The Future Foundation #4 (FF)

FF #4 (Future Foundation) was just so boring.  The She-Hulk goes on a date with her old boyfriend Wyatt Wingfoot.  The entire night the mole kids try to ruin the date and nothing goes well for the Mole Kids.  The story was not really funny or interesting.   Oh well, it is a shame such classic characters are being wasted here.

Hawkeye #8 !!!

Hawkeye #8 is the issue with the Target colored / James Bond inspired movie comic book cover.   The art work starts entertainingly like a bad romance novel called Doomed Love but actually it is rather serious story.  I am really enjoying the new book / comic book cover and story title.  Normally something this disjointed would be annoying but somehow it works here.  If you love the old style pulp books and comics you will just love this aspect of the story (art is really telling the story here).  I have to say again this is a really good story.  The comic book covers inside this comic actually tell another story and that was surprisingly well done.  Hawkeye gets in trouble again in such an interesting manner.  I really have come to love these slice of life stories being told in the comic.  It reminds me so much of the Marvel Comics I read as a kid the kind of stories that I loved even as I was confused by them.  But looking back those were good stories, it is one of the things I love about following the low power heroes in the Marvel Universe.  You can keep Iron Man, Thor and the Hulk – these are the stories of the lowbies that make for good comic books.  The Bro gang is pissed and they are going for broke even getting the Kingpin involved which should lead to some more interesting adventures for Hawkeye.

Thunderbolts #5 !!!!

Thunderbolts #5 was interesting but just filled a gap in the story.  It is weird to see or should I say hear Deadpool sound so sane and thoughtful.  I do not really believe the Punisher should still be going at this point considering his wounds.  It is strange not hearing the Leader rant and rave about how smart he is, the Leader is even helping Thunderbolt Ross who has come down a step and is not the Red Hulk at the moment.   I have no idea what is up with Venom (is that Flash Thompson?).  One of my big complaints about this comic is there are too many characters to follow and some did not have their story told as well as some.  I fear this is a sign there will be a “surprise” in the story that should shock the reader unless we knew what was going on.

X-Treme X-Men #11 !!!!!

X-Treme X-Men #11 was clever as the reader never really sure which villain the heroes were helping to end the fight.  The X-Treme X-Men were fighting to save the last of the humans on this current Nazi / Atlantean world.  Though the end splash page was and “conclusion” was a little disappointing as somehow the good guys missed a few of the evil Xaviers.

The Young Avengers #2!!

Young Avengers #2 and we are still in setup mode.  I don’t know why the writer decided to spend all that time on introducing the other characters if we are going to just be following these two around.  Though we do get to see this world’s version of the Avengers (apparently) and then the young lovers are saved by Loki.  This Loki is very entertaining and not nearly as evilly chaotic as his other forms.  I especially enjoy Loki’s insistence that Wiccan do something about his possibly offensive to Pagans’ name.  The three of them decide to do something about the evil unleashed on the world, but then for some reason decide to take Loki home to Asgard where they meet Loki’s father and as Wiccan says, “isn’t he dead?”  I guess you just cannot trust Frost Giants to remain dead.  Just to make sure it is clear I did enjoy reading this comic.

All Star Western #17

All Star Western Featuring Jonah Hex #17 was horrible, it was badly written and the story was lame.  After some improvement at the end of the last story I was really looking forward to seeing what would happen next.  Instead we get an impractical and impossibly stupid plague that hits Gotham followed by what appears to actually be the results of plotting of the bad guy.  I also have to mention that the 19^th Century Stormwatch story was a bad rip off of the Girl Genius comic, the rip off is bad enough and cheesy enough and close enough to Girl Genius that I would not be surprised if lawyers would not be involved soon.  If not the Girl Genius people are dumb.  All in all I just have to say this issue was bad do not bother reading or spending your money on this comic if you have not already done so.

Batman Inc #8 R.I.P.

Batman Inc #8 where I seemed to have missed issue #7 and considering what happened in this issue it might be hard to find a copy.  The story starts out mid something riot like possibly related to the events in Death of the Family.  Robin and Nightwing are working to help Batman out of a jam.  There is a long and eventful fight with some banter between Robin and Nighwing I am not really sure why Robin took off the battle suit helmet but oh well.  I figure that since the end of the comic made the news this is not really a spoiler but just in case: Spoiler! Alert!  But for some plot based reason Robin dies he is killed by someone claiming to be his brother but that Robin called Father.  Considering that children trained as the Robin’s replacement have died and come back to life in the past the death of Robin (Damian Wayne Al ghul) is bound to be short lived.  At the very least Robins’ death is valid until the next plot point and a handy Lazarus Pit.  Do not get my sarcasm wrong this was a good climatic story.