Another Comics Pull List | The Best of Last Week

<p style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 0in&semi;" align&equals;"LEFT">     It&&num;8217&semi;s that time again&period; The joyous day of the week after I&&num;8217&semi;ve read all my comics and now I get to write about them&period; Welcome to my pull list&period; Last week <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;comics-pull-list-best-comics&sol;">I was quite picky about my reading<&sol;a> and only had two titles that merited a feature&period; Those titles were <em>Original Sin &num; 1<&sol;em> and <em>Chaos Comics &num;1<&sol;em>&period; Fantastic books&comma; both of them&comma; and I&&num;8217&semi;ll be talking about them shortly&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1 style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 0in&semi;" align&equals;"LEFT">Avengers &num; 29&colon;<&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 0in&semi;" align&equals;"LEFT"> <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;05&sol;05103301&sol;Avengers&lowbar;29&lowbar;Cover-500x500&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-61919 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;05&sol;05103301&sol;Avengers&lowbar;29&lowbar;Cover-500x500&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Avengers&lowbar;29&lowbar;Cover" width&equals;"500" height&equals;"500" &sol;><&sol;a>     Jonathan Hickman&&num;8217&semi;s been writing team books for a while now since his triumphant run on Fantastic Four and his Avengers is similarly awesome so far&period; An <em>Original Sin<&sol;em> tie in&comma; this issue follows to the theme of skeletons in closets and sins being revealed The Illuminati&&num;8217&semi;s secret clandestine meetings are revealed&period; For those of you unfamiliar with the Illuminati&comma; they are the greatest minds in the Marvel Universe and make decisions for the universe at large&period; &period; &period; like launching Hulk into space&period; That ended badly&period; Their number includes Tony Stark&comma; Namor&comma; Black Panther&comma; The Beast&comma; &lpar;replacing Professor Xavier&rpar;&comma; Reed Richards&comma; Black Bolt&comma; and Doctor Strange and are prepared to do some extremely heinous things to save the universe&period; Many of the Avengers are not&period; Tensions run high and Iron Man fights his own team – including Thor and Captain America with explosive results&period; &period; &period; pun intended&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1 style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 0in&semi;" align&equals;"LEFT"><strong>Avengers Undercover &num; 4&colon; <&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 0in&semi;" align&equals;"LEFT"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;05&sol;05103255&sol;background&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-61920 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;05&sol;05103255&sol;background&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Avengers Undercover 4" width&equals;"633" height&equals;"537" &sol;><&sol;a>     Dennis Hopeless&comma; author of the Avengers Academy&comma; Avengers Arena&comma; and Generation Hope&colon; writes believable teenagers in the worst of circumstances&period; These youngsters survived Arcade&&num;8217&semi;s Murderworld and had to kill to do it&period; They are offered revenge and indeed take it on their tormentor&period; Are they villains&quest; Are they still superheroes in training&quest; That remains to be seen&comma; but this comic is top notch&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s got teenage angst and plenty of ass kicking to go around&period; I like morally gray areas in my reading&comma; I hope you do too&period; Give it a try&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1 style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 0in&semi;" align&equals;"LEFT"><strong>Batgirl &num; 31&colon; <&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 0in&semi;" align&equals;"LEFT"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;05&sol;05103247&sol;Batgirl&lowbar;Vol&lowbar;4-31&lowbar;Cover-1&lowbar;Teaser&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-61921 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;05&sol;05103247&sol;Batgirl&lowbar;Vol&lowbar;4-31&lowbar;Cover-1&lowbar;Teaser&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Batgirl issue 31 review" width&equals;"796" height&equals;"1200" &sol;><&sol;a>      Meet Ragdoll&comma; a superhumanly flexible foe&comma; with a lethal grapple fighting style&comma; attacks Batgirl&&num;8217&semi;s roomate&period; Bad idea&excl; Ragdoll&comma; like any good villain&comma; manages a get away&period; Where a plot twist or even two occur&period; Gail Simone writes another fantastic issue&period; I loved the issue and it is a fair place to jump onto the title&period; One could argue however&comma; that some of the ongoing plots in Batgirl are continued in this title and new readers could be a little lost&period; Gail Simone fans need to try this if they haven&&num;8217&semi;t&period; People who want to try a new bat-book might want to wait&period; Take it or leave it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1 style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 0in&semi;" align&equals;"LEFT"><strong>Chaos Comics &num; 1&colon;<&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 0in&semi;" align&equals;"LEFT"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;05&sol;05103233&sol;MAR141028&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-61924 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;05&sol;05103233&sol;MAR141028&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Chaos &num; 1" width&equals;"400" height&equals;"600" &sol;><&sol;a>     During the 90&&num;8217&semi;s a publisher called Chaos Comics created a cast of characters that were dark and sexy&period; Due to various bumps in the road &lpar;from a business perspective&rpar;&comma; little was heard from them after 2002&period; They have returned under the banner of Dynamite&semi; another publisher and seem to be as true to form as they were before their hiatus&period; Tim Seeley&semi; of Hack Slash fame writes&comma; while Mirka Andolfo is on art&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m admittedly not familiar with Andolfo&&num;8217&semi;s prior work&comma; but the art helps me reminisce about the old days&period; The introductory issue is a fairly interesting relaunch introducing the characters and explaining their motivations&period; The first plot involves vampire hunters seeking the famous character Purgatori&period; Fans of the 90&&num;8217&semi;s comics should give this a try&period; Anyone who likes darker comics and dark humor should also&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1 style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 0in&semi;" align&equals;"LEFT"><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<h1 style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 0in&semi;" align&equals;"LEFT"><strong>Superman&colon; Doomed &num; 1 One-Shot &lpar;Spoilers&excl;&rpar;&colon;<&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;61922" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-61922" style&equals;"width&colon; 570px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;05&sol;05103239&sol;Batman-vs&lowbar;-Superman-movie-Doomsday-570x294&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"wp-image-61922 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;05&sol;05103239&sol;Batman-vs&lowbar;-Superman-movie-Doomsday-570x294&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Even Superman fears something&period;" width&equals;"570" height&equals;"294" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-61922" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Even Superman fears something&period;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 0in&semi;" align&equals;"LEFT">     Superman&&num;8217&semi;s most terrifying foe is Doomsday and the Kryptonian baddie makes an apocalyptic return in the <em>New 52<&sol;em>&period;  Who is Doomsday&quest;  Well he is a biological weapon that evolves to become immune to anything that harms or kills it&period; Oh&excl; One more thing&period;  He killed Superman back in the 1992 during the storyline &&num;8220&semi;Death of Superman&&num;8221&semi;&period;  So he&&num;8217&semi;s kind of a badass&period;  His new event is called Doomed including three issues this past week in that vein&period; This arc is fantastic and I highly recommend reading all of them&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 0in&semi;" align&equals;"LEFT"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;05&sol;05103155&sol;STK639861&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-61939 size-medium" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;05&sol;05103155&sol;STK639861&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Superman Doomed" width&equals;"243" height&equals;"300" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1 style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 0in&semi;" align&equals;"LEFT"><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<h1 style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 0in&semi;" align&equals;"LEFT"><strong>                                            SPOILER ALERT&excl;&excl;&excl;<&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 0in&semi;" align&equals;"LEFT">     This one-shot starts the event off with a bang&period;  A larger&comma; stronger&comma; and super heated Doomsday is rampaging through small towns and various outlying locations&period;  This Doomsday travels through the Phantom Zone &lpar;formerly used as a prison by Superman for extra dangerous foes&rpar;&comma; virtually teleporting around Earth&period; Scott Lobdell&comma; Greg Pak&comma; and Charles Soule team up to write a compelling tale where Superman must make a tough choice&colon; hold back to avoid killing this weaponized being or cut-loose and kill it&period; Each choice is full of peril&period; If he holds back he risks death versus a being that has killed him&period;  If he doesn&&num;8217&semi;t&comma; he kills&period;  Such a line once crossed cannot be uncrossed&period; The choice must be made quickly&colon; it seems Doomsday isn&&num;8217&semi;t superheated &&num;8211&semi; he is absorbing all life force near him and growing stronger for it&period; Doubtless&comma; the titans meet in battle and Ken Lashley does the epic battle justice&period;  These two mortal enemies don&&num;8217&semi;t just fight&semi; they go to war against each other&period; Superman ultimately kills Doomsday in a fantastic fashion&comma; but the fight isn&&num;8217&semi;t over&period;  Doomsday sublimates into a biological weapon which the Last Son of Krypton breathes in to prevent it from reaching innocents&period; &period; &period; Cue chapter one of <em>Doomed<&sol;em>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 0in&semi;" align&equals;"LEFT">At least a few less spoilers will be included in future reviews of the Doomed storyline&period; <span style&equals;"text-decoration&colon; underline&semi;">Regardless spoilers will be included so be aware of this as you read on<&sol;span>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1 style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 0in&semi;" align&equals;"LEFT"><strong>Action Comics – Doomed Chapter 1 &num; 31&colon; <&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 0in&semi;" align&equals;"LEFT"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;05&sol;05103309&sol;action31&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-61918 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;05&sol;05103309&sol;action31&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Action Comics 31 review" width&equals;"910" height&equals;"1400" &sol;><&sol;a>     Greg Pak recently took over writing Action Comics&period; He handled chapter one of Doomed quite well&period;  Superman is found by the Justice League&period; Wonder Woman of course is concerned for her lover&comma; but assumes he&&num;8217&semi;ll be fine&period;  Batman as usual is suspicious&comma; but plans to cure Superman post haste&period; They are friends after all&period; Clark is cautioned to isolate himself from people&comma; which he wisely follows&period;  Supes goes through some introspection and eventually suffers nightmares and hallucinations where he loses all control&period;  He of course pulls through his malaise and vows to continue saving people&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1 style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 0in&semi;" align&equals;"LEFT"><strong>Superman Wonder Woman – Doomed Chapter 2 &num; 8&colon; <&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 0in&semi;" align&equals;"LEFT"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;05&sol;05103219&sol;p11073284&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-61926 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;05&sol;05103219&sol;p11073284&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Superman&sol;Wonder Woman" width&equals;"477" height&equals;"734" &sol;><&sol;a>     I&&num;8217&semi;ve always enjoyed this title&period;  Charles Soule writes the couple quite well&period;  This is no exception&period; Diana spends most of this issue trying to find Clark and running into Cat Grant in the meanwhile&comma; Clark&&num;8217&semi;s newest Daily Planet partner following his longterm partnership with Lois Lane&period;  Finally&comma; she turns to Bruce&comma; who aims her in the right direction&period; After a tense conversation&comma; Clark is revealed to be suffering from a disease that is slowly turning him into Doomsday&period; He asks her to kill him and a fight ensues&comma; halted by none other than The Dark Knight&period; Wonder Woman refuses to kill him&comma; naturally&comma; and eventually Superman regains control&period; It appears as though his will is still iron&period; As the chapter closes we learn the extent of the disease and that this new personality is going nowhere anytime soon&period; Superman may be his own worse enemy&comma; much like Dr&period; Jekyll and Mr&period; Hyde&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1 style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 0in&semi;" align&equals;"LEFT"><strong>Original Sin &num; 1&colon; Who shot The Watcher&quest; <&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 0in&semi;" align&equals;"LEFT"> <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;05&sol;05103226&sol;Original&lowbar;Sin&lowbar;1&lowbar;Cover&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-61925 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;05&sol;05103226&sol;Original&lowbar;Sin&lowbar;1&lowbar;Cover&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Original Sin &num; 1 review" width&equals;"630" height&equals;"956" &sol;><&sol;a>     That&&num;8217&semi;s the question that everyone wants to know&period; Who stole his eyes&quest; That&period; &period; &period;probably no one wants to know&comma; but it can&&num;8217&semi;t be good&period; Eyes are said to hold knowledge&semi; the Watcher has seen much in his long life&period; Those eyes hold a lot of knowledge&period; If knowledge is power&colon; those eyes are like nuclear bombs&period; Nick Fury makes a return to comics playing super spy and means to find all the technology that was stolen from the Watchers lair&period; He helps put together a crack team to investigate&period; Meanwhile&comma; Mindless Ones &lpar;an antagonistic race of mindless berserkers&comma; rarely used in modern stories&rpar; are developing minds&period; &period; &period; and telepathy&period; One rampages through new York where Spider-Man and Thing manage to curb it&&num;8217&semi;s enthusiasm&comma; long enough for it to&period; &period; &period;commit suicide&quest;&quest;&quest; The comic ends on looking in on shadows of the antagonists holding an eye of the Watcher&period; The creative team of Jason Aaron and Mike Deodato were great choices to helm Original Sin&period; They are both superstars at Marvel&comma; often chosen to work on big comic events&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 0in&semi;" align&equals;"LEFT">     I&&num;8217&semi;ll say this for <em>Original Sin<&sol;em>&colon; I actually look forward to this event and how it ends&period; I was suffering from &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;event fatigue”&period; Lately&comma; I was getting tired of big event after big event in comics overall&period; This one promises to actually have long reaching consequences and effects all my favorite characters&period; I can only hope the tie-ins are as interesting and relevant&period; Definitely try Original Sin&period; Your local comic shop might still have Watcher eyeballs to hand out&period; They bounce and glow in the dark&period; Go get issue one&comma; you won&&num;8217&semi;t regret it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi; margin-bottom&colon; 0in&semi;" align&equals;"LEFT"><strong><em>We had a fairly big week in comics&period; Two major events are happening&period; What are you reading&quest;  We&&num;8217&semi;d love to hear about it on our forums&excl;<&sol;em><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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