Saturday, September 13, 2003

   Comics comics comics!!
Heh heh...got quite a haul this week...

Ultimate Spider-Man #43

This issue is a narraction from the POV of Shield Agent Carter, who was tracking Doc Ock last year. Apparently, shortly after Spidey put the hurt on the good doctor, another creature was released from the Hammer Genetic Testing Facility. Spider-Man, of course, saves the day.

Worst part: The Doc Ock story was a year ago...this is a good issue, but feels out of place.

Best Part: agent Carter's view on guys like Octavious and Osborn. Good stuff, and a logical viewpoint to take.


Spider-Girl #64

Part 4 of "Marked For Death", the sG version of "Hush"< is a bit of a breather after the all-action issue last time, but there's still plenty of stuff going down. A new crimelord is making his way to New York; meanwhile, May does'nt know what to dowhen one of her classmates is revealed as a mutant. As Spider-Girl, she's approached by the assassain Mister Nobody, who claims to be working for government special ops. now. He gives her info on Kaine, which she quickly makes use of.

Worst Part: This issue features the single most ugly panel in SG histroy....aside from that, it's all good...

Best Part: The last page. Mr. Nobody pwns you.

Transformers Universe: Abduction

A year after the events of "Beast Machines", a group of Autobots returns to Cybertron. Their homecoming is interrupted when several of the bots gathered are teleported to a nightmare world. Several prominent baddies oversee their capture, but most of them are robots that were already dead! The bad bots put their captives in a horrible Collisium called "The Pit", where they're made to fight to the death so that Unicorn can feed on their Sparks...eww...Meanwhile, on Cybertron, an unlikely champion emerges.

Worst Part: The art...what's wrong with these guys?! Obsidian, Rattrap and Tankor look nothing like they're supposed to. What's the deal?

Best Part: Obsidion's back! Yahoo! Now, if they'd just write him in character...oh, and bring back Inferno, Dinobot, Jetstorm, Thrust/Waspinator, Rampage, Nightscream, Botannica, Strika....


Spectacular Spider-Man #4

Spider-Man's wrestling with the Venom symbiote, who's still trying to posess him. With the help of the Fantastic Four, they et the bugger off, but the slimy critter escapes. Meanwhile, Eddie Brock is coming to terms with the fact that the symbiote no longer wants him. Spidey tracks him down, and Brock makes a rather unnerving announcement.

Worst Part: The drawing of the Thing...he don't look strong...just fat....

Best Part: the flash of the symbiote's memories that Peter recieves.


Eden's Trail #1-4

Early this year, Marvel published an anime mini-series with the inventive "Marvel-scope" format; the issues were elongated for art purposes. Thanks to the magic of the dollar bin, I picked up most of it.

On a dessert planet (Think Trigun), a youngf woman named Tila owns a prosperous bar. When a gang of thieves tries to rob her, an enegmatic stranger steps in to save her, but destroys the bar in the process.

This sets off huge series of events which I wish I could tell you all about...but apparently, it went on longer than four issues. Darn it, I thought I got them all!

It was a very enjoyable series with likeable characters; Il'l render a better synopsis when I read the whole thing.

Worst part: Untapped potential. All of the characters are unique and interesting postions, but not much detail is given to how they got there.

Best part: Aside from the amazing art, Id' have to say the characters. We've met Tila, Latch, Unit, Magpie, Pod, and the totally-insane Yune; all are unique, and each have shining moments. My fave scene is the opening of ish 2, where Magpie is about to be hanged. Priceless.


It was a *very* good week...

In other news...everyone else has a cool background thing going on with their sites...anyone know how to do that?
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