A Weekly Comic’s Pull List | Forever Evil #7: Change of Heart

<p>As our own Stan Lee wold say&comma; greetings true believers and newcomers alike&excl; It&&num;8217&semi;s that joyous time 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; This week was a big week in comics for me&period; It hurts my wallet&comma; but I love it all the same&period; Normally&comma; you&&num;8217&semi;ll find a smattering of independent titles in my pull list&comma; but not this week&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>All my titles are from the Big Two &lpar;DC and Marvel Comics&rpar;&period; Several events continued this week&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<em>Doomed<&sol;em>” in the Superbooks&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<em>Original Sin<&sol;em>”&comma; and finally &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<em>Forever Evil<&sol;em>” concludes&period; Plenty of big things happen this week in comics&period; Some not so big things occur too&comma; but they were good reading all the same&period;  In any case&comma; this was definitely an eventful week in comics&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;alert type&equals;red &rsqb;Spoilers&excl;&lbrack;&sol;alert&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 0in&semi;" align&equals;"LEFT">&lbrack;divider&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 0in&semi;" align&equals;"LEFT"><strong><em>Amazing Spider-man &num;2<&sol;em><&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&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;05102155&sol;ASM2014002cov&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-62099 size-large" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;05&sol;05102155&sol;ASM2014002cov&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Spider-Man 2 cover" width&equals;"665" height&equals;"1024" &sol;><&sol;a>     The issue opens with us getting a glimpse of an unnamed female character who shoots webs to do mundane things in her apartment&period; That was an interesting tease and hopefully&comma; we&&num;8217&semi;ll revisit that soon in future issues&period; Peter deals with Anna Maria&comma; Doc Octopus&&num;8217&semi;s girlfriend&period; Confused at all&quest; Well&comma; &&num;8216&semi;Ock&&num;8217&semi; was in Pete&&num;8217&semi;s body due to a mind swap debacle and fell in love with a girl&period; Pete had to explain that to her&period; Talk about awkward&period; &period; &period; Meanwhile Max Dillon &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Electro” seeks out a lady friend by the name of Francine&period; He needs to lay low for a while&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s nice to see the more human parts of villains and knowing their motivations creates a great story and usually makes Spider-Man&&num;8217&semi;s life harder&period; He understands his rogues gallery is human inside and he understands what makes them tick&period; He just can&&num;8217&semi;t let them destroy themselves and everyone around&period; Such is the tragic &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Parker Luck”&period; Nothing is ever easy&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 0in&semi;" align&equals;"LEFT">     Speaking of not easy&comma; Spidey goes and apologizes to the Avengers and is allowed to rejoin&period; Hard feelings are abundant in that meeting at least for Pete&period; It seems Captain America knew the secret identity of Venom and never told Spider-Man&period; We get some cameos from The Human Torch and the Black Cat&period; The issue ends with Parker Industries making an announcement&period; They&&num;8217&semi;re going to build a brand new prison to hold super villains&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 0in&semi;" align&equals;"LEFT">&lbrack;divider&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 0in&semi;" align&equals;"LEFT"><em><strong>Batman Superman &num; Chapter 3 of &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Doomed”&colon; <&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;h2>&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;05102147&sol;BMSM-Cv11-ds-f6ed6&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-62100 size-large" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;05&sol;05102147&sol;BMSM-Cv11-ds-f6ed6&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Superbat&excl; cover" width&equals;"665" height&equals;"1024" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 0in&semi;" align&equals;"LEFT">     Despite the title Superman doesn&&num;8217&semi;t even make an appearance&period; Instead&comma; this issue is all about trying to cure the Man of Steel&period; Batman and Wonder Woman arrive at the Fortress of Solitude seeking a way to help their friend and they&&num;8217&semi; are joined by none other than Krypto the Superdog in the quest to find a cure in the Phantom Zone&period; Once there they encounter all manner of horrible foes Superman has locked up over the years&period; The fight scenes were of less focus&comma; instead the story played a bigger role&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m not so much complaining&comma; as wishing I got to see a bit more of the action&period; An ally is made of an enemy and a powerful foe is released&period; All the while Bruce and Diana try to &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;do what Clark would do”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 0in&semi;" align&equals;"LEFT">     This certainly does paint a picture of how much Superman inspires his friends and how scared they are for him right now&period; As soon as they escape the Phantom Zone batman begins to second guess the plan&period; How far will they go to find a cure and save Superman&quest; I can&&num;8217&semi;t wait to find out&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 0in&semi;" align&equals;"LEFT">&lbrack;divider&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 0in&semi;" align&equals;"LEFT"><i>Forever Evil &num;7<&sol;i><&sol;h2>&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;05102122&sol;Forever-Evil-7-Spoilers-Preview-1&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-62103 size-large" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;05&sol;05102122&sol;Forever-Evil-7-Spoilers-Preview-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Forever-Evil-7-Cover" width&equals;"665" height&equals;"1024" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 0in&semi;" align&equals;"LEFT">     This issue ties up most of the loose ends&period; I&&num;8217&semi;ll try to keep the final a confrontation about it spoiler free as well&period; The Justice League and their rogue galleries team up to stop Alexander Luthor&semi; a powerful being who permanently takes the powers of those he kills&period; The good guys win&period; &period; &period; finally&period; Nightwing&&num;8217&semi;s fate is revealed after his heart stopped&comma; and Lex Luthor and Batman have their own confrontation about it as well&period; When the dust finally settles some teams break up and new teams are formed&period; The fate of the surviving Crime Syndicate members is decided as well&period; One big question looms&colon; what scared the Syndicate so much that they fled their universe to the <em>New 52<&sol;em> Earth&quest; Also&comma; has Lex Luthor truly had a change of heart&quest; Continue reading Justice League to find out&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 0in&semi;" align&equals;"LEFT">&lbrack;divider&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 0in&semi;" align&equals;"LEFT"><em><strong>Original Sin &num;2<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;h2>&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;05102138&sol;Original&lowbar;Sin&lowbar;2&lowbar;Cover&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-62101 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;05&sol;05102138&sol;Original&lowbar;Sin&lowbar;2&lowbar;Cover&period;jpg" alt&equals;"ORIGINAL&lowbar;SIN&lowbar;2&lowbar;cover" width&equals;"630" height&equals;"956" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 0in&semi;" align&equals;"LEFT">     This issue is largely set-up&period; Mindless ones continue to rampage and many of them seek oblivion rather than this new found sense of self&period; It seems ignorance really was bliss to them&period; The secret team put together by Nick Fury are investing all manner of strange happenings&period; They want answers to three major questions&colon; Who killed the Watcher and took his eyes&quest; Why did those responsible do it&quest; Where are they now&quest; The clues lead the Avengers to a group of villains who have one of the Watcher&&num;8217&semi;s eyes&period; After what appears to be a victory for the good guys&period; &period; &period; the final panel reveals a shocking twist&colon; one of Ghost Rider&&num;8217&semi;s villains has one of Uatu the Watcher&&num;8217&semi;s eyes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 0in&semi;" align&equals;"LEFT">     This guy is truly Z-List&colon; his name is The Orb&comma; who just happens to have a giant eyeball for a head&period; Odd&comma; to say the least&comma; yeah&quest; Where this is going&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;m not quite sure&comma; but anyone who makes obscure villains relevant is pretty cool in my book&period; I look forward to part three&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 0in&semi;" align&equals;"LEFT">&lbrack;divider&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi; margin-bottom&colon; 0in&semi;" align&equals;"LEFT"><em>So comic fans&semi; what do you guys have on your &&num;8220&semi;pull list&&num;8221&semi;&quest;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi; margin-bottom&colon; 0in&semi;" align&equals;"LEFT"><em>I&&num;8217&semi;ll talk more about mine soon&comma; so stay tuned&excl; &&num;8211&semi; &&num;8220&semi;Same bat time&semi; same bat channel&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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