If you missed the new trailer for Iron Man during lost last week you need to go see it. Finally, a Marvel comic has been put in the hands of a capable director, Jon Favreau, and looks to finally deliver an entertaining experience.

I am a diehard Marvel fan. My dad first introduced me to the likes of the Fantastic Four and Spiderman when I was a kid and I have been a fan ever since. He was even cool enough, or maybe you wouldn’t think so, but I did, to take me to a weekend comic book and trading card expo at some Marriott in Fort Wayne, so we could try and track down the missing issue of the Maximum Carnage series I was collecting.

During the past couple years, my comic book reading had become sporadic right until the announcement of Civil War. Before it started I decided to catch up a little and read House of M and all of the Road to Civil War. House of M was great and I really enjoyed the story. Road to Civil War, especially the Spiderman issues, were crap. It seems they were letting the lesser known, lesser talented writers and artist some time to get something published before the experts took over for the course of the Civil War.

I have read everything single issue of the Civil War storyline. This includes all of the spinoffs that came from it. Not all of it is good, but for the most part it is thoroughly entertaining. If you were to just read Civil War 1-6, you would be in for a treat. For me, it combined my favorite things, superheros and politics. Lets just say, I followed the West Wing religiously. The external conflict is met with a heavy dose of internal conflict as long time friends turn on each other in the interest of the greater good. The series asks a lot of moral questions that you might not think about when you are reading a comic. For instance, who does pay for the three city blocks that just got taken out by a battle between the X-Men and some Sentinels. So go give it a read.

As well as brining Iron Man to life, the Hulk is getting a second change, this time with Edward Norton as the Bruce Banner. I am glad that they are trying to bring the big green machine back to the silver screen, because the Hulk really is an interesting character and the possible stories are endless. Recently, World War Hulk just concluded, which had the Hulk return from exile after a secret group of Heroes, who are referred to as the Illuminati, tricked him into a space shuttle and launched him out into space. That would have been fine, had the warp core not exploded and killed his recently acquired bride who was pregnant with their child. Needless to say, the Hulk was not happy. If you haven’t checked out the series, give it a read, it isn’t half bad.

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