Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe #1

People often say that Deadpool just always wins. He always has the best comics. Anything he's in will automatically be better. Now, that latter statement is certainly hyperbole. Deadpool was involved in AXIS. Of course he can be in bad things. Others will clarify that to say he's never in a bad solo book. To which I say...welcome to Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe. 

Assassin's Creed: Awakening #1

Assassin's Creed: Awakening is one of the weirdest and yet coolest comic book experiences I had last year. As you're about to learn, it isn't formatted like a regular Western comic. It caught me completely off-guard, but I have to give Ubisoft and Titan Comics some credit here. This is a brilliant idea and a very creative move on their end. Assassin's Creed had four comic books out last year and had to find new ways of innovating them, be it new characters/ settings, different points of view, continuations of stories...or completely removing the standard comic book format.

Power Rangers Ninja Steel Early Thoughts

This season has a lot to prove, for both new fans and longtime viewers. New audiences may be kids finally getting around to watching the series for the first time, or it's kids that saw the Power Rangers movie trailer and heard there's a TV series on air for them to see. Longtime viewers need to be shown that the new Saban era can indeed holds on it's own, since while Dino Charge was a pretty great series, Dino Super Charge dropped the ball hard and fast. 

Green Arrow (2011) #1 Review

There are fewer books that struggled creatively compared to Green Arrow during the New 52 era. Teams were juggled around, stories were mixed and mashed, and it became a mess quite fast. While one could argue that the New 52 on the whole was a failed experiment (I'd argue it wasn't at the start, but certainly was by the end), I think there's no better indicator of how the New 52 ran than Green Arrow, just given the roller coaster the character was put on. 

Blue Nexus #60 - Diseased

            The first ambulance at dawn woke Kyle, but only for just a few moments. By the time he heard three more coming to town he was already flying through the air as the Blue Nexus, keeping the mask normally at his neck now strapped tightly around his mouth and nose. He drifted through thick fog over Adelita, barely able to see anything as his tears welled up so much for some reason.

            He could only see the little lights of the sirens below. Few people were driving out on the streets. The Sun hadn’t come up over the hills surrounding the town yet, and Kyle feared it would make little difference for their visibility anyway.

Justice League #1 Review

You know what's a great feeling? Knowing that the New 52 is gone. Sure, the teams and characters from it are technically still around, but "Rebirth" has brought so many new changes and ideals into the company that the New 52 feels like a nightmare we've finally woken from. Sure, there are good things about it (Snyder and Capullo's Batman being the biggest highlight), but on the whole, it just didn't work. Started to work, sure, from a financial standpoint, but by the end, with DCYou, it was obvious that this was a doomed idea. And I think there's no better first issue to show this off than Justice League #1. 

Koro Sensei Quest First Impression

Assassination Classroom is my favorite comedy anime. It's got a ton of hilarious moments throughout it's two-season run, lots of heart, some great art, good animation, and it's just all around a blast to watch and think about. Koro Sensei and the rest of E-Class had so many great adventures in the original series, and I was sad to see it go. Thankfully, the good people of Japan decided "hey, that series was fun, let's do more with it!" And so, CHIBIS! 

Event Fatigue with Marvel is REAL

There's been a lot of things hinted at for Marvel's future with regard to humongous events they have planned. DC has hinted at some plans, and I suppose you could say there's some "event fatigue" with them, too, but with Marvel it seems to be way, way worse. A lot of people would argue that event fatigue has been settled into mainstream comics for a while now, and up until now I didn't really see where they were coming from. That all changed with Civil War II #8. 

Incredible Hulk #1 Review

Ah, the Hulk. The big green, lovable guy that nobody seems to know what to do with. Sometimes he's a superhero. Sometimes he's an intelligent superhero. Sometimes his best friends throw him into space and he comes back and beats all of them in near-mortal combat. Sometimes he dies. Sometimes there's an entire squadron of Hulks. And to think all of this started when the fine folk at Marvel in 1962 just thought "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was a cool story, let's make that a superhero." Weird how things work out 55 years later. 

Blue Nexus #59 - Decisions, Decisions

Previously in "Blue Nexus:" Despite not agreeing with Kyle and his side, Tania and Andreus agree to go to Magus Forest and see what they're all about. Tania remains unimpressed by the place, when they're beset by Rafael, the evil mage that has mastered all forms of magic, and his Six Pillars of Magic. Rafael takes down Kyle and Brenda in less than ten hits and promises to return soon and claim his rightful magic! 

Deadpool & The Mercs for Money #1 Review

A new year arrived, which means it's time around these blog parts to get into a fresh Deadpool comic! And this time it's actually a recent one, and it's effects are still being felt to this day. Kinda. I'll get into that more with the review, but it's just nice to get a closer-to-modern-day Deadpool than we've had before. And we're in keeping with the theme of multiple Deadpools! Kinda. Lots of "kindas" today, aren't there? 

Attack on Titan: Does Anyone Still Care?

In case you missed it, there was an announcement about a month ago that Attack on Titan would officially be receiving it's second season, after a four-year hiatus. There was finally more material from the season after we got a bootlegged clip what feels like forever ago from what will, presumably, be one of the first few episodes. Fans of the series were dying for more right out the gate, and there is a reason that the anime took so long to get it's new set of legs...but does anyone really care about the series that much anymore? 

2017: Another Dud Year in Franchise Movies?

The new year is here, and that means we're about to get a heck of a lot of new movie trailers headed our way. And not just for the summer! Thanks to Deadpool, we'll be seeing big-blockbuster releases pretty early in the year. March alone has three movies that might be worth checking out. That's pretty awesome! And I can't wait...well, if it weren't for 2016, and it how it wasn't the kindest year to big franchise movies