random comic thoughts

onefinemess | June 15, 2009

Jeff Loeb really annoys me.
So there was the fiasco with Red Hulk (let’s call him “BullshitHulk” for short) doing some sort of idiotic shit with gravity in order to “hold” Thor’s hammer.  That was dumb.
Then evil murdering Magneto in Ultimate land can somehow just stroll around holding it?
OK, maybe his hammer is just a toy/false [...]

re: War of Kings #4 and other comic randomness

onefinemess | June 3, 2009

Ouch.
I actually wasn’t expecting that. It makes sense – no one really cares about her anymore I suppose.  But still. Well played.  Poor Gladiator.
What else?
Oh, Batman & Robin has lots of potential, in that wild Morrison & Quitely way.  I suspect it will be a great ride, and then collapse into itself when they move [...]

New Mutants #1

onefinemess | May 8, 2009

Is this volume 3 or volume 4? I forget.  Anyway, they’re back!  Yes, it is true – Marvel seems to be at an all-time high for # of x-books again.  The bloat is so bad I’m actually NOT buying as many as I am buying… I think.  Somewhere in there.
Anyway, so, was this any good?
Sort [...]

Greg Land strikes again!

onefinemess | April 30, 2009

W T F?
That’s Lady Deathstrike. With 8 claw penises piercing Wolvy from behind. Uh hu.  It looks like he might be kind of enjoying it though.
SERIOUSLY.  Does every face Greg Land traces have to come from porn??? Every single one?
And why is she straddling him?  She wouldn’t even have the leverage to dig her claws [...]

pullbox roundup

onefinemess | April 19, 2009

Uncanny X-Men 508: OK.  Now that it’s been “confirmed” that the Red Queen is, in fact, NOT actually Madelyn Pryor (just stolen & animated her corpse I guess) I’m more interested.  Maddie was played out.  Her corpse..not so much I guess.  Which means that cover I mentioned could actually be showing the Red Queen in [...]

X-Men: Kingbreaker #4

onefinemess | March 27, 2009

was some the shit yar.
AKA Starjammers v4.3 or so.
The thing with Havok and the star guy…CLASSIC.
Some major shake-ups, a direct lead in the no-I-won’t-link-it probably return of Jean Grey, good action scenes and another original Starjammer potentially dead (although I suspect he’ll return as some warped hybrid before too long).
Ch’od loses an arm in War [...]

Mighty Avengers 23

onefinemess | March 26, 2009

Was a step up & in the right direction.
I find it surprising that Hank can keep up with Tony’s flight speed, especially at micro-size.
Splitting the Young Avengers around (see Wiccan in NA 51) is interesting…curious if that will have any effect on their sporadic series.  I think I heard somewhere that the original writer was [...]

X-Infernus 4: what happens when editors write?

onefinemess | March 25, 2009

I totally get what he was trying to do here (get Illyana back for New Mutants v3) , but the execution was spotty at very best.  Not worth buying.
They let Pixie just fly off into Limbo then just fucking left her there???????  While making a speech to Illyana about not leaving people behind???
MMMMM KAY.
Srsly.  Who [...]

here we go again

onefinemess | March 24, 2009

It’s that time of the decade again:

You know, the one where “Phoenix” lives up to her name?
Or at least that’s how they’re soliciting it.  The fact that it’s so blatant makes me wonder/hope it’s a red herring.  Since it’s an arc involved Madelyne Pryor…could be something else.
We travel all these miles to get Scott & [...]

X-Factor 41

onefinemess | March 19, 2009

continues to kick ass.
Plot thread necro from the Madrox limited series!
Buy this book.