Bought/Thought-subs rule-Jan 24, 2007

[Kool-Aid]

So Mar-Vell is apperently the only one that can stop the Sentry if things ever go bad, thats kinda cool.

Thats what Hulk told Thing and Hulk kicked his ass in FF last year.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

I still think Luke Cage should be the one to bring Purple Man back to the raft.


What's that? The Raft? Remember that whole plot!?

 

[Eros]

I know USAgent is on the team, cause of something to do with Purple Man fleeing to Canadia

I dun follow flight that much, but don't you have to be canadian to join the team?

 

[Kevin]

I still think Luke Cage should be the one to bring Purple Man back to the raft.


What's that? The Raft? Remember that whole plot!?

The.... raft......? Wow, it's been so long, how many villians have they captured now. With CW, they all might be caught.

 

[Kool-Aid]

I dun follow flight that much, but don't you have to be canadian to join the team?

Well you have to be a C lister, but the C doesn't stand for Canadian.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

The.... raft......? Wow, it's been so long, how many villians have they captured now. With CW, they all might be caught.

I'd love an updated count.

 

[Zoken]

Here's a thought from the Return that doesn't assum Mar-Vell is a clone: How is he going to react to His son? You know, Hulkling?

 

[supermarvelman]

Thats what Hulk told Thing and Hulk kicked his ass in FF last year.

So thats a different story, thats like telling somebody not to do something, because it didnt work for you.

 

[supermarvelman]

I'd love an updated count.

Well some of them might have cut a deal with the government so , I dont think it matters anymore.

 

[Kevin]

I honestly don't care for the Hulking/Marvell reaction.

 

[supermarvelman]

Here's a thought from the Return that doesn't assum Mar-Vell is a clone: How is he going to react to His son? You know, Hulkling?

What about Genis?

 

[Zoken]

His son he never met, Hulkling. His half skrull son, Hulklin. His still on the Anti-Reg side son Hulkling.

 

[supermarvelman]

Well you have to be a C lister, but the C doesn't stand for Canadian.

Do you have to be American to be an Avenger? NO.

Traditionally yes Flight members have been Canucks, but I think thats a dumb rule, thats partly why Flight titles have failed in the past.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

Well some of them might have cut a deal with the government so , I dont think it matters anymore.

Great. So I bought that handbook about all the escaped prisoners for nuthin!

 

[supermarvelman]

I didn't know Absorbing Man could absorb powers too, I thought he could only absorb things like stone or water or glass, I know he's absorbed the proporties of Mjolnir, but that makes sense to me, **** he mimicked Sentry's power. Dont get me wrong, I like the idea that he can absord superhuman powers too.

 

[supermarvelman]

Great. So I bought that handbook about all the escaped prisoners for nuthin!

Not really.

 

[Zoken]

Do you have to be American to be an Avenger? NO.

Traditionally yes Flight members have been Canucks, but I think thats a dumb rule, thats partly why Flight titles have failed in the past.

Yeah, but Alpha Flight works for Department H don't they? And Aren't they Canada's ministry of defense?

meaning Alpha Flight literally works for Canada

 

[supermarvelman]

So what if they work for Canada, doesnt mean there mambers have to be canadian. Mighty Avengers work for the US government, they have an olympion god on there team and a former russian spy.

Plus this is Omega Flight, not Alpha.

 

[MaskedManJRK]

Moon Knight #7: F**k Civil War, f**k Silent War, f**k any other kind of war that has, is or will be coming out of Marvel soon. Moon Knight's the best 616 Marvel book out there. Period. Even though Spidey's appearence was kinda overhyped, for what of the two pages he was actually in it, but I don't care. This is definately the best CW crossover done so far, and I can't wait to see how the encounter with Cap's going to work out. Like Khonshu said, "This is going to be interesting..."

52: Tell me if I'm the only one who feels this way...am I the only one who really doesn't care much about most of the arcs here? I mean, at this point, I just read to see what happens to Renne/Charlie, the Lost in Space crew, and now Booster vs. Skeets. The rest I could give two tugs off a dead dog's c**k about--we pretty much know how most of them are ending, anyway.

The Return: While the time-travel thing did bother me, what really wierded me out was the other guy's responce. I mean, this is a respected superhero that they thought were dead. But, when he comes back, we don't see any hugs, or a "Dude! I thought you were dead!" or even a "Yo, bro, what's up?" They just go right into it and just say, "B***h, guard our s**t." Wow, and I thought they were pricks when they cloned Thor.

Punisher War Journal: Great issue, but...the whole first meeting with Cap kinda messes up continuity real bad. First off, I'm pretty sure Cap was still floating in an iceburg when Vietnam was happening, and second, I thought Frank in 616 never served in Vietnam? Maybe I've just been grossly misinformed, but I always thought it was said that Frank in 616 is 20-30 years younger than Frank in MAX, who clearly served in Vietnam.

 

[Xofenroht]

52: Tell me if I'm the only one who feels this way...am I the only one who really doesn't care much about most of the arcs here? I mean, at this point, I just read to see what happens to Renne/Charlie, the Lost in Space crew, and now Booster vs. Skeets. The rest I could give two tugs off a dead dog's c**k about--we pretty much know how most of them are ending, anyway.

52: I'm definitely less interested in Lex Luthor's "Everyman Project" or whatever it's called. The arc involving Magnus and these mad scientists on the island is kind of lackluster too, but both of them somehow manage to keep me slightly interested despite how little I look forward to them. So far I've just been trying to keep up with Black Adam, The Question (1 & 2) and Animal Man. That's the appeal of this maxi-series I guess. Plus I want to find out the significance of "52".

 

[BrianWilly]

Geez, what kind of world do we live in where Bart Allen gets laid this week and Connor Hawke doesn't?

52 Week 38
I don't care what anyone says, I'm really into the Renee and Question story right now. Sucks for his fans if he's going to die (although, the way they've been with deaths in this series, I'm not so sure that he's going to), but people are always whining about how legacy characters are rushed needlessly or nonsensically into their predecessor's roles, and here is a story told incredibly poignantly and smoothly and logically and skillfully about one lesbian Latina woman's path to take an existing superheroe's place and, well, I'm all about story being a priority. Well, I try to be. And I'm sure a big part of it is because I've never read anything with the current Question, anyway.

Four Horsemen are awesome incarnate. I'm glad Dr. Cale is showing a lot of reticence at this point, because I always thought it was a bit (read: a lot) out of character for her to consider herself on the lowly level of a mad scientist in the first place. Come to think of it, that seems to have nothing to do with why she's actually objecting in this issue, but hell I'll take whatever I can get.

Steel/Natasha/Everyman story comes along as well. Too bad for Nat, it looks like next issue she's gonna get herself some btchslappin'.

(8.9 out of 10)


Dr. Strange: The Oath #4
Awesome, as is to be expected. And I laughed my ass right off at "This is why I never joined the Avengers." Although my nerd rage FLAMES at the suggestion that the Doc can't fly without the Cloak of Levitation.

Minus a bit, also, for the needless exposition from Nicodermus or whatever that doctor's name is; it's not like we're ever going to see this guy again, and I just frankly don't need or care about his life story cluttering up pages and taking room from Strange being awesome.

And, y'know, at this point I'm really getting a bit worried that Vaughan doesn't remember Dr. Strange is married. The Night Nurse flirtations would probably read a lot better to someone who didn't know how hopelessly in love with each other Stephen and Clea are [supposed to be].

Oh yeah, also a bit worried about Wong. But if next month's solicits are any indication, we shouldn't be expecting a Wong II or She-Wong anytime soon.

It's been a great ride so far, can't wait to see how it ends.

(9 out of 10)


Connor Hawke: Dragon's Blood #3
When in doubt, add ninjas!

I'm really at the whole Connor going for Shado thing here. I was willing to give it a shot (LAWL) considering that covers are misleading and Dixon might be able to handle it better than I thought, but it was a purely classic scenario of plot leading the characters instead of characters leading the plot. Connor Hawke, the master of self-control and prude extraordinaire who turned down hot sex with strippers, nubile tenants, and Kyle Rayner (SHUT UP YOU FCKERS I CAN DREAM), can't help himself but to leap groin-first into the legs of the woman who he blames for his father's corruption and slept with his father?? Ew. And also, ew. Ah well, at least it was coitus interruptus.

Speaking of, I whined during the first issue about how unrealistic it is to be giving Connor a bunch of "WAHH MY DADDY SUX" emo issues, but it's coming across a bit more organically than I thought it would. It's true that Connor got over a lot of his unresolved issues with Ollie due to his coming back from the dead and all. But it's also true that, as time went by, things between them got more and more sour as Connor got more and more disapproving of Ollie's choices and character...cheating on Dinah, reckless endangerment of himself and his family, training as an assassin, etc etc. Connor said that he wanted to remove himself from Ollie 'cause he wanted to give his father some space to do his thing, but what does he really think? Dixon's just sort of taking that to its logical conclusion and, well, I'm a sucker for continuity falling into place, so I'm buying it.

And word up to the the blink-and-you'll-miss-it shot of Connor chopping an arrow in half out of mid-air near the end.

(7.3 out of 10)


X-Factor #15
Every time I find myself getting bored with what's going on (yeah, yeah, I know...but it's possible), this book manages to rein me back in like a cruel, unforgiving mistress.

Loved Monet and Teresa in France. PAD seems to have taken the weight of doing something socially-relevant with the X-Men after the ******edness of House of M upon himself...since no one else would, and who could blame 'em.

Jamie so often feels like a comic or at least a glib character, and this turn-for-the-sociopathic, while in character, threw me for a loop. I think that's a good thing. And, hell, who doesn't love the brain-visual of people literally getting crushed by constantly multiplying Multiple Man dupes?

(8.7 out of 10)


Checkmate #10
Rucka remains pure awesome. Who else can mix blood rituals to see into one's soul with international espionage and come out with pure awesome? No one, that's who. And Rucka even killed no one with his bare hands to stay on top of the competition.

I was worried when this series first came out because, traditionally, I have hated spy/government genres. Too much talking about nothing in particular and military people doing gruff, cigar-chewing military things and you just know that someone's gonna end up being corrupt and the whole thing goes belly-up and, well, it's never pretty and always feels out of place in a world of superheroes. This is pretty much the direct opposite of what Rucka's given us with Checkmate, and thank Buffy for him.

(9.5 out of 10)


Civil War: The Return
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA oh Christ what the hell is this.

(3.7 out of 10)


Flash: The Fastest Man Alive #8
This issue has about as much narrative cohesiveness as a crazed orangutan. That's the bad part. Bilson and Demeo obviously got the task of having to lead the story somewhere for Guggenheim to start off with, and as much as it is a hard and thankless and unenviable task, the fact remains that the story still goes all over the pace.

The good part is that, by the end of it, we finally are somewhere. Bart continuing his grandfather's footsteps as a forensic scientist for the police is not only pretty cool, it also makes assloads of sense. I don't know what I think of Guggenheim, though, so I may lay off for a bit before delving into his upcoming run.

At least lil' Bart got some.

(5.6 out of 10)


Silent War #1
...Ehhhhhhhhhhh.

I really like the way that the primary Inhumans were written. I'll say that.

But the utter dicktasticness of the "operatives," and the whole depiction of them as trigger-happy bullies that deserve to be treated as, wait for it, Inhuman...I don't just understand what we're supposed to be feeling, here. Are we supposed to feel sorry for them? Are we supposed to think they're mistreated? Are we supposed to root for the U.S.? Are we supposed to think this war is "morally ambiguous" and "complicated" and "not that black and white" or something? Because right now all I'm reading is "Two big bunches of prcks act like prcks." Neil Gaiman was hit it on the spot this week...if you saw two groups of children fighting each each other in the middle of a dirty sandlot, would you feel the inclination to "choose a side?" When everyone's just acting stupid and mean for the sake of acting stupid and mean, it just doesn't make for a very effective story. You just don't relate to anyone and you don't care how it all ends up except in the most visceral train-crash sort of way. It's the same mistake that Civil War made (amongst many).

And, for Buffy's sake, I'm really not in the mood right now for yet another thinly-veiled, heavy-handed, tactless political-commentary "event." Terrorists! Fanatics! Torturing prisoners! Rights violations! Blahdy blahdy blahdy enough already.

(6.2 out of 10)

 

[Red]

Dr. Strange: The Oath #4
Although my nerd rage FLAMES at the suggestion that the Doc can't fly without the Cloak of Levitation.

He cant.

 

[BrianWilly]

He can.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

A simple flying spell?

 

[Eros]

So what if they work for Canada, doesnt mean there mambers have to be canadian. Mighty Avengers work for the US government, they have an olympion god on there team and a former russian spy.

Plus this is Omega Flight, not Alpha.

I always assumed the canadian flights were canadian only teams, hence why the goverment created them.