We mere mortals love to endlessly debate what our beloved superheroes do on the page. But, what do they have to say?

It’s a New Year, and we are ready for more of I’M JUST SAYIN’! Time to do this thing for Twenty-Ten!

When I read about this, all I could think of was “awwwww crap. I don’t want to see Iron Fist in THUNDERBOLTS – I wanna see him in HIS OWN BOOK!” And I’ll tell ya, I’d like to think I wasn’t the only one who had that reaction. Marvel had something truly special with THE IMMORTAL IRON FIST, and as much as I realize that newer monthlies have a much shorter shelf life these days, it doesn’t seem worth it to me that, from the looks of things, Marvel seems willing to let this one go on the gamble that at least SOME readers will follow Danny Rand over to a comic that has, by and large, been rendered redundant by DARK AVENGERS. Sigh, and sigh AGAIN.

Mark Waid – the guy most closely associated with adding such layer and nuance to Wally West and the Rogues over in THE FLASH, the guy who gave us our last “definitive” run on THE FANTASTIC FOUR, the guy who wrote the kick-ass JLA story “Tower of Babel,” where Ra’s al Ghul stole protocols for taking down the Justice League from Batman’s computer, the guy turned CAPTAIN AMERICA into a political thriller a good ten years before Ed Brubaker…writing a Spider-Man story with a blatantly recycled premise. Why does that sound so WRONG?

There’s plenty of news from the New York Comic Con – that NEWSARAMA.com has happily compiled right here – and I gotta say, I’m a little disappointed that fans are not keeping Marvel’s feet to the fire with regards to THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN* and this period that should go down in comic book history as The Great Atrocity. My plan is to be at the conventions in both Chicago and Baltimore later this year folks, and I swear on my sainted grandmothers, I will be there with a sign if I must. Oh yes, I plan on getting thrown out of some places in 2009!

“New Nation” is right, as this month my Power Reviews are growing by leaps and bounds as the universe explodes!
New Avengers #47
Written by Brian Bendis
Pencils by Billy Tan and Michael Gaydos
If there is one thing that Brian Bendis does better then almost anybody in the business, it’s character pieces. Few people can tell a great [...]

Did you all have a good Thanksgiving? Directed to my American readers, of course, to the rest of you….did you have a good week? I know I did, stuffed my face, hung out with family, had one of my best friends come in town for the weekend. It was quite nice, and very needed. Almost [...]

Neither Micheline nor anybody else could have ended Tony Stark’s story any better than this. What we have here, is a textbook example of examining where a character has been, and giving him a picture-perfect sendoff. Ever since he built the Iron Man armor, Tony Stark has been about control. He wrested control over his fate from Fate itself in that war camp, and has sought to keep that sense of control over all aspects of his life, and those things he saw as right. IRON MAN: THE END was about Tony finally realizing that, eventually, it’s alright to let go. Plus, it was nice to see Bethany Cabe again. Seemed like she was the only one who could keep up with ol’ Tony.

I have never seen the point of re-numbering a comic book, so I’m glad that Thor is getting the milestone treatment. He’s been a huge part of Marvel Comics since the beginning, and his book is enjoying a renaissance of Jurgensian, dare I say Simonsonian levels right now. Now all I need is for THOR: MAN OF WAR to finally hit the shelves and my life would be complete…

Much like with THE INCREDIBLE HULK, I think the best bet for DAREDEVIL is to start fresh…the ideas I’m going to lay down here require a start over, as I believe that the attempt to cram so much into the 2003 film has rendered it incapable of bearing solid sequels…We’re going to space this one movie into three…and I will also be suggesting which comic book stories each film should use as a foundation.

Okay – let’s do this.

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In this Twenty-Fifth installment, I’M JUST SAYIN’ reverts back to #1 with a gold foil cover. No wait, that’s the plan for #50. My bad. In this edition, I actually want to hear back from you guys. But first, some column-tastic goodness for your waiting eye…

A celebration of Mutant Kitsch in Uncanny X-Men #500, the new Sinister, Swierczynski’s Mortal Iron Fist, a second chance for the New Warriors, Christos Gage’s Thunderbolts, Wolverine leading Alpha Flight, the usual Secret Invasion fillers, Ultimate X-Junkies, Hulk dog-sitting Cerberus… You BET we have a lot to cover!

Spidey sings the DD theme song, Ghost Rider takes to the Good Book, Archangel is feeling blue, MODOK makes a splash, Longshot gets lucky, Hercules as well, Sue with Namor even more so, Captain America becomes a Queen… and the Avengers challenge Galactus to a Texas Hold’Em tournament!

Captain Britain returns, Starhawk joins the guardians of the Galaxy reunion, Cyclops is revealed for the hack he is, Captain America reveals his origin (twice in the same week), Kraven gets a boob (and bleach) -job, Claremont hits tilt, Stark goes Skrully — and yet it all pales before the awesomeness of… MARVEL MUMMIES!!
Note: LYS@D will be delayed by a day this week.

I’ll say it before, and I’ll say it again: Marvel and Spider-Man in particular work best when characters MOVE FORWARD. That was what separated their comics from DC at the time, and that’s when any Marvel comic works best. If you want to grab the interest of the “youth market”? Take a friggin’ chance and create a new one

Bumper car wars, ancient Greek underage gay sex, blasphemy, drugs, gamma-irradiated cross-breeders… and Arnim Zola! Something for every perverted taste?
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #563
(Bob Gale / Mike McKone / Marlo Alquiza)
Hey, it does what it says on the cover! Spidey versus the Enforcers (perhaps his unintentionally lamest villains) in a bump-car ride in Coney Island…
All that plus [...]

Hello all and welcome to another edition of the Handbook. I‘m Jim Trabold. We have one large email to cover this week. We call it Cory mail.

It’s a week of odd pairings! Spider-Woman hits on Iron-Man (though one or both might be Skrulls- hmm), Bruce Banner hits on Marvel Girl, Rockslide hits on his teacher, the Enchantress seduces teen Spider-Man, She-Hulk picks on Red Hulk, Red Hulk picks on some deer, the Thing picks his nose and just what does G stand for in the new MODOG?

Hey all. Welcome to another edition of the Marvel Handbook. I‘m Jim Trabold of course. With my partner and bud Daron.