Kick Ass 2 #4The whole idea behind the Kick Ass book is to see what the life of a real-life vigilante might be like. It's dirty. It's painful. It's often times pretty funny. This story arc has focused first on a team of like-minded vigilantes, and then on a new team of villains. In the last issue the villains found the leader of the vigilantes and brutally murdered him. In this issue, they upped their game to a disgusting level. The villains, lead by a guy calling himself Mother%&#$er goes after Kick-Ass's crush from the first story arch. The things that hey do once they get to her neighborhood are so horrendous that I won't be going into details. It was truly disturbing.
Not only will I not buy a Kick-Ass book again, but I will probably be throwing the last 2 issue straight in the garbage. To quote the movie, Billy Madison, "I award you no points and may God have mercy on your soul."
- WORST BOOK EVER! Now to cheer it up a bit.
Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #2 This issue continues the story of how young Miles Morales gets his spider-powers and how he reacts to them. So far he can run fast, jump high, stick to walls, turn invisible, and zap people with his "venom blast". While he has a long heart-to-heart with his dad in this issue, it's his dorky friend who he tells everything to and the dorky friend does some research online. Miles assumes that he is a mutant, but his buddy looks up how Peter Parker got HIS spider-powers and puts 2 and 2 together and suggest to Miles that he just might be Spider-Man 2!
There is a lot of talking in this issue, and hardly any action, but they are setting up this new character and the dialogue is good enough that I didn't mind all the word bubbles. Bendis is doing a great job with the story and character building and I was really sucked into this book. I sincerely like this Miles kid and am excited to see him take on the mantle of my favorite comic book hero.
- Close 2nd to Book of the Week
The Mighty Thor #6 This issue wraps up a pretty cool story arch, so I'm going to try to put the pieces together for you, even though it's likely to be confusing.
The Summary: The "World Tree" that holds the 9 Realms was split apart during a war in the last story arch. Odin sends Thor in to fetch the "World Seed" from the tree's heart (Yeah this is all very abstract stuff). The seed has immense power and Odin hopes to use it to break the cycle of Ragnarok (i think that was his point). Galactus and the Silver Surfer show up because they believe that eating it would sate Galactus' hunger forever. The Asgardians won't part with it, so an awesome war breaks out between the 2 forces. In the meantime, citizens from nearby Broxton, Ok have approached the Asgardians to tell them that they have to leave because the Oklahomans are tired of all the danger around their town. They are led by a preacher named "Mike". Suddenly Galactus and Odin fall to Earth, both wounded from their battle.
In this issue: Galactus stands up ready to destroy both the Asgardians and the Oklahomans. Preacher Mike tries to beg for mercy, but Galactus says "No!" Just then Thor's hammer flies from his hand and into the hand of the Destroyer armor that has emerged from Asgard. Galactus grimaces and decides not to challenge the power of the Destroyer weilding Mjolnir and powered by the seemingly unconscious Odin. A this moment it is known that the World Seed has vanished. Loki (who is now a boy of about 10 years old or so...I'm not getting into that right now) was working behind the scenes during this whole series and hid the seed away were not even HE knows where to find it. This stops the conflict and saves Asgard, since the item Galactus wants is not longer present. The Surfer, though, was touched profoundly by Preacher Mike's quest for peace and wants to stay on Earth longer to be reconnected with that human spirit. He asks Galactus if he can remain on Earth to make sure the Asgardians never re-aquire the World Seed, until after they have all passed away, in which case Galactus can then come consume the seed with no conflict. In his stead, the Surfer recommends Preacher Mike to be the new Herald...and the big guy agrees! Since the Surfer likes humans so much, Galactus turns him into flesh, like a human, instead of his silvery form, and tells him that he is tethered to Earth. The further he ventures from it, the weaker he becomes. Preacher Mike then goes with Galactus to become "The Praetor".
My take: This was a very fun storyline with a lot of twists, turns, and sweet cosmic action! The turn of events with Preacher Mike going with Galactus was just great and seeing the Surfer argue against wearing clothes, even though he's not silver anymore was hilarious! A lot of cool character moments happened in this issue and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
- Book of the Week! 
Batman The Dark Knight #1The only Batman-related book I bought from the "New 52", The Dark Knight proved to be a good choice. The series continues with the always-awesome David Finch drawing and co-writing and the fun just keeps rolling. We open up to see some cool action shots of Batman, who quickly changes to Bruce Wayne and makes a public appearance (very Tony Stark-like) at some gala event. Things are going smooth until a new hothead at the GCPD accuses Bruce of funding the Batman's activities. He's going to be a problem. Then news comes out that there is a breakout at Arkham Asylum and Batman is on the scene. There are several fan favorite villains in the breakout, but Batman is most concerned with Two-Face. By the time he finds him, something has happened to Two-Face and he comes out of the door looking like the friggin' Hulk! He then says something stupid which makes for the only lame thing in the whole book, "Call me One-Face".
Finch's art continues to amaze me. He's the perfect Batman artist. Story was nothing special, but then it was a solid Batman story, so that's not a problem. Good book.
Green Lantern New Guardians #1 This is the book were my favorite GL Kyle Rayner landed after the new #1 shakeup and I really wanted to like it. Luckily it turned out to be a lot better than the GL Corps I read last week.
First off, let me explain why I like Kyle so much. First off, he's a cartoonist/graphic designer just like me. He also designs his own unique GL uniforms and they are always crazy cool. His mask is probably the coolest in comics. More than that though, he's a very optimistic person, who has fun being a superhero and it shows. He's also been called a dreamer (not in a good way) by other Green Lanterns, but that's just why he's my favorite. He keeps things fun and awesome.
The story starts off re-telling Kyle's origin story about how/when/why he got the last Green Lantern ring after Hal Jordan went nuts and killed off the Corps in Emerald Twilight. Then the scene changes to multiple ring wielders losing their rings across the universe. A yellow lantern loses his ring and gets killed by the victims he was threatening. A red lantern loses his ring and dies (because the red lantern's ring is his heart). A Star Saphire (pink ring) loses her ring and would have suffocated in space if another SS hadn't come along. The rings all converge in one place, right in front of Kyle on Earth. All the rings say that he has been chosen and he has NO idea what's going on. Just then representatives from each of the other Lantern Corps show up furious with Kyle for stealing one of their rings! I've got a feeling a big fight is coming up next!
Okay, I'm partial to this comic because i think Kyle is so dang cool, but I really enjoyed this issue. It was just plain fun. The story is a little vague so far, but I think it will make a lot more sense as subsequent issues come out. The art is very fun and pretty high quality, for the most part. There are a few places that the artist has some weaknesses, but overall I really like his style.
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