Thor! God of Thunder!

Today I finally got a chance to read the New and Rebooted Marvel Comic Thor God of Thunder.  Issue number one was good.  The story hook was interesting and most importantly Thor was presented as a God.  So many people who write this character forget that Thor is a god, he is not a Superhero.  Though he does hang out with a lot of Superheroes while stuck on Earth he is not truly one of them.  It always bugged me when Thor turned into just another Super of the day or week or month.   I loved the JMS reboot of Thor all those years ago.  A reboot that was awesome until ruined so that Thor would fit into the Marvel Comic mold for a storyline not in his own comic.  I’m hoping that this new storyline continues to be entertaining and most importantly the story continues to be good. 

Batman!

I just finished reading the latest issue of the new comic book, Batman Legends of the Dark Knight #2.  This issue had a single entertaining story.  To avoid big spoilers I am just going to say the Joker is trying to help out.

I bought a copy of the new Marvel Comic book A+X because it was a variant cover of issue #1.  I knew nothing about the comic except it looked like another tie in to the A vs X super cross over extravaganza of the year from Marvel and was not expecting anything special.

But what I ended up with was a really good and well written team-up comic book.  I am a sucker for books that team up characters from different books.  I used to get the Marvel Team-Up book and the old school Defenders because it was so cool to see how different comic characters acted and were written by different people.  It could give you a whole new view on old stories and characters.  A+X gives me that cool team up action in the Marvel Universe.  The stories were a little short and really could use a few more pages each.  I think the Hulk and Wolverine story was cool and I hope it does get its follow up.

I know I probably should not enjoy the comic X-Treme X-men, but it is a really entertaining comic book.  Take a couple of popular and not so popular X-men characters; take their duplicates from other dimensions.  Those duplicates have similar personalities to the mainline characters they seem most like.  Then send them on a quest across dimensions to hunt down 10 evil Professor Xs.  Each comic has them meeting a different group of Marvel Supers from different dimensions – wackiness ensues.  Issue #1 (of 2012) were all the craziness was introduced was fun.  Issue #2 was not so hot.  But numbers three and four have been very entertaining.  We have had gods, monsters and Westerns to entertain.  I am happy with this version of the X-men.

Launch Date for WoW Expansion Announced!

Blizzard announced the date for the next World of Warcraft expansion.  After the mess that was the current expansion Cataclysm I am not really excited to see what happens in the next expansion.  I was so excited for Cataclysm it looked cool.  But in the end it sucked – my guild stopped playing I never got into any of the end game content.  In the previous expansion (Wrath of the LIch King) I was part of a fun guild, we crashed through all the content, we mastered the raids, and we rocked.  Now I have not played WoW in weeks and will probably unsubscribe.  WoW is just not fun any more.

Long time no blog

OH wow! Have not posted here in ages. Been busy in real life, G+ kind of took over my urge to post in a blog. Well G+ and FB that is. I will make a mental note to check in here a little more often. ;-)

The End of Days is Tomorrow!

I have been noticing an interesting trend among my friends as Saturday May 20, 2011 approaches. Those that believe the Rapture will happen at 6:00 pm and those who are very busy mocking the faithful. After all this energy has been spent talking about the Rapture I fear there will be two groups who will be disappointed Sunday morning. It will not just be those of faith, but those people who were mocking the other group. The people in the second group will also be disappointed since they will not in fact be given the chance to act in a riotous and looting manner. I truly hope that people from both groups take no drastic action against themselves or others when as is likely there will be no Rapture tomorrow afternoon. I hate to remind people but we cannot know God’s plan and it even says in the Bible that we cannot know the coming of the end of days.

So my hope is that everyone is safe, stays safe and continues to treat others whom they disagree with in a polite and non-violent way.