WOW! I finally got a chance to read the conclusion to Annihilation Conquest. The art above is from issue #6. This has been a great series and the art team of Tom Raney, Scott Hanna and Frank D’Armata was just flawless. Everything shimmered, glowed and crackled. With visuals like that one seems to HEAR the sounds of the various lasers & cosmic energy bolts. What a fun read. If you haven’t been picking up Marvel’s Nova & the Annihilation minis go get ’em! And the new Guardians of the Galaxy is coming soon. Cosmic Marvel hasn’t been this good in years!
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Today is/was Free Comic Book Day. In case you didn’t know Free Comic Book Day is held every year on the first Saturday in May. A bunch of publishers give away free comicbooks to promote the industry as well as your local retailer. As usual I got mine from Evansville’s best comicshop Comics Unlimited.
I grabbed Marvel’s X-Men promo book, Top Cow’s Broken Trinity Prelude, Hellboy & Bongo’s Free-For-All. I was a little disappointed with that last one. Bongo kinda cheaped out this year shrinking the book down to an odd “almost digest” sized book. Lame. Ah well, free is free I guess.
We were able to see a matinee of Marvel’s Iron Man movie today! And yes it IS as good as they say it is! It was in a word: FANTASTIC. I have to say that not only is this by far the BEST Marvel super-hero move ever made but I would go so far as saying it is the greatest super-hero movie period! This is the new benchmark we will use from here on out. The depiction of the armor is spot on. Iron Man looks like he just flew straight out of a comicbook yet he also looks REAL. It’s breath taking. I loved seeing the original mark one gray armor playing such an integral role in the story too. Very cool. I also enjoyed how they tweaked the comic concept of the shrapnel near his heart bit. NICE. I really couldn’t ask more of an Iron Man movie. This looks like the beginning of a great series. Downey is PERFECT. Go see this movie. Don’t wait for the DVD. This gets my highest rating:
PS:
There is no way to really say this without revealing a bit of a spoiler. DO NOT lift your butt from the chair before ALL the end credits have rolled (felt like about 5 minutes!) or you WILL miss a killer cameo of Sam Jackson as Nick Fury!
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And for you spoiler junkies I will give away two other bits but you will have to highlight the text below to read it so no one accidentally gets a spoiler:
At the end of the movie (before the credits) Tony Stark has a press conference where he reveals:
“I am Iron Man”
After the credits roll Sam Jackson is waiting for Tony in his house. He turns around and introduces himself as Nick Fury Director of S.H.I.E.L.D.. He tells him that he is part of a MUCH larger universe than he realizes and he needs to talk to him about the Avenger’s Initiative!
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