A day late and a dollar short: Comic Book Roundup for 10/15/2014 *When Animals attack edition*

Hey all its Comic Roundup Day! here’s your rocket launcher and NT Anti-animal Mech suit. What are these for? Where have you been man? It’s the Animals they've risen up and declared total war on each other.

I am not overreacting! have you seen it out there? It’s absolute Chaos

And there organized

And Weaponized

And those interrogation rooms *shudder*

Not to mention they've started attacking humans,

ok well more like being irritants but that girl is going to need some major therapy let me tell you.

This must be must divine retaliation for Marvel starting yet another major crossover event right after Original Sin. Alright lets get into some comics and maybe we can get things under control before were through. So Lets get to a world where Skull headed Nazis can gain ultimate power, Fairy Tales can become superhero’s and Wolverine finally kicks the bucket, maybe. It’s Roundup time!

Ouch that looks like it hurt.

Batman and Robin #35

4/5

*NF: 3

Batman launches a one man war against Apokolips in order to retrieve Damian’s body. It’s a visually fantastic book, The Hellbat suit looks awesome and the fires of Apokolips cast and eerie glow. The plot however while not terrible is just not as impressive as the images in the book, not to mention some of the one liners are a little cheesy and stale, but for the most part it’s an exciting read .

Justice League #35

3/5

NF: 2

Luthor gives Bruce a tour of his facilities so that he can inspect the cooperation and make sure nothing illegal is happening. This is a better issue then most of the JL stories New 52 has been pushing but it’s still too early to tell how much better. At the very least even though AMAZO is going to be some nanite virus, which is annoying, they have a more believable reason for Bruce and Luthor joining forces other than just because.

Supergirl #35

3/5

NF: 2

Supergirl and Red Hood team up to take out some alien arms dealers. That was…random. It was an enjoyable read but it really just kind of came out the blue. It’s at least a single enclosed story and I like that. After so many “events” in comics it is nice to occasionally see a simple one shot story. I am however irritated by the company’s attempt to make me go and buy red hood and the outlaws so I can figure out what up with Jason Todd. Oh and FYI this has next to nothing to do with doomed aftermath or otherwise.

Teen Titans #03

3/5

NF: 2

The Teen Titans are attacked by the same robot terrorist they defeated earlier. The Book is ok. It’s not breaking any ground yet but I like the street level view of the titans. I still don’t like that Cyborg is not on the team and I don’t really care about Bunker since he’s just the gay Cyborg and lacks any interesting elements to his personality aside from that, but at least they went a whole issue without him proclaiming to the rooftops that he’s gay which I greatly appreciate.

Green Lantern new guardians #35

3/5

NF: 2

Kyle learns more about the white lantern ring and is angry about secrets being kept from him. Ok, so Highfather is only kind of a bad guy? I mean he talks about the greater good but he slaughtered several Green Lanterns when he knew their weapons couldn’t even harm him, kinda makes him a badguy in my book. As for the whole white lantern stuff I really, really hope we can wrap up this whole emontial reservoir garbage soon, if I’m honest and refuse to give into tact then it’s a truly stupid idea and whoever came up with it needs to move on to some Z list book where they can’t do any more harm. I also am sick and tired of DC thinking its clever because its shipping characters together that were with other characters pre-new 52.

Avengers & X-Men Axis #02

4/5

NF: 2

Iron man and the other heroes continue their fight against the red Onslaught. I still get confused as to how canon onslaught is always supposed to be but I guess since were taking over everyones comic for this one I suppose its canon. As much as I’m sick of all these companywide crossovers it is kind fun to see one that’s simply one giant fight, since that’s what all these things boil down to anyway. Some fun moments in the issue and I think it’s worth a pick up if you just want heroes punching things. I had to laugh at the last panel.

Original sin annual #01

1/5

NF: 1

Reader is given a brief glimpse at the history of the previous Man on the Wall. Dull and pointless, Orignal Sin is over and if this story was so desperately important to your plot, which it isn’t, then you should have included it in the Original Sin story line. The story is also dull and incredibly uninteresting in case anyone was losing sleep over it.

New Avengers #25

3/5

NF: 2

In an alternate reality the illuminate are hunted by shield. I would just like to make the Marvel writers understand that I have no interest, zero, nada, less than one, in alternate reality tales inside main books. Save that stuff for WHAT IF? I mean what’s the point of following a story that doesn’t matter? We were getting real interesting with the whole incursion/Namor plot only to just drop it and start this tiresome story, hopefully this won’t last long.

Hulk #07

4/5

NF: 1

The Hulk continues to depower his fellow hulks and next on his list is Skarr. Please, please depower the red hulks. I mean if we’re going to depower Skarr and A-bomb then we defiantly need to depower the red hulks because there are by far the most annoying new hulks. That aside I like this story, this arrogant new hulk that’s different from all the other versions of himself who is so arrogant to think he gets to decide who keeps there powers and who doesn't.

Fantastic Four

5/5

NF: 3

The conspiracy tightens around the fantastic four as their friends try to find out who is behind all of this. Great issue has a much stronger conspiracy feel then most superhero conspiracy stories. Someone with a lot of influence money and power are going to great lengths to destroy the Fantastic Four from within I just hope if doesn’t turn out to be a disappointment when we find out who’s behind all of this.

Loki Agent of Asgard #07

4/5

NF: 3

World War Hate spills into latveria and doom try’s to subdue his people while Verity try’s to free Loki. So we should probably just drop the “Agent of Asgard” title and just keep it Loki since he’s really not doing any agenting anymore. But that aside reading a book full of villains/reformed villains is kind of fun with Magneto being in top form and doom just shrugging off the telepathic rays of Red Onslaught. It’s occurred to me that Loki has been a good guy for some time now and I find I like Loki being an ally as much as I like him being the villain and with old Loki still around I continue to hope I get to keep the best of both worlds.

The Death of Wolverine # 04 *Big Spoilers*

5/5

NF: 3

Wolverine bursts into the lab of the man that’s been hunting him only to find terrible secrets. Lol He’s so not really dead. I mean come on, the bad guy conveniently has a regenerative serum and there clearly was more than one so there if there’s more than one it’s easy to believe that Logan used the serum on the test subject then one on himself and he’s still alive and well just trapped under all that adamantium. Still it was a great send off and a great issue that sums up wolverines life very well. So here’s to you Logan! See you in a year’s time, because we all know that’s the max amount time he’ll be away.

Wolverine and the X-Men #10

3/5

NF: 2

The X-Men retell there favorite story’s about wolverine. Some of the stories are better than others some of the art is better than others. It’s a mishmash of good and bad but still it’s a relatively decent memorial issue but I can’t help but sit here and look at my watch trying to predict exactly when the wolverine is going to pop back up making this whole ceremony mute. I mean Night crawler didn’t even stay dead for very long, wolverines going to be on the fast track back.

Uncanny x-men #27

3/5

NF: 3

The x-men try to approach the new mutant but things don’t go as well as planned. Kind of a meh issue, nothing really happens except we confirm again that the mutant they are going after is dangerously powerful. If you miss this comic the only thing you really need to know is that Cyclopes just wants to talk.

Edge of the spider verse #05

3/5

NF: 1

Peni Parker is part of team Spi//der and protects her city with her mechanical suit. This is Just another entry into the spider verse buildup. Nothing really special happens in the issue, other then it being another actual recruitment and not just Morlun eating everybody. Seriously, you can’t say your teaming up with every Spiderman ever if the bad guy just killed like 4 of them before the event starts.

Spiderman 2099

3/5

NF: 2

Miguel O hare keeps experiencing intense migraines little does he know that it’s the totem eating vampire Morlun killing his alternate selves. This was a better read then the last issue but it didn’t break any storytelling records. I did like them setting up that Morlun is afraid to come back to main marvel earth due to his earlier defeat. This whole Spider Verse thing just needs to start instead of just dragging its feet.

Miles Morales Ultimate Spiderman #06

5/5

NF: 3

Miles and MJ question this new peter parker and try to figure out if he’s the real deal or not. Sooo I’m assuming that peter is immortal like Osborn? Still not sure if I’m supposed to assume if he’s the real peter or not, but it still was one excellent issue. Miles has certainly proved himself as Spiderman and I’m ok with keeping him as the definitive Ultimate Spiderman. Oh, and I guess that’s goodbye To Ultimate Jameson. Lets all wave

Miss marvel #09

5/5

NF: 3

After fighting a robot Kamala learns more about here powers and what their limitations are. This is a very engaging read and Kamala is still very endearing of a character though I wish they had given us a more solid explanation of what her powers can and cannot do. I feel like they tell us one thing and then change their minds about it and try to cover it up with some random excuse that may or may not be accurate because there unsure as well.

Fables *Spoilers*

5/5
NF:0

Ozma and beast gear up to try and stop a feral bigby. DANG! Were pulling out all the stops here the secrets out, fables are dying, bigby the god of monsters is being controlled by malevolent forces this are getting crazy as we inch closer and closer to the end of this fantastic epic series.

It seems with a little ingenuity and help from a local vacuum cleaner