This will be my last post until next Saturday. I'm enrolled in a Field Ecology class, and the entirety of the class is spending my Spring Break in caves, collecting data. Oh well, it's better than not having enough credit hours to receive an assistantship, and having to pay my own tuition. It is lousy for two reasons though:...
Page 1: Who is the little Tinkerbell sitting on Thanos' shoulder? Thanos and Tinkerbell are incompatible, like Vibe and cool.Also on Page 1: If Thanos loves Death, and Death is now in the form of a little girl, does Thanos have a Lolita complex? Of course, with him, that's the least of your concerns.I think Death is trying...
I've been thinking about One Year Later lately, especially as one of the few DC titles I buy approaches it's first One Year Later issue (that'd be Robin). There's a couple of nice posts I've seen, one as One Year Later approached and the other looking back after the first few weeksI can appreciate that DC seems to be at least trying something different. But I can't help feeling it's kind of futile....
Screw introductions. Four books, spoilers ahead, BEWARE!Annihilation: Prologue - I wasn't even planning to buy this, but I was trying to skim it, and Ken was trying to get me involved in a conversation about baseball, and I'd already snapped at him once in the five minutes I'd been there, so I figured it'd be best to just buy...
Hey, it's my 100th post! Whee! And I'm typing it in the Biology Grad Student Office, because I'm stuck here until 7 o'clock tonight and I'm bored as hell! Uh, Woo-hoo?Here's the question for the day: When did Alex Luthor capture Nightshade?I saw her hooked into his Multiverse Maker, as the representative of Earth-4, I think. I can't keep all these Earths straight. When then hell did he catch her?...
I was reading an issue of Wizard, and they were talking with someone from DC about all the lead-ins to Infinite Crisis. Included in this was the fact that the Legion of Superheroes reboot was the result of Superboy-Prime punching the walls of reali. . . I can't even finish that sentence. That has to be the dumbest explanation for anything I've ever read in comic books. Still, it raised this question:How...
Why should Robin be more like Batman?I've pretty much accepted that kalinara is right, and DC is trying to make Tim Drake like Batman, thus suggesting Tim's the one that would take over for Bruce Wayne, on the slim chance that someday DC is actually willing to do that. But why would they go that way?I know Tim is trying his hardest to do what's necessary to be the good partner for Batman, but I thought...
There's just one question I want to pose today: Where is Aunt May really going?I don't know about you, but I don't buy the whole "getting together with friends from work" thing. You get that dressed up for a work get-together? She's definitely seeing some one, but who? Two possibilities leap to my mind:One, it's a member of Nick Fury's staff (like an accountant or something) dating Aunt May to get...
Wednesday at the store, those of us assembled somehow got on the topic of 52. Whatever it was that was being said about it prompted Ken to ask the following question, the same question I'm going to ask you now: What is the last issue of 52 that will ship on time? As of 1:30 p.m. Friday, March 10, the results are as follows (14 responses):Issues 1-9: 1 predictions;10-19: 1 predictions;20-29: 2 predictions;30-39:...
Do you remember that episode of M*A*S*H where Hawkeye and B.J. pretend to hate each other as a birthday gift for Major Burns? Then at the end, they tell him it's finished and everything goes back to normal?As DC moves into One Year Later, I've seen discussion of the tone DC is going to take with its stories. A number of people expect a return to more lighthearted stories, given all the talking in...
This. . . was a crappy week for comics. That has been somewhat nullified by the hilarity of watching Ken try to patch up his falling ceiling tiles with duct tape. White duct tape, so that it matches the ceiling. Anyway, two books, spoiler warnings.Teen Titans #33 - I'm going to change the format for this review. I'll give the...
Well, if you're Cao Pi from Dynasty Warriors 5, cow urine. Seriously though, I'm gonna throw this out here, because it's driving me a little nuts. Should Power Girl start calling herself Power Woman instead? I'm not saying this is going to happen, it's just been on my mind the last few days.I think this started after I said that Johnny Storm dates girls, but Ms. Marvel is a woman. It's tragic how...
I was thinking about how I said Johnny Storm would have no chance with Carol Danvers, and I asked myself who would, because I have too much free time. The answer came swiftly: Hawkeye. Is there a woman he's been on the Avengers with he hasn't slept with, or at least made a pass at? Black Widow, Wasp, Mockingbird, She-Hulk, I'm sure Tigra at some point, that's just off the top of my head. The man likes...
Quick one today. At the start of the issue, Frank Castle asks "What's the only thing more dangerous than a barracuda?" The page shows a shark, so I suppose we could assume that's the answer. But this is The Punisher, so it may be Frank Castle. But honestly it's a silly question, there are plenty of things more dangerous than...
There's really just one thing I want to discuss, and it's Lionheart throwing a car-sized propane tank at Courtney Ross, who was fleeing in her car at that point. Captain Britain saved Courtney, and Kelsey was clearly stunned by what she'd done when she thought she'd killed them, but I really just didn't buy it. It's not that...
First off, I never knew Jessica Drew smoked, but apparently she does. Obvious proof she's still evil. Second, I may have been wrong about Jessica and Carol working together in S.H.I.E.L.D. Which leads me to wonder how they became friends. Clearly they've known each other for years, their conversation demonstrated that. Could...
Starting it off with Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #5, my first question is, when a person with red hair reaches senescence (old age), what color does their hair typically turn?I'm looking at the ending scenes of the issue, the confrontation between "Spider-Man is stalking me" Woman and Spidey's Widow. Most of the time, the widow's hair is just gray, but there are a couple of panels where it's...
In case you haven't seen it yet, the first three reviews are the post just below this one. Two other things quickly. Marvel, please stop putting posters for Neopets:The Darkest Faerie in my comics. Advertisements I can handle, the posters are annoying. Second, all I'll say on Infinite Crisis #5 is that my lone prediction for...
Well, getting 76% on my American Urban History quiz only partially dampened my spirits. A week of six comics that came off feeling average, that didn't help. Anyway, I've noticed I have a tendency to ramble in these things, and that leads to really long posts, so I'm going to post three reviews now, the rest later tonight....
