I really like the Legion of Superheroes, so I'll definitely be picking up Lo3W when I get set financially. So I guess the trade will be out by then, most likely!
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Sars_BoyRest, You Are The Lightning.Registered Userregular
edited February 2009
i dont really need to say it do i?
instead my moment of last week was Umbrella Academy 3
Agents of Atlas #1, which I hope everyone bought, or plans to buy in TPB later, was great throughout. It managed to give a thorough recap of the previous Agents of Atlas mini-series, while still giving a clear picture of the group's current status quo, and setting up their place in the Marvel Universe. Parker's dialogue, pacing, and plot are spot on as usual, and Carlos Pagulayan's art is really just amazing, and only enhanced by Jana Schirmer's soft, painterly colors. While I enjoyed the whole thing, one panel did make me laugh out loud.
Mr. Lao, the centuries old dragon there, has just consumed a supervillain in Osborn's employ. For those unaware, Bob Grayson, formerly known as Marvel Boy, and now sometimes called the Uranian, flies the spaceship hovering in the background there.
Astonishing Tales #1, Marvel's new anthology series, was released today to little fanfare, which is unfortunate. Though it has two filler stories about Iron Man that weren't particularly interesting, there's a CB Cebulski story featuring a Punisher/Wolverine team-up with amazing art by Kenneth Rocafort, some of which you can see here. My moment comes from Johnathan Hickman and Nick Pitarra's story about Mojo, Cannonball, and Sunspot. The story features the heroes abducted by Mojo following a writer's strike on Mojoworld. It would have been more topical months ago, but it's still a fun story.
I just love the idea of two seasoned superheroes being abducted, and rather than get all indignant and decide to fight back, deciding, "Eh, fuck it. Not like we can't get out of here whenever we want. Let's do this!" Plus, Pitarra's art is wonderful, and Hickman even does a few pages featuring the protagonists on Earth, which transition into Pitarra's Mojoworld pages in a cool, interesting way.
In the final issue of El Diablo, new El Diablo Chato Santana is sentenced to die via electric chair, having had his powers stripped from him. And then, something interesting happens.
Overall, the whole series feels a bit rushed, like Jai Nitz was trying to cram too much story into too few issues, but the entire mini-series has really surprised me, in a good way. I'll be on the lookout for Nitz's next project. As usual, Phil Hester's art is sleek as Hell, with his usual inker Ande Parks giving everything that clean, angular line their collaborations always have.
Secret Six #6 at first seemed like it was going to be painfully anti-climactic. And then Simone just started throwing revelation, after revelation, after shocking twist at the reader. Just when it seemed like she was done, she hit you with one more, spread across several pages of one cast member being an utter hardass. Now that all sounds interesting, yeah? It totally was. My MotW from Secret Six has nothing to do with any of that, and is pulled from the six-page Omens and Origings back-up.
Hatter, you goddamn freak. I can't believe DC let Woods and Simone get away with that gag.
As usual, Nicola Scott's artwork was amazing, due in no small part to the work of colorist Jason Wright, who gives the art a really rendered, three dimensional look.
Secret Warriors #1 was fantastic, and while I'd previously thought about just checking out the first issue and then dropping it to get the TPBs, I realize now I can't. I'm hooked. The issue opens with a recon mission gone wrong, and then the intensity just builds and builds, as Nick Fury performs a one-man infiltration operation on a highly guarded data center while wearing hydraulic jumping boots, and uncovers corruption in SHIELD and the U.S. government, the likes of which he didn't think possible. But my favorite moment came when Nick and Daisy, aka Quake, assess the failed recon mission and come across the one member who didn't participate.
Phobos and Quake are both just adorable.
It should be mentioned I grow more and more impressed with artist Stefano Caselli every time I see his work. Like a lot of people, I was really unimpressed when he debuted on Civil War: Runaways/Young Avengers a few years ago, but lately? Goddamn, the dude just gets better and better. I love his style, utilizing a lot of clean lines and little in the way of heavy blacks or shadow, while relying on colorist Daniele Rudoni to provide depth and form to his work.
To be fair, it's not like Gods haven't sired mortal progeny and then forgotten about them for a few decades before. Plus, after Alex became a God-slaying, katana-wielding badass in the original Ares mini, his pops probably figures wherever he is, he can handle himself.
Man, don't blame Impulse for what shitty writers did to him. He's an awesome character, and if this appearance in L03W is any indication, this will be a shining return to form for him(ie: nothing like those crappy Flash issues you spoke of)
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man when the fuck is Ares gonna realize his son is missing
they have to address that right?
right?
I always thought Ares would be a shitty dad so I'm happy to see Hickman and Bendis have taken the time to showcase it by Phobos' participation in Secret Invasion and disappearance not actually having occured to him yet.
An Ares that does right by his son is no asshole brother of Hercules who gets off on war to me.
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And it must really suck to be a hero from any dimension but the main one.
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I hope it isn't another year before volume 6 comes out, but it probably will be.
yeah, Secret Warriors was probably my #2
great way to start the series
But it was still pretty good.
god why do i ever go there?
Deep masochism.
Anyway even though I knew that was coming it was done in a fantastic way.
if it was a movie you'd be yellin "OH SHIT" the whole time
Recommended reading?
instead my moment of last week was Umbrella Academy 3
best issue yet
For some reason, I just loved all the little extra espionage / personel files at the end, too.
Whoops, I didn't see the second scan the first time around.
Neat.
in fact i hope they just ignore it
But than you'll get people at every convention going
who gives a shit about those people though
not the art though
what
Mr. Lao, the centuries old dragon there, has just consumed a supervillain in Osborn's employ. For those unaware, Bob Grayson, formerly known as Marvel Boy, and now sometimes called the Uranian, flies the spaceship hovering in the background there.
Astonishing Tales #1, Marvel's new anthology series, was released today to little fanfare, which is unfortunate. Though it has two filler stories about Iron Man that weren't particularly interesting, there's a CB Cebulski story featuring a Punisher/Wolverine team-up with amazing art by Kenneth Rocafort, some of which you can see here. My moment comes from Johnathan Hickman and Nick Pitarra's story about Mojo, Cannonball, and Sunspot. The story features the heroes abducted by Mojo following a writer's strike on Mojoworld. It would have been more topical months ago, but it's still a fun story.
I just love the idea of two seasoned superheroes being abducted, and rather than get all indignant and decide to fight back, deciding, "Eh, fuck it. Not like we can't get out of here whenever we want. Let's do this!" Plus, Pitarra's art is wonderful, and Hickman even does a few pages featuring the protagonists on Earth, which transition into Pitarra's Mojoworld pages in a cool, interesting way.
In the final issue of El Diablo, new El Diablo Chato Santana is sentenced to die via electric chair, having had his powers stripped from him. And then, something interesting happens.
Overall, the whole series feels a bit rushed, like Jai Nitz was trying to cram too much story into too few issues, but the entire mini-series has really surprised me, in a good way. I'll be on the lookout for Nitz's next project. As usual, Phil Hester's art is sleek as Hell, with his usual inker Ande Parks giving everything that clean, angular line their collaborations always have.
Secret Six #6 at first seemed like it was going to be painfully anti-climactic. And then Simone just started throwing revelation, after revelation, after shocking twist at the reader. Just when it seemed like she was done, she hit you with one more, spread across several pages of one cast member being an utter hardass. Now that all sounds interesting, yeah? It totally was. My MotW from Secret Six has nothing to do with any of that, and is pulled from the six-page Omens and Origings back-up.
Hatter, you goddamn freak. I can't believe DC let Woods and Simone get away with that gag.
Secret Warriors #1 was fantastic, and while I'd previously thought about just checking out the first issue and then dropping it to get the TPBs, I realize now I can't. I'm hooked. The issue opens with a recon mission gone wrong, and then the intensity just builds and builds, as Nick Fury performs a one-man infiltration operation on a highly guarded data center while wearing hydraulic jumping boots, and uncovers corruption in SHIELD and the U.S. government, the likes of which he didn't think possible. But my favorite moment came when Nick and Daisy, aka Quake, assess the failed recon mission and come across the one member who didn't participate.
Phobos and Quake are both just adorable.
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they have to address that right?
right?
Alternatively, Ares learned how to parent from this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJP4dr_mioA
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I haven't been collecting Legion of 3 Worlds.
But dear God I hate
Because of how terrible Flash 1-13 was. I realize the character was just a victim of bad writing, but I still don't like him because of those issues.
An Ares that does right by his son is no asshole brother of Hercules who gets off on war to me.