Title: Some crap I read this week (6/26)
eStragand - June 26, 2006 09:57 PM (GMT)
Just some of the random books I read this week. Didn't think any were worth their own topic, so here goes..
-Civil War #2: Well, things are moving quick. Cap's already organized an underground "resistance".
-Thunderbolts #103: Civil War tie-in... Zemo and the Bolts are out to "recruit" all supervillains. But Zemo's already a step ahead...
-Nightwing #121: This is quickly losing me. It's just kinda'.... blah. They haven't really detailed WHAT Cheyenne Frontierre's powers are, either.
-Avengers #125: Got in the mail via eBay. Really, really quick outer space battle with Thanos's troops. Avengers thwart the invasion in a rather interesitng way. But the entire issue is more a synopsis and fill-in-the-blanks action from a Captain Marvel story arc of the time.
-(New) Flash #1- Huh? Lots o' mumbo-jumbo about the "Speed Force". The art looked a little bit like a 1996 leftover..which seems to be a recurring theme for me this week.
-New Avengers #20- Conclusion to the "Collective" story arc. Pretty decent resolution...but I'm not 100% up on my Magneto-Xorn issues, so I feel like I'm missing something. Again, art lookd like 1996. Ms. Marvel's costume has evolved into butt-floss.
-DC Comics Presents #97 (1986)- Senseless babble about the Phantom Zone villains, Mxyzlypltk, Jor-El, and Bizarro World. Talk about your tough reads...this was insane. Oh yeah, I guess Jor-El had a villainous brother named... Kru-El (jots its down in "Comic Trivia" file!!)
-Superman/Batman #27- Hey, ya' like Juggs? Hooters? Boobs? Papayas? Thingies? Then this is YOUR comic, chester! Penciller Kevin Macguire makes one of his rare monthly appearances-- I usually like his work, but here it's not as clean as it usually is. I couldn't tell where and when this was taking place...I'm guessing old Earth-2. Which brings to light one of the major problems of "INFINITE CRISIS". In the original Crisis, it was established WHICH worlds were eliminated and what happened. In "INFINITE CRISIS", we weren't given a real thorough explanation of how many worlds were re-formed and which continuity is still in place. I know, I know... "read 52... an event that will re-define..blah blah blah".
-Ms. Marvel #4- Ms. Marvie goes to Dr. Strange for help with a mystic leftover from "House of M", Sir Warren Traveler. I really want this book to succeed, but female-led books only seem to work when they're cheescake. DC and Marvel just seem to publish female books out of obligation. The art looked a little bit like a 1996 leftover, too.
-GI Joe: Declassified #1: Good premise, BUT...they wrote in a new agent, "Shooter". Bwah-ha-ha.... see, "Shooter"!?!? Yuk, yuk. In the original GI Joe #1 (1982), when all the Joes were shown on a computer screen, in the bottom right there was a partially obscurred mugshot of someone named "Shooter". What was an in-line gag to then-Marvel editor Jim Shooter and a stupid trivia question, has now been retconned into the GI Joe world. That's...pretty damn stupid and one of the cutesy things that Devil's Due likes to pull off. Pretty soon, they'll make a reference to "Rocky" (yeah, Rocky Balboa, who appeared as part of a failed/cancelled promotional stunt in "GI Joe: Order of Battle #3").
-Civil War #2: Well, things are moving quick. Cap's already organized an underground "resistance".
-Thunderbolts #103: Civil War tie-in... Zemo and the Bolts are out to "recruit" all supervillains. But Zemo's already a step ahead...
-Nightwing #121: This is quickly losing me. It's just kinda'.... blah. They haven't really detailed WHAT Cheyenne Frontierre's powers are, either.
-Avengers #125: Got in the mail via eBay. Really, really quick outer space battle with Thanos's troops. Avengers thwart the invasion in a rather interesitng way. But the entire issue is more a synopsis and fill-in-the-blanks action from a Captain Marvel story arc of the time.
-(New) Flash #1- Huh? Lots o' mumbo-jumbo about the "Speed Force". The art looked a little bit like a 1996 leftover..which seems to be a recurring theme for me this week.
-New Avengers #20- Conclusion to the "Collective" story arc. Pretty decent resolution...but I'm not 100% up on my Magneto-Xorn issues, so I feel like I'm missing something. Again, art lookd like 1996. Ms. Marvel's costume has evolved into butt-floss.
-DC Comics Presents #97 (1986)- Senseless babble about the Phantom Zone villains, Mxyzlypltk, Jor-El, and Bizarro World. Talk about your tough reads...this was insane. Oh yeah, I guess Jor-El had a villainous brother named... Kru-El (jots its down in "Comic Trivia" file!!)
-Superman/Batman #27- Hey, ya' like Juggs? Hooters? Boobs? Papayas? Thingies? Then this is YOUR comic, chester! Penciller Kevin Macguire makes one of his rare monthly appearances-- I usually like his work, but here it's not as clean as it usually is. I couldn't tell where and when this was taking place...I'm guessing old Earth-2. Which brings to light one of the major problems of "INFINITE CRISIS". In the original Crisis, it was established WHICH worlds were eliminated and what happened. In "INFINITE CRISIS", we weren't given a real thorough explanation of how many worlds were re-formed and which continuity is still in place. I know, I know... "read 52... an event that will re-define..blah blah blah".
-Ms. Marvel #4- Ms. Marvie goes to Dr. Strange for help with a mystic leftover from "House of M", Sir Warren Traveler. I really want this book to succeed, but female-led books only seem to work when they're cheescake. DC and Marvel just seem to publish female books out of obligation. The art looked a little bit like a 1996 leftover, too.
-GI Joe: Declassified #1: Good premise, BUT...they wrote in a new agent, "Shooter". Bwah-ha-ha.... see, "Shooter"!?!? Yuk, yuk. In the original GI Joe #1 (1982), when all the Joes were shown on a computer screen, in the bottom right there was a partially obscurred mugshot of someone named "Shooter". What was an in-line gag to then-Marvel editor Jim Shooter and a stupid trivia question, has now been retconned into the GI Joe world. That's...pretty damn stupid and one of the cutesy things that Devil's Due likes to pull off. Pretty soon, they'll make a reference to "Rocky" (yeah, Rocky Balboa, who appeared as part of a failed/cancelled promotional stunt in "GI Joe: Order of Battle #3").
Mad Dog - June 26, 2006 10:09 PM (GMT)
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| -Nightwing #121: This is quickly losing me. It's just kinda'.... blah. They haven't really detailed WHAT Cheyenne Frontierre's powers are, either. |
This issue was really read. Despite the fact that I've read all the OYL issues I feel like I was only getting half the story. Like why was the landlord buying him groceries and hanging out at his house? How did he survive sign guy? Why did he tell someone he just met that he was Nighting?
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| -Civil War #2: Well, things are moving quick. Cap's already organized an underground "resistance". |
I liked this issue a lot. Spider-Man is actually ::gasps:: interesting again.
D.A.V.E. - June 27, 2006 12:12 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (eStragand @ Jun 26 2006, 10:57 PM) |
| -New Avengers #20- Conclusion to the "Collective" story arc. Pretty decent resolution...but I'm not 100% up on my Magneto-Xorn issues, so I feel like I'm missing something. Again, art lookd like 1996. Ms. Marvel's costume has evolved into butt-floss. |
SO????
Mad Dog - June 27, 2006 12:16 AM (GMT)
I really liked the first issue of the Green Lantern Corps. Also really liked Amazing Spider-Man #532. This is probably the most excited I've been about Spider-Man in a decade.
eStragand - June 27, 2006 06:18 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (D.A.V.E. @ Jun 26 2006, 05:12 PM) |
| SO???? |
It was worse than that in "New Avengers"...just a friggin' g-string. I likes me some hot chics...but stuff like that kind of annoys me. Gives comics their stigma of "adolescent boy wetdreams".
It's possible to make a superheroine look heroic and sexy at the same time. Wonder Woman's a good example...her britches aren't usually yanked up to thong levels. I thought the cover of Ms. Marvel #1 also did a good job of striking that same balance.