Some thoughts on some recent comics

[laughing_tree]

The Ultimates #11, be Al Ewing, Kenneth Rocafort, and Djribril Morissette. Okay, what's the deal with Starlin's most recent Thanos stuff, THE INFINITY RELATIVITY and FINALE and all that books? As far as I know they're meant to be in continuity, but has even a single one of their major status-quo shaking developments been acknowledged *anywhere*?







Deathstroke #3, by Priest and Joe Bennett. This might be my favorite DC Universe book right now. I’m normally not big on down-to-Earth, gritty superhero fare – the kind that’s only one step removed from crime fiction, the typical Batman milieu. I like my cap fiction impossible. But Priest always makes the “realistic” stuff feel as weird, woolly, and wider-than-life as any pseudo-science spectacle, with stuff like the elderly granny crime boss this issue.

Comments

[q99]

Rose learned from Dick in the DCnU too?

[shadowpsykie]

I am a little bothered by them making Rose a slacker... she is anything but...

[mrstatham]

How much of that is just Slade saying she's a slacker and how much of that is Rose actually being a slacker? He has never been father of the year material, after all.

[nyadnar17]

I agree. Slade is a garbage father so who knows how much of his assessment is even accurate.

[reveen]

Y'know Slade, maybe if you smoked dope once in a while you'd be a more likable character.

[jekylls_salvation]

He'd also be dead right now. Lack of discipline and willpower and focus will do that in his line of work.

[theflames]

lmao, 'you smoke dope'

This is great.

[astrakhan42]

RIP Shaper of Worlds. Of course he's a reality-warper who's buddies with another reality warper, Glorian, so he'll be back soon enough.

[burkeonthesly]

The Shaper was killed by Glorian, over in Silver Surfer.

[hybrid2]

Carol think she can take Thanos one on one?
Did she start drinking again?

[scorntx]

Nah, she's just got an Idiot Ball.

[thehood]

You're misusing the term. Especially since Binary Carol isn't exactly a push over.

At best she's overconfident here, but that's not a case of holding the idiot ball.

Plus, it's not like she has a choice in this scenario, she has to make sure he doesn't escape.

[freezer]

Wait... Since when does Carol still have her Binary powers?

[tugrul]

She and Ms. America don't have any illusions about fighting with Thanos. Well, Ms. America is a bit overconfident / courageous. They're just distracting him and losing while the others take their time making a strategy. It works.

[thehood]

The Ultimates took him down, so....

Really, don't forget Carol is a heavy hitter herself.

[tigerkaya]

Oh how wish Ultumates would focus more on the cosmic elements than on this Civil War 2 nonsense.

[thehood]

Except they have focused on Cosmic stuff during these tie ins.