Comic book quickies double feature ! Again !

JUSTICE LEAGUE #19

written by geoff johns art by ivan reis

Big batman likes. What a guy. The goff man's running with modern internet teachings that the bats has a plan to take down everyone one. Even members of his team. Which is cracking. Because of course he dose. He is batman after all. Omnigod of creation ! The niffty wee plot of the issue is what if some one stole them plans. Which sadly is a little shite. Seeing as some guy just broke into the batcave. It cheapens the cave I think. Ayes maybe the league and that know about it but that's enough likes. For some guy to rock up to it and take down Jason todd AND Alfred is a little shite. Like the joker couldn't get in but some punk ass JL villain could ? I'm no having that. Though having said that my gut tells me the intruder is bats himself. Because sometimes he's a cunt like that. Aww wells. We'll see likes. Wonder woman thaw. She's quite horrible. Like her and superman just jump into a country and free some hostages putting the justice league in some political hot water. Which really I was fine with. Lest they were saving lives and that. But she genuinely thinks she's a god god. And by that I mean yes she might be an actual god or dimi god or what ever she actually is but she THINKS she's all powerful. That because metas are strong they should rule the earth and do what ever the fuck they want. Its like she forgets that villains exist. Ands that when one pops up she normally gets the shit kicked out of her. And that yes. She could probably take A green lantern. But probably not two. And definitely not the whole human lantern ranger team. To be fair. Superman's a lad about it. Telling her to calm doon. She totes flys off the handle at bats though. Huge mistake there.

SUPERGIRL #19

written by mike johnson art by mahmud asrar

Gotta love it when a solid comics keeps being solid. Once again. Supergirl fights a fool. Basically. Job done guys. Lets all go to the lobby and get ourselves some well earned snacks. Its all good. Life that is. Being alive and reading supergir. You have to admit there's quite a vibe to that. Its that sunny dc continuity vibe. Ayes you could just be reading superman. Fair play. But you were aww like. Naws. Lets give big supergirl a try. Good on you's likes. Its a damn well nifty made comic. Now yes its not going to set the world on fire. But it really dosent need to. Its just a solid wee book ware supergirl fights a fool. This issue we get double the bang for our buck. Two supegirls ! Well supergirl and power girl. Heela cools like. Iv not read much with power girl in it but I do here good things about the character. Also if its going to be a whole buddy cop adventure I'm totes up for that. As you know I'm slightly partial to that whole sub genre there. Its kind basically my soul. We also get some shameless costume damage forcing a costume change this issue for powergirl. That's indeed something all right.

AMETHYST #7

written by christy marx art by marc andreyko

Amethyst number seven should be subtitled the return of the swagger. Because yes sonny jims. The swagger has indeed retuned. It did wobble a bit last issue. Eclipso really felt a bit shit. He sort of gets a better chance to shine here. Cutting about the fantasy world being more fantasy if you get me. Like he's using magic and that. They do a good job of integrating him to the world. Hells, having said that I dinny ken a thing about the first amethyst from back in the day. Maybe eclipso was always a thing. Hmm. Utter shames on me. Apart from that there is still a lot of plot happening. Like if your looking for a comic ware things happen. This is the book for you. Because things indeed happen. Like folk die son. They just die. Important folk. Folk with big things happening. Its interesting. I didn't think they'd kill off the movers and shakers this early. But as we've already established I don't understand the world any more. Its fine. Amethyst is still a damn fine comic well worth reading. Like you there. Eric ! You ! Should read this book !

 

GREEN LANTERN NEW GAURDIANS #19

written by tony bedard art by andres guinaldo

Kyle and the team get there shit together after being mind raped by the first lantern. I really cant get over how amazingly none of the team were taking the first lanterns shite. It really was gurren lagann ish. Perhaps even laddish of them. Damn laddish of the writer to be sure. Now this issue didn't quite live up to the last two. It was if I'm being honest a little bit like filler. You what son. That ok with me. This was filler used to surprisingly good effect. Remember that last issue of actual green lantern ware sinestros home planet got utterly wrecked ? And it felt surprisingly hollow ? Well we get some follow up on that here. We get to see the aftermath and sinestros rage at it. Which is neat. We also get a nice bit of kyle trying to use the white ring to bring back the planet. Which if you ask me is way cool. Kyle IS white lantern after all. He kinda is a wee god right now. It dosent go well yes but at least he gave it a go. So far I am likening this event. Its a lot more fun than the last one, though that may not be all that a hard thing to be. I'm not missing the mad guardians. Yet.

AGE OF ULTRON BOOK SIX

written by brian michael bendis and drawn by folk. Its confusing.

I'm starting to feel it. No. not the actual event. The HATE for the actual event. Its beginning to snake its way threw my body. It feels good. Hate is always wonderful. So like I said before. I couldn't really bring myself to actually hate. Age of ultron. Its a dark dystopian future and all the bleak negative tropes that come with it I cant really complain about. Its just what thee going for. Things get really stupid though. And that too would be fine. Thing is this is the issue ware things start to effect the marvel universe. Kinda. We'll see ware it all gos in the end. But for now. Spoilers I should say. Wolverine has went back in time and killed hank pym. See that son . See aww that. FUCK THAT. That's just about the worst thing iv ever read. If I didn't know better I would have thought it was written by mark fucking miller. Its sick. Its the most modern cut writer of a thing to do. The hell happened to you bendis ? And how did you get over it so amazingly ? Sigh. I just don't know what any thing's about any more. Well. At lest I still ken sue storms a massive bastard. I go as far to say she's the worst human to ever live. Because shes there. She could have easily stopped wolverine. But she didn't. Because I duuno. She just wants humanity to suffer. Its totes her thing these days. Maybe. Just maybe Ill one day eat tho's words. Its difficult to tell ware every thing's heading. This event has been massively pish so far but it might end strongly. And even then It might be a know event seeing as there's another marvel event just wrong the corner. Ahh wells. Always remember what sue storm did here today. Or rather. What she didn't do. And forever hold it against her.

 

IRON MAN #8

written by kieron gillen art by greg land

Offft yes. Have I ever mentioned how I bloody love gillens iron man ? Because DAMN SON its just utterly cracking. It has virtually everything a I want from a good comic. Action AND banter and of course. The most important element. SPACE. Fun space that is. With aliens and robots. And big ass laser beams. God damn love space. Has to be said. Also gladiatorial combat. That's in the mix here too. Big tony stark is fairly good at the auld gladiatorial combat. Ayes it probs happened to him a thousand times before. But I like to think its thanks to those combat lessons from the living legends big captain America. There's plot to be had here as well. The transforming drinks dispenser pulls off a dramatic double cross bringing the mad celestials crashing down on house. Fantastic. I genuinely thought they were dead. Didn't they die at the end of hickmans ff run ? Doom was all up in there grill and I seem to remember something about galatus and his CRAZY wrestling skills. Aw wells. Those mad god lads are always a lot of fun. We don't actually get a fight between them and shell head. But that's fine likes. Them just being there was enough for me. So ayes. You should really give this run ago. So don't be put of by land. His art really works well here. Yes. No fooling.

THE SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN #8

written by dan slott art by humberto ramos

ohhh mahhh hgawd. SHIT JUST GOT REAL FOLKS ock is fully aware of yami peter. I expect card game based buddy copping within the month. Its goona rock.. yes it is. Search your feeing internet person. You know it to be true. Are people REALLY still down in superior out there ? Whits rang with you. Its grate stuff. Ayes. Its different. And sometimes a little weird. And ock has gained a touch of the grim dark for some unknown reason. But its fun likes ! And its still as well written as the rest of slots run. This issue was a lot nifftyer than last. Well I thought so at least. Don't know what it was last time. I just wasn't feeling the vibe for some reason. Shame on me. This time though. I was feeling it. It was a lot more continuity er. There was some call backs to tocks plan too cook the world from ends of the earth. Which is nice. Seeing ock confront the fact that ock was all for whipping out humanity in what mas be a few weeks to months ago in in universe time . Ayes they do say it was last year. But hey. That still not all that long ago to be a genocidal mad man. Its all fun's likes. Now some might say that I jumped at the the spoiler reveal a little too early there in the review. And they'd be right. But come on now Ted. We all sort of knew that things would one day work themselves out. And now here we are. Hopefully it will go well for auld yami peter. As iv said many a time before. He's quite the lad.

 

so this JUST became a double feature folks !

MASKS #6

wtitten by chris roberson art by dennis calero

I like zoro. What a lad he is. Just cutting about pulp hero times. Ha ! Cutting about. Sometimes I just crack myself up. This was a fairly ok issue I have to say. Now it didn't knock my socks off or anything. But that's ok. It was fine. Kind of more of a transitional issue. Getting everyone where they need to be. Now if it was my decision I wouldn't have any of that. But fair play. I get why it needs to exist. So like I was saying. Its a neat issue. All told. Lots of nifty wee character moments and interactions. And we get a quick peak at what seems to be the big bad. No complaints really. Every things moving along nicely. Sadly that really dosent give me much to talk about. So ayes. It gets my coveted seal of approval ! Damn quick quickie there.

JUPITER'S LEGACY # 1

written by mark millar art by frank quitely

this was shite. I gave it ago and it was shite. Lets just move on.

BATMAN INC #10

written by grant morrison art by chris burnham

TAKE FLIGHT BAT GOD. Guys. Its happening. The batgods going to war. And I really have to say. Big bats isn't pishing aboot. Like its agaist everything he stands for but wouldn't be surprised if he just dosent kill the fuck out of talia. Like at this point she pretty much deserves it. So batman inc has kinda fallen. Like bruce has disbanded it but dick is carrying it on in secret. Cools. Bruce kind of gets edgy sometimes. I don't want to say he makes bad decisions during times like theses. Because he omnipotent. Being a god and all. Its just you know. Writing and all that jazz. For some reason he man bats up. Which is cool. I'm not really sure why. Dose he need that extra powah ? I just assumed he'd rock up to Wayne tower. Clear it out floor by floor like the beast he is. As man batman he IS piloting a suit of power armour. Now guys. Logic can fuck right off. Because that is awesome. The image of him screaming towards Wayne tower is hella striking. The bat god unleashed indeed. So yeah. Damn fine issue. We're getting to the end of big morrisons run as well. Not sure how to feel . It wont be the same anyway when he's done and gone. That's for sure.

FF #6

written by matt fraction art by joe quinones

READ FF. I'm telling you folks. You should be going out there to your friendly neighbourhood comic shop and buying FF. Why ? For the god damn AMAZING breakfast vibe. Yes. That right. We git a bit where the team just sit about and have breakfast. Yes. I shit you not. Its the most perfect thing iv ever read. The vibe was off the bloody charts. Best two pages of a comic ever you ask ? Hmm. Yes. Yes. A thousand times yes. In recent years thanks to rebuild of evangleion 2.0. iv come to think of launch as the beast meal of the day. Thanks to this comic I may have to re think that. You know. Some comic do have the power to change how you think. They can reach deep into your brain and change you. FF is definitely one of those books. Its doing very important vibe based work. Oh ayes. There was plot that happened. It was all quite nicely done. Medusa has gone mad ted and abducted bently or some pish and the yancy street gang canny be deaing with ms thing. Its just all that really just gets over shadowed by the breakfast. Like just thinking about it right now. Im not sure how I can go on with my life. I just want to keep relieving those two pages. Those two perfect pages.

 

FANTASTIC FOUR #7

written by matt fraction art by mark bagley

So how much of a colossal bastard is reed Richards like. The answer is utterly. Reed Richards is an utterly colossal bastard. Yes. We already knew that. It seems everything he dose is will dick off someone at some point down the line. Thing is. That's what this entire issue was about. No joke. Maybe I'm missing something but the plot this month seemed to be to make the team as un-likeable as possible. Ayes the things natural lad field protected him from the worst effects but god damn son. The team are transported to the end of the universe by god franklin and then are taken in and help by some nice aliens who've decided to stay and watch the end of time. Fair play to them. There the same dudes that sent blastaar to the big bang last issue. And for some reason. Some MAD reason. Reed takes this as an insult. Ayes the aliens plan isny aww that amazing but reeds aww. That's dumb ! I'm the smartest there is ! U should do my plan ! The aliens are aww naw thanks son its fine. Reed like go's off in a huff and steals the big bad monster. Saying you cant just drop your problems in the past. AND THEM EMEDIATLY DUMPS BLASTAAR IN THE NEGITIVE ZONE. The actual fuck is reed on ? What im I missing here. EVERYONE bar the thing was soo god damn un-likeble. Goosh ! I just don't get it !

UNCANNY AVENGERS #7

written by rick remender art daniel acuna

Yes. I have to say comic. I'm totally feeling the vibe. Its absolutely rocking ! Uncanny avengers isn't the easiest sale. That is to other folk. Most of it is utterly cracking. To me at least. There some wee niggles here and there. Like cap no being the red ranger or the mutants just being bastards because well there mutants and apparently the x gene means your physically incapable of ladness. The whole publicity team angle is a slight bummer too. EVERYTHING ell's though. Its off the gosh darn charts. Plot wise it kinda sort of looks like the mad celestials are going too war with earth. Once I again I genuinely assumed they were dead. Really should check up on that. Well one of them did “die” this issue. Dropped by some apocalypse punk. Cheap ayes. devaluing the whole space god thing. Definitely. Mr sinister did pilot that one celestial like a mech though. So really. Its not something to worry about. S.w.o.r.d. How amazingly shite are they likes. It seams every time they pop up in a book something they own explodes. You'd think some would get on that. Yes. So. Buy this book. Its pretty damn rad.

THE FLASH # 19

written by brian buccellato art by marcio takara

Oooofft. Hold on to your hats sports fans. This was a comic and a half. Let me tell you about big Barry Allan. Humanity's god king was without his powers this issue. The folk over at dial h stole them. Fair play you all say. Barry was in a prison being attacked by mad max villains though. So it was a tad inconvenient for him. Dose humanity's grateist hero let inevitable grizzly death dampen his spirits ? DOSE HE FUCK. Lad just solids snakes up and cuts about the prison being amazing. Arming himself with all the rouges auld gear. Barry flinging boomerangs about is a sight to see. Let me tell you that son. As you might be able to tell I quite enjoyed this issue. It was amazingly solid. Ayes the resolution to the plot was a tad shaky but ill totes forgive it. It was just so nicely written. Lots of fast paced but smart action and some genuine moments of comedy. Its just nice to see a hero who dosent crumble when his powers are taken away from them. Fuck. Barry dosent even gee a shite. He's all. It deal with it later. Lad. This might be the first comic iv read in the new 52 that has cyborg actually being happy. Hell. He's smiling most of time. Guys. He even cracks a joke. Ayes. Absolutely cracking comic. Reverse flash coming next as well. Yay !

ULTIMATE COMICS SPIDER-MAN #22

written by brian michale bendis art by sara pichelli

So massive massive spoilers guys. I guess. With the latenesses all up in here I suppose it dosent matter any more. But miles mum died. I think ? She got like shot in the armpit. I guess fatality ? The fuck is wrong with miles family. Apart from him there like all to a man, made of plastersine. I assume when his dad fines out he'll die of hart brake or some pish. Miles dose seem to be staying with big gankes family though. I do like that. That could possibly generate one hell of a vibe. Building lego all night and that. Though I spose grieving for your tragically dead mother could put a dampener on things. Oh weels. Gotta look on the bright side of things. At least miles has something to drive him on now. And you never know. His mum might get a clone at some point down the line. Worked out well for gwen. And venom was just some guy that worked for roxcon. So ? Good I guess ? At least it wasny big eddie brock going about being mental. But he dose that anyway ? I forget that last thing eddie did in the ultimate verse. Its been I while since I checked up on him. I gotta say. I liked this issue. It was a little sparse for my taste but it did have a big moment for miles. So a guess it all evens out. Fun times !

TEEN TITANS #19

written by scott lobdell art by eddy barrows

So for yet another month on the trot teen titans was once again a mixed bad. Now logicality I should jut say it was terrible. Because it really kinda was. Not offensively bad but not really worth reading either. But I dunno man. There were some parts here and there that I did at least enjoy even tough I cant bring my self to say they were actually good. So trigon just attacks earth. Like on his own. He's just cutting about new York I think on a 3 headed horse. No real build up or anything. He's literally just a big red guy going about toon. And I kind of dug that. And damn son. This trigon is hammy as hell. You'd think a big cosmic devil god wid have less banter. But no. he's making one liners and such. Really he seemed to be doing quite a bad impression of Dr doom. I can sort of here actual teen titans fans screaming right now. So red robin is still possessed or what ever pish is wrong with him. Its somewhat hard to tell the difference. Red not all that nice of a character to begin with and now that he's being almost comedicaly evil. I'm almost tempted to say its an improvement. At least he's a little bit entertaining now. Oh yeah. Like a hundred folk like actually die this issue. Just so causally. And not as you would Imagen because of trigon. Some punk as akira kid is just going about mind crushing fools. At one point a whole gaggle of army folk just drop dead. In a single panel. And the titans are loike. Oh nose ! This will make us look bad ! Fuck off with that that shite comics.

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 23/7/12

BLUE BEETLE #11

written by Tony Bedard art by Ig Guara

Its all right. Its weird likes. I really shouldn't have liked this issue but for reasons I quite lock down I quite like it. The book really is doing the third beetle a big injustice. Big jamie on the run from home living ruff on the streets of new york really shouldn't be what this books all about. But it is. And I don't mind as much as I should. Its probably because its not offensively or even boringly bad. Just not hitting the right vibe bad. Booster gold put in an appearance this moth. Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay ! Sadly its to fight the beetle and not be bros or buddy cops like they should though I should say it dose look like there's still room for that to happen. You see what I mean about missing the vibe ? Seeing booster on the cover this issue gets you thing aye ! Booster will show up and sport Jamie's shite out even just a wee bit. But naw boosters just adds to the beetles problems. Still I go to give them credit for sticking with this whole narrative direction you get a lot of points for stick with it ness from me.

SUPER GIRL #11

written by Michael Green and Mike Johnson art by Mahmud Asrar

Iv said it quite a few times this past year. Super girl is god damn AMAZING. She just wont stop punching dudes. That's a pretty simple thing I knows but you'd be surprised by how menny comics just fly by without nary a single punch being thrown. Comics ware theses nothing but endless talking and DRAMA. Now don't get me wrong not every comic ever should be wall to wall fisty cuffs. Just most of them. So like iv said many times before supergirls one of those books. Aye sure there is plot happening and there are characters wandering aboot that plot which is nice to see but the book knows what its aboot. FIGHTING. That's really grand to see theses days. Right now supergirl herself isn't the greatest of character and really needs to settle in and talk things out with superman. But she's getting there.

JUSTICE LEAGUE #11

written by geoff johns art by jim lee

Still not digging the league. This arcs been just a wee bit pish really. Things happen and I'm like so what ? The books not really had any meaty meat to it since darksides defeat. Honestly I couldn't tell you this arcs villains name. Thieve got all the big guns on board and not doing anything with them. I'm not expecting massive revelations and wham moments every issue but I was sort of expecting consistent epicness. Cyborg exists. I noticed that this month. dosent do much elles. Which is a shame what with him being the wild card on the team. He's a cool guy and a want to see him justifie his place on the team. But naw he's just the leagues teloporter. The book still has the banter at least which should be half the battle but I'm just not getting the books vibe. They did that silly hero vs hero fight when emotions run hight thing. Do people like that ? I always thought that was bad writing. Well nah that's too harsh more like writing from another age. That's fair enough if your writing a throw back styled book and I know the the big goffs a silver age lad but I doubt that's what he's going for here.

AVENGERS VS X-MEN #8

written by team marvel art by Adam Kubert

I don't know what the actual word on the street is but I get the terrible feeling that were slowly spiralling towards mutant victory. That's pretty sickening to me. See its been a fun read so far but a vs x has made me fairly anti mutant. I'm pretty sure that's not what forty plus years x books have been shooting for. This was namors big day out issue and it went quite well I think. He gets both the phoenix and the shite kicked out of him. I like namor. He's a bastard. But a fun bastard. Most of the time. You cant deny that he forms a damn fine buddy cop team with Dr doom. Aye so a vs x has been a load of fun despite the shilling of the x-men its just going to interesting to see if marvels as mental as they look.

comic book quickies 16.5.12

AVENGERS #26

written by Brain Michael Bendis art by Walter Simonson

Well this wasn't what I was expecting at all. This world man. Its crazy. You go to your friendly neighbourhood comic book shop to pick up a copy of the avengers and what do you get ? A story all about the secret avengers! This world man I'm telling you its totally mental sometimes. Well I suppose its more a noh var spotlight issue so that's cool. We really don't know all that much about the young kree lad, its not like we learn all that much more about him here but whatevers. Now it is sort of weird that captain America sends this avenger team and not to mention his close friend Thor on what he calls a suicide mission. I like to think his reasoning is that Thor died pretty recently and just came back so he probably wont die any time soon.

BLUE BEETLE #9

written by Tony Bedard art by Marcio Takara

Now this was ok. Just ok. It was a slight step up from what we've had from this book recently. So that's something at least. The main problem I have with book is Jamie isn't having fun. The scarab battle suit isn't any fun. The beetle place within the world of the new fifty two isn't any fun. So I'm really not digging this blue beetle on the run arc. Its just not what I want from the character. All DC have to do is have Jamie in some fun super hero adventures where he's a inexperienced rookie. Now they kind of have that going on here with the star kid vibe the first few issues had and you do get the point that Jamie has no idea what he's doing or how to be a hero but there still missing that vitally important fun part.

SUPER GIRL #9

written by Michael Green and Mike Johnson art by Mahmud Asrar

Now this was a damn good comic. Damn good. I'm tempted to say this was the best issue of super girl that iv read since issue one. It was just so darn fun. And as you'd expect from I comic I really liked it did have a lot of fighting. Which is always funky. Now I did think that last issue was a good change of pace breather issue and I did kind of want that to continue. I would have been really happy if supergirl just sat around all issue chilling with her Irish gal pal. Well I guess that wasn't to be. Oh wells wall to wall fighting is just as good. I know a lot of people out there think fighting alone cant carry a comic and I'm willing to concede that's partially true but I have to give credit to this comic its some what interesting fighting. Now its nothing mind blowing but its not like its supergirl spamming one paunch over and over and suer girls powers were going mental and that led to the standard not trying to hurt civilians routine that I'm glad dint take the dark path and have her kill or maim anyone. Yeah so supergirls a kinda sorta solid comic.

JUSTICE LEAGUE #9

written by geoff johns art by jim lee

This was interesting. Not great. But interesting. Really it was just a lot of set up and not very justice league-ish set up at that. Like the last few issues it felt very small. Well not very small but smaller than it should be for the big super star flag ship that it started out as. There was time spent showing that the justice league are people too and that they have there own emotional problems that will most likely pay off further down the line but I dunno man all of the emotional problems felt quite hollow to me. I like to think that by the time they all come together to form the league they'd have all there shit together. Now I know I'm alone in this but I really don't get what the big deal is with jim lees art. Yeah there was points in the first five issues ware I could kind of see what people liked about it but not here. At least when non super powered stuff was happening. The back up story still shows billy batson as being a bastard. Yes I'm sure the big goff lad is building to something and billy probably will get some charter development to become an actually likeable. now yes he dose shown signs of development this issue but right now he's still a bastard. Which is really odd. After flashpoint I'm sure everybody was fine with that version of captain marvel becoming the actual version. Its just weird is all.

AVENGERS VS X-MEN #4

written by team marvel art by jr jr

Sow how powerful is the phoenix force ? Yeah I know it can destroy planets. Big deal galatus dose that every other day. The fantastic four can take galatus so can they take the phoenix ? Well the x-men were able to defeat it back in the day so I'm pretty sure the avengers alone could take it. Yeah I'm saying the x-men suck ass. Deal with it. They make so much the phoenix being this world ending thing but I just cant get into that. I'm my head I see it as just another x-men villain. This issue was sort of terrible. Very little actual fighting going on and yeah there was a lot of one off panels showing fighting happening but there just there to advertise the tie ins. I know that's the done thing for events theses days but I still don't like it. Emma frost trys her hand a narrating this issue and as you'd expect she's just terrible at it. Somehow it still feels like a ninety's anti hero doing the voice over commentary. Now don't get me wrong I love the ninety's as much as the next man buy this was just an odd choice. So big wolverines back on the avengers side by the end of the issue. That makes his fight with captain America last issue totally pointless. Yay marvel !

A VS X THE FIGHTS #2

written by steve mcniven and kieron gillen art by john dell and salvador larroca

Now I suppose I shouldn't complain about the lack of fighting in the main avengers vs x-men book when we have this lovely little title that's all fighting. First up we have captain America vs gambit. Thankfully cap won. Can you imagine if they had written gambit as the winner ? MADNESS. Now don't me wrong I like gambit that lad can totally rock pink but captain America is a living legend and I don't get how someone can get it in there head that they could take him. Second fight is spider-man vs colossus. In latveria. I like how the avengers think hope is hanging out in latveria. It just makes so much sense ! Oh wait no it dosent. Now the fight itself was quit gid as it was basically just spider-man vs the juggernaut and the comic gives the fight to colossus. Naw man. Just naw.

comic book quickies 22/4/12

AVENGERS #25

written by Brain Michael Bendis art by Walter Simonson

Apart from one page this comic had PISH all to do with avengers vs x-men. Oh marvel.

BLUE BEETLE #8

written by Tony Bedard art by Marcio Takara

The blue beetle fights a time travel based mad scientist with a tragic back story. So blue beetle kinda sucks. Yeah that's not cool. See I feel a lot of linkin park was listened to when writing this new beetle. You know because his life is full of pain. He's still running away from home and that's no fun. No fun at all. Also its not like the plots going any ware and I could deal with that if the things that were happening were fun. Even just a wee bit fun. I'm being too harsh but this book wasny all that interesting this month.

BATMAN #8

written by Scott Snyder art by Greg Capullo

Shit gets real as the court of owls invades the bat cave. Oh my. Just. OH MY. This book just gets better and better. BETTER AND BETTER. JUST YEAH. JUST YEEEEAAAAAAAHHH. This batman might not be the bat god yet but this Desperate Dan lookalike is really growing on me. As you can see from the cover he's fighting shoeless. SHOELESS. What a bad ass. GO READ IT NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW.

SUPER GIRL #8

written by Michael Green art by Mike Johnson

So supergirl and her Irish gal pal hang about new York then get attacked by ghosts. I think. Its not very clear. Yeah it was probably just a super villain but I'm going to say it was a ghost because that's more fun. Totally digging it by the way. The book got a hell of a lot more casual really fast. Yeah. AWESOME. Basically I got what I asked for a few months back. YEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHH. So supergirl can still only speak kryptonian. Damn kryptonian's coming over here taking our jobs.

AVENGERS VS X-MEN #2

written by team marvel art by JR jr

The avengers fight the x-men ! So this was surprisingly and oddly pish. It was just all fighting. Now I know that's all I ask for from a comic and I know Iv said in the past more comics could have been made better if they were all just fighting but the thing about this issue was that the fighting was just boring. Its just all static one on one one fights with narration that sounds likes its straight out of a 90s comic. Now that sounds like it should be awesome but somehow it isn't and weirdly for an event comic there's not a single splash page in the issue. Freaky likes. I know that the phoenix force is pretty tough but you'd think the heroes would jut throw Dr Doom at it. You know because HE'S BEEN BURNED BEFORE !!!

JUSTICE LEAGUE #8

written by Goff Johns art by Carlos D Anda with Ivan Reis and Joe Prado

So green arrow attempts to join the league. Hilarity ensues. I'm loving this books decent into non- super star-ness. I really don't get why they'd put in the the effort of having the proper all star justice league and then as soon as issue seven hits just throw it all away and start messing around with the line up. What's worse is that when the JL arny out saving the world there standing about being bastards. I dunno man Its just these past two issues the leagues come off as terrible people. Ahh wells maybes that's what the big goff lads going for. Billy batson's still horrible though.

comic book quickies 23/3/12

BLUE BEETLE #7

written by Tony Bedard art by Marcio Takara

Hey blue beetle. Why are you being that guy. That guy that's all awww my powers are a curse not a gift. That's not a cool guy to be. That guy sucks. Just saying likes. Now I don't know all that much about the beetle like I never read the last run but I do know him from the brave and the bold cartoon and you know what ? The beetle from the cartoon was a pretty fun guy and I gather he was fun dude in that last run of his. This issue wasn't too bad. Jamie was sleeping ruff on the streets of new York though. Well the rooftops of new York. So that's better ? That's another thing. There's a new York in the dc universe. That's just really weird to me. Like iv known thieve had one for ages but its always weird to see dc characters kicking about its streets. Now I sorta buy the reason why Jamie ran away to new York that being the beetle suits a danger to everybody around him. Yeah fair enough it did mostly kill his best friend. Well I guess we're all just waiting for Jamie to man up. that Could take some time.

BATMAN #7

written by Scott Snyder art by Greg Capullo

Batman batman batman batman batman batman batman batman batman. What are you like. Well your mental. But we love you for it. Its been a hell of a run so far. Yeah its not the best batman iv ever read but ho le fuck has it been amazing. I sadly lack the descriptive ability to tell you about all the tiny wee bits that add up to make the final product so blazingly awesome. Now that said this issue was a small step down from last months but last month we had literal BATGOD. So the step down was almost inevitable. Actually saying its a step down is wrong its actually more of quiet issue. A more talkie issue. Less bat god soul punching. And that's not all ways a bad thing. I know. I herd what I just said. I'm as shocked as you.

SUPERGIRL #7

written by Michael Green art by Mike Johnson

So. super girls all right. Like its a fun read. But in no way is it mind blowing. Well issue one was. MAN those were the days. Can you remember that far back ? Oh so long ago back in the day, like WAY back in the day. Like an actual internet age ago. Back when the sun always shined and the world was young. Ahhhhhhhhhhh September !!! those were the days all right. So super girls still on the move ducking and weaving away. Which at this point I kinda want for there to be a status quo in effect. Like I want her to have a house. That she sits in. like with her friends. Its not so much that I want answers to the questions this runs been setting up it's more like I want structure. Annnnd maybe a school arc. Everyone should have a school arc at some point. You all know that. In your SOULS you know that.

JUSTICE LEAGUE #7

written by Geoff Johns art by Gene Ha

Well the origins over and done with. TIME FOR MEH SEVENTH ISSUE. Don't get me wrong. There wasn't that much wrong with it. No wait there was stuff wrong with it. The art for starters. I quite liked it. Still it was so non A list superstar art that it became hilarious to me. How dose this kind of thing happen.? How do you re launch a book to be all star in everyway and then have an issue as un super star is this ? Maybe I'm Wrong and maybe every one loves this new guys art but to me the sudden drop off in quality is just too funny. I feel I should mention that I don't see the appeal of Jim lees art. Yeah I know that undermines what iv been saying but big woop. There's a bit ware batman calls the JLI a joke and wants them shut down. Fuck that shit. We all know bats has boosters back. That's batman's thing. Dropped the ball there goff man I think. So over all it was an OK issue that admittedly had some fun banter but that batman bit just floored me. Oh yeah and it had a back up story starting the origin story of captain marvel in the rebootaverse. It went well till they made billy batson a jerkass. Ball dropped goff man. Ball dropped.

BATMAN BEYOND ULIMITED #2

written by Nguyen Fridolfs art by Beechen Breyfogle. I think. That could be four different guys.

Batman of the future dose futury things. In the future. With future people. And its pritty gid. Its weird. Its pretty similar to last issue in that bats fights jokers then has an adventure with the future justice league. But this issue mad Stan makes an appearance. And as we all know explosions are way cool. This time around the future justice league didn't drag things down as much and it almost felt natural that bats was on the team. Overall I just felt this comic was gid. Just gid. It just had that kinda vibe about it. Like I felt I got a lot of bang for my buck. When I picked it of the self I was all like £3.99 awwwwww man. Lames. But reading through it I did enjoy it. It wasn't the best comic iv ever read but it was fun and I think the new creative team get the universe better than the last team and arnt trying to shoe horn in actual DC continuity into the cartoon universe. Hopefully the book will continue like this in the months to come.

ULTIMATE COMICS SPIDER-MAN #8

written by Brian Michael Bendis art by Sara pichelli

Hey hey ! Miles uncle ! I see you there ! Trying to be all han solo. Naw pal I'm no buying it. Yeah you used to be cool. Back in the day when you were stealth deadpool. Man those were the glory days. Not now though. Now your just a murderer. Yeah so maybe the tinkerer was a bad guy. And maybe he did some bad stuff. But I no longer care. Watching you go about being all dashing is just PAINFUL. Yeah apart from that it was a pretty gid issue. The new scorpion is so generic a mob boss bad guy that I actually kind of like him. We get a quick bit of aunt may and Gwen Stacy in France finding out there's a new spider man. You know its France because the Eiffel towers there. They don't take the news well at any rate. At this point I like miles as much as everyone else dose but I don't think he's properly spider man yet. He's not done anything that big yet. Has he ? Naw I'm pretty sure he hasn't. Ill get back to you on this after he's punches out his first goblin.

The short and sweet comic book quickies 17/2/12

I'm getting a wee bit tired of talking about DC comics. Theres only so much you can say about the same story. Im going a wee bit mad. Oh wells maybe this weeks lone marvel title can cheer me up.

AVENGERS #22

written by Brain Michael Bendis art by Renato Guedes

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BLUE BEETLE #6

written by Tony Bedard art by IG Guara

The blue beetle fights a evil version of himself that's possessing his best friend that he almost killed a few issues ago. Super heroes have it ruff. See this is more like it, a proper hero vs bad guy fight all issue ! Well not so much all issue but most of the issue. Well a good chunk of it. Well anyway it felt gid . Dynamic even and it feels like this books moving forward ever so slightly which is a good thing as its been taking it's sweet time so far. The beetle bitch slaps his love interest at one point. Now it was part of a plan to save lives. Fair enough. But daaaaaaaaaaaaaammmm was it harsh. Like out of nowhere mental. The issue ends with the beetle being all emo and running off saying he's going ware he cant hurt his loved ones. Now normally I don't like that kind of a thing but here it's quite justified as the scarab has genuinely brought him nothing but trouble. It almost stabbed his best friend to death. Yeah that kind of sucky. The evil beetle has a darth maul thing going on. Looks wise I mean. And that's just rad.

BATMAN #6

written by Scott Snyder art by Greg Capullo

Batman's not dead ! Again ! Oh my this was glorious. Lucky for it because if it hadn't then there'd have been blood on the streets. Last issue batman was broken after only a week trapped in a maze. Yeah I guess there was a lot of drugs involved but still he's batman. He's WILLPOWER in human form. At no point should it be possible for him to ever broken. Well my concerns were misplaced as the weakness of last issue was just a valley so we cant appreciate the AWESOME peak of this issue. And DAMM was it awesome. So very very awesome. Its every thing I want from a batman comic. There are points when he sort of hulks out into the batgod. Yeah its like it was written for me. So batman brakes free from the maze through sheer bloody minded determination and humiliates the courts trained assassin the talon in single combat in the process. Powerful almost Dr Doom like awesomeness.

SUPERGIRL #6

written by Michael Green art by Mike Johnson

supergirl's parents show up as force ghosts and help her out of a sticky situation. Supergirl is still pretty kick ass. How awesome is that by the way ? I know I keep going on about it but I'm still honestly surprised that iv enjoyed it as much as I have. She's still fighting that pesky dark eldar world killer from last issue. HIGHLY ENJOYABLE FUN.