And Servo said half the issue or less was cool. If you felt it necessary.
The fight between Noh-Varr and Sentry in DA:A was good as was his side plot but his new costume is terrible.
In this What-If what was actually happening? Were they really themselves or replaced by Skrulls? I don't get how that was working, not up on my Skrull.
My MotW is tied between FALL OF THE HULKS:ALPHA and the two hours I just spent watching Jersey Shore.
I thought you were joking but its actually really good. It at least explains how something like the
Red Hulk could come about rather than an actual, intentional implementation by the US government. Not to keen on them being behind the ressurection of characters or that combined none of them prepared for the inevitable betrayal by Doom.
Anyone else read X-Force Annual? The Deadpool story was hilarious. "To me, my guns" or "He fell into my sword" or Deadpool's confusion over Magneto being on the X-Men "even after that %^&$ with Jean Grey" (you know, killing her and all) and, well, just about everything from that story. I had to put the book down at one point while reading it.
Scans;
Deadpool then calls up Cyclops after that to let him know Magneto is telling people he's an X-men. Cyke tells him to just help stop the invaders and not to kill anyone.
He tried really hard not to.
There was a great splashpage showing off teh guns, too. He got out the heavy artillery when he found out the guys couldnt die.
Loa's power is to "swim through solid matter, causing it to crumble". Deadpool said they couldn't die, so she saved him by jumping through one of the undead Acolytes. He didnt' get back up. Deadpool is sympathetic.
I'm just going to focus on Thor #604 because, quite frankly, it's an excellent book and I needed to read something exciting and just enjoyable. That's the key. I enjoyed the Hell out of this book.
First off, let me just say that Kieron is far and away my favorite writer right now. There is nothing of his that I've read (the SI aftermath Beta Ray Bill one-shot and the BRB: Godhunter mini) or am currently reading (Phonogram, Ares, Thor) that I don't enjoy reading and look forward to reading. I honestly can't say that about anyone else.
I've had high hopes for Kieron's run (short as it is supposed to be) on Thor just based on the BRB mini, but especially now after having read his Ares mini. But I wasn't halfway through this issue when I realized that I was enjoying this book more than any issue JMS wrote (or any other Thor so far as I can remember, which may not be saying much for my memory). I don't want to compare this to Straczynski's material, but the tone is clearly Kieron's to stand on its own--which is a pretty awesome feat following someone of JMS's considerable (and deserved) reputation and given that his run is vastly different (and better) than what I remember of Thor in the '80s and early '90s.
I know, because this was before I all but stopped the comic news sites, that Kieron said that he was going to go his way and didn't speak with JMS on what he was planning, so that whatever happens in this issue is basically Kieron's own decision. And right off the bat with Kelda's confrontation and death at the hands of an Asgardian cyberzombie establishes a timeworm truism: Don't mess with Dr. Doom because unless you're Reed Richards he is smarter than you and will eff you up. Doesn't matter who you are.
Anyway, one of the reasons I just love reading Kieron's books is because of the dialogue. I love humor, and he's very good incorporating it into his stories and it feels very natural. Donald and Jane's conversation is just wonderful. I love how she calls him an idiot and it sounds so obvious (again, I think all super heroes are pretty stupid) but good-natured because she loves and yet his life has been comprised of him doing a lot of stupid stuff.
Of course, the cool thing about it isn't just the witty dialogue, but that at the same time the plot actually moves forward. And, wow, that's something that's been driving me crazy lately. So I'm glad to see that given the limited amount of issues at hand, the book has to move to whatever conclusion comes of this conflict relatively quickly.
I've kissed Kieron's ass plenty. And I guess part of that is because Billy Tan's art is good. It doesn't help that last week's issue was pencilled by Marko, who I love and I especially love to see pencilling Thor. One of the things that I think is that Tan's pencils aren't inked very well, whereas Marko and his wife (who I believe is still mainly an inker) heavily inks his pencils (though he did have help with Giant-Sized Finale). I assume it's because like a lot of painterly pencilers I like he came up through the ranks to comics from, among other things, RPGs--and those books are in black & white/grayscale. So the guys who do the best work really know their stuff when it comes to inking. Billy Tan's inker... doesn't. Well, it's not as heavy. It's not as expressive on its own. And the coloring works. The pencils are too rough, and the inking doesn't help. But at the same time, the art works in projecting that medieval style of Asgard and Latveria and generally as far as layout, framing and so forth.. It works. That last page is just awesome.
In conclusion, I loved this issue. It's a thoroughly enjoyable read.
Deadpool stuffed a cat in his arsenal by mistake? I mean, really, it doesn't seem that far out of the realm of possibility given all the other scans I've seen of that book.
Void sliver is now in Cyclops' mind, as that was its plan all along OMG
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JSA All-Stars #1 was actually really good, it read like Sturges' Blue Beetle stuff, and what Teen Titans should be. It's also got some great Freddie Williams art. And you get the reveal of the person who was targeting the JSA in the main title:
Star Girl gets captured when the JSA announces the new team, and it turns out the person behind the contracts is:
Johnny Sorrow
While this title won't last long in all likelihood, the art is great and Sturges should be the TT writer.
And Cinderella: FFWL #2 was again a good issue, as she teams up with
Aladdin and they kill a talking mouse. Not really the mouse part but it was a good issue. And Cindy has elves who come to her shoe store at night to deliver shoes! Fairytale continuity is so cool.
Man, that Deadpool story looks fantastic. Who's the writer, Way? Because that dude knows how the fuck to write a Deadpool story.
Also, thanks for the review on Thor, Crimson. I'm anxiously awaiting its arrival in the mail.
That was Yost and Kyle. I hope Deadpool sticks with X-Force as long as they are whoring him out in every other title. Y&K write him perfectly.
Okay, so I know who needs to take over his title if Way ever decides to move on. Alternately, they could take over Merc With a Mouth or write on Deadpool Team Up.
I love how he's just the go-to guy for the worst possible things science could do to people. He's my favorite guy for villainy. Even better, he's going to get slapped by Thor. It's always fun to see him build up and then just go too far and get smacked back down.
I think it's been done once or twice, but I'd love a Doom ongoing series. No changes to make him more protagonisty, either. It would just be him coming up with awful, awful ideas, testing them, and then finally getting noticed and stopped by horrified superheroes.
Man, the art in JSA is good, aside from Power Girl's Jessica Rabbit-esque rack. That's comical, in the bad way.
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Freddie Williams has a lot of cheesecake poses in the issue, but they stand out more than the other art in the book, almost like he and Struges seem to be illustrating the absurdity of her costume more than it being actual cheesecake. For instance, PG covers herself over a bomb when it goes off, and of course her costume is torn to shreds.
It's almost like they're saying "If she's Superman level strong and the team's tank, does anyone else realize she is going to lose her clothes every fight?"
Man, everyone should just go with the Unstable Molecules explanation once the hero gets rich enough. It's just retarded to have a rippable costume on anyone.
Also, awesome Doom moment. I love how he's so barely sketched, he's just Egotistical Villain in the most basic sense.
My moment of the week is that I discovered there's a comic out there called Barack the Barbarian. I haven't read it, but wikipedia writes,
The story features the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama as a Conan the Barbarian-style figure. It also features politicians like Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, and Dick Cheney in fictional roles.
I took the car to the garage, walked across the lot to the Barnes and Noble, and read some trades while it was getting worked on. I just spent a ton of money on my car, so I didn't buy anything. I read both trades of Umbrella Academy though. Man, that is a great comic. Amazing art, good writing, cool characters, etc. Really awesome. Pretty out there, and totally awesome. More people should read it.
Yes. There are just too many sections to the black and white. I wish they'd either gone further and done something more like the Ultimate version or kept it simple and just done a slight update on the classic Captain Marvel costume.
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Thor's ending for Motw, but only due to it being the only comic I've picked up this week due to ... circumstances :P
The fight between Noh-Varr and Sentry in DA:A was good as was his side plot but his new costume is terrible.
In this What-If what was actually happening? Were they really themselves or replaced by Skrulls? I don't get how that was working, not up on my Skrull.
I thought you were joking but its actually really good. It at least explains how something like the
Scans;
Deadpool then calls up Cyclops after that to let him know Magneto is telling people he's an X-men. Cyke tells him to just help stop the invaders and not to kill anyone.
He tried really hard not to.
There was a great splashpage showing off teh guns, too. He got out the heavy artillery when he found out the guys couldnt die.
Loa's power is to "swim through solid matter, causing it to crumble". Deadpool said they couldn't die, so she saved him by jumping through one of the undead Acolytes. He didnt' get back up. Deadpool is sympathetic.
I know I was told to follow Deadpool in Merc With A Mouth, but I think I have to keep reading this series too. Jesus wept...
First off, let me just say that Kieron is far and away my favorite writer right now. There is nothing of his that I've read (the SI aftermath Beta Ray Bill one-shot and the BRB: Godhunter mini) or am currently reading (Phonogram, Ares, Thor) that I don't enjoy reading and look forward to reading. I honestly can't say that about anyone else.
I've had high hopes for Kieron's run (short as it is supposed to be) on Thor just based on the BRB mini, but especially now after having read his Ares mini. But I wasn't halfway through this issue when I realized that I was enjoying this book more than any issue JMS wrote (or any other Thor so far as I can remember, which may not be saying much for my memory). I don't want to compare this to Straczynski's material, but the tone is clearly Kieron's to stand on its own--which is a pretty awesome feat following someone of JMS's considerable (and deserved) reputation and given that his run is vastly different (and better) than what I remember of Thor in the '80s and early '90s.
I know, because this was before I all but stopped the comic news sites, that Kieron said that he was going to go his way and didn't speak with JMS on what he was planning, so that whatever happens in this issue is basically Kieron's own decision. And right off the bat with Kelda's confrontation and death at the hands of an Asgardian cyberzombie establishes a timeworm truism: Don't mess with Dr. Doom because unless you're Reed Richards he is smarter than you and will eff you up. Doesn't matter who you are.
Anyway, one of the reasons I just love reading Kieron's books is because of the dialogue. I love humor, and he's very good incorporating it into his stories and it feels very natural. Donald and Jane's conversation is just wonderful. I love how she calls him an idiot and it sounds so obvious (again, I think all super heroes are pretty stupid) but good-natured because she loves and yet his life has been comprised of him doing a lot of stupid stuff.
Of course, the cool thing about it isn't just the witty dialogue, but that at the same time the plot actually moves forward. And, wow, that's something that's been driving me crazy lately. So I'm glad to see that given the limited amount of issues at hand, the book has to move to whatever conclusion comes of this conflict relatively quickly.
I've kissed Kieron's ass plenty. And I guess part of that is because Billy Tan's art is good. It doesn't help that last week's issue was pencilled by Marko, who I love and I especially love to see pencilling Thor. One of the things that I think is that Tan's pencils aren't inked very well, whereas Marko and his wife (who I believe is still mainly an inker) heavily inks his pencils (though he did have help with Giant-Sized Finale). I assume it's because like a lot of painterly pencilers I like he came up through the ranks to comics from, among other things, RPGs--and those books are in black & white/grayscale. So the guys who do the best work really know their stuff when it comes to inking. Billy Tan's inker... doesn't. Well, it's not as heavy. It's not as expressive on its own. And the coloring works. The pencils are too rough, and the inking doesn't help. But at the same time, the art works in projecting that medieval style of Asgard and Latveria and generally as far as layout, framing and so forth.. It works. That last page is just awesome.
In conclusion, I loved this issue. It's a thoroughly enjoyable read.
Also, thanks for the review on Thor, Crimson. I'm anxiously awaiting its arrival in the mail.
Why not?
but with a cat on the end instead of a space amphibian.
And despite Hank being a whiny B, the
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Star Girl gets captured when the JSA announces the new team, and it turns out the person behind the contracts is:
Johnny Sorrow
While this title won't last long in all likelihood, the art is great and Sturges should be the TT writer.
And Cinderella: FFWL #2 was again a good issue, as she teams up with
That was Yost and Kyle. I hope Deadpool sticks with X-Force as long as they are whoring him out in every other title. Y&K write him perfectly.
Okay, so I know who needs to take over his title if Way ever decides to move on. Alternately, they could take over Merc With a Mouth or write on Deadpool Team Up.
Its pretty good thus far.
I love how he's just the go-to guy for the worst possible things science could do to people. He's my favorite guy for villainy. Even better, he's going to get slapped by Thor. It's always fun to see him build up and then just go too far and get smacked back down.
I think it's been done once or twice, but I'd love a Doom ongoing series. No changes to make him more protagonisty, either. It would just be him coming up with awful, awful ideas, testing them, and then finally getting noticed and stopped by horrified superheroes.
Examples (IMAGE SPOILERS):
And later in the issue -
It's almost like they're saying "If she's Superman level strong and the team's tank, does anyone else realize she is going to lose her clothes every fight?"
Also, awesome Doom moment. I love how he's so barely sketched, he's just Egotistical Villain in the most basic sense.
Wait, is Sterns alive?
And who's the artist in the first scan? Looks familiar.
Huh? It was one of DC's best books, like 50k or something, last time I checked.
76 - POWER GIRL
05/2009: Power Girl #1 — 47,322
06/2009: Power Girl #2 — 36,756 (-22.3%)
07/2009: Power Girl #3 — 35,163 (- 4.3%)
08/2009: Power Girl #4 — 32,140 (- 8.6%)
09/2009: Power Girl #5 — 29,497 (- 8.2%)
10/2009: Power Girl #6 — 27,060 (- 8.3%)
There is no way this could go wrong.
I just read it, and really enjoyed it. Glad that they really seem to be doing something with Nor-varr, and apart from two gripes, the art was awesome.
1) Hated the way Nor-varr was drawn. Something was off about his face.
2)His new costume is atrocious.
Yes. There are just too many sections to the black and white. I wish they'd either gone further and done something more like the Ultimate version or kept it simple and just done a slight update on the classic Captain Marvel costume.
Yes, this. This is what I want!