Martian Manhunter week Part 3-A: Trial by Fire

[thelazyreader]

To conclude my focus on the Martian Manhunter, I present to you arguably the most pivotal J'onn-centric story in recent times: Trial by Fire. This ran from JLA #84-89 and concluded Joe Kelly's run on the title. This is collected in trades and is one of my all-time recommendations for best JLA stories.



Ever wonder why the most powerful member of the League could be defeated by something as common as fire?
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The man who could be The Man of Steel

[sherkahn]

LA Times has the lead on who *may* play the lead in the upcoming revamp/reboot/re-whatever.

Hint. He's no stranger to comic book movies and currently has the ladies (and certain men of persuasion) swooning.

( Husky. )

Behold, the Thundercats

[sherkahn]

It's safe to say the next generation is taking old characters and making them their own.
AintItCool has the first images of the new Thundercats that are coming to Cartoon Network.

( Thunder, thunder, Thunder Cats HOO!!! )

Alfred Pennyworth has skills.

[sherkahn]

ComicBookResources has more proof why the greatest resource of the Bat Family is Batman's "Batman", Alfred Pennyworth.

2 pgs. from Batman & Robin #20 behind the cut. They take on some new yahoo. *yawn*

( I can do it with my eyes closed. )

Look what comes out Today! :D

[shadowpsykie]

http://www.dccomics.com/dccomics/comics/?cm=16322

( Squeeeee! )

Further Fiendish Plots of Ah Ku, Princess of Crime (Part 1 of 3)

[strannik01]

When we last saw Princess Ah Ku, she fell into the bottomless pit. But, as psychopathicus_rex rightfully pointed out, villains do this sort of thing all the time, and it rarely stops them from coming back. And, sure enough, our hero, the fearless Bob Phantom, finds himself facing off against Ah Ku in the very next issue. And this time, the Princess of Crime is after something else.

The following story as originally printed in Top-Notch Comics #5. Writing by Harry Shorten, art by somebody credited as "Gerry Thorpe"

( You know, you could have avoided all this if you just listened to a gossip columnist (6 pages under the cut) )

Will Bob Phantom ever capture the fiendish Ah Ku? Will the Princess of Crime ever come up with a plan that doesn't involve overly elaborate death traps? Tune in next time, only at SCANS_DAILY!

DO NOT mess with the pirate detective Amazon cosplayer...

[icon_uk]

Preview of Wonder Woman 606, up at Newsarama

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And at the other end of the scale, more Colleen Coover Boy Wonder!

[icon_uk]

Yup, following on from her earlier Batman and Robin strip, Colleen returns to the Batverse

( Alfred needs to switch him to decaff methinks... )

Mere mortal.

[sherkahn]

More mighty Marvel news. As of today the Chaos War is over. There have been consequences.
This is one of them.
Marvel has the announcement.

oh yeah, spoilers.

( No immortality. No power. No problem. )

Climbing the World Tree

[arbre_rieur]

FABLES #101 is guest-penciled by Eric Shanower, he of many Oz books. That's rather appropriate, as the issue stars Bufkin, Fabletown's (ex-)winged monkey.



He's slayed Baba Yaga and imprisoned a djinn. What's next for our brave little monkey?

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Another Episode of "3 Chicks Review Comics" and another tournament

[thebigapricot]

( Did you think the shameless self-promotion had ended? )

New Avengers 08

[terrykun]

I know people are going to call the conversation here "very very Bendis" and etc, but I don't care. Scenes like this in this book consistently make me smile, so that's good enough for me. (:

One two-page spread behind the cut.

( Persecution complex, assembled! )

JL Generation lost #18

[superfangirl1]

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I'd love to see how they plan to carry *this* over

[bluefall]

I generally have very little to say about the JMS/now Hester reboot/AU/thing, apart from that it makes me kind of want to do more chapters of WWwA. But this week we got a couple pages that I just can't leave without comment.

( Not one, but two names that draw my attention faster than my own. )

Am I reading too much into this, or...

[stubbleupdate]

( ...did Fantastic Four 574 give us a clue about #584? )

Martian Manhunter week Part 3-B: Fernus the Burning

[thelazyreader]

Continuing from my last post, here are some scans from the second half of JLA: Trial by Fire by Joe Kelly and Doug Mahnke.



Recap: A powerful telepath has been manipulating people across the world to forcibly put an end to its problems, lobotomizing criminals and making world leaders peacefully resolve all their disputes. With the Martian Manhunter in an oddly weakened state, the Justice League is left defenceless from assault. Ultimately it becomes clear that their formidable opponent is a Martian, and in fact, none other than J'onn J'onnz himself, now turned into a monstrous being calling himself Fernus.
( Get your sorry motherless Martian thorax back in the water! )

One of the funniest things I've seen in awhile. Hipster Superheroes!

[proteus_lives]

Greetings True Believers!

Did you ever see those pics of superheroes dressed up like hipsters? Well, they were funny. CollegeHumor.com found them funny enough to create a animated video about them. It had me rolling! Enjoy!

"Please. Hulk only smashing ironically."

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