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After a several-week drought of comics I didn't care about, this week was love.
Daredevil #100 is awesome -- yes, the whole issue is mostly an excuse for gratuitous Matt torture and pretty art, but you can never have too much Matt torture, and the art was very pretty indeed, especially the sequence with Jack Murdock in the boxing ring. The Milla plot didn't completely drop out of sight, though; we got a nice bit with Foggy trying (unsuccessfully) to prevent her from being arrested.
Ms. Marvel has now been added to the list of title I must get each month, thanks to the continuing presence of Aaron Stack's sexy robot body (containing many useful devices!). Also, this issue featured cameos by Tigra and Silverclaw, and anything with Silverclaw is made of win.
Heroes for Hire, which I bought solely because of the tentapr0n cover, was also fun, since it contained the requisate slashy vibes between Colleen and Misty, evil brood insect people, and a surprisingly good subplot with Shang Chi, who's actually starting to have a personality underneath his blatant eye-candy exterior.
Punisher War Journal was... astonishingly good. I flipped through it in the comic store solely because it had Winter Soldier in it, and got plunked down right in the middle of a really interesting plot involving SHIELD, terrorists, and an evil psychologist (what is up with all the evil psychologists in Marvel these days?). In adition to a nicely done Frank and Bucky sequence (they got into a fist-fight, Frank handed over the ugly Cap-style costume, and he gave Bucky the keys to a dropbox containing Steve's mask. For a moment, they almost bonded, in a borderline-sociopath kind of way), there was a bonus Tony cameo, in which Tony was gratifyingly in-character and non-evil. I found myself really liking the older, Fury-loyalist SHIELD agent he was arguing with, too.
Thor #3 was every bit as wonderful as I'm coming to expect from this title. Thor goes to New Orleans (cue angst about how he would have been able to stop Katrina if he hadn't been dead), where he gets into a knock-down, drag-out fight with Tony, who shows up to ask him to register. Thor naturally, refuses, and proceeds to beat Tony up for stealing his DNA and using it to make an evil clone. Olivier Coipel does some of the best art on Tony I've seen since Zircher left Iron Man (the colorist made his eyes brown instead of blue, but that wasn't Coipel's fault). I can't decide whether my favorite bit was Tony kneeling in the rain, helmetless and huddled in on himself, as Thor walked away, or Tony back in his office all bruised up and wearing one of his signature "I am miserable" sweaters. After getting the snot beaten out of him, Tony offers Thor a truce (saying Valhalla can be declared the equivalent of an international embassy, and therefore not US soil), and walks away. Thor then discovers Heimdall (also hidden in a mortal guise), and they have a really nicely done talk in the middle of a bridge, about Ragnarok and Valhalla and how the gods' pain is too much for mortals to bear. One Asgardian down, several more to go.
New Avengers 34 was filler, but we nevertheless learned several important things: 1) Leinil Yu still can't draw. WTF is up with the weird, red lines he does around people's eyes? 2) No one on the NA is a skrull, not even Jessica Jones or the baby, or Peter (despite his suggestion that he might be "a sleeper skrull" and that if someone "says a skrull word, like 'mxyptlk,'" he might "go all skrully"). 3) Dr. Strange is cheating on Wong with the Night Nurse, because he is a whore (though, as he points out in the issue, a whore with a really cool floating cape). 4) The Jones-Cage baby is named Danielle, after Danny Rand, because Luke and Jess wanted to make sure Danny knew he was "part of their family" and that they both loved himbecause they're totally a threesome. 5) There are a zillion symbiote-infected Venom clones crawling all over New York because Bendis is trying to kill time until Cap comes back and he can start his skrull war thingy.
Daredevil #100 is awesome -- yes, the whole issue is mostly an excuse for gratuitous Matt torture and pretty art, but you can never have too much Matt torture, and the art was very pretty indeed, especially the sequence with Jack Murdock in the boxing ring. The Milla plot didn't completely drop out of sight, though; we got a nice bit with Foggy trying (unsuccessfully) to prevent her from being arrested.
Ms. Marvel has now been added to the list of title I must get each month, thanks to the continuing presence of Aaron Stack's sexy robot body (containing many useful devices!). Also, this issue featured cameos by Tigra and Silverclaw, and anything with Silverclaw is made of win.
Heroes for Hire, which I bought solely because of the tentapr0n cover, was also fun, since it contained the requisate slashy vibes between Colleen and Misty, evil brood insect people, and a surprisingly good subplot with Shang Chi, who's actually starting to have a personality underneath his blatant eye-candy exterior.
Punisher War Journal was... astonishingly good. I flipped through it in the comic store solely because it had Winter Soldier in it, and got plunked down right in the middle of a really interesting plot involving SHIELD, terrorists, and an evil psychologist (what is up with all the evil psychologists in Marvel these days?). In adition to a nicely done Frank and Bucky sequence (they got into a fist-fight, Frank handed over the ugly Cap-style costume, and he gave Bucky the keys to a dropbox containing Steve's mask. For a moment, they almost bonded, in a borderline-sociopath kind of way), there was a bonus Tony cameo, in which Tony was gratifyingly in-character and non-evil. I found myself really liking the older, Fury-loyalist SHIELD agent he was arguing with, too.
Thor #3 was every bit as wonderful as I'm coming to expect from this title. Thor goes to New Orleans (cue angst about how he would have been able to stop Katrina if he hadn't been dead), where he gets into a knock-down, drag-out fight with Tony, who shows up to ask him to register. Thor naturally, refuses, and proceeds to beat Tony up for stealing his DNA and using it to make an evil clone. Olivier Coipel does some of the best art on Tony I've seen since Zircher left Iron Man (the colorist made his eyes brown instead of blue, but that wasn't Coipel's fault). I can't decide whether my favorite bit was Tony kneeling in the rain, helmetless and huddled in on himself, as Thor walked away, or Tony back in his office all bruised up and wearing one of his signature "I am miserable" sweaters. After getting the snot beaten out of him, Tony offers Thor a truce (saying Valhalla can be declared the equivalent of an international embassy, and therefore not US soil), and walks away. Thor then discovers Heimdall (also hidden in a mortal guise), and they have a really nicely done talk in the middle of a bridge, about Ragnarok and Valhalla and how the gods' pain is too much for mortals to bear. One Asgardian down, several more to go.
New Avengers 34 was filler, but we nevertheless learned several important things: 1) Leinil Yu still can't draw. WTF is up with the weird, red lines he does around people's eyes? 2) No one on the NA is a skrull, not even Jessica Jones or the baby, or Peter (despite his suggestion that he might be "a sleeper skrull" and that if someone "says a skrull word, like 'mxyptlk,'" he might "go all skrully"). 3) Dr. Strange is cheating on Wong with the Night Nurse, because he is a whore (though, as he points out in the issue, a whore with a really cool floating cape). 4) The Jones-Cage baby is named Danielle, after Danny Rand, because Luke and Jess wanted to make sure Danny knew he was "part of their family" and that they both loved him
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