[spoilers] Bought and Thoughts November 18th, 2009

[Fake Pat]

Originally Posted by cmoney

Good enough. I didn't really expect they'd make much mention of ARMOR etc. anyways, but at least it sounds like it doesn't outright contradict.

I read MZ 3 and 4, and nothing felt off to me.

[antithesis]

Spider-Woman #3: Loved the story, and the art was fucking fantastic. I don't swear for no reason very often, so consider it an extension of the compliment.

Dark Reign: Spider-Man: The List (whichever order it's supposed to go in): I really enjoyed this one. Can't wait to see how this plays out in Siege, if it does. I assume it won't affect the main title so much with the Gauntlet.

Dark Avengers #11: Love to see character development with Hand. Horn's art was gorgeous (not that it ever isn't!), and I hope Hand has something up her sleeve here.

[Dave0923]

Flash Rebirth #5 was worth the wait a million times over. An issue made for any Flash fan, and an issue that's ending sent chills up my spine.

Amazing Spiderman #512 getting back on the Amazing Spiderman title, and man what a perfect time. Mark Waid really impressed me with his really fascinating story and fascinating take on Electro, and Paul Azaceta's artwork was great reminded me of the Ditko take on Spidey.

Brave and the Bold #29 JMS and Jesus Saiz are kicking ass and taking names with this book. Another fantastic one shot story with astonishingly poignant moments, and shockingly enough made me love The Geek.

Invincible #68 I love this title. Robert Kirkman writes a tremendously relatable and fun super hero comic, and Ryan Ottley beautifully draws it. This issue had a fantastic story, brilliant cliff hanger, and left me wanting to punch a specific character square in the face.

Red Robin #6 Chris Yost is continuing to write a really solid book, and Marcus To coming on the book gives it a really great look. Yost really taps into Tim Drake's character and takes him to the logical next step in his development, writes some very interesting stuff with the League of Assassins, and I really think Marcus To is the next big thing at DC.

[Spidey616]

Dark Avengers #11
Great Horn art, some nice backstory on Victoria Hand, and Molecule Man shows he's not to be mess with!

Punisher #11
Gorgeous Tony Moore art and based though it's early to tell I think I'm going to like where Remender is taking FRANKEN-CASTLE

Spider-Woman #3
Bendis/Maleev/Jessica Drew/Viper 'nuff said

Mighty Avengers #31
Nice conclusion to the Unspoken storyline. Not my favorite issue of the past year of MA stories, but solid for the most part.

Dark Reign: The List - Amazing Spider-Man #1
Now this was a great solid Spidey story. Great action, Kubert art, Spidey jokes, can't wait until Slott's next ASM issues in January.

[Dreg]

Flash Rebirth #5: Like Wally's new costume, but still not feeling the story. So far, it's been explained why Barry is supposed to be awesome and also why he's been behaving differently than his Silver Age incarnation, but a lot of things still need explaining. Like why the other Flashes are important at all, when Barry can apparently create new speedsters that share his sense of justice just by running fast enough.

[Jef UK]

Frankencastle was a trip. Remender and Moore are fucking committing. Haha.

Remender's Last Days of American Crime looks AMAZING. Did everybody else get the free preview today?

[augie680]

Did anyone read Adventure Comics 4? I read it and WOW is the Superboy-Prime stuff dumb. Johns is trying to be all Meta with it, and it's just not working. It felt like such a forced story, interrupting the normal AC stuff for no real point. One of the worst ideas I've seen in awhile, just ugh.

I think at one point, when Prime was in the Lantern jail after IC he had the potential to be a really cool villain, but since then, with Countdown, Legion of Three Worlds, and now this, they've made him into a bad joke. He needs to be retired for awhile, it's really awful stuff they're doing with him.

[BronxRonin]

Originally Posted by augie680

Did anyone read Adventure Comics 4? I read it and WOW is the Superboy-Prime stuff dumb. Johns is trying to be all Meta with it, and it's just not working. It felt like such a forced story, interrupting the normal AC stuff for no real point. One of the worst ideas I've seen in awhile, just ugh.

I think at one point, when Prime was in the Lantern jail after IC he had the potential to be a really cool villain, but since then, with Countdown, Legion of Three Worlds, and now this, they've made him into a bad joke. He needs to be retired for awhile, it's really awful stuff they're doing with him.

Yep.

[twigglet]

Originally Posted by augie680

Did anyone read Adventure Comics 4? I read it and WOW is the Superboy-Prime stuff dumb. Johns is trying to be all Meta with it, and it's just not working. It felt like such a forced story, interrupting the normal AC stuff for no real point. One of the worst ideas I've seen in awhile, just ugh.

I think at one point, when Prime was in the Lantern jail after IC he had the potential to be a really cool villain, but since then, with Countdown, Legion of Three Worlds, and now this, they've made him into a bad joke. He needs to be retired for awhile, it's really awful stuff they're doing with him.

It was absolutely horrific, the idea could have been done well, but it's just hit over your head and lacks and subtlety. Really bad I thought.

[Fake Pat]

Originally Posted by twigglet

It was absolutely horrific, the idea could have been done well, but it's just hit over your head and lacks and subtlety. Really bad I thought.

That's what Johns does.