Age of Ultron Book 8!

Age of Ultron Book 8 was a bit of a letdown.  I thought I had bought a book continuing the Age of Ultron storyline.  Instead all I found was another X-man with guest stars from a variant universe.  This was an entire issue that did nothing but introduces another timeline / universe and somehow hopes we care about character we had never seen before.  I know I said I was looking forward to the next issue but that was with the expectation that this new word and characters would advance the Ultron plot.  I was rather disappointed with the focus on Tony Stark / Iron Man ruling the future because if I wanted to read that comic book all I have to do is go buy the Civil War storyline and after.  I was hoping to see the Wolverines meet or Sue Storm meet her family, or Doctor Strange does something cool or any of the other variant heroes do something.  It is bad when one of the tie in comics is better than the core book.  This was a disappointing issue.

FF #7!

FF #7 was much better than the last few issues as in it made sense.  The entire problem the last few issues was Bentley 23’s father the Wizard.  Anyway much hilarity and confusion ensued; Leech actually got to use his powers that apparently are no longer area of effect.  I really do not have much more to say about this issue.

Iron Man #10 Secret Origin of Tony Stark

Iron Man #10 – The Secret Origin of Tony Stark Part 1 – wait last issue was labeled as part of the Secret Origin storyline.  Anyway, we do not get to see everything that Howard Stark and Recorder 451 said in their little movie.  Tony aka Iron Man does not believe it but we get a flashback where Recorder tells more of the story.  But in reality what we get is a caper job where Howard Stark plots with an alien and some human friends to steal Recorder  451 from other aliens living in Las Vegas.  The crew includes Jimmy Woo, Dum Dum Dugan and Thunderbolt Ross.  They manage to steal Recorder and make their getaway.  It all ends with another to be continued moment in the future.  This was a rather amusing and entertaining story.  I am interested to see what happens next.

Thunderbolts #9

Thunderbolts #9 was the aftermath of the bomb going boom in last issue.  We had a little retelling of the bomb from the other group of players.  The team ends up fighting a squad of Crimson Dynamos which is an interesting fight.  There is for some reason a flash to a C.I.A. outpost in Afghanistan where the agents worry for their lives because they ID people above their pay grade AKA the Thunderbolts team.  The plot continues to move along and at least this issue was less whiny.

Cable and X-Force #8!

Cable and X-Force #8 was good but I have missed some issues here and have no idea what is going on plot wise.  While confusion might not be unusual for this comic I need to try and find the missing issues to find out what is going on to give a better review.

Dynamite Comics Battlestar Galactica #1

Dynamite Comics: Battlestar Galactica #1 was really bad.  It started with a multipage recap of the first Battlestar Galactica movie.  It moved onto Adama having nightmares about the destruction of the colonies.  Then the Galactica and the fleet are attacked by the Cylons and they are losing badly.  So at the insistence of a young Doctor Zee the Galactica deploys temporal weapons.  Things go downhill from there and everything disappears.  I bought this comic because it had the true Battlestar Galactica characters and not the lame assed SciFi Channel Battlestar Galactica characters.  I figured how bad could it be and I found that really bad was possible.  Adama does not even look like either actor who has played him or the previous comic book versions.  The story set up is just stupid.  If someone cannot come up with a decent story without resorting to time travel it is truly a bad sign.  I am so very disappointed.

Avengers Assemble #15AU (Age of Ultron)!!!

Avengers Assemble #15AU (Age of Ultron) was interesting but in the end it felt more like a checklist or inventory of what happened to the super powered people in the United Kingdom – especially in London.  I enjoyed the Doctor Who reference coming from the Ultrons arguing with a civilian.  We had Captain Britain, Excalibur, the Black Knight, a second rate Hero called Computer Graham and a young lady with magic soccer shoes.   After introducing all the players the Heroes except for the Black Knight and Excalibur head off to fight Ultron.  It turns out that Computer Graham’s power is to interface with computer games and Captain Marvel and Captain Britain and the kid fight to get Graham close to Ultron.  They hope Graham’s power will help them defeat Ultron.  But they manage to only shut down an Ultron node while getting everyone killed.  It was rather a downer and while I am sure the creative group was hoping for some “triumph of the human spirit” feel, but all we really got was all the fighting heroes died.   These were the heroes that could hold off Ultron and gather not just survivors but supplies to keep the survivors alive.