March 28th, 2007 Comics
Ahh. Do you smell that? The smell of change. Of development. Of movement. And it’s all around me. And I love it with all my constantly-in-flux heart.
Several of my brethren in UPLB MASS are graduating in a few weeks’ time. A cause for celebration and intoxication, which will start next week when we’ll invade Ilocos for a good ol’ fashioned summer out-of-town beachfest. Road Trip!
Another cause for celebration is the end of my probationary period in my current job. Yes, ladies and gentlefreaks, I am now regularized. And with this change in my employment status comes a few more changes in responsibilities and nature of tasks. I can’t wait.
Finally, the recent transformation of my social life from “totally non-existent” to “Holy shit, what day is it?! I’m drunk again! Yeah!” is requiring me to cut back on my comic book consumption and focus more on accumulating loads of cash for my beer fund. Priorities, priorities.
It’s just so refreshing to see things moving again.
And with that sentimental crap over, I now present to you this week’s haul. SPOILERS blah blah.
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March 21st, 2007 Comics
Remember when I told you guys I’ll be publishing a Weekly Haul post every Sunday or Monday? Sure you don’t. But let’s pretend you regularly visit my blog and you remember what I’m talking about. OK. Well, it seems I bit off more than I can chew. Seeing that whenever I get drunk on a Friday night (or is it Saturday morning?), I spend the whole weekend recovering from a bitchin’ hangover. And I’m trying really hard to cut down on my comics buying spree every freakin’ week. Then there’s the matter of laziness while wondering if anyone’s interested in what I’m talking about, except for other comic book geeks. But I’m not doing this for the masses, am I? Am I? No. Err… no.
So with that lame excuse for a “late” blog post, let me go ahead and bore you some more with this week’s haul. Boring SPOILERS ahead!
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March 14th, 2007 Comics
When Superman “died”, everybody knew it was a marketing strategy. When Captain America “died” last week in the pages of Captain America #25, it was mostly seen as a social commentary. The death of a fictional character made headlines all over the U.S. and hundreds of bloggers gave their piece. Time to give mine. It’s so frakkin’ brilliant! I haven’t read the issue yet, but just the fact that they killed Captain freakin’ America makes me sit up and notice. We all know he’s going to come back eventually, but for now, the general public who don’t read comics lost a symbol of truth, justice, and the American Dream. The comics community, however, lost a beloved son. Rest in peace, Cap. *sniff*
On that mournful note, it’s time for my weekly haul! SPOILERS, yo!
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March 5th, 2007 Comics
OK. There was so much going on at work lately and I was also busy rekindling my romantic obsession with UPLB. In fact, I still haven’t recovered from my org’s activity last Saturday that ended the way it usually does: dozens of beer bottles inside and outside a small apartment, and several wasted bodies scattered all over the floor. More on that activity in a later post. Anyway, the point is I didn’t have the time to geek out on the web last week so I have yet to catch up on the latest news and rumors in the comic book world. So this week, I’m going straight to my weekly haul. And I’ll be doing it short and sweet. SPOILERS! I think.
52 #43: A rumble in the heart of the Rock of Eternity. Marvel Family versus the Black Marvel Family (who aren’t really black). They kiss and make up.
Animal Man is resurrected and apparently uses the powers of the Sun Eaters to go back home. Lady Styx is reborn in a very gross way.
The fourth Horseman is revealed to be Osiris‘ sidekick crocodile, Sobek. After going all emo and shit, Osiris gives up his powers, making him Sobek’s main course. Yum.
I give this 4 out of 5 yummy ribs stuck in Sobek’s teeth.
Action Comics #846: Continuing the run of Geoff Johns and Richard Donner (yes, the director dude of the first two Superman movies), this issue feels like I’m watching an episode of Smallville. Which isn’t a bad thing.
Nice origin story of the Phantom Zone villains. Nice art too. Too bad the next chapter won’t be coming soon. Bummer.
It’s going to be a long wait, especially with this issue’s cool cliffhanger: Superman trapped in the Phantom Zone and dozens (or even hundreds!) of freed prisoners from that prison dimension rain down on Metropolis! Wicked.
I give this 4 out of 5 freckles on Jimmy Olsen‘s stupid face.
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February 26th, 2007 Comics
It’s been such a busy news week in the world of comics, thanks to the New York Comic Convention 2007, I don’t know where to start. DC elaborated on its new and upcoming weekly series, Countdown. It will immediately follow DC’s current kick-ass weekly series, 52. Countdown will mainly focus on 5 storylines: Jimmy Olsen‘s, Mary Marvel‘s, the search for Ray “The Atom” Palmer, 2 villains forced to work together, and most probably Darkseid kicking everybody’s ass. It will also serve as a “spine” for the whole DC Universe for a whole year as it reflects what’s happening everywhere in the DCU in “real time”. Sweeeet.
Over at Marvel, they’ve got big plans for the fallout of Civil War, which ended this past week. The Initiative will span the whole Marvel Universe and will introduce a host of new heroes and villains. Other than a new Fantastic Four, a superhero team per American state, and Tony Stark being the new director of S.H.I.E.L.D., Marvel fans will be treated to another interesting piece of smashing Marvel goodness: the Hulk‘s return. In World War Hulk, the jade giant will be hunting down the douchebags who sent him to space, and I hope he smashes their puny heads like grapes. I can’t wait.
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