From the pile: Amazing Spider-man and Green lantern/flashpoint Free Comic Book Day reviews.

Last Saturday was Free Comic book day, and it was my first! My local comicbook store (which is not so local, it's about 50 miles away from my home and this was first visit to it) I was only allowed two free books so I picked FCBD Edition of The Amazing Spider-Man and Green Lantern/Flashpoint. 

FCBD The Amazing Spider-Man: The Way of the spider starts with something all spidey fans may have wanted to see, Spider-Woman (Jessica, the red with a yellow arrow pointing to her crouch one). She is being controlled by The Mandrill, and baboon with human characteristics, you know the typical; talking evil ape that’s in comics. After so quick thinking by spidey, both spiders kick mandrill’s ass, followed by spidey saying “I’M AN AVENGER” to get out of trouble, but it doesn’t work on the hot dog cart guy, no free hot dog for spidey., The whole time the battle was going on, they was being watched by the new madam web and sang-chi, who wants to train spidey due to his lack of spidey sense now, sucks at fighting.  FCBD ASM  was great; Dan Slott did a great job with this. Art wise… well I never been a fan of Ramos’s work. Marvel did this right by not making this a preview book and made an attempt to get new readers to ASM, their best book right now. Now on to FCBD Green Lantern/Flashpoint

What to say about Green Lantern/Flashpoint? Well the first word in my head is disappointment. All DC did was put out a reprint of GL secret origin #1, and a brief flashpoint preview, which was the only reason to get the book. While it did want to get the trade of GL secret origin when it comes out, this was lazy in DC’s part. I know it has just hype for the Green Lantern Movie, but they should have come up with a new one shot like Marvel did. It was the day to bring new readers into comics, while it may have done it, it could have been done better.

I had a great time at my local Free Comic Book Day. In a way, I fulfilled a promise by my mom who wanted to take me last year but due to cars problems could not go. I also found out that there a comicbook convention in the same area in July. FCBD is one of the greatest geek holydays in the year, you go to it next year if you have never been, you’ll love it!

  

From The Pile floppy edition: Amazing Spider-man Annual #38 Identity wars part 1

What if Spider-Man was a Batman rip off? Well is ASM annual #38 he is, well a spidey in a parallel universe is. Spider-Man, Deadpool, and the Hulk (insert walking into a bar joke here) all get transported to another world, where peter parker is rich, and is the amazing spider, deadpool is deathwish, and you don't see the hulk's "other".

The Amazing Spider!

So, How much of a rip of Batman The Amazing Spider is? He's rich, has a tech company, and oh HAS A CAVE WITH A BATMOBILE IN IT! The writers should have known Peter better, he should have freaked out when he sees Gwen Stacy and Uncle Ben Alive.This Book is continued in DeadPool annual #1 (next month) and concluded in Incredible Hulks annual #1(June). I have not decide if I'm getting them yet. ASM annual #38 is a trade wait. I've seen the "parallel world"dance many times and this one is not so great.

    

SuperHero trailer and previews for your geeky enjoyment.

Got some superhero previews for you beginning with the new spidey game!




Let's hope it's a good spider-man game this time.
Now here some amazing footage of the Green Lantern Movie from wondercon. I did say it looks amazing? because it does!




   

From the pile: Spider-Man Grim Hunt

   The Gauntlet has ended, now it's time for the Kraven's hunt, but why do they want to hunt your friendly neighborhood spider-man? Grim Hunt is a great story, brining out characters we have not seen for awhile. Arachane, a spider-girl I never hear of, madam web, and Kain 1 of spidey's clones. All the hunting of spiders leads up to two things, The return of Kraven the Hunter, and black suit spider-man, and ass we all know...

Black Suit Spider-man = badass

There's "deaths" in this book, I won't say who, but you know comicbooks, they are never truly dead. Also a berths, a new spider-girl, and a new possible foe.Grim Hunt is a must read for any comicbook fan.

From the pile: Siege Battlefield

Siege battlefield collects the series of one-shots that happen between siege #3 and #4. Loki, spider-man (including Ms.Marvel), Captain america (or Captain Americans),young avengers, and secret warriors are the books in this collection. There is only 2 good books in my opinion, spider-man and secret warriors.  The others I just did not like of could get into the story. Spider-man had a great story involving Venom and Ms.Marvel. Venom taking over Ms.Marvel was great, and also kinds revealing. Secret warriors was good too. It deals with Aries son, dealing with his death(you remember, The sentry turned him in to hamburger meat). His son pissed at the government and takes it out on a bunch of secret service agents while visiting the president. After kicking ass, he leaves the president a note. What about the other stories? Had no idea what has going on in Loki, got bored with Capitan America, and I never liked the young avengers. I recommend that you get the one-shots of Siege: Spider-man and Siege: Secret Warriors, and just skip Siege Battlefield.

From the Pile: The Amazing Spider-Man The Gauntlet: The Lizard.

If you have not been following the Gauntlet storyline, you've been missing of of the best spider-man story lines in recent memory. Out of all the stories of the gauntlet, this is the best. It doesn't get boring at the end like some of the other stories in the gauntlet. The Lizard story is the best spidey story in recent memory.

"Shed" is a tale of the end of Dr.Conners,(aka the lizard) dear friend of Peter Parker and spider-man. He's working for a man(who's a dick) mostly lab work. He's trying to find a way like always to get rid if the lizard in side of him once and for all. But getting push by his boss releases the lizard, and the boss becomes lizard chow.The Lizard is more lizard like the ever before. And with the meddling of the Kravinoffs, the Lizard is here to stay.I'm Not tell how it ends, but the events will be felt in many spidey books in the future

The story is great, a well written spider-man story. Zeb Wells did a great job. As I said before, this is the best story from the Gauntlet story line. Plus, the lizard origin mini story was interesting, much better than the other gauntlet origin stories that I've read. The art  was great, the new look lizard was done well, and the scene were the lizard eats the boss, looked great. I highly recommend this book to any comic book fan, even those old spidey fans who stopped reading ASM. I can't wait to get my hands on grim hunt.