Moment Of The Week #3
Well, last week the clear winner of Moment of the Week was definitely Spike: After The Fall. And we all learned an important lesson. Whedon fans are both terrifying and organized. A few fan blogs linked to us and skewed the poll juuuuuusssst a bit (by 300+ votes).
I'm allowing it as a technical victory but giving honorary second place to Rogues Revenge as it had the next highest amount at seventeen. Play nice with the other comics, Whedonites!
This time our selection of moments from last weeks new issues comes from Green Lantern Corps, New Avengers, and Robin. So join me after the jump, and be warned. Spoilers lie beyond. So if you still have to pick up any of these books, don't read ahead because it'll ruin the surprise!
New Avengers #43
The fight between hero and skrull continues in the savage land, and while I won't ruin who this mysterious Captain America is, (real? fake?), one thing is for sure. That sabertooth is going to be pissed when it recovers.
Guess he's more of a dog person.
Robin #175
Sooo... Batman has been a little weird lately. And Robin has noticed this. He spends this issue trying to track down where Bruce has run off to, even enlisting the help of the above Spoiler and the Penguin to try and track him down. When Spoiler asks what he'll do if Batman DOES turn out to be crazy...
All I can say about this one is that Robin looks and sounds like a badass and something is seriously wrong with that Batsignal.
Green Lantern Corps #26
This one is a bit sad. In the fight with Mongul around the Black Mercy world, our trusty crew of Lanterns wasn't doing so well against the yellow-ringed Mongul. Enter Bzzd, insectoid Lantern and partner to the Lantern planet Mogo. Bzzd flew inside Mongul and basically unleashed a full blast, blowing out an eyeball in the process. Afterwards when they go to thank him, however...
I choked up a bit at this page... Poor Bzzd. Even dying he only cared that his teammates were safe. Earlier they had shown via Black Mercy that his greatest fear was to not make a difference. He certainly did, though. Goodbye little bug.
And now it's time to vote! Which comic will earn the completely uncoveted Moment of the Week prize!? (No cash awarded) You Decide! We'll tally the votes and award them absolutely nothing next week!
Sgt. Sausagepants
Posted to Comics on 30 July 2008
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I found the GLC moment a bit stupid to be honest. All the others got bashed together and what not and came out of the fight unharmed, yet the fly (who wasn't even the target of an attack) died?
And why exactly? Did he just propel his body through Mogul's head? Surely he could have used his ring to bore a way through. Or create a forcefield around himself so whatever it was that killed him, well... wouldn't have.
It just seemed like a big unnecesairy death just so they could have a vaguely dramatic moment.
Also, while I'm letting go off my inner complainer.
Has Robin considered trying to get his assumed crazy mentor help rather than to take him down?
Of course, I haven't been folowing Batman so I don't know if they assume he's crazy because of evidence that he might have done bad stuff.
Robin prolly has Bat-envy issues.