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Since when does Spidey "Fwip?" It’s "Thwipp!"
Jul
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2009
The Sinister Spider-Man #1 ReviewPosted by: Patrick Brusnahan in Reviews, Spider-Man Mini-SeriesPurple Reign! DARK REIGN: THE SINISTER SPIDER-MAN #1 PLOT: Hello there fellow Crawl Spacers! Thanks to the wonderful talents our poster bdog, we now have eight new banners for Spider-Man: Crawl Space, the original script series by me, Kevin Cushing. Patterned on the style of the Civil War and Secret Invasion banner campaigns, these banners can be added to your signature on this or any other message board, or even added to a website! So please, take one and spread the word all across the internet! This is just a sampling. There are a whole seven more banners after the jump!
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Writer: Joe Kelly Plot Harry and Norman talk. Spider-Man tortured. Norah gets what she wants. Harry betrayed and the truth revealed. American Son to the rescue. The Commentary What a horrendously almost offensively ugly cover. I realize that is sort of the point. We’re not supposed to look at this cover and think, “Wow, she’s hot,” and if you do well that’s fine but I think this is the ugliest take on the pregnant and naked Demi Moore cover I have ever seen in my entire life. Seriously. It’s art but it ain’t pretty. It’s Reigning men! DARK AVENGERS #6
WRITER: Brian Michael Bendis
ART: Mike Deodato & Will Conrad
COLOR ART: Raine Beredo
LETTERER: Cory Petit
PLOT:
At a Cabal gathering, a flustered Norman Osborn asks Namor to publicly denounce the Atlantean terrorist cell and lead a retaliatory extermination. Namor indignantly refuses, egos clash, tempers flair, and the meeting dissolves. Norman then asks the Sentry to let his Void personality take over and destroy the Atlanteans in their underwater base, despite having previously convinced him that there is no Void. Norman orders that one Atlantean be spared and paraded through the streets to symbolize the populace’s safety. The press release claims that this individual, the lone survivor of a “suicide bomb,” will receive due process and questioning. The reality? Munches and crunches for Venom.
Back at base, Norman snaps at Moonstone over Marvel Boy’s apparent departure, and retreats to the armory, where he collapses into gobliny madness.
THOUGHTS:
Critics label Dark Avengers as a rehash of Warren Ellis’ Thunderbolts on a larger scale, as if any part of that statement suggests something other than damn incredible comics. Ellis struck gold with this formula and it’d be criminal to kill it after a paltry twelve issues. The concept of a government-sanctioned team of morally ambiguous and not-so-ambiguous bastards and psychos exacting brutal order under the command of a mentally slipping Tommy Lee Jones flat out works. It’s genius. And with issue #6, Brian Michael Bendis finally perfects the flavor.
Not that the writer merely mimics his inspiration without adding anything new. For one, we get twisted interaction between Read the rest of this entry »
 New Avengers is a comic book. This is a review of it. You are to read the review and leave a comment.THE NEW AVENGERS #54
WRITER: Brian Michael Bendis
PENCILS: Billy Tan
INKS: Batt and Billy Tan
COLORS: Justin Ponsor
LETTERING: Albert Deschesne
PLOT:
Brother Voodoo accepts the mantle of Sorcerer Supreme and joins the fight against the demoned-out Hood. Strange weakens the Hood, Hellstorm contains him, and the newly-christened “Doctor Voodoo” finishes him off with an exorcism. Ronin makes a bystander promise to promulgate footage of the battle before Norman Osborn can smear the facts.
Loki, seeking a pawn for the time of Osborn’s fall, offers the hospitalized and depowered Hood a second chance.
Ronin and Mockingbird watch Osborn’s televised interview from Dark Avengers #5. Disheartened by the media’s lack of backbone, Ronin declares that they have to kill Mr. Cornrows.
THOUGHTS:
The Avengers linger on the sidelines of their own book, making it seem like Brian Bendis wants to shape the whole Marvel Universe through this series more than tell stories in which his roster has a stake. Sure, our heroes each score a token blow on the amped-up Hood, who all but stands still and eats it, but the magical guest stars ultimately do the heavy lifting. Had the Avengers simply dropped Strange off in New Orleans and flown back home, the outcome would have been identical.
Forget whose title this is suppose to be, and the issue entertains fairly well. Bendis did good to Read the rest of this entry »
 Feel the magic, hear the roar–THUNDERBOLTS are loose!THUNDERBOLTS #133
WRITER: Andy Diggle ARTIST: Miguel Sepulveda
COLORS: Frank Martin
LETTERING: Albert Deschense
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