The difficult second (no I'm not going to give in to that obvious second blog title)

Hello again to all in interwebland!  So lets get into a bit of my origin story which I promised last blog post. I have always had a vague interest in superheroes. From the Spiderman Animated series from the 90's I realised how it cool it was to have someone to stand up for what was right no matter what the consequences to themselves. I also remember my first superhero movie was Batman & Robin  and at the time I absolutely loved it. Even though now I don't, I appreciate that there were some great bits like Arnold Schwarzenegger's Mr. Freeze.
I also remember the Batman animated series and also Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. Also I remember as a kid I had a video rental store just up the road and I made my mum always rent the Adam West Batman movie.

So mostly as a kid I was exposed to a lot of DC properties. Well there were other Marvel cartoons available but Iron Man was a bit boring for my age and the Incredible Hulk was just damn depressing!

When I was 12 I had been in Kent for Five years (previously I lived in Brighton) and I thought time to give those superheroes another go especially considering that was the year the highly successful Marvel Movies started coming out with the original Spiderman movie. So at the time I did not no much about the existence of what I now know as the holy ground of comic book shops, so my only access into the world of comics came from W H Smiths via the Marvel Panini comics. I got a few different ones which were Essential X-Men, The Amazing Spiderman, The Avengers and I believe that Incredible Hulk shared a comic with Iron Man so I got that to! Looking back these were all rather good comics but at the time my pre-teen mentality couldn't be held by reading comics so I gave up reading them and just watched the Marvel Movies and played video games. That leads me onto the subject of my next blog post rather nicely which will be the origin of my video games obsession!

Review Section

Iron Man Marvel Now! Believe (Issues 1-5)

So I have to say Iron Man is one of my favourite superheroes. Like I said earlier when I first was introduced to him through the animated series of the 90's I wasn't a big fan but ever since Robert Downey Jr's portrayal I really love me some Iron Man. So onto this series. Unlike the other comics in the Marvel Now series this may require more reading to fully understand what's happening in this story arc as it's talking about the Extremis technology as talked about in the Iron Man Extremis story arc. Like other Iron Man comics it has Tony Stark in pretty much different armour in every issue which is cool to see the different designed Iron Man armour. The writing is fantastic and has the typical Tony Stark/ Pepper Potts relationship humour throughout. Another funny part is Tony is experimental A.I  and in one of the issues it's teenager like so is like 'Do I have to?' or 'I can't be bothered!' A great storyline with fantastic art and is written really well a must have for most Iron Man fans but a bit wordy in some areas.

Well lets call that a night on that one. So For Geekdom, Games and Comics! This is me Oliver Bulcraig. Good Night Everyone!