Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles v1 08

Mirage comics Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles by Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman was full of parodies and nods to comics franchises, movies, and other entertainment. Don't know how they are in the IDW comics, but check these from issue 08 of volume 1

Batman?

Romero, and raising an army of dead. Get the nod to Caesar Romero's zombie flicks?

IS BATMAN REAL-istic?

Is Batman a realistic character? I keep seeing online by so many people how realistic Batman is, look at the most repeated line people say:

"Batman is so real, he has no powers, that's why he's my favorite superhero"

Having no super powers makes him real in the eyes of some, the bigger problem is when it's followed by this line: "Batman is so smart and so rich and so powerful, he can take anyone with enough prep-time and good items"

Ok, rule 1 about realism is; "People have limits", one of the things Batman seem to lack is a limit

Guy barely sleeps

Trained on so many fighting techniques, way too many

Knows too much

Skilled athlete in so many sports; archery, sprinting, swimming, diving for long and not drowning, etc

And when he uses his grappling hook, he can use it to climb 15 stories up pretty fast, probably much faster than elevators, holding his rope with one hand and setting stuff with another. Any stress to his arm? Barely, if any

If you know Batman well enough, you can see several out there similarities between him and Jigsaw (the first villain in SAW film franchise)

And here's another thing; if he's so realistic, he can't take down anyone with enough prep time, not someone like Superman or the Flash, it's stupid to think he can take someone with such high speed. Maybe he can take the Flash down, but not Superman, a guy so super he's faster than a speeding bullet, and so strong he can stop a speeding train

If you watched Justice League: Doom (animated DC feature film), Bruce Wayne escapes from his grave using a key and his bleeding fist, no one can do that, and it will be pretty rare to see someone accomplishing such an amazing feat

Here, check this image, it explains how real this superhero is, with all clarity, using less words than I used

BAD MISTAKE THERE LEE

Tales to Astonish 61

By Stan Lee & Steve Ditko

Noodle head called Betty Ross, Ms. Brant. I love Glen Talbot in the 80s Hulk cartoon where he is a goofy major name Ned, "Noodle head Ned" will always come to mind when I see this guy

HENRI DUCARD

In Batman Begins we have this guy, calling himself Henri Ducard, and calls Bruce Wayne to join their cause of justice, and later is found out to be Ra's Al-Ghul, Batman leaves him to die after Ducard tried to kill every person in Gotham city cause it's soiled with crime.

Question is there a comic origin of Henri Ducard?

Detective Comics 600, first significance of Henri Ducard

Back in 1988 Bruce Wayne had to face consequences of aiding out of country people who oppose America, that was caused by a cartel that inserted itself in Wayne Enterprises and took liberty of forgery of Bruce's signature and taking charges, making a project transferring minds to other people who have biochips planted in their brains, that was revealed back in Detective Comics 598The Cartel almost found the truth about Bruce Wayne? Maybe so, they checked into his background and found his past bad for his reputation, they used that against him, and forged a charge on Bruce after he almost shut down their project, the Cartel hired Ducard to be a witness against their employer

The first actual appearance of Henri was in Detective Comics 599 in a flashback, in Batman's quest for training he hounded Ducard -a former member of the Interpol- to train him how to detect
Unlucky for Bruce, the former Interpol member who was wanted by 4 countries sought after Batman to fill his empty time

Studying Batman's prowess as a detective he discovered how some criminals are so attached to Batman they were putting things in his way to make him find them, and thought Batman is quite an overrated Detective

Putting 2+2 together he figured who Batman truly is, and found out some more secrets of Bruce Wayne, his former pupil

Seeing that Bruce did something ruthless (not knowing Bruce wouldn't have gone through it if not for some heavy persuasion) Henri didn't do what the cartel brought him to do, instead he saved Bruce and was proud of him, leaving America cause he is not welcomed there

A former member of the Interpol, a french, a great detective, a bit ruthless, that was Henri Ducard from the comics, that was the name used for Ra's disguising himself

IGN's TOP 100 COMIC BOOK HEROES

The list

So what if it's old? I like putting it there now, I just read it, like some stuff, others I find so-so or characters I care nothing about or know nothing about, it's a list, no hate

I loved seeing Raphael from TMNT in it, was hoping Michaelangelo wouldn't be far away from being viewed, and DAMMIT, Raph is the only turtle there, where's the love for the Turtle Titan?
It was also kind of surprising having Hal Jordan & Hal Stewart there without Kyle being on the list, I enjoy Hal the most, but why no Kyle? Kind of sad

Seeing Superman as No.1 & Batman followed as No.2 is great, I prefer Spidey to both, and I love Iron Man -because he is in many ways like Spidey- more than Batman, but I don't mind the two most important BFF there, why? They are the greatest 2 comic book icons, and I love seeing Spider-Man not far behind them

What's amusing is people's complaints on Superman being No.1, it's entertaining

PETER PARKER IN BATMAN

Batman 325

Not given the name Peter, but a young photographer named Parker

ALONG CAME A SPIDEY (COOL IMAGES)

It's Spider-Man origin episode from Season 2 of Spider-Man & His Amazing Friends, that season was all about origins

BAGLEY SPIDER-BALLOON

Balloon based on Mark Bagley's way of drawing Spider-Man's mask from Spider-Man 3 the movie

COOL BATMAN IMAGES

LOL

This dude from DareDevil 302 told DareDevil what Spider-Man told the building guard after he was 'MEH, why bother?'

ORIGINAL MOVIE SUIT vs REBOOT MOVIE SUIT

Round 1
FIGHT

Maguire's suit looks better as a Spidey suit IMO

Garfield's suit has better coloring. Red & Blue always beat crimson & navy blue to me

DRAW GAME

PART EACH MONTH vs FULL ARC

Too many comic book stories are multi issued arcs, the ones contained in only one title are better cause they don't require getting some issues of a title you don't want to get involved with, then wait for a trade hardcover to read it

Trades sometimes cost less than collecting the story issue by issue, and has less advertisements, plus they show the extra unused covers. This is a decade of a trade for each story, I recommend patience and collecting stories in trades, beats waiting for the next part one whole month

GET A LIFE

Hey there true believers (I really need to quit quoting "Stan Lee")

I'm a comic reading nerd, I read so many comics, maybe a wee-bit too many, I also enjoy reading plenty of manga, playing video games, watching movies, etc,etc, same nerds stuff, it works fine for me, I can still arrange my affairs and not let my too many geeky activities interfere with the quality of activity in my life either social or to myself, though I discovered a good need to cut down my geeky/nerdy activity after checking a discussion about "How many times do you read comics?", some answered with "Only once", and I had to go in a :GASP: session, how can they do that? Of course they have too many comics they read, and so many things to do, after over a decade and a half of collecting comics they brief us on their experience of how life has things so stacked there is no room to reread back issues, and after prolonged thinking I figured I need to follow an advice of such a nice wise man


Of course the expression "Get a Life" can best be explained as "Don't let your interest(s) take over your life, balance between social stuff, work & fun", so don't misunderstand and think that reading comics is just a waste of time that causes serious troubles, it's a good hobby as many

I made a list of my top 50 characters over a year from the date of this post, 10 parts an entry with 5 characters in each entry, it went through some changes regarding the heroes I enjoy most, and who I think I should read about, but first check the important entries:

Part 1/10
Part 3/10
Part 4/10
Part 6/10

Some changes happened in the list, my top 5 heroes now, and the ones I care to collect about the most cause they are the most have comics of are (from the most favorite going downward):

1. Spider-Man: Was, and still is my favorite, not only as a superhero, but as fictional character, hopefully he will remain that way. This guy got me into the wonderful world of comics, he gave me a tempoarary fondness of spiders, I used to play with some spiders, that was until I developed quite the severe case of arachnophobia that lasted with me for years. This guy has one of the best names in comics, and a great costume that doesn't need a cape to look great, I always admired that about him, any reminder of him gives me a wide smile, and my fondness of him keeps growing, even after I feel him cheesy for a while, the only guy I almost have all of his published comics, his powers make great use in many video games, and looks great animated

2. Iron Man: Within time in the past two years and 3 months since his first movie was released, he jumped from a low mark of me not interested in him to my second favorite superhero, and as a fictional character, but I never liked the first movie that highly, still don't. I have a big collection of his comics





3. Superman: After a while, I began to feel he is my favorite DC Comics character, enjoying him more than I do Batman, the guys has the best comics I ever read, and has one of the greatest artists working on him for years, the magnificent "Curt Swan"




4. Batman: My top 3 movies of all time? Batman films. Greatest animated stuff? Batman. Comic books? Second best of all time (except the "Golden Age", some good and some boring). Video games? Have some real great stuff. Detective, I love detective stuff








5. DareDevil: Blind as a bat, his comics are great, and I have a great portion of his comics, they are great. And he's a ninja, I love ninja stuff





What made me make such a decision? I love rereading issues, I don't like to go sometime in the future collecting so many characters and barely have time to reread even an issue. I will keep my collection of other characters books, but I won't collect more of them, and besides, this way I will have more time for other things, for more important things

UNDER THE RED HOOD

The latest release of DC DTV animated features, one of many Batman features of course, and there are one or two more Batman features to come later this year, the guy is a major cash bringer. Here's the trailer

But the movie is so good, so far it's the best animated feature I watched, it has great action, very well paced, a grim and sad story, but still holds its funny moments (so does Batman Begins), don't get grim & gritty for entirely humorless

Voice acting? Voice actors are plenty of different, listen to the voices of Batman & Joker mainly, two different from their legendary voice actors "Kevin Conroy" & "Mark Hamil" respectively, though for this movie they worked very well, perfectly well, voice acting is very well made

I won't type any of the synopsis, I think this movie is so great I don't care to spoil it for you. Watch and enjoy it, the sooner you do the better

VAGABOND

This is it, the moment I finally review this amazing Manga series, which I'm so sorry for not reviewing earlier.

STORY:
Like many samurai stories, it takes you back to the historical "Battle of Sekigahara", a war between the North & the South of a country divided Japan, which is thankfully one united country now. From the village of Miyamoto two young men joined the war, they were at the age of 17, one of them is "Shinmen Takezo", the other one is his only friend in the village, the only man who put confidence in him, "Matahachi Honiden", both wanted to prove themselves as strong men joining the war, but they didn't have a proper opportunity to battle, at least that was what happened entirely with "Matahachi Honiden"

After the battle, some events took their toll on the characters, some took bad choices and made the wrong moves, fortunately for Musashi, he planned to move between villages & boroughs, hence the name Vagabond, the march of "Miyamoto Musashi" towards being a great swordsman

Amazing series, I recommend you to read it, if you like reality in what you read, this series has plenty of reality, and of course it has some things that require you to suspend your disbelief, just don't fret

TALES OF CHECKERED MAN

Origin of Checkered Man?

Fun comic strips, read them and you will enjoy them, I promise you will
Start reading from here then press on the link "Newer Posts" every time you finish from the strips on that site

BATMAN & ROBIN vs......ELECTRO?

Been having a Batman Fever for the past few months (so usually fever is called for the rise of body temperature caused due to bacterias from certain sources, but when a geek says "something fever" that means geekness kicks in in that criteria, real hard) and had so much Batman dosage whether it's from comics, movies, or other source, like two days ago I watched two Batman movies, watched some episodes from two Batman cartoons and so on, but let's cut to the chase, shall we




Since I've read Golden Age Batman, I couldn't help but note how this guy, The Human Magnet costume is similar to the costume of one of Spider-Man's main foes since the Lee/Ditko era, like the costume of Electro, The Human Lightning Bolt

IRON MAN, BIGGEST SUPERHERO ON THE BIG SCREEN?

After "John Favarue" worked with his crew on creating a highly acclaimed masterpiece that made "Iron Man" a truly big name in both the worlds of Superheroes & movies was released in 2008, it was possibly the movie that challenges the greatness of Batman on the big screen after "Chris Nolan" & his crew worked on the release of "Batman Begins" in the year 2005 & its hugely more successful sequel "The Dark Knight", that rose the value of comic book superhero movies levels higher than what Spider-Man did after what Superman's movie starring the late "Christopher Reeves" did

"Robert Downy jr" is the witty nice weapon industrialist you would love to be his friend cause he's fun and friendly, who decided to stop manufacturing weapon after seeing that his money & inventions kills his people possibly as much as it helps his country soldiers, and got captured by the enemies, he performed in a most admirable way, the movie made the scene better than it was in the comics, especially how he makes fun of his captors, and still makes a body armor instead of a weapon under the eye of their surveillance cameras, which can be known as P.I.S (Plot Induced Stupidity)

I guess money mongers turning to guardians of their towns make their creators richer money mongers if the characters are well written

Why have I said that this is possibly more successful than Nolan's Batman movie-wise? Check out youtube on both their movies and you'll find the No. of viewers reaching a very high number

ODA NOBUNAGA

In a previous post I posted about this man, I saw him first in the video game by Capcom; "Onimusha 3" as the final boss, and was really surprised to see the exact same name used in a manga that has absolutely nothing to do with the game series. A fellow member from CBR forums & a fellow manga reader who pointed out to me indirectly on the manga series VAGABOND, pointed out that Nobunaga is a man from early Japan, a villain who wouldn't be let alone by historical fiction from the days of the Battle of Sekigahara mentioning him as a villain

COMMON FACTOR, OR PERSON

Vagabond Ch. 85

Story & Art by "Takehiko Inoue"
Based on the novel MUSASHI by "Eiji Yoshikawa"

The image above (as noted below) is a panel from chapter 85 of a manga series titeld Vagabond I currently read (I'll review the series later as I go on through it). I noticed the name below in it

It's the name of the evil gentleman below, it's like a villain from a video game offering a manga person position with him

The master villain from this great Samurai game series developed & published by Capcom
ONIMUSHA, which is a great game series, also a Samurai series

I love Samurai stories