Robert
<—Bzzd is one of my favorite Lanterns (after Mogo).
I’m currently a pharmacy technician working at Walgreens and I’m working towards a degree in Environmental Studies. I love my 360, my DS and my Gamecube, but I barely have any time to play them. (Currently Playing but not really since I don’t have any time to play them: Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, Phoenix Wright, Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations, and Advance Wars: Days of Ruin).
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Who would've thought Daredevil could be this funny?
I just finished reading Daredevil: Man Without Fear #9: King of Hell’s Kitchen and there were some really great lines that just made me laugh.
(Daredevil talking to Foggy on the phone)
DD: I need you to bring me something to wear.
F: Something red?
DD: It’s red?
F: What?
DD: I thought it was yellow.
F: ...
DD: ...
F: Are you serious?
DD: No.
(After breaking down a wall to assult the Yakuza HQ in Hell’s Kitchen)
Spider-Man: Actually I’m just here to use the bathroom.
(Fighting Yakuza henchmen)
Henchman: D-Don’t hurt me!
Spider-Man: Damn Cage, you didn’t even raise a hand. You beat him up with a look.
Luke Cage: It’s my trademark.
Spider-Man: I gotta get a look.
(After Yakuza fight)
SM: If it’s any consolation, you pretty much solidified my belief in keeping my secret identity a secret, like, forever. Because man, I do not want to be you. No offense.
DD: I really did make a mess of things this time.
LC: And now you get to be Kingpin too.
DD: What a mess.
LC: Yeah, well now you have something to do.
SM: Well if you ever need help, and you know I mean this, call the X-Men! I have a hot wife at home. I so don’t need to be here.
Iron Fist: Does he have a hot wife?
LC: I thought he was gay.
IF: So did I.
LC: And you wear yellow booties.
IF: They were a present.
LC: From a guy.
IF: I’m leaving.
Such a good series.
Subscriptions are back!
I’m staggering my return a bit so this way I can start getting comics sooner. Within a couple weeks I’ll be able to start ordering again.
Everything is Paused or Deleted (Temporarily)
It’s happened to another one of us here at Heavy Ink. I’m still employed (thank goodness) it’s just I’ve hit a bad case of no money. So everything has been paused and deleted, but hopefully it’ll all be back in about a month.
Again, awesomeness
Why must I see things I shouldn’t spend money on?? (Of course, if I stopped buying comics for a single month I could afford this easily, but that’s crazy talk).
This is so awesome...
This is one of the coolest things I’ve seen and I want one so badly. Too bad it’s $260… I definitely don’t have that much money to spend on bookends, no matter how cool they are.
I has a quiz!
I decided to make a quiz! It’s the Marvel Villains one. I like how it turned out. Please take it multiple times to see the different results you can get. The results are my favorite part.
I also was pleasantly surprised by how the quiz creation system was set up. I knew nothing about it as I was going in and I found it to be very user friendly.
I just wanted to put something down here explaining how I made the quiz. I tried to make my quiz questions applicable to the format they are presented in. The format is the level of agree/disagree, so I tried to make sure that all of the answers and the villains that they were connected to made sense. For example: The statement “The clothes make the man” so on the scale of agree/disagree, the villains with cool costumes would be on the right and the ones with lame ones are on the left. The reason I did this is I don’t like Yes/No questions on a scale of 1 to 8. : )
Some options that would be cool to see in the future: The ability to work with the quizzes displayed on your profile page, like what order you want to display them in. Another thing is maybe the option for the quiz creator to go in and edit their quiz? (I’ve already found one small typo X_x)
So everyone please take my quiz! Pst! See if you can find the secret result!!
Issues Vs. Trades
I find myself being plagued by this decision for every series I buy. Do I want to buy the individual issues, or do I want to buy them when they come out in trades, or do I buy both? Both options have their pros and cons. Buying individual issues means I have reading material more frequently; but that also means that I finish reading it that much faster. I love trades because they usually have complete storylines, but then I have to wait a really long time to get them.
For which one I choose, I find it depends on: 1)How much I like the series 2)How fast the story moves along 3)How much I can stand cliffhangers 4)How patient I am
I only read The Walking Dead in its hardcover volume trades because otherwise the story would take way too long for me and the cliffhangers would be excruciatingly painful. The same for Invincible. I have to read it in the big hardcovers otherwise the story would move too slowly for me.
Most of the Ultimate titles I read the paperback trades because it works out well I think in that format. I couldn’t read Ultimate Spider-Man in the issue format because I would get way too impatient for the story to move along.
There are some titles that I have to read immediately. This includes Garth Ennis’s The Boys and Angel: After the Fall. The trades take way too long to come out for these series so in order to get my fix I get the individual issues as they come out. Of course, I then get the trade when it releases, to reread everything. If you stay in paperback format, it’s not that expensive to maintain this habit of buying the same comic twice in different formats.
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This issue reveils a lot in a very short amount of time. We finally get to see what happened on 9/11 in The Boys world and we finally get to see all of the original members of the Seven.
Anyone can write a scene with the team working together and have everything go right; it takes real talent to have one thing after another fail completely and show just how messed up this team is. We really get to look deeper into the characters of Homelander and Queen Maeve and see how their biggest failure affects them.
This was a tremendous issue. I really wish this title came out more often.
1 pts.
Before I read this issue, I was honestly considering deleting my subscription for this title. All the issues were good enough, but it never seemed like they were going anywhere.
Then I read this issue and for some reason it got me excited about Red Hulk again. His fight with Thor really put him in perspective of just how strong and powerful he is. And of course of how much of a dick Red Hulk is (which is the best part). This title is at a crossroads that could make or break this series for me. I think the big issue is Who is Red Hulk? Is it someone we already know or is it a new player? Either way is fine, as long as it’s done correctly. That’s the kicker. If his true identity is unveiled in a lame way, then it will just drag down all the cool stuff this series has accomplished.
1 pts.
Brian wrote on his blog that he’s confused. First people wanted the story to slow down, now they’re saying to speed it up. I have no idea who these people are and what is wrong with them. I think people were just spoiled by the first run of Atomic Robo and didn’t actually know what “Slower” would mean if put into effect.
In my opinion, Atomic Robo works out well in either style. I enjoyed Dogs of War as the return of the character we all know and love in a plot that takes longer than the span of a blink to finish.
Don’t let any of the negative hype talk you out of picking this up. You’ll look back and regret it if you do.
2 pts.