Buy These Flippin’ Comics!!! (12.4.13) – Kickin’ it With Karnak
Welcome, friend-os, to another installment of BTFC, the #1 stop to find the best and brightest comic releases each week. Not #1? Did I make your top 10, at least? No matter. What DOES matter is that we’ve got a week chock full of interesting releases, and if you hit the jump you can check those out AND be privy to my insane Marvel U conspiracy theories. It’s a win-win for everyone.
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Inhumanity #1 – Marvel NOW NOW
Matt Fraction and Olivier Coipel team up this week (and what a fantastic team-up it is) to bring us the beginnings of the next big chapter of the Marvel Universe. After the events of Infinity #4, when Black Bolt tricked Thanos into setting off a Terrigen Bomb that caused thousands (maybe millions) of descendants of Inhumans to go through the Terregenesis process – believe me folks, I’m just as confused writing it as you are reading it – thus putting into motion Black Bolt’s plans for a new and more powerful kingdom of Inhumans. I’ve never been a big Inhumans fan. It was hard for me to get past any character whose hero name was Black Bolt and ACTUAL name was Blackagar Boltagon. However, with a writer like Fraction at the helm, I think I can at least give the book a shot, and besides, this series will be crossing over into books all across the Marvel U, as the “Rise of the Inhumans” looks to be a major initiative from Marvel Editorial. Crazy Theory in 3….2….1…..
The Inhumans will be the next Marvel Phase film project, and will tie-in with the Avengers-verse.
Not content with making a bajillion dollars with the Avengers films, and why would they be, the Disney Overlords will begin to put the screws to Marvel, testing the waters to see just what books/characters can be made into feature films (All New Invaders drops soon, as does a new New Warriors book). The Inhumans seem like a perfect choice. Aliens that have lived among us for millennia and who gain super powers by catchin some vapors? Yup. I can see the movie now. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie as Black Bolt and Medusa? Box Office Gold, my friends.
Crazy Theory Part 2:
Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver will be called “Inhuman” rather than mutant.
Since the film rights to muties belongs to FOX still, and with no other real viable options to explain how a woman can alter the probability of space/time, and a man can outrun any land vehicle, the Maximoffs will no longer be mutant (as far as film audiences are concerned), but the product of their Inhuman parentage. This wraps a bow on not having to say the word “mutant” AND giving a nice little tie-in into the eventual Inhumans flick. So says I.
End fan wankery.
Amazing Spider-Man #700.1 – Marvel
Peter Parker is back ya’ll! Did you miss him?? How was Slott’s story, Spider-fans? Is “SpideyOck” still around? Someone help me, I am so very lost! Marvel drags out the corpse of ASM Volume 1 to tack a fake 700 on an issue (that’s cheating, guys), and then desecrates the corpse even further by putting one of those interminable “.1s” at the end of it. Yuck, Marvel. For shame. To celebrate the return of Peter, this issue is written by the 70 year old creator of Rambo (First Blood novelist David Morrell). Yeah, you heard me right. Not exactly the guy I would have called up first either. Still, comic legend Klaus Janson is on art chores, so there’s a plus. Let’s check out the solicits to see how the exciting new era for Pete begins:
With a blizzard crippling New York City, Spider-Man must protect the city – but Aunt May’s life is in danger!
*SIGH* Aunt May. In danger. How very innovative. Ya know, 616 Aunt May is no UMU Aunt May. She’s like 97. Aunt May just waking up is in danger. Without an entire battalion of life-giving pills, her life is in danger. Not to mention 616 Aunt May tries to get down with all of the Spidey villains (wrap your domes around this, True Believers – Doc Ock almost married Aunt May at one point way back when – and so now that he’s in Pete’s body he…oh, I don’t even wanna go there). Anyways, I’m happy Pete’s back, but this issue doesn’t thrill me in the least. Make me a believer, Spidey fans!
Prophet #41 – Image Comics
Typically I balk at the idea of a constantly rotating crew of artists on a single book, but dammit if Brandon Graham doesn’t make it work. He knows where the talents lie in every one of his artists, and what kind of story their work shines in. This issue seems artist Ronald Wimberly added to the talent pool, and I’m excited to see what he does with the material. I don’t know of his work before this, but I trust Brandon Graham to steer the ship into new and fantastic places.
Trillium #5 (of 8) – VERTIGO DC Comics
Another month, another chance for me to lament that I’m waiting for trade. I probably should have just snagged the issues. I’ve heard nothing but fantastic things, and Lemire is such a consistently entertaining writer (particularly when he’s doing his own, creator-owned stuff).
Rover Red Charlie – Avatar Press
This book’s premise was too goddamned weird not to mention. Garth Ennis writes this book about three canine friends at the end of the world. I don’t know if the animals talk or if they communicate like the critters in WE3, no idea, but this cross between The Incredible Journey and I Am Legend seemed too damned weird to pass up. Ennis hasn’t been relevant to me in years, but maybe this is the comic that gets me to pick him back up.
Longshot Saves the Marvel Universe #3 – Marvel Comics
CapWolf, Kraven Phoenix, Wolverine King of the Vampires, ThorHulk, Kingpin with the Infinity Gauntlet. I don’t know if I’m recommending this book or not, but that cover is bananas, and awesome.
That’s gonna do it for my picks this week. I will mention that Brubaker and Epting’s Velvet #2, Amazing X-Men #2, and a fantastic HC of Aaron’s run on Wolverine all drop this week, so don’t think I forgot about them!
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