MEGABEARD COMIC PANEL OF THE WEEK #33
Green Lantern #65
GUY GARDNER, YOU HAVE THE POWER TO OVERCOME GREAT BEER.
It must take a lot of Willpower to turn down a cold one while facing total annihilation.
MEGABEARD COMIC PANEL OF THE WEEK #32
Amazing Spider-Man #664
Eddie Brock has always been a favorite character of mine. He was the villain that really defined the 90’s and definitely one of, if not the most most popular Spider-Man villain of all time. Many were sad to see him lose the symbiote when he started to succumb to the cancer that was discovered before he took on the symbiote in the first place.
His reemergence and new purpose in life came a year or two back when he first started going to the Feast Shelter (ironic?) to get his life together and beat the addiction that had taken over his life and identity. Miraculously out of nowhere, his cancer was cured. He finds purpose and ends up working at the shelter to help others. It’s when he realizes the man who has built this safe haven is one of the deadliest mob bosses in the city. Mr. Negative’s shelter gave him a new life, but Negative’s dark side cured his cancer and gave him new power in the form of an old curse. They seeped in and reacted with the dormant symbiote stamped in his body like cancer, and he became Anti-Venom.
He tries to be a hero, but he can’t escape his past. He’s a sinner seeking redemption. In many ways, this is the same curse Brock was given long ago in Spider-Man #398. He was a monster made to take, feast, and destroy. Now he’s a monster made to purify, cure, and rid the streets of pain. Did the symbiote change this time, or the man? It’s his second chance, and for the first time he feels like can make a difference.
MEGABEARD COMIC PANEL OF THE WEEK #30
FEAR ITSELF #4
‘Fear Itself’ is in full effect, and even though I promised I would keep away from the crossover individual issues, I am excited as hell. This was a crossover that started off feeling like, well… another cross over. However, it really built in a wat that stands out above ‘Siege’, ‘Shadowland’, and ‘Secret Invasion’.
I liked Siege, but not for the story or what it did for the characters or the Marvel Universe. I loved the unusual and interesting predicament. I loved Norman Osbourn running the show, and how absolutely ridiculous that was. I loved the Dark Avengers, and I deeply miss that book. It was the most interesting villains, playing Avengers, living together in a ritzy building in the middle of NYC. It was a comic book reality TV show, and it was intense, funny, and charming.
‘Shadowland’ had a really interesting setup, much like Secret Invasion, but other than the death of Bullseye, nothing really changed.
At first, I was not excited for ‘Fear Itself’. It didn’t feel like a big deal or much was riding on it’s shoulders. I wasn’t sold. This one came in quiet and blew up in our faces. This is a new arc for the usual Marvel cross over and it’s great! We’ve been fed the stakes with previews, ‘road to’s, setups, and prologues. Marvel didn’t show it’s cards right away, or at all. It’s presented as it is, as it happens. Comic-bookery in it’s truest form.
**SPOILERS**
Best of all, Bucky got his ass kicked! He really reeaaallly gets his ass kicked. I mean, his silly little robot arm ripped off and lasered through the chest ass kicked. I was actually shocked and excited. I loved the idea of Bucky as Heroic Age Cap. I love the suit, the guns, the persona, and the symbolism. It’s when the comic started poking at the Tea Party and politics that I lost interest. Bucky wanted to live up to Cap, but i never felt like that was the main purpose of the book. It was just… political commentary with nothing real to back it up. Bucky just went through the motions. Dick became Batman around when Bucky became Cap, and I have to say, I’ll be sad when Dick goes back to Nightwing in the reboot, but I’m loving Steve coming back to the red, white, and blue skivvies.
Once I saw Epting’s Bucky in the news for being “insensitive” to political parties, and the only real “Captain America-esque” story arc ended. I jumped ship.
Bucky makes a good Bucky. He also makes a good Winter Soldier.
Steve is Captain America, and now Bucky… Bucky is dead.
Mogo’s Obituary
I liked this so much, that I don’t even want the reboot.
Hats off to you DC, I am pleased.
MEGABEARD COMIC PANEL OF THE WEEK #29
Green Lantern Corps #60
In the past two weeks, two comic characters have died. One bigger than the other in continuity and history, the other bigger in, well… scale.
**SPOILERS**
Mogo has died. How? Well, he fucking exploded. I was about to explain the reason for Mogo’s sad/hilarious death, but I feel that it would be best to leave it at that.
Last week’s Marvel’s death was supposed to shake a crossover, but it left me pumping my fist in victory. DC killed Mogo for storyline, then made it hilarious. I mean, for all of you who don’t know, Mogo is a sentient earth. The dude is a planet. He goes kablooey, then the next page in the letters column they put obituary, which is hilarious!!!!
I’ll post that here. <READ THIS FOR THE LOL>
In the end, ‘The War of the Green Lanterns’ is the crossover I wanted ‘Brightest Day’ to be, and believe it or not, I’m liking it as much as ‘Blackest Night’. I approve.
RIP MOGO, you crazy pool ball looking planet you.
MEGABEARD COMIC PANEL OF THE WEEK #28
Amazing Spider-Man #656
Death’s have become a monthly, or even weekly occurrence in comic. It used to be suprising, emotional, powerful, now it’s a joke. Comic events like “Ultimatum” and the “Crisis” of your choosing target the biggest characters, kill them, then bring them back. In Amazing Spider-man #655 they killed off an unimportant character, and in #656 they deal with the aftermath, however small it may be.
This issue is all About Jonah Jameson Jr., and how he wakes up the morning of his Wife’s funeral. Then it cuts to Peter Parker waking up, and deciding not to wear the spider suit under his clothes for the funeral. From there it leads to a moving and powerful story, with incredible visuals, and a fantastic in depth look at death in the history of Spider-Man.
Definitely worth picking it up.
MEGABEARD COMIC PANEL OF THE WEEK #27
Amazing Spider-Man #656
Death’s have become a monthly, or even weekly occurrence in comic. It used to be suprising, emotional, powerful, now it’s a joke. Comic events like “Ultimatum” and the “Crisis” of your choosing target the biggest characters, kill them, then bring them back. In Amazing Spider-man #655 they killed off an unimportant character, and in #656 they deal with the aftermath, however small it may be.
This issue is all About Jonah Jameson Jr., and how he wakes up the morning of his Wife’s funeral. Then it cuts to Peter Parker waking up, and deciding not to wear the spider suit under his clothes for the funeral. From there it leads to a moving and powerful story, with incredible visuals, and a fantastic in depth look at death in the history of Spider-Man.
Definitely worth picking it up.
MEGABEARD COMIC PANEL OF THE WEEK #26
Amazing Spider-Man #656
Death has become a monthly, even weekly occurrence in comic books. It used to be surprising, emotional, powerful, now it’s a joke. Comic events like “Ultimatum” and the “Crisis” target the biggest characters, kill them, then bring them back. In Amazing Spider-man #655 they killed off an unimportant character, and in #656 they deal with the aftermath, however small it may be.
It has to be the best death Issue in years.
This issue is all about Jonah Jameson Jr., waking up the morning of his Wife’s funeral. It cuts to Peter Parker’s morning, getting up and deciding not to wear the spider suit under his clothes for the funeral. From there it leads to a moving and powerful story, with incredible visuals, and a fantastic in depth look at death in the history of Spider-Man.
Definitely worth picking it up. I highly recommend.
MEGABEARD COMIC PANEL OF THE WEEK #25
Age of X: Alpha
If you are going to follow any miniseries, read Age of X. I know what you’re thinking, “another X-men post apocalyptic alternate timeline, fuck it.” First off, I usually like those story lines so shut up, just read the first issue and you’ll be sold. It’s a world where the x-men were never formed and the mutants have already lost. Everyday is the last battle. Cyclops had recently escaped from death row, where the panel above illustrates how he was death row. Bottom line, X-men has been the only title that hasn’t faltered for a single issue in a long time. The streak still stands. Read it.
