Suggestions For 5/29/13

DC COMICS
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #4
REDHOOD AND THE OUTLAWS ANNUAL 
WAKE #1


IDW PUBLISHING
TMNT ONGOING #22


IMAGE COMICS
CHEW #34
MORNING GLORIES #27
THIEF OF THIEVES #14




MARVEL
AVENGING SPIDER-MAN #21
CAPTAIN AMERICA #7
INDESTRUCTIBLE HULK #8
NEW AVENGERS #6
WOLVERINE AND THE X-MEN #30
X-MEN #1





Last Week Winners
DC COMICS
AQUAMAN #20
BATMAN INCORPORATED #11 (Japanese Batman!)
JUSTICE LEAGUE #20 (Atom's secret)

MARVEL COMICS
AVENGERS #12 
DAREDEVIL #26 (Daredevil fights Ikari Pulp Fiction style) 
DEADPOOL #10 
FANTASTIC FOUR #8 
SCARLET SPIDER #17 (Aracely's horrible costume) 
SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN #10
UNCANNY AVENGERS #8AU (Trophy room) 
UNCANNY X-MEN #6 
YOUNG AVENGERS #5 (I like what is going on with Loki)

Recommended Reading

Hey guys and gals, I'm suppose to do a character, but I don't really think I can do one every week in the same detail and I'm still playing around with this blog. So instead I'm going to combine Top Pick Tuesday with Character of the Week. So this week I am recommending  Mark Waid's and Alex Ross's KINGDOM COME. 

  

I know I have raved about Mark Waid (DAREDEVIL, IRREDEEMABLE, FLASH), but in case he doesn't draw you in (I don't see why he wouldn't) I would buy any comic where Alex Ross does the interior art. Ross mostly does covers for comics, but when he does a whole comic every panel is a treat. 


  

Norman McCay (A preist who inherts visions of the future from his old dying friend Sandman) is the narrator of the story. He travels with The Spectre and see's recent events unfold after Superman and many other heroes have been gone for 10 years. Modern superheroes are more violent and rash and after Parasite accidentally exposes Captain Atom's skin during a fight a nuclear explosion erupts destroying Kansas, and parts of Nebraska, Iowa, and Missouri. Superman decides to come out of his 10 year retirement to guide the next generation of heroes.


The story goes into themes of man looking at heroes as gods, moral values and prophecies of armageddon. It is a classic highlighting characters Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Spectre, Captain Marvel, and Lex Luthor. Even Deadman has a small, but great moment. The only complaint I have is that there are so many characters in the background that they never go into detail about. I understand that they added a lot of characters and it would take up way too much time to tell everyone's story, but Dick Grayson and Starfire had a daughter and I didn't know until after I read the character index in the back. But it is not that bad I can understand since it is not about them it is manly about the characters I mentioned. So go pick this up like I said it is a classic. There is also a fan film trailer check it out. 

Suggestions For 5/22/13

DC COMICS
AQUAMAN #20
BATMAN INCORPORATED #11
JUSTICE LEAGUE #20

IMAGE COMICS
BOUNCE #1 (A superhero that was inspired by Spider-Man and smokes weed. I'll give it a try)

MARVEL COMICS
AVENGERS #12
DAREDEVIL #26
DEADPOOL #10
FANTASTIC FOUR #8
SCARLET SPIDER #17
SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN #10 (I hope Peter comes back!!! #9)
UNCANNY AVENGERS #8AU (Age of Ultron tie in, but Remender says it is important) 
UNCANNY X-MEN #6
YOUNG AVENGERS #5





Last Week Winners
FABLES #129
NIGHTWING #20
RED HOOD AND THE OUTLAWS #20
FF #7
IRON MAN #10
NOVA #4
WOLVERINE AND THE X-MEN #29 (Anyone else love Eye Boy or Eye Man?)

Character Of The Week 5/18

Every week I will be giving a random comic character some spot light. This week it's Eric O' Grady (3rd Ant-Man) 


Created by Robert Kirman and Phil Hester, Eric O'Grady was first introduced in CIVIL WAR: CHOOSING SIDES #1 as a preview for his series IRREDEEMABLE ANT-MAN. Usually a writer will make a character not so perfect so he can be more relatable, but this Ant-Man was a sleazy dirtbag at times. Why is that a good thing? Well we usually enjoy train wrecks and characters who act like assholes. We usually hold ourselves back so it is funny to see a character who just does whatever they want and not suffer consequences from it like Archer from FX's Archer or Roger from American Dad. 


Eric O'Grady has done some bad things in the past, besides spying on girls while they take a shower his best friend Chris (Who originally had the Ant-Man suit) was killed because Eric pushed him to get to an exit first and Chris ended up getting shot in the head. Eric took the suit off of Chris's dead body. He made out with Chris's girlfriend on his grave and later had sex with her. He has also said some disrespectful things to Stature (The daughter of Scott Lang the second Ant-Man) about her dad who was dead at the time. 

    

He later joined the Thunderbolts and he didn't like being a part of the team, but he started to redeem himself when he was part of Steve Rodger's Secret Avengers. Eric knew he did some pretty shitty things, and he did feel bad about his friend Chris dying and working for Norman Osborn so Steve Rogers personally picked him to be part of the Secret Avengers, because he saw potential and good in him. Currently Eric died and was reborn as a robot called Black Ant, he fought the Secret Avengers and Venom has a vendetta against him. I'm kind of disappointed with the recent stuff that happened to him, but characters always find a way back to default. Eric took advantage of his suit's abilities, but he wanted to right his wrongs and improve himself this made him more realistic and easy to relate to and that is why I think he is a great character. 

Suggestions- IRREDEEMABLE ANT-MAN, THUNDERBOLTS, ANT-MAN & WASP, SECRET AVENGERS.









 

Suggestions for 5/15/13

Fables #129
Nightwing #20
Red Hood and The Outlaws #20
FF #7
Iron Man #10
Nova #4
Wolverine and the X-Men #29

Last Week Winners

Batman #20 (Batman Beyond Reference!)
JLA #3
Avengers #11
Avengers Arena #9 (Apex's origin)
Deadpool #9 (Deadpool's Mind)
Secret Avengers #4
Thor God of Thunder #8 (Two Thors Bonding)
Uncanny Avengers #8 

Suggestions for 5/8/13

Batman #20
Constantine #3
JLA #3
Avengers #11
Avengers Arena #9
Deadpool #9
Secret Avengers #4
Thor God of Thunder #8
Uncanny Avengers #8

Wednesday Winners

Thanos Rising #2
Aquaman #19 
Green Arrow #20 (Can't wait to see what happens on the island)
Ten Grand #1 (I'll let you guys know forgot to get this last week)
Hawkeye #10 (Kate likes older men)
All New X-Men #11 
Indestructible Hulk #7 (Is Hulk Worthy?)
Bedlam Trade Paper back #1-6 (Another great by Nick Spencer) 

Review, Private Eye Issue Two

Warning this contains some spoilers from issue one

Second issue of Private Eye came out May 7 and it is just as good as the last. We find out at a certain age you have to change your name and it can be anything you want. Mel, P.I.'s chauffeur, is thinking about going with Lady Nunchuck. It was brief, but I still like learning about this world. The mystery of the world keeps my attention just like Morning Glories story or the Sweet Tooth world. We get to see the antagonist De Guerre, the guy who killed Taj, still don't really know what he is up to. The end is also exciting P.I. has every right to be paranoid. Be sure to donate some money so we get to see more. Can't wait for the next one what do you guys and gals think? How much do you donate?    

Superior Spider-Man, Love Hate Relationship

Warning- This involves plot details about Superior Spider-Man issue nine, there will be spoilers you have been warned!

So let's go over the issue first. Doc Oct uses a machine in attempts to erase Peter Parker from his mind completely. There is a fight between Peter and Otto inside their mind. Peter gets backup from memories of his friends and family and everything seems to be going his way, but Otto counters with all of his fears and failures.

  

Eventually it becomes a one on one fight, they both rip off their own faces and fight in their Spider-Man costumes. Peter talks about how he would never kill and how power and responsibility means nothing to Otto. Otto retorts by saying how much crime has gone down and Massacre killed over 30 people because Peter didn't kill him. In the end Otto tells Peter that he doesn't deserve to be Spider-Man and wipes Peter from his mind.

When I first read Amazing Spider-Man 700 I was disappointed that Otto was the Superior Spider-Man, but then I gave it a chance and it wasn't bad. He is trying to adapt, doing things Peter wouldn't normally do. Issue six was great seeing his painful childhood and he takes it out on Jester and Screwball giving more depth to his character. The issue where he realizes that he can't date Mary Jane because it would put her in danger (thank god that would have been awkward). I love the spider bots, the new costume, but issue nine I have mixed feelings about. I know Peter wasn't doing much as a ghost, but I still felt comfortable having him around knowing he wasn't completely gone. Maybe Dan Slott had a piece of Peter still alive just in case fans gave too much backlash and once they were comfortable with the idea he killed him? With all of this said I'm still going to pick up the next issue to see where it goes, and it's only one issue so we don't know if Peter is totally gone yet. Comments? How do you guys and gals feel about Superior Spider-Man so far?