Monday 20 September 2010

Spidey Adventures!

Tonight was Marvel night, so we read Marvel Adventures Spider-Man #1. Spider-Man was looking for a New York Supreme Court judge that was actually in the mob's payroll. The story was being narrated by Gwen Stacy, Peter Parker's ex-girlfriend, whose father is a police Captain.

She was interviewing people to learn more about Spider-Man, for a school paper. People told him a lot of different things about Spidey, mostly crazy stuff, like him being a robot, an alien, or an immortal being.

Spider-Man's had a plan, his new girlfriend called the cops and the reporters, and he attacked the place where the mobsters had the judge holed up. He pretended to be injured while fighting the bad guys, and provoked the judge into grabbing a gun and coming after him. That's when he lead them all to the door, and into the hands of the cops.

This was a nice issue, great art, and nice characters. Thank you all for reading.

Professor Dinosaur out!

Sunday 19 September 2010

Legion Double Pack!

We're back! Sorry about the absence, I don't know if we'll be able to make it nightly, but we'll try to post more often. Tonight was DC night, and we found out we had a review written that we hadn't posted! So this is a double-Legion-whammy night! Some weeks ago wee read Legion Of Super-Heroes In The 31st Century #2. The Legionnaires were returning home from recruiting their newest member, Timber Wolf. He's like half wolf, half human, with claws and fangs that could take off my head... if he was a villain.

While they were jumping into warp, they were attacked by lunar leeches, big metal creatures that suck out energy from the ship. They defeated them by having Brainiac 5 channel Lightning Lad's power through the ship's hull. The ship was damaged, and they had to land on an asteroid to fix it. Timber Wolf was nervous because the ship was going too fast, and he had to puke; but he was also anxious because he couldn't help with fixing the ship or fighting in space. However, when a lunar leech attacked Brainy, TW was able to let loose and fight it, thanking Brainiac for what he'd done for him in the past.

I liked this issue, very good art, very good scenes, very good colors, and excellent characters. My favorite character in this issue was Brainiac 5, he's from Colu, a planet where everybody's very smart... they even know the square root of 8000.

Then tonight we read Legion Of Super-Heroes In The 31st Century #3. The Legion was in Ixion, a dwarf planetoid inside Neptune's orbit, conducting Legion Tryouts, to get new members. Different heroes tried out, like Two-Header, Polar Boy, Porcupine Pete, and Invulnera-Boy, but none of them made the cut. I don't know why they rejected Polar Boy, he has a great power, he can freeze stuff that others can break in millions of pieces afterward. He should be made a member of the Legion, I'd like to have that power... and also the power to make Earth shake.

The tryouts were almost over, but then Infectious Lass showed up. Her power is to infect people with any disease she wants. She infected all the gang with a virus that made he switch powers! Saturn Girl had Superman's powers, and Superman's hers! Brainiac 5 had Infectious Lass powers, and she had her 12th level intelligence! Timber Wolf had Phantom Girl's powers, and she was all hairy and animal like him! Everybody switched powers... and a Khund strikeforce showed up!

The Khunds said that they would defeat the Legion and put them to work in slave pits, and then conquer all of the United Planets. The Khunds had special power inhibitor restraints, each built for a specific Legionnaire. Infectious Lass, using Brainiac 5's intelligence, had a plan, to let the Khund's capture them. Once in the Khund ship, as each was wearing restraints for their usual powers, escaping was easy. They fought the Khunds, but ultimately defeated them when Brainiac 5 used Infectious Lass' powers to send a stomach flu virus that only infected Khunds through the ships ventilation shafts. Luckily, the power shifting virus was only temporarily.

This issue was cool, I liked Polar Boy's powers, and Invulnera-Boy's powers, a very powerful force field that pushed people away... but he didn't know how to control it. The story was good, and the art is very well pencilled, and very well colored... great characters.

Professor Dinosaur out!