Hey, Joe: one of your writers bullied a Nexus editor into altering the content of a review he didn’t like. If you wanna apologize for THAT, we’re waiting…

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

Over the course of the past week, Marvel has released four ‘puzzle piece’ images from a spidey promo for 2010. The Nexus has gone ahead and put the pieces together to reveal… well, just scroll down. Happy New Year!

UPDATE: Marvel has released an image of the completed puzzle. The missing puzzle pieces on top reveal [...]

“Rebirth Retcons: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Blame Johns”
A couple of years ago I made a topic on the Gamefaqs.com Comics & Graphic Novels board, and in it I went a little overboard in explaining how I felt the unnecessary retcons he was using were diluting the franchise and stripping away the [...]

A finale that was hardly a finale, Daredevil gets ready to do something stupid and Clone Saga #3. That’s in this edition of I’M JUST SAYIN’ – where the #1 Rule is RESPECT THE COMICS!

Iron Fists, Armed Monkeys, Multi-armed ping pong and the 800-Number of Fate RETURNS – all here in this, the 75th edition of I’M JUST SAYIN’. C’mon in and get with this!

Of course, the rest of this miniseries may make up for this lackluster kick-off, but if you ask me, this is exactly why you don’t mess around with Marvel continuity, and this is exactly why a story like SPIDER-MAN: CLONE SAGA – with no sign of a WHAT IF…? banner, mind you! – has all the appearances of a waste of time and paper for any and everyone involved. WHAT HAPPENED IS WHAT HAPPENED, and that must be respected. Because sometimes, even with the most flawed of storylines, there are some things that were executed the right way the first time around.

Hey everybody – we’re back with another edition of I’M JUST SAYIN’, and to open, I’d like to make the following plea to Marvel Comics: either stop giving Greg Land work or make him draw.

These days one can log in any comic book discussion board and all they’d see is whining. Whining from comic book fans about each and every comic book. Granted, things are tough nowadays and the quality of our favorite entertainment medium can get very poor. But we need to stop complaining! Things could be abysmally worse. To prove my point, here are some examples of comics we wouldn’t want to see upon this world… or would we…?

Finally.

I have to say – considering the only thing that’s supposed to have changed since NO GOOD REASON came about, is that a single marriage was lifted out of history like a stain from a laundry detergent commerical – it’s interesting to me that any such explanations are even necessary. Ah well – in any case, maybe I can at least give credit to the Brain Trust where it’s due, for FINALLY presenting us with a scenario that necessitates a single Peter Parker, even if it took roughly eighteen months to do so. Because after all, what man gets so discombobulated at the sight of HIS OWN WIFE, that he then proceeds to get completely hammered and sleep with his roommate? Not only do I have the answer to that question, but I use the word “kerfuffle” for the first time in my life. Come get your click on!

What a week! Blackest Night #1, the conclusion of Spiderman’s American Son arc, Gene Colan on Cap #601, Thanos in Lockjaw and the Pet Avengers, Horror done island style in the Last Resort, Tales of the Corps, the second week of Wednesday Comics and Greek Street, which I missed when it first came out.

So once again, we summarize: DC Comics = RIGHT NOW. Marvel Comics = RIGHT NOW, founded upon WHAT CAME BEFORE, leading into WHAT COMES NEXT. That’s why there are Spider-Man fans, myself included, who continue to wait for Baby May to return. That’s why the concept of the Illuminati seemed like such an ill fit. That’s why I thought the premise behind “The Murdock Papers” was flimsy and contrived. That’s why Mr. Q has a disguise, a false driver’s license and a crossbow packed away in a nondescript post office box across the Canadian border, along with maps to the homes of Mark Millar, Brian Michael Bendis and Joe Quesada…

…oops.

Disney said it best, “Keep Moving Forward”.

Here is today’s entries in the A-Z of Awesomeness, a month-long project / challenge / bizarre act of artistic self-flagellation in which I draw a picture each day, for every letter of the alphabet, based on suggestions from You, The Internet.

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.

Another batch of capsule reviews from this week’s comics selections. Thor #602, Green Lantern #42, Last Days of Animal Man #2, Detective Comics #854. JSA #28, Invincible #63, Superman #689, Hercules #130, New Avengers #54, and Amazing Spiderman #598

Marvel’s too busy promoting their new X-Men & Teen Tony shows on Nicktoons, but don’t you dare miss their BEST series adaptation YET! You WANT some of this. You NEED some of this. It’s the Spectacular Spider-Man, and he is BACK!

Dwayne McDuffie was fired from JLA a few weeks ago in reaction to his talking about the DC editorial process on some message boards, and then getting it put up on Lying in the Gutters. He was frustrated, he was annoyed, and he was tired of DC constantly micromanaging his book to fit the needs [...]

Aris reviews his weekly pile of comics: Mighty Avengers, GOTG, War of Kings, Batman & Robin, Secret Six, Last Days of Animal Man, Lockjaw & the Pet Avengers, Action Comics, Flash Rebirth, R.E.B.E.L.S., Amazing Spidey, FF, Superman WoK, Green Lantern Corps