THE WATCHMEN

NIPPON
Thank you for the link "Ed Liu" CBC moderator.

Just so you know: Nippon/Nihhon is Japanaese for Japan

TERRIBLE COMIC BOOK MOVIES I LIKE

No, I don't/didn't find them bad at all, but general knowledge on them is:
"THESE MOVIES SUCK"

1. THE PUNISHER 2004, starring Thomas Jane (Frank Castle) & John Travolta (don't know his villany name)
2. DareDevil 2003, Starring Ben Afleck, Jeniffer Garner,
3.Batman & Robin 1997, Starring George Clooney, Chris O'Donell, Arnold Shcwartzeneiger
4. Ghost Rider 2006, Starring Nicolas Cage
5. "Howard the Duck" 1986
6. Phantom 1998 starring Billy Zane

DETECTIVE CONAN

Detective Conan is one of the most excelsior (pardon the StanLee phrase if you don't like it, I love this word and he's one of the most talented writers on Earth, one of my all time favorite writers as well) animes to ever get released, like every anime it starts as a successful Manga series.

If you don't know Detective Conan you should get yourself some mangas or get some of the episodes, it is always the best to start with square one (not the children programme with this phrase, I mean start from the beginning) to get the major plot on the character.

He is a brilliant high school student named "Senji Kodo" with noticeble talent in football (the real football, the one called by Americans Soccer). Loving challenges and "Sherlock Holmes" he used his brilliance of deduction to solve crime mysteries police can't solve (the detectives should be ashamed of themselves, more than those of Batman because here a high school kid solves mysteries they can't).

One day returning from a carnival he went to with his girlfriend "Ran Murry" (the girl in the picture) he saw two suspicious guys in black (why can't they let the villain dress colorful for once, always black) doing a deal, one of the guys hit the young eavesdropper on the head and fed him a new type of poison developed in their labs, this poison instead of killing Senji turned him young (reversed puberty, a youth medicine? Silvermaine should've learned that instead of using the tablet of time).

Walking home he discovers he's young again, trying to convince prfessor Agasa (neighbor of the Kodo's) he's the real Senji he uses his power of deduction to tell Agasa where he went, like "Sherlock Holmes" Senji said "Elementry My Dear Dr. Agasa".

In Agasa's lab dressed in a set of clothes he used to wear in his youth he hid from Ran and wore spare glasses of Agasa, when Ran asked him about his name Senji looked back at the book shelf he had his back leaned on and saw a book authored by "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle" (this author got really famous from the fact that people ignored him and believed Sherlock Holmes; his creation to exist in reality) and named himself "Conan Edugawa".

Ran took the little rascal with her home and sent him to an elementry school with three kids he saw in the carnival of the day that changed his life. Conan now is looking for a way to get his puberty back, don't know when the series ended and in what issue. Miss this series and you miss a lot of great entertainment

KID

CAN YOU CAPTURE A KID?

GUESS ONE CAN'T PERFORM SUCH A TASK.

COME TO THINK OF IT: DID ARSIN LUPIN EVER GET CAUGHT?

CHAPTER 430: FACE OFF

"Naruto & Pain Face Off" (Note that all script typed here out of the panels is purely my fabrication)

Pain: "You copied my hairstyle monster, prepair to die for such treason"

Naruto: "Shut Up, you destroyed my whole villaige just for this. DIE. Hold it; I'm the good guy so I shouldn't kill you, you can escape and destroy the villaige again but I won't kill you"

Naruto: "Heh, I killed one of your bodies, it better stays dead for your own good Pain"

Pain: "How amusing, you just contradicted yourself"

Naruto: "Nope"

Pain: "Your more powerful than the rest, this'll make taking you down more delicious"

Naruto: "You're Pain, I should kill you with my magic chakara aspirins and save myself a lot of grief by destroying all six of you. Couldn't any of you expert ninjas think of such an approach?"

Pain: "You're not funny"

Naruto: ........................

Wait until Friday for the next glorious chapter: ASPIRINS

AFTER THE DELAY

After postponing releasing he new manga chapters last weak because of Christmas they have been released, happy hunt Manga freaks because "It's Show Time" (just felt like saying it).

A few days has passed since the release, but it's always good to inform the clueless and feel warm from the inside by hearing "HUH? WHAT DO YOU WANT?"

MY FAVORITE CARTOON IS BASED ON STRIP'S?

My favorite animated Spider-Man cartoon ever with the best animated Dr. Doom story ever is genuinely based on comic strips of the seventies, great strips.

Spider-Man out of the U.N assembly building while Dr. Doom is in making his point why should he be nominated "Master of the World"

Spider-Man crashes in the building and battle "Dr. Victor Von Doom"

J. Jonah kissing up to Doctor Doom's mug, after reading Amazing Spider-Man #005 written by the same writer of the strip I thought Jameson hates Dr. Doom forever.

Thank you very much Mr. Lieber, you & John Romita developed a magnificent strip that was translated to a fantastic animated show, specially with the great art of the animated show generally based on the art of Jazzy John Romita, Incredibly the best Spider-Man artist of all ages.

Images courtesy of spiderfan.org

UH, OH

Appearantely: I made a terrible mistake by thinking B.N.D comic strips
Look: Peter will flirt MJ, but she's not his wife, she's his girlfriend. Stan renovates the 70s comic strips.

Can't find the strip, so like unca Spidey told Jonah before he turns Gargan to Scorpion: "'Till next time kiddies"

BEFORE MEEKRAT

Heed Thy Words Victims of Cruelty, Thou Ist Bound To Witness The End of The Married peter Parker for Eternity. Many of you already did, why should I say such words?

Please; Do Not Call Thy Names Such As Bad News Bearer, MeDidth Not Start Such Behavior.

The title "Mr. & Mrs Parker" is canceled (retconned) even from the comic daily strip, unless M.J will return and this is just a joke or a dream Peter Parker is having. Just wish for the best

Must...Type....49 More...Blog Entries....B4 March 8th.....To complete my 1st year of blogging with a 100 post

FATALITY

SHANG-TSU....ERM, SORRY. PAIN WINS: FATALITY

Pain, or just one the many bodies Pain (Akatsuki Member: A dangerous gang of S level ninjas) sucked the soul out of Shizune (he sucked informations, but the thing he left out of her looks like her soul) as Shang-Tsung from "Mortal Kombat" series does. R.I.P Shizune, I'll miss you.

I wish they didn't make her pet a pig, echh.

Just call me a lazy fan for not wanting to chop the single panels of her death out of the pages, please don't be ticked.

Jinchuurukis: All 9 of Them

Carryers of the gigantic tailed demons, all 9 of them.
Don't look at me like I'm barrer of old news, I just struck into this image

Next Entry: Fatality

CHECKOUT THIS BLOG

It's delightful, one of my favorite blogs, it's wrong not to check it out:
http://sacomics.blogspot.com
A blog didicated to comics of the silver age (1955-1970, or so as the blog author considers the period). The author makes some fun trivias. Only the ones who don't enjoy comics won't enjoy this site

MARVEL TEAM-UP v1 #029

This issue is a real treat, worth every cent you might pay for it. Why? follow the letters.

*For starters: This cover is drawn by comicbook legend "jazzy John Romita" (for those who don't know it, John Romita sr is nicknamed jazzy, don't know what jr's nickname)

*The cover also shows that the inside heroes are two of the best of "Stan (the man) creation's"; "Johnny Storm/The 2nd Human Torch" (before the fantastic 4 an android "Human Torch" was created during the "Golden Age of Comics" by the predecessor of Marve named "Timely Comics"), Johnny is one of my all time favorite comicbook heroes. The other one is "Tony Stark/IronMan" who had his turn in the Cinema May 2008.

*Open the cover and check the credits, the writer is "Gerry Conway" (he offed "Gwen Stacy" with style and wrote the pilot episode of the 90s Spider-Man animated series "Night of the Lizard" which is considerably the best episode in the entire series). The artist is masterful "Jim Mooney", look at the art of Jim Mooney and you'll understand what I mean about him being masterful, his art is simply stunning.

Plot: "Tony Stark" needed the aid of the "Fantastic 4" to stop a villain causing electro-murders from causing further damage, Tony's Body Guard (he used this form to keep his identity secret) couldn't stop the villain of the issue on his own, but the only Fantastic person who is available for his aid is "The Human Torch". IronMan wasn't confident about Torch's ability (apperantly he didn't read Johnny's solo adventures :P) and the Torch felt uneasy about shellhead since his warm reception.

A classic issue, in comics I always find classics of the 80s and earlier to be better issues than nowdays, but 2days comics are much better than those of the period since 1991-1996. Too bad not all classics are good but at least over 95% is great for me in both Marvel & DC. 5/5

NO ONE IS TOO OLD FOR COMIC BOOKS

First introduction to the concept I had is from mad magazine in a section of "Good side & bad Side of... jokes", a father looking at his teenage son reading a comic magazine and saying: "Comic Books, you're too old for this stuff", his son replies: "Not anymore, comics now have sex, nudity, violence...", the father pulled the issue from his son: "GIVE ME THAT, YOU'RE TO YOUNG FOR THIS STUFF".

I'm not saying there are no comics good for children, and I won't say there never was/is/will be children friendly comic books, all I'm saying is: "There are children comics, all ages comics, teenagers comics & adults comics"

'Marvel Adventures' series are kids comics, they still are good fun for older readers not too simple writings.

'DARK HORSE, DC & MARVEL' make comics for grown people that are still good for kids to read without any harm caused to the minds of the youth.

'Ultimate Spider-Man' is a good title made mainly to appeal to teenagers, it still is good for older readers. What is made for teenagers is something requiring of 'Parental Advisory' for those under the age of readers these comics are made for.

Spawn, Punisher & 'Mark Millar's' writings (except Marvel Knights Spider-Man) are directed for the adult audience, if comics were kids stuff then you should have no problem letting your kids read these comics, I point mainly on Spawn because I saw some of the animated series (have very mature contents, trust me).

Comic publishers rate the comics they publish for the age they fit, you see rating's like:
A = Adults, T = Teenagers, PG, etc......, the people judging comics to be kids stuff are most likely people who never read comics and heard they are kids stuff or they only read children comics.

Start reading comics or at least look at the rating label on the covers before judging comics aren't suitable for mature audience, start reading comics to see that reading comics is in fact a healthy hobby (don't focus on obssessed comic readers who want to be the characters in reality), comics fans desire art and enhance their drawing abilities and writing abilities.

Comics also are good for economy and lingual learning, a graduated student of English literature wrote his graduation thesis on Spider-Man and it wasn't tossed back to his face to write a thesis about something serious instead.

So as repetitve as I wrote it: "Comics isn't purely children items, comics reading is suitable for any age"

MARVEL E.I.C?

Last night I imagened myself as 'Marvel Comics' Editor in Chief, I had this weird idea which surely won't be plausable.

Everything done so far about Spider-Man will stay publishable in markets. TPb's, Essentials and Hardcovers/Softcovers are going to be published with a note describing what I do on him and why.

Hopefully; other titles & characters will be boosted up especially 'Moon Knight', 'Iron Fist' 'Thunderbolts', 'Man-Thing', 'Silver Surfer' & 'Heroes for Hire' mainly to substitute the loss that happened with Spider-Man.

HERE's THE THING: With exclusion to the daily comic strips, everything on Spider-Man will be out of the production, no more comics on any Earth, no more cartoons, no movies, no video games (not even in further Marvel grouping games) or any production on him. Only two of his major villains will remain because they are essential members in the Thunderbolts: 'Norman Osborne' & 'Mac Gargan'. After some time even TPb's and reprints will be halted until the new E.I.C comes and brings the character back.

One of the reason's for this move is the fact there will be no retcon to get Spider-Man married again so readers who complain about the current 'Status Quo' won't be complaining on it for sometime, to be honest I won't give if anyone complain about the lack of Spider-Man in that current time.

Silver Surfer Animated

Last night I saw the 1st episode out of 13, this series was unfortunately canceled afterwords, really loved the episode, Silver Surfer's origin is an epic.

The 1st time I saw Silver Surfers series was in German on KRTL time on the RTL tv, still can't understand German but the show captured me, can't think of any reason why would I enjoy such a show.

The origin animated is much different than the comic origin, read the 1st issue of volume 1 from the 'Silver Surfer' and watch the 1st episode of his cartoon to see what I mean

GIANT SIZED HULK #1

By Roger Stern & Zack Howard.

I don't know who the artist is, but always the artist should be mentioned along with the writer since he/she co-creates the issue. The art didn't say enjoyable, but the story without doubt is.

Meet 'Freddy Sloan', an old friend of the HULK who is gathering informations from people who saw him to write a book about the HULK so people can see the good side of the Hulk since the focus on him is mostly negative. One of those Fred wanted to interview is the Hulk himself, Fred finally reunited with the Hulk but it was a a very short reunion because Hulk had to leave.

The story is 30 pages long but the reading is enjoyable so I finished 20 pages before I know it.

*Writing rate: 10/10

*Art rate: 5/10

*Story rate since I didn't really pay much attention to the art: 9/10

DEADPOOL

As a new fan of this Marvel character I sure would love those who don't know him to join my club.

Description: An assassin from Weapon-X, was with Wolverine. He got artificial healing factor from Wolverine by that agency but it made him too scarred and has cancer. He is most significant as a loudmouthed wisecracking Mercenary so his nickname is 'The Merc with the Mouth'. The funniest character in comics, but his story is still full of action and drama for those who need it.

Look at some of his funny from volume 1 of his own title.

From issue #04 against the Hulk:

                                   

The cover itself is funny

Just read every issue you can put your hands on, excellent read and very much worthy of what you pay for it

HULK LIVE ACTION MOVIES

I opened a poll here for you to vote which of the 2 live action Hulk movies you like more:

1. Hulk 2003

2. The Incredible HULK 2008

State your reason(s) here as a comment.

I prefer the new one (Incredible Hulk) because Hulk isn't too bulky with a tiny head and a baby face. Eddie Norton plays a better Bruce Banner. Finally we see a real Hulk Super-Villain in a Hulk movie. Funny moments exist. The pants Bruce is wearing stay as a ripped pant when he turns to Hulk instead of his pants changing magically to the purple pants. Homages to the classic live action Hulk series. Hulk finally says a word in live action when he's Hulk minded not Bruce's mind cracks through the Hulk's. The joke with the purple pants.

AGE OF THE SENTRY

I never thought such a day would come, mostly felt the Sentry to be stupid stuff and usually other characters rip-off suck.

I was wrong about the Sentry, or at least until I read "age of the Sentry #1". This title is a rip-off of Superman classic comics with the style of Marvel classic series, my enjoyment of classic comics takes over my enjoyment of current comics so much that I'm so pleased and relaxed to this title I want to collect the entire run of it.

"The age of the Sentry" is a mini series consisted of six issues, don't know where I can find issue 2 so I'll search for it online.

I love the Sentry mostly because he did me the favor of killing Carnage, that dude sucks so hard I wanted to write the story of killing him myself

THUNDERBOLTS

"JUSTICE LIKE THUNDER"

I only read two issues written by "Warren Ellis" & drawn by "Mike Deodato jr" (the only issues I have of this series) and I loved them, I want to read more of this gorgeous work.

Songbird had love with the son of "Baron Zemo": How revolting, but the rest of the story is good enough to make me want to collect the title; mostly when Warren Ellis and Mike Deodato take the work, real beautiful stuff.

Read the title before you lose the chance, don't waste your time reading Spider-Man and whining about how bad the current status quo is, find yourself other reads like this hunk of a comics and; you can thank me later for it.

STEVE WHACKER, TOM BREVOORT & JOE QUESADA

I have some requests that are most important to be done by you, in fact they are a "YOU MUST DO THEM":

1. Make two alternate series continuos on "Amazing Spider-Man" from 2 points:

a. What if Spider-Man remained with an identity hidden from the public but known to the government.

b. What if Spider-Man & M.J kicked Mephisto in the Bucket.

These two must remain continuous for their fans

2. Keep Amazing Spider-Girl an ongoing title, this little command is directed to you too "Tom Defalco" & "Ron Frenz"

"Marvel Comics" is my favorite comic book company, the more you perform dumb approaches and insult protestors on it the more readers you lose, so this makes you at least one step moving toward bankruptcy, if this happens DC will buy you and your going to suck since this year DC comics SUCK. Play things right or I'll stop reading your upcoming comics permanently (or at least until DC fix their stories).

YOU CAN HELP MAKING STORIES FOR KICK-ASS?

Marvel Knight "Mark Millar" the creator of MKSM and "John Romita jr" one of Uncle Rog's favorite co-upping artists started the current out of any Marvel Universe series "Kick-Ass", according to the informations on wikipedia (for your informations: it isn't written like that or implements to it, I just thought of it this way) people in the title send Kick-Ass some help requests on his myspace web-page, and this web-page really exists so hypothetaclly speaking: You might have the chance to co-write stories for the series. If that's how things are and the my-space page isn't simply advertising for the series register to myspace and subscribe to their web-page (a.k.a ask for a friend request)

I subscribed there but still I have to yet check-up to get the details, as I mentioned previously; it's only a thought that you might help create stories, if what i said here is tru I'll advice you to sieze this oppurtunity. Editing to the post or a new post will come later regarding this issue.

SPIDER-MAN: DEADPOOL

I love Deadpool, the love of this character is fresh to me but he is very very very COOOOOL.

I had a little fun with paint [ Don't have Photoshop :( ] making a mix of our favorite comic wall crawler (the talk is not pointed by any chance toward you Spider-Man haters, neither to you who prefer a Spider-Lady to Spider-Man in general) with the best mercenary to enter comic books (The Merc with the Mouth) Deadpool.

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I edited the face of Deadpool to make this picture. As I already said: I used Paint-Brush to make it, this is why it looks weak.

NWTD: My opinion and some people responses

It is not a secret, in CBR forums I wrote in "the best Spider-Man arc in the last 10 years" thread that each have a personal opinion about certain stories (that was a response to someone saying NWTD is good, but not great), I replied that to me: NWTD is more lovable than anything J.M.Dematties ever wrote even Kraven's Last Hunt, I had some funny responces:

*WHAT????    

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*You are joking, yes?

*Are you Dan Slott?

I don't see anything surprising here, some people hate Spider-Man so what's so unbelievable about me thinking NWTD is better than K.L.H? I give K.L.H a high "A" mark, but NWTD an "A+".

MEMBERS PROBLEM

My freeforums account was opened in the same date as this blog in March-2008, but there is the members problem:
1. No new members register
2. Current members seemingly forgot the forums

The door is open, I opened the forums for free so you can register and use it for free. The spideytalk forums link is in the links bar if you ever decided to register and use it. :)

FRIENDS MESSAGES TO THE SPIDER-MAIL

Not exactly friends, but fellow bloggers I associate with mailed the editor(s) of Spider-Man (maybe just Steve Whacker) and had responses. Didn't know Robert J.Sodaro mailed the editor before reading "New Ways to Die" while I was looking to see if Reg's mail had an editor response (sorry Reggie; I didn't find your message in any of the currently published issues, maybe it is in the B.N.D tie in)

Steve Whacker's response is quite funny (Sorry Mr.Sodaro, but if it is any consolidation I often laugh at insults thrown at me), but that doesn't mean he isn't a JERK.

                                                                      

Read the response yourself and you'll know why the editor is a (why should I insult? One time is enough) 

NEW WAYS TO DIE

I should probably wait for the last part to review the story, and I certainly hope the last part won't be a disappointment like some animes are disappointing in the last episode. Anyway; I feel the urge to review it so here goes:

One of the many reasons some people hated BND is because Spider-Man became an idiot who couldn't stop a common thief without Spidey tripping or scaring him away like he's an amateur, this flaw has been removed since the bookie story; the supervillains there weren't completely wasted but Spider-Man showed a good fight.

[SPOILERS FROM PART 1-5]

[It starts with a recap on Spidey's origin, the art of JRjr in that part isn't so good, then we see a flashback of Peter fired from the D.B and trying to earn a job.

Spider-Man tries to stop Menace from blowing up anything related to Hollisters campaign and what is around it but a wall he's on gets blown and Spider-Man falls unable to save anyone or stopping Menace, Spider-Man does find a good catch for photographing and sell it to "The Front Line" for publisher "Ben Urich" (and the "Editor in Chief" is Joe Robertson). The photos reveal an illegal shop that is revealed by Sally (a reporter) belongs to the candidate who selects Norman Osborn to protect him.

Norman is a public hero but the "Front Liners" still remember that G.G bought the "Daily Bugle" by force and they realise that Hyena's don't change their attitude.

Norman has a job of him and his Thunderbolts capturing Spider-Man, the Thunderbolts (Songbird, Radioactiveman & Venom) look for Spider-Man who performed a most unexpected move: "Heading directly to the source of his trouble", that is a clever scene.

Venom symbiote senses its former host thinking it senses Spider-Man not "Eddie Brock" who becomes "Anti-Venom" and cleans away the symbiote. (Not entirely)

Eddie changes focus to cleaning Spider-Man before the other members of the Thunderbolts come to rescue Gargan.

Norman has a quick fight with Menace (Menace punched Norman hard and made him bleed heavily), Norman discovers Peter's automatic Camera and examines it in TBHQ and gets an idea to take down Spider-Man.

Freak was taken to Oscorp and from Oscorp Norman took him and used him as a "Guinea Pig" to make an "Anti-Venom" toxin and placed it in Gargan to heal the symbiote.

Spider-Man was injured in the "Coffee Bean" by the bullets with the tracking system and hid temporarily before Eddy came returned the camera to Peter.

Goblin gave Gargan a Scorpion armor and the end of part five was weird]

The good point:

1. The real Spider-Man is real here

2. The villains are very well made

3. Anti-Venom is no villain

4. Martin Li showed his face, his character got deeper. Mr. Negative is one of Spider-Man's most dangerous enemies who comes up to the level of Dr. Octopus

5. The quips and the fights are real fun

6. The art of JRjr maybe flawed in some panels, but it still is great

Read the story; I give it on a scale of 10:10 points

UNCLE ROG

ROGER STERN IS COMING BACK TO SPIDER-MAN.

There is an issue he works on to be released this December, from the description it feels odd but what the heck? Uncle Roger is writing it, does it matter that it ties to B.N.D?

THE ARTIST OF SSM ANIMATED BLOG

http://gotcheeks.blogspot.com/

I forgot his name, but he's a brother blogger. If you want to check his blog follow the above link