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This Week in Panels: Week 249

June 30th, 2014 by Gavok | Tags: avengers, jonah hex, justice league, ms marvel, original sin, panels, saga, sinestro

Once again we find ourselves looking at the stuff we’ve read over the past week, reduced to one representative image. It’s This Week in Panels. “We” includes myself, Matlock, Space Jawa, Gaijin Dan and AnarChris. We’re like the Planeteers, only we’re all heart.

Elsewhere, I wrote this big piece on the history of Mortal Kombat comics. Years ago, I went over the Malibu series in detail here, but in this article, I go more in-depth on the many comics that acted as official preludes to the games. I was also asked by my editor to write a quick thing about John Cena being on the cover of WWE 2K15, and so I did.

Now, then. It’s paneling time! Seriously, it’s a big one this week.

All-New Ghost Rider #4 (Gavin’s pick)
Felipe Smith and Tradd Moore

All-New Ghost Rider #4 (Matlock’s pick)
Felipe Smith and Tradd Moore

All-New Ultimates #4
Michel Fiffe and Amilcar Pinna

All-Star Western #32 (Gavin’s pick)
Jimmy Palmiotti, Justin Gray, Staz Johnson and Fabrizio Fiorentino

All-Star Western #32 (Matlock’s pick)
Jimmy Palmiotti, Justin Gray, Staz Johnson and Fabrizio Fiorentino

Amazing Spider-Man #3
Dan Slott and Humberto Ramos

Angry Birds Comics #2
Jeff Parker and Cesar Ferioli

Aquaman #32
Jeff Parker and Paul Pelletier

Batman #32 (Gavin’s pick)
Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo

Batman #32 (Matlock’s pick)
Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo

Batman ’66 #37
Gabriel Soria and Dean Haspiel

Bleach #585
Tite Kubo

Deadpool vs Carnage #4 (Jawa’s pick)
Cullen Bunn and Salva Espin

Deadpool vs Carnage #4 (Gavin’s pick)
Cullen Bunn and Salva Espin

Goon: One for the Road
Eric Powell

Hunter X Hunter #344
Yoshihiro Togashi

Injustice: Year 2 #12 (Gavin’s pick)
Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo

Injustice: Year 2 #12 (Matlock’s pick)
Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo

Justice League #31 (Matlock’s pick)
Geoff Johns and Doug Mahnke

Justice League #31 (Gavin’s pick)
Geoff Johns and Doug Mahnke

Justice League Dark #32
J.M. DeMatteis and Andres Guinaldo

Mega Man #38
Ian Flynn and Jamal Peppers

Ms. Marvel #5 (AnarChris’ pick)
G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona

Ms. Marvel #5 (Matlock’s pick)
G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic #20
Katie Cook and Andy Price

Naruto #681
Masashi Kishimoto

New Avengers #20 (Gavin’s pick)
Jonathan Hickman and Valerio Schiti

New Avengers #20 (Matlock’s pick)
Jonathan Hickman and Valerio Schiti

New Avengers Annual #1
Frank Barbiere and Marco Rudy

New Warriors #6
Christopher Yost, Nick Roche and David Baldeon

Nisekoi #127
Naoshi Komi

One Piece #750
Eiichiro Oda

One-Punch Man #35, part 2
ONE and Yusuke Murata

Original Sin #3.1 (Hulk vs. Iron Man #1)
Mark Waid, Kieron Gillen and Mark Bagley

Original Sins #2 (Gavin’s pick)
Frank Tieri, Raffaele Jenco, Ryan North and Ramon Villalobos

Original Sins #2 (Matlock’s pick)
Frank Tieri, Raffaele Jenco, Ryan North and Ramon Villalobos

Outcast #1
Robert Kirkman and Paul Azaceta

Red Lanterns #32 (Matlock’s pick)
Charles Soule and J. Calafiore

Red Lanterns #32 (Gavin’s pick)
Charles Soule and J. Calafiore

Saga #20 (AnarChris’ pick)
Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples

Saga #20 (Gavin’s pick)
Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples

Sinestro #3 (Jawa’s pick)
Cullen Bunn, Dale Eaglesham and Rags Morales

Sinestro #3 (Gavin’s pick)
Cullen Bunn, Dale Eaglesham and Rags Morales

Stealth Symphony #17
Ryohgo Narita and Yoichi Amano

Super Secret Crisis War #1
Louis Simonson and Derek Charm

Transformers: More than Meets the Eye #30
James Roberts and Alex Milne

Transformers: Windblade #3
Mairghread Scott and Sarah Stone

Uncanny Avengers #21
Rick Remender and Daniel Acuna

Batman ’66 is kind of amazing this month. It has to do with a TV show about Batman that paints him in a far grittier light than Batman is comfortable with. Only it’s the ’66 world’s idea of what “gritty” is supposed to be: wearing a suit, being in black and white, unshaven, talking about giving people the “Bat-business.” It’s adorable.

In other news, I discovered the existence of a video game called Popeye 3: WrestleCrazy (a play on “WrestleMania”) where Popeye goes to space to wrestle aliens, including a xenomorph and the robot from Lost in Space

Oddly enough, the game was available for the Commodore 64, the Amiga and the Spectrum and came off as a completely different (yet equally terrible) game each time. Beautiful.