This Week in Panels: Week 139
May 20th, 2012 by Gavok | Tags: fantastic four, panelsHey, paisanos! It’s the This Week in Panels Super Show!
This week, I have Jody, Gaijin Dan, Space Jawa and Was Taters helping me out. Gaijin Dan threw me some manga panels last week, but it got eaten due to an email mishap, so here they are this week.
In one panel, Hulk sets himself up as an enemy to both Daniel Bryan AND CM Punk.
Amazing Spider-Man: Ends of the Earth
Rob Williams, Brian Clevinger and Thony Silas
Avengers Academy #30
Christos Gage and Tom Grummett
Avengers vs. X-Men #4
Jason Aaron, Brian Michael Bendis, Ed Brubaker, Matt Fraction, Jonathan Hickman and John Romita Jr.
Avengers vs. X-Men: Versus #2 (Gavin’s pick)
Steve McNiven, Kieron Gillen and Salvador Larroca
Avengers vs. X-Men: Versus #2 (Jody’s pick)
Steve McNiven, Kieron Gillen and Salvador Larroca
Bakuman #176
Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata
Bleach #489
Tite Kubo
Blue Beetle #9
Tony Bedard and Marcio Takara
Captain Atom #9
J.T. Krul and Freddie Williams II
Fantastic Four #605.1 (Jody’s pick)
Jonathan Hickman and Mike Choi
Fantastic Four #605.1 (Gavin’s pick)
Jonathan Hickman and Mike Choi
Green Lantern Corps #9
Peter J. Tomasi and Fernando Pasarin
Incredible Hulk #7.1
Jason Aaron and Jefte Palo
Naruto #583
Masashi Kishimoto
Nightwing #9
Kyle Higgins, Eddy Barrows and Andres Guinaldo
Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan #199
Hiroshi Shiibashi
One Piece #664
Eiichiro Oda
Shade #8
James Robinson and Jill Thompson
Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi: Force Storm #4
John Ostrander and Jan Duursema
Supergirl #9
Michael Green, Mike Johnson and Mahmud Asrar
Thunderbolts #174
Jeff Parker and Declan Shalvey
Toriko #184
Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro
Uncanny X-Men #12
Kieron Gillen and Greg Land
Venom #18
Rick Remender, Cullen Bunn and Lan Medina
Winter Soldier #5
Ed Brubaker and Butch Guice
Wonder Woman #9
Brian Azzarello and Tony Akins
Rather than go back to the Thunderbolts well just yet, tomorrow’s post is going to be yet another big wrestling thing. More specifically, a CHIKARA thing. In the meantime, here, have some CHIKARA.
I love Chuck’s incredulous reaction to the ref casually stopping the count because Archie told him to.
In fact, have some more CHIKARA.
They explain what happened to toxin’s old personality/host?
by Drakyn May 21st, 2012 at 07:56 --reply@Drakyn: I believe Rick Remender said at a panel recently that Pat Mulligan was beaten to death in an alley and his symbiote stolen by Blackheart. Of course, this isn’t gospel until we see it in print or anything.
by Mike Priest May 21st, 2012 at 08:10 --replyMan, I’m glad of the potential sales boost T-Bolts is gonna get from becoming Dark Avengers, but this past issue was kinda bittersweet.
Also, I feel like they’re whoring away some of their virtue somehow.
by Mike Priest May 21st, 2012 at 08:11 --replyI am not a fan of Broxin. And with Cullen Bunn taking over the comic soon it looks like Venom and Eddie are in for a new generation of being tossed around and abused by writers. Anti-Venom? Jenna Cole? Goodbye potential . . . At least Flash is entertaining so far.
by jp2 May 21st, 2012 at 14:38 --replyNo blame assigned to your intrepid crew, of course, but man, what a weak week in comics if those panels sum it up. It’s like the You Were Right To Quit Me Show.
I guess we’re well into summer crossover death in the big leagues . . .
by Don Delgado May 21st, 2012 at 17:44 --replyThe downward spin of Incredible Hulk is kind of amazing in it’s own right, like that of the more regrettable DC relaunch comics.
by C May 22nd, 2012 at 00:04 --reply@Mike Priest: Well, that’s a downer. Did he also say that Toxin itself got kicked in the head repeatedly until it suffered a total personality turnabout? Because man, I know this is comics and consistent characterization isn’t in any of the writer’s search histories, but this looks like a bit of a 180 even for the genre.
by Drakyn May 23rd, 2012 at 07:16 --replyThat said, I guess weird/random characterization tops being used almost entirely as a device. Venom-the-suit as a drug metaphor is cool and everything, but Venom-the-suit as a character seems secondary to that so far. I mean hell, I just had to specifically point out that I was talking about the actual, consistent half of Venom instead of one of its hosts, because the thing itself tends to fade into the background as a tool/oozy version of wolverine’s berserker rage whininess.
Wearing a living entity can and should be used for more than “in addition to my other superpowers I can grow teeth on my elbow” and “oh no I am feeling terrrrrrible urges from my eeeeevil superpowers.”
@Don Delgado: Yeah it was a weaker week. AvX is very underwhelming. And none of my dc favs came out. Wolverine panels reminded me of Peter griffin catching James woods. (ooo piece of candy)
by Jody May 23rd, 2012 at 20:03 --replythe bleach,naruto and venom panels are awesome
by Ryder_Revolution May 24th, 2012 at 11:26 --reply