Mark's Epic Blog of Randomness

 By Mark Rodriguez This time around I got some stuff in the mail as I'm filling in the gaps of some comics that I somehow missed the first time around.  We also swung by Alpha Comics to grab the latest issue of TMNT Saturday Morning Adventures as we get one issue away from the end.   I'm trying to collect the issues from the Superman Electric Blue run from the late 90's. These three were shortly before, when Superman's powers were acting up which would lead into the transformation. Action Comics # 732- Superman faces off against the Atomic Skull. Superman The Man of Steel # 67- Superman continues to save the day as his powers start acting up. Adventures of Superman # 545-   Superman's new powers start to manifest. The Uncanny X-Men # 177- Wolverine takes center stage, which very rarely happened in the 80's. The Uncanny X-Men # 178- The X-Men face the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants! X-Men '97 # 4- The last issue of the four-issue mini-series which was a prel...

 By Mark Rodriguez Marvel Tokon Fighting Souls is the hottest new fighting game nowadays as it brings 4-on-4 tag action featuring  Captain America, Spider-Man, Wolverine, Doctor Doom, Magneto, Deadpool and others. It's a pretty awesome game, especially if you're on the PS5 since it seems PC users are having issues with the game working properly. We already had several comics based on Marvel Rivals, and now we're gonna get one based on Marvel Tokon. Let's check it out! "Cosmic Contender" opens with the flashback of a sole survivor of an alien invasion from a neighboring star system. While the invasion failed, it was at the cost of both civilizations with only the strong surviving. The one survivor was named Tryco Slatterus, but since that day he was known as The Champion. The Champion lost everything because his people were too weak. He vowed that no other planet would suffer like his did. He will train them and make them strong, whether they want to or not. ...

Written by Ninja Jupi Hey all, Jupi here to hijack Mark’s blog with a review of my own. I’m not as avid a reader of mainstream comic books like Mark, but I do have my moments and this is one of them. As you can see from the title, it is a Marvel/DC crossover involving these two groups which, unfortunately, only lasted one issue due to behind the scenes conflicts, but I’ll get into that later. Let’s get into it.   First of all, Mark surprised me with this. I am a fan of the New Teen Titans, which ran from 1980 to 1984, the title then changing to Tales of the Teen Titans up until its cancellation in 1988, so I guess you could say the original run was from 1980 - 1988. Could never get into the 90s iteration. This came out in 1982 and would fall in line between issues 16 and 20 of the New Teen Titans (no Nightwing yet and Kid Flash is still around) and after the Dark Phoenix saga of the X-Men series, so after issue 150, but apparently most fans place it around issue 168. For all you X-...

 By Mark Rodriguez Miles Morales is back with another new title. This time I decided to hop aboard and see how his solo adventures play out. Let's check it out! "Level 1: Sins of the Father" opens with Miles at college working alongside a Ukranian exchange student named Valentina on a science project. As they discuss nuclear physics, Miles is a bit hungry due to his... other job earlier that morning. We jump back six hours earlier as we see a construction cane collapsing high above the city. The crane operator calls off but Miles swoops in to grab him in time. Miles swings the guy to safety. As the crane continues to come down, Miles uses two webs to propel himself into the air towards it. He creates a large web to catch all the falling crane parts.  Miles makes sure everyone is OK and tell them to run the next time they see huge metal things falling from the sky. He swings off, thinking he's got this Spider-Man thing figured out. Back to the present time, Miles and ...

 By Mark Rodriguez This time around we swung by Third Eye, though it looks like half the store is still empty. Hopefully they can complete the remodeling soon since the store is missing its once-huge manga selection. I was lucky enough to find the missing issue of Psylocke Ninja and I also got some goodies in the mail!   Marvel Rivals The Hood # 1- When I first saw this I was confused and thought 'didn't they already release a Marvel Tokon book this month?' until I realized it was Rivals. Now we got two comics about tie-in videogames. Barbara Gordon Breakout # 4- The story continues! DC X Sonic the Hedgehog Metal Legion # 4- The second Sonic/DCU crossover continues. Batgirl # 22-   Good to see this series continue. With so many books ending at issue 10, Batgirl has gone for twice as many and beyond! Miles Morales Spider-Man # 1- Miles gets another new series. I'll give this one a shot. It looks like this time the bad guys are coming after his dad instead of him. htt...

 By Mark Rodriguez The Penguin has recruited a mute hunchback he found on the road named Harold. It turns out Harold is good with machines and he created a device that can control birds. Penguin uses the machine to cause chaos throughout Gotham. At the same time, he also kidnapped a soap opera actress he has been obsessed with for a while. Meanwhile an ancient evil has been unleashed upon the city!    "The Penguin Affair III- Winged Vengeance" opens in the Bat Cave as Alfred complains about having to sweep up all the dead birds. Tim says he can blame the Penguin for that one. Bruce is studying one of the birds and finds out what is controlling them. He tells Tim that it's some kind of miniaturized wave modulator implanted in the birds' skulls. He explains it works through sonics affecting their brains, but the microwaves he used earlier disrupts the signal.   Tim asks how the Penguin is able to see what the birds are doing. Bruce explains this is due to a fiber-opti...