Comic talk

Okay, I just finished the pre-annihilation mini-series and I'm very psyched about it. So I figured, might as well get my geek on and talk comics for a bit.

Why? Because this is a great time to be reading comics, Marvel in particular.

Of course, DC is also doing great with the Infinite Crisis thing last year and the weekly 52 thing this year, but DC sucks so we're talking Marvel here.

Here's what's going on with Marvel.

Civil War

The New Warriors, a reality show supergroup, got involved with in a battle with super villians who were out of their league and an explosion ended up killing hundreds of children in a school nearby. The government then proposed a bill that would force super heroes to reveal their identities to the public and become a special police for the government. When the bill became law, the hero community was split into the middle creating factions that either supported or was against the law. Thus, Civil War.

Written by Mark Millar (the Wolverine mini-series with the mind control, the Ultimates, the Ultimates 2), Civil War is basically hero vs hero. The anti-registration or rebellion consists of Captain America, Luke Cage, Daredevil, the Young Avengers, the X-men, Hawkeye and more. The pro-registration side is made up of Iron Man, the Wasp, Giant man, the Thunderbolts, the Fantastic Four and Spider-man. In what might be the biggest event in Spider-man history, Peter Parker reveals his true identity in a press conference (spilled into the pages of Amazing Spider-man written by Straczynski, author of Rising Stars).

And so, it is hero vs hero with the tagline "whose side are you on?"

Annihilation

An old FF villian called Annihilus has created a huge army and has sought out to destroy the whole universe in what's called the Annihilation Wave. In the battle, every cosmic being you've seen in Marvel Comics gets involved and the series hasn't even gone half way. We've already seen Galactus, all of his heralds, the Silver Surfer, Nova, Quasar, Thanos, Drax the Destroyer, the Beyonder, Death, the Super Skrull and more. Super beings get killed quick in this mega war of epic proportions hee, I love saying that. It is very epic though and while reading it, it really gives you a "this event is huge" feeling.

So that's the big events now at Marvel. Also to come, a series called The Eternals which is going to be written by Neil Gaiman, author of The Sandman. So that's gonna rock too.

And that's the end of my comic rant. It's like a monthly period, one has to go through it. Anything more than that, and it's more than slightly weird. Heh.

Ciao.