I'm not one to enjoy a movie and then five years later realize all of its flaws and suddenly change my mind. I liked the first Iron Man, flaws and all. This is still better though. It's the movie retold as Mega Man levels in an 8-bit style. It's fucking awesome so watch it and enjoy.

Ohhhhhh! It all makes sense now... or something. It's a variant alright. A variant for Age of Ultron #10 with Angela on it. She's looking as busty boring as ever. Someone tell me, should I even bother catching up on this series?

Little did Bryan Singer know that he was going to cause some litigation yesterday when he took a light hearted ribbing at Avengers 2, while announcing he had cast Evan Peters in the role of Quicksilver for X-Men 3-1/2. Why he needed a 60th fucking cast member is beyond me, but his tweet which has since been removed, has caused some legal trouble for Fox and Marvel.

The thing is, Marvel and Fox don't like each other. I mean would you like the company that holds your movie licenses and constantly fucks them like something out of Caligula? Probably not. So now the hubbub of who gets the mutant that only Peter David can make interesting, is likely to head to court. Maybe now Bryan Singer will finally stop fucking tweeting everything he's doing on the movie.

The seven deadly sins have seen many forms from many a creator over the years, but these have to be the most uninspired. I hope that they're interesting characters because they are not interesting to look at. One of them looks like a bugger slug and really I just wanted to play Earth Worm Jim for some reason instead of looking at it. Am I wrong or am I right? Tell me after the jump when you've gone through all of them.

I'm not even going to set the stage for that photo, just watch the video. It was found by our newest writer of The Spandex Retrospective Justin Wood. Check it.

I enjoy Geoff Johns' comic work as much as the next die-hard comic reader, but I don't think these last two Premiere series movies were the best choices. Once again, it looks like a lot of the original Flashpoint story has been stripped away or altered to make it work as a standalone story. Check out the trailer and see for yourself, but maybe it's good that this line is coming to an end after all. Now, much like with the comics, they can just tell new 52 stories.... or those rejected scripts of movies their never going to produce.

If you stick around after the interview you'll also get an exclusive look at some new pages from the first issue and a gang of covers!

Dustin Cabeal)  Is Quantum and Woody going to follow suit with the rest of the Valiant relaunch, making it easily approachable for new readers?

James Asmus)  Definitely. The first issue is our modernized origin story, kicking off the new series with everything you need to know.

The issue starts with Quinn and his father Corin fishing. Quinn’s a young boy and so he’s pretty excited when he gets a bit on his line, but not so excited when the fish breaks his pole to get loose. They share a father and son moment as they walk back, but as Quinn in complaining about breaking the pole his father’s hand reaches out and stops his movement. In their path is a wild boar that has a crazy look in its eye… it’s also eating a rabbit, which is pretty gross. Corin is forced to kill the boar as it charges at them and does so with one punch. Quinn thinks that it’s cool, but his dad cuts him off quickly saying that taking a life is never an easy matter to deal with. They make it home and we met Taryn: beautiful wife and mother.

The story introduces us to Eve… and Eve. On one side of the page we can see Eve dressed in a glowing purple outfit and looking vaguely transparent and getting ready to fight some monster looking people. On the other side we see Eve dressed in normal clothing and teaching at a school. From there the story stays in the fantasy based world with our transparent, purple glowing Eve as she creates a light staff to kick some monster ass. After scaring off the monsters that she didn’t kill, a fairy looking creature arrives to talk to her. Eve calls him Tink, but he insists that it’s not his name.

The story opens in Billingwood, England in 1867 with a family visiting the town and taking in the sites. As they visit a candy shop the ground suddenly begins to rumble. The father brings them all back inside as a giant monster begins to walk through the streets. The children cower in fear as they hope the monster doesn’t see them. Suddenly though he smashes in through the window and a chase begins. The family continues to run until a man invites them into his cellar to wait for the coast to clear. As the family begins to breathe again something strange happens, they actually enjoyed being chased by the monster. The thing that’s different about this world is that each town has a monsters and each monster serves two purposes: protect the town from the Murk and attack the town. The attacks generate tourism as people travel around to be frightened by the different monsters and create a strange harmony. All accept one town that is.

The thing about this issue that’s different from the rest is that the opening pages are a mixture of the past, recent past and present and while reading it you’re never once confused; explaining it is a different matter altogether. I’ll start with Zan on the run since that’s basically where the last issue left us. Currently three men with guns and a will to use them are chasing her down the street during traffic. Zan puts her athletic abilities into play and begins jumping cars to get out their line of site. She comes to a big open market area with a ton of pigeons and sends them flying blocking their view. Unfortunately there weren’t a lot of places to hide and so she finds herself lying behind a cow. She pops up to see if the men have left and they open fire on the sacred beast killing it and stirring up the locals. She takes this opportunity to flee and begins thinking of what she needs to do when she gets back to her place. She repeats it over and over to herself in an attempt to keep her head together, so much so that she drops her guard.

Larkin Ford captures some awesome art for this series. I know I am only two issues in but his drawings are so perfect. Mr. Whispers may be the cutest cat ever (besides for my own). My littlest cat loves to tea bag me when waking up in the morning. Yes, I said tea bag. It is an amazing experience. It is his way of telling me “Hey you cut my balls off but I will still tea bag you when I am hungry.” Mr. Whispers reminds me of that same I-cough-up-hair-balls-respectively personality.

We start the second issue with Alyona explaining some back history on she met Gabriel’s father. Alyona is trying to help him through these dimensions in order to learn of his father’s past. Suddenly we realize that Gabriel has a mild case of crabs. And by mild I mean one cybernetic crab chasing after him. Alyona is one badass grandmother and tries to protect her crew the best way she knows how, cursin’ and shootin’.

For those of you haven’t already tried Sex, it’s essentially a superhero comic where much (but not all) of the violence has been replaced with some fairly graphic sex scenes. In the story so far, we’ve been introduced to Simon Cooke, a retired parallel of Batman who’s life spent fighting crime in the futuristic Saturn City has left him with a personal life in tatters and a whole host of psychological complexes on top of some crippling sexual repression, alongside a small supporting cast which includes an ex-Robin type, a Catwoman-alike, a handful of brutal villains and a whole bunch of naked people.

The story is set in London in the 1800’s in a steampunk inspired era, meaning that technology has surpassed culture. The Ranbir family has just arrived from India. It follows Janav the little boy of the family as he narrates his experience. He sees hate on the faces of everyone they meet and wishes that he could have said a proper goodbye to his friends back home. Janav becomes excited after seeing the city, but it’s quickly snuffed by his stick in the mud father. His father seems to only care that he’s disciplined and behaves in public, while his mother is very caring and loving and would see her son be a little boy. Janav’s narration tells us that he secretly hates his father as he says it multiple times.

That night Janav wakes up to a bad dream and as his mother comforts him by showing him what his father is working on... a robotic man called a clockwork. The next morning Janav is full of questions about the man with the hole in his chest as he doesn’t understand that it was an artificial life form that he saw.

Sleepless

The first story Empty has a twist ending that I will not give away. I can set the stage for you though as a man spends his day alone thinking about all of the good times he had with his wife. We’re not sure what’s happened to her, but it’s clear from this man’s pain that he misses her a lot. In a lot of ways the story comes across as tale about a widower, but as I said… twists! This was a great first story to open to and was definitely my favorite of the issue. The emotions that man shares are very real and moving which makes the ending all the more affective. The art was also very enjoyable as it switches from the past which is depicted as bright and vibrant, to the present which is gray and desolate. It was a very strong story and perfect for anyone that’s felt the pains of love.

The first tale Taras and the Monolith was a great way to kick off the book. It begins with a father telling his son about Chumy, an ancient god that ticked off all the other gods by trying to turn people against them. His sister Burya begged for her brother to be spared and so Chumy was buried deep below the earth. This saddened Burya and so she was placed at the top of a monolith to teach responsibility to mortals. The next part is where the story gets interesting as father explains their families duty. Each day they must siphon Burya’s tears and take them away from Chumy because her tears would give him power. The son doesn’t really buy into the responsibility, but goes along with it because his father is all he has. That is until his father becomes bedridden and death approaches; he tells his son he must prevail and continue the task and so the question becomes, will he?

Now several of the stories are just one page, but a bulk of the tales are three to four pages. The first real story introduces a man buying a bulldog belt buckle after thinking of a dog catching a Frisbee and peeing on a fire hydrant. The next few pages follow the same character Poco Rojo… he’s a chicken with a Zorro mask on. He watches as a Phoenix lights itself on fire and Poco Rojo jumps in and comes out with the mask on. The next segment finds Poco Rojo (who only speaks chicken) in a hen house picking a fight with a rooster. He ends up killing the other rooster in a very intense scene as the panel zooms in on his eye before he goes in for the kill. Unfortunately the farmer doesn’t take to kindly to this and makes Poco Rojo dinner… except that he jumps out of his own carcass at the end.

At the Motor City Comic-Con Stan Lee meets the keeper of his soul! Who happens to be throwing up some "metal" or possibility shooting some imagery webbing at skilled photo person Vincent James Cracchiolo. Stan's dental plan is better, just saying. 

Creator owned comics are a bit different from your corporate giants and occassionally they need a month off to catch up and deliver a consistent product. Now, so people (retailers) always say that a month off kills a book because readers forget about it. I'll do my part if retailers do theres and remind people that these two fantastic titles are returning in June. I can't wait for both as there has been a Great Pacific/Peter Panzerfaust size hole in my heart since the previous issues.

It's being alluded that Scorn is the Robin to Wrath's Batman. Wrath and Scorn huh... I like it. It has that perfect comic book cheesiness to it and that's why it rules. I'm curious to see what the final design will look like, I'm favoring the one on the right myself. Still now start date to Wrath and Scorn's appearance in Detective Comics, but I'll be paying close attention from here on out.

Stephen Hawking is one of the most brilliant minds of this century.  Bluewater Productions is bringing you his life story in this unique comic book format.  Find out all about the man the myth and the legend!

“Stephen Hawking: Riddles of Time & Space” is written by Michael Lent & Brian McCarthy with art by Zach Bassett.   The comic book features a cover by Robert Aragon.

ELEPHANTMEN, Richard Starkings' epic science fiction series exploring the ramifications of genetic experimentation, war, and racism, is reaching a milestone this July: its 50th issue. ELEPHANTMEN debuted in 2006, published by Image Comics, a spin-off of Starkings self-published (and now Image title) HIP FLASK.

Following a group of human/animal hybrid super-soldiers who are struggling to integrate themselves into a society that is often hostile to their very existence, the series has gone on be collected into six hardcovers and trade paperbacks. It has featured art by Ladrönn, Boo Cook, Chris Burnham, Shaky Kane, and Axel Medellin, and the cover of ELEPHANTMEN #43 is among the work that earned Brandon Graham a "Best Cover Artist" Eisner Award nomination.

"Historically, the fourth issue of a five issue mini-series sells the worst. So, Joe and I decided, #$%! it, we won't do a fourth issue," admitted ComixTribe publisher Tyler James after several adult beverages. "Despite the first three issues of SCAM selling out at Diamond and getting re-ordered at the distributor level, we wanted better odds for a big SCAM finale."

BOOM! Studios

THE FUN WILL NEVER END IN THIS SPECIAL EXPANDED ADVENTURE TIME ANNUAL! Featuring some of the hottest talent in comics today putting their creative spin on the land of Ooo! A great tool for bringing readers into the series and an awesome book for die-hard ADVENTURE TIME fans! Featuring stories from Roger Langridge, Derek Fridolfs, Dustin Nguyen, Alex Cox, Josh Williamson, Jason Ho, Bryce Carlson and others!

Only having the title to work off of was a bit of a challenge when it came to the story but I was happy that there was a recap page to go off of to explain the way things work in then Grimm Universe. I quickly learned that this wasn't just a bed time story, but it was a story of revenge.

You're introduced to werewolf hunter Roman Asher who has returned to get revenge on the monsters that made his life hell while he was in the Shadowlands. While chasing a werewolf, Roman runs into a man named Rolly whose busy drowning himself in booze after his daughter Charlotte stormed out on him during a fight.

Visually, this book is gorgeous. Since I’m not really going to talk about the story (we’re past that point in life) I’m mostly going to talk about the visuals. Okay, I’ll talk about the story. The reason this is my favorite volume is because we learn the most about Scott’s past with Envy. It’s even stated in the story while Ramona and Kim are talking, that Scott became very different after their break up. Scott wants closure on his relationship with Envy and even though he’s with Ramona, he still has old feelings for Envy. I think this is something that everyone can relate to when faced with their “big ex.” It’s like a rite of passage to see if you don’t fuck up your current relationship. It also stays true to the fact that you don’t always get closure in a break up, especially if you head butt someone so hard they turn into an extra life.