Comic Panel of the Week: Teenage Aquman

The New 52: Future's End #2 Review

---SPOILER WARNING---

So DC has decide to release another Weekly Series in the same vain as "52" and "Countdown to Final Crisis," which will also be this year's New 52 September Gimmick. Future's End is a series staring all the characters that had books that were canceled in the New 52 like Mister Terrific and Firestorm. The series began in an Apocalyptic Future where a robot made by Mister Terrific and Bruce Wayne called Brother Eye has pretty much taken over the world and assimilated most of the heroes. As a last ditch effort Bruce Wayne sends Terry McGinnis, Batman Beyond, back in time in order to stop it.

Anyway the main focal point of this issue was that Green Arrow was killed at the end of last issue. However since this is the Future it makes it really hard to have a emotional response since for all I know this could be retconned in a years time. Anyway the majority of this comic takes place during Oliver's Funeral. The heroes talk about how great a person Oliver was, and how he united the people when survivors from another Earth came to theirs. I will get to that later.















Jason Rusch (one-half of Firestorm) feel's guilty for Green Arrows death due to the fact that they could of been there to save him but Ronnie Raymond (the other half) wouldn't fuse together with him in time because he was trying to have sex with a girl. Arsenal calls him out on this, and they fight until Firestorm leaves angry. The comic ends with a package being delivered to Lois Lane that says "GO ALONE TRUST NO ONE ELSE" with a broken off Red Arrow, a pack of the Wounded Duck Matches, and a Green Pyramid. Okay weird?

Nice "Arrow" reference.

This comic is pretty much a way to give some of these lesser known characters some much needed screen time and a way to have an in-continuity Batman Beyond. So far it's been fine even thought the plot has been done before *coughdaysofuturespastcough* and even been done recently*coughageofultroncough*. But other then that it's fine. The flashbacks to Oliver's life are pretty good and the eulogy by Animal Man was really well written. However weirdly this doesn't feel like the New 52 Green Arrow,  It feel's like Pre-Flashpoint Green Arrow. The same goes for Arsenal, neither of them look or act like there New 52 counterparts. Which admittedly isn't a bad thing, just unexpected.

One complaint I must say before we end this, even though it isn't a complain on this issue but for the series. We have a teaser image that was show for "Earth Two: World's End."(which you can see below) It not only insinuates the death of my favorite Green Lantern but also the death of my favorite Superhero, Doctor Fate. Who was the only reason I gave DC another chance after all there bullsh*t. I will not be pleased if he dies, and is not in comics again for who knows how long. Plus the scene earlier also insinuates that the Survivors of Earth 2 take residence on the main DC Earth after Darkseid's forces possible destroy their Earth. But anyway despite some problems I'm going to keep reading for now, but I can't really recommend it. Especially if your reading it for Batman Beyond. I would just read Justice League Beyond 2.0 which is much better even though it's not in continuity.

Sh*t I forgot to mention Huntress.

Awesome Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Endings

---SPOILER WARNING?---

So I've been playing some UMVC3 lately and if there is one thing I realized while playing it, it was that Galactus was a really annoying final boss. And most of the Endings were really silly, and pretty lazy. It's usually just two pictures that have a dialogue box at the bottom.

This is really silly.

Despite the cheesiness and apparent lack of animation budget it does have it's fair share of awesome and epic moment's like Ghost Rider's Ending where he teams up with Dante and Trish from Devil May Cry in order to kick Mephisto's ass and force him to destroy the Ghost Rider's Contract.

Another awesome moment came from the Ending of Iron Man. (who is one of my main's with Akuma and Vergil) After beating Galactus, Tony Stark decides to get prepared in case he returns. What does he do to prepare? He makes the coolest looking Iron Man armor ever, the Galactus-Buster.

But finally, I saved the best for last. If you don't know by now I am a huge Megaman fan, and while Zero and Tron both have great ending's only one take's the cake. Nova! Some of you may be confused. Well Nova's Ending start's out with him saying how awesome being apart of the Nova Corps is, but there's one group that's even cooler the Mega Nova Corps. It then proceeds's to show you Megaman, Protoman, Roll, Beat, and Zero if they were members of the Nova Corp and it is amazing!

Epic Incarnate!

Comic Panel of the Week: Luxord in Wonderland (+My Thoughts on the 358/2 Days Manga)

That face crack's me up every time.

The Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days manga continues to be a very enjoyable read. I definitely recommend it if you want the story to the game but just don't want/ have the time to play it. I understand it's probably the worst of the series but I liked the story, and the Manga does a terrific job adapting it. It even expands on it, and gives some of the Organization some much needed characterization which was what the game was for but sadly falled flat. If your interested in reading it, the translated Manga is available by Yen Press who are making quite the name for themselves.

Superior Spider-Man Finale Review and General Thoughts

---SPOILER WARNING---

Yep! More Spider-Man. Why? Because Amazing Spider-Man 2 comes out latter this week, and I thought it was appropriate. Today were going to talk about Superior Spider-Man. This surprising lasted much longer then I expected, although in my defense when I wrote my review of Superior Spider-Man #1 I didn't know that it was going to come out bi-weekly. But hey in that review I also said I was going to continue to reading the series but after re-reading #1 after I wrote the review I dropped the book and didn't pick it up until the 2099 arc.

The whole thing just seemed like a publicity stunt, and I knew they weren't going to keep Doc Ock as Spider-Man for very long. I even thought they were going to make this a reason to undo "One More Day." I mean can you blame me, this was the cover to issue #2:

However they went in an entirely different direction then I thought it would. But I'm getting ahead of myself. This is a review of the Superior Spider-Man #31 after all. So let's begin. The comic opens just after the event's of the last issue, where Doc Ock sacrifices himself to finally give Peter his body back in order for Peter to save Ock's girlfriend Anna Maria from the Green Goblin who has pretty much taken over the city.

However before the final confrontation Peter explains why he's been acting so strange lately to Carrlie Cooper and Spider-Man 2099. He then teams up with Spider-Man 2099, and they go to Alchemax to confront the Goblins. But not before dealing with Menace, and "saving" the Goblin's grandson Normie and Liz Allen.Spidey then goes up to the roof to confront the Goblin who still thinks Ock is in control. One sarcastic remark later, and the Goblin realizes Peter is back.

The Goblin starts to panic since his plan didn't account for Peter coming back to life. This gives Peter the upper-hand, and he is able to remove the Goblin's mask to reveal that the Goblin had his face alter. He did this because his face was too well known, and he was trying to make a legacy for his Grandson. But since he wasn't wearing the mask anymore the tech developed by Ock can see him again, allowing a bunch of Spider-Bot's to inject him with a cure for the Goblin Formula. The Goblin starts to fall unable to keep his balance on his glider anymore, and Spider-Man catches him as well as Anna Maria who was able escape while the two were fighting.

They swing down to the streets below where Peter is about bring the Goblin to the police when Liz "accidentally" uses the Spider-Sense Jammer to incapacitate Peter so the Goblin can escape. She tells both Spider-Men that she didn't mean it and Peter believes her but he has his doubts. It's right about now that I should feel I should mention the art. It's not that it's bad. It's just during all of Goblin Nation the art felt weirdly familiar. Until it finally hit me when I saw these panels:

It turns out the guy who does the pencils for this book, Giuseppe Camuncoli, also did Hellblazer. Most notably #300 which was that series finale too. Which came out around this time of the year. So I pretty much can't look at this comic anymore without thinking about this:

Anyway, sorry to go off on such a tangent. Peter get's Anna Maria medical attention, but all she's worried about is whether or not "Peter's" okay. This leaves the real Peter feeling sad that Ock had to die in order for him to be here, since him and Anna Maria really did love each other. Meanwhile The Goblin starts to make a new plan to change his identity again, and this time he could be anybody.

Peter goes to his friends and family, and apologizes for the way he's been acting recently. Some except it, other don't. Like MJ who doesn't want anymore of this craziness in her life, and says it's stuff like this that made them drift apart.(and Mephisto, don't forget about him) Peter leaves and MJ talks to Carlie who is leaving town for pretty much the exact same reason MJ's mad at Peter, J. Jonah Jameson resigns as mayor of New York, and the comic ends with a preview of Dan Slott's run on Silver Surfer for some reason.

This comic was pretty good it had some good moment's and some bad. It was decently written, and the art was nice. Overall this series will probably be forgotten about in a few years though. But I think it was decent, nothing special, but it wasn't worth all the anger and death threats. Seriously there are much better things to be doing with your life then to send death threats to a Comic Book writer because he killed off your favorite character. Your teetering on the edge of obsessive fan and becoming the killer in a Stephen King novel. But I think this series deserves a tiny bit more attention so some time down the line I'm going to review my favorite story arc of Superior Spider-Man. See you then!

Comic Panel of the Week: Evil Superman

Ultimate Spider-Man #200 Review

---Spoiler Warning---

It's almost been Three Years since The Death of Ultimate Spider-Man. I remember it well since it came out on my last day of Highschool. Time really does fly, and Spider-Man has been through a lot in the last couple of years. We got a new Ultimate Spider-Man named Miles Morales who was very controversial in the beginning but most people grew to like him. Thanks to Bendis' we finally got a crossover between the Main and Ultimate Marvel Universes in Spider-Men. Then the original Peter Parker followed the Ultimate Universe's example and died as well. Replaced by a surprisingly "Heroic" Doc Ock, in Superior Spider-Man. Thankfully though they've undone that with the recent Superior Spider-Man #30 and the upcoming Amazing Spider-Man #1.By the way someone get a phone because I Called It!

But I'm sure your not here to read my thoughts about that. So let's get started on Ultimate Spider-Man #200. As to be expected this is an milestone issue for the series, however it kinda feels like an Epilogue to me. The story takes place Two Years after Peter Parker's death, Aunt May is having a get-together at there house to commemorate the anniversary. Various characters from the old and new Ultimate Spider-man series' show up like Mary Jane, Miles, Ganke, Jameson, and Kitty Pryde. Just to name a few, and (in Ultimate Spider-Man tradition) they just talk. Mostly about how they all think Peter would be like if he was still alive. Some are really touching especially Kitty Pryde's:

Plus I'm pretty sure Iceman's is just the Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon. They then decide the best way to honor him is to do something nice for someone, and since they have plenty of food (thanks to a generous donation from Tony Stark as an apology for not being able to be there) they decide to give it to some homeless people at a shelter. The comic ends with everyone parting ways with new friendships formed, and old one rekindled as a mysterious person watches from the distance.

This has got be one of my favorite issue of a comic ever. Which is crazy because if I did a Top Five of my favorite single issues, 3 of them would be Ultimate Spider-Man. As for this issue I think the art is great, and like I said before the story is really touching. If your an Ultimate Spider-Man fan you probably already have this but if you don't It's a must buy.

As I mentioned earlier this feels like an epilogue to me, however that might be because I recently read through all of Ultimate Comics Spider-Man as well as various other Spider-Man books like Maximum Carnage, and Hobgoblin Lives. This was finally the comic that made me realize how much I actually missed Peter Parker, and if this was the last issue of  Spider-Man I ever read. I couldn't ask for a better one. But that doesn't mean I'm not excited for "Amazing Spider-Man #1" and let's not forget "Miles Morales: The Ultimate Spider-Man #1". Until next time, keep on swinging.

Rating: 5/5

((Final Note: Wow It's been  9 month's since I talked about a Superhero Comic, and over a year since I reviewed one! I really got to work on that.))