Miss Frost, if you're nasty

so when do we get the alternate cover where Jean Grey is about to be bit by a Wolverine?

R.I.P. Ryan Choi

and here i thought another Atom going thru snot was the worst thing.


ah, Ryan Choi, we barely knew ye.



so who else dies in Brightest Day?

Kyle Rayner?
Wally West?
Donna Troy?
Cassie Sandsmark?
the hispanic Blue Beetle?
Bart Allen? again?
Speedy Mia?
Roy Harper? (oh wait, "Arsenal" kills them all for "letting" Prometheus kill Lian)

place your bets, and thank Geoff Johns!!!*

* he never actually said Brightest Day would be all flowers and balloons and happy-happy-joy-joy now, did he?

snaps: New Avengers Annual #3

... where the Epic Failure Known As Clint Barton is rescued by a bunch of chicks (the return of Jessica Jones to superheroing!). also, Norman Osborn needs to change the locks of his house now that the Red Skull is back. sorry, did i say Red Skull? i meant Steve Rogers. or whoever is inside that blue-eyed, blonde, all-American hunky body.

1) yes, make jokes. we need to change your codename to Fail.


2) also, do they really have the real Hawkeye in custody, or is that the Abominable Snowman?



3) they're just right there flying around Brooklyn, and you can't find them? bring back Tony Stark, ya loser!!


4) Carol washes the dishes .... with her gloves on (yeah, she's sensitive to Dawn).


5) the Red Skull wants you. to buy Siege. all four issues. and their 2nd and 3rd printings. and the variants. and the trade.

drive-by readings: Amazing Spider-Man #603

The Amazing Spider-Man #603 (Marvel) "Red-Headed Stranger: Deconstructing Peter" Fred Van Lente Robert Atkins Victor Olazaba Jeromy Cox Joe Caramagna Stephane Roux (cover) Mike Mayhew (variant cover)

you know, this would have worked a wee bit better without the opening statement, giving away what could've been a great surprise for newbie readers, and perhaps a great delight to longtime ones, as they would figure it out along the way (assuming they didn't read the internet or the "next issue" blurb from #602. anyway, it was enjoyable opener for a long term ... what? this story concludes next issue? what the hell! think of the possibilities! can we not have JJJ replaced? or Osborn! it could a year's worth of issues!