THIS WEEK IN COMICS!! WEEK 21

Well hello there! What's goin on everybody?! It is again that time for some reviewing and I have to say it, 2 big books came out this week and TANKED!! Yes I said it, a book was terrible. Well actually 2 books were but lets not get into semantics. Now let's get to it!
Finally coming from Marvel this week is Giant Size Astonishing X-Men and it was TERRIBLE! Half the issue made no sense, the art was really flaky at times and the ending was garbage. Joss Whedon really shouldn't write major character comics ever. I really have disliked his entire run of Astonishing and with this giant size, He really just hammered in that last nail of bad. First off the book took forever to come out. Didn't the series start in 2004, It is now 2008. What the hell?! It took 4 years to get 25 issues out! No,wrong, not cool! If your doing such a high profile book like that, it better be out every month on time like clockwork. Now the story was just really long and drawn out. Colossus is destined to destroy a planet.... ok cool idea, you got my attention.......
So Image released Firebreather this week and man was it AWESOME! Totally awesome. It was really well written and the art fit the story perfectly. Phil Hester is just a really awesome writer and because of how good this first issue is, I really wanna go and buy the trade of the original mini. Firebreather focuses on the teenage Duncan Roseblatt. Who just so happens to be half demon. This first issue shows how strained the relationship with his mom is and how crazy his relationship with his dad is. Oh and his dad is a 300 foot demon who wants to conquer everything. It really was just super good, super good.
and uhm..... What the hell was up with Cassaday's art work in the giant size Astonishing?! He totally hacked it out in some panels. Ugh was it just GAH!
Shooting out of DC and crashing into a wall is Final Crisis. Now I didn't have high hopes for this title because Infinite Crisis was terrible and I'm just not a big DC fan. Well Grant Morrison I have this to say to you....YOU WROTE A TERRIBLY TERRIBLE STORY! God, did it not make sense half the time and I come to find out that if you never read MORRISON's Seven Soldiers of Victory mini's you have no idea as to how Darkside is still around. Didn't Orion kill him, oh wait Orion's dead too?! Since when, he walked away at the end of Countdown....wha,what, hold on. Go read Death of the New Gods. NO! STOP IT! I am not reading an entire company's line of books to understand A story. DC will you stop with your bad attempts to get people to buy your older comics. Stop it! NOT COOL!
And lastly we have Marvel 1985 which was just PURE GOLD. Book is amazing. It's about this little kid who reads comics and totally is into it. He later finds out that the Marvel villains are somehow crossing over into his reality. That is just awesome right there because everyone wishes that superheroes and villains were real and this captures that perfectly. Mark Millar is an awesome writer and comes up with just some awesome ideas. With this comic being so awesome I really can't wait for his Old Man Logan arc in Wolverine. Oh I'm excited.