Bought Thought June 27, Sinestro is awesome

[Colossal Spoons]

DC's been advertising it all over the damn place. I think I like it already and I haven't even read it yet

 

[Darthphere]

DC's been advertising it all over the damn place. I think I like it already and I haven't even read it yet

Just prepare yourself for a possibly great read until the anti-climactic last issue. It seems to be Johns thing lately.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

And people were yellin at me to read John's Flash run if I wanted to read more about Wally.

 

[Darthphere]

And people were yellin at me to read John's Flash run if I wanted to read more about Wally.

Oh no, that's gold son. Read that ****. That's why I said lately.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

Haha, planned on it.

 

[fifthfiend]

I feel like Ed Brubaker is like the kick-ass studio musician of comic book writers. Like when a guy is producing an album and he says this album needs a *****in' guitar solo right here, get me Kick-Ass Studio Musician, Marvel says, this comic needs a hero grasping the dying heart of his mentor to seize his Chi in order to defeat a madman powered by the souls of brainwashed children, get me Ed Brubaker.

And you know honestly I'm not sure I ever really got the Danny Rand / Luke Cage dynamic, but somehow seeing Iron Fist's acrobatic martial artistry against an army of mystic kung-fu zealots, and then Luke Cage shows up with two hot chicks in catsuits looking like "You silly mother****ers, now stand still while I punch you in the face," sort of throws the whole thing into relief.

And people were yellin at me to read John's Flash run if I wanted to read more about Wally.

Read Johns' Flash run if you want to read more about the Flash's villains. If you actually want to read a comic that makes you give two ****s about Wally West, go read Mark Waid.

 

[deathshead2]

On that last page of the sinesro corps. WTH the dc universe is doomed. If the big guy is really who its supposed to be.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

God joins the GL Corps next week though. So it's all good

 

[SouLeSS]

I dunno, sometimes I just like to throw out logic and other such things like continulaity (Lol at Sinestro still being alive and such. Anti Moniter doesn't need anything to destory the universe (read COIE). Superboy Prime could likely do the same, or very close as it took two supermans and a sun to take him down). But seriously, throw some of the stuff outside and it's a damn good book. I mean the big fat round dude with the stubby legs and arms got blasted in the eye. Awesome.

 

[Marcdachamp]

What is this, the ****ing DC forum? Read some Marvel books, you *****es.

Thunderbolts- PICK OF THE WEEK! This issue is too much awesome. It's simply too much. Ellis and Deodato give us a balls to the wall action sequence where one character loses an arm, one is left paralyzed and mute and a traitor makes their move. This is unpredictable insanity at it's finest. 9/10

X-Men- Speaking of insanity at it's finest, a year too late I've discovered I've been picking up the wrong long-running X-Book. Pity. The Marauders make their move, and it ain't pretty. Plus, the Beast is willing to sell his soul to save mutantkind. Good stuff. 9/10

Cable and Deadpool- Knowing Nicieza, this issue's end isn't what we're left assuming, but with it happening in two books, it hits home a little harder. I hope not, but I did really like both issues. 9/10

World War Hulk: X-Men- Man, Gage knows his continuity! I really felt like I was reading an issue of New X-Men. Devito's art is a perfect fit, too. 8/10

Daredevil- Really, there's not much to say. A pretty good issue in what's been a pretty good arc. Seems like Brubaker's just stirring the pot before he reveals his badass resurrection of Mr. Fear (that's just a guess). 8/10

Black Panther- Marvel Zombies vs. New FF. Nice art, with a fun little cosmic story. I like it. 7/10

Wolverine: Origins- ****. This was pretty decent. Not great, but decent. Maybe... decent enough not to drop it like a bad habit. I like Way showing Logan using his head and the final page is setting up an arc I really want to like. Way, if I give you this shot, please don't **** it up. For those not in the know, Way's going back to Uncanny #268's awesome Cap/Wolverine team-up, one of the greatest Marvel team-ups ever. I really hope he doesn't let me down. 7/10

Fantastic Four- I'm not sure this is the book for me. It's not that there's anything wrong with it per se, it's simply that it's a little too old-school for my liking. Not that there's anything wrong with that, it just doesn't really "wow" me. 6/10

Also, I picked up DMZ Vol.1 last week. Fantastic stuff. I'm totally getting Vol. 2 this weekend.

 

[venom62]

World War Hulk: X-Men- Man, Gage knows his continuity! I really felt like I was reading an issue of New X-Men. Devito's art is a perfect fit, too. 8/10
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Did anyone notice the error (at least i think it was)?

Spoiler

After Logan stabs Hulk in the back. Hulk faces off with the grown up Xteam and the fight is stopped by Prof X before it gets going. Then Prof enters his mind and sees why Hulk is so mad. Then we are back to Hulk and Prof X standing there talking in the real world and in the background Logan and Emma are getting off the ground like they just got beat up. But there wasn't a fight, why were they on the ground?

Did I miss something?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

My two cents on The Sinestro Corps Special: it was all right. I wasn't expecting much because it's Johns and, frankly, since the whole Silver Age Take 2 mandate has come down, Johns' work has sucked in myriad ways. I did, however, start getting excited while I read it in spite of myself.

The how and why of Kyle's descent into being vulnerable to Parallax sucked. I already didn't like the idea of Parallax as some cosmic entity that symbolically absolved Hal of all his sins--y'know, before Johns literally absolved Hal of all his sins with that ******ed "lost Lanterns" arc. They weren't "lost." They were dead. Hal killed them and they died. Anyway, learning now that Ion is actually another entity strikes me as even more stupid because this time it wasn't even in service to anything. It seems like Johns thought, "The Sinestro Corps has its own entity and the 5 million parallels I've drawn between them and the GL Corps just isn't quite enough... I know! I'll make Ion a giant whale swimming around Kyle's innards!" Yeah. Brilliant stuff, Johns. The fact that Sinestro was secretly behind the virus that killed Kyle's mom was stupid, too. Whatever happened to simple misfortune? Apparently everyone in the DC universe who dies of anything died because of a super-villain now because, once again, it's the Silver Age made new and all things are black and white. I'm just waiting for the villains to start cackling maniacally at every turn again, myself. Anyway, as BW pointed out, this whole Kyle = Parallax deal renders just about everything featuring Kyle since Hal's return nothing more than an exercise in despair. It takes simple stories that were personal and poignant and blows them up onto the cosmic superhero stage, robbing them of all the emotion they had by showing us they were nothing more than a means to an end all along. Kyle's mother died not because people simply die; no, she died because Sinestro needed something to push Kyle over the edge with! In that respect, even Hal's descent into evil as Parallax was superior to this. At least there, Hank Henshaw and Mongul destroyed Coast City for an entirely unrelated purpose and Hal wound up as Parallax through his own, honest-to-God grief, not some manufactured grief from a villain's ploy. Given how Kyle becomes Parallax, the whole thing strikes me as a petty, "my GL is better than your GL" move from Johns since, as BW also noted, all of the GLs were doing just fine and all the fans could be happy with their respective choice of GL. Green Lantern's comic was crappy enough to appeal to Hal fans' poor taste, Green Lantern Corps was kicking ass on all cylinders and endearing Guy and Kilowog to a whole new batch of readers, and Kyle's status had risen to virtual regality among the Corps.

Whew. Okay, all of the Kyle-as-Parallax stuff aside, I actually did enjoy the rest of The Sinestro Corps Special. It mirrored Rebirth in the sense that all of the Corps-related GLs got their chance to shine. Some minor parts of it confused me--for example, John Stewart utterly vaporizes the Sinestro Corps sniper, even though Sinestro himself later reminds us that the GLs' rings are prohibited from dealing lethal force unless the Guardians enable them to. Also, the rings of fallen GLs only refer to them by sector number, but GLs are now 2 to a sector and we've seen with Hal and Johns' rings that they're referred to as "(sector number).1 or .2," as in "2814.1" (Hal) and "2814.2" (John). That one's a bit of a nitpick, but it's just embarrassing that Johns screwed up something he himself set in place.

Other than those quibbles, though, I liked most of the stuff that happened. I like the Sinestro Corps' setup, with the Monitor basically acting as the Guardians and what looks like it's going to be Hank Henshaw in control of a Manhunter arm of the Corps and Sinestro in control of the main ring-slinging Corpsmen. I continue to hate Superboy Prime with unparalleled furor and hope to ignore him as much as possible for the duration of this crossover, though I know it'll be difficult since he seems to be the SC's counterpart to Kyle's Torchbearer status in the GLC. But if I can read Countdown in spite of Jason Todd, I'm sure I can make my way through the Sinestro Corps crossover in spite of SBP.

I'm looking forward to the next issues in the crossover--particularly the Gibbons-scripted ones, since Gibbons has proven himself a far better GL writer than Johns over the last year--and I'm even looking forward to Kyle's further exploits as Parallax. The Parallax thing, while a spectacular display of horrible writing on Johns' part, is still kind of cool to see because 1) I know Kyle will survive it and wind up back on the side of the angels in just a few months, and 2) experience with Hal has taught me that Johns or someone else'll just wipe away any bad things Kyle does as Parallax with convenient retcons or other crappy storytelling devices.

 

[Darthphere]

Did anyone notice the error (at least i think it was)?

Spoiler

After Logan stabs Hulk in the back. Hulk faces off with the grown up Xteam and the fight is stopped by Prof X before it gets going. Then Prof enters his mind and sees why Hulk is so mad. Then we are back to Hulk and Prof X standing there talking in the real world and in the background Logan and Emma are getting off the ground like they just got beat up. But there wasn't a fight, why were they on the ground?

Did I miss something?

Sex

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Did anyone notice the error (at least i think it was)?

Spoiler

After Logan stabs Hulk in the back. Hulk faces off with the grown up Xteam and the fight is stopped by Prof X before it gets going. Then Prof enters his mind and sees why Hulk is so mad. Then we are back to Hulk and Prof X standing there talking in the real world and in the background Logan and Emma are getting off the ground like they just got beat up. But there wasn't a fight, why were they on the ground?

Did I miss something?

Yes. You missed the fact that Beast is also on the ground and Professor X himself is staggered and barely on his feet. I'm pretty sure the crap Professor X pulled from the Hulk's mind and fed to everyone else's mind was so emotionally charged or whatever that it bowled them all over. I imagine it would've been like getting hit with the worst migraine of your life all at once.

Incidentally, the Hulk's handling of the New X-Men's Thing wannabe was hilarious. I'm really starting to love the WWH Hulk.

 

[venom62]

Yes. You missed the fact that Beast is also on the ground and Professor X himself is staggered and barely on his feet. I'm pretty sure the crap Professor X pulled from the Hulk's mind and fed to everyone else's mind was so emotionally charged or whatever that it bowled them all over. I imagine it would've been like getting hit with the worst migraine of your life all at once.

Incidentally, the Hulk's handling of the New X-Men's Thing wannabe was hilarious. I'm really starting to love the WWH Hulk.

You're probably right.
I thought of that too, but the beast got knocked down during the fight. He was on the deck warning the kids to run for their lives when the older Xmen showed up.

I'm loving the tude of Hulk too man.

The only thing about this book is that we know the Hulk is headed back to NYC within 24 hours. Unless he leaves, then comes back he's due to fight Iron Man in the main title.

 

[fifthfiend]

Incidentally, the Hulk's handling of the New X-Men's Thing wannabe was hilarious. I'm really starting to love the WWH Hulk.

I think where WWH stands apart from all previous Hulk-centric efforts is this is the first time the Hulk gets to have all the good lines.

...I do wish they'd cool it a bit on the "HULK'S FAMILY GOT KILLERED, HE'S FNURKING ANGRY!!!" that they repeat every like three panels of every WWH comic, it's like okay we get it now have the Hulk rip some other dude's arms off.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

Did anyone notice the error (at least i think it was)?

Spoiler

After Logan stabs Hulk in the back. Hulk faces off with the grown up Xteam and the fight is stopped by Prof X before it gets going. Then Prof enters his mind and sees why Hulk is so mad. Then we are back to Hulk and Prof X standing there talking in the real world and in the background Logan and Emma are getting off the ground like they just got beat up. But there wasn't a fight, why were they on the ground?

Did I miss something?

Hahaha, I just looked. Didn't notice that.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

Incidentally, the Hulk's handling of the New X-Men's Thing wannabe was hilarious.

But now Santo is gonna be running his mouth about how he fought the Hulk

 

[TheCorpulent1]

That's cool, I don't read New X-Men. I didn't even know Thing wannabe's name was Santo.

I think where WWH stands apart from all previous Hulk-centric efforts is this is the first time the Hulk gets to have all the good lines.

...I do wish they'd cool it a bit on the "HULK'S FAMILY GOT KILLERED, HE'S FNURKING ANGRY!!!" that they repeat every like three panels of every WWH comic, it's like okay we get it now have the Hulk rip some other dude's arms off.

It'll probably die down in the coming months. Remember, all of the WWH comics coming out this month are basically covering the same 24 hours right after the Hulk comes back to Earth from different angles. The revelation about the Hulk's family is still new to everyone at this point.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

I'm still waiting for Rockslide to meet Thing. Hulkling needs to introduce himself to Bruce too..if he ever gets written again

 

[Max J Power]

X-Men #200
This is my favorite book I got this week. It's great to see Gambit and Sunfire back, and the circumstances of their return are intriguing. The book's end is equally intriguing. The Endangered Species back-up story is interesting too. The only negative thing about this issue is the art. I'm not big on Chris Bachalo, but I tolerate and sometimes kind of like his art. I don't Humberto Ramos though. I think his characters are too cartoonish-looking for this series. I would still highly recommend reading it.

Daredevil #98
I started collecting Daredevil at the beginning of this arc, and I am not disappointed in the slightest. The writing is great, the mystery is coming along well, and the art is perfect for the book. There's really not a lot else to say.

Ultimate X-Men #83
I'm actually dropping this book because the public library buys all the trades when they come out, but it's still worth picking up monthly. This issue is more set-up for the next arc, but it's pretty good. Bishop's new team is the best of the several ongoing plots. While I like the writing in this book, the current art is another story. I had never heard of Pascal Alixe before this arc, but I don't like what I'm seeing. The faces look weird and some of the women look like men. I don't know if the art is bad or if it's just wrong for the book, but either way it has to go.

Cable & Deadpool #42
I'm dropping this book to read X-Men monthly. This isn't one of its better issues. What Cable is doing is the same as in X-Men #200, even down to some of the dialogue. Deadpool's story is good, but nothing that hasn't been seen before. This arc might not be the series' best, but the upcoming arc looks promising.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I'm still waiting for Rockslide to meet Thing. Hulkling needs to introduce himself to Bruce too..if he ever gets written again

Yeah, seeing Hulkling run across the Hulk would be nice. I really hate Heinberg.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

Ultimate X-Men #83
I'm actually dropping this book because the public library buys all the trades when they come out, but it's still worth picking up monthly. This issue is more set-up for the next arc, but it's pretty good. Bishop's new team is the best of the several ongoing plots. While I like the writing in this book, the current art is another story. I had never heard of Pascal Alixe before this arc, but I don't like what I'm seeing. The faces look weird and some of the women look like men. I don't know if the art is bad or if it's just wrong for the book, but either way it has to go.

Yeah, it was pretty damn bad. Hope that guy never gets work again.

Cable & Deadpool #42
I'm dropping this book to read X-Men monthly. This isn't one of its better issues. What Cable is doing is the same as in X-Men #200, even down to some of the dialogue. Deadpool's story is good, but nothing that hasn't been seen before. This arc might not be the series' best, but the upcoming arc looks promising.

It was telling the same "story" but from a much diff perspective. Cable just got beat up in X-Men 200, but in C&D you realize what he was doing the whole time.

 

[Spidey Rules 2]

Sinestro Special:
Since I heard from the previous posters that it was so good, I saved it for last. It was great. One question though, what does the Star Saphire have to do with any of this? What side wil she be on...or does it matter?

Black Panther
I was ready to drop this book until I saw the cover. I loved Marvel Zombies and I'm enjoying this one very much. I loved the zombies reaction to Spiderman hitting the force field. I hadn't laughed at a comic book in quite a while.

 

[hippie_hunter]

Sinestro Special:
Since I heard from the previous posters that it was so good, I saved it for last. It was great. One question though, what does the Star Saphire have to do with any of this? What side wil she be on...or does it matter?

Based on the recent issues of Green Lantern, it appears that the Zamarons will form the Star Sapphire Corps in reaction to both the Green Lantern and Sinestro Corps. What their role will be is so far unknown.