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Three Weeks Worth of Reviews in One Post

So....yeah. Not packing the most amount of time this week, so I figured I would do these up quick and get my general opinions of the stuff I read this week out there. Especially cause a lot of it was really great.

Amazing Spider-Man #29 & 30: Both of these issues are very fun times, even if 29 is mostly just a bit of a moment to help display clearly where MJ and Peter sit in their current relationship. Which is....mostly on each others’ side and doing their best to always try and improve. With the fun twist at the end that Peter was going to make sure that they always tried to stay together by asking MJ to marry him. The side effect of this story? It gets MJ out of New York just in time for Absolute Carnage to go into full swing, with issue 30 occurring alongside Absolute Carnage #3. Pete hides away Eddie’s kid and Normie Osborn before fighting against the Cletus Kassidy-pretending Norman Osborn, while we get to see Kindred during his visit to Ravencroft to grab Mysterio as he talks to Norman. And how he displays this level of familiarity with Norman and Peter that begins to narrow his possible identities, while we keep cutting to Norman beating down Peter, with the comic ending with Norman triumphant over Peter. All of it is a heck of a show and the art is a lot of fun to look at, while managing to convey some great emotion at times. Fun times all around, still loving Nick Spencer writing Spidey.

Absolute Carnage #3: VENOMIZED HULK!!!!!! BEATING UP GOD-CARNAGE!!! AS THE LAST PANELS!!!!! Look, I cant sell people on Absolute Carnage more than it sells itself. This is a story that is good, epic, and amazingly arted that it does you a disservice to be missing this series or Marvel’s other event series during this current time.

Powers and House of X #4-5: Speaking of other event series, here is Jonathan Hickman’s.....honestly? I’m gonna call it his magnum opus. The story is so great even for the less informed on the X-Men, but knowing exactly what a turn this entire event has created, the level of cult fanaticism and fear that it puts into you about mutants due to seeing what is occurring within the entire Krakoa continent under Xavier’s.....honestly I’d call it regime, gives it even more impact. There is nothing crazier than seeing the evisceration of the X-Men during House of X #4 and then seeing the almost horrifying ceremony that surrounds their revival in House of X #5, not even getting into villains like Apocalypse showing up on Krakoa due to their entire place matching what they wanted for Mutantkind. The 6s for both series cant come soon enough, and Im certain they will rip this entire event wide open.

Justice League Dark #15: The fight between the JLD and the Injustice League Dark begins as the seeds of discord that were planted last issue take root. We get to watch as Kirk Langstrom does his best to become more ‘monstrous’ to hide his insecurities and transforms himself into a monster straight out of John Carpenter’s The Thing, Wonder Woman and Zatanna begin to mess with the Black Diamond of Eclipso which Circe is searching for and puts Wonder Woman into a place that she is likely to be attacked by a remnant of Hecate, and Swamp Thing is turned into mulch when he ends up becoming noticed by the new Guardian of the Green, The Floronic Man Jason Woodrue. And it all ends with Klarion and Solomon Grundy forcing a creation of Heacte’s into submission, a creation that literally looks like a reaper. And the art conveys this horror so well. I donèt make that The Thing comparison lightly, because it looks like the kind of thing that Junji Ito would have nightmares about. I am so excited to see where this goes.

Ironheart #10: This is a comic that is definitely on the line for me from purchase on day vs actual subscription, but I enjoy Riri under Eve Ewing’s writing, the whole thing is fun and interesting to see, and even if there are a fair number of guest heroes, Riri always feels like the main focus who these characters are supporting in places she isn’t strong in. Plus, the ending here with the tease over the Ten Rings matched with Luciano Vecchio’s art mkaes me really wanna see what comes next with Riri.

Justice League #32: This comic felt so epic to me that the big reveal of a hero coming to the Justice League’s aid had me humming the one superhero theme that always comes to mind when the heroes arrive to save the day, the Avengers theme. I dont care if that IS crossing companies, it was the only thing running through my mind because of how good a moment it was story and artwise. And getting to see the Justice League in past, present, and future all unite to face down their villains and use everything that have (along with some help arriving for most of them) to actually succeed in beginning to push back the villains.......it just feels so rewarding after 30 issues of the heroes and villains exchanging very equal blows that kept each side scrambling in order to keep the upper hand. Also, getting an ending moment where I was cheering the ANTI-MONITOR ON FOR DOING THE RIGHT THING was just such a moment of pure build-up and subversion that I was in awe. Please.....go read the No Justice miniseries and the entirety of this. You wont regret it at all.

Batman Curse of the White Knight #3: It’s Sean Murphy continuing to write his story as the Batman crew begin to slowly learn what exactly Azrael is and what inspired his attempted destruction of Batman last issue. Which results in more than a few shifts as Bruce reveals his identity to Harvey Bullock and Renee Montoya, Batman and Harley attempt to get some information out of Joker before giving up and just investigating Arkham again to find more stuff about Lafayette Arkham and Bekkar, and finally Gordon retires from the GCPD and lets Renee take over as Commissioner. Which is good....because Gordon goes out to talk to Batman and finds Azrael, starting a street war between Azrael’s followers and the cops, eventually ending with Harvey shot and Commissioner Gordon....dead, thanks to a greatsword through the chest and a 10 story drop. Please read. Highly recommend, especially with how all killer, no filler the story and universe Sean set up with the original story and this story are. You will either enjoy the hell out of it or despise it. No in-between.

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