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It might surprise you to find that I did not write these lyrics. They were actually penned by Travis, when we were discussing the finer points of Power Metal. I haven’t really kept in contact with him but I am sure he would approve of our interpretation of his literary masterpiece.

The writing process itself was also a series of jokes that we mixed and matched. The original idea was that in order to make the most brutal metal imaginable one must have tritones, and lots of them. So we said well why not play all of them, as fast as we possibly can. Surprisingly that sounds like a muddy pile of shit. So we stuck to just a few, but what we lacked in amount we made up for in repetition.

If you are a fan of hardcore music you may recognize some of the guitar rhythms in this song (not the actual riffs mind you, but similar rhythms) the verse, if you can call it that, is very similar to the Gorilla Biscuits classic Start Today which was more of a happy accident than inspiration and the breakdown pattern is supposed to be a super simplified version of Stick To Your Guns’ breakdown in For The Kids By The Kids, but it never really got there.

The drums were probably the most difficult part of this project, the joke was that if you wanted to make it brutal, you needed the floor tom, and what better way to make sure it gets in there than to use it in place of hi-hat, and of course double kick, we both knew that from the beginning. At the time I only had one microphone, we tried playing each drum individually and then matching them up later, a strategy that had marginal success in a previous project, but it was simply too fast and admittedly too brutal for it to feasibly done, so in the end I had to program the drums in Reason. Which has its positives and some serious negatives. Mainly the cymbal crashes that sound like absolute crap.

As for the session notes: Nik played Bass, Guitar, and the Backup Vocals, while I programmed drums, did some of the extra guitar stuff, and lead vocals. We did Nik’s Fender Jazz bass direct, and ran Mimi’s Fender Squier Stratocaster through Nik’s GK Backline 210 amp using its overdrive settings, which sounded really great on the low end of the guitar. For the extra guitar leading into the breakdown I shoved a screwdriver into the fretboard of a First Act practice guitar, which has a little amp and speaker right on the body. I then ran all the guitar and bass tracks through Native Instruments Guitar Rig, and did some minor eq and compression on the drums in Cubase 5. Everything was recorded with my one sm57 into my M-Audio Firewire 410 running Ableton Live.

If you just can’t wait to get this hot new single on your Ipod you can download it from this link Princes! Power! Dragons!

1. Hairy Toes

2. Personality

3. Butt

Alright, so I am about half way through Civil War! As usual this post contains everything between Civil War 4 and 5, and will be spoiler heavy.

So right off the bat we have Wolverine, and he is actually doing something pretty important to the Civil War storyline. It turns out Nitro, the guy who exploded, was suped up on a drug that amplifies powers to the point where they are uncontrollable. He got these from a company who deals in super hero collateral damage insurance and clean up. Because of this the company has been amassing wealth and leftover super hero gadgets and has become an international super power. So how is Wolverine gonna take this corporate super giant. With his claws! That’s right, Wolverine’s strategy is to physically attack all of the companies assets to… cost them money, I guess. He is going to do this without telling anyone what the company has done! No one knows! Why not just tell everyone what the company did? Wouldn’t that prove that registration is unnecessary and put the blame where it belongs? Couldn’t we end Civil War right now? OK well that is a lie he does tell two people (who then in turn tell no one): Cyclops and Emma Frost.

I already harped on the art of this comic a lot in my last post, but seriously lets take a look at Emma Frost for a second. What the dick! This is Emma Frost, not Claire Bennet! She is supposed to be regal, sexy, and intimidating all in one. She is supposed to be super intelligent, dangerous, manipulative, and extremely powerful. Does this picture convey any of that. I am pretty sure I went to high school with a hundred girls that looked exactly like this picture. Why is she wearing these clothes! Jeans, a white tank top, and to top it all off a purple frilly bra poking out. This doesn’t exactly look like one of the most powerful telepaths in the Marvel universe. I guess they got the white right, but what happened to her crazy dress/skinsuit hybrids. And I am sure this is the first time she has every been drawn with a bra, ever. And what is that face? What emotion is that? O wait it says right there, she is “stunned…” Oh OK that looks about right… Remember this is Emma Frost, even if she can’t read Wolverines mind (because he says so?) Does  “stunned” really fits anywhere in the character that is Emma Frost? All this said I do not think that Emma Frost is the pinnacle X-men character design, I actually think the opposite. She sums up almost everything wrong with female characters in comics.

After about a week of “fighting” the company, Wolverine winds up in their main headquarters, and straight up kills the CEO. If that was his master plan why didn’t he just do that first! Why did he need to explode some random buildings? How would this stop an evil corporation? They could just get another CEO. Luckily though it does, and they don’t. The corporation and the drug that makes super heroes more powerful are never mentioned again… ever. This has no effect on the course of the Civil War at all. It changes nothing!

Unfortunately nothing else happens at all, the rest of the comics between Civil War 4 and 5 are like episodes of a bad TV show where they end the same way they began making no impact on anything. However, I did get to read two more issues of hilarious faces from Young Avengers & Runaways:

Fortunately between the two issues I had the artist suddenly realized how to draw faces and the second issue was rather competent, if not uninteresting.

I figured that was the thick of it, Young Avengers & Runaways was by far the most difficult part to read through on my last run. But then in Heroes For Hire I ran into the single worst panel I have ever seen in any comic form. (excluding webcomics of course) Really there is nothing I can say to make this better or worse so just look, because I assure you it looks back.

In case you don’t know left to right: Luke Cage, Captain America, and Misty Knight.

So finally to Civil War 5, which also happens to be the least eventful issue so far. Basically Mr. Fantastic and the Invisible Woman decide to “live separately” and Spider-Man switches sides. Which are two pretty big events I guess, especially because Spider-Man was built up to be the poster child of the Registration Act. Before he goes though, Iron Man tries to reason with him, by beating the living shit out of him. Spider-Man narrowly escapes only to be caught between The Jester and Jack O’Lantern. Because if you remember Iron Man is now hiring Psychopathic villains to hunt down hidden super heroes. Spider-Man is saved by The Punisher who promptly murders The Jester. In the end Captain America lets both Spider-Man and The Punisher join the rebellion. This should basically take care of the whole villain thing, because if you don’t know, The Punisher has no problem killing everyone.

You may remember that this blog started off with a list of My Favorite Albums of 2009. And while I certainly can’t be expected to listen to every single album that came out that year, I am ashamed to admit that I missed 3 albums by one of the greatest artists of the past decade: m1dy!

NIN PI NIN – m1dy This is by far the best release of 2009, also being the only one not a remix album. The first two tracks Cocksucker War and Packed Your Ears With Shit are awesomely brutal and fast. The second has some truly hilariously faster that light hi-hat action that sounds more like a constant drone white noise. Unfortunately this album doesn’t have any amazingly catchy leads, and while thats totally OK with me, it is very likely to be lost in time when compared with m1dy’s much more popular albums.

Roaring The Odd Hymn – m11dy This album and the following one are actually attributed to someone named m11dy, however both covers clearly state “a.k.a. m1dy.” I have long ago learned to accept electronic musicians and their seemingly random and meaningless name changes, however you must be careful because m2dy and m1dy are very different musicians… well I guess not really that different. This album is a collection of remixes, along with 1 or 2 new songs, by various musicians in the Japanese Hardcore scene, along with some rebuilds by m1dy himself. Most notably are the Speedcore Dandy and Tokyo Style Speedcore rebuilds, where he manages to capture the awesomeness of his 2 most popular songs and reproduce them in a fun way that is still reminiscent to the originals. There are also some pretty awesome remixes in there, I was especially surprised to hear Cardopusher’s remix of Kiranger, which contained quite a few samples of top40 that hits I am forced to hear at work, and I didn’t hate it.

Megashit EP – m11dy This album is a collection of remixes, of just 1 song, which kinda sucks. Don’t get me wrong Megashit is an awesome song, but unfortunately many of the remixes on this album aren’t different enough for it not to sound all the same. I am sure anyone who knows m1dy or speedcore in general, thought that was a hilarious statement, but it is true! Really they should have just left the two remixes of Megashit already on Roaring The Odd Hymn done a more collaborative album. Still this is m1dy, and thus it is better than anything else that can penetrate your ear and worth at least a cursory listen.

Some other cool stuff that I have been listening to from 2009: A Wolf Ticket – Comadre, An Anxious Object – Mouse On The Keys, The Dead End – Abandon, Mandala – Rx Bandits, Matterhorn Bob And The Black Fair – Kokomo.

The first Saturday of May is Free Comic Book Day, A celebration of Comic Books and getting them for free, for a day. Not surprisingly this is a holiday I take very seriously, so Mimi and I went to our local Flying Colors and picked up some sweet free comics.

I planned ahead for this event, I went and checked out all the comics that were available, and decided what to get ahead of time, that way I wouldn’t make any regrettable mistakes. However, once it was my turn to pick out which ones I wanted, I panicked, my mind went blank, my vision went dark. Not wanting to embarrass myself I screamed out the first 3 comics that popped out at me. Which was probably much more embarrassing than taking my time and deciding what I actually wanted. I ended up getting the Doctor Solar/Magnus Preview, Irredeemable #1, and the Radical Preview. I had already planned on getting Irredeemable, so 1 for 3, but I have no idea why I got Radical. Surprisingly enough it wasn’t terrible, only because the previews were so short the ridiculousness of the stories didn’t really sink in. Doctor Solar was an OK choice but I probably should have gotten War of the Supermen #0 instead.

Then Mimi was up, and to my horror she turned to me and said “OK, what should I get?” I hadn’t yet recovered, I wasn’t ready, and now I was too far away to even see them with my now sickly poor vision. Luckily the Oni Press Free-For-All had huge letters, and “Oni” is very similar to “um” which I had already said at least 9 times. After that I completely blanked, Mimi was on her own, lost in a sea of undecidability, within which she chose The Stuff of Legend. And finally I managed to sputter out Green Hornet after, a repeated struggle to remember Kevin Smith’s name.

While waiting in line I also decided to grab some comics that were not free. I grabbed issue #1 of Cold Space, co-written by Samuel L. Jackson, and Captain America/Black Panther: Flags of Our Fathers, a pretty cool comic about their first meeting in World War 2.

Overall I had a lot of fun, and got some really good comics: I enjoyed Irredeemable, and of course Flags of Our Fathers was great.

April 17th was Record Store Day this year, it is one of those moving holidays that I can never keep track of, apparently the third Saturday of April. It is meant to celebrate independent record stores around the US, mostly mom and pop type deals, but I just went to Amoeba, it’s better than Rasputin’s at least. (Amoeba and Rasputin’s are still independent record stores, but they are hardly “mom and pop deals.”)

Record Store Day is kind of an excuse to go out and spend some money on music, and support your local record stores, and I am a big supporter of supporting things that I like. Plus there are all sorts of special Record Store Day releases, prize raffles, and goodie bags (which we didn’t get this year!)

So anyway on to showing off what I got:

This is the 10 year anniversary re-issue of Modest Mouse’s The Moon & Antarctica, which surprisingly I didn’t actually own until now.

It’s a Double LP on 180 gram Vinyl (which doesn’t mean anything really)

Then I also got Melt-Banana’s new initial t. 7-inch. It’s not a special record store day thing, just a cool record. I really like the cover art on this one too.

Seeing as how I am the king of cool Mimi and Nik also bought records, because when they grow up they wanna be just like me.

Mimi got The Phenomenauts’ Mission Transmission 7-inch, which has some really cool album art. It has little silver painted pieces of plastic glued on to various parts of cover…

…and on the back it is individually numbered! It is safe to say that Mimi won Record Store Day this year.

Nik got Fugazi’s 3 Songs 7-inch, which has a very good selection of 3 songs, and you should know that the actual album art is like that, not bad photography on our part.

After that we went straight to Buttersafe Expo, which was pretty fun. We ate a lot of pizza, drank a lot of soda, and got to talk to the creators of one of the best comics on the internet. I also found out Alex is a big fan of The Microphones!

And After that I went straight to class which was pretty fun also.

If for some reason this video doesn’t work, try viewing it here

This was my final project for Living In A Media World 1 and 2. The purpose was to create a 3 to 7 minute non-fiction piece, in the “podcast” format. I was in a group with only 1 other person, apposed to the recommended 4 for the project, coincidentally also named Sean. We had a total of 10 weeks between to the 2 classes for filming, capturing editing, motion graphics, and fine tuning. I am not exactly proud of this piece, but it certainly isn’t terrible either, I had a lot of fun making it, and learned a lot from the process.

For the same class I also made a terrible flash website that I will never ever use!

Okay so I am gonna do this is shorter bursts, partly so I can put a lot more detail in shorter posts, but mostly because I have significantly slowed down in my reading. This post covers everything between Civil War 3 and 4. Same deal as as last time: there will be spoilers.

The Civil War storyline got repetitive almost immediately, with every issue featuring different characters constantly arguing the same points. However, Each storyline varies so much from the other it is impossible to tell what is actually going on. Where in Ms Marvel and Amazing Spider-man captured combatants are taken care of and given proper training to become better superheros. And then we have Civil War Frontline and Young Avengers where S.H.I.E.L.D. is the ultimate evil. It goes from Iron Man overseeing the training of teenage Araña in a giant playground gymnasium to a computer determining public sentiment for ripping apart an underage cyborg. Basically some writers want to beat you over the head with how “evil” this registration is, while others show it as a benevolent improvement, all at the cost of any consistency in the story and the already inexplicable character motivation.

One thing that has managed to stay consistent through the comics is the completely emotionless arguments between characters. Iron Man and Captain America constantly argue the same points over and over again. Iron Man says that registration is good because it is the law and we have to follow the law. Captain America says it is bad because Hitler… But really the Captain America side has some good arguments about unfair laws and profiling, while the pro registration side can only say “It’s the law.” This makes the arguments seem really one sided as if Marvel has already decided who is right and who is wrong rather than providing any actual conflict between characters.

Let me tell you about a much better comic called The Boys. The Boys follows a special task force of non-powered agents who keep all the super-hero super-groups in line. The comic constantly discusses very good points that could easily be brought up in Civil War. For example:

1. Most superheroes have no formal military or police training, and thus have no real knowledge of how to deal with combat situations.

2. Super heroes have no one to answer to and thus are not really held accountable for their actions.

3. Generally superheroes do not have a concept of collateral damage

4. Very rarely will any situation be easily solved with brute force alone

These are all very important issues in a literal translation of a world involving superheroes, I think the Marvel writers aren’t really trying very hard to make a gray area. It is pretty obvious at this point that in their view Captain America is right and Iron man is wrong. (Also The Boys isn’t actually that good, but it is better than this!)

The Civil War comics themselves are actually fairly good, the most noticeable difference is the art which isn’t absolutely terrible as in a lot of the other series, but also these issues are much better at telling the story than all the tie-ins, in fact if I hadn’t made this horrible commitment I would probably just read Civil War 1-7 and be done with it. Anyway plot time!

So basically Captain America gets a distress signal that a chemical lab is burning down and he brings his whole team to go stop it. That’s right his whole underground team of superheros on the run go out in full uniform to stop a fire. Oh no! It was a trap Iron Man is there with his whole team, plus the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier for backup. Well gosh that was pretty dumb. Anyway Captain America has got Cable on his team so you know this should really be no contest, and then all the sudden Thor. That’s right Thor is on Iron Man’s team. Well, the end. End of Civil War.

That is how issue 3 ends (probably how the whole series should also.) Now I have to suffer through a gauntlet of bad just to find out how badly Thor destroys everyone. We jump right into X-men, X-factor, and Cable & Deadpool. Which were all actually not bad, except that they had almost nothing to do with Civil War. Each issue kind of mentioned it, I guess, and the characters are doing stuff in reaction to the Civil War, or at least briefly stating their feelings about it. But they don’t really effect it. (I am slowly discovering that pretty much every tie-in issue is like this.) The comics themselves are pretty unreadable because they are constantly referencing past issues, which is more of a Marvel problem overall, but really I have no idea what any of the characters are talking about until one mentions the Civil War, to which all of these characters are ultimately secondary.

Then we jump to New Avengers, and its an issue dedicated to Luke Cage, alright, hey this is actually good awesome. Holy shit! Another good comic! Right after we get Black Panther. Okay this actually isn’t that good of a comic, but how could I deny the awesomeness of a giant floating whale god!

The Wolverine comics seem to completely break every other characters motivation. Wolverine is on a quest to go kill Nitro, and every single person he meets on the way, good or bad. Wouldn’t this seem like a good example for registration? Well actually he is completely supported by Iron Man, who lets him go find Nitro alone! and kill as many people as he wants. That plus these comics look like absolute shit. I mean I understand what they are doing comparing Wolverine to a wild animal and all, but really its been way overdone, we understand. And yet here he is: a shaved gorilla.

This is worse than Liefeld

The absolute worst comics I have read in Civil War are the Young Avengers & Runaways. The majority of the comics I have read so far are just painfully boring and repetitive, these are the first ones that I actually consider bad, terrible, NICKELBACK! That’s kinda harsh, but still it was pretty difficult to read these. Young Avengers & Runaways follows two groups of super-hero teeny boppers trying to make it in a world of adult super-heroes, who are totally unfair and I will never treat my children this way! I am not saying that young super-groups are inherently bad… Teen Titans is pretty good… sometimes… and there is… Anyway reading this comic gives you the same emotions as listening to a twelve year old tell you how hard a life they have had, and if that isn’t enough you have to actually look at the art in the comic. The colors and shapes and shit aren’t that bad, it is all in the facial expressions. These characters make the most ridiculous faces. I don’t think I can accurately describe the horror of the facial expressions in this comic so I made a sweet collage

You can say that these are taken out of context except even in the comic they aren’t really in context, other than the angry faces pretty much all of these faces aren’t at all related to what is going on in the panels.

Yay! Now to Civil War 4! As promised there is an awesome rampage where Thor destroys everyone. And then shocker Thor fucking kills Goliath. Goliath is dead! He probably should have just stuck to making porn with the biggest penis known to man. Anyway the Invisible Woman protects everyone so Captain America has a chance to escape.

Goliath’s death deeply effects everyone except for everyone, and the Invisible Woman joins the anti-registration renegades. The comic ends on Iron Man’s brilliant idea to use psychotic villains to hunt down Captain America and his underground team. There goes any possibility for a two sided battle, It is now Captain America versus evil Iron Man and his army of villains.

There were a few more, but really they were not that interesting, everything was just OK, Thunderbolts was a little above average but I will never be satisfied until I see Joystick’s genitals.

I can see everything!

When I was doing the research for my favorite albums of 2009 I saw that Dinosaur Jr had put out a new album, not only that, but it was actually good! I am a huge fan of Dinosaur Jr but I had always heard to stay away from anything after Bug and I did, happily. But farm is not just good, it’s freakin amazing!

So what if I had been lied to, had Dinosaur Jr been great all along? Or was it a long awaited comeback. So I went through and listened to the whole Dinosaur Jr discography, excluding ep’s and singles and stuff. And I came up with this “interactive” chart.

If the rating system on the flash chart is too arbitrary for you, I  made another chart using complex sound algorithms and advanced mathematics

Included in the flash chart are the current members of Dinosaur Jr for each recording, which I believe to be a contributing factor to the vast changes in quality. Mainly the absence of Lou Barlow, the original and now current bassist. Barlow is a song writing genius, and very much shows it in his solo project Sebadoh. And while J Mascis is also a very strong song writer I believe that it was them working together that truly makes their albums so amazing.

It is always the Barlow song that sticks out in a Dinosaur Jr album. This may have more to do with the fact that he usually only gets one, but also his songs are usually much more emotional and often a little strange, comparatively to the rest. His songs are a great way to break up the album, enough to catch your interest and suck you right back in. I think the placement of “Your Weather” on Farm is perfect, having it right in the middle stops it from petering out like the stereotypical rock album often does.

Probably the biggest surprise to me was the album Dinosaur, the first full length they put out. It is very very different from the rest of Dinosaur Jr’s discography. Like a different band, that is also fucking amazing. It is like a folksier, punkier Dinosaur Jr. The album actually isn’t really that different musically, it is kinda like an acoustic album that isn’t acoustic, or a sort of underdeveloped caveman Dinosaur Jr. Which if you think about it is pretty badass.

Side notes:

Hand It Over had guest vocals from Kevin Shields and Bilinda Butcher of My Bloody Valentine and I still thought it sucked.

If you are interested in Dinosaur Jr along with buying their records you should read Our Band Could Be Your Life: a very personal look at the bands that shaped the American independent music scene, including a chapter on Dinosaur Jr.

Check out the music video for the song “Over It” off their new album Farm.

I wanted to read the whole thing and write a short post about it but as you can see there is too much to say, so this is part one spanning about a quarter of the series. Also beware of spoilers I am going to read the whole series. So join me as I read Marvel Civil War! A huge Marvel cross-over involving every super hero and villain they have to offer.

Basically the government gets scared and requires all the superheros to “register,” which entails them revealing their secret identities so that they can be held accountable for their mistakes and collateral damage. Some heroes are against it some are for it, the pro registration superheros hunt down and imprison the anti registration superheros. Now this must sound familiar, if it doesn’t it should because it is, it’s fucking X-men!

Anyway this whole things starts when the New Warriors decide to go fight some villains way out of their league including Nitro. Nitro is a completely fucking ridiculous villain, which really isn’t saying much since we are in the Marvel universe, his only power is to explode, then reconstitute himself from a gaseous state. Thats right he explodes! How do you fight that. Punch him till he dies? Normally he is a Captain Marvel villain, which makes sense seeing as how Captain Marvel basically tells you that you lost and you listen because he is fucking Captain Marvel. So anyway the New Warriors fight Nitro and you guessed it he explodes! Which kills a bunch of school children and it is very sad.

Click image for Nitro's response.

Spider-man crashes the entire internet!

I guess the big shocker of the chunk that I read was Spider-man revealing his secret identity (Peter Parker) to the world. Now if your first thought was “that’s pretty stupid seeing as how every villain in the Spider-man comic series is more than willing to kill his whole family to hurt him” Then you are a fairly rational person. Civil War explains this away, with “ya well… Iron Man will help… I guess” Your next thought should be “Iron Man is Iron Man and he won’t do shit”, and thus you can probably predict the whole Spider-man sub-plot for Civil War. After that a total of nothing happens. Everyone spends the rest of the time worrying about the registration act and talking about their feelings. Except for Captain America who immediately punches the shit out of pretty much everyone he sees, and starts to put together a rebel group to fight against the registration guys. So the Marvel heroes become two sides, one led by Iron Man, and most of the superheroes who are already publicly known and Captain America and a few others he manages to scrounge up, which is still happening at the point where I am in the series. It seems kind of silly that neither side really talks about the issues with each other. Don’t get me wrong there is talking, the whole fucking series is people talking about how they feel about registration, but they never talk with the other side. They just immediately start destroying each other

The Civil War comics themselves are OK, but one of the draws to Civil War is the tie ins, which admittedly was slightly exciting for me, because I had an excuse to read some comics that I never really tried before. I was especially excited to read She-Hulk, I had read that she was one of the few powerful, intelligent, non-objectified female super heroines in comics. I was slightly disappointed by her comics, certainly she was portrayed way more respectably than most women in comics, but I had hoped for a little more. However, the big difference was in other comics, that included her as a character, Civil War Frontline really emphasized her as a powerful attorney, and was more what I had expected, but then I read Civil War issue two…

Can you find the independent woman? look closer, to the right, in the butt region

Now this is really only one interpretation of She-hulk, the other comics are much more respectful, but here lies one of the major flaws with Civil War and many cross-overs in general, is that different writers are taking charge of the same characters at the same time, portraying them in different ways. Although they generally get the core of the character, differences between comics feel pretty inconsistent in characterization, tone, and sometimes even the different writing styles clash.

So that is my thoughts on the whole that I have read so far, and here are some of my thoughts on specific series within Civil War. Keep in mind that most of these I am completely new to and my issues may or may not have to do with these specific issues, series, civil war, or anything.

The Civil War Frontline series is kind of like an outsider’s perspective of what is going on, it focuses a lot on news stories and average joe’s perspective. Which is boring at best, and completely bogged down with useless uninteresting text at worse. Each issue has a long “beautiful” narrative comparing what is happening in Civil War to various past events of racism, subjugation, rebellion, etc. etc. OK look I get the metaphor, I got the metaphor the first time someone said it, and the second, and every fucking issue in this whole series! Frontline’s saving grace is the story of Speedball, the last surviving New Warrior, and how the government uses him as a scapegoat for the explosion that started everything. If it were not for this and my dedication to read every comic in Civil War I would be skipping Frontline every time.

FUCK YEAH!

On the other hand Captain America is easily the best part of Civil War, now I have a few old Captain America comics… was he always this badass? I guess his first comic cover ever was him punching Hitler in the face, I guess he got his touch back when I wasn’t looking. Captain America was only in really two civil war issues that I have read so far but in that time he managed to single handedly destroy sixteen super trained “cape killer” marines, leap out of the SHIELD helicarrier and land on a passing jet, punch through the cock pit, and surf/drive it to safety, begin work on a beautiful painting, beat the dick out of another squad of “cape killers,” and start a rebel team to fight Iron Man.

Thunderbolts is really exciting for me mostly because I had never even heard of it, its essentially a team of villains who are actually good, but are actually evil, but are doing good, but may be plotting an evil grandmaster plan. Also they may have a transvestite on their team which is always exciting.

There are other series: Amazing Spider-man, Wolverine, Fantastic Four, X-Factor… but they are all pretty uninteresting, mediocre, and kinda boring, but I am sure as I keep reading everything will pick up pace.