Cue hype machine! The first four official Kick-Ass movie posters hit the net this morning, and now the official site has gone live as well at iamkick-ass.com. But you know, we’re so psyched for this movie that no amount of underwhelming (if interlocking) posters and slow-loading flash intros can dampen our enthusiasm at this point!
Marvel has released the official trailer Siege, their latest, and allegedly last big Event. Bendis & Coipel started this whole chain of Events with House of M so it’s only fitting they reunite to wrap it up.
DC just posted a Milestone Forever promo piece on their blog. Pretty amazing how it comes off as if DC & Milestone have been happily married this whole time, and even as if Dwayne McDuffie couldn’t be more pleased with the whole arrangement. BUT — as our man Rich Watson says, “Reuniting the original artists = EPIC WIN”. And this is the guy who only recently broke down the whole DC/Milestone mess, basically saying “I hate to say I told ya so”! So if Rich can have a positive outlook, we’ll try too!
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #610: This may be totally unfair, but I feel like, if you’re going to go and do a Clone Saga storyline, just go for it. Yes, Kaine was thrown back into the mix. Yes, there were scenes with Ben Reilly. And yes, the Clone Saga is the most hated (or is it second most hated now?) storyline in Spider-Man history. But this whole storyline suffered from playing things a little too safe. Guggenheim turns in yet another reliable script (his last for Spidey), and while I wasn’t crazy about Mario Checchetto, Luke Ross, and Rick Magyar’s art, the sequences in the past are appropriately Sal Buscema-esque. But… This needed to be a balls-to-the-wall action adventure, almost a f- you to the audience. Take the insanity of the clone saga, distill it down, and spin it in a way where the threat level is ratcheted up to 11. And we didn’t quite get there. Solid comics, as usual, but it needed to get tongues wagging. It didn’t.
ASSAULT ON NEW OLYMPUS PROLOGUE: For those of you wondering when to jump on Incredible Hercules — this is the issue. Pak and Ven Lente make every issue of Herc brim with humor and intelligence. It’s a dense, fun read in exactly the right way… Only problem is, it ain’t sellin’ too good. So here we go with a universe spanning cross-over, kicking off with a fight with Spider-Man, and guest appearances by the big stars of the Marvel U. It’s a sales ploy… But it totally works. This issue builds on months of Herc storylines, and introduces every single bit of the storyline, conflict, and characters succinctly in one or two pages, without feeling needlessly expository. Plus, even if you haven’t been paying attention to the title before, there’s a new/old adversary, the big bad of the series, who also is effortlessly added in. Fun, funny, sexy, and darn near perfect: you need to know nothing to pick up this issue, other than that you have a love of comics and things that are good.
ASTONISHING X-MEN #32: Can I say I like this current storyline approximately one million times better than the last one? I think I probably can, because I’m writing this review, so I’ll just go ahead and put this on record: I can totally get behind biological sentinels that shoot brood from their fingertips. That’s good comics.
Yes, it is I, Norimaro — James Bond of videogame girls and comic book babes — here with my top secret, patented single page peeks at this week’s new DC releases! Fear my elite scanner skillz!
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #610: This may be totally unfair, but I feel like, if you’re going to go and do a Clone Saga storyline, just go for it. Yes, Kaine was thrown back into the mix. Yes, there were scenes with Ben Reilly. And yes, the Clone Saga is the most hated (or is it second most hated now?) storyline in Spider-Man history. But this whole storyline suffered from playing things a little too safe. Guggenheim turns in yet another reliable script (his last for Spidey), and while I wasn’t crazy about Mario Checchetto, Luke Ross, and Rick Magyar’s art, the sequences in the past are appropriately Sal Buscema-esque. But… This needed to be a balls-to-the-wall action adventure, almost a f- you to the audience. Take the insanity of the clone saga, distill it down, and spin it in a way where the threat level is ratcheted up to 11. And we didn’t quite get there. Solid comics, as usual, but it needed to get tongues wagging. It didn’t.
