Comic Book Moments of the Week for 06/09/10

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Avengers Academy #1

Looks like Speedball has done enough penance for his part in Civil War.

The big secret behind the people chosen for Avengers Academy is that they were all on Norman Osborn's short list of kids with potential to be the worst of the worst and next Red Skulls or Dr Dooms. 

Nemesis #2

Nemesis's origin is a little underwhelming.  Read more like he's evil for the sake of being evil.  Was hoping for a more "realistic" approach for him (or as realistic as comic book villains can be). He's supposed to be the only super villain in this real world setting and it's a pretty stereotypical bad guy origin.

This is one big WTF clue to me.  I assume it's supposed to be really clever, but there's no one that could make these leaps in logic. 

Nemesis is finally caught, though he states he planned it all as they beat him to the ground to end the issue.  My only concern here is that no organized police or military force would ever encircle a target like this.  The guns are absolutely useless in such a scenario since you could kill all of your allies with such a closed space.  The guys in the back rows literally cannot fire without hitting friendlies.   Otherwise, it'sa nice splashpage.

Prince of Power #2

I want you to know, I hate you.  I always hated you the most.


PunisherMAX #8

Bullseye is trying to live Frank Castle's life and has gone back to his origins as the family man whose family gets gunned down in the park.  He's kidnapped a family and is acting out his twisted obsessions with them.  They go to the park later in the day for a family outing, too. 

Punisher crosses the line, if there really was one for him, by torturing and then killing a dirty cop.  I liked the build up to this scene.  He actually refuses to kill him and was merely torturing him to get information on Kingpin and Bullseye.  He asked him about his doctor friend that was murdered the day before and the cop outright lies about it.  Castle believed him and then, later, the news reports how the doctor supposedly killed himself and the cover up of this murder pushed Castle over the line.  Really well done sequence and I love how they've mirrored the Kingpin, Bullseye and Punisher's sequences for greater effect (sorry no scans, it's more of an issuewide thing than something that can be shown in a panel or two). 

Secret Six #22

Catman's origin.

Oh god, I laughed so hard at this one.  For those out of the loop or missing the joke, Ragdoll is, well, not completely anatomically correct.

Father dying from cancer you gave him using magic?  Offer her a cigarette!  Stay classy Deadshot.

The man responsible for kidnapping Catman's son reveals that the boy has been given to a rich family that were looking to adopt that will love and look after the child and make sure he has everything he'd ever want.  The bad guy also never wanted Catman to suffer and expected him to die.  His real goal was Chesire, who is responsible for the deaths of said bad guy's wife and child.  To this end, he has Catman tell her another one of her children is dead so she'll give up looking for the boy and the child can grow up happy and out of reach of anyone else that might use him to get to Catman or Chesire (see Rise of Arsenal for more on her other dead child).

SHIELD #2

This was probably the coolest looking splashpage of the week.


Ultimate Comics Avengers 2 #3

This was a neat way of showing how each person died without actually showing it.  

Black Widow is triggering a chip in Punisher's head when he gets out of line.  What makes the scene is Nick Fury's comments at the end. 

Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #11

Peter gets Iceman a job at his burger joint.  Dignity is a small price to pay for a man that used to sport a bandana as a regular part of his costume.

Looks like Ultimate Chameleon was masquerading as Jonah at the Daily Bugle.  Peter's spider-sense was triggered when JJJ wouldn't even wave at him.  When he followed him, he was taken down quite easily and is now replaced by the imposter. 

Uncanny X-Men #525

Hope after reacting to Cyclops sending Cable to the future on a suicide mission.  They comment on her eyes glowing like Cyclops's.  The question now is what are her powers?  Does she steal other mutants' powers (Cyclops's in this case)?  Does she just have similar powers to Cyclops?  Unrelated red glowing eye powers?  Be neat if she was Ruby from those X-Factor issues.

X-Men: Hellbound #2

Gambit was sent to Limbo with the others with the hope his thief skills would allow him to find and return Illyana at all costs.  Probably a bad call sending him based on this.

Young Allies #2

This was a funny running joke where Arana is called everything but her actual codename. I hope it continues throughout the series and isn't just a one issue joke.

Continuing the joke, she's called Venomette here.  She's called Spider-Girl again later on. 

Poor Arana can't catch a break in this first issue as she face plants into the building after missing a building jump.

One of the members of the 'Bastards of Evil' (no, I don't know if that's their actual name or just the hot headed member being EXTREME while trash talking in the fight) is supposedly the son of Radioactive Man.  He goes nuclear in downtown New York to end the first issue.  This seems like a huge deal to me.  I'm not sure how they can handwave this kind of explosion away, even for a place like New York where it gets blown up or entire blocks destroyed every other day.  This is basically a nuke going off in downtown New York. 

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