Taral Books and Comics

Continuing our plan to watch every movie we own in alphabetical order, over the previous couple of weeks my wife and I watched or re-watched the following three movies: 4. Amazing Spider-Man (2012) The first superhero movie in our list is Marc Webb's Amazing Spider-Man . As you might tell from my other posts, I'm a huge fan of comic books and superhero fiction.  While Spider-Man is not on my reading radar, I do enjoy him as a character, though my wife makes compelling arguments on how he is a menace to society. I suspect I will one day write a post about why J. Jonah Jameson is completely correct in his judgments on Spider-Man.  Image from Marvel Wiki. I enjoyed Andrew Garfield in the role of Peter Parker (though not as much as the other two actors who have played him in movies).  He brings a unique charm to the character, being a more well-rounded, smart kid and less of a traditional nerd.  Emma Stone was wonderful as Gwen Stacy, and I loved Martin Sheen and

Before jumping back into my chronological X-Men read-through at the first few issues of the X-23 ongoing series, I wanted to read more about Laura Kinney's activities after the events of New X-Men .  Following the Messiah CompleX crossover, she joined the new X-Force team also featuring Wolverine, Archangel, Warpath, and occasionally Wolfsbane, Elixir, Domino, and Vanisher. At the same time, I decided the read the post- Messiah CompleX Cable ongoing series.   Cable and X-Force both cross over at the Messiah War event midway through both series, so I thought reading both simultaneously would be a good idea. For this post, I read the following comics:   X-Force  1-28 (by  Craig Kyle  and  Chris Yost , 2008-2010) Cable  1-26 + King-Size Spectacular (by Duane Swierczynski , 2008-2010; final issue was retitled Deadpool and Cable ) X-Men: The Times and Life of Lucas Bishop 1-3 (by Duane Swierczynski, 2009) X-Men: Hope one-shot (by Duane Swierczynski, 2010) X-Force

As I prepare to read the X-Men crossover event Onslaught from the mid 1990s (after having read the Phalanx Covenant , Legion Quest , and Age of Apocalypse crossovers and most intervening issues of Uncanny X-Men , X-Men , Generation X , Excalibur , and Wolverine ), I read several X-Men solo miniseries (by which I mean, comic book series that were planned to be only a few issues long, focussing on one or two individual X-Men characters) from that time period. In this post, I'll be discussing four such miniseries: Gambit 1-4 (by Howard Mackie and Lee Weeks , 1993) Rogue   1-4 (by Howard Mackie and Mike Wieringo , 1994-1995) Wolverine/Gambit: Victims   1-4 (by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale , 1995) Storm   1-4 (by Warren Ellis and Terry Dodson , 1995-1996) I purchased these comics on Comixology during various 99 cent sales.  Though the Gambit and Rogue series are tightly bound, the others have little to do with each other, so I am skipping my regular "Story" segment.