Meme Monday 6/24/13

Clark still messing with the Avengers, and apparently Bruce approves

meme monday 6/17/13

just Clark being a smartass

Rolling Review: SH Figuarts Iron Man Mk VI

SH Figuarts - Iron Man Mk VI (Iron Man 2)

Tony Stark is literally everywhere, as he and the Mark VI suit burst into the SHF line! All the way from Iron Man, the Mark VI comes with beautiful details and accessories. This molding based on the regular SHF body has most features similar to the Kamen Rider and Sentai molds. However, the Mk VI has its own new features like the missing wrist articulation and reverse ball jointed head. The Armored Avenger, is overall on of the most AMAZING SH Figuarts to date! And if you see ways differently, then I'll put the suit on and we'll go outside... I'm just sayin'!

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Laid Back Comics Watches: Avengers Assemble!

Back when I went to SDCC I had the pleasure to see a trailer of an early version of Avengers Assemble and watching it I was a bit, underwhelmed. Of course it was just a animation and voice test, to give the audience there an idea and feel of the show, so it was a little rough, and that was just the stand in voice cast. Now here we are almost a year or so later and the show has debuted and it is still a tad rough but for the most part watchable.

To say Marvel wants to capitalize on the Avengers movie success is the no brainier statement of the day. And Assemble does little to nothing to hide from that fact, for the most part the two casts are completely identical save for the addition of Falcon being added to the team, who Tony first had suggested to use War Machine suit before Sam ignored it and get the suit he wanted. That wasn't the only real difference to the whole first two episodes.

The story takes place sometime after the Avengers disbanded for some reason that isn't fully explained just yet. But, Tony is keeping tabs on everyone in the Big Brother fashion when he sees that Red Skull suddenly killed Captain America. This is the events that leads Tony into bringing the group back together and go out and Avenge Cap by finding Red Skull and MODOK and bringing them in. And here is where the show begins to struggle a bit as that while the group does want to help after hearing the news, it was a lot of bickering back and forth between the characters on the way to the arctic to find villains. Once there they end up fighting some unnamed soldiers and more bickering and in fighting. That is main theme going out through the first two episodes here where if this was just a stand alone would fall under the more annoying side, but as the second episode hits we see that getting pushed much further with some nanobot help.  The big free though is this will be a constant thing as the series progresses and will start to feel old and forced the more it is used.

The story also has some problems like motivation of Red Skull who is dying, though never explained why. So he switches brains with the not so dead Captain America, but when that fails he just steals Tony’s armor. In hindsight that plan seemed to be the much easier one, heck had he gone that route there would be a good chance the Avengers wouldn't have reformed.  But, in the end they push for the humiliate route which ends up giving the heroes reason to stay together. But, they aren't the only ones, the hook at the end of the second episode is Skull asking other villains to combine their forces as well. That could be interesting in its own right to keep watching the show.

What hurts the show the most I feel is the voice casting and animation. While we get some returning voices from EMH we are also getting some new ones and they don’t sound right. Tony sounds extremely young and Red Skull is a few accents shy of a bad stereotype.  And the animation can go from wonderful fluid and detailed, but then you get these static shots were a frame of animation is paused and then slide across the screen, it is obvious and jarring to see and it is used several times.

In the end even with all of these negatives, there wasn't one time that I would call the show bad in anyway. But, I said the same thing about Earth’s Mightiest Heroes and half way through the first season it hit its stride and became an excellent show. So here is hoping the same thing will happen to this one and in a few months’ time we will be all in love with this new show. Hopefully it being connected to Ultimate Spider-Man scare too many people away.

OVERALL: 6.0 out of 10

Bryan "BAC" Clendening writes for Broken Infinite and you can follow him on Twitter @BAClend

ONI #1

ONI #1 Script
Desperate Girl

by Darryll B. Carter

Cover Art by 
Christopher Rice,
Darryll  B. Carter

ONI logo by
Darryll B. Carter

ONI created by
Darryll B. Carter

Warning: Explicit Language

Page One

Panel One

This series of panels should be from a side scroll view. Show a night view of a city reminiscent of Las Vegas crossed with Coruscant through the windows of a skyscraper office. These are floor to ceiling windows. Just focus on the window, don’t bother to show any of the office.

Panel Two

Same view. A female scientist, Kate, struggles into panel from the right. Kate looks just like Karen, they’re twins; except Kate is a redhead and wears glasses. She’s wearing her glasses, a white blood stained lab coat, a pink camisole with one strap broken and her black skirt is ripped on the side. She’s holding her arm as if it is wounded. She’s dragging that arm against the window leaving a blood smear trail.

Panel Three

Same view. Kate should now be on her way off panel (left). Kate’s blood smear begins to pull in the opposite direction to the center of the window. Think of water being pulled by a vacuum. In the upper right corner; have a menacing hellhound type creature stalking into the panel, walking on the window.

Panel Four

Same view.  Kate is out of panel. The window crawling hellhound is well on his way off panel following Kate. He’s now joined by a swarm of hell hounds running on the ground after Kate. The blood travelling toward the center of the window is on its way to forming a menacing pair of eyes and a maniacal grin.

Panel Five

The hell hounds are out of panel. The window darkens and the set of red eyes are formed.

Panel Six

Full black panel with only the blood assembled maniacal face.

Page Two

                Panel One

Camera should be on a slant. Kate enters a dark room. The only thing that should be seen is the light from the hallway, as she shuts the door and the shine of her glasses.

Panel Two

Close shot of her hand locking the knob.

SFX- click

Panel Three

Another close shot of her hands locking the top bolt on the door.

SFX- shunk

Panel Four

She pushes a nearby couch in front of the door.

SFX- ERRRRRRNNN

Panel Five

Kate begins to pull out a chair in front of a computer. The light from the computer is shining on her.  It is the only light source in the room. There is another set of windows behind the desk chair.

Kate- I hope you get this Karen…

Panel Six

Kate is sitting at the computer typing with a focused look on her face. Behind her, on the windows, the hellhounds begin to converge on her.

Kate- You may be our last hope.

Page Three

                Panel One

                Straight shot from the shoulder up of Karen. She’s a brunette short hair, petite. She looks a lot like Jenny Lorenzo. She’s wearing a black hat that says Space Bean Coffee and a green apron. She looks very agitated.

                        Karen Caption- Are you #*#$%#*% serious?

Karen- Are you #*#$&%@ serious?

Panel Two

                Side shot. Karen is actually behind the counter facing a guy in a hoodie, James, who has his arms around a very attractive woman, Cosmo. Karen is slamming her hand down on the counter with a coffee in the other hand. People around the three are shocked by the force of the slam. Karen is causing a scene. James, is a text book definition of what a nerd looks like. He is somewhere between George McFly, pre Marty’s trip to 1955 and Dexter, the alter ego of Freakazoid. This girl is a textbook blonde cheerleader and she’s about a foot taller than James. He’s short.

                Karen- You’re leaving me for Cosmobitch?

                Cosmo- Cosmochick.

                Karen- Shut the #*#$ up.

    Karen Cap- She says one more thing and this coffee’s in her face.

    Karen- Are you #*#$&%@ serious?

                James- Karen, things just weren’t working out. And Cosmo is… well, better.

                Karen- Better at what? Running trains on our entire raid party or getting trains run on her?

                Panel Three

                Karen is facepalming and shaking her head. James grins in creepy manner while Cosmo is checking out the menu above and behind Karen’s head. Like in any fast food place.

                James- Cosmo is open to having an open relationship. If you wanted to join us…

                Cosmo- Can I have a Tripple Mocha Latè?

                Karen Cap- That’s it.

`               Panel Four

                This moment should look fairly epic. Karen is pissed and she’s pulling her hand back to toss this hot cup of coffee at James and Cosmo. This shot is heavy on anticipation.

                                Karen- Here’s your @#@&$!% latè!

Page Four

                Panel One

                Headshot of Karen sitting in the office getting berated by her boss who is off panel in the foreground. She is struggling to keep a straight face; anger is battling her composure.

                                Karen Cap- That was a horrible idea in hindsight.

                                Boss- You’re fired! What the hell possessed you to throw a scalding hot coffee in a customer’s face!? If they press charges we won’t be held accountable. Get out of here!

                                Karen Cap- How the hell am I gonna pay the rent now?

                Panel Two

                Karen storms out the coffee shop front door throwing her hat on the ground. She’s wearing an open leather jacket over her clothes now with a yellow motorcycle helmet in her hand. The area outside is visually a typical New York City scene; traffic is going by, tall buildings and skyscrapers in the distance.

                                Karen- Coffee tastes like dog shit anyway!

                                Karen Cap- That’s right Karen. Vent.

                Panel Three

                She hops on her yellow vespa and puts on her helmet and goggles.

                                Karen Cap- Let it all out. Woosah.

                Panel Four

                Side scroll view as she floors it down the city street on her vespa. She passes a parked cop car. One of the police officers spits out his coffee.

                                SFX- Vroooooommm

                                Karen Cap- Feel the speed releasing your stress. Woosah.

                Panel Five

                Same view, different scenery to show the progression. She’s pulled over and the cops are writing her a ticket.

                                Karen Cap- This day is such bullshit…

Page Five

Panel One          

She pulls up outside her apartment on her vespa. It is night now. Her apartment looks like a New York Brownstone. On the door to her apartment there is a pink eviction notice.

                Karen Cap- Finally home.

Panel Two

She takes off her helmet and holds it in her hands as she looks to the side at her apartment door. She’s calmer now. Her face has regained its composure.

                Karen Cap- We just go inside kick back. Farm some gold. Farm till our eyes bleed. Cause selling gold is going to be my only income for awhile…

Panel Three

Her face freaks the out. Like “WTF?” Her eyes widen in shock and her mouth is agape.

                Karen Cap- What the @#$# is that???

Panel Four

This is a tight shot of just the pink eviction notice taped to the door. Show the address numbers; 669, but have the nine swing down hanging by its tail upside down so it reads, 666.

                Karen-  Eviction notice? What the #@#@ man…

Panel Five

She loses it again, overcome with anger and crushes the notice in her hand.

                Karen- That little shit didn’t pay his half of the rent before he peaced out?!?

                Karen Cap- All will be well Karen. Just get inside.

Page Six

                Panel One

She makes her way inside the apartment to a foyer. She ascends the stair case and opens another door.

                Karen Cap- Just leave reality, all this bad mojo and all the-

                Karen- bullshit!

                Karen Cap- behind.

Panel Two

She opens the front door and turns on the lights to see a very bare living room. The only thing left is a floor lamp in the corner, some bras on the floor and a desk with her desktop pc on it. Her eyes narrow but she keeps a straight face.

                Karen- There is nothing left that can surprise me today.

Panel Three

She sits her helmet down on her desk on top of a past due electric bill and pulls out a chair to sit down. The focus of this panel should be on the electric bill. It should be a close shot that only really needs to include her hand putting down the helmet and the other pulling out the chair.

                Karen- Least he had the decency to leave my tower alone.

Panel Four/Five/Six

These are small panels. Her hand pushing the power button to the desktop.

Panel Five

Her hand pushing the power button to the desktop.

                Karen- Okay…?

Panel Six

She jams her finger into the power button with considerable force.

                Karen- What the #@%$?!

Panel Seven

She turns the desktop around to find the power supply unit is missing.

                Karen- That SOB took my PSU?

Panel Eight

She takes the cover off to find her entire desktop has been gutted.

                Karen- He took everything!?!?!?

Page Seven

                Panel One

The desktop tower is flying through the window. Should be a beautiful scene of destruction shattered glass from the window should still be in panel falling.

                SFX- Crrrrrasssssssh!

Panel Two

She’s standing with her body still in the position from the throw in the center of the living room floor. She angry and breathing hard as if physically venting her outrage.

Karen Cap- Okay, in hindsight- that wasn’t really the best idea.

Panel Three

Panel is totally black.

                SFX(Karen)- Sigh.

Panel Four

This panel is still mostly black. Light from her cell phone starts glowing in her pocket. It adds a little light around her leg revealing some details but very little.

                Karen- This better be Morpheus with that red pill.

Panel Five

She’s holding the phone in her hand. Phone should show the following messages (top to bottom); KNovak@odatron.net -Subject: no subject, ECECO Energy- Subject: Your Bill is Past Due, Premier Reality MMORPG- Subject: Cosmochick69 Wants to Be Your Friend.  The panel should focus on the phone.

                Karen- KNovak@odatron?

                Karen Cap- Kate?

Page Eight

                Panel One

                Karen throws a few things in a duffle bag, clothes and toiletries, using the flashlight app on her phone to see. The app light is a substantial lightsource.

                                Email Cap- Karen it’s me, Kate. I know we haven’t spoken in a long time. Since I left.

                Panel Two

                Karen grabs some game cases, a Dreamcast looking console with controllers, and a Pandora Construct book and puts it in a book bag.

                                Email Cap- And I’m sorry about that. But I really need your help and you’re the only one who can help me.

                Panel Three

                It’s the dead of night now. Karen is sitting on her parked Vespa with the back loaded up with her bags. She puts on her helmet and goggles. In the distance behind her there is a black four door sedan with black tinted windows.

                                Karen- Kate, what the hell have you gotten into?

                Panel Four

                Karen pulls off and the black sedan follows her. The emphasis in this panel should be on the sedan, a subtle emphasis.

                                Email Cap- It’s not safe to give the specifics through this email.

                Panel Five

                Karen rolls into the Lincoln Tunnel, traffic is light. The tunnel is the star of this panel. It should be showcased along with the scenery.

                                Email Cap- Just come to my apartment in Solheim and I’ll explain everything.

                                Karen Cap- Solheim, the city of tomorrow. I’ve heard of it. Revolutionary city with revolutionary tech. Top notch nextgen shit. GPS says its 1 day and 13 hours.

                Panel Six

                Same view as previous panel only with the black sedan entering the tunnel behind Karen.

                                Email Cap- Please Karen. You’re my only hope.

                                Karen Cap- The Star Wars esque closing is what really got me out the door.

Page Nine

                Full Page Panel- Karen arrives outside the city limits and gazes upon Solheim. It’s daytime. The city skyline is clear and it’s massive. Solheim looks like a sci fi city, a cross between Coruscant and the New York from the Fifth Element during the day. (It looks like Coruscant and Vegas at night.) The city itself is inside a massive outer wall just like the city of Troy.

                Setting Cap- Solheim, Utah- 2 days and 12hrs later…

                Karen Cap- Solheim, Utah. Sparkling city amidst the sand, plains and Mormons.

                Karen- Holy shit. Okay… I’m impressed.

Page Ten

                Panel One

                Karen drives through town admiring the high level tech. Show her watching a holo-message between a woman and her boss in the park. The woman has like a holo-screen tablet. The vehicles on the street are more futuristic too.

                Panel Two

                Karen leans back to continue catching a glimpse of the holo-conversation, amazed and mouth agape.

                                Karen- They’ve got holoterminals???

                Panel Three

                Karen and her vespa pull up onto the sidewalk in front of a building that looks like it was plucked straight off of a motherboard.

                                Karen- This looks like the place.

                Panel Four

                Her helmet is resting in her hands, goggles still on, as she stares up at the new age building.

                                Karen- This thing has more in common with the chipset on an MBoard than a building. Must take mad gold to live here.

Page Eleven

                Panel One

                The view of this panel should be an angle from above. Karen steps off an elevator on the 14^th floor. Her goggles are still on her face.  As she steps off she turns to look down the hall. Behind her is a large window. The angle should allow a view of her vespa parked out front and the black sedan pulling up behind it (the vespa).

                Panel Two

                Karen knocks on door 1417. There is a lever mechanism that you find in most hotels, but no key hole. There is a fingerprint scanner.

                Karen- 1417. This is it.

                Panel Three

                Zoom in on the fingerprint scanner pad. It has a red light glowing on it.

                                Karen-No answer. Hmmm. I wonder.

                Panel Four

                                Same panel as previous shot with Karen pressing her thumb on the scanner. The light on the scanner is now green.

                                SFX- Deet Deet

                Panel Five

                Karen steps into an apartment completely devoid of personality. The walls are white; there is no couch, no furniture, just a huge wooden sword, a desk and a laptop on it that’s plugged into the wall.

                                Automated Voice- Welcome Home Karen.

                                Karen- Geez, Kate. Looks a lot like my spot did.

Page Twelve

                Panel One

                Karen reaches for the large wooden sword mounted on the wall. She has a grin on her face. She’s surprised and happy.

                                Karen- I can’t believe she still has this…

                Panel Two

                This panel is identical to the previous, except Karen has a subtle surprised look on her face; her reaction to the sudden arrival of the men that have been tailing her.

                                MIB1- Don’t move.

                                Karen Cap- Oh, @#$@.

                Panel Three

                Two men in black suits and shades, think agents from the Matrix or the MIB, stand in the doorway. One has a silenced gun pointed at her the other is putting on a pair of disposable gloves. The guy with the gun has a grin on his face, holding his chin up.

                                MIB1- Option One: Cooperate and this’ll go smoothly. Easy.

                                MIB2 (with the gun)- Option Two: You don’t want Option Two.

                                MIB1- Where’s the DG-IX?

                                Karen Cap- What did you get me into Kate?

                Panel Four

                Karen has her hands in the air, she’s distressed. The MIB with the gun steps forward with his gun extended. He’s irritated.

                                Karen- I… I don’t know what that is.

                                MIB2- Bullshit. You drove 2,000 miles to get here without a moment’s notice! You know what we want!

                                MIB1- Don’t play coy with us Ms. Novak. My partner can be very trigger happy. Now tell us where your sister hid the DG-IX!

                Panel Five

                Zoom shot of Karen’s face, primarily her eyes. Her eyes are looking off to where the wooden sword rests on the wall.

                               Karen Cap- They’re not gonna let me walk out of here. Even If I could give them what they wanted.

                               Karen Cap- What if they’ve done something with Kate?!

                               Karen- I have to get out of here!

Page Thirteen

                Panel One

                Karen snatches the wooden sword off of the wall and bashes the MIB with the gun in the head really hard. She puts her whole soul into it; you can see it in her face. He buckles from the force.

                               SFX-  (sword impact) Crack!

                               MIB2- Ommph!

                Panel Two

                She baseball slides pass the MIB still in the doorway, with the sword in hand. He reaches out to grab her as if she was still at full height.

                              MIB1- You won’t escape!

                              Karen- #$%# that!

                              Karen Cap- Mirror’s Edge FTW.

                Panel Three

                MIB with the gun is leaning out the doorway bearing his teeth and fires off two shots at the fleeing Karen down the hall. Emphasis more on the MIB.

                             MIB2- That bitch is dead!

                             SFX- (silenced gunshots)Ffft! Ffft!

                Panel Four

                This shot is from outside the window. Karen cuts the corner. One bullet goes whizzing through her hair. Both bullets go through the hallway window.

                              SFX- (bullets passing through glass) Pssh! Pssh!

                Panel Five

                MIB1 (without the gun) slams MIB2’s gun against the wall.

                              MIB1- No! We need her alive remember?! She can’t lead us to the DG if she’s dead!

Page Fourteen

                Panel One

                Karen darts out of a hallway into another hallway at a cross road. She looks lost. There is an exit sign on the ceiling toward the bottom of the panel. She still has the sword.

                                 Karen- Shit. I’m lost.

                Panel Two

                Same panel, but MIB1 emerges from a hallway at the top of the panel. Karen turns her head to see him.

                                MIB1- I’ve got ‘er. Northeast corridor.

                                Karen- @#$#%!

                                Karen Cap- @#$#%!

                Panel Three

                Karen is running frantically down the hall with MIB1 chasing her. Their positions in the panel are; Karen, mid and MIB1 rear.

                Panel Four

                Same panel. They are closer to the foreground now. MIB1 is practically on top of Karen reaching out for her.

                Panel Five

                Same panel. Karen is in the immediate foreground getting tackled off panel by MIB2.

Page Fifteen

                Panel One

                MIB2 and Karen crash through a hallway window. The wooden sword crashes on impact against the window frame. The DG flies out of the broken sword and through the window as well. The DG looks like a red and black video card.

                                SFX- Crasssssh!

                                Karen Cap- Oh, no…

                Panel Two

                Karen and MIB2 are in free fall; falling with shattered glass, his gun, the broken sword and the DG outside the apartment building. Both Karen and MIB2 are afraid and in shock. The DG is in the foreground at the bottom of the panel. It is activating, the fan is spinning within and it’s glowing a fierce red. Karen is seemingly grasping for it.

                                DG- Emergency Proximity Activation. Makai Change.

                Panel Three

                A red portal, a demon gate, opens from the DG and Karen is falls into it.

Page Sixteen and Seventeen

                Henshin Sequence- Think Sailor Moon crossed with the Schumacher Batman Suit up, and Iron Man Suit up.

                Panel One

                ONI’s gauntlets materialize over Karen’s hands.

                                   DG Cap- 14%

                Panel Two

                ONI’s greaves materialize on to Karen’s legs.

                Panel Three

                The DG becomes ONI’s belt buckle and the belt materializes.

                                    DG Cap- 42%

                Panel Four

                Karen is in free fall like a skydiver with her arms and legs spread out. Her body is naked, but glowing. Think back to Sailor Moon’s transformation sequence. The environment she’s falling through is a hellish mix of fire and blazing red energy.

                Panel Five

                ONI’s torso armor materializes on to Karen’s body.

                                    DG Cap- 70%

                Panel Six

                ONI’s tail skirt materializes over Karen’s butt. Emphasis on the butt.

                Panel Seven

                ONI’s helmet materializes over Karen’s face.

                                   DG Cap- 98%

Page Eighteen

                Full Page Panel

                Karen crashes to the ground Iron Man style creating a small crater in the asphalt. MIB2 crashes into the roof of his black sedan.

                                 DG- Transformation Complete.

Page Nineteen

                Panel One

                Karen, now ONI, is excited and hops up with her arms outstretched examining her new form.

                                ONI- No $%#@ way!

                                Karen Cap- Nah uh!

                                ONI- I’m #$%#&*@ Iron Man!

                Panel Two

                Karen’s face inside the helmet examining her HUD. She’s smiling like a kid on Christmas.

                                DG Cap- Optimizing interface for new user.

                                DG Cap- Unable to connect to ONI Network.

                                DG Cap- Tasks. Primary Objective; Reboot ONI Network

                                DG Cap- You have new messages in your Inbox.

                                Karen- Whoa, Whoa wait a minute. First things first…

Page Twenty

                Panel One

                MIB1 is has his back turned to the window Karen and MIB2 crashed out of. He’s holding two fingers to his ear as if using a radio transmitting device.

                                MIB1- We have a new development.

                Panel Two- Splash Panel

                ONI leaps up into view of the window ready to pounce on MIB1. MIB1 turns around in panic, looking at ONI.

                               ONI- Payback’s a bitch!

                               To Be Continued Cap

Devin the Cool Making fun of Images

He loves us all it's true.

United Underworld Clan 

But I'll never be mistaken for a lead.

Emperor Micky Mouse

It's the one they call Sailor Deadpool.

This image is the absolute 100% truth unfortunately. It's toku and super sentai related.

Iron Man believes in one source of magic. It goes with cooking and drinking.

 Best in the world.

                             

But he's not the hero of canton.

captain kirk deals with loss in his own way.

 

 

 

 

 

 

First Impressions: Iron Man #1

After months of manga and anime reviews, it seems I've been dragged back into the western world of comics. Special thanks to Frank Rodriguez for giving me a copy to review!


Iron Man #1
Written by Kieron Gillen
Art by Greg Land, Jay Leisten and Guru eFx
Lettering by Joe Caramagna
Published by Marvel Comics



While I do prefer manga to western comics, I still love western comics. Superhero comics were my first comics, having been introduced to them through the Silver Age Spider-Man and Green Lantern comics. Now Marvel is trying to introduce new people to their comics with their new "Marvel NOW!" line-up, which is essentially just a renumbering of their books with new costumes and creative teams as opposed to completely restructuring their stories like DC did with the New 52. I haven't read a Marvel comic in over a year, even longer since I've read an Iron Man comic, so did Marvel managed to make me an Iron Man reader? Well, no actually.

It's not that the comic is bad. Merely competent might be a better term, at least as far as the story goes. Tony Stark is very much like his movie counterpart in this: he's a millionaire playboy with a high-tech company who feels responsible for keeping superpowered weapons out of dangerous hands. He spends the first two pages expositing his views on life, how he questions reality and wants to make a better future. Now if only he would shut up, because every time the scene focuses on Tony, he's narrating the events playing on the panel or explaining stuff to people that they should already know. Some of it is necessary for the new readers, but it came across as overdoing it.

The story itself is pretty standard. Someone is creating superpowered beings known as Extremis with the purpose of selling them as guardians, ala Skynet, but obviously there's something dubious going on, made all the more obvious by one of the Extremis killing someone in their first appearance. It's up to Tony to stop Extremis. It's an old Iron Man plot that's been used countless times in both the comics and movies, and it feels too familiar with not enough new material to freshen it up. Again, it's not bad, but I doubt it would impress a new reader enough that they'd want to buy the next issue of this storyline. Add in Tony's unnecessary chatter and the book almost becomes a grind to read despite being short.

As mentioned before, the characters of Marvel are going through some redesigns, and Tony's no exception. One neat addition to the story is that Tony now has a liquid metal that can reshape itself into the Iron Man armor. One of the fun parts of the Iron Man movies was seeing Tony come up with new ways to store and deploy his armor, and Marvel clearly wanted to capture that fun for the first issue. The armor itself actually doesn't look much different from his regular armor with the big exception of replacing the red paint with black. Personally, I prefer the red and gold to the black and gold, but since Tony constantly changes the way his armor looks its not out of character for him. Still, I question the color change when the red and gold is more iconic and would probably be more appealing to new readers.

However, the armor is the best-looking character in this. The comic tries to go for realistic-looking characters, but the effect comes across as stiff. The expressions of the characters are very limited; for example, Tony can't seem to stop smiling as if his face was stuck like that. Characters often have no eyes either, so the dreaded "Youngblood's Disease" as dubbed by Linkara of Atop the Fourth Wall strikes again. It's kind of an ugly book. I'm not all familiar with Greg Land's art, but I definitely think he's better at drawing robots than people if this book is anything to go on.

Stiff and merely competent really sums up this first issue. It's not bad, but not good enough to really grab any interest. If you're a big Iron Man and not sick of this kind of story, you might enjoy it, otherwise I'd say it's safe to skip it.

Special: AVENGERS # 1 Trailer

Straight from Marvel, a trailer about tomorrow's all new Avengers #1:

Laid Back Comics: Who Would Win? #10 Iron Man vs Lex Luthor

BAC from Laid Back Comics lets BI dive into his archives to bring us this particular awesome gem: Who Would Win ? #10 Iron Man vs Lex Luthor.

Tamashii Nations Day One Part 2

Due to the massive amount of news I decided to put the rest of day one news into a separate post.  Well lets get this started.

First we will finish off the remaining Figuarts that were announced later on the first day.  We can see a bunch of Kamen Rider Bikes which are the Ride Shooter (Ryuki), Den Bird (Den-O), Blade Spader (Blade), the original Cyclone (Ichigo), and the Zero Horn (Zeronos).  I personally dont collect the bikes because of their prices and that they take up too much space but its nice Bandai made these to go alongside the riders.  There were also special announcements of Iron Man and War Machine.  This is strange because Max Factory was already going to be making the Avenger Figmas but I guess you can't have too much Robert Downey Jr.  The last SHFs that were shown were other characters from Akibaranger such as Aoi-Chan and Delu Knight.

Mewtwo isn't the only D-Art that was shown at Tamashii Nations.  We also got a look at the final evolutions of the main three starters from Kanto; Charizard, Blastoise, and Venusaur. Its great too see that they are finally going to make some more Pokemon D-Arts and I am curious what else they are going to bring out in the line. The Pokemon D-Arts weren't the only new D-Arts that were announced.  Megaman Fans should be happy to see that Bass and Tremble were announced as well.  Also in the picture though we can take a glimpse of the alternate Megaman forms that he becomes when he uses the other robot masters' powers.  Source: TokuAnimeNews via Rangerboard/ Tokunation

NYCC Comic News: Bendis & McNiven Protect Space With Guardians Of the Galaxy

  Brian Michael Bendis has become one of Marvel's biggest draws. The writer has revolutionized Spiderman with his non stop Ultimate Spiderman run. He has brought back a lot of shine and prominence to the Avengers. He is starting his journey with the X-Men. But now, he is going to conquer space. Yes, as announced during New York Comic Con, Brian Michael Bendis will be relaunching a new Guardians of the Galaxy title alongside fan favorite artist, Steve McNiven. McNiven is mostly known for his recent work with Captain America and the face changing Marvel mini series, Civil War.

   The duo will start the new title with a brand new 0.1 issue this coming February with a new #1 hit stores in March. Part of the Marvel NOW relaunch initiative  Bendis plans to give readers a look into the Marvel Universe itself.  Brian Michael Bendis commented to CBR about the book:

"A lot of people know they're making a 'Guardians of the Galaxy' movie, and one of my part time jobs is to work with the Marvel Creative Committee. That work involves projects that everyone knows are in development, plus a bunch of stuff people don't know about, where Marvel is deciding if it's something they want to do," Bendis told. "One of our first projects was 'Guardians of the Galaxy,' and we were doing a lot of research and really thinking about this book and these characters. I had read a lot of the material already as a fan, but not as a writer. So I was rereading it, and I really started to dig Peter Quill (AKA Star-Lord) and Gamora in particular. I liked who they were and what they were about -- especially Peter Quill's origin story and what it meant for him as a character. It's not something a lot of people are familiar with.

"I would get all hyped while we were talking about these characters during the movie meetings and how cool it was that Peter had this very little known origin story that is up there with Spider-Man's origin story if you really lay it out," Bendis continued. "I knew they wanted to get the book going again, and when I was wrapping up 'Avengers' about a year ago, [Marvel Comics Publisher] Dan Buckley said to me, 'You should do the 'Guardians of the Galaxy' comic. You've already done all the research, and you really love the characters.' So I said, 'Let me think about it.' He replied, 'What if we got someone like Steve McNiven to do the book?' And I said, 'Yeah -- if you get Steve McNiven, I'll do it.'

Guardians of the Galaxy will boost a roster that includes Starlord, Rocket Raccoon, Groot, Gamora, Drax the Destroyer, Bug and brand new member, Iron Man. Yep. Tony Stark will become a member of the Guardians of the Galaxy.  With such a group of diverse characters, McNiven commented to CBR about the book and drawing it:

"I love the contrasts within the group, from Rocket to Groot, to Drax and Gamora -- they all bring something unique to the mix," McNiven continued. "That's when you know you have a good team book. For instance, working on Rocket Raccoon is teaching me a lot about drawing as he's essentially a talking Disney cartoon, something I have never worked on before. My art tends to move more along the realistic line of illustrating. So Rocket is a challenge, and anytime I get a challenge it makes me very interested and engaged in the work. I set out to find the challenge within all of the characters; that something you can hang your art hat on so to speak, and so far so good! . . .  I love to tinker with designs. Usually I tend towards simple designs as they usually become more iconic, (and they are easier to draw!) but for the Guardians, I am going more complex. I've also figured they need different sets of costumes, because, well, you can't eat lunch in battle armor. As you go about designing things for the characters, you get a better handle on them and how they differ from one another. Getting them to stand out as individuals is the ultimate goal for me."

With Iron Man on the team, the book will connect much more with the rest of the Marvel Universe.  One of the biggest reasons that connect Iron Man with the Guardians is that the team will decide that Earth is now off limits to any other alien species. Bendis commented that they will feel that after everything has happened with all the aliens showing up on Earth, that they will make sure that Earth stays off limits. Plus, Bendis stated that it ties in with the direction that Iron Man writer Kieron Gillen has set up with Tony, who wants to know the secrets of the Marvel Universe itself. Guardians of the Galaxy #0.1 will hit shelves this February.

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Marvel NOW! - 8 More Titles/Creative Teams Confirmed

  Marvel has had a busy week as they have made a slew of announcements throughout it. These announcements confirm titles that they will be releasing in November during their Marvel Now Relaunch. Here are the titles with the ads as shown.

Monday, We got confirmation that Kieron Gillen and Greg Land would be taking over Iron Man:









Tuesday, We heard that The Mighty Thor will have a brand new creative team of Jason Aaron and Esad Ribic:

Wednesday, We heard that Hulk returns and is "Indestructible" as his new creative team is recent Eisner Award Winner Mark Waid and artist Leinil Yu: 

Thursday, Deadpool gets to go nuts with writers/comedians Gerry Duggan and Brian Posehn with art by Tony Moore:

Then we were attacked by Marvel on Friday with 4 New Title Announcements as first, Rick Remender and John Romita Jr take over as the creative team for Captain America, as confirmed by twitter from current Captain America scribe Ed Brubaker.





  Next up is the confirmation that  Matt Fraction will be handling both Fantastic Four and the returning FF. Handling Fantatic Four with the scribe is superstar artist Mark Bagley.










Following up with Fraction on the Fantastic Four's sister title, FF, will be cult favorite artist, Mike Allred, leading the Future Foundation into the next stage of Marvel.










Finally, there is the finally promotion that states Legacy, featuring the team of  writer Simon Spurrier and artist Tan Eng Huat. While most speculation states that this is probably X-Men Legacy relaunch, there is also some rumors that this could be for another Avengers related title, possibly dealing with the Picture with Nick Fury Jr and his photo of Wiccan, Miss America and Loki. Could it be the return of the Young Avengers? We won't know till November.



These titles join the following that were already confirmed:

- Uncanny Avengers with Rick Remember and John Cassidy
-Avengers with Jonathan Hickman and Jerome Opena.
- New Avengers with Jonathan Hickman and Steve Epting.
- All New X-Men with Brian Michael Bendis and Stuart Immonen.


12 Brand new titles down, not counting Red She-Hulk will be taking over as the main star in Hulk but that is not getting relaunched. What does this mean for the last 10 titles yet to be announced or any other changes in creative teams on long standing books? Find out as we keep an eye on Marvel Now.