Top 5 Comics June 24th 2015

Another week of DC only (sorry Marvel) but a good week nonetheless to wrap up the first month of the "DC You" initiative.

1. The Flash #41 -Zoom is back, and with a sweet costume! Art was great by Brett Booth. Interested in where Venditti and Jensen take this arc. Henry rounding up some villains he knows from Iron Height's had a Rogue's vibe to it. So overall pretty cool issue.

2. Superman #41- Ever since the Truth arc began this month we've all been wondering what lead Lois to outing Clark as Superman. Could it be the mysterious person texting Clark that will eventually tip off Lois? Whatever the case new writer Yang looks to be cooking up something good.

3. Justice League 3001 #1- More great adventures with this cast, and expect lot's of shenanigans from Clark and the female Guy.

4. Teen Titans #9- We're getting to that point that Teen Titans vs Star Lab's Teen Titans needs to happen all ready.

5. Aquaman #41- It's been about 20 issues since I've read about Arthur (back when John's was still on). Definitely an easy issue to jump into, but I'm not sold on this arc yet. Art was nice though.

Miles Morales joins All New All Different Marvel in new Solo Series

While it should come to no surprise that Miles would walk away post Secret Wars to the new Marvel Universe alive, we also knew he would get his own solo series. Reported by New York Daily, Brian Michael Bendis will continue to write Miles. He will be joined by familiar penciller Sara Pichelli who has worked on Spider-Men and helped co create Miles in Ultimate Fallout #4.

This is great news. I'm pretty sure we all knew Benids wasn't going to let go writing Miles since he created him, and that's fine. Bendis wrote Ultimate Peter for 10 years, and Miles has only been around 4 years so I'm sure we'll have many more adventures with these two. It's good to hear Pichelli is back as she's no stranger with the character. Plus her art style is similar to Marquez , so I'm sure we'll get the same level of quality work here.

Best Show at E3 2015

So today is the last day of E3. Lots of games were announced across Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft shows. Some great games were shown this year like Unravel, For Honor, Gears 4, Horizon Zero Dawn, and much more. Every fan ask themselves this every year at E3, who had the best show? I'm here to say that Microsoft and Sony were tied in the top this year.

Sony and Microsoft dropped a lot of bombs this year that made lots of gamers happy. Some of the highlights from Microsoft included Gears of War 4, backwards compatibility coming to the Xbox One, new IP called Recore, more Halo 5 Guardians footage, Gears Ultimate edition and more. Over on Sony's side we got a new IP called Horizon Zero Dawn, Shenmue III announced, more Uncharted 4 gameplay, Final Fantasy VII Remake announced, and The Last Guardian gameplay. Both shows had something to offer to get fans excited to upgrade to the latest gen (if they haven't already) or show fans who already purchased an Xbox One/PS4 what to expect soon.

Here's the order I'd rank the show's:

1. Microsoft/Sony
3. Ubisoft
4. Bethesda
5. Square Enix
6. Nintendo
7. EA

Ubisoft every year always has something to look forward to, Bethesda and Square Enix had solid shows, but by the time we got to Square's press conference a lot of what they showed was already seen elsewhere. Nintendo lacked anything major this, we've had better Nintendo Direct's than the show we got this year, and EA's was just boring. Too much of a focus on sport games really killed it for me.

As E3 wraps up go ahead and check out my other blogs for my thoughts on each show. Click here Microsoft Bethesda Sony EA Ubisoft Square Enix Nintendo. Also go ahead and check out my E3 predictions to see if I was right about my predictions and click here to find out the top five games I was most interested in this year at E3.

Until next time E3!

Top 5 Comics June 17th 2015

Another week which means new comic releases. Nothing this week for any Marvel pulls from me. So this sort of a DC edition of the top five comics this week.

1. Black Canary #1 -Dinah Drake (Or D.D. as they say throughout this issue) came off as a strong leader, with a positive outlook on her future success. The art by Wu definitely fit the style of the story.

2. Robin: Son of Batman #1 -I'm still surprised how much this read like Peter Tomasi and Patrick Gleason's Batman and Robin run. Gleason nailed the voice of Damian.

3. Dr. Fate #1 -The new Dr. Fate has a lot going on for it. A great supporting cast, Khalid is likable, and looks to have good Egyptian history here.

4. Martian Manhunter #1 -J'onn showed us he's just as good of a hero as Superman, maybe even better. J'onn came off strong.

5. Superman/Wonder Woman #18 -While not a whole of action, we see where Diana and Clark's relationship stand.

Top 5 New games announced at E3 2015

1. Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands -That trailer shown was as epic as the Watch Dogs and Division trailer. The story sounds intriguing, and the gameplay looked great.

2. Horizon Zero Dawn -What's not to like from this Open world RPG, that's written by the lead writer of Fallout New Vegas, a Witcher 3 quest designer, and the beautiful graphic power from Guerrilla Games?

3. Dishonored 2 - Had a good first entry to the series, glad to see it come back.

4. Recore -I liked the cinematic trailer given, and what to see more of what this game is about.

5. Unravel -Very cute game, and looks like it'll be as good as LittleBigPlanet.

Square Enix E3 Recap and Thoughts June 16th 2015

After three years of not holding a E3 Press Conference, Square is set to return to E3 with their very own press conference. What was on the show, how did it fair?

-Just Cause 3 gameplay
-Trailer for a new NieR
-Same Final Fantasy VII trailer seen at Sony's Press Conference
-Rise of the Tomb Raider trailer
-Same World of Final Fantasy trailer shown at Sony's Press Conference
-Star Ocean Integrity and Faithlessness comes to North America and Europe
-Lot's of mobile stuff (Tomb Raider Go, Kingdom Hearts Unchained Key, and Hitman Sniper)
-Quick montage of game trailers showing Triad Wars and Final Fantasy XV
-New JRPG project created by new Square company Tokyo RPG Factory called Project Setsuna
-New Hitman trailer
-Kingdom Hearts III gameplay trailer
-Deus Ex Mankind Divided gameplay trailer

Pretty solid show from Square I think they played it safe. A lot of what was seen on this show was seen on either Microsoft's or Sony's show. So I wish Square would have shown more of something like Triad Wars instead of the quick thing it got. Definitely nice to see an update on Kingdom Hearts 3, and seeing more of Deus Ex was also a plus.

But damn it Square why are you making another Kingdom Hearts mobile game?! Have you not learned anything for Kingdom Hearts Coded?!

Nintendo E3 Recap and Thoughts June 16th 2015

The final day of E3 press conferences begin today. We start off with their Nintendo's Digital Event. Here's what they had:

-Star Fox Zero gameplay for Wii U

-Legend of Zelda Triforce Heroes gameplay for 3DS

-Hyrule Warriors coming to 3DS called Hyrule Warriors Legends

-Animal Crossing Happy Home Designer for 3DS gameplay

-Animal Crossing Amiibo for Wii U gameplay

-Mario and Luigi Paper Jam for 3DS gameplay

-Mario Tennis Ultra Smash gameplay for Wii U
-Metroid Prime Federation Force gameplay for 3DS
-Xenoblade Chronicles X gameplay for Wii U
-Skylanders Super Chargers gameplay
-More gameplay from Super Mario Maker for Wii U
-Yokai Watch gameplay for 3DS
-Fire Emblem Fates for 3DS
-More gameplay on Yoshi's Wooly World

Are you thinking "man what a lackluster show"? Well I'd agree with you on that. I'm no Star Fox fan but I'm sure plenty were excited for that, the only thing that really "wowed" me that was new, was Nintendo announcing Mario and Luigi Paper Jam. It's the best of both Mario RPG's crossing over in this game that I'm sure will have tons of funny moments. It was nice seeing more Yoshi's Wooly World and Super Mario Maker though.

There was nothing really major that came out of this year's show. E3 should be the show where all the big stuff is thrown right at you, everything on this list seems like something Nintendo would announce on a Nintendo Direct. The skits they did in between each game were nice but I wish Nintendo went back to actually being at E3. I feel like their announcements there were on a much grander scale.