Amadeus Cho also has taste

... too bad the spinster Athena has to be a wet blanket.




the Greg Pak/Fred Van Lente home run derby continues.

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Assault on New Olympus #1

Bobby Drake has taste

i mean at least those who don't hate the '80s (snicker) at least remember this classic pin-up, yes?





if you don't like Heather Thomas, i'm seriously questioning your masculinity, right now. yeah, that's right.

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X-Men Origins: Iceman #1

always be covering

unspoken subtext: "try not to disappear again, because if this Emma thing doesn't work out, we can, y'know ... continue what we started way back in the '90s. i know you weren't yourself then ... but hey, you looked good then. and you look good now."


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Psylocke #1

she's a man-eater!

drive-by readings

Immortal Weapons #4 (Marvel) "Tiger's Beautiful Daughter" Duane Swierczynski Khari Evans Victor Olazaba Allen Martinez June Chung Nate Piekos David Aja (cover)

another excellent Immortal Weapons origin story. too bad you can't make a movie out of these kickass peeps unless you introduce the whole Daniel Rand/Iron Fist/K'un L'un thing. or can you? in this issue, we learn that Tiger's Beautiful Daughter, real name Li Hua, is a young princess longing to be beside her father fighting wars to protect their city. tradition has it that women play the homemaking, nurturing role and leave the fighting to the men. or so they think. when an invading army starts slaughtering them, it is revealed that this horde broke a peace treaty after killing all their women - and it was the women who used to do the fighting (turns out Li Hua's mother was like their #1 badass). the role reversal forced the men, especially Li Hua's father, to invent war stories to keep the next generation safe and not provoke the bad guys. but since the latter just broke the treaty, the men of Li Hua's tribe are too soft to really defend their last moo goo gai pan. this forces Li Hua to fulfill her dreams of being a warrior and thus leads all the remaining women to defend themselves. shame on you men! even i felt emasculated reading this comic. almost. i mean, looking at the hot outfit Li Hua's wearing, and knowing she can beat me up easy ... whoooaaa.

amazing editor

apparently, Comics Cavern's favorite DC editor got shipped to Marvel. it's unfortuante.

as for the book, well, i didn't care much for the revival of clone-related stuff, but its a bit refreshing to see Harry Osborn not insane or evil, consistently since the reboot. well, that is, until his loony dad gets de-pantsed and hauled off to jail or worse.

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Amazing Spider-Man #610