the last week of may

Wow what a month it's been with the release of the Iron man movie and the looming news of Iron man II, Captain America,Thor, and The Avengers as all upcoming releases out of Marvel Studios it has been a great month for comic book fans everywhere. Not only has silver screen given us our enjoyment for May but so has our regular form of media as well. May has brought us the second part of the Secret Invasion but it also has brought the start of the Final Crisis in the DC universe. Iron man our hero of the month here has had a great month for comics as well. Not only did the Invincible Iron Man kick off this month with issue number 1 but the close to the haunted storyline in Iron Man Director of S.H.I.E.L.D book( with a fantastically drawn battle between Iron Man and the Mandarin)as well. Also in the world of good ol shell head we had Iron Man Via Las Vegas which is written by Jon Favreau (director of the Iron Man movie). Moving away from the world of Iron Man the Invaders( a WWII Avengers) came into our current time line to face off against both teams of Avengers in Avengers/Invaders #1 ( could we be seeing a lead up to something that might get Iron Man's A$$ whooped again). Keeping with the Avengers May also brought us to an end of the current roster of Initiative hopefuls (sad to see them go i really am) and the entrance of the Void. With the end of one team we get to see the birth of another. this time a group of "caterpillars" (a.k.a Nick Fury's new Howling Commandos) lets hope to see much more of them in June. speaking about birth Marvel this month gave birth to some new titles this month as well Captain Britain and MI:13, and Guardians of the Galaxy both were real great issues. Hulk who is on the horizon for June with his new movie had 2 great giant sized issues come out this month Giant Sized Hulk #1 and King Sized Hulk#1 not only did they include a new story in each but the also included a retro issue in each (Hulk annual #7 in Giant Sized Hulk #1 and the first appearance of Wolverine in King Sized Hulk #1). King Sized Hulk came out today(review will be up on Friday. Finally may also gave us the long awaited Thunderbolts #120 which was the return of the Green Goblin him self and Thunderbolts Reason in Madness both were great issues and should not be missed.

in closing may was action packed and June has the same outlook not only do we get the Hulk Movie but we also get a son of the Hulk Comic and continuations on secret invasion and final crisis and batman rip.

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Mighty Avengers #14

The Secret Invasion continues in this issue this time jumping up to current speed when the superheros of the 70's come out of that skrull ship and start to battle the heroes of now. This issue is all bout the Sentry/Void. For those of you who might not know the Void is the Sentry's split personality who is the exact opposite of the Sentry for all the good the sentry does the void does the exact opposite. The issue starts off with a past experience with the Sentry trying to take down the Void after committing a crime. While this is going on the Sentry encounters a Skrull ship on earth heading towards the Baxter Building. The Sentry takes the ship out of earth's atmosphere and takes a blast dead on. The Sentry awakes to find him self in an examining room with Reed Richard in the Baxter Building. Reed explains to the Sentry who the Skrulls are and why they hate him. Months later Jarvis(who is a Skrull at this point) has a privet conversation with tony stark about how he wished he had know more about the Sentry so he could prevent something like what happened with Wanda(a.k.a the Scarlet Witch) from happening again to better sever the Sentry. Tony assures Jarvis that what happened was nothing he could have prevented but he gives Jarvis the ok to have access to the Sentry's file. The Skrulls have deemed that the Sentry/Void would be their greatest weapon in the secret invasion but only as the void. so the Skrulls begin to discuss on how to corrupt the sentry. Fast forward to now during the Sentry's battle with Vision (a Skrull). Vision transforms him self into the void making Sentry think that the Void is back and it's all his fault. Sentry flips out and flys away from his friends in battle way above the earths atmosphere and then it happens. A Skrull who is about to attack the Sentry's wife Lindy is decimated by a shadowy figure(of whom Lindy believes to be her husband) but when he comes to light he is no long the Sentry " Bob ran away he couldn't take it and ran way" said the figure it was the Void.....................

over all

great story Bendis strikes gold again (was there any doubt of that though) my props goes off to him fro this amazing issue.

Story **** (out of 4)

art****(out of 4)

overall **** (out of 4)

what are you waiting for go out and buy this issue

fantastic 4 #557

and the C.A.P storyline wraps up in this issue.after both the teams of avengers (Iron Man's Registered avengers and Luke Cage's underground Avengers) tried to stop C.A.P's rampage on destroying all the most powerful spots on our earth Reed created the Anti Galactus(basicily a Galactus looking robot with a huge fantastic 4 symbol on his chest.) to battle Alyssa's C.A.P (Conserve And Protect) Reed going of a hunch that not only did Alyssa program C.A.P to protect herself and her husband but also reed. once C.A.P sensed Reed's Bio-signature he stood down and that gave reed the window he needed to beat C.A.P. once C.A.P was destroyed Reed said his final goodbyes to Alyssa (Alyssa was very presumptuous here thinking that he would leave sue for her) and went to spend some time with Sue. while Johnny came in to find his new super- villain girlfriend waiting for him. after all seem to be on the quite side Ben was approached by a sitter for the kids when Dr.Doom bust in looking for Reed.................

Over all

story **1/2 (out of 4)

art *** (out of 4)

over all ***

a nice little wrap up to the story the lead-in to next months issue has already got me hooked

comic reviews for last week: Birds Of Prey #118

This was the first birds of prey issue i read since getting back to comics and let me tell you it was very worth it. The story was great along with the artwork had gotten me to go back and read more Birds Of Prey issues.

#118 starts off with this club referred to as "the Dark Side Club" this club is sort of a female fight club for super powered women and the reigning champion is Misfit. after wining her battle Misfit trys to get free but is put down by by granny then is taken to her holding cell where she finds Black Alice. Misfit Explains on how she was captured and brought to this place where she is drugged( some sort of mind control drug) into fighting others and her powers only work in the arena. Alice asks Misfit if she can port them both out of there but before Misfit can explain why she can't teleport two people at once Alice "Browes" Misfit's powers. trying to find a way out Alice stumbles upon a conversation in which is stated that test ran on Misfit and Alice shows that they are related. the Alice is caught and drugged into fighting Misfit. Misfit drugged up as well starts the Battle off taking it to Black Alice. Alice being strong trying to resist the drug draws out the power of the demon Etrigan and turns the tide of the battle but before she could finish the battle she remembers what she overheard about them being related snaps back to reality and stops the battle. Granny again trys to drug Alice into Killing Misfit but Alice again borrowing the powers of misfit teleports granny and her self outside where she finds of first hand why Misfit cant teleport two people at once. the other whom ports with her gets killed Misfit then teleports outside. Alice explains to Misfit how she felt during their battle and hands her a note and tells her to head back to Oracle as she runs off into the night. back at platinum heights Misfit reads the letter that explains what she overheard back at the dark side club....... continued next month.

over all ........

story ***(out of 4)
art ***(out of 4)
overall *** (out of 4)