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Because it's cheap. I'm not saying Johns should have used "ordinary goons" in the story; I simply feel there are better villains Johns could have employed. Does the JSA have an enemy team to oppose them? If so, why not use them instead of Nazis? (Yes, I realize the Nazis were a team, but they were still freaking Nazis!) Or why not create a new team to rival the Society? Hell, Savage alone could have been the villain, like Doom is to the FF. Doom always uses Doombots to stall whilst his masterplans go into effect. He's usually got backup in some form when he fights them. Since Savage doesn't have bots they needed to create a deadly group who would not only believably slaughter entire families but that would also leave the fans dying to see them get their asses handed to them. Of course its cheap heat. You think that its easy to get over a bunch of goons in 2-3 issues as the first opponants for the new JSA? If its some new guys then people will be asking who they are and hy they are doing this, and then the savage reveal just adds confusion. If they are Nazis people know not to take them too seriously because there is no way they are going to win any kind of significant Superhero fight in this day and age. My final word on this subject. Whats the worst Indiana Jones film? Temple of Doom. Why? No Nazis. Nazis = great villians. Its why they are used so much in Hellboy and so much other material. Nazis are the ultimate in cheap disposable hatable goons. Its why Captain Punishers first opponant is Hatemonger.

I like it, I like the storylines they've laid out, I like the notion of legacies, I like the artwork, and anytime someone wants to use Nazis I'm down with that. Why have ordinary goons with no heat when you can get instant cheap heat with the Nazis? I like this book a lot right now.

Urotsukidoji 1,2 and 3. Ghost in the shell 1 & 2 GITS: Stand alone complex 1st & 2nd gig Hellsing 1-4 The entire Neon Genesis Evangelion. Just got Cowboy Bebop on numerous reccomendations. I used to own Akira but (to many peoples shock) I hated it and sold it off.

When I am working away in Southampton and I call directory enquiries to find out where the nearest Forbidden Planet is so I can pick up my comics on the day they come out instead of waiting for the weekend when I get home.

That costume is like something from the Amalgum universe, or the Batman/Green Lantern costume. Fun in concept, but actual execution is totally impractical. People are just going to ask why the Punisher is covered in stars. They should have just gone with a tweaked costume, maybe darker, but one that leaves the identity of the new cap a mystery to the other characters. He's still more Punisher than Cap right now and the two personas are not compatible. Yes the new Cap can do all the violent thing Punicher did, but if anyone knows its the Punisher then the whole costume change becomes pointless.

I like how every story references the 93-year old creator, as though Marvels is doing this without caring what it does to the old man. If he died next week Marvel would get so much negative publicity 'cause people thought the grief killed him.

At least the Infinite Crisis contained the payoff. I don't regard Caps arrest as a good enough payoff considering all that went into this, its certainly no kind of resolution. Plus One Year Later was a universal reboot, and you could pick and choose the titles you wanted to follow from then on. Civil War still has big questions about the whole deal and there is no way to know what book to read to understand it all. I was aware that Fisk was orignially a Spider-man villian, but he is undisputedly a Daredevil villian now and this turn of events would just seem to stifle the white-hot Fisk/DD pairing they have right now. The Kingpin has been a DD guy ever since Frank Millar brought him in and he's remained a Daredevil guy for a long time since. Its just daft that Peters now going to go after Fisk when Norman Freakin Osbourne is running a super-team for the government. I've no objection to a Fisk/Spidey confrontation, but this is hardly the time. This WOULD be the time to make the Mysterio comeback mean something, expecially with a big question mark surrounding Quentin Beck's ressurection. That story would have sensible implications for either DD OR Spidey. I might be going out on a limb here but given all the Back in Black stuff I'm pretty certain May has popped her clogs. Thats a great thing not because I hate the old bird but because Spider-man needs to grow up a bit and as long as this ancient lady is still hanging around Peters going to eternally be a 20-something smartass. He hasn't progressed much as a character in a long time but the combination of Mays death and his public outing could bring the sort of development that has made Daredevil a must read title for the last few years. I must have missed the whole Amnesty explaination bit (or more likely not absorbed it all that well and forgot it in the months ince the last issue).

Thats right, just hitch up you skirt and cry yourself to sleep later. Nah, its fine. Advertising doesn't make a good site bad if its in moderation.

Pretty shitty. I wouldn't mind but they spent damn near the entire time positioning the readers to like Caps side and mistrust the pro-registration side and then they pull the rug out from under all of us by having Cap surrender after what was for a comic book minimal collateral damage. Best thing to come out of the end of civil war? In Amazing Spider-man they finally killed of Aunt May. Finally. At last. I'm so freakin' happy that she's done, after all those false deaths and whatnot her continuity was insane. However the problems with having the Kingpin kill her are obvious, especially with Norman Osbourne out there and government sanctioned. Why the hell is Spidey not focused on Osbourne and the fact that Stark is fine with Norman being free and clear? I honestly think that with regards to this whole arc I could have skipped the main book and just read the peripheral titles and not even noticed it was gone. On top of this there still arn't any pro or anti registration results. Some sort of amnesty for all the non-registered guys and apparently all the registered ones are screwed because they didn't read the small print and have joined the army?! So registration was a failiure because tons of guys can still run around unlicenced. Isn't there some kind of middle ground with this or is it just extremes? This solved squat. Captain Marvel's return? Meaningless. Utterly meaningless. Half the guys out there fighting were at his bedside when he died all those years ago and the man gets to be in ONE FREAKIN' PANEL! Not even a "hey didn't you kop it a while back?" I'm not saying that the fallout won't be good, but this issue solved nothing. Its just blatant cash-mongering by Marvel to try and get me to buy the 18 titles that will explain everything that happened and its just not going to happen. I'm going to continue with Amazing Spidey and Thunderbolts but the rest of it can sit on the shelf.

I think Fray was just a short project for him, I don't think given the variety of his projects that he ever really plans to be held down with an ongoing. Astonishing X-men of course was a unique oppertunity but even so he's leaving to do other things already. I'm not sure that his run on Buffy will last past 20-25 issues. He's not a full-time comics writer. Tales of the Vampire was quite good by the way elnino14, some of the usual mixed bag but an overall interesting series of stories held together by an underlying arc. Worthwhile in my opinion.

I know I'm not on here all the time, but I just wanted to say Fray is awesome, it's the tpb that got me back into comic books. Just wanted to mention that Joss revisits Melaka Fray for a couple pages in the TPB Tales of the Slayers. Thanks for returning the favor. I got Tales of the Vampires but never knew about Tales of the Slayers. I just ordered it, and I'm very much looking forward to it.

World of Warcraft. The shame!

I'm betting is darkened & part leather. Seems to be the norm now.

I'd like to see Giganta, it'd be a cool nod to the 50's "attack of the" movies. However, I agree that as a main villian she wouldn't work. Nazis are really only a viable foe for Hellboy now anyway. I think you could find a 5' 9" actress right for the role. I'd be tough, but they found Brendon Routh for the uncastable Superman so it must be possible.

At least he can concentrate on comics. His run on Runaways starts soon. Its probably the only comic that has ever been written by a person mentioned by name by the characters IN the comic (back in volume 2 when they encounter a vampire). Plus he's writing the Buffy Season 8 comic as well. He'll find the right movie project soon, and as much as I like Joss, I'd rather have smaller project that are undiluted Whedon than have projects with a lot of outside influence, because that winds up being the original Buffy movie and that makes non-fans laugh at us when we pimp his work.

Yeah, the new one looks nothing like the old one. This ones Ted Kord, the proper double B. We miss him and we hate his successor who is nothing like Ted. "Oh I'm a youth stumbling onto great mystical/technological power! Watch my stumbling adventures as I learn to balance my life and superheroics, because its SOOO original. I'm just a left over bit of Deus Ex Machina from the Crisis." Yes I'm bitter. Bringing back the original in his own series possilby with Booster would be a big seller for DC post 52, but the existance of the shitty current BB makes that very unlikely.

Looks more new-god than Phantom zone projector. I don't think its any of the equipment that Booster stole as Supernova.

Yep, you're nuts. That device must be important. Everything in that picture has purpose.

A Legion ring? Somethings up with the future stuff, what with Fatal five stuff popping up throughout 52. Throw in that the JSA Starman is the starman of the Legion of a former reality who when to the Kingdon universe and has now arrived here. Could just left over continuity. I hope it is I like the new Legion and I want them untouched by all this. Ray Palmer hasn't been seen in a while, but this means its a safe bet he'll pop up again only to die here. I don't know what clues the new Atom has with regards to Palmers wherabouts, I havn't read his book. What the device at the bottom-centre? Its looks specific enough that I should recognise it but I don't.

So, Captain Marvel (original) is back! Plucked from the past long before he was diagnosed with cancer, and running 42 no less. What? Huh? It seems very insane that the Original Captain Marvel was asked to run the very HEART of the pro registration act before they even got around to telling him ABOUT the registration act. He might be on Caps side, he might not care! Either Stark, Richards and Sentry did some major truth manipulation here (which would presumably render Marv incapable of doing the job they ask because he wouldn't understand) or Captain Marvel has flipped out. On top of all that half the book was a Sentry story (yawn) about how Bob signed up in the first place. This couldn't have been done elsewhere? We couldn't have got an actual story about the return of a MAJOR character rather than a pathetic tease that explains what happens without ANY how or why. I feel just a bit ripped off. Not that I'm not looking forward to a Captain Marvel series, I'm a big fan of the character and the associated history. Hopefully his return might provide some better closure on Genis' death, although it is a shame its an earlier version and not the ghost that Genis beat to pulp with a tombstone). Heck he has a daughter out there as well. I'm looking forward to the reaction that the other heroes have to the return of this legend. Combine the return of Captain Marvel, the return of Thor, the return of Hulk and the battle between Cap and Tony, its a pretty crammed few months in the Marvel Universe. Why not let that stuff come out over time and profit off them all in turn. Instead they are wasting big storys close together and negating their impact on sales.

Well the Question is doomed regardless now. Sort of annoys me considering his status in 52 is up in the air right now. Green Arrow is looking at Black Canary, lending weight to rumours the two will be involved again. Is that a new costume for Kyle or is it his current Ion costume, I've lost track of all his looks. Red Robin from the Kingdom universe is a cool sighting, especially with the Kingdom univerrse crossing over in JSA right now (Kal-L teaser, current Starman having come from that universe). I'm cool with Mary Marvel getting a bigger role, though things look bleak for her. She's in a coma now (post 52), half her Superbuddies friends are dead and DC seems intent on killing off any property invented by another company. An interesting picture. Much to ponder.

So very wrong.

Its not just the Illuminati he's stepping over, because Ben Grimms arms in in there. Could Hulk have more in mind than just crushing the people who exiled him? I think Hulks coming back as a super bad-guy. Doesn't matter if he is justified, this is a big step towards the hulk becoming Maestro.