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

After a relatively light Moments of the Week last week, we're back with a mammoth offering of momenty goodness.  New costumes, Mephisto abound, Larfleeze in Las Vegas and more make up the moments this week.  Hit the jump to enjoy!

Amazing Spider-Man #641

MJ and Peter are now best friends forever. 


Amazing Spider-Man #642

This is one really messed up scene of a demon goblin lady giving birth to a baby and having Doc Ock deliver it (metal arm umbilical chord cutting attachment sold seperately). 



Batgirl #14

Does Supergirl just buy a new shirt every time she does this?  Or does she super sew it back together? 


Batman #703

"I revel in excrement!" has to be the quote of the week.

Nice moment between Damian and Dick.


Batman and Robin #16

I love Irving's Joker.  I couldn't really find a particular panel to sum up their dialogue that I loved in this issue, so went with this great image instead.

This is all kinds of #$%ed up.

And this just reminds me of that disturbing image of Pyg dancing from the first arc of this title.


Daken: Dark Wolverine #1

Daken's new costume sans mask.  He actually had to hire some famous runway fashion designer to desin and craft the costume for him (he later kills the guy).  As it's just a basic ninja gi, I wasn't really sure why he went to all the trouble.



Daredevil #510

Foreshadowing of the obvious need to kill Matt Murdock to end/redeem (Hand revival would likely follow) the character?

So...Daredevil is possessed by Parallax?

The only sane one left on Daredevil's side was Black Tarantula.  He might be dead.  Never know with these things.


Green Lantern #57

VIVA LAS VEGAS!

Carol becomes queen and, obviously, Larfleeze wants to be one, too.


New Avengers #4

New costume for Iron Fist?  Likely a temp thing as he returns from whatever higher dimension he was in, but an interesting palette swap.


Red Robin #16

Smart?  Yeah, great quality.  Funny?  Another good one.  Alive?  Uh...usually an implied characteristic, but definitely something we should be looking for in a girlfriend.


Shadowland: Blood on the Streets #2

I would like to see the math behind his cape science.  Is there an optimal cape size?  I'd assume a parabolic graph for cape to target size ratio whereby something like Spawn's cape that takes a triple gatefold spread to display at full width would lose it's effectiveness.  The colour of the cape, assuming it contrasts with the body part of the costume (it would be a fashion faux pas to have the same colour cape and costume) should have some impact as well. Conversely, a small cape would not increase the target size either.  Did he do an independent study?  Poll criminals?  This is going to drive me nuts trying to work out the math.


The Thanos Imperative #4

"Cosmic Avengers" take it to the Cancerverse forces.  Loved the Silver Surfer and Beta Ray Bill moments.

Thanos apparently can't die now.  Death has turned him away.  So, as payback, he kills Drax, who is considered an Avatar of Life now.  His death caused pain to the Cancerverse forces in our universe. 


Thor #614

Thor called the Disir to him last issue.  He couldn't draw the sword Loki forged for slaying the Disir, though.  How'd he pull it out for this bit of Disir slaying action?  He called on his mother, Gaea, to loose the sword from the ground.  Really neat bit as Gaea was shown in what I assumed was a throwaway bit earlier in the story as a "prisoner" of Hell (it even said Hell is part of her domain).

Speaking of Loki, Hela informs Thor of his part in the Disir and her relocation to Hell.  It seems Hela, and Thor, believe Loki committed suicide by turning himself away from Hel.  They don't seem to understand that he was the Disir's master and that his soul would not be devoured by the Disir when he was left outside of Hel and that he sicced the Disir upon Hel with this deal.  Interesting turn of events.

I really liked this ending.  I thought the Disir might be killed off and never heard from again.  Because they died in Hell, they fall under Mephisto's domain and are now his servants forever.  I wonder if they like the taste of marriages?


Ultimate Avengers 3 #2

Ultimate Captain America, the ultimate badass/one man army/real American hero/etc walks up to Kid Daredevil saying it's just a kid and promptly gets bitten.  Huh.  Had to double check to see if Mark Millar was still writing this series.  He's never written him like this before.


X-Force: Sex and Violence #3

Just a pretty splashpage to look at.

That is painful to look at.

Another fantastic splashpage.

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