Weekly Round Up! 9/18

So after working on this outlet for about a month I am slowly going to make some changes that I think will improve my processes. Starting this post I will be including my picks of the previous weeks comics with the pull list for comics coming this week. My streaming schedule is also going to change a bit with Amy starting a new position. But I have no plans on giving up or ending my creative outlet. so without further adieu my picks from last week! Keep in mind they picks from last week may contain spoilers!

OK allow me to rant a little before I reveal my favorites. Marvel cannot seem to end an event on time. I love them as a company but we are on the tail end of Civil War 2 and they have said changes will happen with the aftermath. But we are currently in this limbo in a lot of there books kind of just waiting till the event ends to start new story lines while moving forward with changes that haven't been revealed.

That being said the first title this week is Deadpool #20 by Gerry Duggan and Matteo Lolli. In this issue we find everything Deadpool as enjoyed this past year has gone. He is no longer on a team, his Mercs for Money are no more, and his building was destroyed by Ultron. This has put him in a very sad position. The issue is about him trying to convince a girl not to commit suicide. He shows her how he has still been helping people in his own way. In the end we discover that he is "rounding a corner" and getting back to being himself once again. I know it sounds sappy but I do love a character story showing how they cope with sadness and find ways to move on from it.

The other issue for this weeks pick was a new one I was not sure I was going to like but have recommended it to all my friends. Mosaic #1 by Geoffrey Thorne and Khary Randolph was more then I expected it to be. The story didn't really start for me till Morris underwent his transformation. He has the ability to jump from one person to another and take control of them but in the process takes a piece of each person with him. There was a constant battle for him to remember that he was a different person then his host. Much of the story was him learning how his new life operates and how to separate himself from the person he inhabits.



Pull List for week 9/19!

All-New X-Men #14
Civil War 2: Kindpin #4
Deadpool: Back in Black #2
Death of X #2
Green Lanterns #9
Harley Quinn #6
Infamous Iron Man #1
Raven #2
Mighty Thor #12



Not many new titles this week. Lost of new story-lines tho!This week starts The Infamous Iron Man. Written by Brian Michael Bendis with Alex Maleev we find that something has happened to Tony Stark and for some reason he is no longer Iron Man. Who best to fill those repulser boots and metal mask? Why Doctor Doom of course! Doom is trying to be a hero for a change but is that really what he wants? Or does he secretly have other plans?

Plus with Civil War 2 at the height of its event, one mob boss has managed to stay under the radar and continue operations without the precog knowing! In Civil War 2: KingPin #4 by Matthew Rosenberg and Ricardo Lopez Ortiz The KingPin has been back but his ace up his sleeve has betrayed him! Now the Punisher has come knocking and King Pin has to try and find his betrayer with dealing with this complication.

So that whats happening this week! What did you enjoy reading last week? Do you agree with my choices? What are you looking forward to this week? Comment below!


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Tribute to my love!

Amy and I have been on this ride for a loooong time. Like all rides we have had our ups and downs. But what's important is that we continue to be on the same ride together. We've had many adventures together in our nine years of marriage (and even before that really). Stuff I would have NEVER gotten to do without her. So to pay tribute to my wife and our time together on this day, our anniversary, I figured I'd reminisce about some of our greatest adventures and achievements. 

The best place to start is the day we started this crazy journey together as a team. We got married on a beautiful day on this day in 2007. Our wedding was wonderful. All our family and friends came out to see Amy look beautiful and me to make a fool of myself (I didn't write my vows, something I will always regret). But it will always be one of the best days of my life. 

The day after our wedding started our first adventure as a married couple. Our honeymoon was a couple of days in Las Vegas and it was awesome! We walked the strip and visited all the big casinos. It was so much fun! We also check out a couple of shows and got to eat and several awesome restaurants! Our time went by so quickly. It's definitely a trip I think we'd both like to take again eventually. 

We love to go on adventures as a family. Because of Amy I have gotten to visit New York City more then I ever would have without her. She has shown me what a great place it can be and shared her love with the city with me. With her help we both have gotten to go to New York Comic Con several times. We even cosplayed once as Bob and Linda from Bob's Burgers! She truly is my Linda to her Bob. 

We also have gotten to do some site seeing as well. Visiting Central Park and several of the museums. I can't wait to do them all again with Kitty when she gets older! But I always have fun when the two of us are together. And she gives me strength to deal and suppress my anxiety issues so I can enjoy our adventures! 

Our adventures are not always so fast paced. Sometimes it's nice to just escape for a while. Amy loves the sea. It's another wonder of our word she has shown me. We have a spot down near Mystic where we like to go and just sit on the beach and stare out at the water. I've always referred to it as our spot. We just recently took Kitty there for the first time a couple weeks ago. I hope to get to bring them both there often as Kitty grows up. 

But that's not the only ocean beach trip we have done! While Kitty was baking in the oven we went for a week at Cape Cod. It was such an amazing week. We visited the National Sea Shore and mini golfed and so many other fun things! It's a trip I'd like to bring Kitty on one day too! 

But not all our adventures involved traveling. We have supported each other in our lives too. Amy is such a strong motivated person and I know she can accomplish anything she puts her mind too. I have gotten to witness her at her greatest moments. Achieving things she thought she could never do and pushing herself. I am grateful that she is now giving me that same opportunity and I could not be more grateful for it. 

Finally Amy has given me the best gift of all and will be our greatest adventure, our beautiful daughter Kitty. The second best day of my life was the day she was born. Amy is not only the best wife, but a wonderful mom. Our little girl has changed too much in the past year and loves her momma like nothing else. I know the feeling is mutual! 

So this year I couldn't get her a card. Money is tight and I couldn't buy her a gift. Not even flowers were an option. But what I can do is this. Write this tribute and post it for the world to see. 9 years of wonder adventures and I'm sure we can double or triple that number. I love you Amy! 

Picks of the week 10/5!

Boy what a week it was! lost of good stories this week. It was hard to narrow it down to only one or two but I must! This week was a mix of new books, setting up for future events, and reactions to the current events happening in the comic universe. There may be spoilers written into the descriptions. Just as a warning.

Jessica Jones #1 did not disappoint for me this week. Brian Michael Bendis is one of my favorite writers currently (I may get flack from this) and he does a great job a throwing old school Jessica into the current continuum.  Jessica starts out in jail and we learn that things between her in Luke are not good. This means she is out of money and opens up her old detective agency in order to get some income. But her first client seems crazy and she is having a hard time avoiding all her old super friends who have a lot of questions for poor self destructing Jessica.

The second comic this week is the telling of one side of the Civil War 2 event. Its Captain Marvel vs Iron Man in this moral and emotional throw down. But this tension has started to take its toll on Tony Stark. Invincible Iron Man #14 covers Tony's internal struggle with everything that happened and his alcoholism. With the guilt and stress of loosing his best friend has taken its toll and the best way to describe this issue is the line "I need a meeting". This issue is the last Invincible Iron Man issue with Tony as the lead character for a while and it involved his worst demon. In a twist of fate Carol ends up at the same meeting and they seem to make piece with each other despite being on opposite sides and beliefs.  It was a really touching issue and it makes me wonder what they have in store for good old Tony Stark.


What were your favorites this week? Did anyone else pick up these books? What did you think of them? Comment below!

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Pull list week 10/12! Headed to the Great Lakes!

Hello again everyone! It’s another new week and another batch of new comics! As I said last week October is when Marvel releases its new series. It’s a very Marvel heavy week this week that includes several new titles added to the list for me to try out. Cross over stories continue for Civil War 2 plus we get the return of the most unappreciated Avengers team ever created!

Civil War 2: Ulysses #3

Deadpool # 20

Mosaic # 1

Old Man Logan #12

Power Man and Iron Fist #9

Suicide Squad #4

The Great Lakes Avengers #1

Uncanny Avengers #15

Mosaic #1 is a new series about a new Inhuman whose powers cause him to lose his physical body. Writer Geoffrey Thorne and artist Khary Randolph takes readers on a journey with the new character as he uses his new powers in order so survive but it could cost him everything he has left.  The art of this book looks fantastic. I am not sure about the story and how it will play out but it intrigued me enough to give it a shot. 

I am so excited for The Great Lake Avengers #1! A team of heroes was created in the midwestern area of America and they decided to name themselves Avengers. Originally they were not affiliated with the other Avengers teams and are often considered a joke team. But any title that creates Squirrel Girl needed to come back eventually right?!? In this new series the team is brought into the Avengers family once again and are moved to Detroit to help keep the piece and become legendary heroes!

 What books are you getting this week? Have you heard about the Great Lakes Avengers? Are you reading anything new this October? Comment below!

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Fresh From Thresh Agents of SHIELD ep. Meet the Boss

Well now, THIS episode leaves quite a lot of head scratching and questions, burning questions, and the way that they are bouncing around my skull, well, feels like my head is on fire. Well, I certainly hope that the answers come with a vengeance, because I’m having a devil of a time trying to figure them all out. 

OK OK fine, that’s enough Ghost Rider puns, let’s get on with the review! For those just joining and checking out this blog for the first time, welcome to Fresh From Thresh, I am Matt Thresher, aka Matty Thresh. And for those who are returning, then, welcome back! Today we are continuing on our journey across the S.H.I.E.L.D. corner of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). As always, I want to issue a SPOILER ALERT, as I will be discussing key plot points throughout. So if you haven’t watched it, first off, why not? Second, go watch it and feel free to join in any discussion in the comments!

 So, this episode I feel like I can bring in some of the other topics explored during the previous episode, such as the identity of the new director and what the heck is going on with those ghost…spirit…things. Can’t really tell you too much about what they actually are yet, but we can discuss them a bit! 

 First, we finally get to meet the new director. I gotta tell you, I was SURE it was gonna be Talbot if it was gonna be anyone we’ d known before. Turns out, it is not Talbot though, it’s a man named Jeffrey Mace. People who know Captain America comics extremely well may recognize him as the Golden Age hero “The Patriot”, who would also take up the Captain America mantle for a time. No idea of any indication to have this idea in his backstory yet, but what IS confirmed is that Mace is actually an Inhuman, with super strength and durability (from what we’ve seen so far). The fact that the new director of S.H.I.E.L.D is an Inhuman, and is planning to take the agency public again for the first time since the events of The Winter Soldier, is a big deal in the political environment in the MCU at large, what with fear of Inhumans being stoked by groups by like The Watchdogs (sound familiar, X-Men fans?), and the continued fallout of the Sokovia Accords. Seeing how S.H.I.E.L.D. will handle being thrust back into the limelight affects this season, and maybe even the Avengers movies, will certainly be something to keep track of this season!

Something is in the air, and Agent May has been affected. We’ve seen a ghostly looking woman affecting members of a Chinese gang, as well as May and in this episode, a father and son whom she accuses of living in her house. In this episode, we see her at a lab, with some kind of boxes where she releases several more ghostly people, all of whom seem initially unaware of the passage of time or what really happened to all of them. We learn that the first woman that we see seemed to be the leader of the project, because of some mysterious book. Just like “The Director” in the first episode, though, the pronoun game is alive and well, as all the “ghosts” seem angry at someone, presumably the person who oversaw the full experiment/project, and they never say this person’s name, always “him” or “he”. Minor frustration, true, but a frustration nonetheless.   

As was stated before, May had been affected by this influence of the ghosts, and started seeing threats all around her. Believing that everyone else had been infected, she proceeds to finally attack all agents in front of her, including Coulson, before being subdued by Mace. He promises Coulson that he will take care of May and is on top of everything.  

Quake, meanwhile, continues to pursue Robbie Reyes after her previous fight with the Ghost Rider. Robbie doesn’t appreciate this at all, and after confirming that he DID sell his soul (Daisy originally believed him to be an Inhuman like her) they eventually get into a fight after Quake mentions Robbie’s brother Gabe. This royally pisses Robbie off, and after a fight, subdues Quake. While going through her possessions to find a reason to justify killing her, Quake talks to him about the leads with the various gangs she’s been tracking, and all signs pointing to a certain lab. With that, both vigilantes head there, with Quake breaking free to do so.            

It just so happens that Mack and Fitz are at this lab, since they are investigating the “ghosts” and have tracked the machine they had recovered to here. Mack and Fitz end up encountering one of the ghosts, resulting in Mack getting locked in a chamber and Fitz about to be possessed. Ghost Rider shows up however, and shows that he can touch these spirits; he grabs the one attacking Fitz by the arm, and then proceeds to burn him to nothing. Daisy rescues Mack and the three former teammates have a rather touching scene as Mack pleads with Daisy to come back with them, and when she refuses, Fitz shouts that she turned her back on them, due to the terrible events of the previous year. Fitz goes on to say that they all have gone through terrible things in the past, and never did any of the other of them go rogue. Mack also is angry that she is working with a murdering vigilante like Ghost Rider, but Daisy is adamant that this is what she has to be doing. So Mack and Fitz return without her.
 
So, more things to ponder and more cool Ghost Rider imagery has shown that so far, this season is in no danger of slowing down. A new Inhuman director ready to take the agency out of the shadows, mysterious ghosts causing panic and paranoia in their victims, and Ghost Rider and Quake continuing on their way to find out what the connection between Ghost Rider, the Ghosts, and the gang wars really is, since Robbie seems to think there is one. While I enjoy their chemistry and the uneasy truce that they seem to have, I can’t help but just be afraid for Daisy, and I just hope that she remembers that if she continues playing with fire, she might be the one that gets burned.  

AHHH!!! I’M SORRY!!!! I’M SORRY!!!!
Thank you everyone for reading, I am enjoying this so far and can’t wait to see the new episode! Keep posted on Jerry’s page to look for my latest articles, including reviews of the D.C. TV shows, starting with The Flash, an article discussing exactly what having Ghost Rider in the MCU could mean for that universe, as well as, of course, any new AOS episodes! As always, stay rockin, and keep your cool everyone!

No…no…I didn’t mean…it was just…a slip of the tounge…please…mercy…MERCY!!! AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

*All images are property of Marvel and ABC. I  or Matt do not own any of these images or characters.*
 

The big Catch up! Pick of the week last week (9/28) and pull list for today (10/5)!

Last week was a busy week so I’m sorry this is a little off schedule. Last weeks books were good. I unfortunately missed getting Saga #38 so I can’t say that is was all that I had hoped for or not. But there were a couple of standout issues for me from last week that I can talk about. I must warn that there may be spoilers ahead. I will try my best not to include spoilers but just in case be warned.

Teen Titans: Rebirth #1 by Benjamin Percy with art by Marie Javins was overall a good issue. The team had disbanded after some recent events and the book starts its focus on them doing their own thing trying to cope with that happened (I am not going into what happened since it would be a spoiler). At the end of each story section we find someone is kidnapping each of them. The writing does a good job creating a since of mystery on who is doing this and it is reveled on the last page. A problem I personally had was the reveal is almost spoiled (If you don’t want to be spoiled then stop reading here since I probably will spoil it) by the cover of the issue. I plan on continuing to read Teen Titans but I personally don’t feel that the major story piece should be plastered on the cover.

The other comic that was pick of the week worthy was Captain America: Steve Rogers #5 written by Nick Spencer and art by Javier Pina. This is such a new take on Steve as a character. He currently is a secret Hydra agent working to take down SHIELD from the inside out. But what the Red Skull doesn’t know is that Steve has his own agenda for Hydra. This issue is a crossover story with the current even Civil War 2, which finds Steve worried about the new Inhuman blowing his plans and exposing him. We learn that events that have occurred in the main story are not as they appear and that Steve may have influenced those events to protect what he is trying to accomplish. 

Also to catch up this week I am including my pull list for this week 10/5!

October is always the beginning of a new status for the Marvel universe and this October is no different. Titles will end and new ones will start which is usually when I reassess my pull list for the shop. So we will see many new names and number 1 issues on the list but they may not last. I am kind of picky about not just story but artwork as well. If I don’t like the art or find that art inside the book is confusing or hard to look at then I will stop reading.

All-New Wolverine #13
Deadpool: Back in Black #1

Death of X #1

Green Lanterns #8

Harley Quinn #5

Invincible Iron Man #14

Jessica Jones #1

Uncanny X-Men #14

and Saga #38!

Death of X #1 written by Jeff Lemire and art by Charles Soule is the lead in to the next big Marvel event. Something happened that put the Mutants and Inhumans on a path of competition and hatred toward each other. I hope to find out what happened to adult Cyclops and how he died along with what will lead to each race to go into all out war with each other!

Jessica Jones hasn’t had her own regular series in almost ten years. I personally think that after her successful Netflix series this new run should have happened sooner. With Brian Michael Bendis writing I know it will be good. I personally hope it has a Dick Tracy detective mystery type vibe since she is know for running a detective agency. 

What is everyone else reading this week? Are you excited for anything new coming out? Did you watch Jessica Jones on Netflix? Would you read her comic because you watched her show?

*All images are property of Marvel and DC. I do not own any of these images or characters.*