broad scope

ok yet to pick up this weeks incredible hulk and avengers, but i did read some other comics this week , the big times , spider man and girl , i have to say the spider girl was a little more fun but it could be due to the fact the red hulk was in it , she didn't fight him as much as run from him in hopes to survive though he was under some sort of spell speaking gibberish , he beat the ff's but pretty quick like , and don't get me started on the johnny storm death. Spider-man wasn't bad , i did question the sonic basis of hobgoblins powers and how he mopped the floor with spidey requiring him to make the new stealth suit, black cat's appearance was well placed , i guess it's a similar take on when spidey made the suit to fight electro , it was fun not as enthralling as the am azing use to be for me back in the 80's , the whole Puma saga , firestorm getting his butt kicked etc,
trying to get hooked into the cape its a little slow to draw me in mainly because you know how i feel about super heroes with no powers .

2011

well having seen the over view whats being published - hulk is going to get silly by April, skaar is getting his own series focusing on him in the savage land . this looks like it is heading in the much needed direction of having banner fly solo, the whole entourage of Hulks is getting silly. Thor is really getting messed up, similar to what happened with the Hulk title when it got turned into the incredible Hercules, but the title is changing back to journey into mystery focusing on Loki, and thor getting a new solo book .

Ok most recent comics , the chaos war Hulk tie arc, ends a show down with his day Jarella shows up, all action goes to show unlike thor things can be smashed and you can still tell a story and last time i checked that was the reason i started reading comics in the first place, if i wanted dan brown i would read dan brown , or david icke for that matter, Thor another issue and nothing gets hit with a hammer , sure Tyr and balder slice up red inter dimensional guys , who when built up this much was rather anti climatic, ok they killed Balder with a special gun , if odin comes back and gets shot with the same gun , the book will go into the nearest trash can , the story has inched forward seems like it could have been told in two issues and moved along , going to do a reread on it when i am bored and want to take it to the next level to see if i missed something that hasn't been brought out in the other issues - oh yeah loki gets scared and jumps in a car to high tail it out and ends up on Thor's shoulders to face more sci fi castles - talk at the comic book is asgard is full of aliens in the movie not gods- if this is so , whats the point of being a thunder god really, with hulk lots happened and i got the action by it felt busy and redundant maybe with to many players on the field and not in the good siege way , and thor continues to drag , i would rather have it like hulk than what fraction is doing but balance seems to be the key here

first of the year

got a little catching up to do as writing in other forms has drawn me away from this page . ok thor creeps along they bring Loki back , it makes sense gods don't stay dead but the recent chaos king arch marvel seems to be using it to clean up their mistakes, killing off character can it really be taken seriously in comics if so can we not keep some one in their grave , just when i thought it was safe to mourn the abomination and doc sampson we get them back as a result of the chaos king doing a darkest night.fora new abomination maybe caused rick jones to mutate and go bad ? but the matter at hand is the recent incredible hulks has been more entertaining than the hulk, red hulk has yet to get a fair shake , parker might have a better chance than loeb, the art work in the book is distractingly bad , maybe heavier ink might be the answer , the art work in the incredible i'm a big fan of , though a bulkier hulk is due ,after all he is the hulk. avengers is now part of mu pull list because a the red hulk is now sort of a member , and of course there's thor , the most recent issue seemed to be filler for the bigger arch with the hood getting a hold of the infinity gems ,the art work continues to be a not to my taste, every one looks rounded off like a lego , the story could go either way .

in other shelf glances and quick perusals , the new dark knight book is off to a good start , the art superior to the story , but alas it was in my i have been reading comics forever speed read, avengers academy and thunderbolts seem to have some promise , where she-hulks is a little juvenile, like the art the story is a scorched earth clean up picking up the last big world war hulks pieces , which in looking back at 2010 looks to go down as the year i tried to forget hulked out heroes existed, though the character as a whole seems to be taken a little more seriously, . in reaching further back i have been reading a few trades to play catch up on titles i neglected , which as most of you know would be most , i read x-men utopia - the x-men's part in dark reign , i liked the dark avengers vs the x-men, we had sentry vs namor which i think would have been a shorter fight on land , where colossus vs venom should have had the russian dominating , daken vs the girls was ..eh , the whole ares thing with gambit was silly as well, and i thought the iron patriot would have done better - though magneto would have made him a mute point
overall entertaining , super man the year one or whatever - was good art - meh story - this whole alternate universe thing is a cop out and that goes for ultimates as well- if you want to give your spin on classic story lines do it the way true grit was a re-make rather than let me in , it can be done in continuity with a tip of the hat, comics have spun variations of the major stories with the major characters thats why the greatness in adding to the myth is such a work of art when it is done right - so lets not take the hollywood route