Jeff Parker Has Tapped Directly Into My Brain

Remember yesterday when I suggested Jeff Parker put Hawkeye in Marvel Adventures: Avengers? Imagine my delight when I saw this beauty in the September 2007 solicits:

This is why Parker rules. Let the smartassery begin!

Shock, Horror and Dismay

 

I was surfing through the Newsarama information highway today and came across this tidbit in the September 2007 Marvel solicits:

IRREDEEMABLE ANT-MAN #12
Written by ROBERT KIRKMAN
Art by PHIL HESTER & ANDRE PARKS
Cover by PHIL HESTER
FINAL ISSUE! The story of Eric O’Grady comes to an end–or does it? Who lives, who dies, who gets double-crossed? The answers to these questions and many more in this final issue of the series everyone who read loved! So get your ‘Save Irredeemable Ant-Man’ campaigns ready. Hey, it worked for Runaways and She-Hulk. Why not Ant-Man?
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99

Fluids of sadness have filled my eyes. Why can’t I have anything nice, Marvel?

Ant-Man is a great little book. I love me some Ant-Man, but never really thought I would enjoy the adventures of Eric O’Grady: dispicable, reprehensible and perverted human being, as much as I am. Robert Kirkman, Phil Hester and Andre Parks weave a good, fun tale. I think everyone that enjoys this book should write Marvel a letter and try and save it. Hey, it worked for Spider-Girl.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

Rumors of a JLA movie are cool.

Rumors of a JLA movie not including Batman? Not cool.

Both Cinematical and Moviehole are reporting an interesting rumor regarding how a Justice League film, a topic fellow Newsarama blogger Tom Bondurant discussed earlier this month, could get off the ground, literally: Relegate the Superman Returns sequel, Man of Steel, to turnaround status, and move Brandon Routh as Superman to the JLA feature. And the rumored JLA movie won’t include Batman!

I call Weak Sauce on Warner Bros.

Newsarama for the linkage.

Sign Me Up for Skrulls

I’ve been a bit dissatisified by my DC Comics lately and dropped Countdown, Midnighter, Amazons Attack and Batman. As a whole, I think DC missed a huge opportunity with Infinite Crisis and One Year Later. I expected to see more super villain team ups as hinted leading up to the Crisis, but it never came to pass. The latest offerings from DC just left me feeling empty inside. Comics should never make me feel empty, they should always make me feel like I’m filled with awesome.

***SPOILERS! THEY ARE AHEAD! AVERT YER EYES, YE HEATHENS!***

 

I was on the outs with Marvel after the lame Civil War and subsequent death of Captain America (an all-time favorite), but got suckered back in after I leafed through a copy of New Avengers and saw that my main man Hawkeye was playing the part of Ronin. *sigh* They set the hook and set it deep. Sucker that I am, I added New Avengers, The Initiative (or whatever it’s called… Slott is crazy good and should write Spidey) and New Warriors to my pull list. I never read the original New Warriors, but the premise of this book sounds fun. I like underdogs and like it when people stick it to Tony Stark lately.

When I read New Avengers #31, the big reveal at the end with Elektra being a Skrull kinda left me with feelings of “Meh, I feel like I read this in Ultimates. But at least it has Hawkeye… er, Ronin.”

Then Jeff Parker (who is awesome and wrote the ridiculously awesome Agents of Atlas, which is one of the best comics I have read in the last decade), said Bring on the Skrulls… so that was good enough for me.

Go Hawkeye!

If you haven’t read Agents of Atlas yet, you should. Seriously, go do it now. The blog will be here when you get back.

Parker should put Hawkeye into Marvel Adventures Avengers, where Hawkeye can out-smartass everyone.

The Ideas. I am full of them.