ComicPanelsOfTheWeek: Batman's origin

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Detective Comics © DC Comics

ComicPanelsOfTheWeek: A SPIDER just bit me!!

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Amazing Spider-Man © Marvel Comics

CBR Spider-Man: With Great Power

 

I had planned to review this book for so long...

Lately, I've reviewed a bunch of alternate takes on the classic Spider-man tale.
The more reason to go back to the classic regular Spidey.

I postponed the review of this book not that long ago, for "reasons".
But let's finally have a look at this comic book for it's content and only what it is.

For more stories of AMAZING FANTASY check those out!!

Spider-Man 1602
Spider-Man Mangaverse
Spider-Man: India
Ultimate Spider-Man
Spider-Man 2099

ComicPageOfTheWeekend: Dex-Starr: Secret Origins

Here's something different for a change!
The origin story of everyone's favorite Red Lanterns~

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ComicPanelsOfTheWeek: The Million dollar debut of BATGIRL

Here's a blast from the past! That's right, it is...

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Detective Comics © DC Comics

CBR Green Arrow & Speedy: Secret Origins

 

I've been readings lots of Mike Grell's Green Arrow run lately.....and then I noticed -
I already talked about some Green Arrow origin stories (Year One and Year One again) but not of Grell's own classic (and mostly definitive) revisited origin!!
(note: the modern 2007 Year One was mostly based and expanded upon Grell's take, it doesn't retcon it but adds upon it)

So here's yet another origin story for the Emerald Archer!

Movie NEWS! BANE revealed!

Here's how Bane will look like in The Dark Knight Rises.
So?
Happy? Traumatized? Ok with the changes?
I dunno for you, but it kinda looks like he's wearing underwear over his face :P

And here's the real Bane for the ones that already missing him:

 

From 52 © DC Comics.

More pictures from the set, below!

CBR:Quickies Ambush Bug comics

Somehow, you've manage to go through Ambush Bug's first and second miniseries.
And for some reason, you didn't go insane and you're even asking for more of it?

Well, don't say I didn't warn you.
There you have it....

CBR Plastic Man/Elongated Man: Secret Origins

 

I'm a big fan of both DC stretching superheroes.
Unlike Reed Richards, they're less serious characters, and neither copy of one another.

A while back when I was checking some old Secret Origins issues from the 80s (like the previously reviewed Blue Beetle one) I found this pretty well themed comic concerning both characters.
So let's take a look, shall we?

If you're interested in more books featuring these characters, I also reviewed:
- Plastic Man: On the Lam
- Plastic Man: Rubber Bandits
- Elongated Man: Europe '92

You wanted him...You GOT him!

I did post a Booster Gold ad not long ago.

Here's what I found in an old Secret Origins issue:

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CBR Blue Beetle: Secret Origins

 

I'm a big Blue Beetle fan, in case you didn't know/guess it from my comic parodies on that other blog.
Over the years, there's been 3 very different Beetles, each perfectly representing the various eras they were invented during.
The Blue Beetles each have a quite original and quite different take unlike all the Green Lanterns or The Flashes, which if they were adapted into a feature film, for example, they'd mostly had to start from the original silver age retelling (a Green Lantern movie had to be about Hal Jordan rather than Kyle Rayner, John Stewart or Guy Gardner, or you'd have to mix the origins of the later with Hal's origin story and end up with a strange hybrid character most people would hate - the same goes for Barry Allen instead of Wally West or Bart Allen conflicted origins).

The original Blue Beetle was the perfect example of a pulp "mysteryman",  using magical artifacts and facing mystical beings.
Blue Beetle II was a more techno-hero, using gadgets, plans and even a vehicle. He relied on science and in that way wasn't very far from characters like Batman and such.
Finally the current Blue Beetle III is a modern retelling using alien technology and adventures himself in plain science-fiction.
All are different in personas and their background. It even shows pretty good in their costume/character design.

Anyway, here's a great starting point to every thing Blue Beetle, their current canon origin story in the DC comics universe.

ComicPageOfTheWeekend: Blue Beetle's classic rogue gallery

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Secret Origins #2 © DC Comics

ComicPagesOfTheWeekend: Batman Origins

Before "Year One" reimaginations, before modern "Secret Origins", before the goofy Silver Age or the gritty Bronze Age turned things either too silly or too serious...this  was the original Golden Age origin story!!

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Superman by Bob Kane © DC Comics

ComicPagesOfTheWeekend: Superman Origins

Before "Year One" reimaginations, before modern "Secret Origins", before the Silver Age or the Bronze Age turned things silly or either too serious...there was the original Golden Age origin story!!

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Superman by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster © DC Comics

CBR:Quickies Green Lantern

Today I'm gonna review a bunch of the current Green Lantern stuff since Geoff Johns resurrected the character & brand! All books since the relaunch, up until just before the Blackest Night event~
(since it wasn't all released in paperback form and it will be better to have a look at the whole Blackest night when everything will be available)

We'll check some pre-Geoff Johns book some other time!