Power Man & Iron Fist: fathers of biracial children for hire
& other assorted comics chatter:
Iron Fist 27: Yes, Danny Rand/Iron Fist will also be a father soon, following in his perennial buddy, Luke Cage/Power Man’s footsteps. Also of note, and implied by my goofy title, is that the mother of said child (and soon to be wife of Danny) is Misty Knight. Now. This is comics. So her or the baby could go kaput or turn into an alien at any time, for no good reason BUT, luckily no one else seems to care about writing Misty at the moment – so I think they are safe!
Also, this was the final issue of Immortal Fist. Such a shame, it’s been a great series so far and deserved more than it got (much like Captain Britain & MI13).
X-Factor 45: Answers a question asked by only the most diligent fanfolk (ok, that’s still a lot): were Rictor and Shatterstar together? Beyond that, the ongoing arcs continue in interesting ways, and things start to come together.
Astonishing X-Men 30: Something happened here. Forge “died” I think, in a really strange and silly ending that I don’t think anyone saw coming to a story that started looking like something out of 90s Claremont’s and wound up 90s Ennis. Not bad, but not particularly good, and I think Ellis can do better.
Apparently the entire point of Avengers-Invanders was to resurrect Toro, who no one cares about. Or the original Human Torch, one of them. DUMB. Leading into the new Human Torch mini coming out later this year I’m sure. The ending was rather horrid – but how else are you going to end a story where the bad guy is omnipotent?
Whatever the current Messiah Mini Event is finally ended a recent issue of X-Force or Cable. It was actually decent, except that in the end it didn’t mean anything. Except that Dom killed Kiden in the future. That’s basically it. Fun. Curious to see how X-F will pick up the pieces of Boom-Boom now though. Shame, she was wonderful with the right writers. Go NEXTWAVE!
A bunch of Dark Reign minis came out. They’re all pretty stupid. The Lethal Legion thing may stir up some interest with the Wonder Man in jail angle though… that last panel was a little creepy.
Daken has taken over Wolverine‘s title, which is good because there was too damn much of one Wolverine – thankfully now we have 3 separate Wolverine’s to spread around. !?
Now Wolverine’s “main” book is the Weapon X one – doing stuff that would have been in the normal Wolverine book so uh, whatever. !?
Guardians of the Galaxy 15 was good and ended pretty much the only way it could (on the War of Kings angle), although still somewhat surprisingly. And I hear the “old” Guardians are returning… that actually makes me very vary. I think I’ll drop the book if it becomes about them. Their time is over. Vance I can take, but the others… meh, they work in the future, not in the past. For me anyway.
I skimmed through Transformers: All Hail Megatron – it seems pretty decently written, if you’ve got a Transformers itch that the movie just didn’t scratch (which is understandable, as it was mostly trying to scratch your scrotum).
& other assorted comics chatter:
Iron Fist 27: Yes, Danny Rand/Iron Fist will also be a father soon, following in his perennial buddy, Luke Cage/Power
Man’s footsteps. Also of note, and implied by my goofy title, is that the mother of said child (and soon to be wife
of Danny) is Misty Knight. Now. This is comics. So her or the baby could go kaput or turn into an alien at any
time, for no good reason BUT, luckily no one else seems to care about her at the moment – so I think she’s safe!
Also, this was the final issue of Immortal Fist. Such a shame, it’s been a great series so far and deserved more than
it got (much like Captain Britain & MI13).
X-Factor 45: Answers a question asked by only the most diligent fanfolk (ok, that’s still a lot): were Rictor and
Shatterstar together? Beyond that, the ongoing arcs continue in interesting ways, and things start to come together.
Astonishing X-Men 30: Something happened here. Forge “died” I think, in a really strange and silly ending that I
don’t think anyone saw coming to a story that started looking like something out of 90s Claremont’s and wound up 90s
Ennis. Not bad, but not particularly good, and I think Ellis can do better.
Apparently the entire point of Avengers-Invanders was to resurrect Toro. Or the original Human Torch, one of them.
DUMB. Leading into the new Human Torch mini coming out later this year I’m sure. The ending was rather horrid – but
how else are you going to end a story where the bad guy is omnipotent?
Whatever the current Messiah Mini Event is finally ended a recent issue of X-Force or Cable. It was actually decent,
except that in the end it didn’t mean anything. Except that Dom killed Kiden in the future. That’s basically it.
Fun. Curious to see how X-F will pick up the pieces of Boom-Boom now though. Shame, she was wonderful with the right
writers. Go NEXTWAVE!
A bunch of Dark Reign minis came out. They’re all pretty stupid. The Lethal Legion thing may stir up some interest
with the Wonder Man in jail angle though… that last panel was a little creepy.
Daken has taken over Wolverine’s title, which is good because there was too damn much of one Wolverine – thankfully
now we have 3 separate Wolverine’s to spread around. !?
Now Wolverine’s “main” book is the Weapon X one – doing stuff that would have been in the normal Wolverine book so uh,
whatever. !?
Guardians of the Galaxy 15 was good and ended pretty much the only way it could (on the War of Kings angle), although
still somewhat surprisingly. And I hear the “old” Guardians are returning… that actually makes me very vary. I
think I’ll drop the book if it becomes about them. Their time is over. Vance I can take, but the others… meh, they
work in the future, not in the past. For me anyway.
I skimmed through Transformers: All Hail Megatron – it seems pretty decently written, if you’ve got a Transformers
itch that the movie just didn’t scratch (which is understandable, as it was mostly trying to scratch your scrotum).
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