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Thunderbolts #153; Luke and Abe fight a monster's mouth, Ghost gives the ladies of the team mouth-to-mouth, and Juggernaut gets punched in the mouth. This comic has an oral fixation, and I'm okay with that. It also has one of the best endings I've seen in at least six months. Jeff Parker and Kev Walker continue to kill on this book. If you're not buying this book, rectify that immediately.
Doom Patrol #19; the Secret Six invade Oolong Island, and are met with resistance from not only the Doom Patrol, but also a sentient bungalow, a team of mad scientists eager to show off their macho sides, and a pelican. I know a lot of people aren't reading this, but I hope that's eventually rectified, when the TPBs are all out. In my opinion, Giffen and Clark's run is right up there with Morrison and Arnold Drake's. In some ways, I think it's actually better. Giffen's managed to hit all the right nostalgic notes, being very inclusive of the team's history, while also looking forward, putting them in a new environment, and having them face new challenges. Despite some occasional poor issues, it's what more superhero comics should aspire to be.
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I have to say, if Giffen and Clark had done nothing else with this book, taking Rita Farr from being a submissive, faded movie starlet, to a powerful, confident ass-kicker, has entirely justified its existence. They're completely rehabilitated her as a character, and I really hope their interpretation sticks, even after the book's canceled. Comics needs more badass women.
Booster Gold #41; Booster fights a green Nazi, a hero returns, and Booster gets a new headquarters, of a sort. This issue is the kind of quality that I expected from Giffen and DeMatteis doing Booster Gold. It's a shame that they seem to be hitting their stride again, just as it's announced the book will once again be taken over by Jurgens.
Spider-Girl #4; Anya gets a new roommate, fights two villains and a fat guy, and a cast-member from Marvel Adventures migrates to 616. This issue was definitely better than the last two, but was again marred by some unfortunate fill-in art.
I wonder if this Chat can also speak to animals. I kinda doubt it, but it's neat to see her show up.
I also picked up two out-of-print books (Brandon Graham's Escalator, and Mike Hawthorne's Hysteria), Parker: The Outfit, and the next volume of True Story, Swear to God, each for 40% off.
All in all, it was a good week for comics.
Doom Patrol #19; the Secret Six invade Oolong Island, and are met with resistance from not only the Doom Patrol, but also a sentient bungalow, a team of mad scientists eager to show off their macho sides, and a pelican. I know a lot of people aren't reading this, but I hope that's eventually rectified, when the TPBs are all out. In my opinion, Giffen and Clark's run is right up there with Morrison and Arnold Drake's. In some ways, I think it's actually better. Giffen's managed to hit all the right nostalgic notes, being very inclusive of the team's history, while also looking forward, putting them in a new environment, and having them face new challenges. Despite some occasional poor issues, it's what more superhero comics should aspire to be.
Later..
I have to say, if Giffen and Clark had done nothing else with this book, taking Rita Farr from being a submissive, faded movie starlet, to a powerful, confident ass-kicker, has entirely justified its existence. They're completely rehabilitated her as a character, and I really hope their interpretation sticks, even after the book's canceled. Comics needs more badass women.
Booster Gold #41; Booster fights a green Nazi, a hero returns, and Booster gets a new headquarters, of a sort. This issue is the kind of quality that I expected from Giffen and DeMatteis doing Booster Gold. It's a shame that they seem to be hitting their stride again, just as it's announced the book will once again be taken over by Jurgens.
Spider-Girl #4; Anya gets a new roommate, fights two villains and a fat guy, and a cast-member from Marvel Adventures migrates to 616. This issue was definitely better than the last two, but was again marred by some unfortunate fill-in art.
I wonder if this Chat can also speak to animals. I kinda doubt it, but it's neat to see her show up.
I also picked up two out-of-print books (Brandon Graham's Escalator, and Mike Hawthorne's Hysteria), Parker: The Outfit, and the next volume of True Story, Swear to God, each for 40% off.
All in all, it was a good week for comics.
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But T-Bolts was good, here is what I posted:
Thunderbolts #153 gets back to being the best book Marvel puts out. Good batch of teamwork, action, and we get foreshadowing for Walker's new squad. Man-Thing half-asses it in the issue though.....
literally, because Hyperion cut him in half with his heat vision.
Juggernaut beats up Hyperion using a rope a dope, while Ghost saves Karla and Melissa:
And Juggernaut beats up Hyperion pretty good, then uses Songbird's dog collar for keeping everyone in line on him:
Nothing like good old fashioned teamwork
edit: oh hell, forgot about Doom Patrol being a SS tie-in.
Before the Guardians used green alone, they were white with the white ring emblem, as there is a flashback to when Krona first discovers about the secrets of the universe and the other Guardians bring him down (with manhunters). We also see that in the War of the Green Lanterns Hal has become too unstable, comparing him to Atrocitus with rage and Sinestro with pride.
And on top of all that Krona got all his avatars, and Hal screws up saving the day, resulting in a Batman/GL smack talk again:
and then Hal runs off with the different lantern corps, leaving his human bros behind, like whaaaat
I'm just gonna say it another billion times
Green Lantern had a lot of FUCK YEAH moments, which are like John's bread and butter
Also too long to post but the Wade/Logan argument in Uncanny X-Force made me happy
Finally, Hulk #30 was one big funny, awesome fight scene with Impossible Man fusing Hulk and Red Hulk together to fight Xemnu's army of space warriors, including his own special creation...
Why did Juggernaught beat up Hyperion? Did he turn out to be evil?
Deadpool taking a stand is awesome and shows that not everyone has forgotten how to write him as something other than a vehicle for jokes
Deadpool being vaguely serious?
Post that shit Furu
It lasts more pages than I would be comfortable posting. BUY THE BOOK
If you wanted to hop right in, I'd say start with the giant-sized #150, and go from there. It has a detailed history of the Thunderbolts up to that point, an oversized main story, reprints the first issue of the Thunderbolts, and provides a pretty solid starting point for new readers.
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You see, because it was a silver age DC story. Rulk is forced to fight Xenmnu, The Living Titan, who claims he had the Hulk name first. He kicks Rulks ass around using a combination of psychic powers and Kulh, who is straight up BizzaroHulk. White skin and says "Verily base villain! Today thou shalt be hoist on thine own pitard!". Green Hulk shows up, and discovers he's immune to Xemnus psychic powers. So Impossible Man(who is there to broadcast the fight across the galactic TV networks) does the logical thing and slaps them together to make Compund Hulk.
Seriously this is the most fun Hulk comic I've ever read and McGuinness draws the hell out of it. Its a done in one and is also 40 pages for 3.99. You have no excuse not to buy it.
The face being more squishy
edit: Beaten by Solar.
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how is he supposed to bang She-Hulk while wearing his helmet
Fair enough, that's a hard one to plan for really
Also: Hulk. Jeff Parker made me like the Hulk (the green one) again, over the last few issues, and it clicked with this week's. It's like finding a long lost friend.
Because it's funny
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Escalator felt like an oddly personal book, as compared to Graham's King City. The entire book is made up of short, self-contained character pieces, that range from an autobiographical two-pager about pulling "the pervert move," where you crane you neck to check out a girl's butt as she walks past, to a story about a woman rescuing her unborn infant's soul from a spirit-munching monster. The greatest strength of the book is probably all the little text pieces, which explain the inspiration or thought process that lead to each of the comics. I'm a total process junkie, though. Its weakness, as with all anthologies, is that right as you're getting into a story, you're yanked out of it, and moved on to the next one.
This is also a problem with Hysteria, which I wasn't aware was an anthology-style book, with an ongoing main story every chapter, and short back-ups following them. Again it was good, but felt underdeveloped. Upon Googling it, it looks like Mike Hawthorne's put the entirety of the series, including what he completed of One Man Gang, up on his website, so go check it out.
Parker: The Outfit was the big indie-winner of the week though. I know it's old news by now, but damn Darwyn Cooke can tell a great story. My only real issue with it was that it seemed to fly by. Probably because I'd already read the teaser comic IDW released a few months back.
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Bought a back issue of Power Girl #15:
My 2-year old daughter see it and says "Mama stuck mud?" "Yes, the mommy is stuck in the mud, honey."
I also picked up the FireBreather Vol. 1 trade and it was a great read. Thanks for the recommendation, Munch! I'll have to pick up the next two volumes.