This Could Be a Job For Mulder and Scully

Comic Book Notes #4

November 7, 2008

1.You’ve probably heard about the Secret Invasion storyline in Marvel where a race of shape-shifting aliens, the Skrulls, are infiltrating the Marvel Universe and replacing important super heroes and political figures. Yes, the one where GMA had a cameo thanks to the Pinoy artist and was revealed as a Skrull after all, which explains a lot of things. But more importantly, Spider Woman is the Skrull Queen! Even for those of you who don’t read comics you know who Spider Woman is. She had a cartoon in the 80’s. She is Jessica Drew, the one with venom blasts, the one who flies, the one with armpit webs. So she is the Skrull Queen. Secret Invasion concludes next month.

2.Jonathan Kent, Clark’s dad, is dead. He is killed in the recently concluded Brainiac storyline in Action Comics. Also in Action, the Kryptonian Bottle City of Kandor is finally free and grown back to its original size, but is now situated in Earth, so this could spell a lot of trouble with a hundred thousand powerful Kryptonians roaming around.

3.Captain America is still dead. He died in Captain American #25 last year, but replacing Steve Rogers is Bucky, his sidekick back in World War II, who is revealed to be alive.

4.This volume of The Legion of Superheroes as relaunched by Mark Waid in 2003 is finally getting cancelled come issue #50. It just couldn’t get its footing. Jim Shooter took the helm recently which initially made me all giddy (Shooter wrote those great Legion stories in the 60’s including the death of Ferro Lad when he was still 13 years old), but failed to churn out good stories. Obviously, the original Legion as being masterfully written by Geoff Johns in Legion of 3 Worlds should take over the monthly ongoing.

5.Batman R.I.P. is coming to a close. The story as written by Grant Morrison is slow-paced, bizarre, and all sorts of weird. And I don’t get it.

6.Sometimes the best person for a woman’s job is a man. Specifically, an Amazon’s job, because Wonder Woman has been deemed a failure in her mission of peace and understanding. So who shall replace the Amazons but… The Manazons!!! It all sounds stupid, but still looking forward to it.

7.Final Crisis is still… so… very… slow.

8.This is actually old news, but the Martian Manhunter is dead. He was killed by his old nemesis the Human Flame or Torch or something, under the supervision of the mysterious Libra. The Martian Manhunter, for some reason, never really had a lot of fans despite the fact that he is the only character who has ever been in every single incarnation of the Justice League ever, so I predict that he won’t get resurrected anytime soon.

9.So we all know that the spirit of God’s Vengeance is The Spectre. Apparently, there is also a spirit of God’s Mercy… Radiant!!!

10.And in the pages of the Justice Society of America, a deity-like being called Gog is walking the planet and sowing good cheers and stuff, but the JSA is not convinced. This is still part of the Kingdom Come sequel/Magog/Gog storyline that seems to be going on forever. Just kill Gog already! And fire those thirty other members of the JSA!!!

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