The Darkest Shades of Grey | Weekly Comics Pull List

By Nate Munson
11 years Ago

This week&&num;8217&semi;s pull list may have been delayed a week, but there were a great many books I read, including Original Sin number six&period; Though I admittedly despise such tie-ins, this time Marvel delivered&period; Here we explore just how Spawn series character, Angela, came to be in the Marvel Universe thanks to Original Sin-Thor and Loki – The Tenth Realm &num;1&period; You got me Marvel&&num;8230&semi;I&&num;8217&semi;ll bite&period;&NewLine;[divider]&NewLine;<h2 style="text-align&colon; left&semi; margin-bottom&colon; 0in&semi;" align="CENTER">Avengers Undercover &num; 7&colon;</h2>&NewLine;<a href="https&colon;//cdn&period;bagogames&period;com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/05091306/STK644042&period;jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-63454 size-medium" src="https&colon;//cdn&period;bagogames&period;com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/05091306/STK644042&period;jpg" alt="AU &num; 7" width="197" height="300" /></a>The Avengers&&num;8217&semi; plan isn&&num;8217&semi;t going so well&period; Going deep undercover often gets people killed, or in this case, almost killed&period; Chase got smoked by Deathlocket last issue for beating on her new boyfriend and as a result, he spends this issue in the infirmary&period; Even Nico&&num;8217&semi;s new super magic couldn&&num;8217&semi;t put this humpty dumpty back together again&period; We flash over to Captain America who is trying to get Maria Hill to rescue the kids trapped in Zemo&&num;8217&semi;s villain lair&period; Storming in and doing just that in a sovereign nation raises just a few legal problems for S&period;H&period;I&period;E&period;L&period;D&period; though&period;&NewLine;Maybe it&&num;8217&semi;s just as easy as waiting for the bad guys to screw up, then fire all those big guns you have aimed up on them&period; The issue ends with a look at what happened to Cammi&period; She&&num;8217&semi;s in a jail cell right across from&&num;8230&semi;Arcade&quest;&excl;&quest;&excl; By Odin&&num;8217&semi;s beard that one&&num;8217&semi;s confusing&period; Not so much, just another clever ploy by Zemo to make his underlings feel dependent on him&period; At least that&&num;8217&semi;s my theory&period;&NewLine;The issue may have felt like filler, but it boasted character development and revealed Arcade being among the living&period; Check it out if you have the extra scratch, but otherwise pass, I told you all you really need to know&period;&NewLine;[divider]&NewLine;<h2 style="margin-bottom&colon; 0in&semi;" align="LEFT">Original Sin &num;6&colon; Who Pulled the Trigger&quest;</h2>&NewLine;<a href="https&colon;//bagogames&period;com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/STK644069-600x910&period;jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-63455 size-medium" src="https&colon;//bagogames&period;com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/STK644069-600x910-197x300&period;jpg" alt="Original Sin &num;6" width="197" height="300" /></a>Nick Fury always makes the hard calls&period; He has for decades&period; The time has come, however, for the man behind the curtain to step out into the light&period; We learn that the Infinity Formula is fading and original Nick has a short time left&period; Does anyone else find it odd the &&num;8220&semi;Infinity&&num;8221&semi; Formula doesn&&num;8217&semi;t last forever&quest; We also learn that Uatu the Watcher didn&&num;8217&semi;t seem to like that Nick got himself in the middle of world ending event and meddled in it, never allowing things to simply &&num;8220&semi;take their course&period;&&num;8221&semi; There isn&&num;8217&semi;t exactly a confession in there, but people may assume that to mean that Nick Fury shot the Watcher&period;&NewLine;Aside from a deathbed confession, Nick has something else in mind&period; He wants someone to pick up where he left off, but who could be as ruthless and pragmatic as Nick Fury&quest; Frank Castle and Bucky Barnes are the most likely candidates&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m leaning towards the Winter Soldier&period;&NewLine;Meanwhile, the main Avengers team is assaulting Nick&&num;8217&semi;s control Room and they want answers&period; Nick naturally has a secret plan still in motion and he won&&num;8217&semi;t let anyone stop him&period; Armed with an army of LMD&&num;8217&semi;s and both of the Watchers eyes, he marches out to meet them&period;&NewLine;[divider]&NewLine;<h2 style="margin-bottom&colon; 0in&semi;" align="LEFT">Rat Queens 7&colon;</h2>&NewLine;<a href="https&colon;//cdn&period;bagogames&period;com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/05091024/ratqueens&lowbar;07&period;jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-63524 size-thumbnail" src="https&colon;//cdn&period;bagogames&period;com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/05091024/ratqueens&lowbar;07-150x150&period;jpg" alt="Rat Queens 7" width="150" height="150" /></a>&NewLine;I know far too many people who want exactly zero spoilers for this book&period; Suffice to say, Weibe and Upchurch amaze as always and I&&num;8217&semi;ll keep this short for the sake of it We learn more about Dee&&num;8217&semi;s past, her religious beliefs and one situation something I find all too relatable&period;&NewLine;The issue was a little light on Violet, but the focus was on Dee so I&&num;8217&semi;ll get over it&period; If you aren&&num;8217&semi;t reading Rat Queens yet&&num;8230&semi;read it&period; I recommend this book to everyone&period;&NewLine;[divider]&NewLine;<h2 style="margin-bottom&colon; 0in&semi;" align="LEFT">Original Sin-Thor and Loki – The Tenth Realm &num;1&colon; </h2>&NewLine;<a href="https&colon;//cdn&period;bagogames&period;com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/05091322/Original-Sin-5&lowbar;1-Thor-and-Loki&period;png"><img class="alignleft wp-image-63452 size-medium" src="https&colon;//cdn&period;bagogames&period;com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/05091322/Original-Sin-5&lowbar;1-Thor-and-Loki&period;png" alt="Angela O G Sin" width="193" height="300" /></a>&NewLine;Congratulations Odin, it&&num;8217&semi;s a girl&excl; That&&num;8217&semi;s right, Thor has a sister&excl; This issue aims to retcon that into the history of Asgard and the nine&&num;8230&semi;I mean ten realms&period; Thor confronts his mother, the all-mother Freyja and despite her protests, Thor demands the truth&period; The Watcher&&num;8217&semi;s eye sent him a vision about a sister he never knew, a sister Freyja saw die, in an Asgard at war with angels apparently with assassins who don&&num;8217&semi;t like to lose&period; Odin&&num;8217&semi;s daughter was killed and he was cursed to never see her again&period; The angels&&num;8217&semi; queen took the corpse with her, leaving nothing for her parents to bury, and of course, Odin has a mighty rage and the odin force he wields is not to be trifled with&period; Nay, no one screws with Odin&&num;8217&semi;s family&period;&NewLine;Odin proceeds to show those angels who&&num;8217&semi;s boss and seals up the tenth realm and tears it right off the roots of Yggdrasil the World Tree&period; That&&num;8217&semi;s right&colon; he sealed off a realm and threw it away&period; Thor knows she lives and vows to find her alive&period; He seeks out Loki and together they go questing to find the truth&period; Thor&&num;8230&semi;Will you never learn&quest; Don&&num;8217&semi;t take the trickster god to find truth&semi; it never ends well for anyone&period;&NewLine;Thor goes flying off between the realms in search of the fabled tenth realm and together the brothers find the invisible barrier locking away the realm of angels&period; How does Thor open the door&quest; You guessed it&excl; He hits it with a hammer&excl; Well, not exactly, he hits it with a Levinbolt from his hammer&period;&NewLine;The comic closes as they enter the domain of the angel queen and find it full of floating buildings and fish&period; Yeah, fish riding fish no less&period; They have saddles, and Angela was raised by angels and grew up riding fish or something&period; So far, not feeling like she fits in the Marvel Universe, but I&&num;8217&semi;m hopeful the next four issues will leave me breathless&period;&NewLine;[divider]&NewLine;<h2 style="margin-bottom&colon; 0in&semi;" align="LEFT">Superman Wonder Woman &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Doomed” &num;10&colon;</h2>&NewLine;<a href="https&colon;//cdn&period;bagogames&period;com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/05091313/SMWW10&lowbar;1&period;jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-63453 size-thumbnail" src="https&colon;//cdn&period;bagogames&period;com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/05091313/SMWW10&lowbar;1-150x150&period;jpg" alt="Supes and WW 10" width="150" height="150" /></a>Doomed may be shaping up to be something only DC can deliver&period; Several alien foes with enough power to destroy planet Earth are currently going unchecked&period; Can Superman stop them&quest; Maybe not, but Superman with the power of Doomsday is sure going to try&period;&NewLine;Meanwhile, Diana squares off with Lois Lane, currently possessed by Brainiac and Cyborg Superman has a pissing contest with Clark Kent about who should be allowed to wear the &&num;8220&semi;S&&num;8221&semi;&period; Supes knows Earth is in danger and Cyborg superman and his fleet is in the way&period; Time to let the monster out to play and hope he can control it&period; Either way, the death toll will be huge, but maybe Kal-el can curb Doomsday&&num;8217&semi;s enthusiasm&period; Next issue could be as ultra violent as we expect it to be, and that&&num;8217&semi;s just the way I like it&period;&NewLine;[divider]&NewLine;<h2 style="margin-bottom&colon; 0in&semi;" align="LEFT">Wolverine &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;2 Months to Die” &num;10&colon;</h2>&NewLine;<a href="https&colon;//cdn&period;bagogames&period;com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/05091249/Wolverine-10-cover&period;jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-63457 size-medium" src="https&colon;//cdn&period;bagogames&period;com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/05091249/Wolverine-10-cover&period;jpg" alt="2 Months to Die-cover" width="197" height="300" /></a>&NewLine;At long last, Wolverine is kill-able, but that isn&&num;8217&semi;t nearly as shocking as what happens in this issue however&period; Logan actually asks for help to stop Sabretooth this time around, and he doesn&&num;8217&semi;t just call in one favor though&colon; He calls in all the favors he has left&period; Lots of people owe him favors, but who&&num;8217&semi;s coming to the &&num;8220&semi;Lets beat up Sabretooth party&quest;&&num;8221&semi; Oh no one special&colon; just S&period;H&period;I&period;E&period;L&period;D, the X-men, a villain crew including a vampire, and a thunder god by the name of Thor&period;&NewLine;And Creed doesn&&num;8217&semi;t even know it&period; He&&num;8217&semi;s too busy torturing hostages and making them choose who he&&num;8217&semi;s gonna kill&period; I miss that about villains&period; Sounds crazy right&quest; No one should like torture or psychotic behavior, but I think evil for the sake of evil has been missing in comics&period; Sabretooth embodies that well and his lack of foresight is his downfall&period;&NewLine;I can&&num;8217&semi;t wait to see the curveball the writers throw our way as &&num;8220&semi;3&&num;8230&semi;erm&&num;8230&semi;2 months to die&&num;8221&semi; continues&period; Read this series&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s really worth the four dollars an issue&period;&NewLine;<h2 style="margin-bottom&colon; 0in&semi;" align="LEFT"></h2>&NewLine;[divider]&NewLine;Tell me something readers&period; Do prefer your heroes to be &&num;8220&semi;boy scouts&&num;8221&semi; or have a dark side and live in a morally gray area&quest; Talk about it on our forums&excl;&NewLine;

Categories: Comic Books, Geek Culture
Tags: Avengers Comics Pull List Original sin Rat Queens Superman Wolverine

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