my money your prespective

i'm all about creative license - but i am also about truth in advertising- you got burger king -you find styrofoam between the buns - well it's not what you paid for- just like when you pay for a thor comic you expect him to be in it-or hulk you expect bruce banner to have turned green at some juncture- the writers a marvel think differently - they will say it's cause the are telling a story and its for the good of the story- i agree - but when you pay for a story about the hulk - you want him in it , the avengers - is the hood on the rooster - now not sure why luke cage is but the hood oh no he's but thats ok lets waster half the book on him
it's the malady with this weekes purchases- thor was the worst of the bunch , the avengers had avengers in it for hmm ten panels-it was a redhulk hulk comic book he was in it - but how is that any different from the hulk book now , the green hulk is coming back we know this - but think of the money i have spent on rulk to be teased and convoluted
bendis made his money on me - though i have to say my avengers reading post siege will take place standing by the rack at the store not at home and i will drop back down to 3 books a month-
the heroic age looks to bring the classic story telling back - rather than to many muddled character of these big cross overs -had nothing to do with secret invasion of civil war - hulk and thor not involved in either - i like the characters so i read the books if my characters are no in the books i will not read them

up to speed

ok didn't post last week as it didn't really feel like much happened in comics - i guess due to the underwhelming fall of the she hulks book- where we lookat the same thing from different view points which seems to bea marvel trick these days that is getting old - like every issue need to be an episode of lost , perhaps weekly tv is influence comic writers more than needed -

any ways the secret avengers looks to be fun- i will read mighty until the whole wolverine spider man thing gets to annoying - i continue to rant about this it's ture and continue not too like luke cage as well-

saw kick ass last night - it was mediocre started off fun and went down hill- the end was like something out of a bad 80's film
this weeks books
looking forward to thor - the whole thor clone thing is dumb -but at least it will get destroyed and we can put the whole thing behind it- i think i am already missing the sentry- who i though was just becoming interesting when we finally saw his origin- he is out of any the shipping preview - so we know he is going to die -

siege four should be here soon - they have milked it -i'm over the thunderbolts vs avengers - i feel all the good fights were let downs of what could have happened -ares vs the sentry only one handled epically - never saw any one really throw down with norman-

thaks for the nap

a week in boring comics - first off i thumbed thru hulk ed out heroes to find i didn't need to buy it as the hulk wasn't even in it - not that he has been in anything fora while now- it was hulk-pool- the gamma fueled dead pool and an absurd story where they go through different dimension encounter a pirate thing and a moon boy and devil dinosaur-

the comics i did buy- regretfully as it's 9 dollars i could buy lunch with today -were siege cross over one shots -capt America- sure it gave a bucky /cap dynamic... a little tele graphed i didn't buy bucky's emotional connection nor why it took both of the to beat a c-list villian even powered up with norn stones -

then loki- a waste of paper really giving no more insite than he got some super ghouls to trade to mesphisto for property in hel he gave to hela - to get out of a contract of his after life - and he is done with tricks now stepping up to mayhem-the art work was sos- better than the captain america art work for sure
then we move on to th young avenger - which came the closest of the 3 to being good- their team dynamic work of sexual tension and some moments with wiccan and hulking got a little soap opera-though if they bring them to the big screen adam lambert should play wiccan- granted it accomplished what it set out to do i knew very little about them and now i'm am not as in the dark though the patriot kid i would kill off - he's weak as hell and there not really much to him- if you are looking tto fill a quota - well you have made brother voodoo more popular so we are good on the black super heroes for now
the free spider man grim hunt was on par with young avengers- like the kraven run down in the back of it - ant to read the books where he fights iron man and beast - i love it when villians cross over - lets you see how the character stand up out of their element- if i was writing spider man- i would take away his rogues gallery being up in your face dig a little deeper let him fight - maybe speed freak- ulik or ultron

x marks the new trick

this switching up of teams we are seeing teased at in adverts marvel first doing for the i am an avenger now carries over into the xmen- this time the changes are more absurd - this x-men promo now has shown us - magneto, pyslocke, gambit and hope - choices i am fine with then there is spider man ,elektra, blade and lyra the she hulk
i would almost be ok with blade and lyra as - they were born with their powers- though does it count if the genes were spliced on purpose ? spider man- um- now the avngers was bad enough and elektra doesn't even have powers- doesn't that go with the whole mission state ment of the xmen?

comicdom

i'm very interested all 3 of this weeks siege cross over one shots - and am going to wast money on hulked out heroes- why i am not sure though i might stand there and make sure it actually pertains to the story before i buy it - hulk pool was a little too dumb to believe they brought it into cannon- while we are at it - marvel zombies and pet avengers are also in the realms of why are you mocking the art form- respect the mythology- here's an example -the avengers got bastardized by wolverine, cage, spider man- the x-men and namor is pushing it, lyra i can handle but the spider man - give me a god damn break- dead pool is in everything else why not him- spider man is not a mutant only mutants belong in the x-men-- you don't have to be one to be in the books but on the team-

WORLD WAR HULKS

the only comic i walked away with this week though plan on checking out the sheild series- ok wwhs is a one shot broken up into little stories to give back ground on character ..and further support my theory talbot is the red hulk-the first one involves rick jones a-bomb character - and is a device to cut him loose from marlo who made her appearance in incredible as the harpy , then a short on talbot as a black ops agent captured by winter soldier who is captain America now, pretty pointless with great art, a a talbot betty and cosmic hulk- the robot duplicate of the hulk created in the etnernals - who i think is a stupid concept from day one why it is becoming more prominent in this book escapes me, talbot suddenly is not afraid of a hulk robot after being pummeled every time he chase banner hulk in huge robotic constructs , prolly because he is the red hulk- the relationship with betty and talbot sparking up a gain which if i was the red hulk would become a device to get banner to finally do more than have his eyes glow- then a doc smash story a red she hulk one equally pointless though great art and the foolish dead pool story sowing his prespective on getting turned into hulk pool- i realize foolish and dead pool are two things which go together - but this is over kill- not only on dead pool who is becomigan over done joke- he used to be my favorite x character -how many other people are going to begin saying that ?

this week in comics

i think my only pull is world war hulks , might pick up shield or the bat man and robin it looks interesting- not sure how graceful bringing bruce wayne back will be - i heard the big conclusion to blackest night bit one - hopefully siege four won't meet the same fate -bought a copy of spider man -despite the lack of action it was ok will buy the vs captain universe issue- the kicker to really elevate the threat level in siege would be if the void got ahold of the capt universe power - to amplify it into the universal captain of the void -in the assorted avengers teams they are throwing
together - i think a classic team would be - and that is working with a 7 man roster ms. marvel, tigra,scarlet witch, vision, Thor, capt America and iron man - sort of a throw back to the late eighties version mixed with the west coast avengers- who compared to some of the line ups they have today seem classic-

i wonder con

so wait where is all the wonder con stuff from marvel i know they went guess i need to search harder. spider man shattered dimensions seems like the most un spider man game ever- i think a dark spider man game to compete with arkham would be easy and doesn't have to be cosmic or inter dimensional at all since that isn't really very spidey- you want a dark spider man that isn't carnage /venom based and over doing the same tired rogues gallery why not dig deeper here's the twenty villains i would use
1-morbius
2- the lizard
3-carrion
4-swarm
5-werewolf by night
6-jack o lantern
7-kaine
8-d'sparye
9-doppleganger
10-headsman
11-mister hyde
12-tombstone
13-jackal
14-shadrac
15-shathra
16-the owl
17-morlun
18-molten man
19-slivermane
20-calypso

now while i would not argue these are the twenty greatest spider man foes i would ay they are the twenty i would pick if i wanted to do a darker spin on spider man- perhaps even making the big bad night mare , arcade or even kraven after all i can see kraven hunting all of these but calypso - where as night mare would be pulling these out from the corners of spider mans mind - you want to go with a more street level theme the jackal or the hood would be good to bring this collection together -