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Thursday, July 28, 2011

Captain America Vs Wonder-Woman

Now in a fist fight i would go with Wonder-woman, throw in the shield vs her bracelets mmmm its going to make my head hurt , now the pilot episode of the tv which didn't get picked up vs the capt america movie, steve rogers wins , ok maybe thats not a fair fight, but watching the wonder-woman pilot made me itch for what she might have been like in different hands not that this take was that bad , really i would recommend it to a fan of the character, though the tweaks to make her a celebrity bad girl, who ran a company that kept it's self afloat just selling action figures , there are some flaws that needed to have been tweaked before it got green lit, it came across like a syfy movie,
Captain America is another story, while i am glad it didn't do the box office Thor did which is a little puzzling, i think it might be a marginally better movie , thor i had a hard time getting past the costuming, i think if they had gone more lord of the rings cut out some of the weird science it might have not been a contest, but back to steve rogers , i can't really find many faults with the movie sure it fall's into some blatant hollywood cheese like the forced romance , but it's the action formula, Steve Rogers has a lot of heart , chris evans is more than likely as jerk in real life but he sells you on the character, by the end there was an element of me wanting it to hurry up so i could see the avengers screen post- credits, i would have given a tad more of an inglorious bastards grindhouse style wink to the time period, like the spirit did but better... i didn't think the spirit sucked it was just pulled off better as sin city, every one in captain america did their jobs, avengers aside i don't have any real emotional connection to the character i think his brand of military gung -ho for his country attitude is shit and hope marvel gives this a closer look now he is back in the costume, it had to be easier as just steve rogers the secret avenger than as captain america and what comes with that , how is it explored in the movie well, Steve often takes matters into his own hands and ends up being a better soldier for even it it means playing outside his orders , like to see how the character develops in avengers and the subsequent sequels, it keeps the comic book tone , not leaning too heavilly on the kirby years or the ultimates a nice balance , i like the scene where he wakes up and think the modern beat will be fun for him to continue down. the howling commandos were like the warriors three in Thor , a little to magnificent seven side kicky , sure they could have brought the invaders in but i can understand why no namor , and a robot who catches fire , i guess would have brought up evans other role the 3-d was disposable , and pointless, perfectly fine in 2-d i want to see it online in 2-d now , hope it's box office picks up it deserves if nothing else to beat transformers ,

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

fifty fifty

is the way i feel when i pick up my books every week, the balance flips but i always have one book that leaves me cold and one i re-read, in this economy it might make a casual reader re-think his or her buying, and the industry wonders why its having problems.
Bad new first is journey into mystery 625 , and it's a mystery why i made the journey to the comic book shop for this one we don't even get the naked sif. We get loki who when it comes to action, isn't much of a fighter in this teen-age Amadeus Cho like incarnation. The soap opera builds in Hel, is the premise and it could have been told as the first half of the issue, the art continues to look like a sketch book.
Now Incredible Hulk - 632 is a different story much, improved pak gets a better reign on the magic mish-mash the focus is on one of hulk's old foes who pushes all the wrong or right buttons , we see a Hulk -out like we want to which is always at the end of the day for the pay off - we want to see him cut loose and show us why he is the strongest one there is .Pelletier's art work remains close to perfect the mass he gives the hulk makes sense , i like the veiny look for the hulk, going back to Cho, he served as banner's jimmeny cricket and i could do with out him shouldn't he be helping hercules these days , other than that pretty much all i could want from a comic .
Comic con weekend i think i have some fear itself titles coming up, and captain america . continuing onto hack n slash omnibus 2 , the vs chucky issue i thought was a little silly, the books continue to be a good read the archie issue was the weak point and the villain battle royal in the laboratory was meh , the supporting cast filling out give cassie a wider range to work with as well and i will give udates as i finish volume 2 tomorrow

Saturday, July 16, 2011

Something Different

Veering off the course of the big two spandex, after i started reading the first volume of the Hack n Slash Omnibus. I enjoyed and plan to read the other two volumes , the evil ernie crossover issue , was an un-needed side step and while the content can and will be covered in my horror blog , the art differed from issue to issue the evil ernie inks the weakest and some of art is outstanding above and beyond most of the stuff going on in the big two.
The tone is very buffy, granted cassie hack is more of an anti-hero , in the fact she is a misanthrope where buffy wants to blend in and have a normal life, she lacks buffy's powers, though her mother was a slasher an undead killer like jason vorhees, the 3rd wall often comes down and the book winks at it self not unlike the sensational she -hulk book.
the t& a is defiantly a tease , but i guess most books of this ilk are , and i am over half way into the first omnibus, but it could change though i don't see major boobage in it's future. i know there are impending cross over's with bomb queen coming up another teaser
i will have to keep a closer eye peeled on images other titles as epoch looks worth reading as well... and check out my horror blog where i will discussing the medium of comics in horror

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Hulk and such

OK , getting back on track with my pulls , The Hulk has started to eclipse the incredible title, jeff parker used his noggin and relaxed to write an issue which the number i don't have on me i will come back and edit it in but it has a zzzakk hulk on the front , it was very fun read hearkened back to the days of the 80's hulk, remember back when it was just a fun title to read - sure peter david had his moments, but got too much into the path which ang lee took of the self help hulk
anyway ross is starting to feel more like his own person here .
the hulk annual that is a cross over with the spider-man and dead pool annuals was some alternate universe gobbly gook worthy of sucking an egg like it was written for legion of super heroes and waste of money.
i was very impressed with uncanny x-man 439- shame they are switching writers for schism , or the x-civil war - all the x's are going to live in text as they are hyping it as some thing that is going to change the x landscape - whatev- the art was iffy on uncanny but writing stellar even if it just boiled it down to hope and wolverine

Friday, July 8, 2011

summer simmer

have comics to pick up this week , but from solicitations thus far , the only thing to get excited about are fights two of them to be exact. I'm a sucker for hero on hero brawls , we have a Thor Vs Surfer, fight coming up in Thor. One thing about fear itself is i think it's making it evident how Matt Fraction works on build with little pay off , so we will see if the song remains the same in the pages of Thor, really all we have seen on the surfer 's end is he was able to catch one of Thor's Blows and his main offense is doing a board boomerang , so it that's how he is being written Thor should mop the moon with him.
Then a Hulk vs Thor vs Thing, these guys are amped up by the secret Skull or Skaadi or whatever they are calling her , unimpressed thus far would be my nick name for her. The Red Hulk amped Thing beat down , was bleh... the fear hammer or worthy hammer have powers that are un-defined so it sets up bad writing as they can do pretty much whatever you want them to do , now even Thor's hammer has certain definable properties and abilities that way you the character's boundaries developing your mythology .
but no such luck would have taken too much thought that is being wasted elsewhere