Bought/Thought for July 29th, 2009...with SPOILERS!

[moraldeficiency]

Eh, she's still got a ways to go before she gets to her Avengers Forever incarnation, I suppose. I like her as she is now, with the overriding desire to do good but the slight hint of her villainous past still lurking underneath that, though.

That's what I'm saying. She wouldn't directly kill him, but she doesn't mind tricking him and letting osborn do it for her. Just the right level of edge.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I'm looking forward to what she and Natasha cook up together. It's nice to see Natasha on her own again, by the way. I'd kind of gotten used to her as little more than "Bucky's girl" in Captain America, since that was my only exposure to her for a while. Thunderbolts reminded me of how good she can be in her own right.

 

[moraldeficiency]

Plus bucky/BW/deadpool triangle.

 

[hippie_hunter]

Rumpus McGoo needs to become a part of everyday vernacular for everyone. So demands hippie_hunter

 

[hippie_hunter]

Plus bucky/BW/deadpool triangle.

No one should ever replace Bea Arthur in Deadpool's heart

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Speaking of Deadpool and old broads, what the heck ever happened to Blind Al?

 

[moraldeficiency]

Bet she's still in some room terrified it's a trick and eating rats or something. Deadpool will probably eventually remember about her.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Poor old dame. I just read Deadpool Classics vol. 2 and got acquainted with her. I missed those early issues of Kelly's DP run when they were first coming out. I only started reading it around the first time he and Bullseye cross paths in his series.

 

[Swordmaster]

She was in Cable & Deadpool in one issue, where Wade asked her for advice about fighting Taskmaster. So she's alive, at least.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I guess we can assume her and Wade's status quo is basically the same, then. It'd be odd if he freed her and then popped in for advice.

 

[Swordmaster]

I'm not sure, though, because that was her one and only appearance in the series, and there were a few times where Wade was in his apartment alone. And Wiki says he freed her, but that might have been after Kelly's run, which is when I stopped.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I don't remember him freeing her during Priest or Tieri's runs. I didn't read Simone's.

Of course, my memory's not great and that was long ago.

 

[THANOSRULES]

I almost considered dropping T-bolts a couple of issues ago, the new direction just seemed irrelevant, the characters uninteresting, and the plot sputtered a bit. It's picked up in the last couple issues though, so I'll hang on for a bit. 133 was a strong issue, and the new explorations of the characters were done very well.

I still dont have hopes for the long term prospects of the book. I'm just kinda sick of seeing villians as heros, but still villians. Really I also have zero interest in most of the team..Mr.X and Headsman..meh..maybe Im just so sick of OSBORN...especially the heavy tommy lee jones depiction. I guess as usual, I long for more colors and occasionally upbeat writing of the Busiek days.

Really if Marvel is going to screw over the Silver Surfer and Thanos for overexposure in the 90s..then I hope we dont see a lick of Norman Osborn for a good 15 years after this.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

These aren't villains as heroes, though. These are villains as an unabashedly villainous, self-interested covert ops group. They never claim to be anything else.

Personally, I miss Baron Zemo. I think Songbird should get Baron Zemo back in the game against Osborn, although I'm kind of worried that Zemo might be the new Scourge. I mean, Osborn says he gave him a new face but Scourge was more comfortable after he horribly scarred it. Zemo's spent most of his life with a f***ed up face...

 

[JewishHobbit]

Hmm, never considered Zemo as Scourge.

I'm really enjoying Thunderbolts and have since the beginning of Ellis' run. I read a little hit and miss of the previous run (not the original, the NEW Thunderbolts relaunch) and while it was okay I got bored and eventually stopped. The original series looked good but I never got around to read it. I hope to someday. So for me, the title began with Ellis and is going from there and it's been a really good story. I kinda consider Dark Avengers a branch of Thunderbolts moreso than an Avengers title myself (due to characters and artist). It's becoming one of my more looked forward to books, especially after this last issue.

 

[JewishHobbit]

Oh, and I skimmed the last issue of Cap Britain MI:13 that came out last week. Seemed like a really good ending to the series, but more than that... LOVED seeing Death's Head II again. MAN I wish they'd bring him back in full time. I got my hopes up a few months back in the pages of Nova when Abnett and Lanning (the guys who wrote most or all of Death's Head II) brought in Dr. Evelyne Necker (DH2's creater). Then they were unleashing somehting big and I thought "THIS IS IT!" and it ended up being the early prototypes that were introduced in Amazing Fantasy. It was good, but still not Death's Head II

Hopefully his cameo there will spark interest to bring him back. I just wish Abnett and Lanning would bring him in. I could totally see him fitting in with the cosmic croud. Maybe with the Guardians of the Galaxy or something. And his main foe, Charnal, would be a great cosmic villain. Majorly Uber.

Though it'd be odd seeing DH2 without his trusty sidekick Tuck... though she'll need a wardrobe update due to the 90's TNA movement having passed.

 

[hippie_hunter]

I consider Dark Avengers to be a spin-off of New Avengers and Ellis' Thunderbolts and Diggle's Thunderbolts to be a branch of Dark Avengers the way X-Force is to Uncanny X-Men.

 

[CaptainCanada]

Dark Reign: Young Avengers #3

Continues to be very enjoyable; Cornell does a great job of conveying the team dynamics of both groups of Young Avengers.

Fantastic Four #569

A decent conclusion, with some really excellent art from Stuart Immonen, who does a great mimic of Hitch (that last closeup of Reed is pretty much indistinguishable). Millar's big plots never really carried the epic feel he was clearly going for, but he captured the Four's family feeling very well; the smaller moments were the best parts of this run.

Ultimatum #5

My God, it's full of suck.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Wildcats was awesome this week. Okay, Shawn Moll replaced Neil Googe on art, which was decidedly not awesome, but otherwise it was awesome. Remember a few years back when this dude named Joe Casey reinvented the s*** out of Wildcats as a whole and Hadrian a.k.a. Spartan a.k.a. Jack Marlowe in particular and it was easily the best interpretation of Wildcats ever? Well, guess who's back, b****es! Spartan re-evolves into Jack Marlowe at the end of this issue, silver suit and all. Now, I doubt Gage is going to enter into any of the clever "corporate heroism" stuff that Casey did, but he'll at least kick Tao's ass in the next issue, which should be fun. Plus, JACK MARLOWE! (Oh, and Team 7's in this issue too, for anyone who cares about them.)

Also, I've been rereading the Sub Diego run on Aquaman by Will Pfeifer and John Arcudi and it's even better than I remembered. God, I miss this era. It was so good. Officer Malrey just showed up in the issue I left off on.

 

[Phaedrus45]

Oh, man. I saw Funny People last night, and all I can say is wait for DVD. It's FAR too long, and while I liked the first half, the second half felt like a whole different movie. There are some good laughs; but, you expect a lot more from an Apatow movie. Still, it's probably the best acting I've seen from Sandler in a while....but, that second half of the movie just drags it all down.

 

[THANOSRULES]

I need to read up on wildcats..its just so chaotic

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, there's been a lot of upheaval in the Wildstorm universe.

 

[Kitsune]

Wildcats was awesome this week. Okay, Shawn Moll replaced Neil Googe on art, which was decidedly not awesome, but otherwise it was awesome. Remember a few years back when this dude named Joe Casey reinvented the s*** out of Wildcats as a whole and Hadrian a.k.a. Spartan a.k.a. Jack Marlowe in particular and it was easily the best interpretation of Wildcats ever? Well, guess who's back, b****es! Spartan re-evolves into Jack Marlowe at the end of this issue, silver suit and all. Now, I doubt Gage is going to enter into any of the clever "corporate heroism" stuff that Casey did, but he'll at least kick Tao's ass in the next issue, which should be fun. Plus, JACK MARLOWE! (Oh, and Team 7's in this issue too, for anyone who cares about them.)

Also, I've been rereading the Sub Diego run on Aquaman by Will Pfeifer and John Arcudi and it's even better than I remembered. God, I miss this era. It was so good. Officer Malrey just showed up in the issue I left off on.

As a scuba diver, I couldn't get into the Sub Diego, because the physic was too much like Spongebob. People wearing ties that didn't float into their faces etc...

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I didn't care about that at all. Everyone suspends disbelief for much more than that every time they open a superhero comic anyway.