Thunderbolts 20 point Now, Constantine 10

Not much on the list this week. Reading more back issues than current around now. Even the Superior Spider-Man that I picked up I won't be reading till i'm caught up.

Thunderbolts. A group started by General, Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross, AKA Red Hulk. A group of loners have banded together to help each other complete their individual goals. The team had just finished up a mission with the Punisher at the helm. They completed his goal of taking down random mafia men guys things. However, they unleashed the murderous murder spree of Mercy, a shape-shifting teleporter that has been helping people kill them selves.  So now they team needs to take down Mercy at the strongest point in her life. And they aren't sure how to stop here. That is some of them aren't sure. Others have worked with a guy before that is perfect for the job. Ghost, mother fucking, rider. In the first part of his introduction they make a joke about the Ghost Rider movies. That at sloppy camera man with giant calves. 

I took a look at some of the Thunderbolts books that came before this one after reading the annual issue. I wanted to get into it because of Heroclix. I like the art in this new issue much better than before. Look forward to reading more of Thunderbolts and having more to say about it.

Constantine number ten. The only comic I had been keeping up with for a while. Thankfully I read Phantom Stranger last week so I'm not lost this time. I'm still a bit sad that all of Constantine's comics have been tie ins but at the same time I'm starting to like it more that I have bought some of the tie ins and followed it through. So last week the Phantom Stranger kidnapped the Justice League Dark and took them all to the borders of Heaven itself. This is where Constantine picks up and where we finally get to see something that feels a bit more Hellblazer than what we have been seeing before. 

Basically what goes down, is Constantine stares gods in the face and goes, nah, you guys bore me, I bet I could capture you like mother fucking Pokemon. Because its just that simple for John. After a brief discussion with Scottish Terrier God he bails and captures an angel. 

I felt like Constantine is going in a better direction this week than it was before and hope it continues that way as I continue to pick up whatever comic they have next in the Blight series. 

Superior Spider-Man. You have no idea the restraint I am using to not read the one I have. I'll be lost though and I hate that. I want to catch up before I read it. I hear its good. So maybe it will be good. But I do know somethings about comics that I didn't read. I know Daredevil is about to get a new number one. Well in the mean time {spoiler} Matt Murdock got on the stand and admitted to being Daredevil. It was a neat scene. Eager to see what this does for the character even though everybody already knew and he just wasn't admitting it. 

Thunderbolts had two big issues with it for me. If you read my Tuesday Filler blog then you already know I have mixed feelings about ads. Well this took the cake. First off there was an AR logo on the front cover even though the only thing in the whole book that was AR was an ad on the last page. This is a quite misleading. I did finally get AR to work for once but sheeeeet. I was expecting some behind the scenes sketches or something at least. Not some boring whats up news thing. Secondly was the worst part. I wasn't too upset about the AR thing. More bummed. But this was a doozy.

What the flipping flip. In case it is hard to make out that is one 4 page, fold out, ad t'words the front of the book and one 5 page, fold out, ad t'words the back. Gesshhhbbbfhhheh. What the hell man. I get that you want us to read other ANMN series but damn. Don't drive the point in this damn hard. I'm already buying them. Shit they finally got me buying marvel comics for the first time in a long time.

Deadpool: The Gauntlet turned out to be a free comic book this week so head on down to your local comic book store and pick up your copy. It comes with a free digital edition. The digital edition is even an Infinity comic designed for online reading. I'm only halfway through the book so far but seems good so far. It's great Deadpool. He does his own theme music. The theme music scene is way better in the infinity version online. It also contains a sexy princess. Hopefully I can rig up that theme music scene later as a gif.


Well that is all I have for you today. Thanks for reading. I appreciate you. I hope you have a great end to the work week. We may not have a real Hope Corgi but at least we got Scottish Terrier God. I guess that counts for something.

Remember, no paper-cuts.