Archive for the ‘Avengers’ Category
Marvel sent a bunch of sneak peeks to Major Spoilers, and in this installment it’s Mighty Avengers #31 by Dan Slott and Christos Gage.
Or – “When Venom Is The Voice Of Reason, Something Is Very, Very Wrong…”
“Wait, we’ve been bought out by WHO?”
Or would that be whom? I can never remember. But, man, the Dark Avengers certainly look surprised to see something, don’t they?
Or – “Hey, Vent! You Ready To Move Out?”
When you read monthly comic books the way that I do, often times you get to the point where you feel like you know what’s coming, when every title feels like you’ve read it before. On the other hand, you have the odd experience where you read a title or issues that you KNOW you’ve read before, but you cannot for the life of you remember how it’s supposed to end. With over a hundred monthly titles coming out, sometimes you need to play catchup, you need to go where everybody knows your name to the land of the Rapid Fire Revieeeeewwww!
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Or – “How To Do A Crossover…”
Hey, look! It’s the much-awaited return of AVENGERS DOUBLE-FEATURE!!! For some months now, the Olympian known as Ares has remained unaware of the activities that his son has been engaging in with Nick Fury’s Secret Warriors. That situation is about to change, and the God of War is about to register his discontent with Nicholas J. Fury. Parent/Teacher conferences have never been this interesting…
Or – “A Question Of Degrees…”
So, there’s this giant super-menace in China, and the Young Avengers coming together to help Stature figure out what’s up with the Scarlet Witch, something with Jocasta and The Wasp sort of being a couple now, The Scarlet Witch having a secret, Quicksilver’s big lie, the USAgent being an emormous tool, and now Ronin has arrived… I wonder if “The Kitchen Sink” would make a good superhero codename?
Marvel announced that The List – Avengers sold out at the distributor level, and is heading back to press with a variant cover.
Eisner winning author Brian Michael Bendis and superstar artist Marko Djurdjevic deliver the first in a series of thrilling one-shots that will change the Marvel Universe forever! Clint Barton finally has enough of Osborn’s propaganda and breaks into Avengers Tower to murder him, but does he succeed? And just who is on Osborn’s hit list? This second printing variant also features a brand-new cover by Djurdjevic!
The second issue will arrive on stand on October 21, 2009.
Or – “More Colons Than Your Average Proctologist…”
One of the only missteps of the whole Dark Reign crossover, for me, has been the characterization of Clint Barton, the hero now known as Ronin. As Hawkeye, he was willing to leave his beloved wife over the implication that she even ALLOWED someone to die, much less committed murder, and now he’s willing to kill Norman Osborn to prove a point? It’s an odd change of characterization for me, which makes the whole thing questionable. What’s the Marvel equivalent of a Tom Welling Prime punch?
Or -”Want To Know How To Maximize Profitability?”
How about a cover featuring not ONE, but TWO Wolverine cameos, while simultaneously containing no Wolverine at all? It’s sort of like the state of having Tea and No Tea at the same time, causing the universe to implode… That’s deep, Ogre.
Or – “Most People Don’t Know That His Full Name Is Manuel Labór.”
So, I have completed my daily labors, overseeing the dozen fellers and gals what make up the current workgroup to call themselves Team RamRod (”See, you’re Arkot Ramathorn… Ram. And I’m Rodney Farva… Rod. Team RamRod!”) and I am preparing to have some spaghetti and hang out with friends, but first I wanted to catch up with some of the many titles that I’ve neglected over the busy last days of August…
RAPID-FIRE REVIEW TIME!
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Who’s looking forward to Marvel’s The List series? (Quiet you, it’s supposed to be a rhetorical question) It’s supposed to be a big component of Dark Reign, and it kicks off in Dark Reign: The List Part One: Avengers arriving in stores on September 9, 2009. Marvel sent Major Spoilers a sneak peek of the issue, that you can see after the jump.
Or – “Sir, I Protest! I Am NOT A Merry Man!!!”
Once again, we’ve come to the situation where Stately Spoilers Manor contains far more comics than there are days to review ‘em, leading once again unto the Final Frontier… NUQNEH – NOOKNEHH! Phasers on summarize!
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Or – “At What Point Did Cyclops Become Bad-A$$?”
So, there’s a war brewing in San Francisco, with the mutants on one side, and a cadre of “reformed” villains led by Norman Osborn on the other side, as well as a rogue faction in the form of Emma Frost’s Dark X-Men. Norman Osborn is counting on his position with the government to give him the edge he needs to put down Scott Summers and his people as easily as he put down Tony Stark and the Avengers. Of course, Tony Stark didn’t spend his entire teen and adult life as an outcast and an outlaw, and Tony Stark has seldom been the one with his back to the wall. (Tony Stark also doesn’t have big red eye-lasers comin’ outta his face, but, anyway… Bygones.)
Or – “We Hold These Comics To Be Self-Evident…”
Today is American Independence Day, commonly referred to as July 4th, as it takes place on the 4th of July, hence the name, and that’s why the song is called Alice’s Restaurant… To all the faithful Spoilerites of the United States, Happy 4th of July. For those of you who are from elsewhere, sorry about all the hegemony and stuff. Either way, it’s time for another bout of our Rapid Fire Reviews, bite-sized chunks of comics that I either couldn’t write three paragraphs about, or ran out of time to cover. Give us your tired, your poorly drawn, your huddled masses of comics, yearning to be bagged in mylar…
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It’s Wednesday, which means another roundup of rumors out of Tinsel Town. This week it’s all about Transformers, Iron Man, and Megan Fox. She’s a new Hollywood category now, right?
Or – “Off To Meet My Doom, Mom! See You After School!”
Comic book publishing schedules puzzle me. The Twelve hasn’t come out in what seems like a year, while Agents of Atlas is apparently on a bi-weekly status, and Spider-Man is coming out every sixteen minutes or so. Wolverine alone accounts for half the forests destroyed in the United States every month. The major publishers can’t seem to decide whether it’s a market for the celebrity auteur writer, or whether it’s the characters who sell the books regardless of creator. When Wolverine #73 came out a few weeks ago (before the publication of #72) it occurred to me that the entire industry is run by the pointy-haired boss from Dilbert, and that I should really just relax.
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