Thank God It’s Wednesday!!! This week we have an indie dog story, an alternate universe World War 2 tale, The ending of the last big X-FACTOR storyline, Vibe gets a visit from The Dark Knight and some new nuggets of info about Tony Stark’s beginnings are revealed.
Thank God It’s Wednesday!!! This week I take a gander at five books that represent a healthy cross section of comics from the Big Two (Marvel and DC), the Mid-Size One (Image) and a little indie book that caught my eye.
Thank God It’s Wednesday!!! It is on Hump Day that all the geeks and nerds across the lands venture to their local comic book stores or whip out their tablets and get to downloading all the new books for the week. Wednesday is the high holy day of the work week for those of us that like funny books and since I am very fond of my own opinion on things it is also the day that I will do quickie reviews of a couple of the new releases.
VIBRO
Real Name: Francis Vibereaux
Powers: Vibration blasts
Arch-Enemy: Iron Man
First Appearance: Iron Man #186 (1984)
Continue reading “Legion of The Lame (Iron Man Edition): Vibro”
The main villain in the upcoming third Iron Man movie is The Mandarin. Now I am sure that with a name like The Mandarin it automatically makes you think of casting Sir Ben Kingsley in the role, right? Who else would you even think of casting aside from Kingsley?
Continue reading “Iron Man 3, The Mandarin And Why This Instance of Color Blind Casting Irks Me”
With the pitiful choices provided us by the two reigning parties in this country, I see no other choice but to vote for the Mobile Organism Designed Only for Killing to be the 45th President of these United States of America.
Continue reading “Vote M.O.D.O.K. for President Today!”
Green Lantern Optimus Prime! Batman Transformer Armor! Wonder Woman’s Invisible Plane as a Transformer! Megatron vs Superman! Drawn by the phenomenal Phil Jiminez!
All of that awesomeness could have been in my grubby little hands except one of the braintrust running DC decided not to do it. To that person or persons I wish all manner of bad juju upon.
Unless of course they change their mind and re-greenlight this project. then I’ll be their bestest friend forever.
Click onward to see one of the coolest pieces of art you will ever see.
Continue reading “Who Is The Idiot That Put The Kibosh On The JLA/Transformers Crossover?”
AVENGERS #30
GRADE: D-
STORY BY: Brian Michael Bendis
ART BY: Walter Simonson
COVER BY: Leinil Yu
PUBLISHER: Marvel
SYNOPSIS:
Its date night with Hawkeye & Spider Woman! While doing battle with the enigmatic Mr. Negative to keep him from stealing some Hydra tech, Hawkeye and Spider Woman find the time to have couples counseling while thwarting Negative’s evil machinations.
MARIJUANAMAN
GRADE: C+
STORY BY: Joe Casey
ART BY: Jim Mahfood
COVER BY: Jim Mahfood
PUBLISHER: Image
SYNOPSIS:
Marijuanaman is a strange visitor from another world who uses the powers he is granted through marijuana smoke to defend the peaceful denizens of Exodus from the evil corporation called Pharma-Con in this comic written by Joe Casey (Gødland) with art by Jim Mahfood (Grrrl Scouts) and based on a title character that was created by Ziggy Marley (son of Bob).
THE TEN-EYED MAN
Real Name: Philip Reardon
Powers: 360 degree vision
Arch-Enemy: Batman
First Appearance: Batman #226 (1970)
THE ORB
Real Name: Drake Shannon
Powers: Laser helmet; laser gun
Arch-Enemy: Ghost Rider
First Appearance: Marvel Team-Up #15
Crustula 