well, it certainly is ALIVE!

Saturn Girl is making a killing isn't she? i mean, shouldn't this have been featured prominently with Jean Grey in X-Men: First Class?


Clark Kent's first threesome! HAH!!!


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Adventure Comics #12

snaps: The Brave & The Bold #34

... where the LoSH Big 3 encounter a black hole and narrowly escape with their lives, and resolve to go back in time to enlist the Doom Patrol ("someone who can control ridiculous amounts of energy" - what, Firestorm, Firestar, or Green Lantern wasn't available?) and set things back the way they were. i guess my suggestions wouldn't be offbeat now, right?

OH. GOD. THE GULF COAST OIL SPILL HAS ARRIVED IN THE FUTURE. DAMN YOU, BP!!! RUN!!!!!!


yeah, you should see the strip mall, 12-screen cineplex and the golf course they added in there!



and you're reading this blog, because THEY stopped IT from happening! hurrahhhh!!



ROBOTMAN. MORE MAN THAN ROBOT. (wait, did Imra imply she didn't mind Cliff's randy thoughts?)



leave them a time machine, dammit. but then again, it doesn't necessarily mean they'll end up exactly in your timeline, Rokk.



NOT THAT THERE'S ANYTHING WRONG WITH THAT.

drive-by readings: Adventure Comics #1

Adventure Comics #1 (DC) "The Boy of Steel, Part 1"/"Long Live the Legion" Geoff Johns Francis Manapul Brian Buccellato Steve Wands Clayton Henry Brian Reber Sal Cipriano

this is what the hype was? Conner Kent a.k.a. Kon El a.k.a. that Superboy you hated when he first came out after the death of Superman, now again has his own book (mostly) and he's settled in Smallville trying to understand his roots. he's basically half-Kal and half-Luthor after all. he's really a much more palatable Tom Welling. anyway, Geoff Johns writes some darker undertones contrasting Francis Manapul's kid-friendly sketches (there's something off about the noses on the cover though), and sows some intrigue (not to mention Blackest Night, but not sure if its going to be dealt with here). by the way, has he hooked up with Cassie yet? oh, that's next issue. duh.

the backup story with the Legion is of course meant for hardcore fans (Geoff Johns, showoff) or those who went insane like Thom Kallor.

drive-by readings 021409

Cable #11 "Wasteland Blues" Duane Swierczynski Ariel Olivetti Jamie McKelvie GuruFx Joe Caramagna

This series gets more depressing as we go along. Cable's broken time machine can only keep jumping into the future, and that future progressively gets bleaker and bleaker. seriously, i needed to eat some chocolate after reading this. or play some Viva Pinata. anyway, Hope (the baby now grown up a bit) deserves a lot better than piggybacking with Nathan (and without chocolate!) to the future that contradicts her name (i'm sure Duane has a plan. right, Duane?). she also deserves not to be drawn like a seven year old with an adult head. thankfully, Jamie McKelvie restores some order in that regard.

Wolverine/Power Pack #4 (of 4) "Alex Power: Master Ninja" Marc Sumerak Gurihiru Dave Sharpe

the Power family mosey over to Japan, because Alex has been chosen to be contestant on a Japanese gameshow "Ninja Master". talk about exciting. and silly. of course, since the title of this book says so, they end up running conveniently into Wolverine (again), who's - guess what - fighting ninjas. the battle provides Wolverine to dispense ol' grampa wisdom to the kids, which in turn Alex uses to win the Ninja Master competition. at least in the eyes of his family. always a fun read, i hope there'll be more Power Packs coming our way soon.

Adventure Comics #0 "The Legion of Super Heroes"/"Origins and Omens" Otto Binder Al Plastino Geoff Johns Francis Manapul Swands Brian Buccellato

reprinting the now-classic (and also somewhat corny) Adventure Comics #247, where Superboy first meets the Legion, the rebooted series, ostensibly starring the Legion of Super Heroes, leads off with a #0 and contains a backup story by DC superwriter Geoff Johns. in the former, Superboy is recruited by the Legion and made to pass a series of tests. take note that they went back to the past to recruit him and he travelled back with them. they should loan Cable a time machine! so, back to future: Superboy only fails because there were other emergencies that delayed him, and thus he's rejected and subjected to jokes. it turns out they were just joshing him and he actually made the cut. this tells us that in the future, jerks will still abound and won't be eliminated in the evolving gene pool. of course, i was more interested in the backup story, where Luthor uses Brainiac to get out of prison. operating with that assumption proves disastrous, as Brainiac has other plans and forces Luthor to work for him. oh, and did i mention a dead Super -being might be involved?