Feels like watching bad Shakespeare at times when listening to the Norse god speak in a tongue outside of his weather region. As if licking too long on the rocks at the bottom of that mug of mead, in moderation.

Not a clone! Not a robot! Not an imaginary story! The God of Thunder is officially BACK! You've waited for it, you've demanded it... and we say thee YEA!

The Odinson comes roaring to life in this highly anticipated ongoing series by red-hot superstars J. Michael Straczynski (AMAZING SPIDER-MAN) and Olivier Coipel (HOUSE OF M)! But how does a god return from Ragnarok? And what place will he find in a world torn by CIVIL WAR?

Thor #1 from Marvel Comics

Two hands on the cups with Lady Death Sacrilege from Brian Pulido and Daniel HDR. Up against the church looking to expand like those little squares in Sim City that turn nothing back over in city taxes.

Stuart Moore and Tyler Kirkham swing the arms of the four door cars and the crew with a breakout on their hands in New Avengers/Transformers. What a team up... really? War breakouts out in masses of zits on a first date.

Sounds a bit different with Fred Van Lente and Gurihiru heading four periods in school with Fantastic Four and Power Pack. Bullies? Bullies? Well, bully to you. Kids at play it seems.

Six of the unknown and shady are what comes from Mike Carey and Jock on Faker. There, not there, like listening to the other end of a phone go into a waterfall.

Tony Bedard, Paulo Sequeira and Amilton Santos and Black Canary make four. And how about that with a keyboard where the letters keep transposing themselves? Not easy. The League of Assassins are picking up on Sin, but it's not going to be all nice and knifey.

Jeph Loeb and John Cassaday finally place the lid of the coffin closed in Fallen Son: The Death of Captain America - Iron Man. Boy scout of the flag takes it away and the man pretty much responsible faces the facts with the rest of the Marvel Universe.

Hardcover collection of the week

Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter - Volume 1: Guilty Pleasures HC - vampires, werewolves, zombies and other things of the undead. Watching out for their own maggot infested backs as the rogues are on the hunted mark from Blake herself. Of course, she's not without her own cause to look over her shoulder. Try holding down a door with this collection as the encroaching forces look to eat more brains.

 

What if... and the question continues to sprawl and spread like the matter gone after an explosion. Take one point in the history of Marvel Comics and twist it a bit at the back. What happens if Steve Rogers never gets the juice from the super soldier serum?

World War II. America needs a super soldier. Only one man possesses the formula to create the perfect fighting machine from volunteer Steve Rogers.

But when a deadly bullet kills Dr. Erskine along with his bodyguard, MP Ben Parker, Steve's destiny -- and that of the Marvel Universe -- is changed forever.

Writer J. Michael Straczynski and artist Tommy Lee Edwards with a tale in five parts.

Bullet Points #1 (of 5) from Marvel Comics

Marvel's bubble boy (that whole Heroes Reborn thing) continues running amok in Franklin Richards: Happy Franksgiving. Chris Eliopoulos, Marc Sumerak and Chris Eliopoulos and H.E.R.B.I.E. are going to see who breaks first.

On the path to nowhere, looking at the era before the Empire, Star Wars: The Dark Times from Dark Horse. From a plot by Welles Hartley, Mick Harrison and Douglas Wheatley go about nineteen years before the Battle of Yavin to see what the darkness was all about.

Six on the start and Max it out with Wisdom from Marvel Comics. Paul Cornell and Trevor Hairsine take Pete Wisdom out to kill some fairies in only the way the Brits know how. Yeah? Well, uh...

Trinity Blood from TokyoPop makes an appearance on the shipping list. In a dark and distant future... them vampires are still about. Well, if you've read Fray, you'll know that's a given.

Budget crunch with Christos Gage and Doug Mahnke checking in on the Post Human Division in Stormwatch: PHD from Wildstorm. Where cheap is never enough and working out how to capture the supers without any powers of your own is part of the mandate.

Will Rosado joins Joe Casey as they return to the back matter with Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes II. A pocket eight from Marvel looking at the line-up that first featured Goliath, Wasp, Hawkeye, Black Panther and Vision.

 

Eat enough pizza and the end result is the same as gorging on any other foodstuff. The possible need for more and on the Saturday occasions, a look down in to the gully of coupon clippings.

Of course, this has nothing to do with the new ongoing from Marvel, but it was distracting enough.

It all starts here! The ONGOING, MARVEL KNIGHTS launch of the deadliest super-team around!

Hyperion, Nighthawk, Blur, Power Princess, Doctor Spectrum and the rest of the team are joined by a new group of super heroes, as only J. Michael Straczynski and Gary Frank can imagine!

As the U.S. government plots to create two teams of super-powered agents to crush enemies both domestic and foreign, Mark Milton -- a.k.a. Hyperion -- has plans of his own. Plans that could uproot the government's control over its super-powered population and force them to contend with the ever-growing threat of Mark's constant insubordination.

As that happens in the Marvel comics, Devils Due Publishing begin their roll on R.A. Salvatore's Dark Elf trilogy with Forgotten Realms: Dark Elf. Lightsaber duelists might be able to pronounce "Drizzt" without a tingling sensation.

Markosia shoot with a double barrel splat of Starship Troopers and Scatterbrain. One has no real ties to the Denise Richards film and the other has even less of a link to the alien roach-fest.

Don't forget Avatar with Lady Death: Lost Souls. One wherein Lady Death leads the forces into a battle. Which battle and which forces are not explained on this cursory look.

Like the goon that just won't stay down no matter how good the cement shoes are for swimming, Cyberforce pops up again from the hands of Top Cow. Forget what you know, you can eat frozen pizza without the alcoholic sniff to it.

On the thought of putting things in your mouth, the Angel Scriptbook from IDW Publishing should be something for the Whedon and quality radiation box fans to start licking feverishly. (Way to avoid a clich? in fangs.)

For those metal robots running around Cybertron and whatnot, Transformers: Generations from IDW reprints old issues appearing from other publishers, such as Marvel and Dreamwave. It'll be like the old, but new. Or the new, but old. Like pizza you find underneath last week's frozen tofu waffle.

 

 

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