Week of Nov. 25

Are you sensing a pattern? I pretty much read Ultimate Marvel exclusively. Sometimes I dabble in indie comics. Actually, it's not so much that I don't keep up with indie comics as it is that I wait for the TPBs (or Trade Paper Backs for those of you in the regular world).

Ultimate Comics Avengers #4














This weeks issue was a continuation of last weeks. The upside was a lot of action and the chance for Carlos Pacheco to show off his talents as an artist. The downside was very little story and slightly hokey dialogue. Captain America gets his ass kicked, so for those that aren't fans of the cliche of having a superhero named after a country might be in for a treat.

Overall I am excited to see where this is headed, but worried that it might not make good on its promise of a quality story. Either way, it's nice to see someone other than Jeph Loeb's ass writing these characters.


Overall Grade: C+


Next week: Ultimate Comics Spider-Man

Happy Holidays.

Cover Credit: Marvel Comics

-Chris

Week of... Oh, screw it.

Okay, screw comic books this week. Watch this video. This one right here.



Just go. Watch it.

More about comics next week.

-Chris

Week of Nov 12.

I honestly wish I had started a music blog...

All of the good titles seem to come in droves.

Let's do another list, shall we?

Favorite writers:
10. Grant Morrison
9. Bryan Lee O'Malley
8. Bill Willingham
7. Mark Millar
6. Warren Ellis
5. Daniel Clowes
4. Brian Michael Bendis
3. Neil Gaiman
2. Brian K. Vaughan
1. Alan Moore

-Chris

Week of Nov. 4

Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #4













Weaker moment for this title this week. It’s still a great book, I’m still psyched for the next issue, just not a lot happens.

Mysterio trolls about some, and eventually fucks Peter Parker up pretty well. Other than that, this issue plays out like an episode of Degrassi. Not that the whole John Hughes think isn’t a staple of Ultimate Spider-Man, it just gets dry in abundance.

Final Grade: B-

Cover Credit: Marvel Comics

-Chris

Week of Oct. 31

Always nice to be a week behind. In that spirit, let's talk Ultimate. I'm about to crack Ultimate Spider-Man #4 right now, so you should hear about that soon, in the mean time...

Ultimate Comics Avengers #3


Ultimate Avengers is a little bit more interesting than The Ultimates 2. The cast is a little over the top, the story is a little bit nutty, but the dialogue is captivating and the characters are compelling.


This felt like a "introducing..." chapter. With all of the new faces, it's starting to feel like the Ultimates of old, and I think that is an aspect missing from the Ultimate line.

Overall Grade: B

Ultimate Comics Armor Wars #2
















I'm not a big fan of the way Warren Ellis portrays most characters. A lot of his non-originals are just too Warren Ellisey when he finished with them. Tony Stark, however, was seemingly made for Ellis.

With just the right amount of witty banter, and action that keeps you on your toes, you almost forget what a nerd Ellis is.

Better than the original armor wars, and easily one of the better ongoing series.

Overall Grade: A-

Cover Credit: Marvel Comics

-Chris

Week of Oct. 21

Been behind... alot. This magazine is keeping me busy, and my finances have been drained. It's been hard to get to the comic book store. Still, you can't ignore gold, and that's exactly what I just finished reading.

Ex Machina #46














You can probably tell by this point that I love Brian K. Vaughan. If you don't, I expect you've never read any of his stuff.

Ex Machina is just about to wrap up, and for fans of a complete series, I suggest jumping on now so that you can eagerly anticipate these last three issues.

More of the same. It's beginning to seem that a religious force might be behind Mayor Hundred's strange powers. Continues to juggle around the idea of Mayor Hundred being anti-abortion and Suzanne Padilla is playing an excellent evil bitch. The scary part? She's a journalist like me.

Well written, cliff hanger ending (well sorta, you know Mitch isn't going to die because he does the introduction at the beginning of the book) and to top it all off, Tony Harris is at his best in terms of art. Really you can't ask for a much better ongoing series.

Final Grade: A+

Yeah, another update tommorow. It'll be more Marvel oriented.

Cover Credit: WildStorm Comics

-Chris