jjreason wrote:That space lego is the balls - I have a big chunk of what you're seeing in that signature still at my parents house, my son LOVES to build those old sets when he goes over there.
I have everything except the LL928 set with the big ship. It usually goes for around $100 on ebay and I don't want to spend that much for it. I do have an ebay story which you just reminded me of. I'll tell it over in the LEGO Topic. And now onto this week's funny books...
20 issues this week. I avoided Flashpoint 1 and continue to avoid most of Fear Itself.
Amazing Spidey 660. The FF team fights the Sinister Six (or robot dupicates of them) while Doc Ock and the real team invade the Baxter Building. Man, Doc Ock is becoming a real A-Lister, taking on Tony Stark, and now Reed Richards.. You go Otto! Spider-Island also continues to percolate with glimpes of more citizens getting Spidey powers thanks to the Jackal.
New Avengers 12. The 1950s team fights the Red Skull (or an impostor) and Sabretooth beheads him. Mockingbird goes into surgery. Victoria Hand turns out to be a double agent (or does she? Hmmm...I think she might turn out to be a triple agent).
Batgirl 21. Steph fights yet another new rogue, and Wendy decides to head to Nanda Parbat to do something about her handicap.
Birds of Prey 12. The team breaks into an impenetrable building to find a secret computer that supposedly doesn't exis....ZOMG, IT'S A TRAP!!! It's Ragdoll's freaky brother/sister come to kill you all!!
Daredevil Reborn 4. Matt gets schooled by a way too intellectual 8 year old blind kid on what it means to be a hero, and shames him into going back to New York just in time for the series relaunch in July. I loved how Matt's "temporary" DD costume was a dead ringer for the look he sported in the old made for TV Hulk movie. That made me chuckle.
Formic Wars 5. The Formics have hit Earth. China is burning. Humanity is reeling. Seriously, if I didn't know how all of this ended already, I would say they were fucked.
FF 3. Hickman's opus continues. We discover Val accidentally let four otherworld Reed's onto Earth and they are preparing to destroy 616 to save the rest of the multiverse. So natch Val and Dr. Doom, as part of the new Future Foundation, cordially invite all of the FFs foes (Mad Thinker, High Evolutionary, The Wizard, etc) to a symposium on how to hypothetically defeat Reed. Refreshments will be served. This series is awesome.
Flash 12. The end of the series. Leads into Flashpoint. A whole lot of bleh.
GIJoe 1. The Cobra Civil War begins! (or rather continues from the zero issue, but you get the hyperbole). After much self debate, I bought the Baroness cover. But I intend to track down the others when they get cheaper down the road. In the first chapter, Baroness orders a team of Sniper-Vipers to do some damage to a squad of Joes. Four guys who were given codenames just to die get spacked, while Stalker, Leatherneck, and Recondo survive. And somebody(I'm totally guessing Zartan) gets into the Pit posing as Hawk and starts wreaking havoc.
Incredible Hulks 627 and 628. Hulk and Red She Hulk (aka his estranged wife Betty Banner) along with Tyrannus continue to fight over the mythical 'Pandora's Box' (which is actually an urn) in and above Rome.
Journey Into Mystery 623. The one Fear Itself tie-in I bought this week. Thankfully the tie-in is extremely marginal. And the story line of this re-directed series intrigues me. Kieron Gillen is doing something very interesting with the newly ressurected and now young Loki, god of mischief. He sincerely wants to turn over a new leaf and not fall back into the routine of villainy, but will his nature let him? And will the rest of Asgard? Everybody assumes he was and always will be who he is, and treat him as such. I'm enjoying finding out so much, I'm willing to cross my self imposed Fear Itself line.
New Mutants 25. A new direction for the series! DnA take over writing duties and give Dani's team a new objective. Tying up all the X-Men continuity's loose ends. First up, find out what happened to X-Man Nate Grey.
PunisherMAX 13. Frank is in prison, and continues to flash back to his post-war life, seeing many similarities between the two.
Red Robin 23. Tim is the new target of an Assassination Challenge.
The Stand:No Man's Land 4. Harold set's off the bomb. Fans of the Stand will know what that means. The rest of you live life in a closet of sadness.
Superman 711. Superman and Jimmy olsen fight Livewire in Las Vegas. As tedious as it sounds.
X-Men Legacy 248. In the aftermath of the Age of X story, Emma offers to mindwipe the false memories of everybody involved. But a few of the X-Men choose to retain those memories for a variety of personal reasons. Those who decided against will presumably become the basis of the new team going forward. Including Magneto, Rogue, Gambit, Frenzy, Legion, and Professor X. Great reading.
X-Men 10 and 11. Needed a couple of extra issue to round out to 20. I had been avoiding this series since its inception, but I figured to give it a chance. Neither issue really rocked me, so I feel justified in continuing to not purchase this series. Especially when it's $3.99 an issue.
