manapul

I don't think it can be said enough. Francis manapuls art on the flash is fooooking amazing. It really is fooooking amazing. Right. There. I said it enough. For now. Gorilla grod continues his assault this week. That's another thing about this book. It totally just has shite like gorilla grod kicking about. I very much appreciate the super funness of this. Now stuff has been getting real for wee barry allan. Well basically stuff hasn't stopped getting real for him since issue one. I kinda like that. Normally I'm a monster/problem of the week type of guy and this sort of extended stuff happening plot turns me off a book. Not so here. Here it works. Mostly because of that super fun element. Patty now knows barry is the flash. And she's cool with it. MORE COMICS SHOULD BE LIKE THIS. Now yes the world is kind of ending thanks to grod. Well not factually ending but in a dramatic sense so patty's taking well as there sort of operating in a war footing frame of mind so the reveal is sandwiched between more crazy shite. Barry was cutting about in last weeks super girl. Being a lad. you's should go check that out likes. It has some perfect ass banter from barry. Much like barrys banter from early issues of the justice league. Barry banter. That should be a thing.

AQUAMAN #16

written by geoff johns art by paul pelletier

Quality comics happening right here people. The throne of Atlantis crossover arc continues to chug onwards. Its going well if you ask me. Its got that all important momentum behind it. Importantly its also avoiding the nasty businesses of encompassing too many books as other cross overs of this type do. I'm looking at you green lantern books. Shame on you for you many many poorly defined cross over events. AQUAMAN though. He's a bit of a on again off again lad. He as a character is sort of the most boaring thing about the book. As I've said before he's the least interesting and weakest guy on the aqua ranger team. usely being the normal guy on the team makes you awesome but he dosent carry that vibe off all that well. EVERTHING ELLE'S is awesome though. Like everything. And if its not inherently awesome then its smothered in the awesomeness of something that's near to it. The plots goat plenty packed into it. Revelations and action as well as some much needed cyborg banter. Really cyborg needs to get a whole lot more fun. Yeah it probably sucks that your a cyborg. Cant say what id do in that circumstance. Id most likely build a mech to combine with. I think we all know that actually.

 

BATMAN INC VOL 2 # 7

written by grant morrison art by chris burnham

oh Morrison. You beautiful bastard.

SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN #2

written by dan slott art by ryan stegman

Superior is totally fine likes. Absolutely nothing rang with it. Now yes ill grant you it dose sound horrible. Doc ock taking over spider-man's body and pete being dead. Yes spoiler. Spoilers for like a month or so people. Who actually dosny know this all ready that all ready reads amazing spider-man ? So yes it may appear horrible on first or even second glance. But and this is a big but. Its totally fine. Its just exactly as well written as the rest of dan slotts run on amazing. It has the same super fun action banter with slotts trademark denseness of stuff happening. Yes ock is a bastard. But he's a fun bastard. I can see not everyone excepting that. Fine. Fair play likes. Again here's the thing. Peter parker is still kicking about as mind ghost. There SHEER utter LADNESS of yami pete. Its very difficult to put into words. There's an actual fuck ton of banter that comes from this issue and yami pete provides about 90% of it. Going out on a limb here but I'm sure I could take a year of superior. Its really no all that bad. Don't let its overtly hateful premise and adjective. scare you away