MOTW 10-26-11: Is She Your Space Girlfriend?

TexiKen

Annihilators Earthfall #2, it pretty much shows what would happen if Avengers fought the Annihilators, but a lot of really good lines about how the Avengers always interfere in space stuff so this one time let space stuff interfere with Earth:

Wolverine and the X-Men #1 could have been better, but it has moments, like Kitty getting knocked down a peg and Toad being sympathetic:

And Astonishing X-Men #43 shows James Asmus is a good writer who really handles banter very well. Anytime you can fling pedantic when talking about Steve Rogers you get some points. Here Emma finds the real reason Beast left the team and shows that Secret Avengers aren't so secret:

Robos A Go Go

Toad looks different in like every appearance he makes.

BlankZoe

I'm happy he is green

he looks super goofy as a gangly ginger with a fro

Now he looks like a Toad

Arivia

Emma looks like she's 60 in that.

Crimsondude

Earthfall and Daredevil both came out today. Earthfall was ... Weird. Ronan vs. Carol went about as well as to be expected. Waid had Daredevil fight a goddamn luchador.

Neither of them compares to JIM by any stretch. Hell, Ms. Marvel coming onto Volstagg isn't even in the top five of awesome things about this issue, and you can imagine my reaction to reading THAT.

Kyougu

ASM #672 was a great cap to a very fun event. Fantastic art and I love the banter between Parker and you know who.

Wildcat

Crimsondude wrote:

Neither of them compares to JIM by any stretch. Hell, Ms. Marvel coming onto Volstagg isn't even in the top five of awesome things about this issue, and you can imagine my reaction to reading THAT.

Oh my stars and garters!

Crimsondude

Well, it's like I tweeted at Kieron. I wish I was half the man Volstagg is, and as people who've met me in person, like KG and JM, or who've seen pictures, you know that it's not for a lack of trying that I nearly am.

So, yes, that amused me. And, going back to the whole theme of this arc it's like the line from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: When the legend becomes fact, print the legend. I wouldn't hesitate to say that his self-assured belief in the underlying truths of his stories is pretty much what gives him his considerable strength. Say what you will about his penchant for braggadocio, but when Asgardian-modified Doombots attacked Broxton he wrecked their shit, and has earned the right long before Thor was a man to indulge in exaggeration. Especially when the matter is a tale of noble strength and sacrifice rather than admit that all of the gods of Asgard failed, and Volstagg himself had to engage in subterfuge and deception to do what he knew was right when none of the others would.

Arivia

Probably all of WatXM. Every single goddamn page. So so good.

BlankZoe

Yeah X-Men Evolution was the X-Men I grew up with so the madcap dysfunctional school of WatXM is like X-Nirvana for me.

Solar

X-Men evolution was my childhood cartoon of choice as well. I'm glad that WatXM chanelled it so much

Also Annhilators and FF were both fantastic.

WiseManTobes

The Class List in the credits of WatXM was filled with gems.

World History: An Eye Witness Account with Professor Logan.

How to weaponize household products with Professor Remy Lebeau

Diction and Linguistics with Professor Rogue ( I laughed out loud at this one)

Know your alien races, and how to kill them, with Professor Lockheed.

But ya, that was a great opener, just the whole Faulty Towers feel to it.

and c'mon Logan

Give the poor guy a bed!

Crimsondude

Nice. It's a shame all I can take of the X-Men is the distilled awesome from posts like that. Well, it's cheaper anyway.

Magna Inferno

Okay pretty great week for comics, Spider-Island was the best event of 2012, and Ultimates continues to be the best non event event comic(just epic in scale/action/story-telling). Flash continues to be a work of art too!

First off Spider-Island, chose this giant splash page as it shows off beautiful ramos art / some good banter as well. I love Venom on the side of the helicopter!

Nice action sequence showing off the current members of the Ultimates, Hawkeye proves again that he is awesome. Best book on the stands even if it is 20 pages for 3.99.

Final page of Thor(love that his new costume is kind of thunderstrike like) getting ready to fuck some stuff up as well.

And Flash, is just so beautiful , Flash-Fu

Futt Bucker

MOTW is getting the last volume of Captain Britain and MI:13 in the mail today. Thank you ebay dude!

Matev

Broo. Broo made my week.

The Lovely Bastard

I couldn't really get into any of the x-men cartoons too much

there is never enough dazzler

Antimatter

Blankzilla wrote:

Yeah X-Men Evolution was the X-Men I grew up with so the madcap dysfunctional school of WatXM is like X-Nirvana for me.

okay I'm gonna need the trade

you sold me with this description

also Toad reminds me of Flycatcher from Fables

Solar

This was a great week for Marvel. So many good comics, Earthfall, FF, Mighty Thor, Daredevil, Venom, Deadly Hands of Kung Fu, WatXM, Ultimate Comics Ultimates, all were really enjoyable. Really perked me up!

Delduwath

Goddammit, I keep forgetting to pick up Deadly Hands of Kung Fu, because it's a Spider Island tie-in and I always just scroll past the Spider Island section of the new releases list. Thanks for Reminding me, Solar.

Crimsondude

Yeah, my store didn't have Deadly Hands of Kung Fu, which is weird since that's where I bought 1 and 2. Either they got shorted (which is totally possible) or something else I'm going to have to find it elsewhere. Oh well.

Arivia

shorting is the worst thing

why is it even a thing? SELL MORE

TexiKen

Arivia wrote:

shorting is the worst thing

why is it even a thing? SELL MORE

They do so because previous issues didn't sell through enough to warrant having wasted money on the shelf. You can't blame the retailers when they do that.

Arivia

oh wait

I thought it meant when the distributors don't send all the copies the store ordered

nvm

TexiKen

It could mean shorting like that, because it happens a lot with Diamond. But more often you have these third tier books not selling well and the LCS just won't spend the money to have them sit on the shelf.

For instance, when Great Ten was being published, my LCS quit ordering the book because it wasn't selling, and the only ordered three copies for people with pull lists. And I've noticed recently a lot of indie books and smaller publishers are only getting their first issues ordered decently at the shop, and the LCS is basically telling people if you want the book put it on your pull list because they just don't want to take the risk anymore.

Arivia

Yeah, I can't blame an LCS for not getting copies that likely won't sell. Just stupid Diamond.

Crimsondude

It could be either. I didn't see unsold #2s where those would be, but that doesn't mean much, and I didn't ask because I got into a discussion with the entire shop workforce about how to attract and keep new business, especially since for a medium-sized city Albuquerque has a lot of comic shops (Well, on one side of town) and so they also have to concentrate on distinguishing themselves from the others.

CJG

JIM this week was almost more awesome than I could handle.

We get to find out was piloting the destroyer. Meet Volstagg's very large wife and family for storytime about the origins of the serpent (with Volstagg as the hero). Borpigeam! Children yelling "Death to nazis". Ms. marvel likes a man with a little girth. The breaker of fasts. Serpent dung.

And to top it all off, some tender moments from Volstagg as a parent trying to protect his kids innocence.

I think this might be the best comic I've read in my life.