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MOTW 03/21/12: A Distinct Lack of Quips
TexiKen
Dammit!That fish really got me!Registered User regular
Dammit!That fish really got me!Registered User regular
Batman #7, Bruce and Dick have a talk:
That Talon is Dick's great-grandfather, brought back to life by the Owls. Dick yells at Bruce for closing himself off (again).....
Uncanny X-Men #9 is readable again! And a team-up with the Avengers. Really dense story, a nice solid superhero issue and Protector shows up more in this issue than he did in the Avengers for the last six months:
That Talon is Dick's great-grandfather, brought back to life by the Owls. Dick yells at Bruce for closing himself off (again).....
Uncanny X-Men #9 is readable again! And a team-up with the Avengers. Really dense story, a nice solid superhero issue and Protector shows up more in this issue than he did in the Avengers for the last six months:
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Justice League #7 was great! The book is a lot better now that it's set in the present.
"Ride or Die" confirmed Dominic Toretto, as they took off to find the Dragon Balls in hopes of reviving their friend Sonic
That Bruce/Dick moment is kind of. That's some holy crap material.
Between Batman RIP and this I'm starting to understand how people can develop irrational fears about their own teeth.
that was pretty incredible
OK, look. I'm not going to lie. If there was a comic that just consisted of one-panel scenes of all of Marvel's characters kicking ass in inventive ways with entertaining, clever descriptions, I would buy it every single time it came out.
Now that Johns has stopped trying to make Hal likable and just switched to him being an asshole he is much more enjoyable
Damn. That looks like a great comic. Shame I can't stand the X-Men.
I am excited
The story's strong as ever, Leonard Kirk's a fantastic artist blahblahblah. I do want to point out that Matt Milla's colors are great on this book. They actually remind me an awful lot of Frank Martin's, on Thunderbolts.
Heart #4; Rooster Redmond is coming off a string of losses, and his newest fight isn't going any better.
A strong conclusion to a good series. If you have any passing interest in MMA, or sports stories in general, check this out when it goes to TPB. It takes an interesting stance, not often seen in these kinds of underdog stories. The entire series is really about asking what happens when your best, still isn't good enough? What happens when you try as hard as you can, and dedicate yourself entirely to your passion, but still fall short?
Prophet #23; John Prophet climbs the living tower, so that he may ascend to the G.O.D. satellite, and restart the human empire, facing danger along the way.
Incidentally, I want to point out that Graham did something kind of cool in this issue. Basically, at the conclusion, Prophet re-awakens hundreds of other Prophets, like himself, all across the universe.
What I think Graham is doing here, is setting up a way for each new oncoming artist, to draw their own John Prophet. It's a pretty cool idea, really. That way each artist can play to their own strengths, design their own world, etc. rather than be limited by what Graham and Roy did, in their first arc.
Meanwhile, Roy's still the regular artist, as far as I know, so the story will eventually loop back around to Prophet-Prime, after a few issues.
Thunderbolts #171; Songbird goes on vacation, while Luke and Warden Walker are forced to use Ryker's Island, to house their superhuman inmates, while the Raft is being rebuilt.
I have to say, I continue to love these member spotlight issues of Thunderbolts. So far we've had Ghost, Man-Thing, Luke, and Songbird. I hope we continue getting them, as the comic morphs into Dark Avengers.
Additionally, I want to point out that Parker and Walker did a really good job of taking the tired trope of the superheroine who's abducted and experimented on, and making it work. Because I'm not gonna lie, I was worried. There was a lot of ways it could have gone bad, really.
But, Songbird comes out of it looking like a competent superhero, and not all damaged and weepy, which I don't think is the norm.
And wow, someone really likes Songbird to have punk-rock hair, huh? Not that I'm complaining, mind.
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Nightwing #7 was also very good.
I'll probably phone-shoot something from Birds of Prey later.
The big grey goon - is he just some un-named mutate guy? I've seen a lot of weird characters in the pages of Thunderbolts when they're in the prisons who I don't recognize as named villains, and I've been assuming they're just random super-freaks. Am I right?
I really liked the lead ins to AvX from the X-Sanction and Gen. Hope.
But my MOTW was probably giving up on Red Hood, thus throwing off the last of my Lobdell chains.
Yeah, I figure he's just some random character Kev Walker thought up.
But, given Parker's affinity for weird, obscure characters, it's possible he's a previously-seen character. He kind of looks like one of the Blood Brothers, but grey instead of red.
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The guy in Thunderbolts was truly disturbing. That starfish thingy made me super uncomfortable.
Also has hints towards
I've expounded upon it at length before, so I won't bother doing so now. Instead, here's two bits I really liked, that don't give much away in regards to the plot. Apologies for the crummy scans (the actual pages look much better), but this book is 420+ pages long, which makes scanning problematic.
I really love how the word balloon's cut in half, along with the goon, and how Joe (the blonde guy) is all set up for that action-movie cliche of cooly catching his weapon after its path of destruction, only to miss it, and have it clutch onto his head, instead.
Oh, and I love this villain's introduction.
Mr. Pimpossible, the foul-mouthed, see-through pimp. He's like a rejected He-Man villain.
Which is to say, wonderful.
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Kinda reminds me a little of Osamu Tezuka, but I'm probably not the first person to ever say that.
I saw that it was in June's solicitations again, which I thought was odd.
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I finally got my grubby hands on Venom 13.4 and 14. Everything, just one long MOTW.
printing errors and a re-solicit, maybe?
rangers first in the east tia