Mark's Epic Blog of Randomness

By Mark Rodriguez Sometime after Eggman's last defeat, he vanished but all of his robots went wild and starts attacking everyone. After Sonic and Tails destroyed several robots, Sonic speeds ahead to look for more, while Tails stays behind to help the citizens rebuild their towns. Meanwhile a mysterious person watches over Sonic and has plan against him as well as Amy Rose.    I have quickly fallen behind with the IDW Sonic comics, and they are on the verge of reaching issue 80, not counting several min-series and such. I got one of the hardcover graphic novels so I can finally see what else happened. I reviewed the first issue back in the day here-   IDW Sonic the Hedgehog # 1 Review  in case you want to jog your memory (like I had to) before we hop back in. "Fallout Part Two" opens with Sonic leading the giant-sized Death Crab away from another town. Sonic runs up the side of the robot and starts zipping around, smashing into it all over the place. The hedgeho...

 By Mark Rodriguez In the world of Sonic the Hedgehog, the powerful Chaos Emeralds have led to villains like Dr. Eggman to constantly go after them. This time the big bad of the DC Universe, Darkseid has set his sights on them so Sonic and the rest will have to contact the DC Heroes for help. Let's see how this goes. "Chaos Crisis Part One" goes right to the point as a portal opens up right above a picnic Sonic was having with Tails and Amy. A huge ominous looking ship slips through (patterned after Darkseid) which confuses the heroes. Amy says it doesn't look like Little Planet. Sonic says it doesn't look like Eggman's style and there's a chance they come in peace.   Parademons start flying out of the ship and attacking the heroes. Sonic uses his speed to dodge the attacks, and then hits them with his spindash. Amy knocks some of them flying with her Piko Piko Hammer. Tails leads some of them towards Amy so she can send them flying with her mallet. Sonic...

By Mark Rodriguez Krang and Hob are working together to fix the dimensional portal to bring Shredder back to their reality, as well as try to conquer the universe with the help of the Pantheon. Their first attempt somehow have Krang and upgraded version of his android body, and also unleashed evil 'what if' versions of Leonardo, Raphael and Donatello. While the Turtles took care of their evil twins, Krang and Hob continue to fix the portal. Emboldened by his new body, Krang now tells Hob he also wants to lead the Pantheon himself. What will happen next? "Still the Ninja She Always Was" opens with the Turtles watching wrestling as a wrestler named Hairculeas (who pretty much like like Cousin It with legs) pulls out a steel chair from underneath all that hair. Leonardo is not impressed and tells the gang that it's time to head out. Raphael tells him that Wrestletoberfest happens only once a year. Leonardo says the event is happening all week and they can skip one n...

 By Mark Rodriguez There's been a couple of character team-ups coming out last week. The Vision and the Scarlet Witch, Hulk and Doctor Strange but the one that got me curious enough to pick up a copy was Spider-Man and Wolverine. I'm curious what got these two to work together (this time anyway since they've teamed up several times before over the years) and what villains they will face. Let's check it out.    "Duality" opens in Berlin Germany as Wolverine hacks and slashes his way through HYDRA zombies. Wolverine says he doesn't do 'funny' but Bill has some sense of humor inviting him to a HYDRA Remnant Safe House after so many years. Bill, a career spy intelligence agent to the highest bidder, says Wolverine hasn't lost his touch. Wolverine asks what he wants and Bill asks if he's heard of the Janus Directory. Wolverine knows that the Janus Directory is a master database of the world's double agents. He figured he'd be on it, and...

By Mark Rodriguez Gwenpool is a 'real world' Marvel fan named Gwendolyn Poole that somehow ended up in the Marvel Universe. Fearing that she might be killed off as a random extra as collateral damage, she chose to become a superhero popular enough to stick around. While she had some fighting skills, Gwen's biggest weapons are being incredibly genre-savvy and able to break the fourth wall. But now there's a deadlier and darker Gwenpool running around. What will happen in this new series?   The issue opens in a Weapon X Facility: Beta as some armed soldiers are looking for their target. One of them hears that the target is in the vicinity and activates her night vision. She asks Calloway if she has eyes on the target. Their target says that agent Calloway has such beautiful eyes. The target shows the agent Calloway's decapitated head. The agent opens fire and mows the person down. The agent declared the target to be down. The target says she's wrong and asks for h...

 By Mark Rodriguez We got a bit of a smaller haul this time. Two for the Pull Box and a brand new #1 that we got. Wendy got to grab a comic as well, and of course we both got a free comic each during Third Eye Comics' Free Comic Book Month. This time we got a free DC comic. Let's see what we got.   Superior Avengers # 2 Doom brings heroes from the future to prove to the world that him ruling the world is the right path. However, are these guys really heroes? What ulterior motives do they have? DC Universe X Sonic The Hedgehog # 3 Sonic's crew and the DC Superheroes team up to stop Darkseid from using the Chaos Emeralds for his evil ends. Can Sonic and Flash get along? Spider-Man & Wolverine # 1 There were several team up comics coming out this week, and out of all of them, this one got my interest. What circumstances lead to Spider-Man and Wolverine to team up and who will they face?  Spider-Man & Wolverine # 1 Review Silverhawks # 4 This one was Wendy's pick, ...

 By Mark Rodriguez After several red herrings with Luke Cage, Rick Jones, Robbie Robertson and even Madam Masque, it turns out that the All-New Venom was none other than Mary Jane. How did Venom and MJ end up being linked together? What will be Robbie and Paul's reaction? What about all these people out to kill Venom? let's see what happens next. The story opens as Mary Jane explains that everything started during the Venom War when Meridius, an evil future version of Eddie Brock, released an ancient mega-symbiote called the Arachniote. MJ was fighting against it as Jackpot and was losing badly. She knew all of this was Venom's fault. Venom says that's not fair. MJ asks who glooped up her machine. Venom said she was the one that wanted her superhero slot machine to not be so random. Spider-Man and Venom helped make it work better. Instead of some random useless power or machine, she now had something that worked, just like she asked for. As Robbie and Paul sit and hear ...