Playing Favorites excerpts, pt 50 - The Verdict

Every Most Tuesdays I post excerpts from best selling at not selling super blog, Playing Favorites. 

Spider-Man

Jenny Sparks

The Batman

Blue Beetle (Ted Kord)

Lindy Reynolds (Dark Avengers)

Captain America

Gauntlet

Superman (All-Star Superman)

Elijah Snow

Cable (Cable & Deadpool)

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Penny Reviews: 2011, Part III

I got a lot of comics in 2011, and as people often do at the end of a year, I've taken a moment to reflect on my purchases and share the resulting insights with you, the unwary reader. This is the last day, so if you’re visiting for the first time, I’m afraid you’ll have no idea what’s going on.

Midnighter, Vol 1 & 2 by Garth Ennis

The Midnighter and Garth Ennis do graphic, fun violence. Volume One was The Midnighter versus Hitler and time cops. The concept is so high that when high gets a long weekend, it gets Ennis’ Midnightered for three days straight. On paper, it’s diet pepsi and pop tarts.

The execution was pop tarts and the star Rigel. This analogy doesn’t work because those two things don’t “mix” and don’t make bad comics. Maybe it’s not Ennis’ fault. The Midnighter is admittedly a two-faceted badass character; it’s possible that he needs an ensemble to contrast with, or at least a straight man.

#1 Worst

Playing Favorites excerpts, pt 07

Every Tuesday, I post excerpts from my best-selling at not-selling super blog, Playing Favorites.

My other blogs are Giant-Sized this week, and so is Playing Favorites. Enjoy.

Full disclosure; I’ve only read, like a half-dozen individual Black Panther comics. That’s not even ‘Black Panther’ comics where his name was on the title. Half of those were ‘Fantastic Four’ issues where Reed and Sue were on vacation after Civil War and newlyweds Black Panther and Storm were filling in. I honestly only picked those up because they ended up dimension-hopping to the Marvel Zombies Universe. I got one from after that arc where they were on racist retard Skrull planet (just like in the classic Star Trek episode, “A Piece of the Action”), but that…had to be an accident; I don’t think that comic came out while I was still drinking heavily.

Anyway, I like Black Panther because he’s the trifecta; the technology, magic, and national support of Doctor Doom, the drive, abilities, and wealth of Batman, and the something something of someone else who isn’t memorable because they aren’t Doctor Doom or Batman(maybe ‘integrity’ and ‘Captain America’). But really, aren’t Batman and Doctor Doom enough to make a trifecta? Possibly more? Is the sum of two and two three? No, it would be foolish to say such is so, but it would not be so foolish to say that two and two is greater than three.