Mighty Marvel Monday for July 9th 2012

Hello true believers, its time again for Marvel Mondays! Where the BOOM Page Comics Book emporium goes over some great Marvel news and goodies in the world and on the web.

The Amazing Spider-Man hits $62 Million Dollars opening weekend! The midnight premiere brought in $7.3 million dollars alone! Its total for the first week, $137million dollars, that's a whole lot of Thwipps!
This opening is bigger than The Dark Knight, Superman Returns and the revamped Hulk. But is anyone really surprised, Spidey is by far one of the most popular super heroes in the industry and a more family friendly Spider-Man probably had a whole lot more younger viewers than the scratchy throat of the Dark Knight.

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Avengers vs. X-Men Round 6 - This $@!* just got real!


Did you read AvX Round 6 that came out last week?! The X-Men have taken control of the Phoenix power, after Hope Summers rejected it when it came to her on the moon, five of the X-Men were given the power instead. Cyclops, Emma Frost, Namor, Magik and Colossus also known now as The Phoenix Five. 


So did they bring mass chaos and destroy the world as Captain America and the rest of The Avengers predicted? No, in fact they are working towards ending world hunger, thirst, and attempting to make world peace. Oddly this doesn't sit well with The Avengers. You would think a group of heroes who are constantly fighting to save the planet would welcome other heroes to step in and help save the world. The Avengers and even the President of The United States feel that the X-Men are a danger and far too powerful to continue on in this manner.

New Avengers #27 Review - Two Iron Fists Up!

New Avengers #27 hit the stands today, written by Brian Michael Bendis, art by Mike Deodato and coloring by Rain Beredo, it ties into the Avengers Vs. X-Men story currently running through the Marvel Universe. The last several issues have been how the history of The Iron Fist and the city of Kun Lun tie to the Phoenix force. 


The New Avengers is one of my favorite comics on the market today and when this story started I fully admit I was not a fan. They pulled away from the great characters that are normally in this book, Luke Cage, Spider-Man, The Thing, Wolverine, Daredevil and several others, this book is like the Oceans 11 of comics, every cool character from any book was on this team. To have a story that only focused on the legend of The Iron Fist, not even Danny Rand, it left me wanting more, but they were building me up to this issue. (Read on if you don't mind spoilers)

Marvel Monday!

Greetings true believers, if you're as old as I am you'll remember Stan the Man greeting us every Saturday morning to begin one of the classic cartoons of Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends or possibly the misunderstood monster the Hulk, or the ever patriotic Captain America.


Today Monday June 11th lets see whats going on in the Marvel world:

Avengers vs. X-Men Sadly not an X-Men Story

Every year in Marvel comics there is a major event, Secret Invasions, Civil Wars, Skrulls, Kree, something and at the heart of all those crossovers 90% of the time are The Avengers, Marvel's premiere super hero team. This year Marvel brought in its mutants to the big event of the year the X-Men are finally a part of the big years crossover.

I personally am a huge X-Men fan, so when I heard that this was going to be the event of the summer I was incredibly excited and could not wait to start reading this story. Round 4 recently came out and its clearly a filler issue between big events. It was needed to establish characters places and give some insight to what the major players Hope, Wolverine, Captain America and Cyclops are doing.

The Avenger vs. X-Men books carry the main story, the side book that highlights specific fights has been going into details of one on one battles. The last book showcased Gambit vs. Captain America and Spider-Man vs. Colossus, neither fight was that spectacular and the Spidey vs. Colossus fight was down right bad.

In each teams respective books normally we would see a continuation of the continuity of the universe that's happening right now. In the Avengers books we are, we're seeing history of The Iron Fist connection in New Avengers. In Secret Avengers we had the away team in space to take on the Phoenix in a suicide mission. In the Avengers book we're seeing how this is tied to the Kree and one of its members may end up betraying the Avengers.

However over in the X-Men books we're not all dedicated to the current story, in X-Factor they're not even touching up on it and I might forgive that book but in X-Men #28 they had a story of Pixie fighting Skrulls. The book is called X-Men yet they aren't doing stories dedicated to the biggest X-Men story in years! Its the return of the Phoenix force and we don't get any thing tied to it? Bizarre. In Uncanny X-Force no Phoenix, in Wolverine, no Phoenix, how can we have all these main X-Men books and not tie to the major event of the year.

In Astonishing X-Men we are going to have a gay wedding between the B List character Northstar and his boyfriend, this should be a big event and it seems to be a trend that's happening in comics recently. Archie had a gay wedding, DC is going to have a current hero come out of the closet and Marvel is going to have a gay wedding in issue #51. An event like this should not be happening during the Avengers vs. X-Men story line, it should be its own stand alone type of thing and more than the X-Men should attend the wedding showing support from all the superheros for this event.

Being an X-Men fan I'm very sadly disappointed that the X-Men are being treated as the side characters in an Avengers story especially since that story completely revolves around The Phoenix force. The Avengers again are the golden children of the Marvel universe and the X-Men continue to be hated and feared by the rest of the world.