Comments on: Laura & Adan’s Picks, Pans & Scans – January 24, 2007

By: fred

fred — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 22:20:37 +0000

But isnt complaning about Wolverine Vs. SaberTooth just like Complaning About Batman Joker Fights?

By: Raefe Mahadeo

Raefe Mahadeo — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 16:07:15 +0000

I would appreciate responses to my take on the powerpack idea. maybe hear a future writers equally as interesting take. thanks.

By: Raefe Mahadeo

Raefe Mahadeo — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 16:02:50 +0000

I would like to add the drug issue affecting characters fans have seen as children would probably make it seem more realistic as a 10 year old you pass on the street could be deep throating for coke five years later

By: Raefe Mahadeo

Raefe Mahadeo — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 15:58:49 +0000

the comment about nextwave/monica pulsar are so true. genis was the most interesting captain for me but i realized that he would probably die as the series culminated. Instead it got tossed into a lame event issue of another series. at least zemo reputation as a badass is given more credence having killed a character who had silver surfer level powers. I think power pack as sddicts makes sense. now hear me out: comics tend not to show drugs as a constant problem in a main characters life and its usually relegated to side stories. peoples lives get seriously fucked up by drugs and I think that is something a superhero comic hasn’t explored on a full time basis. how it affect the users friends, the blatant innaction of adults towards them(like drew barrymore)and whether they can recognize/overcome the problem. seeing people o.d. guts pucked up, friends looking half dead and needing to hit another vien, I feel would hit the right chord with audience. Its about time the issue was confronted in a non afterschool special way. that way it might be given some wieght and not dismissed as preachy bullshit.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 23:19:22 +0000

The beauty of reading these reviews (and others) is that I can avoid the titles once the storylines are in trade paperback form.

By: Adan Jimenez

Adan Jimenez — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 19:30:12 +0000

to Alan: yeah, even Nextwave got cancelled, and that only had an ex-Captain Marvel on the team.

to Bobby: if i were a humble man, i’d sheepishly look away and say “aw shucks.” but i’m not, so fuck yes, we’re the best. in the slightly amended, yet still immortal words of Muhammad Ali, “we’re the greatest.”

to Robert: i’m itching for Hudlin vs. Huston, that way, even when one of them wins, there’s that hope that he’ll be too fucked up to write anymore comics.

to Domino: read Invincible immediately! drop whatever you’re doing and read it now! you won’t regret it.

to Louis: as for Captain Marvel being pro-Reg or anti-Reg, i think he has to be pretty pro-Reg in order for him to agree to be the warden of the Negative Zone. that’s not a job someone takes if they’re waffling on the issue.

to David: yes, Mouse Guard will be collected. the hardcover is slated for sometime Spring-ish this year.

By: David

David — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 19:03:53 +0000

Keep the great reviews coming!

100 Bullets is best read in trades due to the weaving of storylines and characters, so I buy the singles and review with the trades.

Please tell me Mouse Guard will be collected…

By: Louis

Louis — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:52:45 +0000

Well, as far as the Captain Marvel line, i think he is still up in the air as far as ant-reg or pro-reg. Yeah he is Pro reg right now. but the whole issue is about him trying to decide what he should do. the end shows him flying off, but to where? i think it’s a coin toss, he is either going to go help cap, or Iron man. also with Hulkling around, it might make things a bit more interesting.

By: Domino21710

Domino21710 — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 04:14:50 +0000

Nice reviews, indeed.

I haven’t read Invincible yet, but you’ve got my curiousity piqued.

Also, Captain Marvel,….wtf?

By: Robert Emrich

Robert Emrich — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 01:29:03 +0000

As I am unafraid to tell customers “Marvel is the big reason my interest in comics is dwindling”.

In the last few months I’ve dropped:
Ultimates
Civil War
Wolverine
Every frickin Spider book(except ultimate)
Moon Knight
and countless others.

The injustice is, fun books like Marvel Team up get canned, but we are subjected to crap like Loeb writing 179th Wolverine/Sabertooth fight. Seriously, I think they just turn on X-Men Academy for the PS1 to pick their X-Fights now. Quesada vs Loeb….Fight!

By: Bobby

Bobby — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 19:58:24 +0000

Laura and Adan are the BEST reviewers on the planet. These reviews are hilarious, honest and on-target.

By: Alan Kistler

Alan Kistler — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 04:17:58 +0000

Great reviews as always (though Adan did scare me with that remark about the Power Pack doing things for rock).

Is anyone else as scared as I that the dream Wolverine had will turn out to be literally true and that he and Sabretooth will be revealed to be the reincarnations of two savage cat-like creatures who fought and killed each other before the human race was born?

And what’s with Captain Mar-Vell? Haven’t they realized that maybe there’s a reason every book they do starring a hero called Captain Marvel gets cancelled after not too long? Oy …