Comic Book Moments of the Week for 05/21/08

The Weekly Crisis Comic Book Moments of the Week are proudly brought to you by Banshee - the drug that gives you cool powers. Remember kids, all the cool mutants are doing it! I mention this below, but I could just see the fallout from this is comics were a more popular medium, like video games or television. You can see what I'm talking about in the Ultimate X-Men and all the other moments of the week after the jump.

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #560

"WHAAM!"

I know we saw something similar to this in Morrison's opening Batman arc, but it's still great seeing this pop art style comic scene with the sound effect in the painting in the background. Forgot to get a scan, but there's a cool Captain America painting in one of the panels, too.

"It's magic, Tiger."

QUESADAAA! Ahaha, actually, I can't really find the rage to get mad over this scene. Maybe I've just gotten over it and moved on, but I just found it funny how they were literally poking fun at people by having MJ reading Faust, a book about a man who made a deal with the devil, and talking about how, "it's magic", alla the now infamous, "we don't have to explain it", line.

AVENGERS: THE INITIATIVE #13

"*cough*wifebeater"

This was one of the first scene depicting Butterball's "good intentions, bad timing" conversational skills. Extra points for the Prodigy cough.

"What qualifies you to teach us how to practice?"

Taskmaster has his hands full with Butterball in this scene as he points out a rather obvious flaw in Taskmaster's teaching abilities.

"I gotta go."

I don't know if being invincibile is worth the hardships poor Butterball has, but maybe he can get Reed or Hank to whip up some super Viagra for him.

"...it was the best time of my life."

Prior to this page, Taskmaster, who apparently has a heart of gold, felt bad about all the crap he put Butterball through during training, turning his friends against him and wanted to thank him for helping out with taking down the contract killers that were out to get him, so he and Constrictor got together for this "group photo" going away present.

Add in the fact these were the best days of Butterball's life and all he wanted to do was be a super hero and how everyone else just wants to get out or are forced to do the training and it's both a sad and happy ending at the same time. Shame such a good character is here and gone so quickly.

CAPTAIN AMERICA #38

"Nothing can make that look good."

I'm sorry, but not even Steve Epting can make that Nomad costume look good. And does anyone know why that baby is dressed up like Bucky? Not familiar with that storyline.

FANTASTIC FOUR #557

"It looks cool, sir."

Always enjoy when we get scenes where Reed isn't hip with that wacky teenage vernacular. I still want to see him trying to explain sex or other teenage problems to his kids some day.

"RICCCHHHHAARRDDSS!"

Oh god, what's Reed responsible for this time? On second thought, I want to know who or what did that to Doom. Probably relates back to the first question and is Reed's fault anyways, so I guess the first question still stands.

INCREDIBLE HERCULES #117

"Skrull Gods"

Not much else to say about this. It's the Skrull gods that the God Squad is gonna go smash or some such. I'm pretty sure their names came to Pak when he fell asleep at the computer, banged his head on the keyboard and just went with whatever random letters were spat out.

"Misdirection."

This is what I hate about shapeshifter stories. The constant misdirection and "lol, he was a Skrull all along!" or fake out non-reveals of shapeshifters. Once in a while is alright, but it seems every single tie-in for Secret Invasion is pulling the same stunt. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess she's not a Skrull, though. I'm pretty sure Athena always had green eyes, too.

JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA #15

"Someone smack her."

Throw the Superman Prime-level character in the water and hope he sinks from "all that armour"? We now know why she isn't a tactical leader and goes around with a big hole over her boobs. Power Girl makes the other dumb blondes look smart.

"I want to drive a car!"

Best battle cry ever.

"I come in peace."

Right... So, that giant head ate the fake Gog and turned into this giant Gog. Moving on.

"Coming this year in JSA"

Meh, we know about the first three. I'm only here to talk about my boy, Black Adam. I have my doubts that that is actually Black Adam. I'm going to guess it's Faust in disguise and we'll see Black Adam join up with the JSA to stop him.

MIGHTY AVENGERS #14

"Noooo...."

Here's the Voidtry, as I'm calling him. Bob couldn't handle the stress, so the Void took over. I'm not sure if he has Sentry's body or if it's a manifestation and the real Sentry is still in space.

ROBIN #174

"Typical Hollywood tripe."

I don't know why, but I couldn't stop laughing after I read this. It's like Dixon was making fun of his own work after Penquin had the same reaction I did to the opening fight sequence.

"D'awwwww"

Seems people are still complaining about Spoiler coming back. Seems a lot of the Girl Wonder members are more upset that DC is just trying to placate them with this resurrection and not addressing the actual issue that she was stuffed in a fridge so that Tim could be Robin again and not even honoured like the other dead Robin, which they attributed to her being a woman.

Personally, I don't care. I'm just happy she's back and it's the first good thing DC's done right in a long time. Now, if only we could fix Batgirl...

"Short, simple and painless. Just the way I like my resurrections."

Dixon doesn't try to get complicated with any magic or weird science or clone duplicate type solutions. He keeps it simple and, if you don't think too hard about it, it works. No complaints on my end.

ULTIMATE X-MEN #94

"Meet Alpha Flight"

Now this is an Alpha Flight team I wouldn't mind reading about. I'm genuinely interested in all the new members of this team and can't wait to read more about them.

"Ultimate Colossus Origin"

Here's the origin for Colossus in the Ultimate Universe. Father found out he's gay, kicked him out of house, he turns to mafia and gets hooked on Banshee so he can actually use his powers. Seems having an organic metal body can get heavy for normal humans.

"Team Banshee"

Hey kids, it's cool to do drugs! This is the X-Men hopped up on Banshee. If comics were more mainstream, I'm guessing this would be all over the news about how the X-Men have turned to using drugs for powers.

It seems Rogue can actually leech people's powers instead of touching them now, seeing as she has Colossus' and Angel's powers active and they're still breathing. Nightcrawler seems to have Blink-like shards in his hand, but we'll have to wait until next month to see if that's what they are. Angel turned into Beak... And Dazzler seems to have shoulder spikes for some reason.

It'll be interesting to see if Cyclops starts using the drug or not next month.

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