New Comic Books Thread
 

Always meant to start one of these but never got around to it. Guess I'll give it a go.

World War Hulk #1:

So Hulk kicks the shit out of Black Bolt and Iron Man, all in one comic? This is everything I could have hoped for and then some.

I have to be totally honest, I'm digging the new Who-Are-You-Trying-To-Kid-He's-A-Fucking-Villain Tony Stark. And by digging I mean, digging the Hulk beating the shit out of him as he spouts his bullshit self-serving crap at the people of New York as they run for their lives thanks to his crazy idiocy.

Also, why are there comics that John Romita Jr. doesn't draw?

Gen13 #9:

I love the shit out of this comic, but I always feel guilty about it afterwards. Every issue is an unadorned nugget of pure teen angst and ridculous 90s-style comics clishaynessity, up to and including the totally gratuitous girl-on-girl makeouts.

New Excalibur #20:

Speaking of guilty, I read a comic written by Chris Claremont and enjoyed it. I'm not sure if it's me there's something wrong with or just the entire world that broke.

Guy's gotta sleep sometime. Fans of JRjr should go check out the Daredevil: Man Without Fear trade. Frank Miller writes, Romita Jr. draws; comic heaven ensues.

As for Gen 13, I can't bring myself to read this after being burned so badly back in the 90s. I spent scholarship money on those mini-series, now they're worth shit. I learned my lesson, but Gen 13 remains dead to me.

New Excalibur: I guess I'd have to have liked the old Excalibur to care 'bout the new one. Plus Claremont's a douche. I'm already reading a 'new' comic book, and it's New Avengers. All other 'new' comics must bow to its superiority.

Superior like a Sorcerer Supreme who gets his ass kicked by fuckin' ninjas.

I mean the fucking Runaways can handle a bunch of fuckin' ninjas, but the Mightiest Mage in the Multiverse, he gets fuckin' shanked by a ninja?

Weak sauce, says I.

So make with the goddamn clones! I mean come on everyone at Marvel's got a goddamn clone!

Have you considered that it's both?

[edit]Oh, goddammit. I just read the latest Exiles and didn't hate it :( Sure, it was wall-to-wall Claremont-isms, but they didn't aggravate me much beyond a lot of eye-rolling. I blame Bendis and his thought bubble integration in Mighty Avengers. Compared to those things, even Claremont becomes tolerable.

Bendis is like if someone took Claremont and dropped a Gamma-bomb on him, freeing his madness from any possibility of human limitations.

Speaking of Hulks and the madness thereof, I do have to ask... come on Tony, shooting the Hulk with missiles? What did you think was going to happen there? I mean did some part of your giant, fourth-smartest-man-alive brain look at that gigantic invicible powered-by-rage behemoth and say "All righty now, I'ma fixin' to whack me that there beehive, with this here really big stick"? At what point did any part of that sound like it was a good idea?

You're being unfair to Tony. He clearly used two missiles. That's double the bare minimum required for a missile strike. So, I ask you, Tony Stark: Genius or Super Genius?

Hey now, I said missiles plural.

I mean hitting the Hulk with one missile, that would just look silly.

fourth, who is third?

I figure it goes like, Reed Richards, Doctor Doom, um... someone i'm forgetting, then Tony Stark.

I don't actually know who I'd put as three, I just figure there's got to be one guy in the MU somewhere who's smarter than Tony Stark but not as smart as Iron Man.

Well, off the top of my head, people who are just plain out mega-smart:

Hank Pym (I mean, I know he's got like no common sense, but the guy DOES have quite a few 'look what I invented' things going for him)

Bruce Banner when he isn't going "HULK SMASH"

Doc Ock (I dunno, cold fusion)

and I think Hank McCoy could be up there.

But, again, top of my head. These are just humans and pseudo-humans, otherwise Thanos and Galactacus and whatever would win.