A little something for everyone!

Hey there X-Maniacs, I figured I'd check in with a quick little post since I skipped yesterday. I've already finished typing up most of tomorrow's New Comic Day post, I should be getting between 13 and 14 comics depending on how much money I feel like spending. The opening paragraph is completely done, I just have to finish up th second paragraph when I get my books tomorrow. So that's what's on tap for tomorrow. As for today, I figure I'd post 4 scans featuring four Internet favorite characters. As you can see, when in doubt as to what to post, I always go back to the old standby of posting scans... You'd think with logic like that my scan blog with be flourishing, but alas, that's not the case. So anyway, here are those previously mentioned scans. Enjoy! Or don't. As for me, it's X out time, at least until tomorrow afternoon.

Daken: Dark WolverineThat Daken is a smooth one...


Nightwing and StarfireSo wait, if I'm reading this correctly, Dick could get some threesome action going here if he played his cards right?


Steve Rogers: Super-SoldierSee, even a super-soldier can have a bad day.

Avengers Prime #1

Avengers Prime #1: Writer: BENDIS! Pencils: Alan Davis(!)

Review: We open this comic up at the very end of the Siege storyline, with Thor, Capt. Rogers and Iron Man looking over the ruins of Asgard. Cap and Iron Man get into an argument as Cap puts the screws to Tony(in what was actually a kind of funny, if childish scene), before Thor gets agitated that instead of assisting him and Asgard, his two oldest comrades are more interested in acting like unruly children. Thor gets through to the two men, and once everybody calms down, Thor takes Cap and IM to the underbelly of Asgard and shows the fractured portal to the other seven realms(Asgard and Earth being the other two), telling the two heroes that something needed to be done to make sure nobody from Earth snuck into the other realms, and vice-versa. Before the heroes can come up with a course of action, the fractured portal erupts, and sucks Cap, IM and Thor in. IM finds himself alone in an empty field, and decides to tinker with his armor so he can see where he was. While tinkering a large shadow appears behind Tony... From there we head to Cap, who after realizing he was no longer on Earth due to the unusual sky, finds a village and enters what seems to be a tavern full of trolls. Cap apologizes for disturbing the trolls(because he's awesome), before telling the trolls that he was lost, and that he was an ally of Lord Thor. Upon hearing that, all of the trolls decide to attack and eat Cap, but that's a mistake, as Cap beats down dozens of weapon wielding trolls(because he's awesome!). Upon trouncing every troll around him, Cap takes a sword, some chain mail armor, a shield and some arrows and leaves the tavern to continue trying to figure out where he was. Finally, Thor arrives in the realm of Vanaheim(which rhymes with Anaheim), but finds none of its citizens. After some wandering around, Thor is blasted from behind by some strong magic, and turns around to see the Enchantress(with some minions)telling Thor that his days were now numbered, ending this issue.

What I Thought: What the hell!?! This was the BEST BENDIS written comic I've read in quite some time! None of his usual painful dialogue was included, and the dialogue that was here made perfect sense, and showed that BENDIS does seem to have some grasp of Avengers history(which is something I honestly didn't think he had)... I mean, wow! The story was great and engaging, Alan Davis's artwork was exactly what you'd expect from a comic book legend, and the dialogue was excellent(which I can't mention enough!). Iron Man's scene was good, Cap's scene was fantastic, and Thor's scene was great... I really couldn't ask for anything more. One thing though... Spider-Man, Luke Cage and Wolverine didn't show up in this comic, which goes a long way in proving my point that those three characters bring out the absolute worst in BENDIS. If this keeps up, BENDIS will revert back to Bendis, because I'll have no reason to get on his case anymore.

Score: 9 1/2 out of 10.Those poor stupid trolls never stood a chance!

Hawkeye, Not Just a Master Archer...

Along with being the greatest archer in the Marvel Universe, Clint Barton is also a master of disguise, as evident from some of these older issues of Captain America.
Above, we have the Golden Archer, who menaced Cap back in one of Cap's comics in the 1970's. My favorite thing about the Golden Archer, is the fact that he talks like Thor throughout the entire comic.

Yes Cap, the Golden Archer was in actuality Hawkeye, who somehow managed to fit his entire Hawkeye mask under his fake Golden Archer mask, which to me at least is pretty damn impressive. What exactly does Clint mean by "How's tricks?".

Next up, we have Captain America on the trail of Father Time. Notice Father Time's face, which although shrouded in shadow, was still mostly visible.

Yep Cap, Clint got you again. You'd think that after being teammates FOREVER, Cap would have been able to figure out that Father Time was Hawkeye, who once again managed to fit his entire Hawkeye mask underneath the Father Time mask... How does he do that?!?! I really got a kick out of Cap's shocked expression here. God, I really loved the old issues of Captain America... So, there you have it everybody, Clint Barton, Master of Disguise!