COMICHEAD : WORLD WAR HULK 1 & 2

A crazy little HULK story titled "War World Hulk" gets the COMICHEAD treatment, the review is actually better than the original story.

Nuff said, enjoy!

COMICHEAD special edition: BATMAN vs BANE

In honor of the anticipated release of Chris Nolan's "Dark Knight Rises" this Friday, The good people at ComicHead review Batman # 497 chapter Eleven in the KnightFall series.

(disclaimer NSFW)

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PS: I love the NES pro wrestling King Slender reference.

COMICHEAD SPECIAL : OLD MAN LOGAN

This one is for my pals who haven't read main stream comics in a while, here's the COMICHEADS cliff notes on one of my favorite Marvel Stories in a long time, OLD MAN LOGAN written by Mark Millar and Illustrated by the talented Steve McNiven.

I highly recommend you pick this book up, but if you don't have time you can always get the funny ass COMICHEADS version of how it all went down.

A big thank you to Kevin Smith for hooking up Brian Faraldo with this gig, he is one funny dude.

SPOILERS AHEAD!!!

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COMIC HEADS : More Avengers X-Men and Spider-Man

Here's some more crazy ass comic reviews from COMIC HEADS :

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Comic Head #2 - Avengers vs X-Men #2

Here's a review of AvX #2 by Comic Head....enjoy.
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Comic Head #1 - Avengers vs X-Men #1

I found this whist trolling through the interwebs on my day off. Director, writer and podcaster Kevin Smith put together a youtube channel to go along with his Smodco internet radio network and on it he has this ComicHead comic book review by a fellow named Brian Faraldo,  who I thought was funny as shit (reminded me of my cousin) and just I wanted to share it with my content starved audience.

Here it is for your consumption, Enjoy.

(warning: salty language , may not be suitable for work, wee kids or those of you with week constitutions)

The sad state of Marvel comics part 1: The many faces of Wolverine.

Marvel comics has managed to put Wolverine in almost every single line of funny books that they make with a "Gotta Have more cowbell" zeal in an effort to whore out a "popular" character with the fanboys. This "milk the cow until it's dead" disregard for storytelling makes me wonder if anyone at Marvel is even trying anymore.

Allow me to give you a whiff of the monthly dung heap that they call continuity over at Marvel right now.

(yes all of this takes place in the same publishing month, if not week)

In the X-men books their having an event called Schism where Wolverine and Cyclops solve their philosophical differences by beating the crap out of each other and wind up splintering their little mutie cabal into Two separate factions.

Fine, but while this is going on we have Wolverine in this months X-Force traveling to an alternate universe and getting fried....

.....like chicken and in no condition to fight for the next issue of that book.

A nice Harvey Dent, but wait! he ain't licked yet!!

Mr. Logan is now a member of the Two Avengers teams now let's see whats doin' with this
fine character over in those teams...

Oh, it looks like they're having their own crossover called Fear itself where the Avengers are duking it out with evil Asgardians armed with enhanced weapons provided by Odin and here we have The Wolverine with his new prickly look courtesy of the allfather.

And in between all that he has a little downtime for a sparring lesson with the immortal Iron-Fist in The New Avengers.

The Wolverine even manages to find time to make a cameo in the Spider-man event Spider-Island where (I kid you not) Radioactive bed-bugs are giving people in NYC spider powers.

I know They're just comic books but if publishers want people to keep reading their books, there has to be at least an attempt to have the story make some kind of plausible sense.

Here's a little example of what I'm blathering about:

When Dick Grayson became Nightwing in the New Teen Titans, Chuck Dixon over at Detective Comics had Grayson confront Batman about his decision, they argued, Dick handed in his resignation and left the Bat books for a long while.

If DC took today's Marvel approach to editing, Richard Grayson would be Robin, Nightwing, The Red Hood and Batman in 3 separate books.


I don't have all the answers and if you read my blog with any frequency you know that I am no wordsmith, but when you deal in the hyper fantasy world of superhero storytelling, it's important that in between the impossible abilities and epic battles there should be some semblance of an editorial plausibility that the gives a character...well character.

Otherwise Just write it into the story, make Wolverine immortal, give him the ability to clone himself, teleportaion, put him on every Marvel book and call if a day.

Super Fail #3 - Kitty loses her ghetto pass

I've changed the name of this ongoing experiment, it was intended to focus on the insane things that Professor Charles Xavier use to profess but now I noticed that it's the entire comics universe that has lost it's freaking mind.

Here we have a young mutant named Katherine Pryde who's had her share of bigotry and hate thrown her way for being born a mutant in the marvel universe ( and a Jewish one at that ) you would think this would make the character a little sensitive to slang and taboo words being used at inappropriate moments (like when your surrounded by suspicious classmates looking to do some mutant bashing on campus)

So what does she do? Does she use her powers to escape? Does she summon the Xavier through that psychic rapport he shares with all his X-men?

No, she uses the N-word.



And by the look on Phil's face, he doesn't give a rats as is she is a mutant she's lost her ghetto pass for life.

If you haven't read Uncanny X-men # 196, it ends with Phil choking the shit out of Kitty Pryde and Wolverine having to beat him off her.

Super Fail #2 - Chuck hates on Scott

And we,re back with another one of the great professors note wothy moments.

When Professor X learns that his precious X-men may have died in Antarctica at the hands of Magneto ( issue # 114 ) what does he do?

He flies off into space for about #15 issues with his new girlie, Lilandra vacationing across the universe with his alien hottie.

During this time the X-men Save the savage land, defeat Proteus one of the most dangerous mutants alive that no one knew about (thanks for the heads up Chuck ) Save Japan, beat Alpha Flight and Arcade.

Finally good ole Chuck comes back ( issue # 129 ) I'm guessing Lilandra finally realized how annoying he was and just dumped him back on Earth.

Now the Professors back and all is well, until he begins taking out his inadequacies on the X-men.



Okay, we all agree the wolverine was a douche early on in Uncanny and probably deserved that, lets continue...



You're dogging your best student and leader of your team for taking care of business while you were away? Your a class act Charles.

Super Fail #1 - Chuck offers Scott the back of his hand.

As I re-read my uncanny X-men collection, I'm beginning to realize why humanity hated mutants.

it was all due to one man, Charles Francis Xavier, leader of the Uncanny X-men, foremost proponent of mutant rights and the grand daddy of all haters. I'm going share every instance I come across where I feel that Prof. X is being a prick and I'm inviting all of you for the ride.

Here's our precious first note worthy moment of good ole' Chuck using a couple of his many hidden mutant abilities: ultimate cock blocking & extreme douche baggery.

Uncanny X-men # 102 , Jean Grey saves the X-Men from an inescapable death after a space mission by volunteering to manually pilot their space shuttle in a cock pit with a big ass hole that destroyed it's radiation shielding back to Earth while Xavier's precious X-Men happen to be safe from the radiation in the shuttles shielded cargo hold, are helpless to do anything to help. Jean nearly dies saving the team, she's taken to the nearest hospital, The surviving X-men go on vacation to Ireland (wtf?) and Scott's at her side trying tomake sense of it all and this is when our "Hero" makes his entrance and tries to comfort his grieving field commander with these empathetic words:

(dick)

ONLY IN COMICS # 1

And we're back from our November hiatus and I want to focus on what's going on in the monthly books.

The this week we take a look at Deadpool Team up # 887 where the overexposed (he's in Six titles at the moment...and counting) merc with a mouth finds himself looting the fallen remains of Asgard where he runs into the Mighty Thor and we get a nice little don't ask don't tell moment in Three little panels.

enjoy.

From ONLY IN COMICS