MOTW 4-6-11: Nicotine at this time?
TexiKen
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Lots of books this week, but Secret Six #32 gets points for having some truly messed up visuals, Calafiore has this cool new technique with action scenes where he inks thick, almost like cell shading, and a nice story that plays on existing continuity. We also get hints of where DC is pushing Bane now in order to connect with the third Batman film:
Bane sort of freaks out a bit that even though he considers himself an honorable decent man, he's still going to wind up in hell. A nice touch to push him back to a more overt villain role.
and Axe Cop: Bad Guy Earth #2, the parts are better than the whole, specifically these parts:
Bane sort of freaks out a bit that even though he considers himself an honorable decent man, he's still going to wind up in hell. A nice touch to push him back to a more overt villain role.
and Axe Cop: Bad Guy Earth #2, the parts are better than the whole, specifically these parts:
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Herc was also a fantastic first issue, setting up the new supporting cast while showing that this is still the Hercules we all know and love.
I want a can of Lionskin Lager.
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I really love the Greek Diner cast. Herc as a bartender is going to be fun.
And Uncanny X-Men 534.1, where the PR lady tries to deal with what happened in Morrison's run:
How are nonplayer and the uncanny .1? I put in a grab request for those and some others to my store; won't get the comics till this weekend though.
I also picked up Fear Itself #1, I really have to say they're taking the book in an intruiging direction.
Pretty epic stuff is gonna go down people!
Unfortunately, I always toss this comic in a friend's mailbox on the way home from the store, and get it back a few weeks later, so I can't share any of the awesome stuff in it. But really, you should be buying the book anyways.
Firebreather: Holmgang #2; Duncan fights a monster, and goes to prom, though not necessarily in that order.
To explain this page, Duncan's father Belloc, a giant dragon, was killed in the last mini-series, but he hasn't told anyone, as doing so would make him fair game for everyone from rival monsters, to the U.S. military.
Besides the poignant moment at the end there, I just really like the idea that a giant dragon has a landline phone, and answering machine.
Irredeemable #24; the Plutonian plots his escape from an insane asylum buried in the heart of a sun, and Qubit, the Irredeemable universe's Reed Richards, shows he may have a little Dr. Doom in him.
Doom Patrol #21; Robotman spends an issue looking back at his life, and the various incarnations of the Doom Patrol. We also see what he first saw, upon waking up from the accident that destroyed his body.
Thunderbolts: The Marvel Vault Special, features Nomad traveling across the country, investigating the personal lives of the Thunderbolts, trying to figure out what shaped them into villains, and later heroes, and finding a heroic purpose for himself in the process.
The next page goes on to explain that, had Nomad not been killed off, he'd have spent the foreseeable future traveling the country, and trying to beat some sense into supervillains, to keep them on the straight and narrow.
The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #38; Peter exclaims, "This is not my beautiful house! This is not my beautiful wife! How did I get here?!"
The issue wasn't really all that great, certainly not what I was expecting from the writer of Chew and Marvel Zombies v.s. Army of Darkness, both great comics. But, it had a few interesting ideas, and we learned that Deadpool's alternate universe doppleganger is named Deathwish.
Still, it's a story I feel we've seen before; a hero goes to an alternate universe, everything seems awesome, but surprise, everything really kind of sucks, the hero's doppleganger is evil, and he has a Spider-Cave filled with the corpses of multiversal versions of himself, whom he's drained of power and murdered.
Unfortunately, Green Wake, Nonplayer, Who Is Jake Ellis?, and The Intrepids were all sold out, so I suppose I'll just trade-wait those.
However, I did win a short-box filled with swag from my local shop. Most of it looks like junk they just wanted to clear off the shelves, but there were some good TPBs in there (Waid/'Ringo FF, Waid's Captain America, Priest's Black Panther, Kirby's Hulk), a full run of Wednesday Comics (which I'll probably give away, or use to decoupage my kitchen table), a full run of some comics I already have, a bunch of variant covers I don't care about, and some horror-themed Marvel book that came packaged with a Halloween mask, which I find hilarious.
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I like that there's more emphasis on the blue
The issue was alright. I am more excited for the Deadpool annual since Layman writes a pretty funny Deadpool.
I hated how they couldn't decide if the Amazing Spider was meant to be Superman or Batman.
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At certain angles, it looks like he's wearing the Wonder Woman emblem.
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If that was the case, someone would've killed him sooner or later.
I'd actually love to see an ongoing of something like that.