Tiny Titans #7

Tiny Titans #7
Created by Art Baltazar and Franco
Published by DC Comics

I didn’t think I was going to like this book. A lot of people have been telling me to read certain books that kids should like but a lot of them are pretty boring. I tried the Shazam and Franklin Richards kids books but it was too much talking. There was a lot of talking in some of the other kid books, too but a lot of people said, ‘read Tiny Titans, you’ll like Tiny Titans’ so I tried it. I didn’t like the cover so much but read the comic anyway.

It was one of my favorite comics this week. I think it’s a great idea to have a picture of all the characters on the first page with their names so I could keep track of everyone better. I laughed hard when I saw that Deathstroke was the principal. That would suck to have him as my principal.

There were a lot of things to like about this book. I like that the words were really big. It made it a lot easier to read what everyone was saying. I think that’s a good idea. There were some real funny parts, too.

I like how Psimon was playing checkers in the beginning and the big monkey kept bothering him and telling him it was his move all the time. Psimon has a real big brain and Wondergirl calls him Brainiac, which really upsets him. People seem to bug Psimon a lot and later on Wondergirl teases him about wearing a dress but he says it’s a robe.

It was really pretty funny when the Aqualad was playing with his toys and he had a toy shark bite the head off of an Aquaman action figure. I don’t know why he did that but I laughed.

The big story is that a bunch of the Tiny Titans to go to Starfire’s home planet to help her clean her room. It takes forever to get there but they all do a good job of helping her. Kid Flash is the best because he can just clean everything up really fast and get it done with.
Because it takes so long to fly to the planet the Tiny Titans are scared that they’re going to get in big trouble.

It was neat that all the real superheroes showed up and were talking about getting them grounded but they only showed their legs and not their faces or anything. Tiny Supergirl visits and the Titans tell her to spin around the Earth to make everything go backwards in time which is a great idea.

The art was more cartoony than most comic books but I still enjoyed it. I like how they drew Kid Flash and Robin the most. Things were really easy to see.

This comic was a lot better than I thought it would be and I will be reading it again.

My Rating: 9.5 out of 10

Amazing Spider-Man #570

Amazing Spider-Man #570
Written by Dan Slott and Illustrated by John Romita Jr
Published by Marvel Comics

I think Spider-Man has to be one of the best comics ever. There’s always something good in every issue. I really like this new story with Norman Osborn, Menace and the two Venoms.

I thought the fights in the book were incredible. The whole issue is pretty much a battle between Anti-Venom, Venom and Spider-Man. My favorite was the double punch where Venom and Anti-Venom both punch Spider-Man at the same time and he gets knocked across the street to another building. That was so cool. My second place one is the part where the two Venoms are just grabbing each other and smashing through the wall.

A cool surprise was that Menace was in the book again. He’s a good bad guy to have around and I thought it was different because the police chased him off instead of a superhero.

I liked how Anti-Venom teamed up with Spider-Man to battle Venom. It was a good fight. Anti-Venom is sort of a good guy and sort of bad and he used his weird powers and made his tentacles go into Venom to destroy the alien costume. And then he did that same thing to Spider-Man.

Spider-Man was pretty funny, too. My favorite Spider-Man joke was when he said that Venom needed a hug while he was holding him down. I also thought it was funny when he called the two Venoms salt and pepper.

One of my favorite parts was when Anti-Venom almost killed an old man by throwing a truck out of the way and Spider-Man zoomed in to stop the truck from crushing the old man. Whenever Spider-Man shows how strong he is it’s always great.

The art was really good again. Anti Venom looks really fantastic. I think white is a cool color for the costume with the black on his face. He’s creepier than the regular Venom. I like the drawings of Menace, too. I like how he looks on his glider and how his eyes are drawn differently. It makes him look really evil. Another good picture is when Spider-Man first attacks Venom and nails him in the stomach. It was like, ‘oooff’. There were a lot of great pictures of Spider-Man in the book. They looked good whether he was just swinging around the city or fighting the Venoms.

This book had a lot more action in it than before. The fight between Venom and Anti-Venom was awesome and Spider-Man fighting made it even better. Norman Osborn and Menace meeting is pretty interesting. I hope there is a battle between the two goblins coming up just like the two different Venoms.

My Rating: 9.5 out of 10

Marvel Apes #1

Marvel Apes #1
Written by Karl Kesel and Illustrated by Ramon Bachs
Published by Marvel Comics

I was really looking forward to this comic book. I read a story about Marvel Apes in another Spider-Man comic and thought this was going to be a great book. The idea to have monkeys and apes as superheroes and super villains is very interesting.

I saw this comic today and couldn’t wait to read it, but I was a little disappointed. Marty is a monkey guy called the Gibbon who used to fight Spider-Man but then wanted to be a good guy. He works with this doctor who wants to check him out and find out why he looks like a monkey but the machines explode and they end up in a monkey world that looks just like Erich’s city. (New York City)

There is a pretty cool fight between Spider-Monkey and Doc Ook and some other monkey heroes but it’s over pretty quick. Marty and the doctor go to see the Ape-Vengers and there are a lot more monkey type heroes and villains. A lot of it is just talking about stuff and there isn’t too much action.

At the very end I was surprised when the Ape-Vengers ripped Doc Ook’s arms out and then beat him up really bad. It turns out that the Ape-Vengers aren’t really that good after all. That was surprising.

One part I liked that was funny was that all the monkeys thought that the human who was with Martin was a monster because she looked normal.

I like the art and how all the regular heroes have money names and they look like different types of monkeys and the cover was my favorite part of the art. My brother liked Spider-Monkey’s tail. There were some people I didn’t recognize but I don’t know every superhero, either.

I didn’t like the story as much because there was too much talking about things and not enough action. There were a couple fights but there really wasn’t a lot of action with the monkey superheroes or even the bad guys. I don’t think Martin is as interesting as Spider-Monkey or Captain America. I hope next issue has more things going on.

My Rating: 6 out of 10

Batman #679

Batman #679
Written by Grant Morrison and Illustrated by Tony Daniel
Published by DC Comics

I liked this book a lot because it showed the crazy Batman that Robin keeps talking about in his comic book. Batman is so nuts now and has a new costume that is made up of a lot of different colors and it just makes him look crazier.

I like how Batmite showed up and kept talking to Batman and the statues started talking to each other and Batman. Everything is so weird now unless Batman is only thinking it and it’s not real.

I like how Batman had to cut out his tooth with a knife because he thought there was a tracking device in his tooth. At first I thought he was ripping out all his teeth but it was only one.

Batman is super tough in this book. He was beating everyone up so easily. And it was weird because he was using stuff like a pipe and a bat to do it. Usually he just punches and kicks the bad guys and uses all his training but he was really pounding on them with weapons. There were a lot of good fights between Batman and bad guys and Batman just totally kicked butt.

I like when the bad guy knew that Batman was Bruce Wayne. It’s cool how some of the bad guys know who Batman really is and it makes them more dangerous. I like how the Commissioner shows up at Bruce Wayne’s house to ask for help but the house has been taken over by the bad guys. I don’t think he knows that Bruce Wayne is Batman but he wanted someone to help him take down crazy Batman and Bruce Wayne is his friend.

I don’t think that Dr Hurt is really Batman’s father. Batman is Batman because he wants revenge because someone killed his father. He has to let someone else be Batman if his father is still alive. I think Batman is going to kick Dr Hurt’s butt real bad for lying about that. You can’t lie to Batman.

If Batman does give up being Batman I think Nightwing should take over because he’s older and cooler than the other Robins. I liked how Robin was in this book, too, looking for help. He knows something’s wrong and needs help to save Batman and their friends.

There was a lot of cool art in this comic. In the beginning when Batman broke the bat over the goon’s head was really awesome. I like how the artist draws Batman’s new costume. I like this one a little bit better. It looks creepier. My favorite picture was on the last page with Batman charging the prison with a bat and the Joker is just smiling and waiting for him.

I can’t wait to see what happens. If Batman is really crazy I think Robin is going to have to beat him up. I want to see Batman fight Joker next issue.

My Rating: 9 out of 10

Final Crisis: Rogues' Revenge #2

Rogues’ Revenge #2
Written by Geoff Johns and Illustrated by Scott Kolins
Published by DC Comics

I thought this comic book was interesting because it was all about the bad guys. I like that they had two sets of Rogues. Both were bad but one team was badder than the others. It was cool that the story was about two teams of bad guys battling it out with each other.

The old Rogues are mad because the new Rogues beat up their tailor who makes all of their awesome suits. They attack the new Rogues and pretty much beat them all up. There were a lot of awesome fights in this book.

I liked when Captain Cold used his gun and made the other one’s arm freeze and fall apart and how Trickster beat the other guy with a giant slinky. It was kinda weird how he did that but still neat. One of my favorite parts was when the two guys with fire powers started shooting each other with fire guns and flamethrowers and stuff and the one guy on the old Rogues team was able to win because his suit was made by their tailor. So his suit stays fine and the other guys’ just melts.

It was awesome how the Weather Wizard used his powers to put a tornado in the other guy’s stomach. I didn’t know he was that strong. All of the Rogues have really cool powers but the Weather Wizard is the toughest one of all because he can shoot lightening at people and make tornados and all that stuff.

They didn’t show a lot of the bad Flash but I enjoyed how he was chasing the other fast bad guy Inertia and wanted to force him to wear the Kid Flash costume so the other bad guys could practice fighting him.

The art was very good. I like how he drew Mirror Master in a lot of different places capturing the other Rogue’s guy with magic powers. I like how the artist made pictures of just Captain Cold’s eyes. He drew fire pretty good, too. When the Rogues burn down the base it looked really good. He made him look very serious with that. I also liked the picture with just the two Flashes running very fast. They aren’t in the book much but that picture looked great.

I think Libra is one of my favorite bad guys now. I thought it was cool how he had all the computers and stuff and could see what everyone was doing all over the world. He could watch all the good guys and bad guys and had a lot of evil plans to hurt the Flashes and the old Rogues.

My Rating: 9 out of 10

Marvel Adventures Superheroes #2

Marvel Adventures Superheroes featuring Spider-Man #2
Written by Paul Tobin and Illustrated by Alvin Lee
Published by Marvel Comics

This comic was a lot of fun. It was an interesting story that was kinda different from other Spider-Man comics. Spider-Man and Iron Man and the Hulk get together and have to do all this stuff for a bunch of aliens called the meteor men or the aliens are going to destroy Earth.

I thought it was funny when Hulk was just eating popcorn when Spider-Man and Iron Man were trying to make a plan. It was cool when Spider-Man had to ride that giant Rhino monster, too.

I always like when the Hulk is really strong and does things that other heroes can’t do because he’s so strong. I like how he did a lot of smashing and pushed one of the guys into the ground. The monsters were really stupid. They never did anything right and they always thought that they were stronger than the Hulk. They would try and challenge the Hulk which is pretty dumb and they’d just get beat up because of it.

I like how the aliens made the superheroes have to do a bunch of stupid tasks to make them happy. It was pretty funny when the superheroes had to sing Karaoke and Iron Man got gonged because they didn’t like him and he got all mad. And then they were doing some bungee jumping and Spider-Man didn’t want to do it so they just pushed him off the cliff.

One part that was really funny was when Iron Man fell into a room full of kittens. There were so many kittens and they were so annoying and just meowed louder and louder and it was driving Iron Man nuts and then the Hulk says, ‘Hulk would like to take a kitty home’.

The meteor monsters did a lot of bad stuff to the superheroes and kept getting them into trouble. In the end Spider-Man, Iron Man and Hulk get bothered enough and make the meteor people stop by beating them all up.

It was funny in the end when Iron Man said, ‘Floor it’ because Hulk took a bunch of Rhino eggs and they hatched and needed to get away. It was a different kind a superhero story and sillier than usual but I liked it.

My Rating: 8.5 out of 10

Top Ten Movies of the Summer of 2008

(A brief ranking, by Liam, of his top ten favorite movies of this summer. This was a fine summer movie season for a geek in training)


1. Star Wars: The Clone Wars

2. The Dark Knight

3. Iron Man

4. The Incredible Hulk

5. The Mummy 3

6. Get Smart

7. Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull

8. Don't Mess with the Zohan

9. Hancock

10. Kung Fu Panda