Marvel Universe!

Marvel Universe vs The Avengers final issue.  Well that was horrible.  As with the previous issues of this mini-series the title lied.  This had a limited number of Avengers, it was essentially a Hawkeye story, and they did not fight the Marvel Universe.  Heck they barely fought anyone with actual powers.  This was just another badly written and deceptively marketed zombie story.  It is very disappointing when such a brilliantly advertised title with so much potential is wasted.  Bleh.

Ame-Comi Power Girl!

Ame-Comi Girls #4: Power Girl is introduced and she is a Kryptonian.  The story and art seem mostly set to show off Kara’s breasts and navel.  I saw joking about the Power Girl outfit online and was amused, but unfortunately it was all true this is an issue written by men with art by guys and it shows they need to get outside more and talk to real women.  It all takes away from what could have been an interesting story with xenophobic villains, the arrival of Super Girl and the Manhunters Mech-Police from OA.  Then the creators remember this was a tie in and mentioned Brainiac.

Batman!

Batman #16 (Death of the Family) while the story started strong and interesting it ended predicable.  It is kind of sad that the Joker was chaos and yet everything was just predicable as always.  Oh well.

Interface Zero 2.0 Kickstarter

For those interested in Cyberpunk RPG and are tired of waiting on an update for the classic Cyberpunk 2020 game. Interface Zero uses the Savage Worlds rules. I am a backer.  Only 2 days left to back!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/821979583/interface-zero-20-full-metal-cyberpunk

hummm... can't get the cool video text to show. 

Detective Comics!

Batman Detective Comics #16 (Death of the Family) contained two good stories, they were excellent stories.  The first story really did not have anything to do with the Death of the Family story.  It was just Batman tracking down the Joker Fan boys and Fan girls.  There is nothing new here and nothing worth tagging as part of the uber story ark.  The second story with the Emperor Penguin taking over the Penguin’s operation and that story is more related to Death of the Family.  But in the end I’m tired of buying a comic with two half stories included.  Frankly I’m tired of DC being lazy and stretching crappy material over several comics hoping no one will notice.

Batgirl!

Batgirl #16 (Death of the Family) Meh – I don’t know how the Joker has time for all this side business.  The story was OK and had some good action, but in the end the story has to be saved and stretched out so there will be more and more Death of the Family) comics without end or connection to the main story.  So this issue ends up just being a reset to where we were on page one of this issue.

Bleach v51

I just finished reading Bleach volume 51.  The story is really not that much different from the historic story line.  Ichigo has no real power at least not at the level of those around him.  He has to train, train, train and train or he will die again.  He is surrounded by weird acting, weird looking yet very dangerous people.  They all go along assuming that Ichigo knows what is going on which is annoying as we already went through that story with the Soul Society.  At least with this story we the readers are seeing some of the back story and some of the stories not centered on Ichigo.  I am still interested in seeing where this all goes as long as I can borrow a copy of the book from a friend or the library because I would not pay full book prices for black and white reprints – if I was going to pay full price I would subscribe to the magazine.