Sadly, I did not get a copy of The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
, so I will have to keep saving my money! (Hint, hint, Santa!)
Here's some of the comics I got to read this week:
WOLVERINE #29: This comic is fun. Lotsa ninjas get snikted as Wolverine continues to hunt down the Hand, who brainwashed him and turned him into a supervillain for six issues. This is a pretty good 'xample of a comic that's violent (way cool!) but still lots of fun. F'rinstance, in the last issue, Wolvie had a Sentinel stomp a whole lotta bad guys who were being mind-controlled into paste so they couldn't be resurrected by the Hand. Yikes! That's hardcore, Wolvie! And he's not stoppin' in this issue, which is pretty much jus' plain dumb but fun action. I'm not usually a fan of big two-page spreads (they just take up space and only advance the story by one panel) but there's a pretty great one in here of Wolverine riding a Sentinel (an' he seems to be havin' fun doin' it, too! Whee!) There's a good twist towards the end when somebody isn't quite what we thought they were. An' Wolverine at last meets his match in ruthlessness! That's why WOLVERINE #29 gets my award for the most fun comic of the week.
STAR WARS #76: This comic is not fun. Oh' c'mon, I'm the biggest li'l Star Wars fan in the universe, but I jus' don't like Star Wars comics that much anymore. They're missing two things that to me make Star Wars worth following:
THE SIMPSONS #107: This comic is fun. Not as much fun as some of the other Simpsons comics issues, but month after month this is one of my favorite things to read...it's almost as fun as the TV series. By the way, I don't like when people say The Simpsons isn't any good anymore...I still think it is very funny and one of the best shows on TV! I just wish Fox would stop re-running it so many times on Sunday nights this past season that they show each episode so many times. I think I have seen the one where Simpsons go to China at least five times this year! That's too much Lucy Liu for a little stuffed bull! Get some new shows, Fox! Yeah!
JUSTICE LEAGUE CLASSIFIED #8: This comic is fun. But not as much fun as it could have been. In this one the Superbuddies come back from H-*-*-* (I'm not 'lowed to say it but it has double hockeysticks in it!) into an evil version of their own universe! I didn't get some of the jokes (John says that's 'coz they're 'sex' jokes!) but it was mostly fun. What I didn't like 'bout it was that they didn't mention for lots and lots of pages that the last issue had a really sad and dramatic ending that made me sniffle a lot. But I did laugh when Elongated Man's nose started to wiggle and Blue Beetle told him it was creeping him out. Hah! I love Blue Beetle. He's the best character of them all. He will never go away!
VIMANARAMA #3: I was not allowed to read this comic ("suggested for mature readers", it says right there on the cover, next to the mostly-naked lady). But John read it and told me to tell you that this comic is real fun. And that the thing he loves best about Vertigo is that they can and do publish a lot of stories that don't have anything to do with the DC superhero universe. And a P.S. to Hulk from his comment in my last post: Mister Hulk, I wanted you to know that I thought HULK #82 was fun. Sad (another comic I had to sniffle through) but fun. And hey, Mister Hulk, I don't stop reading a comic I like just because one issue isn't fun. Now please stop smashing my stuff!
Well, I have to go now. I'm travelling to Seattle and Reno with John next week so it might be another couple weeks until my next update, but I'll keep track of fun comics I get while we're travellin' and let you know what they are! Bye! And don't forget: comics oughta be fun!
THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #520: This comic is fun. I think Mister J. Michael Stravoosky is a pretty fun writer. John lets me watch his Babylon 5 DVDs and I wouldn't say this to John 'coz he might get upset, but it really was a better show than Star Trek, wasn't it? I have liked a lot of Mister JMS's comics. I'm certainly not allowed to read Supreme Power 'coz I'm jus' a little stuffed bull. I liked almost all his early Spider-Man stories ('specially the Ezekial Spider-God stuff and that Aunt May found out Peter was Spider-Man and I most of all liked that he brought Mary Jane and Peter back together). I haven't been really excited about Mister JMS's Spider-Man stories for about the past year (I really didn't like "Skin Deep", and I certainly really, really, really didn't like "Sins Past"). But the past couple issues of AMS have started a new storyline where Peter, Mary Jane and Aunt May have moved into Avengers Tower, and as they say on promos for the WB, "and that's where the fun begins!" It really is just kinda Mister JMS writing New Avengers but I don't mind that. There's a quartet of bad-guy Avenger-look-alikes that the New Avengers face off against, and I'm always a big sucker for bad-guy versions of heroes, but what I'm most enjoying about this story is some of the same stuff that I liked about early JMS Spidey: what he does with the s'pporting characters, especially Aunt May. I like Wolverine a lot, but he can be kinda jerky sometime*, so guess what my favorite part of this comic is? Somebody makes Wolverine back down without getting skewered! It was great! That's why AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #520 gets my award for the most fun comic of the week.
JLA #114: This comic is not fun. I like Mister Kurt Busiek's comic book stories a lot 'coz nobody knows more about comics than him. But this was the final issue of a storyline I didn't really enjoy as much as I thought I would! There's a kinda neat switcharoo to fool the bad guys in here (John said it was a "cliché", but I liked it) and there's lots of action, but that's about it. It's one of those stories where there's so many characters (every member of the JLA, every member of the Crime Syndicate of Amerika, plus some assorted aliens) so while everybody is in the comic, nobody really stands out or is featured. And Superman is so angry in this. I don't like Superman when he's angry. 
THE INCREDIBLE HULK #81: This comic is not fun. Speaking of angry guys...here's the new Hulk comic! Ha! But I kid. It's weird, y'know, 'coz Peter David is usually one of my favorite comic book writers. And he's actually usually writes some of the most fun stories! But this comic is kinda psychological and confusing and I don't know what takes place inside the Hulk's big green head and what doesn't. I also didn't like that the villain is using September 11 as a plot device for his evil plan. Maybe it's because this is the last issue of a storyline as well, but I really didn't find this fun. (Nice cover, tho'. John said the cover was 
FANTASTIC FOUR #527: This comic is fun. here's Mister J. Michael Stravadarius again, starting his run on Fantastic Four I really, really liked the Mark Waid FF over the past few years so I was thinking maybe I wouldn't like the new writer. But so far, so good! I will definitely want to keep reading this book if they are all like this. There's some plot about Reed Richards being blackmailed by Nick Fury into creating more cosmic-storm radiated heroes, but the fun part is watching the Thing get all excited over his bank account! (It sounds boring, but it isn't!). The best line of the entire book: "Why would the Fantastic Four send me a satellite photo of the Grand Canyon?" Bwah-ha-ha-ha! By the way, (or as we say on the internet, "BTW"), this one mighta gotten the award for most fun comic of the week but I knocked off some points 'coz it came with two diff'rint covers. Multiple alternate covers aren't fun, Marvel! 'Nuff said!
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