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THE SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN #5

written by dan slott art by giuseppe camuncoli

Aye. So aye. Aye hi hi ! Big superior spider-man. That slott. Just blasting them out. No complaining likes. I here slight rumblings that it well end soon ish . Which if true is a damn shame. I'm fairly likening big doc ock and yami petes adventures together. Now ayes. Big ocks no aware of pete. Yet. Hopefully when it happens both party's will be cool about it and set out on a buddy cop adventure. This issue was pretty gid. Ock gets a new supporting cast member in the form of a crazy amazingly one piece ish science chef and he deals with massacre. Now ayes. Ock MIGHT have shot him. But I'm guessing because they didn't show the actual death that he's no actually killed him. We shall see though. Time will tell. Dinny ken how to feel if he has killed massacre. That's a step too far. Even if the bastard deserved it. Like the bastard REALLY dossny deserve to live. Aye. Now that's the point of his character. But I dinny know man. Him just killing folk left right and centre just kinda takes a lot of the fun away. Maybe its just me. When you start putting villains in story's that just kill folk it kinda takes some of the magic away. Like aye. The hero probably shid kill him. That just makes the hero less hero ish if you ask me. In super hero comics that is. And aye I know there's plenty of killers in auld spidys rouges gallery. I dinny like to think about it like that though. It spoils a certain amount of buddy copness for me.

IRON MAN #7

witten by kieron gillen art by greg land

Glorious ! Actually glorious ! The had me at iron man in space but then the backed it by actually making it good. It was a little concerning likes. The first five or so issues were classy monster of the week fun. Aye there was an over arching plot but the individual issues were ooo so monster of the week. So moving it to this we bit more ongoing plottyness was slightly concerning. Well not really. But it is marketed as a tie in / aftermath to last years A vs X. which is slightly weird considering we're now onto the next big event. Don't let it put you off though. Its cracking stuff. What's not to love. Everybody's at least a little fond of auld shell head and space its self is way wicked. Rad even. This issue we get big tony stark cutting about space jail dressed as a jedi bantering with his transformer lawyer buddy then shit gets amazing when tony takes to the arena to clear his name with a spot of gladiatorial combat. atualy love comics. Now aye. Greg land is STILL on art duties. Its still fine though. Id go as far to say it even looks a bit gid. Controversial I know. The glossiness just sort of works for this run. Its no bad thing. Also his name is fairly easy to spell. That makes me happy.

 

ALL NEW X MEN #8

written by brian michael bendis art by david marquez

Mmmmmmm. Ayes. Tasty comic right here. Damn likes. We live in a world. With a good x men comic. Now now. Calm doon likes. Calm doon. I troll. I'm sure there are some damn fine x men comics out there. It just was never my bag. I admit that. I'm just no a big x men fan. This though. Hot damn. This is an actual comic. I wasny too hyped when we aww herd big bendis was leavening the avengers and moving to x men. Aye I was aww like ill give it a go. Genuinely wasny expecting to like it. Not enough to continue with it. How god damn amazingly wrong was aye likes. Now one of my esteemed colleague said to me recently this was possible the best of the marvel now stuff. I kinda have to agree. The only thing that could contest it would be iron man. On its best day though. All new x men has been both constantly grate and cranked out at rapid fire pace. canny fault that. Like in no way. This ish mostly focused on angel and kid angel witch is gid. Kid angle seemed a bit fun and it was nice to see him get a bit of time to banter about. Also the avengers made an appearance. inevitable but very nicely done. They had to find out about the original x men being in the present at some point. And yeah. Jean grey is like waaaaaay evil. That's already a thing. For some reason. Cant really explain it or give you any context for it. Its not like she's a super villain. But if she was her actions would make more sense. Maybe scots just made of evil and contact with him turns others evil. Those wacky x men. What are they like !

AGE OF ULTRON BOOK ONE

written by brian michael bendis art by bryan hitch

So this happened. Genuinely wasn't expecting it so soon. It actually stealthed its way up on me. And it was fine. Nothing to flashy and nothing too bad. Well there was one thing but we will get to that in a bit. Aye. So ultron. Meh ? Is he really that big a deal ? I know it dosent really matter. But I duuno man. I like robots. Robots are way cool likes. I'm no knocking robots. And I know ultrons probably kicking about with an army or some super weapon shit but last time he started shite the avengers took him doon in like a arc. I mean. Just look at that cover. Do you believe he just took all those fools ? And FUCKING hawk eye is the last man standing ? I just dinny believe it. God damn hawk eye likes. Its mostly him we follow in this first issue. And I'm fine with that. Really I am. I'm sick to god damn death of hawk eye. But its only the first issue. And's I can take it. Ill complain if he continues to be the focus. So it seams ultron has won and the marvel heroes are cutting about a dark escape from new York future. Cools. Loota room there for fun stuff. This issue really didn't do much with it but really that's what most event number ones are like. Aye so over all it was just fine. Nothing mind blowing though the art was pretty gorgeous from hitch. Lots of wreaked architecture and that. Now see that one big thing that was wrong with it ? That be the last page. Offffft that last page likes. There's not a single thing they could have done that could be more offensive to my sensibility. Right. So get this. Big captain America. The legend of our youth. Is soo broken by the apparent victory of ultron that he has to sit in the corner and cry. Aye pal. FUCK NO. I don't care how badly the heroes lost. I don't care how many people died. I don't care how utterly hopeless the situation is. At no point would captain FUCKING America give up let alone sit in the corner and sulk. It widdny matter if he was the sole surviving human being on the planet. That man would be out there. Fighting the fight ! Did anybody see how he dealt with the last days of fear itself ? Shite looked hopeless then. His shield was broken. Dude just ladded up and carried on. Admittedly he went a little insane but he did so in a lad way. So aye. Little disappointed in you there bendis

 

HAPPY # 4

written by grant morrison art by darick robertson

Ayes. So. Spoilers right. Better run if you dinny wanna here em. Because son. I'm just goona spoil the ending. Ayes so right. Here we go. So happy right. I think happy has a happy ending ! I know right ? How awesome is that. now I say I think it has a happy ending. I could be wrong likes. I could be interpreting it wrong or missing the point of certain bits and the last page in particular. But if I'm right how awesome ! Bloody big morrision likes. He can certainly do the dark stuff all right but most of what iv read from him him has ended well. And now we can maybe even add happy to that list. Cracking stuff likes. Last week I talked about how morrison gets comics. And he totally dose ! Now this issue really shows that off with a big cavalry charge from an army of imaginary friends. I gosh darn love cavalry charges in fiction. Its those big damn heroes moments that really are a huge part of why I like comics and films and that. There those very special moments that get across the purest emotions and joys. So aye. Happy was pretty damn good. Bleak as ALL FUCK. But ultimately well done. And we hope. We really hope. It was a deliberate parody of the work of mark miller. We hope.

GREEN LANTERN # 18

written by geoff johns art by alex sinclare and ardian syaf

Cracking adventures in the death zone ! Goota tell you. That's one happening place like. Seems like every cunt is hanging about there theses days. Trendy ass bastards if you ask me. Well they are dead. So that's goota be a downer I guess Wells I spouse there only kinda dead. Its confusing. Still though. This issue we get the first meeting of simon baz and big hal jordan. It dosny go all that well. Mainly because of sinestro. That big bastard. He went a tad ring mad. Slightly understandable because the universe is in danger. Still not the lad thing to do. Aye so by the end of the comic sinestro and baz are once again in the land of the living but hals still stuck half dead. He gets a weirdly awesome moment ware he considers suicide so he can become a black lantern to escape. Lets see how that plays out. It could get AMAZING. So green lantern likes. Its a whole thing isn't it. Its kinda like DC's biggest thing. Kinda actually is likes. Well aye batman and superman and that. So yeah. Green lanterns like the third big dude in book terms. And has been for ages. That's pretty nifty loikes.

DETECTIVE COMICS #18

written by john layman art by jason fabok

Dinny let that cover fool you. This issue has almost NOTHING to do with the death of damian wayne. Almost comically nothing to do with it really. There's like a page ware big Bruce is at the grave and is aww. Damians deed. Aww wells. Lets go drop in on the penguin. See what he's up to. Now it be aww well and fine if batman was raging. Just dropping fools left and right. But naw. He's incredibly calm. You'd expect him to go brutalize the penguin. But naw. He just beats him doon wea the banter. Good likes. Must be those legendary bat god nerves of steal ! Why shid the bat god care about the fate of lesser beings ! I kid though. Its probably because its a different writer and or damian isn't actually dead. We will have to wait and see really. Gid issue though. Detective comics has this damn interesting vibe going on. Its really quite special when I think about it. Its realistic but fun. Actually its a bit more than that. Its kind of difficult to pin down or to put into words. Basically I like it. And that's just awesome. Its got the penguins patter doon. That's important. The previous run had some bits and bobs with the penguin but honestly they felt a little boring. not so here. The dudes a bastard AND fun. Good combo likes. Its helps that there's a penguin plot going on ware he's losing his shit. Both figuratively and literally. So aye. Good times.

 

GREEN ARROW #18

written by jeff lemire art by andrea sorrentino

REALLY quite likening green arrow. Yes. Yes . This is actually happening. Not to be disparaging towards the character or trying new things. You know. I think its safe to say we're all just set in our ways. Too auld to change or come to a new way of thinking about things. No ? Just me then ? Fair play likes. I'm a pretty static guy. Change to me is a little bit like the devil. Now this issue. This issue was incredibly metal gear. Green arrow go's and gets him self an otacon and stealth's about a office looking for clues. Then during the cliff hanger he seemingly falls to his death while his new otacon shouts arrow ? ARROW !! ?? so ayes. Hella metal gear. Now that's a very good thing. Like evanglion metal gear is a great thing to blot to an existing franchise. The writing and art also combine to make things fantastically 90s. again its one of those thing I find hard to describe. But it feels very 90s. Very late 90s at that. Hella x files ish if you get me. Like if 1998 was a comic. This comic would be closely related to it. Ayes. So amazingly good comic. Id recommend it to pretty much anyone. Aye. Its yin of them bastards.

Comics the now

Hullos !

 

Comics right now are pretty damn good. I cant really remember a poor week for ages now. I guess there's a few reasons for that. I'm buying a wee bit more books now. Long gone are the days of only picking up amazing spider man. Damn they were good times. Now marvel has caught up with DC and have started putting out there new stuff. I'm a bit bummed that there renumbered books haven't had a synchronised launch but that might have been a bit too much like the new 52.

Aye I think ill still call it the new 52 on here despite it being auld and not exactly the same 52 books. Its been damn good though. Kept up the pace pretty well. Batman's been there top book since day one and I'm still loving it. The book got off to a rocking start and even though I had my doubts when it looked like that bat god would break snyder pulled it back in style with the silliness of the end of the court of owls and this new bat perfecting his YOUR INSANE paunch. Right now bats is onto another mega arc with the joker back in town starting shite. Its damn good. Ideally id just want an instant bat god win. But for the sake of drama its damn gid.

Action comics its fucking insanely brilliant. Like fucking insanely god like in its awesomeness. At times. Sadly its has its ups and downs. Now the downs arny really downy downs there just not highs. Which is a shame. Now that last issue just gone. #13. hoo lee fuck. Had me crying manly tears. Superman rides to the rescue of a mission to mars base and its apparently British crew. Super man at his supermanyist. A fusion of superman , Dr who and gurren lagann ! At times it felt like Morrison was writing it just foe me it was that spot on to what I like to read about.

Aquaman by the way. He's a bit of a lad. Well no, not really. He's just the standard man on a mission character the big goff likes to write. The aquaman book though. Now there's a hell of a lad. Like all comics its had its ups and downs. Its opening arc had some gosh darn fantastic moments. Establishing everyone in the DC verse thinks of aquaman the way the real world thinks of him. Id have personally like to see him just being the brave and the bold version but the loser hero was an alright way to go. The recent aquamans 90s anti hero team arc could have went badly but the team showed there true colours as not an anti hero team at all but a RANGER time. That last arc had a hell of a Saturday morning cartoon vibe. Its geof johns I know that's his thing but god damn it was glorious. It was the atlantian millennium items that did it for me.

The guardians of the galaxy continue to be moustache twirllingly evil. Its damn entertaining to watch. Sinestro and hal were finally getting down to the serious business of being buddy cops in space but they got sucked into a death hole. So theirs a new green lantern kicking about earth. Surprisingly cool dude. The preview images made him look quite the dick. Running about with a gun. We dinny need another John Stuart. Well no another current comics John Stuart. A justice league cartoon John Stuart would be joyously welcomed with open arms at this point. Aye so the new guy. What's his name. Cool dude. Canny fly yet. Drives construct cars. As fast as the flash. Like I said. Surprisingly cool dude.

Now marvel. Marvels fucking insane. Like proper loopy. Not entirely sure why. But they are. Big news was amazing spider mans getting a renumbering after issue 700. that's a huge kick in the balls. I feel like they renumbered it before and it didn't take. So we're all probs taking bets as to when it resets. Bigger news was that it might not be peter under the mask after 700. now that's probably the biggest ball kicker of the year. Maybe that hole Disney star wars thing. Its defiantly a big deal. Now normally with this kind of thing you'd just write it off as a desperate attempt to build up hype for a book. But here's the thing. Marvels fucking insane. We're at the point ware they could actually kill off peter god damn Parker. In the year of his 50^th anniversary and a recent film release. Now I'm not all that up to date on it but hopefully its just dan slott the eternal lad taking the piss. But if not. Calm the fuck doon marvel.

 

 

Now despite there insanity they do make quite fine comics. Avengers vs X men was pretty well done in my opinion. Not to everyone's taste I expect. It really was a lot of fighting. But I have to stress. Damn good fighting. Cyclops. Cyclops is an utter bastard. But a loveable bastard. He's just so amazingly evil. That's what I took away from A vs X. I know that's not always been his character but its some thing for him to do at any rate. Marvels moved on from civil war a bit. Now there bastard of the event is at least employable evil unlike Tony stark was back then.

I picked up Two X books in the aftermath of the event. Not really an X fan but I thought id give them a chance. Uncanny avengers just blew me away. Two things did it for me. The the just plain awesome casual vibe. And the red skull stealing prof X's brain. HOW AMAZINGLY RED SKULL IS THAT. Aye prof X has been dead for two hole seconds and BOOM red skulls in there. No hesitation. Proper old school villainy. Now this Wednesday just past big brain Michel bendis swaggered into the room and slammed all new x men on the table. It was actually pretty good. Staggeringly. Now the full impact of the first issue was spoiled by previews but the idea of getting young Scott summers to come to the future and talk some sense into himself is a damn amazing idea. Nice one bendis.

The fantastic four books missed a trick. They ended there current run going to save Dr doom from a universe he crated that turned against him. Aye naw pal. That might be actually what would happen given the circumstances and dooms actual character. But that's not what would happen to the lad doom. Lad doom would never need the fantastic four to rescue him. Lad doom wouldn't need rescuing at all. Lad doom would be off conquering universe's duel wielding infinity gauntlet like the ultra lad he is. Now to the books credit despite this fall at the very last hurdle the issue did have some fine moments and quite doomy lines form the lad himself. Sad that the run over really. The new runs just kicked off. Bit to early to say how its going but baglys art it is grately appreciated.

I decided to pick up iron man. Juuuuuuust as the book was gearing up for its final arc. Gotta say I like what I read. Very very metal gear solid ish. Sad I missed out on the hole run now. Might have to go pick up the trades at some point. Actually I don't think iv bought new trades outside of xmas presents since I started buying comics by the monthly format two or three years ago. Damn likes. That's something for me to think about. Picked up the new number one with him in his new black and yellow armour. Only one issue down of course but so far its not as good as fractions run. Not bad though. A few nice bits here and there. Gotta wait and see ware it go's

Lastly iv been venturing into deeper comic waters. The darker depths of indi comics. Well indi-er than the two big company's. Saga is a damn fine piece of comicbooking. Its the new one by that there y the last man guy. Now a fair bit of it is quite out there for my taste but that's offset buy its incredible comic booky-ness. Its about a couple and the new born child escaping from two factions at war with each other. IN SPACE. Grant Morrison's new book, happy is hopefully a piss take of mark millers indi books in particular and mark miller in general. It is defiantly a piss take but hopefully that will be made official eventually. Happy is a charming Christmas tale of a scumy scum bag and his tiny wise cracking flying purple unicorn buddy. It be horribly depressing if its not a piss take. So you can see why I want it to be one. Has to be. Hopefully

Also I'm back !