Manbehindthewires

Can't wait for this game! Never seen anything like that weird dialogue between Arrow and Hawkgirl in one of these before...is that what happens when 2 players specials manage to parry each other?

I agree it's being fought based on popularity more than anything.

For this reason, my predictions in the 1/4s

• Batman vs Wonder Woman
• Flash vs Joker
• Aquaman vs Green Lantern
• Superman vs Green Arrow

In comics, I think you'd get the opposite result in all of these except Supes vs Arrow, but this bracket was clearly set up for a Batman/Joker Semi and a Batman/Superman Finale.

With that in mind, my predictions for the semis will be:

• Batman vs Joker
• Aquaman vs Superman

Playoff will be

• Joker vs Aquaman

And Final will be a rather frustrating tie and a "buy the game and find out for yourself who wins!" comment...

@akbogert: I think I'm on the fence with Superman. With supes and Batman, you're dealing with archetypes representing absolutes (or even perfection), so to see him reacting in blind rage and so terminally towards something is, for me at least, pretty discomforting, regardless of the reason behind it.

If that were gospel though, a battles game like Injustice would never happen, so I think it's worth taking the hit on this one for the sake of the game. I think the event itself was really good and if it did occur in the main run, would raise a lot of questions.

I like the Harley Quinn in this book. Personality-wise, she reminds me of the old animated series :)

@akbogert: haha me and you seem to be like oil and water on here at times!

I just think in the CV community people get really worked up about out-of-character moments and inconsistencies, and if they're going to find them anywhere, it'll be in Injustice. You, yourself wrote a pretty impressive piece on Dennis Hopeless recently for similar reasons (congrats on it btw, always nice to see a rant on here with some actual backing).

I personally liked the book and just picked up Injustice: Gods Among Us #1 yesterday (harder to find) as a result. Issue 1 was brutal! I'll probably give it a 4/5 when I do my next batch of write-ups on Wednesday. What did you think? I take it you're picking up the digitals so are further ahead in it?

#3 replace the chandelier with a Volvo and flatten your enemies ;)

With Grant Morrison writing him? Krypto may well be holding all the power of the universe in the palm of his...erm...paw...

Could may well have picked up some powers in the Phantom Zone...who knows?

Best Writing

1st Hellboy in Hell #3 -Mike Mignola

2nd All-New X-Men #7 -Brian Michael Bendis

3rd Punisher: War Zone #5 -Greg Rucka

Best Interior Artwork

1st Dia de los Muertos #1 -Jean-Paul Csuka and Megan Wilson

2nd Daredevil: End of Days #5 -Klaus Janson, Bill Sienkiewicz and Matt Hollingsworth

3rd Justice League #17 -Ivan Reis, Oclair Albert, Joe Prado and Sean Parsons

Best Cover Artwork

1st Red Hood and the Outlaws #17 -Mico Suayan

2nd Daredevil: End of Days #5 (Mack Variant) - David Mack

3rd Thor: God of Thunder #5 -R.M. Gera/Guera (Rajko Milošević)

Favorite Marvel Comic

1st Punisher: War Zone #5

2nd Thor: God of Thunder #5

3rd Avengers #6

Favorite DC Comic

1st Red Hood and the Outlaws #17

2nd Batman #17

3rd Justice League #17

Favorite Indie Comic

1st Snapshot #1

2nd The Rocketeer: Hollywood Horror #1

3rd Hellboy in Hell #3

Most Underrated Comic

1st The Rocketeer: Hollywood Horror #1

2nd Great Pacific #4

3rd Joe Kubert Presents #5

Favorite Male Hero

1st Punisher (Punisher: War Zone #5)

2nd Aquaman (Justice League #17 and Aquaman #17)

3rd Ben Urich (Daredevil: End of Days #5)

Favorite Female Hero

1st Rachel Alves (Punisher: War Zone #5)

2nd Captain Universe (Avengers #6)

3rd Mera (Throne of Atlantis arc and Young Romance: The New 52 Valentine's Day Special #1)

Favorite Male Villain

1st Joker (Death of the Family arc)

2nd Ocean Master (Throne of Atlantis arc)

3rd Gorr (Thor: God of Thunder)

Favorite Female Villain

1st Mystique (All-New X-Men #7)

2nd Talia al Ghul (Batman, Incorporated #8)

3rd Supergirl (H'el on Earth arc)

Wild Card:Best Comic which reminds you why you read comics!

-Note: this category changes every month and will be decided by the nominators of last month’s Wild Card winner. This month's category brought to you by JairamGanpat, broo1232, namtabmi, usabfb, RawrImADragon, cyberchop979, MadeinBangladesh, and ckuakini.

1st Snapshot #1

2nd Avengers #6

3rd Dia de los Muertos #1

my suggestion for next months wild-card (if that's allowed?): "Best contributor to comics"

Quite a wide base this one; this can be an artist, a writer, a movie, a story arc, a website, a videogame...whatever you think made the best effort to strengthen and build the comics community.

Picked up Marvel Previews today for May 2013 and saw this:

Superior No More! The hottest comic in comics comes to a turning point that will get you angrier than you were after Spidey #700!

So what do you think is going to happen? Will Sp-Ock really be done with after 9 issues? I never thought it would last, but I was hoping to at least get a year out of it...will it be Parker back in the suit straight away?

• Aquaman #17
• Joe Kubert Presents... #5
• Rocketeer: Hollywood Horror #1
• Deadpool Killustrated #2
• Journey Into Mystery #649
• Punisher: War Zone #5

Maybe's

• Guardians of the Galaxy #0.1
• Injustice: Gods Among Us #2
• Teen Titans #17