So, Who Would Win?: Star-Lord VS. Adam Strange

TGIF!!!!

Who's excited for Free Comic Book Day tomorrow? I know I am.


I can't wait to hit up my designated stops (only about 4 stores are doing FCD this year) and pick up some sweet, sweet SWAG in the form old back-issues and probably some new stuff, finishing up all the current issues of Gerald Way's Doom Patrol and Jeff Lemire's Moon Knight series. Those are really the only current series I bother reading or picking up when I do hit up a comic book shop these days.

I did pick up some nice SWAG already this week.
First up, on a trip to my local Wal-Mart I just happen to find this two-pack that didn't know was already available in my neck of the woods:


It's the new Ultimate Spider-Man/Ultimate Vulture 2-pack that's a Wal-mart exclusive.
I bought it mainly for the Vulture figure so that I can finally have one, since I already have waaay too many Spider-Man figures at this point. Oh well, what's one more, right Googum? ;)

Then I went ahead ordered the latest Cyclops and Colossus ML X-Men Warlock wave figures.

Sure I could wait and hopefully find them for their regular $19.99 price in the wild, or, or, I could get them now but pay almost double per figure, Yeah, impatient me, went with that last option. Hey, in my defense (as if I needed one) that new Jim Lee-style Cyclops is REALLY hard to find out there.
So yeah, took care of that problem.....

Picking up on the GoTG theme from yesterday, here's a fun match-up to think about; Peter Quill A.K.A. Star-Lord versus Adam Strange, A.K.A, you know, Adam Strange.


If you ever wondered how a fight between these two Earth-born spacemen would go, well.....I imagine, depending on the set up, it'd be a pretty good dust up actually.

Now both guys are just that; regular guys like you and me, with no special powers or abilities, just their wits and bravery.

They do sport some pretty cool space guns though, along with some pretty damn cool space gear.

Here's my made up reasoning for the fight.....

Okay, so the GoTG enter Adam's adopted home, the planet Rann, on one of their usual smuggling runs, looking for some special cosmic artifact for their employer. Adam Strange gets wind of this, and sets off to investigate, and apparently due to a mishap/miscommunication, Adam Strange, with the aid of the native fucked up weird creatures and animals, attacks the GoTG's ship, forcing them to crash. They survive, but now how to contend with said native weird creatures.

Star-Lord takes off to face the guy who seems to be behind all this, Adam Strange.

Annnnnnnd, GO!!!!


Star-Lord










VS.

 Adam Strange










Who wins and why?
  Let me know who you think is the last spaceman standing.....

Hope where ever you are, if you can, go out and go celebrate and enjoy any FCD festivities going on near you.
Have a good one people....

Random Questions That Keep Us Up At Night#808

What's up people?

Did you get a chance to enjoy last weekend's FCBD? Get any cool stuff?
I did.


First photo's of two FCBD comics I got, the Civil War 2 one and a Doctor Who one.
Bought Original Sin Annual#1, and two issues of Gail Simone's Surviving Megalopolis. It's really good so far guys.

This one's of the third and final issue of the DC mini-series Twilight, to finally complete my collection. #1 of Dark Reign: Lethal Legion, and #3 of Dark Reign: Zodiac. That Zodiac one's fucking nuts, but in the best possible way. Love it!

Finally founded two vital issues of Morrison's Multiversity epic, with Multiversity: Ultra Comics#1 and Multiversity#2. And for pure nostalgic reasons, I picked up Bloodstrike#5. Its the one where Supreme straight butchers the entire team( minus Deadlock). Not as shocking to me now as it was back then when I first read it, but still fun to see people getting fucked up in a very graphic and violent way.

This one shows off the final three issues I needed of of the Extremist Vector story line from JLE#'s 17-19.

Probably could've gotten this a little cheaper, but still, not a bad price for this first collection of Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol run.

Only paid 5$ for this used TPB of the criminally underrated Secret Six series by Gail Simone, Secret Six: Danse Macabre.

#1 of Sandman Mystery Theatre (I think I have this one already) and from Alan Moore's Swamp Thing run, Swamp Thing#52.

Speaking of Swampy, did you know Mark Millar(yes that Mark Millar) had a run writing Swamp Thing back in the day? This is the trade of the last portion of his run, and it's pretty damn good.

It's called Swamp Thing: Darker Genesis.

This one features #'s 4, 7, 10-12 of The Shade maxi-series by James Robinson. Cully Hammer's work surprisingly fits the tone of this one, even though I guess I a more darker-looking art style might've been more expected.

This one shows off me finally finding the third issue to the truly, TRULY criminally-underrated Doctor Mid-Nite mini-series by Matt Wagner and John K. Snyder III, thus completing that collection, as well as Starman#34, and Ballistic#5. (Finally found at least one issue of Ballistic Goo!)

In this one, #'s 8 and 9 of Secret Wars. I figured, why not. And the first two issues of the just relaunched( again) Moon Knight series written by Jeff Lemire. Loving the art by Greg Smallwood, especially those covers. Jesus, what a prefect fucking fit!

Here's some more FCBD comics, The Devil' Due Mix tape 2016 featuring Mike Baron's Badger, One-Punch Man, Valiant 2016, 2000AD 2016(always enjoy those every year), and the new ROM series. Don't know if you've already checked it out Shlomo, but it's not a bad start that does honor Mantlo's run.

Finally, here's #'s 3-5 (of 7) of Deathlok The Demolisher, a nice 7-issue mini-series by Charlie Huston, you know, the guy who restored Moon Knight back to glory in 2006? Yeah, he's pretty much doing the same here too, but with Deathlok.

Still looking for those new Civil War ML figures, but I did buy this ML Black Widow figure. I guess $17.99's not bad, especially considering how much this figures goes for online, especially Amazon.

And that's my swag from FCBD.

It really does sound like he's saying "I wanna' ride the pony." and with gusto no less. No judgement of course;)

Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Foot?

What's Up People?

And how was your Free Comic Book Day weekend?

Well, yours truly definitely made out like a bandit.
Check out my Swag from this weekend courtesy of not one, but two stores:

The Sandman: Overture#'s 3 and 4(already had #3:(  ) Blue Beetle: Convergence#1, Hawkman: Convergence#1

Crime Syndicate: Convergence#1, Plastic Man And the Freedom Fighters: Convergence#1, and Marvel Zombies TPB(Free w/the purchase of another trade I bought)

Avengers: X-Sanction#'s1, 2, 4, New Avengers#44

Batman#40, Twilight#'s 1 and 3

Jack of Hearts mini#'s 1-2, All-Star Superman#10, Avengers#34

(I just know somewhere out there, Shlomo's rolling his eyes so hard they're popping out of their sockets at the fact that I just now own some issues of that first Jack of Hearts mini-series;)

All-Star Superman#'s 4, 7-8, Hawkman Secret Files and Origins#1

All-Star Superman#'s 2-3, Marvel Boy#5, Secret Origins (Vol.1)#35

Marvel Boy#'s 2,6, Avengers#44, Sword of the Atom Special#1

All-Star Superman#5, John Byrne's OMAC#'s 1-3

FCBD editions of Savage Dragon, Transformers: Robots in Disguise, Fight Club, 2000AD, and Bloodshot Reborn#1

My Girl's SWAG:

Witchblade/Wolverine#1, House of M#1, Lady Mechanika#1, Jem and the Holograms#2

Ultimate Mystery mini#'s 1-4

Madame Xanadu mini#1, Avengers: Rogue Planet#1, Aria: The Uses Of Enchantment#1, 2 Tangent Universe Flash one-shots(for the price of 1)

Catwoman: Convergence#1, The Shade#3, Inhuman#1, Zombie Trap trade Vol.2

The Shade#'s1-2, The Emerald City Of Oz#1, Waterloo Sunset TPB

Free Comic Book Day editions of Divergence, Steampunk Goldilocks, Secret Wars#0, and Grimm's Fairy Tales: Wonderland

House of M: Masters of Evil#1, Skaar: King of the Savage Land#1

So yeah, overall damn good stack of reading material right?

The only regret I have is buying the Avengers: X-Sanction issues, because quite frankly they sucked. Hard.
Should've known it'd be bad since Jeph Loeb wrote it(his recent stuff stinks horribly) but gave it a try since Ed McGuinness drew it. Yeah, bad. Just bad. And basically the last issue makes the purpose of the story moot, meaning the whole thing meant absolutely nothing.

Fuck you Jeph Loeb! You Fucking Hack!
Stick to being the "story consultant" on Marvel tv/movie prjects, because you're clearly burned out as a writer these days.

Anyhoo, skit time kiddies!

The End.

Looks like Spidey did it again. Last time he mistook the Sportsmaster for Jason Voorhees. Now Alpha Flight's Sasquatch for Bigfoot? Methinks maybe that fresh air isn't as good for Spidey as he thought.

BTW, I picked up ol' Sasquatch for a mere buck two weeks ago at a local thrift store. He was in a big of misc. toys. Now that my friends, is what you call a find.