Assorted Geekery: Avengers Assemble

Avengers Assemble Issue 1

 You have most likely seen the movie… now there is another comic to go along with it.

So Marvel has created “Avengers Assemble” in Comic Book form which doesn’t seem to have anything to do with the movie (except the name), even though there is a gigantic amount of continuity and even more avengers titles out there, and now there is another one.

At first I thought it would have been a companion to the movie like what happens after or before, whatever, but no its not, it focuses on these guys:

But every other bloody avenger is there including Red Hulk and Spider-Man, only thing that seems to be new is the introduction to the Avengers Tower which was hinted in the movie.

The issue is basically introducing a new threat (because what else would it be?) known as Zodiac who are a team of villains wanting to evil and what not, probably some world domination included, they are named after Zodiac creatures such as Cancer and Taurus, and have powers like this but its not really clear why they have these powers as of yet.

So yep the Avengers are assembling to take care of this new threat, and that’s about it. Seriously that is it. Hulk makes an appearance (The Green one) but he’s randomly in Hulk form rather than Bruce Banner, and he runs into one of the Zodiac members who are stealing unknown stuff, obviously to do with the Zodiac’s Order. Even a guy called General “Whedon” makes an appearance, subtle nod to Joss Whedon the director of the film?

So maybe the other issues are good (there are only 3 so far), but this one was not great, It seemed kind of forced to be honest, art looked fine and what not. Just something doesn’t sit right with me, maybe it’s because calling “Avengers Assemble” makes it a lot less serious, and it appears to sound like what the power rangers would scream before going into some crappy battle.  So cheesy.

SO DAMN CHEESEY

Only learnt one thing from reading this comic

Nor do you steal from people! all pictures come from my copy of the issue but all content belongs to marvel and all that jazz.

Other Assorted Geekery

Community Goes 8-Bit

Only just started watching the amazing tv show community but I got through the first 2 seasons in about 3 days (yay procrastination) and its popularity has spawned lots of art and random things, but this is one of my favourites:

http://0.media.dorkly.cvcdn.com/18/58/e442c14856cafcdfd189f54afe53031f-community-goes-8-bit.jpg

If you’ve never watched it, I strongly suggest you do its better than basically every other comedy out there apart from Big Bang Theory of course. It mixes sarcasm with random situations and it’s just genuinely clever. I'll talk about it more another time.

One of the most random things I have ever seen

I suggest you have loud volume for this, it is quiet but amazing.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1gVqaV/:1NFE42Xzr:d0zdAnq$/studenthome.nku.edu/~russelljo/flash/dudefalling.swf/

Not Much To say about this one

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2GEaXx/:1nu1QGCiG:Q!w-Cb7L/www.reallol.com/gallery/12884.jpg/

OMG WTF?

Until Next Time.

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Assorted Geekery- Avenging Spider-Man 5

Avenging Spider-Man Issue 5

I fancied re-reading issues 5-7 of marvels “Avenging Spider-Man”, so I thought why not review them as well because this has been a very lazy Saturday, even more so than usual I might add,  so here we go.

The Avenging Spider-Man series premise so far is “Wouldn’t it be cool if Spider-man teamed up with…*insert super-hero*?”. Not much of a story otherwise, of course there is something happening which requires a super-hero team up, but nothing end of the world type of thing.

This issue is no different, it sort of carries on from Issue 4 when Spider-man teamed up with Hawkeye, hence this next picture, which did make me laugh because at least marvel can show that sometimes they are not taking things overly-serious.

It’s Captain America’s turn to be teamed up with spider-man this month but only because Spidey learns that the Cap used to be a bit of a nerd before he took steroids, I mean super-soldier serum. This is also the running theme of the series, as in: let’s look deeper into the characters for example hawk-eye being one of the two avengers who are non-powered so that does cause some psychological bearing on him of being a perfectionist and never missing.

The deeper meaning/question to Captain America is: “what happened to the little kid who turned into captain America?” because anyone who has watched the movie or read some books knows he used to be a frail boy-child, which means he was bullied and so therefore he ‘must’ be a nerd in some way…. All I can say is “Yay for stereotypes”.  But yes he was aspiring comic book artist before he got pumped up on drugs.

So anyway spider-man finally sees some common gound between himself and Cap, so he makes sure he teams up with him in the most shameless fashion, because he even tells the team he is going to, because they are both “nerds” so they can have nerd love or whatever.

So yep, they do the mission, get given some fighting scenes:

But alas, Captain America doesn’t want anything to do with his past because that has gone away obviously, and Spider-Man will not force him to regress basically. Seriously though how could marvel writers expect us to think nothing comes from this prying? Of course the cap sits with spider-man and does some assorted geekery …. ;)

Bless em:

I cant believe this is another comic which makes some sort of Twitter reference, OKAY we get it, TWITTER is taking over, people are hash tagging everything they ever tweet. #wegetit, #calmdown. #lovinglife

Good comic-ish, seems more of a random interlude comic if anything, like something you would expect after world-changing event, not an entire seasons of deep prying into the psyche of ALL the avengers, because there is a lot of them, so it might be a long series.

Probably the only reason you may want to read it is this:

Yup, you see him Punch Hitler, in the face what nostalgia.

Until next time

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