Category: Comic Musings

All general posts relating to the comic book industry.

One Week… One Bloody Week…

And what happens while I take a week off from uploading shit?

– Billy Corgan, TNA president and hopeful acquirer of said company, sues Dixie Carter and the company he’s employed with because they owe him money. Goddamn, kid.

– Paige suffers another WWE Wellness Policy violation over prescription drugs they say are “illegal” and now sources on her side claim that a second opinion doctor says she needs neck surgery. WWE doctors believe otherwise; look at all the wonders our Z-Paks have done for us over the years.

– This year’s Survivor Series PPV will comprise three traditional Survivor Series style matches (almost like the earlier editions of the PPV were just that) and headlined by the “long-awaited” rematch between Brock Lesnar and Bill Goldberg, which is being booked for the sole purpose of trying to sell more copies of the video game… because apparently Suplex City isn’t enough of a stupid idea to try and sell more video games.

– The rumored Women In Hell In A Cell match has been confirmed. Not only that, but the match between Seth Rollins and Champion Of The Universe Kevin Owens will also be a Cell match. WOW! THREE HELL IN A CELL MATCHES ON ONE SHOW! SMELL THE BUYRATE! Brace yourselves for mediocrity.

– They announced a Justice League/Mighty Morphin crossover comic… because I guess we really needed the stench of Zack Snyder in my MMPR comic books… oh wait, they’re talking about the comic version of JL, not the film… sorry, my bad.

– Another Rogue One trailer… Maybe you should’ve released this first before TFA if you wanted to get on everyone’s good nostalgic side or something.

Well… that’s something.

So Youtube videos will resume this week with a pick-up video and then straight reviews for the next few weeks. Nothing grandiose for this wave of reviews… I’m saving those for later.

Will LOGAN Be The Temporary Sabbatical Of Wolverine?

]I know it’s been said that this is going to be the last time Hugh Jackman dons the claws and stuff, but somehow I find it difficult to believe that they won’t somehow shove him into a cameo in a future X-film and somehow have him regenerate into a younger jabroni like Shia LaBeef or whichever young stud is relevant at the moment who can’t act.

And yes, I’m still referring to it as “The Temporary Sabbatical Of Wolverine” instead of its Death title. I’m still entirely convinced he’ll be back sooner than later.

Logan comes out March 3.

A Shellbinding Conversation

I hooked up with an old buddy that I hadn’t seen in years and we had a nice, pleasant conversation over a cup of coffee or two. As we were talking, he mentioned that he started getting back into comics and heard about the IDW-published TMNT comic series that’s currently ongoing, wanting to know if I knew anything about it.

I told him some basic stuff that I knew; it was yet another rebooting of the Turtles, but one built from the building blocks of what came before. I’ve heard good things about the series, but aside from a couple issues here and there, I haven’t been following the series nor do I know anything beyond the bare essentials of the plot. In any event, he said that he would give the series a shot.
A couple weeks go by and I hear from him again via e-mail, mentioning that he got the first trade paperback collecting the first few issues. He seemed impressed by the quality of the stories, but didn’t care for the reincarnation origin that fueled this whole story. He offered to lend me his copy so I could check it out, but I declined, told him how happy I was that he was enjoying the book, and wished him well.
I did get the trade for myself, along with a couple others, and they are presently my bedtime readers. While I’m beyond the point of giving this series the full follow-up, I liked what I read for the most part. This stuff is years old, the series is firm in publication, and apparently doing really well.
Turtles still have some staying power after all this time… and the comic, at least, is in good hands with IDW.

X-Men '92 To Be Ongoing Series In 2016

Source: http://www.newsarama.com/26038-x-men-92-return-as-ongoing-series-in-2016.html

Now everyone’s favorite version of their favorite mutants will be getting an ongoing series next year. Watch as they get completely fucked up and ruined by the modern writers who pretty much fucked up and ruined the modern version of everyone’s favorite mutants.

Wait, I thought comics in the 90s were supposed to suck?

Oh well…

World Of Nintendo LOVES Its Bat Guano… Forever

So I found myself visiting the World Of Nintendo website and out of mock curiosity, I checked out their reviews for the SNES Bat Guano Forever game that I reviewed months ago. There were two reviews that were positive for some reason.

One reviewer gave it an 8.7 out of 10, saying that “It is a pretty good game, not my fav. or least fav. It’s a so-so, basically just regular. I’m glad I own it anyway, it passes time and, as I said, is good for about 1 hour at a time. My advice is that you rent it first, don’t just buy it, because there is a fair chance that you won’t like it even though you probably will.”

No, pal. I didn’t like it. And I never will.

The other reviewer gave it a lower but still way to high 7 out of 10, citing that the game is”better than the first two in the Batman series for the Super NES. However, a lot could have been done to improve it. The buttons to use weapons could have been simplified, or there could have been a menu to activate different weapons, as with other games like the Mega Man series.”

So apparently, this game is better than Batman Returns, a genuinely good game from Konami that somehow got a six out of ten. Right…

To be fair, both reviews acknowledge the flaws of the game, but still, an 8.7 and 7 for an outright terrible game? Different strokes for different folks, I suppose.

Strangely enough, there aren’t any reviews for the Game Boy version. I guess there are some lines even World of Nintendo won’t touch, eh?

Random Thoughts On… “Truth”

Thoughts on the current Superman: Truth storyline where Superman is exposed and depowered and etc. etc. etc?

I haven’t been following it all that much, to be honest. But I do give it about a year or two before they reset the status quo to whatever stupid thing they had before.

Comics these days, especially from the big two, have become so much of a clusterfuck that they make it very easy to drive interest away from their product except for those loyal to the brand and for those interested in that speculator market. Nowadays, most of my comic readings is from IDW with the Star Trek stuff and sometimes a Turtles book or two. That stuff’s actually well done, but for the rest of it, I’m like… no thanks. Marvel’s constant need for a mega-event every other month as well as DC’s dreadfully depressing New 52 reboot or whatever pretty much killed it for me. And if it wasn’t for the Marvel Cinematic stuff and the DC Animated movies, I probably wouldn’t have cared about either company.

And you know what? That whole premise with getting rid of the secret ID and turning him into generic jabroni man or whatever? Stupid, lame, lazy… I get that it’s hard to make Superman interesting given the wide range of stories told, but pretty much scrapping everything that made Superman Superman… no, complete clusterfuck that will be gone in all of a year or two. Just… no.

Here’s the thing; I get the idea they’re trying to go for here; break Superman down to his most basic levels and build him up again from the ground up. And I get that. I can applaud that idea… when it’s done right. The problem is that we already saw this idea in play when Grant Morrison did Action Comics back in 2011 and I thought that first storyline was fantastic in setting the backstory for this new Superman and basically crafting a modern take on the original 1938 incarnation of the character, which was probably the closest thing to a “fresh take” on the character as there could’ve been without outright killing the essence of the character. And I was really looking forward to seeing him evolve into the Superman we all know.

Except that never happened. I think that whole idea lasted about a year or so before the series jumped ahead to the continuity of the other Superman book… the one I didn’t care for. The one which featured a totally generic Image Comics-esque brute in Kryptonian clothing. The one which feels like it was written by people who have no flipping clue on how to write a Superman story… let alone a good one.