Comic Book Moments of the Week for 10/23/2013

For today's Moments of the Week, look out as another twist to the origin of Tony Stark is revealed, two new Image series debut as Velvet and Pretty Deadly hit the stands, and a change happens to Loki in Young Avengers. A bit more moments after the jump, so let's get started! 

Daredevil #32

What's in Kentucky? Rayland Givens and meth, but something much more sinister lurks in the shadows, just in time for Halloween. Cue the antiquated pitch fork mob!

By the issue's end Matt is shot by the town mob, seemingly bleeding to death. I wonder if he'll be like Frank and turn into Franken-devil.

Indestructible Hulk #14

This is why time travel is bad. Like a double cheeseburger you now have a double dose of angry Hulk.

Iron Man #17

Robots from space have ulterior motives, no surprise there. Howard thought he fixed it but it turns out the baby would have a degenerative disease, something that had no cure. How does this effect Tony? It doesn't, because it wasn't him.

Arno was Howard and Maria's son, hidden away so that 451 couldn't discover what Howard had done. Now that the robot is dead, Arno has a lot of ideas for helping the world that he's going to put to use with his brother. This is one of those retcons that is kind of hard to believe, that with all the attacks on earth and other stuff, Tony never came across this information. We'll see if Arno becomes a worthwhile supporting character or not.

Justice League #24

Earth 3 Jon and Martha are meth head criminals, and Jon was just in the middle of beating her up. Doesn't really matter, Ultraman kills them a few years later. In the present Ultraman wonders what Jimmy Olsen is up to, still not grasping the concept of this being another universe.

Ultraman hates hands. Before he can issue more creepy threats to Lois, Black Adam arrives to beat some sense into him, a fight to be seen in Forever Evil #3.

 

 

 

Pretty Deadly #1

A western tale about Death's child, roaming the land searching for vengeance. The traveling storytellers are accosted by the redheaded man in bowler hat as they leave the town, the young woman Sissy takes a book from his possession in retaliation. Turns out that book is something a lady named Big Alice really wants:

A magic book that draws the attention of a deadly woman, the hunt is on. The art is really the big sell here, it fits perfectly with the tone and setting of the book, where the story is more disjointed than it should be for a first issue, almost like it would be better told in the full trade. Still worth a look and different from the other westerns on the shelf right now.

Uncanny Avengers #13

Cap always yells, Alex. Nice moment between Alex and Jan though, that could be a nice relationship to see over the series. Meanwhile Daken is telling Wolverine everything that happened is his fault:

But has she betrayed the team?

 But no one knows that, leading to a plea from Logan that Rogue will gladly follow through with:

Velvet #1

1973. Velvet Templeton, the head secretary to the Director of Arc-7, a mature woman who seems to know more than she lets on. When the best agent Arc-7 has is killed, it begins an investigation that Velvet begins looking into with skills a secretary wouldn't normally have. When the suspect is seemingly identified as a former agent Frank Lancaster, Velvet does some digging herself:

It's a frame-up!

They can't, obviously. This is a very good premise for a book, the secretary no one suspects is actually one of the best secret agents ever. Tighly paced, well drawn, this is a book to keep a look out for. Buy it.

Wolverine & The X-Men #37

The future Brotherhood starts a fight at Cape Citadel, where the X-Men first debuted, in order to further their plan to alter the past. Wonder what's up with that Iceman giant? Here you go:

Battle of the Atom #2 is the conclusion, will we find out why the Brotherhood wants the original X-Men sent back?

Young Avengers #11

In time for the movie and his new series, Loki is aged to be in his twenties, it looks like. But it turns out, to his surprise, making him older doesn't unlock his powers like he thought. So in order to save Teddy and finally fight Mother and the league of evil exes, Billy will have to unlock his super magic for a small amount of time. How can they fight Mother, though, when she can make all the heroes turn against them?

Teen hero social networking, it just goes on, and on, and on....

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