Ben and Alicia’s new kid’s first Halloween didn’t go quite as planned, Thor needed a spy and went to Throg, TDODS continued with a past Stephen helping, we got a series focusing on Echo as she learned to be the Phoenix and about her past in Phoenix Song Echo, Nubia got a run that would lead up to a Wonder Woman event, the Kent farm was no more, Shazam’s series ended, Wally had to prevent many villains from obtaining a suspicious glaive, and Fear State continued.
Got this JL: Last Ride 6 variant because of the Darkseid cover, Harley TAC comic continued, Superman and the Authority ended before the plan was to happen, Diana returned to the land of the living, Shang-Chi and Iron Man had words, Kang and Doom saw things differently, Colossus was a pawn, the first Darkhold special dropped (each hero who Wanda tried to save during the Darkhold Alpha got their lives warped into a twisted horror story), Taskmaster was hunting Miles and Tiana, Jen was still Red, the Eternals got another special, Tony and his friends reunited to all confront Korvac and his cohort inside Taa II, Peter was in a coma, the last issue of Gamma Flight had the team confront Abomination, and Immortal Hulk had its final issue at 50 (it was a crazy ending! Loved it!), and we got a Ms. Marvel special which included re-printings of stories past.
Dark Ages continued to be a crazy ride, Betsy visited the vampire kingdom of Otherworld, Kulan Gath had won in Savage Avengers creating a new horrid timeline of death and destruction, Shadow King was still making his moves and some were trusting and others were suspicious, the Defenders went to the Fifth Cosmos where wild magic ruled, we got an Eternals special focusing on the Celestials, Spider-man 75 dropped starting a new run entering the Beyond arc, the Last of the Marvels arc continued as they went after Kamala, this Champions run ended at issue 10, Crush had to track Lobo down after he used her to escape, we got a DC Halloween special, Batman had an old foe return in Batman TAC, JLI gave us Diana taking a trip to another universe where some stuff happened, Peacekeeper-X was after Peacekeeper-01, and Wonder Woman got its 80th Anniversary special.
September 30, 2021 – Venom 2: Let There Be Carnage.
Alright. So, similar reasons I wasn’t 100% a fan of the first one carry on into this movie. But I kind of expected that, so that’s acceptable. It wasn’t bad. It was fun, had some laughs, was a bit more of that buddy cop vibe. It actually went by a lot faster than I thought it would.
Now, I will say that I have the same problem I had with DC’s Joker movie as with what I expected to happen with Cletus Kasady’s character. They did humanize him, and that’s not who he is. Both Joker and Carnage represent chaotic evil. There should never be any logical or rational explanation for the things they do. That’s not the point of characters like these. And they did add something to his story which was just not anything remotely close to how his character yet would be like. But eh.
I also think this movie should have been a hard R-rated horror thriller. Kasady’s character is one of the most twisted, demented, and horrifying characters in all of comics, and that’s without the Carnage symbiote. And I didn’t really see that side of him in this because it was PG-13. We get that he’s a serial killer, but the fear that one feels reading his character in the comics is emphasized by seeing what he does and reading what he says.
Also, as I said when he was cast, I don’t think Woody Harrelson was the right actor for this role. He did okay and was creepy and such, but it wasn’t how I would have expected the character to be portrayed. And the rating may have had to do with that too, but it never say right with me.
Other than those aspects of the movie, it wasn’t horrible. The story wasn’t that complicated and as I said, it went by quickly. There was also less time spent on the side characters. Not sure if that hurt or helped, but I just noticed that.
The most important part of this movie is:
Mid-credit scene: Um. YES. Holy crap, yes. This made the whole movie worth it XD. I have my theories XD
End-credit scene: No
The tournament began for Robin, we got a new Deathstroke run with Black Canary co-staring, Clark officially left in this AC issue, in the Checkmate miniseries though, he went after Leviathan after then took Lois, Logan and Solem battled, Storm ruled Arakko but she still had to prove she was worthy to the Arakkoans, Mjolnir had vanished, Miles got a new suit as his character came into its first decade of existing, Felicia had more Infinity problems as she got halfway to her goal, Extreme Carnage had its final issue, Onslaught made himself known in the Onslaught Revelation special, and Inferno had also started (things were about to change for the mutants forever), the Amazing Spider-man had its 875th issue culminating this run (that Peach Momoko variant is lovely), and got the next issue of SWI.
Photo two was taken two weeks later since Darkhold Alpha and that Robin 3 variant were late.
Movie next!
This Shazam series was almost over, Jon continued to struggle as Superman, Kara’s search continued (this story showed such a different version of Kara than we’ve seen before, it was intriguing to read), Wally and his daughter took on a new enemy, Fear State continued to overwhelm Gotham, we got a Miracle Molly special and Selina had to get Ivy home, Gamma Flight found a new Gamma mutate, the High Evolutionary came after the X-Men, Johnny was permanently Flamed On, Last Annihilation’s final issue came as Dormammu was overwhelming everyone, and we got issue one of the Death of Doctor Strange.
Late issues. I wanted this variant cover for the Suicide Squad 2021 annual because it it had a great cover that showed what the plot was. I was excited to know what was going on with the SS Superboy.
We got comics for Batman Day.
Black Canary had some issues with Deathstroke, we got a canon comic to the Harley animated series that DC made for DC Universe/HBOMax, they made a Titans miniseries that was similar to the DC Universe/HBOMax Titans series but the story wasn’t connected to it at all, the next Batman got a title, Deadman got more dead, I got two copies of that Batman: Urban Legends because LOOK AT THAT COVER, Black Widow started a new arc, Kang’s story continued, we got the final issue of Mighty Valkyries, Thanos had his eyes on the throne, WOTBH continued and got a Boushh issue, Agony got the next Extreme Carnage issue, Wakanda joined the Last Annihilation, Trial of Magneto continued and the Fantastic Four got a 60th Anniversary issue.
Three posters afterwards. Love the Inferno poster ^^
Jessica Cruz joined the Sinestro Corps, Fear State continued, we got the last issue of Infinite Frontier where Darkseid’s plans were realized and Barry was captured, the JL met an alternate universe’s JL in JLI, Excalibur needed help from Doom, the FF took on Shang-Chi and co., the penultimate issue of the Lockdown arc of Daredevil dropped, Sinister War continued, Kulan Gath killed almost everyone in Savage Avengers including a lot of the world, the Defenders met baby Galactus and his mother in the Cosmos before ours, we got the penultimate issue of this run of Champions dropped with Kamala wanting to take down Roxxon hard, Toxin got the next Extreme Carnage issue, and the WOTBH continued.
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