Maf Posted August 24, 2019 Share Posted August 24, 2019 Superman’s most powerful punch? Spoiler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCH Posted August 25, 2019 Share Posted August 25, 2019 So, catching up on what I've been reading: Powers of X #3 - This one entirely focuses on one timeline specifically, that of Apocalypse and his war against Nimrod. Really good and feeds into the overall plot in a very interesting way. Can't believe we are at the halfway point of this book and the maxi-series altogether. 9/10 Fantastic Four #13 - Part two of Thing vs. Immortal Hulk. This really isn't a fight, the opening captions of Thing's narration grimly acknowledge that. What follows, is a good 3/4 of this book being comprised of the Hulk beating several shades of shit out of the Thing. There is of course, the reveal of the "real threat", but Hulk doesn't really care that he is being manipulated either. Although there is a distinctly "Immortal Hulk" payoff to that, which wouldn't have happened with previous iterations. The difference, addressing the problem I had with the last issues depiction of the Hulk. 7/10 Doom Patrol: Weight of The Worlds #1 & 2 So this book has been on hiatus for a long time. The entire Young Animal series has suffered such delays. Weeks to months to years. Although there was Doom Patrol #12 in the interim, it was entirely focused on secondary characters in a side story. That said, that was October 2018. The story that directly relates to this one, was the Justice League/Doom Patrol crossover - Milk Wars - which ended in April 2018. Upto speed? No? Too bad, this series goes surging forward with the fallout of that crossover. This is not new reader friendly. If anything it goes even more high concept than Milk Wars did (and that was pretty out there) To be honest, it left me at a bit of a loss. My previous 12 issues and the Milk Wars trade are in storage, so I only caught the gist in very broad strokes. The opening two issues were kind of a two parter, but not really. The change in artist for this relaunch, does jar though. Since they are not as good and the pages aren't quite up to the standard of either the previous "volume" or even the covers. 7/10 Just as in the case of FF, I'll give this book the benefit of the doubt for now. House/Powers of X are the only books I would actively recommend of these four series, to anyone new to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted August 27, 2019 Share Posted August 27, 2019 Know Fear No Devils Only God Through Hell Friendly reminder if you’re not reading Zdarsky’s Daredevil you doing it wrong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCH Posted August 27, 2019 Share Posted August 27, 2019 You can tell that is a Daredevil book ? It is an amusing quote but, Punisher, who has a body count in the thousands is hardly 'amateur hour' to Daredevil. I didn't see DD being headhunted by the son of the Devil (Blackheart) Nor recruited by Heaven, for their Black Ops, based on his abilities.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted September 2, 2019 Share Posted September 2, 2019 Going to be a pretty difficult cover to beat this month Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 Random comic book stuff I thought was interesting? Guess who’s coming back lol Spoiler They’re also doing this Conan 2099? Spoiler Never one to miss a trick, with the newest wave of hype raising the X-Men back there must also come...a billion new X-Men titles sigh Spoiler Garth Ennis is returning to the Punisher, this time Castle is going after the Russian mob? I don’t really care about Punisher at all but Ennis is doing it well we will have to see Spoiler DC’s Young Animal imprint is getting a resurgence with several titles, this one is Far Sector...a Green Lantern book? Both the cover and the description is quite interesting Spoiler Far Sector From the minds of multiple Hugo Award-winner N.K. Jemisin and artist Jamal Campbell comes Far Sector, a story about Sojourner “Jo” Mullein, the Green Lantern tasked with protecting the City Enduring, a sprawling megalopolis where billions of people all live in relative peace because the city’s residents have been made not to feel emotions. Jemisin described her as a “frontier sheriff,” apart from the Green Lantern Corps. With the absence of emotion, crime isn’t much of a problem Mullein has to deal with. But when feeling begins to return to the city, a whole host of challenges come along with it, and it’s up to Jo to take care of business. Nothing right now so squarely falls in to my venn diagram of non-interest such as Black Label and Harley Quinn but this cover is so fucking good you know, shame on me, I guess Spoiler He Man and the Masters of the Multiverse. Yeah. Last year (This year?) Marvel got the Conan rights and made him part of the comic book universe, is DC going to do the same here? Spoiler 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted September 6, 2019 Share Posted September 6, 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted September 8, 2019 Share Posted September 8, 2019 I was catching up on some comics this morning. First was the new Batman/Superman #1. It was Ok. The art is really nice and clean Spoiler But was also a little void of...anything, really. The 2 main problems was that the main “reveal” of the comic was all over the internet immediately and there’s no new clever insight into why Batman and Superman are friends. But it’s #1 and feels like it’s just establishing itself so beyond being fun to look at, not much going on over here. Next was Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-Man and this continues to be a delight. It is probably my favourite Spider-Man comic since...some of Dan Slott’s Spider-Man run like Spider-Island, Superior and Spiderverse. So about 5 years. It’s a really, really great comic that absolutely nails the fun and kindness of Spider-Man while also dealing out some pretty important things about the characters in it (Aunt May getting cancer, reopening FEAST, and introduces another new cop for Spider-Man to work with who acts like this has never happened before, but whatever). It honestly feels like one of the most genuine comics in my reading list. I love it. Spoiler Absolute Carnage #1. I’m so confused. I feel like I’ve gone above and beyond in reading the material you really had to read for this event and I still don’t really get it. I read all 16 issues of the main Venom series, I almost remember the Red Goblin story in Amazing Spider-Man despite it being dreadful, I even read some of the extra stuff like Cult of Carnage and whatever. And I barely understand what is going on in this comic. Why does Norman Osborne think he’s Cletus Kassidy? I don’t remember that. How does Carnage know about Knull? I assume it has something to do with the codices? But I don’t remember that. Why can Carnage infect other people and turn them in to Carnage-like drones? Etc, etc. It’s a fun comic, lots of cool stuff happens in it, and I’m sure all the story stuff is justified somewhere, I just don’t remember it. Anyway, Stegman kills it on the art and for a Marvel comic it gets quite grisly. Spoiler And I actually read this the other day, but the big one. House of X #4 I mean, wow. Spoiler “No more” This comic gave me honest to god chills. It’s just so hopeless for everybody. Not only the crew taking down Mother Mold, but even the humans aboard the station, and the general vibe of the greater situation. Everyone is bitter, angry, justified, sympathetic and all on roads there’s no coming back from. I can’t imagine how this series will end, but I think it’s already earned classic status and it’s only half way through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCH Posted September 8, 2019 Share Posted September 8, 2019 Reviews are out, Maf's read it but according to Forbidden Planet, my subscription for House of X #4 is "processing"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 New comic book day! Big things happening this month in comics! New Martian Apex Predator Lex Luthor enacts the Justice Doom War! The Guardians of the Galaxy become part of the new Universal Church of Truth! Anything and everything House and Powers of X! Peter Parker has a day off! Daredevil sleeps with a mob boss’ wife! Robin takes on Lobo?! Batman and Catwoman have lunch! And Jimmy Olsen must survive the Crisis of Infinite Jerks! Favourite covers of the month Spoiler House of X #3 House of X #4 Batman #77 Legion if Superheroes Millennium #1 Captain Marvel #9 Lois Lane #3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 Powers of X #4 To me out of every issue of HoX and PoX this has been the weakest one yet. I don’t think it’s bad, just there are obviously plot points and some developments the audience needs to know, I guess, and this is where they deliver that. I think some of the plot points, retcons and, uh...character changes are interesting. But this was the first book not to have a “Holy fuck” moment(s). Spoilers Spoiler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 Also this is the most complicated paragraph I’ve ever read Quote She was a member of the Justice League of America at its relaunch, but left the team due to injuries sustained in Final Crisis. Kendra and the original Hawkman (Carter Hall) were killed during the Blackest Night storyline; Katar Hol had been killed previously in a final battle with the Hawkgod, and Carter Hall, who had reincarnated in a new body, replaced him as Hawkgirl's partner. Carter and Shiera were resurrected after Blackest Night, but Kendra has since been killed again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCH Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 Comic book continuity doesn't get more convoluted and alienating to new readers than the History of Hawkman and Hawkgirl... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted September 14, 2019 Share Posted September 14, 2019 I’m going to try catch up on comics today and don’t want to spam and make multiple posts so will just update this one. #1 I finished Rosenburg’s X-Men, finally. A series that I thought was really boring most of the way through, and you know what? The last 4 issues bought it back. I’m not going to say it redeemed the series, I don’t remember most of what happened in it and the bits I do remember make me not want to revisit it. But that was a satisfying if hollow and ultimately redundant conclusion because Hickman runs the X-Men now so I assume none of this shit is going to matter. One of the crazy, and not in a good way, thing about the series is the body count. In the last 4 issues alone Illanaya (?) dies and becomes a demon, Havok pulls a Vegeta and sacrifices himself in a big explosion, Juggernaut gets the Cyttorak gem ripped out of him, Dark Beast gets his head chopped off, Multiple Man and Warlock die, Banshee gets crushed to death, some random X-Men enemies I really don’t know anything about eat it. Oh, even outside of these issues in this series Blindfold died, Wolfsbane died, Anole died, and a bunch of semi to very obscure X-Men characters I don’t know. But in the end it won’t matter because of HoX and PoX, anyway. Even the book ends on a self defeating panel of tiredness and inevitability. I did enjoy this, though. Spoiler #2 Spider-Man: Life Story. I don’t know what it is with Zdarsy wanting to make Spider-Man a hero who saves the earth and has space adventures (I mean he has done those things, but they’re not exactly bread and butter Spider-Man stories). And yet here we are again. Except this time it worked. No exaggeration, I can’t tell you why, but this made me well up. This was lovely, but hard to read. I don’t know why it made me almost cry Spoiler 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted September 15, 2019 Share Posted September 15, 2019 Sunday comics update. Absolute Carnage #2 Though not strictly a Spider-Man event, this is the best Spider event in years. It feels modern and new, not treading old ground like comics sometimes love to do. But at the same time is based around, if you grew up reading Spidey in the 90’s like me, kind of an iconic Spider-Man triangle of characters. Spider-Man, Venom and Carnage. It’s a bit light on story, but the art is brilliantly detailed and very, very red Spoiler Superman #14 and Action Comics #1014 Rogol Zaar has finally been put down! And he’s...Kryptonian? They don’t explain what’s happened to him. I guess in retrospect it was kind of obvious. I swear, Bendis loves Dragonball Z. Particularly the action sequences have all the hallmarks. Moving in super speed, someone saying “You have seconds!” and then those seconds lasting minutes, people punching each other through rocks, establishing rules and then immediately disregarding them. And I’m all for it! There’s some really dumb stuff that happens in this comic. And I’m not over how they ruined Jon. But overall I liked it, the art is good, too (Except for Superboy’s eye I don’t know what happened there lol). I’m waiting for the inevitable Rogol Zaar vs Doomsday fight. Action Comics continues to be the opposite of it’s name sake. It just slowly rolls along with people talking about Leviathan and nothing really happens. Spoiler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCH Posted September 15, 2019 Share Posted September 15, 2019 Meanwhile, whatever that hiccup was with Forbidden Planet, yesterday pretty much everything turned up: House of X #4: Wow, that was bleak. Instantly puts the opening panels of HoX #1 into context though. 9/10 Powers of X #4: I really don't like this depiction of Sinister. I first noticed it in Hickman's Secret Wars and I really don't care for this characterisation. It dumbs down a centuries old geneticist and schemer, into something from Blackadder. Meanwhile there was a lot of tertiary lore and world building. Although I'm not sure if Hickman is trying to say this Krakoa is the same one they launched into space in Giant Sized #1 or the "child" that was introduced in Wolverine and the X-Men? 8/10 Fantastic Four #14 - Slott is going for something a bit different here. The FF are heading out to complete the ill-fated course of their original mission. Franklin and Valeria are written out of the story as they don't see the point and the FF reminisce over FF#1. It is fine, as is the rut this series seems to have settled into. 7/10 Doom Patrol weight of the worlds #3 - This was an improvement over the previous issues. We are reintroduced to prior team members, Beast Boy (on the cover) and another more central to the plot. A kind of one-and-done Dystopian future, with some interesting ideas and it doesn't just throw in weird for the sake of it, unlike the previous issue. 8/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted September 19, 2019 Share Posted September 19, 2019 That time Captain America became a Nazi and took over America “It’s like a genie, but without all the bullshit” Great episode Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCH Posted September 22, 2019 Share Posted September 22, 2019 Some classic covers: ^This one has always made me chuckle... Weird how so many of the original What If? Stories were picked up on years later by other writers for main continuity stories. Not really a cover but, it is always interesting to see how much thought and detail goes into tertiary aspects of comics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted September 23, 2019 Share Posted September 23, 2019 POD PEOPLE! I knew it House of X #5 Spoiler That last note ? They should have killed us when they had the chance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted September 26, 2019 Share Posted September 26, 2019 Powers of X #5 What in the world does any of this have to do with anything? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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