MattC
I have a house, a job, a car, a wife, a baby daughter, a bunch of pets, and now I’ll have some comics…my plan for slowly dominating the globe is precisely on track!
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hrmmm. May need to re-evaluate...
I wouldn’t think it’d be possible to be Wash and Zoe at the same time…they’re just the slightest bit different from each other, if by slightest bit I mean completely and totally. Interesting.
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Amazin' Spidey 560...
arrr, there be spoilers ahead…
Even though the Spidey braintrust dropped an overwhelming amount of heavyhanded hints about the character making her return in 560, it had still slipped my mind until the last panel of the next to last page…I started to turn it, thinking “It’s MJ…it’s MJ…it’s MJ,” and…it was MJ!
Nice little twist to the end of “Flat Out Crazy.” I haven’t been real fond, overall, of the art in 559/560, though it has had it’s moments, and as far as new characters go, I can do without Paper Doll…interesting concept, but doesn’t translate all that well to the paper page. Screwball was a touch more interesting, and I think she could be a recurring figure along the lines of Black Cat, where she’s not really “evil” and not always an enemy.
So with MJ back, and some Kraven and Venom stuff in the pipes, and Romita starting his run soon, it’s looking like a superb Spidey summer (certainly better than last summer, when Spider-Man 3 did quite a lot of damage to the Spideyverse IMHO)
Final Boarding Call...
...for Invincible Iron Man #1. If your travel plans today do not include IIM#1, I highly suggest you alter your plans.
this is the first Fraction-written book I’ve read, and I’m pretty damn sure he’s now my favorite writer. Well done!
Fraction is very good indeed. Is Immortal Iron Fist run with Ed Brubaker has been absolutely splendid thus far. Too bad it will end with #16…
OMD...OMG
The trade hardcover for One More Day arrived last weekend via Amazon, and after the first reading, I really didn’t care for the arc at all, and after the second reading, I found some parts I liked or at least felt were well done, but in general, I still don’t care for the overall plot of the story.
I’d almost put it up there with Spiderman 3 in terms of how much it made me dislike Peter Parker. If I had picked up these books when they were first released, I may have not gotten back into comics as much as I have, if at all. Thankfully, I’m enjoying Brand New Day and all of the other titles I’ve come across since getting comically involved again.
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Ok, I’m taking the bait on Atomic Robo – really enjoyed the issue I grabbed today for FCBD, so I’ll pick up all the others now.
This was really the first book since I got back into books that I’ve noticed how good the art is – it’s just so pleasing to look at.
All Star Superman was great, so I gotta grab the trades – and the X-Men special issue was good as well, I may have to get back into that one at some point.
The two Hellboy books I picked up were, as expected, full of awesome.
And, because I felt a little bad about just walking in and grabbing the gratis stuff, I purchased issued 3-5 of Marvel Zombies 2, and the MZ Sketchbook
Mag...neato!
I guess that’s the definition of alter ego, as Mag’s description in that quiz is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike myself.
Or so I think?
Name any other person, villain or not, who can make a purple cape and a purple-centric color scheme awesome. And that is what makes Magneto awesome.
I love that play on words btw… :D
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just a brief comment so the Wayback Machine can one day identify just how excited I am that Serenity: Better Days #1 has shipped!
I liked it – not sure how much that means, you could give me a comic where they just sit in the ship bs-ing like that one episode of Seinfeld, and I’d give it a thumbs up, but the dialog was, IMO, very ‘Versey…really wish this was more than a 3 issue series
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Apparently “MattC” has forgotten about me. Screw him…I don’t need some meatbag pushing buttons for me to broadcast MY signal. Of course, I don’t have much to say…yet
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Nice avatar.
By the way, I live in Arlington, MA – just outside of Boston. ...and that’s where the guy who built the LED Mooninite that caused the bomb scare lives too.
About a week ago I was walking down a sidewalk, and I saw him.
I sounded like a bit of a dork, but I asked “Uh – hey! You’re the Aqua Teen guy, right?”
He said “yes”, and I said “nice work!”.
That’s my little story.
Thanks for the link! That is really good news, as Romita Jr is on of my favorite artists.
MattC said:
I really really enjoyed #549 – seemed very much like the Spidey I remembered and the stuff with Jackpot was well done. If I hadn’t gotten an email last night that 550 had already shipped, I would have picked it up today…still not totally sold on Mr. Negative, but Menace has some potential.
Romita confirms he’s returning to ASM in 2008 here: http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=11717 but doesn’t say when – hopefully soon!
I’m very much impressed by the series at this point. I read somewhere, though, that John Romita Jr. is scheduled to draw ASM at some point this year. I hope that’s true!
MattC said:
re: OMD/BND…I was out of the comicsverse for quite some time, but read about the OMD controversy and have now ended up subscribing to ASM after finding heavyink – got the first two issues with 548 on the way and I’m really enjoying it so far
Awesome info… thanks!
MattC said:
hey – go check out http://dreamcafe.com/firefly.html, where awesome scifi author Stephen Brust posted, for free, his own novel set in the ‘Verse (set between the end of Firefly and the events of the movie)
We never have had a GFB chaper at our school either.. We’re the first! :D We’re all running around like headless chickens. It’s fantastic!
MattC said:
congrats! we never had gamma phi beta at our campus, but I always heard good things about them from our chapters on other campuses!
heh, I was watching FBDO while composing some thoughts, when the Rooney-at-Casa-Bueller scene came on and I realized, “That would be much more interesting than whatever it was I was going to say anyway.”












