This Week In Comics: 04-21-04

[Marc]

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DAREDEVIL #59
Written by Brian Michael Bendis
Cover & Pencils by Alex Maleev

"The King of Hell's Kitchen" Part 4
Faced with the growing threat of the Yakuza, Matt Murdock is on the comeback trail as he teams up with some of NYC's toughest heroes to take the fight back!

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So...what do you want to talk about this week?

[Thanos]

Batman Adventures #13
Batman: Gotham Knights #52
JLA #96
Superman/Batman #9
Cable/Deadpool #2
Captain Marvel #22
Daredevil #59
Fantastic Four #512

[Condiment King]

THE FLASH 208
-I especially liked this issue, better than 207. I still wish that Porter was doing the covers, and I'm still kinda annoyed by how Turner draws Bart (both here and in the Turner cover of Teen Titans 1). I mean, Porter draws Jay and Bart so well in this issue. Another thing is that Geoff writes Bart better in The Flash than he does over in Teen Titans, which I still can't understand. I found it interesting that said Turner cover of Teen Titans 1 can be found in the background of page 17. Other than the qualm about the cover, I thought this was an excellent issue. A

GREEN LANTERN 175
-There's numerous good and bad things about this issue, but many of them are spoilers. I was kind of interested as to how this issue could warrant a $3.50 pricetag if it was nothing more than a double-sized ending to "Wanted". I've found out, and I don't think I like it. D+

FANTASTIC FOUR 512
- At first, I was a little unsure after I saw this would be a mostly comedic issue, but then I realized that just because the recent attempts at humor I've read over in Batman's "Hush" and Superman/Batman's "World's Finest" suck doesn't mean that all superhero humor sucks. Spider-Man came off a like as a jerk at times but it was all fine. The page with Spider-Man's thoughts as Johnny talked was hilarious. The back-up was kinda "Meh." The art didn't compare to 'Ringo's. Without the back-up, it would probably be an A but I gotta make it an A- because of it.

[wolverine0815]

Adventures Of Superman #627
Robin #125
Superman Batman #9
New X-men #156
Uncanny X-men #443
Wolverine #14

[Nick K.]

Ultimate Spider Man # 57
Superman Batman # 9
New Frontier # 3
Ultimate X-men # 44

etc...

[Parallax]

Superman #203
Batman #625
JLA #95
Spider-Man: Blue TPB

[EJill34]

Batman Adventures #13
Batman: Gotham Knights #52
Superman/Batman #9
Batman: Gotham Adventures TPB
Batman: Faces TPB

[The Detective]

SUPERMAN BATMAN 9 — I am prepared to give $50 to the person who can tell me why Michael Turner insisted first on drawing Kara in that outfit that had the shirt-with-the-built-in-underwear and had to show us that it had built in underwear, and then drew Kara in other clothes that showed a very clearly visible thong. Is that all women are to him? Thongs and underwear? What a reject. Please just leave DC Comics and stick to your sexist garbage. B- (Still not as bad as issues 3-7)That's not as bad as 8 'lets see how many times we can show Kara naked without actually showing anything.'

So anways, here what I got. (month behind as always.)

Superman Batman 8 - First off, I don't like Turner's artwork. But, the writing was, this issue wasn't that bad. But ANOTHER Supergirl doesn't sit well with me. Guess I'll just see how this pans out.

Justice League Adventures - Piece of garbace. This was an uninspired piece of trash.

Batman Year One TPB - Thank GOD for something good to read!

[The Detective]

I picked up Batman/Superman #'s 8 & 9 and Hulk: Gray #6 (of 6).

B/S
Again, how many times has Loeb said that he crafts these arcs to help accomodate the artist, and this run is displaying Turner's talent of drawing scantally clad women right outta the gate. I totally agree that he's taking these renderings of sexy women a little too far, particularly around the waist for some reason. Jim Lee's run displayed his talent of drawing the bottoms of shoes, and Michael Turner's run will most likely test how low he can draw pants on women.

Aside from his tastes in style, I thought he's done a good job so far. I'm not familiar with his work, so I'm picking up his style as I go. I loved when I turned to the starting page of the Furies battle, those top shots of Apokylips and Granny Goodness are phenomenal, no doubt about it. Totally sets the tone for the scene, and no surprise here, the Furies are set to battle a scantally clad challenger. It's a nice prelude to Darkseid, sets him up for the future a little.

All the business with the Amazons and whatnot, eh, I wasn't too involved. No surprise that Wonder Woman's in the mix, gotta give Turner something to draw.

LOL. Y'know something else, Jeph Loeb must have a wierd obsession with Krypto the Superdog, first he appeared in "Hush" then got brough up here....

Hmmmm Batman Superman...BS..........yep that's about it.

[Cyber E.]

He also appeared in the FANTASTIC Loeb/McGuinness run on Superman a few times.

[Storm]

Picked up a few back issues along with some current stuff....


- Birds of Prey #62

I Give it: A+


- Domino #2 (of 4)

I Give it: A+

Note: Domino needs her own ongoing title!


- Mystique #12

I Give it: B


- Catwoman #29

I Give it: A-

Note: Great writing, the art was it's only downfall


- Marvel Knights' Spider-Man #1

I Give it: A


- Ultimate X-Men #40

I Give it: A




- Storm

[Fone Bone]

Sob! When is Bone #54 coming out?!?!

[EJill34]

Hmmmm Batman Superman...BS..........yep that's about it.
Why do you think they call it Superman/Batman and not Batman/Superman?

[Nick K.]

Got some more today...

Captain America # 20, 22, 23, 24 & 25
Wolv/ Punisher # 1
Punisher: The End

This week: Daredevil: Father #1, Ultimate Six # 7 & UFF #5

EDIT: & Superman #204 now!

[Zebi]

This week, I went digging in the back issue bins, and I also found a manga volume:


Ultimate Spider-Man #57
Spider-Man: The Death of Captain Stacy TPB
Peter Parker: Spider-Man, Vol. 2 #39-41 (the Doc Ock/Fusion story)
Web of Spider-Man #4
Hellsing, Vol. 1
Although it technically counts as something I got last week, I'll mention here that I finally found the Doc Ock mini-mate (picture (http://www.popcultureshock.com/newsviewer.php?id=309&p=2)). It comes with an unmasked Spider-Man, who has a little websack that he wears like a backpack! :D

[Antiyonder]

Fantastic Four #238 (The issue that Doctor Doom doesn't appear in as the cover stated)

Daredevil #-1 Flashback Issue
Deadpool #-1 Flashback Issue
Excalibur #-1 Flashback Issue

Anyone sense a pattern?

[Antiyonder]

Yesterday I got:

Batman Adventures #13
The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #27 (1993)