This Week in Panels: Week 235
March 23rd, 2014 by Gavok | Tags: invaders, panels, superior foes of spider-man, thunderbolts, tmnt, wonder woman, wwe superstars
It’s panel time! I’m joined by Space Jawa, Matlock, Gaijin Dan and a rare entry from Dickeye. Jawa has double the panels due to some screw-up from his shop last week.
Writing-wise, I went back to the old What If well for old time’s sake by writing about 20 Uplifting What If Stories for Den of Geek US. It felt like coming home.
This week brings us the end of Jeff Lemire’s Animal Man and to be honest, I feel like it wasn’t worth my time. I don’t mean the issue, but the entire run. Despite being one of the must-read comics from the beginning of the New 52, it led to a big arc that went on for far too long, killed off his son (when the most beloved take on the character went out of the way to explain why this was a bad idea) and then meandered until its finale. Meanwhile, Wonder Woman is still well-written enough, but it feels so pedestrian as it reaches its big climax.
I’ll probably start picking up Superman/Wonder Woman because Charles Soule has been rocking my socks off on everything else he’s written, but I feel my interest in DC dwindling by the day.
All-New Invaders #3
James Robinson and Steve Pugh
All-New Invaders #3
James Robinson and Steve Pugh
All You Need Is Kill #8
Hiroshi Sakurazaka, Ryosuke Takeuchi, Yoshitoshi ABe and Takeshi Obata
Animal Man #29
Jeff Lemire and Travel Foreman
Animal Man #29
Jeff Lemire and Travel Foreman
Avengers World #4
Jonathan Hickman, Nick Spencer and Stefano Caselli
Avengers World #4
Jonathan Hickman, Nick Spencer and Stefano Caselli
Batman and Aquaman #29
Peter J. Tomasi and Patrick Gleason
Batman ’66 #30
Jeff Parker and Joelle Jones
Batwoman #29
Marc Andreyko, Jeremy Haun and Jason Masters
Bleach #572
Tite Kubo
Daredevil #1
Mark Waid and Chris Samnee
Deadpool: The Gauntlet #11
Brian Posehn, Gerry Duggan and Reilly Brown
Harley Quinn #4
Amanda Conner, Jimmy Palmiotti and Stephane Roux
Mega Man #35
Ian Flynn, Tyson Hesse and Patrick Spaziante
Ms. Marvel #2
G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic #17
Katie Cook and Andy Price
Naruto #668
Masashi Kishimoto
New Avengers #15 (Matlock’s pick)
Jonathan Hickman and Simone Bianchi
New Avengers #15 (Gavin’s pick)
Jonathan Hickman and Simone Bianchi
Nisekoi #114
Naoshi Komi
One Piece #741
Eiichiro Oda
Powerpuff Girls #7
Derek Charm
Red Hood and the Outlaws #29
Will Pfeifer and Rafa Sandoval
Scribblenauts Unmasked: Crisis of Imagination #3
Josh Elder, Adam Archer and Ben Bates
Seraph of the End #13
Takaya Kagami, Yamato Yamamoto and Daisuke Furuya
Sex Criminals #5
Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky
Sonic the Hedgehog #258
Ian Flynn and Evan Stanley
Sonic Universe #61
Ian Flynn and Jamal Peppers
The Star Wars #6
J.W. Rinzler and Mike Mayhew
Stealth Symphony #4
Ryohgo Narita and Yoichi Amano
Superior Foes of Spider-Man #10 (Gavin’s pick)
James Asmus and various others
Superior Foes of Spider-Man #10 (Matlock’s pick)
James Asmus and various others
Superior Spider-Man Annual #2
Christos N. Gage and Javier Rodriguez
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Utrom Empire #3 (Gavin’s pick)
Paul Allor and Andy Kuhn
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Utrom Empire #3 (Jawa’s pick)
Paul Allor and Andy Kuhn
Thunderbolts #23 (Matlock’s pick)
Charles Soule and Kim Jacinto
Thunderbolts #23 (Gavin’s pick)
Charles Soule and Kim Jacinto
Toriko #270
Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro
Transformers: Robots in Disguise #27
John Barber, James Roberts and Andrew Griffith
Wonder Woman #29 (Gavin’s pick)
Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang
Wonder Woman #29 (Matlock’s pick)
Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang
World Trigger #52
Daisuke Ashihara
WWE Superstars #3 (Gavin’s pick)
Mick Foley, Shane Riches and Alitha E. Martinez
WWE Superstars #3 (Dickeye’s pick)
Mick Foley, Shane Riches and Alitha E. Martinez
Good God, I hope New Avengers is going to get an artist change soon.
I checked out Muppets Most Wanted the other night. Not as good as the last one, but it’s a pretty good time with some great gags and a ton of catchy songs. There seemed to be like twice as many songs in this one. This one’s especially stuck in my head.
Here, have this one too.
(Evil Kermit sings it in the movie)
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Oh man, that Mega Man panel. Mega Man 35 is already on the short list of my 2014 ‘best single issue of the year’. This issue dealt with some seriously heady issues; fear, anger, remorse, abandonment, identity, trust, forgiveness… And this is a freaking All-Ages title!
ABOUT FIGHTING ROBOTS!
Why can’t ALL action comics be this good?
Ian Flynn, you are, and continue to be, a master craftsman. Doing the impossible, and making it look easy.
I think New Avengers would be a great comic if Tony Stark just followed through on his promise immediately, then the entire rest of the run was just them building a really ridiculous big fuckoff laser that goes on to swiftly and easily blow up every single entity that Black Swan keeps trying to tell them is the Real Deal Scary Thing.
Wait Venom’s trying to get someone to murder the suit? Didn’t they have a talk about that, or is he still sore at it for trying to get a teenaged girl to go to hell in his place?
@Drakyn: Venom announced he was leaving the team (what with him joining Guardians of the Galaxy soon). He made a deal with the team that he’d go completely limp and let the costume take over just to make sure that the Thunderbolts can kill him in case he ever totally loses control.
Deadpool’s plan, by the way, was to strip to his undies, put his costume on a dummy, draw webs all over it and suspend a plane above it in hopes that Venom would take the bait.
@Gavok: Shoot, sounds like a good idea to me. I’ll take that over whatever the Punisher’s planning.*
*Bullets. It is always bullets