A Storm’s Brewing | Weekly Comics Pull List

<p>This week&comma; Wolverine&&num;8217&semi;s taking his sweet time dying for our amusement&comma; Superman&&num;8217&semi;s still angry&comma; and Original Sin finally comes to a close&period; Celebrate Thursday with a few storms from Thor and an all new Image comic&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s a busy life our comic heroes lead&period; The best you can do is give a little hand of applause&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;divider&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1><em>Death of Wolverine&colon; 1 of 4<&sol;em><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;09&sol;05074807&sol;death-of-wolverine&period;png"><img class&equals;"alignright wp-image-65983 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;09&sol;05074807&sol;death-of-wolverine&period;png" alt&equals;"death of wolverine" width&equals;"181" height&equals;"278" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Logan&&num;8217&semi;s looking for a way to fix his healing factor and he&&num;8217&semi;s suffering from radiation poisoning and years of bacterial infections he&&num;8217&semi;s gotten from pulling back into himself with his claws&period; Add this to all the trauma he puts himself though and death&&num;8217&semi;s certainly in his future&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Logan finds his way north back to Canada and a bar he remembers from his past&comma; has a drink&comma; and asks the barkeep to kindly direct all the people looking for him to an island he&&num;8217&semi;ll be waiting at&period; I don&&num;8217&semi;t know about you&comma; but if a person like Wolverine calls me out to a remote location&comma; knowing I want to hurt him&&num;8230&semi; I don&&num;8217&semi;t go&period; Sounds like a trap to me&period; A man named Nuke apparently doesn&&num;8217&semi;t think like me&period; He wants Wolverine&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He gets Wolverine&comma; but none of his posse even makes it to shore&period; Nuke manages to get to the island&comma; only to find a slew of bodies from various factions chasing Logan&period; This doesn&&num;8217&semi;t bode well&period; After Wolverine finally shows himself and head-butts Nuke into submission&comma; he let&&num;8217&semi;s him live&period; Logan is going to let him go as a warning to others&period; Logan also has questions&colon; Who wants him dead&quest; As it turns out&comma; the bounty is for Wolverine alive&period; Of all of Wolverine&&num;8217&semi;s foe&&num;8217&semi;s who might want him alive&quest; Viper&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Charles Soule&&num;8217&semi;s been tasked with writing the mini series&comma; and so far&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;m pleasantly surprised&period; He captures the very visceral nature of a feral mutant and combines it with something morose and all too human&period;  The best of its pages&&num;8217&semi; text boxes describe Logan&&num;8217&semi;s senses and what he perceives&comma; and if this is the style later issues keep up&comma; it provides a more thoughtful route of experiencing what Logan does without thought bubbles&period; I like it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Steve McNiven draws a great Wolverine as well and I&&num;8217&semi;ve been a longtime fan of his since he did the art for the Wolverine story &&num;8220&semi;<em>Old Man Logan<&sol;em>&&num;8220&semi;&period;  His art lends itself well to grit&comma; gore&comma; and action to top off this fantastically violent&comma; powerful arc&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;divider&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1><em>Original Sin &num;8&colon; The Final Judgment <&sol;em><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;09&sol;05074802&sol;original-sin-8&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"alignleft wp-image-65984 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;09&sol;05074802&sol;original-sin-8&period;jpg" alt&equals;"original sin 8" width&equals;"182" height&equals;"277" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Final Judgment<&sol;em> ends as predictably as it sounds&period; King Midas lost&comma; even died when Fury Used a weaponized Watcher eye to blow him to pieces&period; Hell&comma; he blew everything around to pieces and&comma; of course&comma; confesses to killing the Watcher just before everything explodes&period; The after math shows the Avengers once again not trusting each other due to all the secrets laid bare&period; Thor still can&&num;8217&semi;t pick up his hammer&period; The Orb&&num;8217&semi;s running around being a Watcher by proxy&comma; having escaped with one of Uatu&&num;8217&semi;s eyes and Bucky&comma; of course&comma; picked up the mantle of Nick Fury&&num;8230&semi;killing all the threats to our universe before we even know they happen&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The comic closes with Nick crawling from the wreckage cursed to sit idly by and watch for eternity&comma;  his penance for all his and the universe&&num;8217&semi;s sins&period; Overall&comma; it was a proper ending&comma; even if I find it a little predictable&period; I think I&&num;8217&semi;m a little blasé to all of this due to fatigue from an never ending onslaught &lpar;no pun intended Axis&rpar; of &&num;8220&semi;big events&comma;&&num;8221&semi; it&&num;8217&semi;s all worth a read&comma; but no doubt a slog to endure now and again&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;divider&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1><em><strong>Original Sin&colon; Thor and Loki the Tenth Realm &num;4&colon; <&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;09&sol;thor-loki-angela&period;png"><img class&equals;"alignright wp-image-65987 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;09&sol;thor-loki-angela&period;png" alt&equals;"thor loki angela" width&equals;"182" height&equals;"276" &sol;><&sol;a>We open the issue with everything just a bit status quo&period; As usual&comma; Loki revels in taunting Thor&comma; Thor seems bored with it all&comma; the two making hitting their usual beats&period; Leaving Thor all chained up Loki and Angela take off in &&num;8220&semi;planet-killer&&num;8221&semi; ships to attack Asgard&period; They then begin to whip the Thunder God good whilst mocking him and soon&comma; after enduring some taunts Thor demands to see his sister threatening to bring the palace down around them&period; His threats fall on deaf ears though&comma; because what harm could Thor possibly do while tied up and with no hammer in hand&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Loki launches his second betrayal&semi; launching the fleet of warships of Heven into the sealed off Asgard&period; They all wreck themselves upon the force field sealing Asgard off from the realms&comma; opening it for business once again&period; A classic Loki triple-cross&period; Good on you Loki&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Back in Heven&&num;8217&semi;s palace&comma; Thor asks a simple question&colon; &&num;8220&semi;Where are the clouds&quest;&&num;8221&semi; A storm unlike any seen in the Tenth Realm rolls in&period; Storms follow the Thunder God and lightning tears the palace asunder&comma; freeing the Odinson&period; Hammer in hand&comma; Thor asks again&comma; all too calmly&&num;8230&semi;about his sister&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;divider&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1><em>Wolverine &&num;8220&semi;1 Month to Die&&num;8221&semi; &num; 12&colon;<&sol;em><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;09&sol;wolverine-fist&period;png"><img class&equals;"alignleft wp-image-65989 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;09&sol;wolverine-fist&period;png" alt&equals;"wolverine fist" width&equals;"182" height&equals;"277" &sol;><&sol;a>This book certainly plays a strange part in Wolverine&&num;8217&semi;s continuity&period; Wolverine 12 has Sabretooth in two places at once&comma; much like Wolverine usually is &lpar;They joke Logan&&num;8217&semi;s super power is multi-tasking&rpar;&period; You&&num;8217&semi;d assume Wolverine 12 takes place prior to the mini-series Death of Wolverine&comma; but Marvel could&&num;8217&semi;ve fooled us&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We last left Wolverine in what could easily be his worst nightmare&period; A mall full of civilians&period; With all the visions he&&num;8217&semi;s been getting lately&comma; is it real&quest; Sure enough&comma; it is&period; Sabretooth &lpar;Victor Creed&rpar; knows how best to torment Logan out of anyone&comma; and once Logan sees to it that all the civilians are safe&comma; he rushes off after his old arch nemesis&period; Sabretooth&&num;8217&semi;s already used the orb from previous issues to create a phantom army&period; We learn the little device is a technologically created deity and grants near godlike powers to whoever it is currently obeying&period; Sabretooth should never wield that sort of power&period; After classic comic witty banter&comma; the two feral mutants fight and no less brutal&period; Logan can actually die now&comma; but in the end&comma; he bests Sabretooth again and uses the orb to reverse what little Sabretooth had already done to the world&period; The comic ends with Logan recovering from his fight and Death watching&comma; disapprovingly&period; She was hoping he&&num;8217&semi;d have killed Sabretooth herself&period; Them&&num;8217&semi;s the breaks&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;divider&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1><em>Superman Wonder Woman &&num;8220&semi;Doomed&&num;8221&semi; &num; 11&colon; <&sol;em><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;09&sol;supes-n-ww-11&period;png"><img class&equals;"alignright wp-image-65986 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;09&sol;supes-n-ww-11&period;png" alt&equals;"supes n ww 11" width&equals;"181" height&equals;"279" &sol;><&sol;a>Last time&comma; Mongul and Non escaped the Phantom Zone&period; What untold horrors will they inflict on Superman&quest; Nothing much&period; They run right back in after finding out Brainiac plans to bottle Earth up and collect it much like Kandor&period; Funny&comma; but anticlimactic&period; Superman&comma; Martian Manhunter&comma; and Cyborg are fighting an unending battle&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It seems like they just can&&num;8217&semi;t win and desperate times call for the desperate measures that must be taken&period; Diana and Clark both come up with risky plans&period; Racing to save the other from damning themselves first&comma; they both take the plunge&period; Superman sets Doomsday free and in the battle of wits Doomsday seemingly kills the Superman persona&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Meanwhile&comma; Diana battles her way across the Phantom Zone to offer Mongul a deal&colon; Warworld &lpar;which looks <strong>exactly<&sol;strong> like the second death star on panel&rpar; for his aid in stopping Brainiac&period;  The issue closes with that just the climax you imagine&colon; to be concluded in Superman <em>&&num;8220&semi;Doomed&&num;8221&semi; &num;2<&sol;em>&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;divider&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1><em>Supergirl &&num;8220&semi;Doomed&&num;8221&semi; &num; 34<&sol;em><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;09&sol;supergirl-34&period;png"><img class&equals;"alignleft wp-image-65985 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;09&sol;supergirl-34&period;png" alt&equals;"supergirl 34" width&equals;"183" height&equals;"276" &sol;><&sol;a>I include this only for the sake of checking off the event&&num;8217&semi;s completion&period; All <em>Supergirl<&sol;em> <em>&&num;8220&semi;Doomed&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em> simply shows that Supergirl&&num;8217&semi;s lost her Red Lantern ring and gotten sick from the recently kryptonite-infused atmosphere&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She&&num;8217&semi;s nursed back to health by a friend after Batman manages to remove the Kryptonite from Earth&&num;8217&semi;s atmosphere&period; Then Brainiac&&num;8217&semi;s Mothership hurts her new found friend&period; For better or worse&comma; this gives an explanation &lpar;however flimsy&rpar; as to why Kara cares to help stop Brainiac later in the conclusion&period; Pass on buying this one&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;divider&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1><em>Wayward &num;1<&sol;em><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;09&sol;wayward-covers-x-2&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"alignleft wp-image-65988 size-medium" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;09&sol;wayward-covers-x-2-300x225&period;jpg" alt&equals;"wayward covers x 2" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"225" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p> I&&num;8217&semi;m enjoying indie comics more than Marvel and DC put together lately&comma; to say the least&period; Image is really putting some quality stuff out there and they&&num;8217&semi;ve got a voice for new talent&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Jim Zub&&num;8217&semi;s just one of the many talented writers they publish&comma; an artist whom I&&num;8217&semi;ve liked since I discovered his Skullkickers comics&period; He blends humor into his work seamlessly and it never feels forced&period; When I heard he was writing Wayward I was in from the get go&period; The art by Steve Cummings is also fantastic&period; I loved issue one and highly recommend it&period; Let me tell you why&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Wayward&&num;8217&semi;s far too good to spoil&comma; and wanting avoiding that&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;ll attempt a brief recap&period; Basically&comma; our main character is half Irish and half Japanese&comma; she&&num;8217&semi;s coming to Japan for the first time&comma; to live with her mother after her parents divorce&period; She finds the country strangely familiar despite being all new while running into trouble exploring and gets saved by a monster hunting girl with an affinity for felines&period; They become fast &lpar;albeit seemingly reluctant&rpar; friends&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Wayward captures teenage angst&comma; Japanese culture&comma; and the excitement of the monster killer genre all in one book&period; Jim Zub adds natural levity to this equation to create something truly special&period; Fans of Manga will appreciate the art and style&period; Fans of Image will love it for attempting a cross genre approach and Wayward remains unique while creating feelings of familiarity to all our favorite anime&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I can say I simply loved Wayward thus far and it&&num;8217&semi;s looking to be a great first issue&comma; free of the mundane set-up and snail&&num;8217&semi;s pace of its peers&period; This had a smidgen of the required set-up&comma; but it was executed smartly and was a fun ride from start to finish&period; Pick this one up&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;divider&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Tell us&colon; What comics are or have YOU picked up lately&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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