The Mighty Avengers #11

The Mighty Avengers #11 was an amazing read. I do not know if the Mighty Avengers comic has been this good or this is just the Original Sin storyline making things better. But I just have to say how great a comic is when it is good! The story follows Luke Cage to his father where we learn about the father's history with super heroics in the 1970s. We even get to see Blade in his full on 70s' glory. If you have not read this story go buy it now!

Amazing Spider-Man #1 Printing Damage!

Considering the very high cost I paid for the latest and greatest version of the Amazing Spider-Man #1 (V3 2014) I am disappointed.  If I have to pay $5.99 for a comic book I assume the paper quality will be better than a regular issue, heavier paper and maybe even glossy paper.  Unfortunately this new number one comic book was printed on low quality paper and every single copy I found had been damaged during printing / shipping.  I actually went to more than one comic book store looking to see if the problem with the comic was specific to my regular comic book shop or not.  This damage may also have something to do with the issue having more pages than is the norm.  But in the end Marvel Comics made a bad choice when printing this comic and it shows.  The book arrived at stores damaged.  The paper feels weird when you hold the comic.  The artwork does not look good with this choice of paper.  I am very disappointed and I have yet to actually read the stories contained in this comic.  I just do not get it this comic was important and heavily promoted the least that the publisher could have done was to put some effort into making for a nice presentation.  It is not like price was going to be a problem as I already see this comic selling for above cover price.

Now that Rant is out of my system time to go read some Spider-Man!

Marvel Comics - Original Sin #0 - Spoilers!

Spoilers! Below!


Marvel Comics Event Original Sin issue #0 – wait a second this is starting with issue number zero? And the series is zero out of eight?  Why not just make this a nine issue series and not make up one of those lame fake first issues by making a number one and a number zero.  Anyway, the story follows the most recent person to be the super hero Nova (Sam Alexander).  I have not been following his comic but in this appearance he seems like a skinny Spider-Man wannabe just not as smart and possibly whinier.  The advantage he has is this super stuff still amazes him and his sense of wonder is still intact.  Apparently Nova and the Watcher Uatu are buddies with Nova having some type of emotional attachment to the big silent all seeing Watcher.

First the story summary: After Nova defeats a giant evil robot posing as an ancient God singlehandedly he meets with the Avengers (Captain America, Iron Man and Thor).  During their conversation Nova learns a few things about Uatu and flies off to ask the Watcher a question.  Nova gives the Watcher a gift of some soil from the battlefield where the Phoenix Force was “destroyed” by the X-men and Avengers.  After being given the gift Uatu leads Nova through the Watcher’s base.  During the tour Nova finds a rather well stocked armory containing many powerful weapons including an Ultimate Nullifier (A little forshading?).  He then ends up in a monitor room where Uatu tells in video the story of why the Watcher’s do what they do.  Then we see that the Watcher watches not just our Earth (Earth of universe 616 for those that care) and our Galaxy but all realities and their variants just like being given access to all the “What If?” comics at once.  Nova then asks the question he has been dying to ask and then flies away.  We also learn that one of the Watcher’s reasons for all this searching is that he is looking for a universe where the Watcher’s and their first meddling with other races did not lead to the self-destruction of the Prosilican race in a self-inflicted Nuclear War.

I have always enjoyed the “What If?” line of Marvel Comic Books.  When well-done these stories were excellent they were the tales not told or told from another point of view.  A place where the good guys winning was not the only outcome and often leads to horrible endings.  Since these stories were told by the Watcher Uatu I liked him.  He was like that one cool historian people would not mock for his interests.  Frankly that is the only reason I picked up this new Mini-Series by Marvel Comics Titled Original Sin. The Watcher was a primary character and part of the story even as a murder victim peaked my interest.  At the very least this could be an entertaining disaster of a comic book story.  The first story here was well done if really more of hey this is the heavy lifting of all the backstory of the Watcher Uatu and what he does skulking about on the far side of the Moon.  I guess that is why the issue was labeled number zero and not number one you might be able to skip this issue.  In the end this issue was a good read and I was entertained.  I admit to being a little worried the story would suck.

Worlds’ Finest Huntress and Power Girl #15

Worlds’ Finest Huntress and Power Girl #15 – really this whole Dessad thing was just a lead up for a Forever Evil Tie in?  That is seriously disappointing.  I was thinking this story was getting better until the “cliffhanger” ending.   I have made no secret that I am unhappy with how DC Comics and this creative team have treated these two strong female characters that are the stars of this comic.  I do not like how suddenly as if by magic they cannot win any situation; their base of operations, their friends dying with no second thought by the creative team to how this will end.  Well now we know why the creative team was happy to ruin a really good comic.  They had to set things up for a mega-cross-over comic event.  Lame.

Robocop Last Stand #1

Robocop Last Stand #1 a Frank Miller Comic and all I have to say is it is about time!  It was the introduction issue so I was not expecting much but a lot of this issue felt more like filler than actual story.  Oh well there are eight more issues for the comic to improve.  The artwork is a bit over stylized and silly.  The art is really showing the age of the subject and it just looks bad.  Unfortunately I am sure that artwork is not going to improve that looks like a choice.  I have to say while the story so far felt like filler is not to say it was not good and interesting.

Avengers A.I. #2

Avengers A.I. #2  continues a short while after the end of the previous issue.  The Avengers A.I. team is trying to figure out the origin of a new android (for lack of a better category term other than robot) named Alexis.  The Vision as usual is being his logical best, Doombot still thinks it is Doctor Doom and acting like it, Victor Mancha is uncertain about his place in the team and Hank Pym is acting cool.  It turns out that the new villain Dimitrios is another A.I. that has taken over an old fully automated Iron Man armor and is trying to wage war on humanity.  He hijacks a Sentinel to attack Washington D.C. the attack fails of course, but not before giving Doombot a couple of fun lines before it loses its head in the fight; though it appears that the true plan of Dimitrios was actually to gain control of the Vision or at least access to his communication network making his monolog available to the entire world to view.  The monologue goes on and on for pages and could have been copied from any one of Magneto’s rants about mutants replacing humans.  But in this case replace mutant with A.I. and other mechanical / electrical based creatures taking over the world.  In other words just a bit of the same old same old in the Marvel Comics Universe.  But I must say the dialogue was good and the story was interesting.  Good stuff.   

Deadpool Kills Deadpool #2

Deadpool Kills Deadpool #2 and this is where it gets weird!  The story is actually sort of interesting here if somewhat confusing.   It is impossible to tell which Deadpool is trying to help out the “real”Deadpool and which Deadpool is trying to kill him.  But what can I say it is all very entertaining and someone has way way way way way to much free time on their hands if they can go about creating all these different Deadpools.  We visit a world that seems to be populated only by Deadpool variants of other Marvel characters.  Some of the Deadpools from the might Marvel Multi-verse are really crazy and could probably support at least an entire issue on their own.  But I have to give bonus points to Pandapool “the Species that endangers you!” and of course the Deadpool that shows up for the cliffhanger ending of this comic Galactuspool.