Whoa! Electricity! Sweet electricity! How I missed you!

What a week that was. I’ll go a little more in-depth about my experiences tomorrow. Right now, I have some panels to post. Thank God this was a small week. Especially because that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Annual is 60 pages. Damn. It’s pretty cool, though. Co-creator Kevin Eastman does his first illustrated TMNT comic in about 20 years and it’s essentially a Guy Ritchie movie with three factions of ninjas added in.

I’m joined by Jody, Gaijin Dan and Space Jawa. This may be the first week where I didn’t read the most stuff.

Aquaman #13
Geoff Johns and Ivan Reis

Avengers + X-Men #1
Dan Slott, Ron Garney, Jeph Loeb and Dale Keown

Avengers vs. X-Men Consequences #4
Kieron Gillen and Mark Brooks

Batman: Li’l Gotham
Dustin Nguyen and Derek Fridolfs

Bleach #511
Tite Kubo

Cross Manage #5
KAITO

Happy! #2
Grant Morrison and Darick Robertson

Naruto #605
Masashi Kishimoto

Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan #2
Hiroshi Shiibashi

One Piece #684
Eiichiro Oda

Swamp Thing Annual #1
Scott Snyder, Scott Tuft, Becky Cloonan and Andrew Belanger

Takama-ga-hara #14
Jyuuzou Kawai

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #15 (Gavin’s pick)
Kevin Eastman, Tom Waltz and Andy Kuhn

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #15 (Jawa’s pick)
Kevin Eastman, Tom Waltz and Andy Kuhn

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Annual 2012 (Jawa’s pick)
Kevin Eastman and Tom Waltz

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Annual 2012 (Gavin’s pick)
Kevin Eastman and Tom Waltz

Toriko #207
Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro

Ultimate Spider-Man #16.1
Brian Michael Bendis and David Marquez

Ultimate X-Men #18 (Jawa’s pick)
Brian Wood, Carlo Barberi and Agustin Padilla

Ultimate X-Men #18 (Jody’s pick)
Brian Wood, Carlo Barberi and Agustin Padilla

Winter Soldier #12
Ed Brubaker and Butch Guice

Wolverine and the X-Men #19
Jason Aaron and Nick Bradshaw

Yes, Jody. Of course you pick the Alpha Flight panel.

I was going to use the panel of Aquaman saying that he’s ashamed of who he is, but I thought it would have done a disservice out of context, as it doesn’t tie directly into that, “Aquaman is the worst superhero,” trope played around with in the first arc, but something else. I actually like how that first arc aspect and the backstory of the latest arc work together. Namely that he bites his tongue over the whole “lol aquaman” thing because being a stone cold badass has brought him nothing but shameful heartache and he’d rather not focus on that. In a perfect world, this would be the perfect lead-up to Johns transforming him into something closer to the Brave and the Bold Aquaman. Come on, Johns. Just have him look at something in awe and have him remark with a smile, “Outrageous…” and you’re halfway there.

The ending of Ultimate Spider-Man made me very happy, by the way. You know me and my Spider-tastes. You can figure it out.

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