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Monarch Comics Briefing Vol 3 #54 - Week of July 14, 2010

Ed chats with Andy Howell. Andy is a pilot and is stationed near the abandoned Air Force base where they are filming parts of the Green Lantern movie. He sent these photos and discusses ‘visiting the set’.

Besides that they discuss:

Brightest Day
Green Arrow
Avengers
Justice League
Ed’s shoes

This podcast was brought [...]

Off the Rack: Avengers Prime #1

The dust has cleared after the end of Seige. The bad guys have been carted off. Every one gets a chance to take a breather. Thor, Iron Man and Steve Rogers take a moment to survey the devastation and wreckage. Both Iron Man and Steve Rogers offer their help and then promptly get into an [...]

Off the Rack: The Avenger #1

Secret War….Civil War….Secret Invasion….Dark Reign….Siege….

All these story lines have lead us to this point, the opening of The Heroic Age. Norman Osbourne has been taken out of the picture. It’s up to Steve Rogers (formally Captain America) to put things back together.

The Avengers #1 replaces New Avengers and Mighty Avengers in Marvels lineup and re-installs [...]

Off the Rack: Siege #4

Siege #4

This is the book we’ve been waiting for. Literally. Two weeks late, the end of the year long Dark Reign storyline has finally arrived. We know the story’s end. Osbourne will be dethroned, The Sentry dealt with, and our heroes on the winning side. But, as a wise man once said, it the [...]

Off the Rack: New Avengers #62

The interesting thing about the “linked” Avengers Siege titles (New Avengers, Dark Avengers, Mighty Avengers, etc.) is that instead of telling stories between the pages or issues of the main Siege mini-series as typical of the previous cross-overs, we are being shown what happened in the few hours right before Osbourne and H.A.M.M.E.R. attacked Asgard.

Off the Rack: Dark Avengers #14

If you haven’t been reading this storyline then, hey, your gonna be sorry.

Off the Rack: The New Avengers Annual #3

A few issues back in The New Avengers, Clint Barton aka Hawkeye now Ronin decided he had enough. He couldn’t take Norma Osbourne and his Dark Avengers masquerading as the real Avengers. He decides to hold a press conference to expose Osbourne as the Green Goblin. When no one seems to care, Ronin acts a [...]

Ticket Stubs: Hulk vs. Thor

In January of 2009, Marvel Studios released a double feature DVD.  This DVD included two movies with the Incredible Hulk as the central figure in both.  Hulk Vs. includes both Hulk vs. Thor and Hulk vs. Wolverine. I will be reviewing both, but in my initial research I found that the movies were very different.  [...]

Off the Rack: Ms. Marvel #45 (War of the Marvels)

I sat in Monarch Cards & Comics this week after having given Ed a ride to work on a raining day (saving you all from hearing about it in the podcast or Ed’s Shipping List). Ed indignantly asked, “Why aren’t you reading Ms. Marvel?” Since I had no real answer, I shuffled over to the [...]

Off the Rack: The New Avengers #57

Okay, the picture may be hard to see, but let me assure you that yes, that is Luke Cage falling backwards in pain with a heart monitor line above him.  The New Avengers team takes its punches and in this issue, takes them hard.  In issue #56, the team got pretty beat up by the [...]

Off the Rack: Dark Avengers #9

Always with the quick primer:

Ares, Zeus’ son the God of War, joined the Avengers at Tony Stark’s request when Steve Rodgers and he re-formed the Avengers after the disassembled mess. Then, after Civil Wars and Secret Invasion, Ares stayed on the team when Norman Osbourne took over  ’cause like what else was he going to [...]

Ticket Stubs: Ultimate Avengers – The Movie

This movie confused the crap out of me. Is it an Ultimates movie? Is it an Avengers movie? Who are they trying to sell this PG-13 movie to, anyway? Well, hopefully some answers will be revealed as I dissect this OVA (original video animation).