Daredevil #96(Marvel, W: Ed Brubaker, A: Michael Lark)
Overview: Matt Murdock has been outed as Daredevil, sent to Ryker's (prison, with prisoners), escaped courtesy of the Punisher, been to Europe and back, propositioned by the Kingpin's dying wife, (not THAT way, pervs), and is now back in Hells Kitchen. He's cleared his name, or at least to the point that while plenty of people still suspect/"know" but it's not a given fact, and is trying to get his life back in order, both as Matt Murdock, attorney at law and sexy blind guy, and Daredevil, occasionally badass, often nice guy ass kicker and sometimes fruitcake.
Current Storyline: Melvin Somethingface aka Gladiator has been accused of killing some prisoners and guards at the mental facility/prison he's been placed in. I have no idea what this guy's deal is as far as a backstory, but I've gathered that he's s big buff dude who may or may not have superstong powers that may or may not get stronger when he gets angry. He also has a split personality or can't remember when his Gladiator side takes over. It all seems like a pussed out version of the Hulk, only that he's a criminal. Anyway, he and Daredevil/Matt have some kind of history (haaaayyy sailor...) and Daredevil is torn between feeling obligated to defend him in court as Matt Murdock and to distance himself to avoid drawing any Daredevil=Matt Murdock attention. The dude definitely is killing people however, because you see it happen more than once. Ed Brubaker is a great writer, especially when it comes to super hero books, and gay jokes aside, Daredevil can be a cool character, making this worth picking up every month.
The Exterminators #16*(Veritgo, W: Simon Oliver, A: Tony Moore)
Overview: Picked this up because it's a Veritgo book and it was a slow week. Still don't really have a grasp of what's going on as this is the last issue in a story arc, something I didn't realize when I first grabbed it. I bought #17 today which starts a new story, so hopefully next week I'll have a better idea of what this books deal is. Suffice to say that this issue was interesting enough to make me buy the next one. Oh, it is at least partially about actual exterminators, the bug kind, not the HARD-AZZ HITMEN kind. Speaking of bugs, Vincent D'Onofrio, the guy who played the farmer that the bug creature took over in the first Men In Black movie, is on one of the Law and Order's now, and actually is a fatass. He looks almost as bad as he did in MIB. Bummer for him. And possibly Mrs. D'Onofrio.
Current Storyline: Not sure/see above. There was a part where there's a dried out swimming pool full of frogs that they just steamroller over and smoosh with one of those big drums full of water they use to level out tennis courts. Fucking gross. Greg would be severely bummed.
Fallen Son: Avengers*(Marvel, W: Jeph Loeb, A: Ed McGuiness)
Overview: see the first Fallen Son review HERE.
Current Storyline: How the Avengers are dealing. They meet up to play cards. Everyone's all bummed out, especially Spider-Man. TheThing basically tells everyone to stop being such a bunch of babies, "Cap wouldn't have wanted it that way", yadda yadda yadda. Another three bucks down the drain. I wonder if the people at Marvel have a big picture of me on the wall of their boardroom that they just walk by after meetings and go "Cha-ching! Cha-ching! Cha-ching!"
Powers #24(Icon, W: Brian Michael Bendis, A: Michael Avon Oeming)
Overview: As I understand it, this is the book that "broke" Brian Michael Bendis. And by that I mean put him on the map in the comics world, not like Bane did to Batman (mmerrrr, merrrr). Powers follows two cops who are assigned to cases involving superheroes/villains, or "powers." The one thing that took getting used to is that the art is kind of cartoon-y, really similar to that Batman animated series that was on Fox-TV when I was like 10 (making that the very early 90's, for point of reference) but the stories are often pretty grim and violent, at least relatively speaking. And there's a decent amount of curse words and other things that you wouldn't expect judging by the artwork. That's not a complaint, because those things are what make it so awesome, but it was just something that struck me as odd/I was unaccustomed to. Pretty great book overall, definitely in my top ten, maybe even top five.
Current Storyline: This was the last issue of the current arc (I think) where some kind of devil/demon thing's offspring were possessing different Powers and making them kill people, particularly other powers. The two detectives had to try and track down the possessed Power, and stop the demons/her. It was revealed that the dude cop was a Power/still has his powers, which he used to get rid of the demon, which I gather is a big deal, because his quasi lesbo/hottt babe partner flipped when she found out. Oh, and the dude cop looks like he should be voiced by Patrick Warburton, (Puddy from Seinfeld, duh.)
The Punisher Presents: Barracuda #3(Marvel, W: Garth Ennis, A: Goran Parlov)
Overview: This series is an spinoff focusing on Barracuda, an assassin hired to take out the Punisher a few stories back in the Max book. Punisher eventually took out one of his eyes, all of the fingers on one hand, shot him with a shotgun and left him in shark infested waters. But Barracuda is wayyyyy too hard to die from some pussy shit like that. He grabbed the back of Punisher's boat and was towed back to safety. Generally, he's pretty into killing people, making money, getting his shit sucked-off, fuckin white women, and so forth. This mini-series has Barracuda being hired by a mafia don to take his son to kill a South American drug lord who's been fucking with him. Only problem is his son is a scrawny, nerdy hemophiliac. Barracuda also happens to be old friends with the drug lord, and a double cross is set up. Or maybe even a triple double dog cross...either way, plenty of killing and tits and so forth.
Current Storyline: Like the Ghost Rider: Trail of Tears book, that IS the whole story. Though in this issue Barracuda's old army buddy comes to join the fight, but now he's a she, but the dumb drug lord doesn't know any better, so there's some serious tranny-fuckin' going on. And then the drug lords place gets attacked by people hired by the mafia guy and everything gets batshit, but Barracuda and his tranny buddy fuck people up, and a plan is made where Barracuda double crosses just about everyone and still comes out on top. SOLID READ BRO.
The Walking Dead #37*(Image, W: Robert Kirkman, A: Charlie Adlard, Cliff Rathburn)
Overview: There was some kind of zombie outbreak and like in pretty much every zombie story, groups of people have holed up in strongholds or whatever fortified little areas they can come up with. The book has been around for a few years now so I've missed the whole outbreak/initial reaction part of the story. It seems like a good amount of time has passed since the zombie attack in the story as well. I'm only one issue in but the writing is definitely better than average, as I'll probably keep reading this book and I'm not into zombies enough to buy it strictly on the basis of that.
Current Storyline: This couple gets married, but the compound is running out of food. Looks like a small group will have to go out into the world, a world full of ZOMBIES.... And as you can tell by the cover, this girl is pregnant. Probably not with a zombie. But who knows! Not the most original stuff, but like I said, well written enough to make it somewhat fresh.
Wolverine #53(Marvel, W: Jeph Loeb, A: Simone Bianchi)
Overview: Seriously? I know not everyone reads comics or is at all familiar with them, but with all the movies being monstrously high profile events, I think it's pretty safe to assume that most everyone under 50 knows who Wolverine is. He's basically the one comic book character you can openly think is cool without being ridiculed in public. But then you can also go too far and base your hairstyle on his, and probably have some sort of Wolverine doll that you dry hump feverishly before bed. Or maybe not. JOE. Anyway.
Current Storyline: Wolverine is beginning to uncover even more stuff about his past, including his ancestors and how he may have evolved from an entirely different species than normal humans and even other mutants. He has recurring dreams/memories of an ancient cat/human race, and Sabretooth is somehow involved in it as well. They're both in Wakanda now with the Black Panther and Storm trying to figure the whole thing out. Well, Wolverine and Sabretooth are trying to kill each other, and Sabretooth is just killing people period. But at some point in between there's non-killing related figuring-outing-going on. Jeph Loeb is pretty great, makes Wolverine even better.
Stuff I picked up this week, which will be reviewed sometime in the next couple days:
Exterminators #17
Hellboy: Darkness Calls #1
The Incredible Hulk #106
Iron Man #17
Midnighter #7
Shazam! and The Monster Society of Evil #3
Scalped #5
Punisher #47
Ghost Rider: Trail of Tears #4
American Virgin #14
100 Bullets #83
Baron Zemo: Born Better #4
World War Hulk: Worldbreaker #1
Deadman Vol. 4 #9
Ward of the State #1
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