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Best Stuff in Comics This Week: 5-2-16

People often talk about best story arcs, developments, and covers. Here's the other best stuff you might have missed.

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Every week, we take a look at some of the most bizarre, exciting, and downright unique things to happen in comics. Check out our choices below of the strange and wacky things that shouldn't be overlooked from this week's releases.

There may be some tiny spoilers ahead.

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Bill & Ted Go to Hell #3

Best Way to Get to Heaven (From Hell)

Napoleon and his minions are on their way to Heaven, from Hell, and they get there in a way only Bill & Ted fans could truly appreciate: a waterslide. However, this waterslide works in reverse, from bottom to top, except for Bill & Ted.

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Avengers Standoff: Assault on Pleasant Hill: Omega

Best Timer

During a very serious moment in Avengers Standoff, a timer is revealed with a very descriptive name: "Countdown Timer Clock." Villains always pick the best brand names.

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Avengers Standoff: Assault on Pleasant Hill: Omega

Best Ridiculous Moment from Iron Man's History

While discussing Steve Rogers de-aging, Tony Stark brings up the time he was teenage Tony Stark, a dark time in his history he apparently never wanted to talk about again.

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Sinestro #22

Best Kitty Moment

Everyone's favorite blood-thirsty space-cat, Dex-Starr, is back this week and he returned with a bang, by ripping someone's face apart.

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All-New Wolverine #7

Worst Reaction to Meeting Wolverine

Wolverine is at the door, but this kid was expecting the grizzled, cigar smoking Canadian, who has a knack for saying "bub." Currently, X-23 is Wolverine, and she's a lady.

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All-New Wolverine #7

Best Reaction to Meeting Wolverine

Squirrel Girl and Wolverine are having themselves a team-up! To commemorate the occasion, Squirrel Girl wants to take a selfie, but only if Wolverine is wearing her mask.

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Saga #36

Best Father/Daughter Reuniting Moment

Saga is all about large moments that invoke some sort of emotion from the reader. Many times, the reader will feel shock or disgust, but this past week, when Marko reunited with his daughter, Hazel, there were feelings of hope and joy for the family.

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Batman #51

Best Batmobile Accessory

The Batmobile has everything, right? However, in issue #51, we found out it has some pretty sweet camouflage capabilities. It can disguise itself as any car Batman wants.

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Batman #51

Best Advice from Batman

While having a chat with someone to get some information, Batman gives a great piece of advice before disappearing into the shadows: "Stay in school." Hopefully, he'll end every conversation, now on, with some life advice.

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Daredevil #6

Most Brutal Beatdown

Elektra really took the fight to Daredevil this week, landing a few blows and a wicked knee to the face.

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Harley Quinn #27

Best Reason to Always Carry an Extra Charger

While Red Tool was trying to show Harley Quinn his secret origin video on his tablet, he ran out of batteries. It's always a good idea to keep an extra charger on you.

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Harley Quinn #27

Best Word Bubbles

Word bubbles are traditionally circular and have a white background with black lettering. All of Red Tool's word bubbles were shaped like tools, with red lettering and yellow backgrounds.

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All-New Wolverine #7

Best Way To Greet Someone in the Middle of the Night

In order to make an impression, Squirrel Girl shows up to greet Wolverine with a wolverine. How is that wolverine not tearing Squirrel Girl apart?

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Venom: Space Knight #6

Best Alien

Flash Thompson has a alien friend: Pik Rollo. She's a mercenary space panda. She may look cute and cuddly, but she'll kill you in seconds.

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Cyborg #10

Best Way to Fish

Cyborg took a moment to do some fishing this week. How does Cyborg fish? He does it by making a fishing pole out of his cybernetic arm.

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Grayson #19

Best Dark Knight Returns Reference not in DKIII

Surprisingly, this reference to the DC classic, Dark Knight Returns, didn't take place in DK III: The Master Race. The iconic silhouette in front of a lightning bolt happened in this week's issue of Grayson.

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Patsy Walker AKA Hellcat! #5

Best Use of a Magical Bag

When you have a bag that can hold an infinite number of items, it's obvious that the best thing you can do with it is to help you move your stuff. Hellcat has the right idea.

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The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #7

Most Classy Introduction to a Comic

Squirrel Girl sure had an interesting opening page this week. It featured the planet-eating, cosmic being Galactus hanging out in a robe and drinking a fancy drink.

That's it this week. Let us know in the comments below what other Best Stuff you dug this past week. Thanks to @KeremIsWhelmed and @AlexLaVelle2005 for their contributions this week! If you want to participate or felt we missed some other Best Stuff, don't complain, contribute! Each week you can @reply us on Twitter at @GManFromHeck and @ImMatElfring by Fridays using the hashtag#BestStuffInComics. We'll give you a shout out and I'll think you're pretty groovy.

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The lead up to that splash page from Saga had my heart swelling but the actual page brought me to tears. Hit too close to home.

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X-32?

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Everything surrounding Jonathan the wolverine was just perfection. ESPECIALLY Gabby's squeeing.

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Red Tool needs an ongoing, lol

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I hate squirrel girl but her showing up with a wolverine is hilarious.

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I think squirrel girl is done best when it's not her own book honestly it's kinda sad in a way too ever since bendis reintroducing her in his new avengers run back in 2010 until the end of 2012 and her becoming a member of the all new all different marvels new avengers along with songbird it's to me so much better done than in her own series....

Especially in her recent appearance of all new wolverine she's written so much better and honestly the art is better too in other books I don't like Erica art in squirrel girls series Doreen looks much better drawn in the new avengers and all new wolverine.

On top of all this I'm so happy that Laura is finally getting pushed and supported more by marvel then she ever was for years it's been a long time coming and beyond overdue.

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Squirrel Girl in Wolverine reminded me of why I like Squirrel Girl.

I had started to forget.

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Wolverine doing selfies..... Marvel, you already have Spidergwen, Silk, Ms Marvel, and now Gwenpool doing the teenage girl selfie/facebook stuff. Please stahp.

I do like how they're acknowledging Marvel going on for 60+ years, considering the ages they would have to be.

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Squirrel Girl in Wolverine is a pathetic joke. I buy Wolverine bc I want to see people get stabbed. If you want to make a normal Parental Advisory comic a 3 year olds comic do it out of Wolverine.

Standoff was a advertisement for other upcoming marvel titles that I paid 5 bucks for.

I didn't pay the 6 dollars for the Doctor Strange tie in. So I am missing part of the story with the Doc Strange book.

ASM was a little better. Thankful that there was not an appearance of that Spider Mobile. Or Spider Mans webs not working in the wind. How many times is Slott going to pull that off.

Best comic I read so far is JL49. No gimmicks and solid art.

Still need to read International Iron Man.

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Awesome week for comics :)

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Seeing Squirrel Girl get along so well with Laura considering the ummm....relationship between her and Logan..

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You got those Wolverine reactions backwards, chief...

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Love that Cyborg fishing scene, very much him

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I think squirrel girl is done best when it's not her own book honestly it's kinda sad in a way too ever since bendis reintroducing her in his new avengers run back in 2010 until the end of 2012 and her becoming a member of the all new all different marvels new avengers along with songbird it's to me so much better done than in her own series....

Especially in her recent appearance of all new wolverine she's written so much better and honestly the art is better too in other books I don't like Erica art in squirrel girls series Doreen looks much better drawn in the new avengers and all new wolverine.

On top of all this I'm so happy that Laura is finally getting pushed and supported more by marvel then she ever was for years it's been a long time coming and beyond overdue.

It's actually hilarious how often I read that Squirrel Girl is better outside of her own book then in it. Her book is certainly a wacky and fun for all ages type of book but it probably won't change for the foreseeable time.

Wolverine doing selfies..... Marvel, you already have Spidergwen, Silk, Ms Marvel, and now Gwenpool doing the teenage girl selfie/facebook stuff. Please stahp.

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Nah, that was entirely on Squirrel Girl. Look again.

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Really like this issue of Harley Quinn. Hope Red Tool isn't just a one arc and gone

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I see sad people...

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Hm. Seems somebody has the best and worst reactions to meeting "Wolverine" reversed.

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Lolololol... Squirrel Girl.

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Why are the images above the captions? I don't like it.

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What? Marvel being meta about how they have fans who dont like that theyre replacing lots of popular characters with women? Wow, never seen that before.

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Wolverine doing selfies..... Marvel, you already have Spidergwen, Silk, Ms Marvel, and now Gwenpool doing the teenage girl selfie/facebook stuff. Please stahp.

I do like how they're acknowledging Marvel going on for 60+ years, considering the ages they would have to be.

Laura doesn't even own a phone, she says so in that issue. Doreen is the selfie-taker.

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I love ya Mat, but the Saga one isn't really a tiny spoiler.

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@avenging_x_bolt said:

Seeing Squirrel Girl get along so well with Laura considering the ummm....relationship between her and Logan..

Laura is like a daughter to Logan. Though it did take Logan some time to get there. And Laura has changed a bit recently, thanks to her experiences in Avengers Arena and Wolverines and her friendship with the O5 X-Men, especially Angel. Laura is more sociable than she used to be. She's becoming less of a female Logan and more of her own person.

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Lots of people writing off Squirrel Girl's series, but I love it. Last week's choose your own adventure story was really funny. I'm always happy when I get to pull Unbeatable Squirrel Girl off the rack, and I enjoy Erica's art a lot. I feel like there was even more that could have been pulled from last week's issue for "best stuff"

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@JamesSpiring said:

@ximpossibrux said:

Wolverine doing selfies..... Marvel, you already have Spidergwen, Silk, Ms Marvel, and now Gwenpool doing the teenage girl selfie/facebook stuff. Please stahp.

I do like how they're acknowledging Marvel going on for 60+ years, considering the ages they would have to be.

Laura doesn't even own a phone, she says so in that issue. Doreen is the selfie-taker.

She does, she just told Doreen otherwise at the beginning of the story to try and get rid of her after being woken up in the middle of the night by an uninvited guest bearing a snarling and irritable wolverine.

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@JamesSpiring: ummm.... Not sure what most of that has to do with my statement but ok

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I hate squirrel girl.

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X-23 and Squirrel Girl teaming up's got me wanting to draw the two of them again...
Comics, ya done good this week.

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@armiv2 said:

X-23 and Squirrel Girl teaming up's got me wanting to draw the two of them again...

Comics, ya done good this week.

You are an artist? You have a page somewhere?

Drawing them again kinda implies you have already done so before. Would be interested in seeing that provided you share your drawings with others of course

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Okay that Galactus intor is fantastic. Now that he's a force for life he's just a great guy huh? lol

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@galerion said:
@armiv2 said:

X-23 and Squirrel Girl teaming up's got me wanting to draw the two of them again...

Comics, ya done good this week.

You are an artist? You have a page somewhere?

Drawing them again kinda implies you have already done so before. Would be interested in seeing that provided you share your drawings with others of course

I've made several on this site in the past...six years that I've been here now?
Here's my latest.

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@armiv2 said:
@galerion said:
@armiv2 said:

X-23 and Squirrel Girl teaming up's got me wanting to draw the two of them again...

Comics, ya done good this week.

You are an artist? You have a page somewhere?

Drawing them again kinda implies you have already done so before. Would be interested in seeing that provided you share your drawings with others of course

I've made several on this site in the past...six years that I've been here now?

Here's my latest.

Wow, nice work. Will keep an eye on your stuff from now on. Your bearded Ryu made you instantly sympathetic :-D