Corresponding From…. THE FUTURE! (Or: A Slight Delay)

Some of you might have noticed that content’s been a little thin around here this week, and while that can be partially attributed to the fact that Dorian Wright got to an issue of The Flash that I was going to write about this week about eight months before I found a copy, the main reason’s that we’re going through a system upgrade here at ISB HQ.

Rest assured, the new Tower of Power’s capabilities dwarf those of our old machine, Scott Vaio, but right at the moment, the upgrade’s left us with, among other problems, an obsolete scanner and no Photoshop to send the pictures to anyway. And as you can tell, scanning and manipulating images is, well, pretty integral to what I do around here.

But don’t fret! Give me a day or two* to get it all straightened out, and things should be getting back to normal around here. So in the meantime, how about we talk about some comics? I mean, after approximately four aeons, Jack Staff Special finally hit shelves this week, and that’s gotta get you excited. And hey, anybody catch The Order this week? Great stuff. And honestly, is it just me, or did Spider-Man sound a little like your friendly neighborhood comics blogger this week?

 

* –Note: Despite what you may suspect, the fact that I’m taking a day or two off has nothing–NOTHING–to do with the fact that I just borrowed a copy of Guitar Hero. Seriously. I promise.

38 thoughts on “Corresponding From…. THE FUTURE! (Or: A Slight Delay)

  1. I’m sure I’ll enjoy The Order as always, though now it will be with more regret what with it now being canceled after issue 10…

  2. I expected to see something about Spidey’s philosophy on here

    I wonder if Mr Slott is an ISB fan

  3. Go ahead and write about that Flash issue. I’ll try to spend some time talking about unfunny Japanese comics and Punisher. It’ll be like Wife Swap!

  4. I too find Guitar Hero 2 to be better than 3.

    The Order is cancelled? That is sad.
    I liked the ending of Messiah Complex. Even if it has been done before. I can not wait for the new X-Factor cause its the only x-book I order.

    I also found the Death Dealer series ending good too. It’s way better than the Warcraft comic.

  5. Okay, okay, it’s true: I did totally bully an 8 year-old into loaning me Guitar Hero 3. But really, any doubts about my constant “You know, Alex, I DID get you that AWESOME Nerf gun for Christmas…” were erased when SPACENITE took the stage and rocked My Name Is Jonas.

  6. I read that Spider-Man issue and thought that panel was *specifically* written to be included on this blog!!

    I mean, I knew Marvel was including coporate branding into their comics but didnt think it stretched as far as blogs.

    So fess up Sims – how much did it cost ya?! :D

    (And I think we’re going to need to see a picture of you not playing Guitar Hero. So’s we can all be sure you’re on the up-and-up… )

  7. …You called your Guitar Hero band Spacenite?

    Now what’ll you call your Rock Band band?

  8. Wait, Guitar Hero 3 has ‘My Name is Jonas?

    Possibly the best Weezer song, due to it sounding like the Proclaimers (“the workers urrr goinnng hooooommmme”).

    Must…play…

  9. ““Rock the ’80s probably has the best soundtrack of the four.”

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA….haaaaaaa

    Oh my no.”

    Oh my, yes. No One Like You, Holy Diver, Radar Love, Surrender, Turning Japanese, Wrathchild, among others. Yeah, it’s shorter than GH2 and 3, but the percentage of good songs is better. GH2 is pretty good – can’t go wrong with Free Bird and YYZ – but there’s a lot of crap on it too.

  10. If you didn’t read Messiah Complex well… you didn’t miss much of anything. In 13 issues, barely anything happened (whole series have lived and died in 13 issues!).

    Spoilers! (only, not: not if you’ve been reading comics for any length of time)

    The premise of the story is that there was a baby mutant. From that premise, you pretty much already know everything you need to know, and all the other action is purely incidental. Lots of people fought, sometimes including people that had no reason to fight other than to take up time. I don’t have to spoil anything for you. If you’ve read the solicitations, you’ll know that the X-Men are now “disbanded.” What that means for a team that seems mostly to be a bunch of random groups of mutants running around doing whatever they feel like, I don’t know. Will they stop wearing the same uniforms for the next couple of issues? Oh wait, they already don’t do that anymore (what do they do without all the enormous and numerous pockets they once sported in their yellow outfits from the 90s?).

    Charles Xavier was… well the promo for his new series is “what happens to a telepath who gets shot in the head?” Hmmmm… almost as interesting sounding as “what happens when Wolverine gets kicked in the nuts?”

    The cover art was okay though, I guess.

  11. ‘Hmmmm… almost as interesting sounding as “what happens when Wolverine gets kicked in the nuts”‘

    Actually, who wouldn’t want to read that?

  12. @ Bad

    The very reason I enjoyed Messiah Complex was because it didnt try to do alot. Too often crossovers try and cram so much into a short time.I also think it gave a chance for people to meet some of the mutants in other books they may not know about. I also am looking forward to where X-Factor(SPOILER) with the loss of a member,

    I do agree that the Charles Xavier new series does not sound like a winner.

  13. Can we at least agree that the last issue/ending was super-duper rushed plotwise?

    At least it wasn’t as silly as the gaffe in this week’s Countdown (reading it so you don’t have to) where it looks like Batman has an incoherent conversation with himself because the inkers screwed up on Jason Todd’s costume colors.

  14. bah.. what kind of sick world is it where Aunt May (looks like she needs to retire?) and doesnt contribute to society gets a new lease on life but Professor X (who like Capt. Kirk has a thing for alien chicks) kicks the bucket? im all for making money but does Aunt May really helps move the “comic dollars” but a bald mutant who loves alien chicks doesnt sell well?

  15. Well, not much of a spoiler (if you’ve read the plot synopsis of X-Men Legacy, you know it isn’t, but…)

    Xavier isn’t dead… well, he’s mostly dead? Apparently Exodus and the Acolytes took him to Miracle Max, er, Magneto, to get healed or something. I don’t know all the particulars, but it might be interesting.

    But I’ll bet $10 that he can’t walk again after he recovers. ;)

  16. It would be cooler if this time he was crippled from the waist up, just for variety.

    Or maybe all the X-Men should be crippled and ride around in go carts.

  17. @ Bad
    Agreed! The last issue was totally rushed through and the transitions were real bad. I think twice while reading it I had to go back to make sure I wasnt missing a page. And the more I think about it, I really only liked the X-Factor parts since it was the only X comic I was reading going in and will be the only one I will be reading after.

    Super Inhumanite:
    We all know that Aunt May increased the sales of Spider Man by 1 billion world wide.

  18. Mace Morrison Says:

    ‘Hmmmm… almost as interesting sounding as “what happens when Wolverine gets kicked in the nuts”‘

    Actually, who wouldn’t want to read that?

    Agreed. And God knows Marvel could turn it into a 12-part mini-series. KA-CHING!!

    Actually, I bet you could pull it off in a quality manner. Just take a dozen decent Marvel Adventures Wolverine stories, and append a panel at the end of each with Logan getting kicked in the nuts by one of his team-mates. (Probably for saying something stupid/insensitive.)

  19. I’d like to see the entire story from the perspective of Wolverine’s nuts. Seems like the perfect project for Grant Morrison to switch over to Marvel on.

  20. When I first read that ASM i literally stopped in the middle of the issue after that panel to see if you had commented yet.

  21. You know the best thing I can really say about the X-books these days is that after years of pussyfooting around they finally got Sunfire back into that kickass Age of Apocalypse costume I loved so well in my youth.
    Also, since no one mentioned it, I decided to read the second issue of Ultimates 3, thinking that maybe somehow they’d get it all fixed up, move towards a better tomorrow and whatnot. Even after using a whole bottle of Visine my eyes still sting a little.