“Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man” has a new catchphrase. “No one dies,” he vows but that doesn’t mean no one gets hurt. In Amazing Spider-Man #685, he teams up with Silver Sable to stop Doctor Octopus from launching rockets that will supposedly fix the ozone (see: Spider-Man VS Al Gore). When Silver Sable blows up the factory, Spider-man chastises her but then proceeds to literally rip the Rhino a new one.

The only thing Power Girl is known for more than her large breasts is the hole in her costume that displays them. Affectionately known as the boob window, it’s been the source of many jokes over the years. To the point where Power Girl herself was forced to address it. In JSA: Classified #2, Power Girl tells Superman: People always ask me why I have this hole right here. They

Avengers VS X-Men pits the two most powerful superhero teams against each other so you’d think they would be pretty evenly matched but it’s been suspiciously one-sided. Perhaps to get fans excited for the new Avengers movie. Current record Avengers: 3 – X-Men: 0 In Avengers Vs. X-Men: Versus #1, Namor (king of the oceans) loses to the Thing (who breathes air) in the water!!! He’s defeated by being pinned

Spider-Man and the Human Torch have always had a love-hate relationship so when Johnny invites himself into Peter’s apartment, you don’t need a spider-sense to know there’s going to be trouble. FF #17 opens with Peter making mental to do lists. One list for Peter Parker. One list for Spider-Man. And one list for Peter Parker & Spider-Man, which has one item: “Kick out Johnny Storm.” Johnny’s antics causes “kick”

Ever since Bruce Banner became the Hulk, he’s struggled to control and ultimately extinguish the monster within him. Ironically, it’s the Banner who is the monster. In the latest story arc “Hulk Vs. Banner” the Hulk makes a deal with Doctor Doom to separate the pair but while Hulk finally finds peace, Banner goes mad. Banner believes that his greatness has been stolen from him. He becomes obsessed with recreating

Digital comics have been around for a while (and not just the kind found on torrent websites) but, for the most part, they’ve either been a direct translation or bastardization like motion comics… until now. “Marvel ReEvolution seamlessly brings the worlds of print and digital media together for a comics experience like no other,” touts a Marvel press release. “The first two elements of this exciting new initiative were revealed

Beast Boy made his first appearance since the DC reboot in Superboy #8 but you may not have recognized him. He was more muscular, furrier, and RED! Garfield Logan became the shape-shifting Beast Boy after he was bitten by a green monkey. It turned him green as well as all the animals he transformed into. His green skin landed him a role as alien on the television series Space Trek:

Rich Johnston’s Iron Muslim is a parody that inverts the Iron Man origin story and makes the terrorist the hero. An Iraqi named Al Stark joins Al Qaeda to avenge the death of his parents. He invents a powered suit of armor, which he uses to destroy the Statue of Liberty with people still inside of it. Iron Muslim is defeated not by the American military but by American culture.

After years of getting beat up, Doctor Octopus is dying and claims he wants to be remembered as “the man who preserved the Earth for all time.” He launches a network of lens into orbit, which first speed up global warming as a warning and then temporarily reverse global warming as an incentive. In order to make the effect permanent, he needs the assistance of world leaders. They eagerly agree.

The season finale of AMC’S The Walking Dead ended with the on-screen debut of Michonne, a sword-wielding zombie slayer who first appeared way back in issue #19 (2005). Only now is her origin being told in a six-page mini-comic for the April issue of Playboy. Spoilers The story opens with Michonne racing home from work while still dressed in a skirt and high heels. The zombie outbreak has already claimed

Everyone knows Captain America is actually Steve Rogers, a 90-pound weakling who was transformed by the Super-Soldier Serum. The real secret is that he’s a comic geek!? Not even the Watcher saw this coming. Avenging Spider-Man #5 opens with a comic within a comic, called Liberty Bonds. The one page comic was written and drawn by Steve Rogers before he became Captain America, but is eerily prophetic. It tells the

In Hack/Slash #14, the monsters get taught a lesson but it’s not by monster hunter Cassie Hack. They have to attend a mandatory seminar about sexual harassment in the workplace in the ongoing backup story Monstro City. Most of the monsters are reluctant to participate, mainly, because they have no interest in biologically incompatible partners. The exception is a succubus, who has signed multiple waivers insisting that no matter what

Artist Cliff Chiang has posted character sheets for a DC Mangaverse, more than a decade in the making. “Similar to Grant Morrison’s ideas for Super Young Team, I imagined that the DC universe had a band of Japanese superheroes inspired by their original Western counterparts,” Chiang wrote on his blog. “It’s basically a mix of DC, old school anime and kaiju.” Justice League of Japan origin: Batman and Robin –

Daredevil may be a lawyer and super hero but love is blind and so is he. In Daredevil #8 he teams up the Black Cat, who steals more than his heart. They break into a high-tech super villain HQ, where they reminisce about “good old-fashioned full-body patdowns.” Black Cat guides his hand down a shaft to disarm the defenses. Fortunately, they trip some lasers before either one of them can

If you don’t read Savage Dragon #177 the terrorists win. In this Godzilla parody, Osama Bin Laden’s body drifts into the radioactive waters of Japan. He mutates into a green giant hell bent on destroying New York (again). Unfortunately, the Savage Dragon is out of town so it’s up to his son, who uses his wikipedic knowledge to lure the monster away from the city with Whitney Houston music. Once