ESPN's Superhero vs Supervillian AllStar Matches Remake - Aquaman VS Green Lantern

n the next couple of weeks I will make a fight by fight of ESPN's matches and see if I agree with them

(ESPN placed Supes vs Bat and Luthor vs Joker for the semifinals)

Superheroes -- Justice League Block

Round 1	Super 16	Incredible 8	Fantastic 4
1. Superman 8. Thor	1. Superman
4. Green Lantern 5. Aquaman
3. Wolverine 6. Spawn
2. Spider-Man 7. Flash

Superheroes -- X-Men Block

Round 1	Super 16	Incredible 8	Fantastic 4
1. Batman 8. Robin
4. The Hulk 5. Silver Surfer
3. Wonder Woman 6. Daredevil
2. Captain America 7. Iron Man

Supervillains -- Brotherhood Block

Round 1	Super 16	Incredible 8	Fantastic 4
1. Lex Luthor 8. Punisher
4. Red Skull 5. Catwoman
3. The Riddler 6. Sabretooth
2. Dr. Octopus 7. Bizarro

Supervillains -- Injustice League Block

Round 1	Super 16	Incredible 8	Fantastic 4
1. The Joker 8. General Zod
4. The Penguin 5. Venom
3. Green Goblin 6. Two-Face
2. Dr. Doom 7. Brainiac

This means today we get to start with Aquaman VS Green Lantern

Aquaman (Arthur Joseph Curry): The King of Atlantis, King of the Seven Seas, Dweller in the Depths. Aquaman has been an icon in DC for a long time. He is one of the founders of the Justice League and rules more than half the Earth. A real king.

Green Lantern (Lots of them, 2 per space sector and some more): In brightest day in blackest night these heroes fight all that is not right. They are the space cops and their signature weapon is the single most powerfull weapon in the universe. The Green Lantern Ring.

To be honest, Aquaman has no real fight against a Green Lantern, any green lantern. I tried looking up something that could give the Ruler of the Seven Seas the upper hand but found nothing, or close to nothing.

The most excitng battle I  could imagine for these characters meant I chose Aquaman's appearance while he had a hook so that he could wield something yellow and have something of an advantage against rookies on the Corps. Even without the hook any rookie will have problems dealing with the king of the seas.

Aquaman could really use a simpson's remake for this fight, it is never to bad to be all yellow.

Not much to be said on this fight. Pick your Green Lantern (or whatever color lantern you like) and Aquaman loses. Poor guy, but sometimes the big stars don't get to shine.

No videos this time, this is an odd pair of fighters.

Comic Review: Green Lantern 52

Green Lantern v4 no.52
Writer Geof Johns
Pencils Doug Mahnke

One word. AWESOME!!!

If you wanted to see the lanterns work together, you got it. If you wanted to see Siniestro as a white lantern doing some awesome stuff, you got it. If you wanted more info and background on stuff you got it.

Since this comic was out yesterday I will not spoil you guys, I will leave that to the review of blackest nights final installment (next week)

Here is the second Cover

In this great issue you will see that a lot of stuff is going on, and as always, a good story seems to be revealing itself. As you may have guessed by the last issue of BN, the entity has to be one of the most powerful beings on the DC universe, to bad Hal did not get to be the host but there has to be a reason.

This is a must, and is probably going to be something a collector might like to get his hands on probably with a copy to archive if you like keeping comics int their graded packs.

The art is really good and you get some REALLY COOL spread pages and as in most of the BN series you get dark pages, colorful pages and now white pages. 

Totally recommended, you will definitely enjoy this one.

Preview! Blackest Night no.8 Cover

Brigthest Day is almost here, which reminded me of Fanboy Wife

Recently Fanboy Wife posted on her blog quick remark about how long the Blackest Night has been for being just a night. So obviously the following picture quickly reminded me of her feelings. (Mostly in an ironic way, since she will possibly have to hear the whole story of Brightest day from her Fanboy)

For those of you that have not heard of Fanboy Wife, it is a blog made by the Wife of Ash (a fake name for her husband) that functions as a compilation of all that our female counterparts have to go through. During the time I have followed her I have found interesting tips on how I sound when I talk about my stuff and a lot of humor of how silly our loved comic stories sound when told out loud.

Visit her blog, she updates more often than I do and you can look at how she progressively gets to know more and more about our stuff, she will eventually become one of us.

Black Lantern Green Arrow 30 Comic Review

Black Lantern Green Arrow 30
Blackest Night Tie-in
February Release
Writer J.T Krul
Pencilwork Diogenes Neves

First look and you will see something really familiar, the coverpage. This cover is one idea that has been used over and over and over again. I like it when they use artistics this way, but when they do, since it is a "classic" cover for this title I really expect it to be breathtaking. In this case it was not.

  

The story is similar to superboy's in Adventure Comics this month. Ollie as well as the other resurrected characters got themselves "possessed", "controlled" or whatever it can be called by the black lantern rings. This is Ollie's story on how he is supposed to fight the black ring and how the black ring says a lot of evil stuff to the people near him. As in Superboy's (and Wonder Woman's) comic this month, the comic starts with a back story on the character, we also see things on the real world and things from Ollie's perspective from inside.

I never really liked the Green Arrow stories myself (sorry to all of you GA fans), he is always whining about incorrect decisions and takes incorrect decisions because of it. This issue is no different, Ollie is having issues with his previous actions all the way almost to the last page. I think Green Arrow has always felt inferior to the rest of the guys. I do not think he is, but the fact that he feels it kind of makes him sometimes.

One thing I have been noticing more and more is that the old JLA members are all feeling more emotional with all this death heroes resurrected and stuff. You can read the thoughts being more personal, they all have known each other for long.

One thing I did like was the expressions made bye Black Lantern Arrow. He really looks evil.

The end did not surprise me. I would rate this one really low. I would have it join my "to be read again" library  only if the things that happen in this issue trascend (which probably would not)