Last Week Kicked All Kinds Of Ass

Read Green Lantern: Sinestro Corps Special Prologue. Right now! For not only the ending, but for everything before and to be on the ground floor. I don't care if you haven't read an issue of Green Lantern before and don't even know who or what Kilowog is, buy it and read it NOW!

I got the Heroclix Legion of Super-Heroes Starter Set and something interesing caught my attention. The Ultra-Boy click is 30 points more than the Young Superman (release the damn name, Spawn of Siegel & Shuster!) click. Some would say that is because Ultra-Boy has more experience at that point in Supes' development. I say Jo Nah has the invaluable quality of being a certified badass.

And apparently tennis still exists a thousand years from now.

I picked up three of the Avengers Heroclix booster packs. In them, I got Ares, Iron Lad, Namorita (R.I.P.), Wonder Man, Moon Knight, Giant-Man, Crossbones, the Red Skull with Cosmic Cube, the Living freakin' Laser, WWII Ultimate Captain America (my favorite costume), Luke Cage, USAgent, the Blazing Skull (I love insane heroes), Yondu (of Guardians of the Galaxy, can you believe it?) and the Winter Soldier. It's like fate contained in cardboard and plastic.

Speaking of insane heroes, Cable & Deadpool came out. I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but read Cable & Deadpool. Jon Milan does a great impression of Rob Liefeld.

I got the first two volumes of Scott Pilgrim from Amazon.com and only after reading them do I feel slightly cheated out of not having a hot ninja delivery girl drop them off. Still, now I know why indy comics exist.

I found an old Dwayne McDuffie Avengers West Coast story. It has monster trucks. There will be a post.

But still some things did bug me...

I don't know what's going on with Supergirl and Wonder Girl in Teen Titans and Amazons Attack!, but it reeks of Terra from the Teen Titans cartoon. And I have no love for the Terra from the Teen Titans cartoon. She sucked just a shade under Geo-Force does regularly. Are there any teen male heroes who react like petulant children whenever something happens they don't feel is fair? I don't see them.

How hard is it to remember the status of a character you not only created but depowered four months ago? Must be a little hard, because for some reason Mike Carey has Pan in the group of monitors at the end of the first Endangered Species side story.

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Maybe it's me. All the characters are presented accurately, saying and doing the things you would expect them to say. Cyclops is taking the lead, and dealing with his emotions in the background. Wolverine's the guy who's seen death a lot, and knows there's no end till yours. Beast is thinking about the problems ahead and Maddrox is a little off. It's just, how do I say this?

What the hell are they talking about!?

Breeding programs? This wasn't a natural occurrence. Scarlet Witch's powers are preventing new mutants from being born. So why are people trying to find a 'cure' or some crap like that when there are like eight other reality-altering mutants out there with powers intact. Hell, Franklin Richards could fix this faster than he created that freakin' planet on the other side of the sun. No amount of sex is going to restart the mutant gene when you only deal with the effect and not the cause.

And when did the X-Men become about protecting future generations' chances to become mutated freaks? Unless mutants start dying in the street for no reason, I can't see why this is having such a profound effect on everyone else. Xavier's dream is about peaceful coexistence, and if there will be no more mutants (at least, that's the way it is for now) shouldn't they focus on helping those left control their powers and function in society? Why are they so concerned about making sure more mutants come into existence? So those left don't feel alone? That's selfish.

And god, Sebastian Shaw condescending to Xavier? The guy who funded the Sentinels and a S&M society club cannot compare himself to either Xavier or Magneto. Shaw doesn't stand for anything besides himself and money, and all of a sudden, he's a visionary? He was supposed to change the world? Please! It's like Carey pick Shaw because he was the only long standing mutant villain the X-Men have who wouldn't try to kill them on sight or wasn't missing for dramatic reveal purposes. It was inane.

There was just too much talk of death and dying out, like it was immediate. I don't find myself in anyway enthusiastic about reading Endangered Species. Not if this one-shot is an example of what's going to be happening.