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

catchin up

ok back to purge my system of the most recent comics from my pull list, which i just got around to picking up , its a mixed bag lets start with the best and work our way around
Thor for Asgard - number 2 - the art work of the first issue was dazzling and it continues here this time the story catches up which felt the lead in on the first issue drug a little - of all these non continuity titles coming out to plunder the faith ful before the movie - this is the one i decided to pick up, i always give them one -if the other four issues manage to build off of what is developed here in a way giving this more movement then i will be glad i did
incredible hulk 617
the whole hulk family thing makes this story drag- i would start narrowing it down a bit starting with korg, and going from there just because jen doesn't have her own title really doesn't require her loitering around in this book, isn't she going to be needed in fantastic four soon? and we have banner hulk back so skaar - though i like you better now you can go to - maybe guardians of the galaxy might be a good place for you - or an x title even - you are as much of a mutant as namor - it felt like the dark son arc was wrapped up like the final moments of a super friends episode - there should have been of you know who not becoming a dark sun-
hulk
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ok the art is bad to the point of being a distraction- the story meh , not impressed by parker thus far - though he gives thunderbolt a good voice- banner not so much , and where did steve rogers go midway through the book ? the namor rulk fight we see on the cover doesn't begin until the last few panels but that is an old marvel trick from way back
avengers 7- here where the red hulk appears as well as the red hood ,was that intentional ? nothing happens in this book, we see the hood with the infinity gems clock the red hulk and reality was warped indeed because in the gems mythos i think just having them enable some one with brute force is ..um missing the boat - but hey it is bendis - who thinks rules of mythos don't have to apply to his writing since he has been writing ultimates i think he forgets which world he is in

current state of affairs

back into the underwhelming the whole hirom dark son arc starts of to a fizzle, never been wild about the character and still having a harder time being sold on him, this was similar to my original thoughts on Skaar so we will see if Pak can warm me up to him, as of right now Hirom is a character i hope gets killed off . the hulk, series- starts off with him being conditioned to get worked into steve rogers avengers program, though the writer is making him run the gauntlet of heroes he's already thrashed , bruce banner took away his ability to absorb power, leveling the playing field between the green and red, and a rather lame one sided fight with a shell of shell head occurs, next issue vs thor.
i'm not going to get started on hulk vs thor, you know i'm a big fan of both , so we will let it rest there - though even as a thor fan - the hulk wins
thor has so many books out i warned my local comic book shop not to put every title on my pull list , just mighty as some are geared for kids some are imping the movie what ever the case just give me the cannon- i added avenger to my pull so that should balance it out - if its not happen there or mighty its not in cannon -unless its a cross over into another cannon title any way of course he matt fraction title was met with acclaim- but nothing happens in the issue so i will give him a few and see what happens - i like the art , the volstagg plot thread was amusing but boring- i got don't need the science class, just give us the premise - sometimes it can be over kill - felt like it was ramping up into a novel not a comic book

bask in redemption

comics have been redeeming themselves of late, the thor run which took a turn south as i t literally went to hell bounces back with the last issue, though the spacey issues looming in previews seem hoo-hum if the art doesn't save them.
Hulk on the other hand has been what i want it to be, the skaar fight was a little harder won than it should have been, since they implied this was a world breaker class HULK, which i hope is the case , though not sure why he would still be that angry, ...then again banner is one to hold a grudge - i would explore banner's darker side which causes him to stay pissed, pak had the chance during incredible when he was drained of hulk, but it never got to the whats and where fores although despite some of my bitching remained enjoyable, i now like they will be hard pressed to evoke the same from hirom , who i feel is the inferior character- even red hulk- hulk comic came around the hulk red hulk right was what it should be with ross getting his butt licked, though i sense this ross now taking lumps is going to suck if the issue of iron man pounding on him is any indication, if they have him get jobbed then they need to explain the decrease in power, i saw one shot in preview of steve rogers knocking out the hulk and though - um right like hulk would feel a punch from some one could only life 800 lbs , that close to saying if i hit hulk under the right circumstances i could knock him out and i can bench 600- by the old standards puts me above wolverine, though he is probably stronger , how i will admit to being stronger than dare devil , who looks like he is soon biting the dust.
the avngers was a fund read , even if spider man annoys me in the book, and i continue to stand by the have no place on the team, spider woman i will accept but continue to shun the idea of those two as avengers, beast is the only x-man i accept as an avenger , ice man and angel i accept as defenders , talk about a team that needs to come back before alpha flight - i did like the byrne run in the 80's of alpha flight though- seeing the younger maestro- hulk in the book was cool and prompting me to buy it , the little kid avengers took out the real deals to easily, they should have had banner do that, would have been more believable.

the summer of our discontent

ok it's been a minute since i posted - in essence is due to the fact it feels like i haven't really experienced much to write home about even post comic- con, which felt like a trade show more than a convention for the fans - looking at the year ahead in comics seems underwhelming- the current arch of thor feels like filler- we get a few panels of thor in action- and lets not start at all the powerless thor clips from the movie online- hulk at least hulked out heroes has come to an end- green hulk is back - for how long i'm unsure in certain previews i still see Banner zooming around in his little personal force field and don't really feel he has a voice much different from Amadeus Cho, it's banner who is cynical and with tude? is that different than a bratty super genius? Greg Pak has delivered some good Hulk moments, has Loeb? some of the upcoming art for the Hulk - the red hulk title- looks boring as it is the guy who did agents- comic con announcement bendis is getting his hands on Rulk and adding him to the Avengers , so will be adding avengers to my pull list - though the first few issues vs the horsemen of apocalypse and kang felt like a jumbled mess-
dc -mmm aqua-man summoning dead fish- which the white lantern brings back to life - not sure why every one had to become a lantern - are they like eh an orange lantern yeah saw one of those the other day - i liked those indigo guys that came through here last week-
bruce wayne returns - thank you grant morrison
super-man - not sure how i feel about his grassroots campaign seems boring guess i will wait for the graphic novel coming some time this month
wonder woman-don't get me started on the modernizing of costumes
wheres swamp thing ? is hawk man a lantern or dead again - yeah well never got into brightest day til some renewed interest in aqua- man was inspired
ok kids will review tomorrows hulk