Comic Book Moments of the Week for 02/09/11

When Marvel announced that they were going to kill a character every quarter, everyone freaked out. If the Moments of the Week are any indication, they are well ahead of the curve. We have character deaths all over the place in Amazing Spider-Man and New Avengers. That's not to say that DC is staying behind, because they kill someone else in Justice League: Generation Lost, and another one in Flash. Hit the jump to see them and all the other moments!

Amazing Spider-Man #654

And here's how they sorted out the cliffhanger from last week. Max thinks that Peter is building weapons for Spider-Man, which is technically true. Pretty clever workaround if you ask me. Also, note that Peter has a poster for Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark in his office.

Jessica Jones is straight up called Power Woman here. Is that really going to be her new nickname?

Spidey crafted a doo-hickey that would disrupt the com system that the baddies were using, but if he was anywhere close, it would also...

Fry his Spider-sense, which it does, as shown here. I doubt this is going to last very long, though.

And in the process, Marla, JJJ's wife gets killed. Kudos to Slott for a great ending with Jameson's reaction.

This one is from the back-up, where they show who is under the new Venom. As previously reported, it's Flash Thompson.

Atomic Robo & The Deadly Art of Science #3

Aw, yeah, Robo! Just in time for Valentine's Day, too!

Remember that at this point, Robo is basically a teenager, so Tesla has to give him a talk that any father must when their son reaches that age.

Batgirl #18

Klarion The Witch-Boy guest stars this week in Batgirl. It leads to scenes like the next one...

I'm going to be using "wandering pack of harlots" everyday now. No way that can backfire on me, right?

Stephanie Brown confirmed for Harry Potter nerd.

Batman & Robin #20

Bruce gets all the kids together to watch The Mark of Zorro.

Oh, Damian, you are just incorrigible.

Suddenly, Man-Bat out of nowhere! No idea what's going on with all the bats around him melting or something. If I didn't know any better, I would think it was a Brightest Day tie-in.

Deadpool Team-Up #885

You got that right. Raise your hand if you even *knew* that Hellcow was a real character.

The Flash #9

This has to be a record for Geoff Johns. He killed a legacy character before he even introduced him at all!

And the future cop-like character that has been teased at is... Barry Allen. Probably from the Flashpoint universe.

Green Lantern - Emerald Warriors #7

Guy Gardner: keeping it classy with the ladies since 1968.

Holy smokes, he just used an ice scream scoop to take out that guy's eye!

Interesting, this protocol would allow Guy to kill a Green Lantern.This might play a larger role in the upcoming War of The Green Lanterns.

Incredible Hulks #622

The Hulk gets beaten up by a god, Zeus, and the Hulk fans get angry about it.

Looks like the Hulk wants to join the Emerald Warriors. That's a LOT of puke!

Justice League: Generation Lost #19

Max Lord's whole plan was just to get Checkmate back?

F#$% YEAH, BLUE BEETLE!

Damnit, Max DC!

New Avengers #9

The magical city of K'un Lun is terrible to drive, no parking spaces ANYWHERE!

Did Bendis kill Mockingbird there? Or is she just badly injured?

R.E.B.E.L.S. #25

Starro is building an army of Czarnians (the same species as Lobo). This is going to end up in tears.

And "shlup" is the sound those Starro face suckers make, in case you were wondering.

Superman #708

Pretty clear homage to Alan Moore's famous Green Lantern Corps story right there, Mogo Doesn't Socialize. Seriously, though, reminding people of how much better stories other people have written is not going to make YOUR story any better.

Wonder Woman happens to be on site for Superman's latest adventure, which eventually leads to the next scene...

Wonder Woman fans are pretty upset about this, and with good reason I think. In her new origin story, Superman is the reason she became a hero, not out of her own reasons, but rather because she was impressed by another hero, which reduces here status as a character. And on top of that, it happened outside of her own book. More explanation here.

Widowmaker #4

This scene seems to play a pretty big role, as it has been revealed that Hawkeye will lose his vision (or at least part of it?) because of this.

Wolverine #5.1

Melita organizes a birthday party for Wolverine, and invited everyone. Pretty nice nod to the Rucka-era of Wolverine, which established him as a voracious reader.

Come on, go ahead and try to guess what it shoots.

Two things: great writing by Aaron on this page. It's a great use of Wolverine's connection to draw everyone into a party-like setting: the Avengers, the X-Men, even Deadpool (and those guys in the fourth panel are from the Manifest Destiny mini that Aaron wrote). Secondly, that's some ugly art on the final panel by Jefte Palo. I really dig his art, but everyone looks terrible there.

Poor Spider-Man, never getting invited to parties.

When Wolverine finally shows up, we learn that it's not his birthday. Or at least he thinks it isn't, but Melita has used her "mad research skills" (my words, not Aaron's) to uncover that it really is!


X-Factor #215

The Libido Dupe strikes again, by proposing to Layla, who takes it pretty seriously. Of course, Jamie Prime doesn't think it counts, since it was a dupe.

Eventually, he proposes himself, and Layla drops a big "let me think about it". Expect the unexpected, indeed.

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