Or – “Thanks To Poor Typing, Spell-Check Wants To Call It Fat-Nasty Four.” In the last few months, the Fantastic Four have faced the Celestials, communed with Galactus, retrieved their lost fourth member from the depths of the Negative Zone and met their children from the future. The team deserves a little time off, a break from the waves of destiny and catastrophe that have been buffeting them… Sadly, this isn’t it.
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Tony is still recovering from his injuries in the hospital, so we have time to catch up with other characters. Lets find out what his siblings are up to.
The finale is here! Whether or not you’ve stuck with this series in the long run, if you started it and dropped it part-way through, you ABSOLUTELY should pick this issue up. This is the perfect conclusion to the Mark Waid-penned series, ending in a way that was both unexpected yet, in retrospect, was foreshadowed in some particularly devious and meta ways.
Or – “In Soviet Russia, Super-Villains Fight YOU!” The Man Without Fear has found himself in possession of the Omega Drive, which contains enough information to shut down (or to CONTROL) “mega-crime” the world over. AIM, Hydra, The Secret Empire, even Black Spectre want to possess it. Can one blind man fend off the endless armies of perfidiousness by himself?
The Night of the Owls has come to the world of Catwoman and Spark, as they try to poach from the Penguin on the same night a Talon tries to take the life of Oswald Cobblepot.
Or – “Intergalactic! Planetary! Planetary, Intergalactic!” I’m fascinated by how DC has handled their relaunched properties. Now that the heroes have half a year’s issues or so under their belt, we’re starting to see crossovers occurring between titles that actually MAKE SENSE crossing over. But, the question becomes, are the stories they’re telling advancing our characters, or just cross-pollinating the new world order?
Brian Wood’s The Massive #1 is set to arrive in June that looks at society after “The Crash.” Major Spoilers has its first review of the series, that takes a look at the end of the world from the perspective of the survivors. Survivors who just happen to be pacifists. WARNING: THERE MAY BE SPOILERS IN THIS REVIEW!
Or – “The Vicissitudes Of The Reviewing Game…” One of the great disappointments of doing reviews for Major Spoilers comes when I anticipate a book’s release, then miss the actual review when the comic comes out. When Secret Service was announced back in 2011, I mentally earmarked it for consumption, then totally bobbled it upon the book’s release. Though we sold out of #1, I managed to get my hands on a copy of #2, and we can all just pretend that I never missed the other issue in the first place. Sound like a plan? Excellent! Are you sitting…
Or – “It Wasn’t All Just Bwah-Ha-Ha-Ha…” When I think back to the iconic days of the post-Crisis JLI, I don’t just remember the wacky antics. The character voices and interactions were some of the most realistic I’d ever read, and it was clearly NOT my father’s superheroes. If you don’t believe me, then I’d like to tell you about the breakup of the greatest superhero bromance of the last 30 years. I would also like to apologize for using the word “bromance.”
The strange is about to become bizarre as Jonathan Hickman and Nick Pitarra give us their take on the nuclear bomb program, and who gave the order to drop it on the unsuspecting.
Brian K. Vaughan’s newest epic, Saga, has started off strong. With war torn alien lovers and their daughter being chased down by the government they defected from, where can we go from here?
Or – “A Strange Family On A Strange Journey…” Ever since the revelation of her true parentage, Wonder Woman has found herself interacting more and more with her extended family, a group that makes the Kardashians look like the Berenstain Bears by comparison. What new horrors await her during her extended family reunion?
His mission: find his missing daughter. His assignment: take out Soviet leaders. His companion: a red teddy bear. His weapon: samurai sword. His name: D.B. Cooper.
Or – “Man, I Think I Missed A Memo…” The biggest problem with universe-spanning crossovers these days is that if you miss an issue of ANYTHING, you come back into the next chapter feeling like Shemp when he needed cheese. What does the new hub of the Marvel Universe have in store this week?