Power Man & Iron Fist: fathers of biracial children for hire

onefinemess | June 30, 2009

& 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 [...]

Astonishing X-Men: Ghost Boxes 2

onefinemess | December 11, 2008

was mean spirited crap.
Certainly not worth buying.  Well, for the story anyway.  The art was gorgeous though.
I’m guessing these little “tales” are just meant to show us how badass the big bads are by showing all the alternate realities where the X-Men fail (it was hard to make sense of how the Cyclops story isn’t [...]

Astonishing X-Men – Ghost Boxes

onefinemess | October 30, 2008

Not worth buying IMHO.
I just can’t do the million ltd series anymore…I pretty much just get the one “event” book of the year and that’s it.  This was well written I guess but…what’s the point?  We already know what parallel worlds are like, invasions from them are nothing new.  This was just a build up [...]

Astonishing X-Men 27

onefinemess | October 15, 2008

was pretty good, although I found Bianchi’s pencils less impressive than before – figures seemed more..gaunt/gutteral, something like that I guess.
Except for the bit about drilling in how common ghost boxes are, the story was pretty good. I love the “Chinese X-Men” thing, and find it pretty sad/funny in the sense that they all lost [...]

02/07/08 – I forgot Astonishing last week

onefinemess | February 6, 2008

Astonishing X-Men 24
that is. What should have been the final issue of Whedon’s run (and this volume apparently) has been stretched out into Giant Size #1 due out in what, June? Meh. Since they are restarting the numbering, they should have just called the giant size #25 and been done with [...]