Hellblazer
#257
This
book must sell big in England or something, otherwise I'm not sure
why it still exists. Andy Diggle rejuvenated the series during his
stint, but will it survive since he left? Writer Peter Milligan has
written seven issues so far, and so far his run is almost as good as
Diggle's. It's less serious but still sadistic. The artist on this
current arc is Guiseppe Camuncoli. He draws more cartoon-like than
the artist that did Diggle's run. I love Guiseppe, though. His stuff
is phenomenal. This is the best issue yet in Milligan's run. The
storylines have all merged and exploded. Constantine tries to slip
his ex-girlfriend a love potion. She catches on. Constantine also
slips his demon-girl friend the potion so that he won't have to pay
for her dead-skin ailment cream that he's become addicted to. He
loses the addiction but the demon-girl is so in love with him that
she shows up at the ex-girlfriends flat to presumably rip her to
shreds. Terrific storyline that hopefully will end in a gratifying
conclusion. Awesome painted cover by Simon Bisley as well. Constatine
looks like Marv from Sin
City:
beer in one hand, cigarette in the other, peering out of a window
while a slutty girl looks on. This is really as good as it gets in
the comic book world. ****
The Amazing
Spider-Man #600
About
a year ago I started buying and reading more comics. Where to start?
I began to read the greats: this book, Batman,
and Action
Comics (the
last one has Superman in case you didn't know). The new thing that
they're doing is having this book come out three times a month. They
have a revolving door of artists and writers. I stopped reading the
book when John Romita, Jr. stopped drawing it and have only came back
when he came back. He's back. He drew 61 pages in this issue. The
rest is mostly filler. The 61 page story by Dan Slott has the wedding
between Aunt May and J. Jonah Jameson, Sr. He's the father of the
ex-publisher of the Daily
Bugle. J.
Jonah Jameson, Jr. is now the mayor of New York City. Dr. Octopus
also comes back, albeit riddled with cancer and near death. Doc Ock
takes over the city by controlling the street lights and computers.
Spiderman gets help with the Avengers. There's a big fight and a
wedding. Mary Jane Watson shows up on the last page to catch the
boiquet at the wedding. Really, though: if they did away with Mary
Jane and Peter's marriage...why keep having her pop up? Why get rid
of her in the first place? And as much as I liked Dan Slott's “Paper
Doll” storyline last year...this story is very boring stuff. The
art is incredible as usual. John Romita, Jr. has to be one of my
favorite artists (and he's drawing Punisher
next). The back-up stories aren't very good, though. This issue is
very long. Stan Lee writes a short, amusing storyline that's kind of
funny (Stan Lee pretty much makes fun of Marvel for killing off the
Green Goblin and then bringing him back...among other stupid
developments over the years). But the main story is just not very
compelling. **
The
Incredible Hulk #600
This
is also a one-hundred page behemoth. Sadly, the main story is not a
61 page epic. They also threw in the first issue of Hulk:
Grey
from a couple of years ago which is cool. As much as the fanboys and
critics online have hated Jeph Loeb's writing so far on the Red Hulk
vs. Green Hulk storyline...I've thought it's been a lot of fun. The
art by in-your-face Ed McGuinness is big and bold and very nice (he
draws a very cool Spider-man). A lot happens in this issue that could
be considered “big.” The Red Hulk's identity is not revealed,
though. Red Hulk does destroy Bruce Banner's ability to turn into the
Hulk. I guess that's big. There's also a big fight between the Hulks
and Spider-man at this military base in the desert. It's stupid stuff,
sure, but it's a fun superhero book. Now there will be two Hulk
books: The
Incredible Hulk
and Hulk.
I kind of think that one is enough, but I will be sticking around to
see what Ed and Jeph do on their so far solid run. ***
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