Hench-Sized Comic Book Reviews – 6/6/15
Good news, everyone! The Gamer Girl & Vixen Kickstarter hit it’s goal yesterday! I’m going to get to make my comic! Woohoo! And you’re all still welcome to head on over and pre-order your copies of Gamer Girl & Vixen! Big thanks, of course, to you Henchies you already have. You peeps are the best!
Meanwhile, I’ve got a mega stack of other comics to review this week! After last week’s super dinky pile of comics, and considering DC is finally done with Convergence, I decided to just go nuts today and review a heck ton of comics! I’m really surprised with myself…and may have overdone it a little bit. We’ve got Action Comics, Bizarro, and Green Lantern, as well as a whole bunch of Marvel comics to boot! If you like reading Hench-Sized Comic Book Reviews, then today you get your fill!
Comic Book of the Week goes to that wonderful, that delightful, Unbeatable Squirrel Girl! There’s just nothing funnier!
There’s a man that probably hates his job
Over at Word of the Nerd, you can check out my review of Secret Wars #3. That series is humming along nicely. I’m reading a few of the tie-ins, but none of them are in this review stack, unfortunately. There were just too many worthy regular comics to read.
Comic Reviews: Action Comics #41, All-New X-Men #41, Bizarro #1, Darth Vader #6, Green Lantern #41, Princess Leia #4, Spider-Woman #8, Star Wars #6 and Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #6.
A Major Peek at the New Marvel Universe!
Marvel Comics is on the verge of a pretty big shakeup this Fall, and they’ve started seriously laying out the fundamentals of their New MU. We saw the lineup of the All-New, All-Different Avengers a few months back. Well now Marvel is putting out character posters to give us all a glimpse of what else they have in store. We’ve got a couple of surprises, a few confirmed rumors, and just some already nifty stuff.
If Marvel posts any more of these today, I’ll update and add.
As I’ve said before, I’m too old and too progressive to get worked up at every little change to comic book characters anymore. I see a lot of strange things here – like the Thing joining the Guardians of the Galaxy, and the two Wolverines – but none of it bothers me. Instead, I’m excited to see where Marvel is going with all of this. Plus, I really like the fact that X-23 is going to step up and become the new Wolverine (alongside Old Man Logan, for some reason). That should actually be pretty neat. And I’m definitely in favor of Scott Lang’s Ant-Man rising to even more prominence.
Plus Doctor Strange has that awesome battle ax, so that can only mean good things. Hopefully it’ll be in the movie!
What do you henchies think of these teasers? Good? Bad? Let me know in the comments!
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A Little Bit More Ant-Man
Not a full trailer, but here’s a new Ant-Man TV spot with some new footage. Good times.
Ant-Man comes out on July 17! That’s more than a month away. Why do we have to keep waiting? Why is that how the universe works! Why can’t we experience everything like Dr. Manhattan?
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Fallout 4 Will Soon Be Upon Us
I can still remember the day I randomly decided to give Fallout 3 a try. My friend Alyssa had been a huge fan of the entire franchise, and was excited to grab the new game. Well I had some money to burn and an undying love of video games, so I randomly picked up a copy.
I will never look back! From Fallout 3 to New Vegas to Elder Scrolls: Skyrim to everything else Bethesda Game Studios is going to produce, I will be there.
Especially for Fallout 4, unveiled today!
That game looks gorgeous! It’s like a bigger, more detailed, more amazing Fallout 3. It’s the same post-apocalypse, a similar vault dweller, but everything else looks amazing! Airships! Massive cities! More old-timey music! Ron Perlman!
And it’s going to be set in Boston! I know some friends of mine who are going to be very happy for that!
No release date in the video, but one hopes it’s after I can upgrade my PC with a better graphics card.
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6 Things I Want From the All-New, All-Different Marvel Universe
I have always been a Marvel Zombie and I’m proud to admit it. Spider-Man and the X-Men got me into comics in the 90s, and the publisher has simply always been better than DC Comics, as far as I’m concerned. The characters are better, the themes are stronger and, especially in the past few years, Marvel has been putting out better comics.
So you’d think I’d be a little more freaked out by the apparent Marvel Universe reboot coming our way this fall.
Looks about the same
But I’m not freaked out at all. Personally, I don’t really think it’s going to be a reboot. I think Marvel is using Secret Wars to do a little garden-tending, and the Marvel Universe will look pretty much the same on the other side. But even if it’s not, I’ve been through enough alleged ‘major changes’ in comic books that I’ll weather this one just the same. As long as Marvel keeps putting out good comics, I’ll keep reading.
Though I do have a few suggestions for the New MU…
