comic book quickies 15/4/12

A surprisingly hefty week.

GREEN LANTERN #8

written by Geoff Johns art by Doug Mahnke

Well this was a pretty crazy awesome little issue ware not all that much happened. Crazy awesome in that both Hal and sinestro do some insanely cool things. Well Hal dose. Sinestros still stuck in psychopath mode when he should have mellowed out by now. The big goff man's still writing space Hitler as space Hitler. Which I guess is the right way to write a villain who's now a good guy against his will. Well it would be the right way to write him if sinestro had joined the justice league or some team like that but the problem is sinestro and hal are buddy cops and it's no fun to read when your sitting around waiting for space Hitler to mellow out. Now I don't want him to be laid back, no he is the bad cop of the the two but is it too much to ask for sinestro to roll around in a Hawaiian shirt ? Yeah so not that much happened this issue. Well nothing big. Well maybe something huge did happen and I just don't consider it that huge an event. I guess I'm just waiting for the guardians to make there move. Its been like eight months now. Hopefully shit will get real pretty soon.

SUPERBOY #8

written by Scott Lobdell art R.B Silva

So uh. Yeah. What the. What the hell happened last issue in superboy ? I genuinely don't remember. I started reading this issue and was like did I miss an issue ? I know superboy and the teen titans have a thing going on with one issue of one running into the next but I was a bit fuzzy on what happened last issue over in titans as well. Then I was like oh wells and just read the issue. It was pretty gid. Superboy fights this dude called grunge who's basically Kevin E Levin from ben 10 if he were a 90s anti hero. Which is cools. There seems to be a plot line devolving which sound like a super hero version of the the hunger games. That could be all right. My first read through of this issue I wasny digging it but now that I look back on it I'm quite likening it. Its mainly the 90s-nes of grunge that's doing it for me though it is nice to see that the book is at least trying to go some ware with its plot.

FRANKENSTEIN AGENT OF S.H.A.D.E #8

written by Jeff Lemire art by Alberto Ponticelli

Hmmm. Well this issue wasn't the barnstormer that I thought it was going to be. Now it was still pretty gid. It just wasn't as gid as I had hoped. See Frankenstein and his wife had to track down there evil son. And they did. And to me the son of Frankenstein was a wee bit of a let down. I'm not even sure what I was expecting but his design was just so bland. And weak. Now I can understand they way the issue went. It was more of an emotional story for fanky and his wife and there son was just there to put them though some charter development. I get that. I just felt a wee bit let down is all.

AVENGERS ASSEMBLE #2

written by Brian Michael Bendis art by Mark Bagley

So yeah I'm reading another avengers book written by bendis. Yeah I'm mentally ill. Its really not that bad but why the actual fuck is is bendis still writing the other avengers book ? You would have thought he would have just moved over to this book. But nope. Now this book is just a cash grab for the upcoming avengers film. I'm fine with that. It's what marvel always dose when there next film rolls around. Its kind of there thing. On the bright side it is Bendis and Bagley together again. Buddy cops that they are. The book dose suffer quite heavily from not being ultimate spider-man though. By that I mean Bagley has a noticeably different art style when he's not drawing ultimate spidey. The issue itself wasny too bad with the fights being well done and the plot getting a bit silly in places. Hawkeye dose refer to using the ultimate nullifier as the ultimate terrorist attack. Americans like.

FANTASTIC FOUR #605

written by Jonathan Hickman art by Ron Garney

Oh man. This comic. Manly tears. Manly tears for Ben Grim garp.

AMERICA'S GOT POWERS #1

written by Jonathan Ross art by Bryan Hitch

Let me just say this at the start here. This was really gid. Like really gid. It was just so .... battle city. Well I guess it was so hunger games meets running man. But yeah. Its a damn hefty first issue that's hella bang for your buck what with it basically being two issues slammed together. Plot wise it is just American idol with super hero's. Interestingly the book is filled with bastards like most mark miller-ish books ( and its very mark miller-ish) but the main hero isn't a bastard. Yeah he's not superman or captain America but so far he's shown to be not a bastard. Which to me was HUGE surprise. Now I'm sure he'll be corrupted as the story progresses but for now its nice to see he's not a bastard. I'm interested to see ware this book go's as I get the feeling these type of story's don't end happily. Oh and David tennant puts in a appearance Which is nice.

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 16/3/12

GREEN LANTERN #7

written by Geoff Johns art by Mike Choi

Sinestro trys to rope Hal Jordan into investigating just how INSANE the guardians have become but both he and Hal are kidnapped by the indigo tribe. See I genuinely thought this issue was pretty meh. Mainly because I felt we had done this exact same thing like six months ago. Sinestro forces Hal to be a green lantern again. Yeah the circumstances were a wee bit different last time but not by much. Hal not wanting to be a green lantern. Yeah that's just made of guhh. I get what the big goff lad is doing. Painting Jordan's use of the ring like a slight addiction. And him wanting a normal life on earth is a step forward for him. BUT THATS SOOOOOO BOARING. And of course it will never stick. The guardians are balls out insane but at this point am sure you all know that. At one point in this issue there all for killing one of there own lanterns because he might ask too many questions. Yeah. I was hoping for some buddy cop character development for auld sinestro but if I'm honest I feel he regressed a wee bit back into space Hitler mode. That was really the main thing that spoiled my enjoyment of the issue. I think Its fair to that we're all just waiting for sinestro to properly mellow out so we can have full on buddy cop action at last.

SUPERBOY #7

written by Scott Lobdell art R.B Silva

Superboy returns home to the facility ware he was created to bring the beat down to n.o.w.h.e.r.e. Yeah so superboy's pretty gid. Like iv said in the past its an oddly bipolar book. Both the plot itself and superboy as a character. One issue he's working for n.o.w.h.e.r.e and the next he's not. Though now that I think about it most issues he is working for them. Well it at least feels like he's flip flopping between working for the man and running away to freedom. He dies this week so aw well no worry's. He dose get better though. Then he dies again. But then he gets better again. So alls well with the world. Superboys not that mind blowing of a read but its still got plenty of action and that's all a really ask of a comic.

FRANKENSTEIN AGENT OF S.H.A.D.E #7

written by Jeff Lemire art by Alberto Ponticelli

Frankenstein and the creature commandos fight against the putties from power rangers and the prototype creature commandos. YEAH. So the the non sentient vaguely slave work force of shade the humanids rise up and are basically the putties from power rangers. I like this. What I don't like is shades response to this new life from that being they don't negotiate with terrorists. Meaning the just slaughter them without a second thought. Right guy I get that they tried to take over your base and that's a pretty uncool thing to do but I don't remember the humanids saying they were gonna take over the world or even if they killed anyone. Like at all. Well they probably did. But still. We all love to see putties getting beat down but shades response just seemed overly harsh and kind of set a weird tone for the issue. Like a wasn't rooting for franky and the lads. Mainly because they were being so un lad-ish.

FANTASTIC FOUR #604

written by Jonathan Hickman art by Steve Epting

Its the epic conclusion to the current mad space god saga. And I felt a little let down by it if I tell the truth. Spoilers all that happens is future franklin and Valeria save the day. That's it. To me that's just very lame. Yeah it is cool to see future franklin wielding galactus like a pokemon trainer and yes its nice to see that the world could only be save because the fantastic four are a family and if they wernt then they'd be doomed like the rest of family less reeds from other alternate universes. Its just I think we'd have all rather liked Dr doom to be the guy that saved every one. I get that doom cant do everything and be every ware. Its just that I look at the mad space gods and I'm like yeah doom could take them. Sadly the books still going for the doom is dead thing. Well he's been to hell before and we all know how that worked out. This issue was $3.99. Naw marvel. Just naw. Really don't be that guy.

AVENGERS #24

written by Brain Michael Bendis art by Daniel Acuna

Norman Osborn has all the powers ever. Lets see how that plays out for him. Well its the end of this unfortunately at times utterly hateful and insane arc. I say unfortunately because iv quite liked most of it there's just a few wee bits that just kill me. Like properly kill me. So giving Osborn all the super powers. That's really hateful. Giving Osborn the super adaptoids powers ? That somehow makes it fun. I don't know what to say. It just works. It turns him into pink hulk. Yeah that's kind of awesome. The avengers beat Osborn by touching him. That's somehow crazy awesome to me. Spider man gets a line in this issue that actually redeems this entire arc for me. Bendis you beautiful troll. As much as I loved super adaptoid pink hulk Norman Osborn I cant help wondering why marvel just wont let him be the green goblin again. Yeah the corporate pimp look sorta works for him but lex luthor has that look down to a fine art.

AVENGERS ASSEMBLE #1

written by Brian Michael Bendis art by Mark Bagley

Well there's a fourth team of avengers now and I really don't know why. Well its to cash in on the upcoming film but as of issue one thieve not yet given an in universe reason for the new team. Knowing bendis we'll find out by the time our grand kids enter high school. There was super villain that thought the hulk was only a myth. I read that and my head exploded. I don't really have any words for that. For now I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt. It is a new villain that I don't know anything about so its possible his back story involves living under a rock for most of his life. Its very pretty book and its always nice to see bendis and bagley together. Lads that they are.

comic book quickies 9/2/12

Only three comics this week . A sad heft indeed.

 

GREEN LANTERN #6

written by Geoff Johns art by Mike Choi

Sinestro go's all lone wolf cop as Hal adjusts to normal life again in an interlude issue. Ohhh the art change. Its fair to say that its more than a wee bit jarring. Now it is a in-between issue so no big deal in the long run but it did take me out of the story just a wee bit too much. Not that the story is all that mind blowing on its own. Yeah Hal shows that he's still bad ass without the ring but by the end of the issue he's a lantern again. So yeah. Sinestro is off in space doing spacey things with space people. In space. The issue sets up that sinestro is now aware of the plan guardians of the universe to destroy the green lanterns. I imagine in his head he's all like naw little blue dudes that's MA job! One really cool point that came up was some buddy cop character development for sinestro in that he has a begrudging moment of respect for Hal. See at this point they should just make Sinestro like Dr doom currently is over in the fantastic books. You know basically a good guy. See he is the strict no nonsense half of the buddy cop duo but he's still bloody space Hitler and why he's still a green lantern makes no real sense. See doom gets away with being on the FF for two reasons. One he's Dr doom and two its been like over a year and he hasn't done anything that even looks like betraying the team. Sinestro though just hasn't got to that place yet.

SUPERBOY #6

written by Scott Lobdell art R.B Silva

Superboy fights supergirl. Aww yeah. Yup that's all I need to enjoy a comic. None of this emo-shan pish. Just fighty fighting. Is there anybody out there that dosny like this kind of thing ? Well yeah of course there is. Damn cool kids and there trendy no fighting talky comics. Makes me sick really. I do like this current superboy run but I am getting a wee bit sick of the n.o.w.h.e.r.e plot. You could say its going nowhere. Ohohohohohoho. Well played me. But yeah not digging the hole secrets and lies feel its got going on. Superboy just keeps doing what he's told by the the obviously evil organisation then starts questioning what he's doing then go's back to the evil organisation. PICK A GOD DAMN SIDE. I guess he is like two weeks old so for now I'm letting it slide. So what did destroy krypton ? Its not something iv ever thought to look up I just kinda assumed it was a natural disaster type thing but when superboy reads super girls memory's there's a text box that says the planet was ravaged by war. Weird right ? Also there was a clone uprising that's used as a plot point as superboy is a half human clone thingy or as a super girl puts it an abomination. Yeah so that krypton not as paradise like as I thought. To be fair though I'm not too up to date with superman continuity but its still a bit odd to me.

FRANKENSTEIN AGENT OF S.H.A.D.E #6

written by Jeff Lemire art by Alberto Ponticelli

Frankenstein fought in the Vietnam war. You win DC. You win the decade. There's nothing marvel can come up with that's more awesome than Frankenstein serving in nam. The issue is about franky and the creature commandos being sent to nam to assassinate col. Quantum, a very powerful Dr Manhattan like super hero that franky fought alongside during the war. He's basically red Dr Manhattan but with a lot more humanity as he eventually leaves the army as he cant take all the killing. So that's cool but in the present days he's mutated and has killed thousands after going a tad mad. It really pretty tragic as franky has to mercy kill him. Now that was only the B plot as back at base the synthetic workforce starts an uprising that's vaguely smiler to that flesh two parter story in the last season of Dr who. A DAMN fine comic that still continues to be one of the surprise hits of the new 52 for me.

comic book quickies 25/1/12

comic book quickies 25/1/12

It was one hell of a hefty week so lets get started !

JUSTICE LEAGUE #5

written by Geoff Johns art by Jim Lee

The justice league get owned by darkseid and batman go's a wee bit mad. Well well what do we have here, a third week book in week four. Disgusting DC. This utter failure is beyond anything seen before. Sure there's been delayed issues before but that was before the new 52 and its sacred four week cycle and for justice league the FLAGSHIP book of the new 52 to be the first to cross the line into lateness and to be the first cut soo deep into the four week cycle so beloved by all. It hurts. It cuts me deep inside. The delay is a wound that will never heel. Every time I see justice league on the shelf ill think of this dark day this DARKEST day when it was a week late. It hurts me to even type that. The book was soo late the UK editions are only two issues behind. How mental is that ! Heh that last part was a wee bit misleading but still true. Still pretty mental. The actual issue was pretty gid. Darksied is on earth now and the recently formed league get curb stomped by him in cinematic action movie style. Superman gets gutteted by the omega beams while flash out runs them and Hal Jordan gets his arm broken. Fun times. The batman go's a wee bit mad bit comes from a scene ware Bruce unmasks to Hal. It just sort of comes out of nowhere and Hal has no idea who Bruce Wayne is. That's just weird, I know its set five years ago but he should have at least herd of Bruce Wayne by that point. The unmasking has a point though, course it dose batman all ways has a plan as it it allows him to be picked up by darkseids mooks and taken back to their base. Weird plan but that's young bats for you, if it had been the bat god that we all know and love he'd just wander up to the battle field and all the mooks would spontaneously combust. Because he's batman. Yeah so gid comic.

THE FLASH #5

Written by Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato art by Francis Manapul

The flash sort of ends the current story line in a way that makes it difficult for me to summarize it in a short and funny way. Yup flash is a damn gid comic. Its getting hard to talk about now as every issue is gid. Damn gid. That's really is a win for DC as my definition in my head of the flash comes from the 2000s justice league cartoon ware the flash was wally west and the comic relief of the team. So its kind of hard for me to root for the more serious business Barry Allan and I didn't grow up with DC comics continuity so its not a big deal foe me that Barry is alive and the flash again. Its not like Barry is clowning around here though its more just its a fun story that could have took grim dark turns but so far hasn't and I like that. The next story arc looks to be that the speed force is ripping apart time and space. I'm not sure how that will go over, to me it sound like that time in star trek the next generation when they found out that warp drives were ripping apart space. Did anything ever come from that ? I'm glad the books kind of taken a step back from Barry's mental speed force powers which kind of took away the fun part of the flash in that its fun to watch him just run fast. So for the the fifth time in five months, the art is still AMAZING. Really really really gid.

AQUAMAN #5

written by Geoff Johns art by Ivan Reis

Aquaman gets lost in the desert ! And his dog survives the issue ! Now I really enjoyed this issue it was everything I want an aquaman comic to be. This was really the first time since issue one ware I think the big goff got it spot on. Don't get me wrong I did like the cthulhu putties arc but at times I felt that it was a wee bit too dark and some times it dragged just a bit. It be awesome if the book just continued with the format of this issue that being sort of stand alone water themed monster of the week plot with an on going arc in the background you know like new who. Yeah so aquaman gets lost in the desert and hallucinates about his dad making fun of him for being aquaman. Yeah its one of those plots. And it bloody well works. Please big boss goff give us more comics like this. The art really shines. Heh get it ? Cause he's in a desert ! Damn I'm good.

GREEN LANTERN NEW GUARDIANS #5

written by Brain Tony Bedard art by Tyler Kirkham

The lantern rangers split up into buddy cop teams. That's right ! Buddy cop power rangers ! Mind explodes ! So the solar system machine ship thingy from last issue has actual planets in its metal orbs. Sadly there is no juice bar planet for the lantern rangers to visit. This issue reminds me of issue two or three of justice league international which ever one it was ware the league split up into pairs for some buddy cop odd couple action mainly because that's what exactly happens here. Maybe that's just the go to narrative device for writers that want to develop relationships in a team faster. That's what's happening here and over in the main avengers book as well but over there its more to make it easy for the avengers to get a whooping from hammer mooks. Here it kinda works , giving us back story for the lantern rangers like who they were before they joined there respective corps and why they do what they do. So that's pretty fun. The best banter is between green lantern kyle and orange lantern construct glomulus which is awesome and it kinda makes up for larfleeze not being on the team. Not an amazing comic but worth a read.

TEEN TITANS #5

written by Scott Lobdell art by Brett Booth

The titans get owned by superboy ! Yup superboy bipolar bastard that he is just willny pick a god damn side and stick to it. Its getting a bit much now. This issue is really just superboy beating down the titans. Now I like that it was all just one big fight but nothing all that awesome happens and it dosent give me all that much to talk about. So just a wee bit meh.

FANTASTIC FOUR #602

written by Jonathan Hickman art by Barry Kitson

The fantastic four wage 70s style space war above the earth ! Since issue five-ish this book has felt like 70s sci fi but I cant put my finger on a single core show that its most like. This space stuff makes it tastes like Blake 7. Now iv not seen that show in ages but that's the feeling I get from this books brow-ish colouring and I'm guessing deliberately cheesy at times character designs. This space war was in danger of getting stale but them BOOOOOOM!!! GALACTUS enters the battle and damn is he in full take nae shite I'm the devourer of worlds! Mode. Really all I need to enjoy a comic is for big G to turn up and actually do something. Too often galactus only gets a talkie cameo. Not here no sir. Here stuff explodes ! Lovely comic goodness !

FF #14

written by Jonathan Hickman art by Juan Bobillo

Doctor doom continues to be a total lad !I think we were all disappointed with dooms lack of appearances in the actual fantastic four book especially since that book was brought back for its 600 issue anniversary issues. Seriously how can you have an anniversary without doctor BLOODY doom ? Well fear not FF provides enough DOOM for all ! These few issues have been the best iv seen of old doom in ages, really he's not been this awesome since he fought his way out of hell. Yes that happened. This issue he stares down four mad gods. Like a pimp.

Doom. Do your worst....IT WILL NOT BE ENOUGH.

Now I like the team the books got going its what I thought the FF would be like from the start focusing more on the actual foundation doing things with SCIENCE rather than the fantastic four and what ever there plot was but at this point I could really do with this being dooms solo book. Its just mad enough to work !

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.

The blazing comic book quickies 26/11/11

 

I'll try not to talk about buddy cops but I'm not making any promises.

THE FLASH #3

Written by Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato art by Francis Manapul

The flash saves a plane from crashing after a electromagnetic pulse hits central city. I'm certainly enjoying this new rebotaverse flash book its delivering all the thrills and spills that you'd expect plus Barry Allen isn't being all that emo sure he's no kamina type but he's being fun and not driven like he was in flashpoint or bitching with kid flash like he was in the road to flashpoint. Heh yeah iv not read all that much flash. Right so spoilers then ? You guys cool with that yeah ? Barry Allen gets shot dead on the last page. Oh wells so much for Barry Allen then guess its time to bring on wally west cuz there's no way that Barry's death could be some kind of fake out or anything that type of thing never happens in comics theses days. Oh yeah and the art god damn bloody funking awesome.

 

AQUAMAN #3

written by Geoff Johns art by Ivan Reis

Yup the world sure dose hate aquaman all right. Hates probably a strong word, pity's probably better. Well he is aquaman after all. AQUAMAN! He cant even swim alone. The big goffs really taking the running joke of aquaman sucking big time and really hammering it home. The world of the rebotaverse is just like our very own in that it just see's the king of Atlantis as a joke and that's pretty cool mainly cuz it works. Its just feels more real that the world would treat him that way rather than treat him just like superman. Well that's what this books setting up so they can show that aquaman is bad ass that he dose kick ass and that he isn't a joke. Its not there yet but it's aiming for it. The goff man really likes aquaman stabbing dudes. Not my cup of tea really id prefer that he just punch fools like his counter part in the brave and the bold cartoon. That or just summon cthulhu. He can do that you know.

 

GREEN LANTERN NEW GUARDIANS #3

written by Tony Bedard art by Tyler Kirkham and Harvey Tolibao

So about those gaurdians of the universe being total bad guy bastards. Yeah that's still happening. Its weird dudes like they are at this moment the closest thing to a big bad in current GL continuity. They want to replace the green lanterns themselves with a third army, thieve brainwashed gathnet and are currently kicking the absolute crap out of kyle ryaner just cuz he has more than one ring, something that's totally out of his control. Crazy issue but nothing that much happens other than larfleeze making his appearance. And really I think that's all we really wanted to see.

 

TEEN TITANS #3

written by Scott Lobdell art by Brett Booth

I have to say this issues knocked me back a wee bit. Teen titans has got banter. I didn't get that before maybe the writing and art just gelled this issue or maybe it was something I'm just missing but there were genuine laughs this time and that really struck me. See before titans was teetering on the edge of the drop list but after what I just read the book has potential and hopefully the next few issues will be as good.

Oh and there was one other thing ..... but I cant ... rember.... some thing blazing and old but also new .....something amazing no....incredible ....no.....something ell's.....

The pretty gid comic book quickies 13/11/11

Despite being a pretty sparse week we got some damn solid comics out of it. And hey we even picked up a marvel ! So it looks like the lads over at marvel might have picked themselves up showered themselves off and got back to work after there apocalyptic panic attacks of the last few months in the wake of the new 52.

GREEN LANTERN #3

written by Geoff Johns art by Doug Mahnke

See what I was saying last month aboot hal and sinestro being buddy cops ? Yeah there totally buddy cops. AND IT IS GLORIOUS. You know what I'm talking about its like starsky and hutch, kittan and kamina or BRIAN BLESSED and pretty much anyone. See I think pretty much the hoal GL fan base will be ok with sinestro being a green lantern again if it means he's written as the stricked bad cop to hal's fun good cop and that's basically this issue. Iv only been reading green lantern since blackest night so I'm not sure how much evil sinestro has actually done but I know there was a war and he is space Hitler so I'm guessing he's a pretty bad dude and that might make it hard to for some people to accept him as a buddy cop. This issue was the buddy cop's going to sinestos home planet to free it from his old yellow lantern corps's. It had its share of funky moments like the two turning there GL suits to stealth mode and space Hitler DRILLING through one of his former mooks. A fun book well worth picking up.

SUPERBOY #3

written by Scott Lobdell art R.B Silva

Right so superboy is shinji ikari from neon genesis evangelion but in a fun way. I think I just divided by zero. Its hard to deny that eva has been bolted onto this book though, well I spose its a mixing of different things like he is also mewtwo and he is wareing a new style tron suit but its that eva flavour that comes through the strongest. The lad was gendo posing over in teen titans for peat sake. Sadly shinji-boy dosent fight a street shark this issue but what we did get was a highly entertaining read. Basically its superboys first interaction with people in the real world. Its just fun to read, the dudes not really met anyone before and is it only me that finds it funny/awesome that he introduces himself as superboy not meaning it a super hero name or a boast but that's just his name. And then he fights a lava girl and that's always fun. And we end the issue on kinda sorta fan service. Sweet.

FRANKENSTEIN AGENT OF S.H.A.D.E #3

written by Jeff Lemire art by Alberto Ponticelli

So this mountain turns into a giant monster bug and Frankenstein pulls its hart out and stabs it to death with his sword. Funk yeah I'm glad I bought this book its just so damn gid ! That's pretty much all you need to know about this book right there Frankenstein kills a monster mountain bug and he dose it like an orkish BRIAN BLESSED Klingon. And the teams mummy khalis kills a continents worth of mooks with one energy attack. Normally I'm not big on genocide but those monster dudes were gonna kill earth so I guess its cool. And by that I mean its BLODDY awesome. I had my doubts about this book before issue one thinking that it be a gory horror book but much like a have been with the rest on the new 52 iv been proven totally wrong. its like ranger team hellboy! Which I guess makes it like the B.P.R.D... but meh RANGER TEAM HELLBOY !

ULTIMATE COMICS ALL NEW SPIDER-MAN #4

written by Brain Michael Bendis art by Sara Pichelli

Well the schedule has slipped back to monthly so we might not see the origin story to the end but hopefully we will be survived be our children and grandchildren to carry on in our place. Still purty gid issue likes, milses is getting less emo but only after seeing peter die and getting the grate power speech off Gwen Stacy. Still think peats death was weak maybe if he had died fighting a city sized green goblin wareing a cape of his own blood whilst pointing to the heavens then maybe it be a cool death. Maybey. Also he'd shoot webs of fire. yeah this issue was indeed fun and I'm digging miles better now that the plots moving forward more. There's not really much to talk about this issue as it was mostly the death and funeral from different perspectives. Though it was hella cool and funny that miles has gained an inner monologue now that he's spider-man. Gid book go buy it !

The late comic book quickies 3/11/11

I remember the days when comics were meh. Those were the days. Bright shining days that never ended. Days when the world was young and full of fun. Sure there's still some meh comics out there but the weeks themselves have been solid for months now. Bloody DC. I remember the days when I could call most comics filler. Long lost days now. Gone to the broken abyss of summertime.

THE FLASH #2

Written by Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato art by Francis Manapul

Holly hell yes. This is just what I want from a flash comic. See the way I see the flash is the version from the justice league cartoon, meaning I see him as the fun member of the team. Now I know that's somewhat the wrong way to see him but I dini care. To me the flash is fun and not the slightly emo guy form just before and during flashpoint. Its not like he's a plucky comic relief hero or anything he's just fun to read. Now we had our doubt's coming into this book what with the artist both drawing and writing it but damn have we been proved wrong so far. Basically the art makes this book and it'll be shame when and if there is B artist issue. Best art of the new 52 ? ill have to think about that.

 

AQUAMAN #2

written by Geoff Johns art by Ivan Reis

This was pretty gid just a wee bit shot is all. The comic starts with cthulhu putties eating dude's on a boat. That's not so bad but we then see a kid and his mum waiting for the boat at the docks ware we find out that its his dads boat. Harsh man. That kids all 1950s wide eyed gee mister type and now his dads dead and from the looks of it the kid and his mum are dead too. Brutal stuff. The comics still trying to make Aquaman awesome but it'll take some time and its not quite as hevey on the hoal the world thinks Aquaman sucks thing but its still present. So not as good as issue one and it maybe could have been if it had another genius panel of Aquaman standing over a treasure chest like the first did but its still a fun read if a little short.

GREEN LANTERN NEW GUARDIANS #2

written by Brain Tony Bedard art by Tyler Kirkham

Crazy guardians man! They totally just attack kyle for having other power rings and have brain washed ganthet to be a proper guardian again. They so crazy. So the ranger team hasn't properly formed yet but its getting there. The teams still at the fighting each other stage but its only issue 2 and the plots moving along at a fair pace, kyle's totally the red ranger but it'll be cool to see ware the other lanterns fit in to the team and how a yellow lantern can be on the team at all, spose that's not a big issue though as space Hitler is currently a green lantern again. it'll be interesting to see ware this book go's and what it dose to the main lantern status quo and even if it lasts at all. The arts fairly nice but it dose still suffer a bit for being generic lantern art.

 

TEEN TITANS #2

written by Scott Lobdell art by Brett Booth

Yeah stuff happened this issue and I might talk about that latter but I will always remember this as the comic ware superboy executes a GENDO POSE. Its a splash page and his only appearance in the comic. Yeah he's totally shinji boy. The comics aboot Tim drake putting a team together and that's always fun. The one thing I found weird with this issue is that Tim speaks like a teenager, not the weirdest thing in the world I know but I would have thought batman would have beaten that out of him by now and it feels a wee bit disconnected from issue one ware Tim was a bit more batman-ish but that might just be my imagination.

FF #11

written by Jonathan Hickman art by Barry Kitson

I bring terrible news. You might be wanting to sit down for this one. Doctor Doom dose not appear this issue. Cuts deep don't it? Dropped the ball on this one marvel Dooms the only reason to buy FF. He's Doom do I really have to go into detail on this one ? Last issue ware he was made a slave buy alternate universe reed Richards and I was ok with that as I thought well there just going to be building up to something cool with it but its not cool to not have him in an issue at all! HE'S THE HAERT AND SOUL OF THE TEAM! Basically this books just a massive pile up of villain plots that are probably all going to be solve in issue 600 whenever that's out but I might not get that depending on the price. Well done marvel.