This Week in Panels: Week 168
December 9th, 2012 by Gavok | Tags: animal man, avengers, deadpool, hawkeye, invincible, panels, punisher, swamp thing
This week I’m just flanked by Jody and Gaijin Dan, but that’s okay, since they both read a lot of stuff. Lot of great books came out this week, such as Action Comics, Avengers, Deadpool, Minute Men, Hawkeye and that Hellboy thing (so I hear).
Panels, away!
Action Comics #15
Grant Morrison, Brad Walker, Rags Morales, Sholly Fisch and Chris Sprouse
All-New X-Men #3
Brian Michael Bendis and Stuart Immonen
Animal Man #15 (Gavin’s pick)
Jeff Lemire, Steve Pugh and Timothy Green II
Animal Man #15 (Jody’s pick)
Jeff Lemire, Steve Pugh and Timothy Green II
Avengers #1 (Jody’s pick)
Jonathan Hickman and Jerome Opena
Avengers #1 (Gavin’s pick)
Jonathan Hickman and Jerome Opena
Batwing #15
Fabian Nicieza and Fabrizio Fiorentino
Before Watchmen: Comedian #4
Brian Azzarello, J.G. Jones and John Higgins
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #5
Darwyn Cooke and John Higgins
Bleach #516
Tite Kubo
Colder 2
Paul Tobin and Juan Ferreyra
Cross Manage #10
KAITO
Deadpool #3 (Gavin’s pick)
Brian Posehn, Gerry Duggan and Tony Moore
Deadpool #3 (Jody’s pick)
Brian Posehn, Gerry Duggan and Tony Moore
Hawkeye #5 (Jody’s pick)
Matt Fraction and Javier Pulido
Hawkeye #5 (Gavin’s pick)
Matt Fraction and Javier Pulido
Hellboy in Hell #1
Mike Mignola
Invincible #98 (Gavin’s pick)
Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley
Invincible #98 (Jody’s pick)
Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley
Naruto #609
Masashi Kishimoto
Nisekoi #51
Naoshi Komi
Punisher: War Zone #2 (Jody’s pick)
Greg Rucka and Carmine Di Giandomenico
Punisher: War Zone #2 (Gavin’s pick)
Greg Rucka and Carmine Di Giandomenico
Red She-Hulk #60
Jeff Parker, Carlo Pagulayan and Wellinton Alves
Stormwatch #15
Peter Milligan, Will Conrad and Cliff Richards
Swamp Thing #15 (Gavin’s pick)
Scott Snyder and Marco Rudy
Swamp Thing #15 (Jody’s pick)
Scott Snyder and Marco Rudy
Thunderbolts #1 (Gavin’s pick)
Daniel Way and Steve Dillon
Thunderbolts #1 (Jody’s pick)
Daniel Way and Steve Dillon
Toriko #212
Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro
In happy news, Christmas is coming early for me. A fan has been working on his own little Mega Man 8-bit project for a couple years and to go with the character’s 25 year aniversary, Capcom’s decided to give it an official seal of approval and will release it for FREE December 17th.
Looks like the bosses are Ryu, Blanka, Chun-Li, Dhalsim, Rose, Rolento, Urien and Crimson Viper. Can’t wait for this.
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Shame the only Megaman games we get now are from the fans….
Think M. Bison will fill the role of Dr. Wily?
@Space Jawa: YES! YESSSSS!!
Oh wow, you’re actually giving Thunderbolts a try? You honestly think Way can write serious storytelling?
Invincible’s stupidity…scratch that… Incompetence!
His incompetence stuns me.
@CapoDelBandito: Last time he and Dillon teamed up it worked out just fine. Really, with the team setup, I have to at least give it a shot.
Is it sad that I seen the WIP years ago. Weird how much hype comes from just capcom agreeing not to C&D the game. It’s like reading nintendo talking about a Mario hack/fan game. You don’t usually get this news buzz from it, So I guess it’s the negative backlash of capcom screwing Megaman over their knee.
but enough of that, I’m more wondering if this guy going to tie in Megaman vs. Ghoul n ghosts and Megaman vs Metroid.
It’s a sad day when an Arrested Development shoutout goes unrecognized.
@Gavok: To each their own.
Way and Dillon’s Wolverine: Origins made me want to smash my brain with a brick until the annoyance stopped. Way definitely does research, reads old back issues, but he sorta ignores things like ‘tone’ and ‘pacing’ and just sorta jams stuff in to suit his storytelling purpose.
After the Daken bit (which came out around the same time as Morrison’s unveiled son of Batman thing) I just got burnt out on how it was mostly lip service, much like his Deadpool: Get some names in there from 50 issues ago, but tossing in anything for a simplistic point a to point b story it got way too convoluted.
Hell, in the interviews he says he chose the people for this team (which is just a few members short of a ‘Code Red’ shout out) because ‘they’re not used to being on a team’.
Punisher I coulda sorta get that vibe if you ignore his entire military career. Same for Venom.
But Deadpool fresh off Uncanny X-Force? Elektra sometimes agent of SHIELD and god knows what else? Bah.
Is Nikola Tesla the new Wolverine or has enough time elapsed since his last showing that we can say he’s reached a natural rhythm?
@CapoDelBandito: Sorry, I misspoke. I forgot that the two of them did an entire run together. In my head in the middle of the night, I was just thinking of their work on the Deadpool arc of Wolverine Origins, which I still think is one of Way’s best pieces.
@Drakyn:
Tesla has always been awesome.
Always.
@Gavok: Yeah the Deadpool arc was ok. I thought the voices and POV were leading up to something…but when it turned out they weren’t, I started losing interest, quickly.
The thing with Way is he is incredibly simple. He’s written a load of comics by now, but so has Rob Liefeld, it doesn’t automatically mean you get better with each passing issue.
Way writes shallow stuff, quick point a to point b stuff, rehashes old ideas, and brings nothing new to the table.
Once the flavor of “Code Red part deux’ wears off, I’m guessing it will slump like a corpse head first.
I am trying to give all the Now! Books a shot,but dillons art reminds me of his avenging Spider-Man issue (I thought it was just bad. Lifeless. Like that twilight girl). You know, find more life in Dillons art than in Stewarts acting. Actually, please do.
Man, that second Animal Man panel is so fraught . . .
Panels from Bleeding Cool. I forgot about the one presented from Amazing Spider-Man #699. If Peter lives, he’s gonna need therapy for the res of his life from that one panel.