#lets talk comics

Star Wars #2

Thankfully, this isn't a comic book retelling of any of the movies, but a stand alone story set between Episode 4 and Episode 5. Leia, Han Solo and Luke Skywalker are attempting to shut down an Empire weapons factory, but their task is made more difficult with the arrival of Darth Vader himself.

What we get is great artwork and writing, and some awesome fight scenes between Luke and Vader, even though Luke hasn't trained with or even met Yoda yet. We also get the fantastic visual of Vader stopping an AT-AT stepping on him simply by using The Force.

I love this comic, and there's going to be Darth Vader and Princess Leia comics in the works. If they're anything like this, then we're in for a treat. 5/5

Nameless #1

Grant Morrison is writing for Image Comics now, apparently, and he's doing a damn good job of it with this book. Nameless is an expert on the occult, and uses lucid dreaming to do jobs for people, such as theft, as we see in this book. He's recruited by a shadowy organisation to stop an asteroid that's on a collision course with Earth, and the asteroid has a symbol that Nameless has seen before.

This book is really awesome. It's gritty, it's odd, it's well drawn, and it's clear that Morrison had fun writing it. Image Comics has been consistently putting out great stuff, and this is no different. 4/5

The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #2

Squirrel Girl steals an Iron Man armour so she can fly to the moon to try and stop Galactus. That sounds crazy, but it's really one of the best ways for Squirrel Girl to get herself into trouble again.

This book's a surprise, in that I personally didn't expect it to be as good as it is. This book doesn't take itself seriously, and that makes it all the better. It knows that it's over the top, and it takes that ball and runs like hell with it!

And as an added bonus, one of the emails at the back of the book was written by by local comic book store owner, Holly. That fills me with nerdy glee. 5/5

Operation S.I.N. #2

"He's a 1950's con man!"

Operation S.I.N. is awesome, simply because it's set in the 1950's and has a film noir feel to it. And it features a man wearing a jet pack fighting a bear. That in itself is worth reading the book for.

So it turns out that we're finding out a bit more about our cast of characters and the fact that there's American tech hidden under Russia. This is big news for Howard Stark (father of Tony Stark), simply because he loves technology. We also see Agent Carter show us all that he she can throw a punch better than most men. And that's awesome. 5/5

The Black Vortex #1

This is a crossover between the X-Men and the Guardians of the Galaxy, which has so much potential straight off the bat. This book's about the titular Black Vortex, a device that allows people to reach their full potential. Obviously a lot of people want it, and most of them aren't very nice people.

This follows on from Legendary Star-Lord #8, where we see Kitty Pryde join Star-Lord in his space adventures and his mission to stop his father being 100% a dick. He wants the Black Vortex so he can take over the universe, basically. And that would be bad for business.

This issue was a bit lumbering, with a few confusing panel layouts, but the story itself is solid. As with most issue one's, this was an issue that established who and what everything is. Like Spider-Verse, this story is told over various issues in different comic runs, which is something that bugs me, as I tend to lose track as which issues are the main story and which ones are tie-ins. This has promise, however, and I'm going to pick up part 2 to see what happens. 4/5