Review: Amazing Spider-Man #648

Story: Dan Slott
Art: Humberto Ramos

"Brand New Day" is over, and "Big Time" starts. Now, Dan Slott is the sole writer of the book, with artists rotating between Humberto Ramos, Marcos Martin, and Stefano Caselli. With this, I hope the storytelling and flow between stories become more consistent compared to when the book had several writers.

This issue features an all-star cast - Avengers, Sinister Six, the supporting cast of Spider-Man appear in the book. Slott has laid the groundwork on this issue that will play out as time goes by.

"Green Lantern" Movie Trailer Released!

Finally, Warner Bros. has released a trailer for their upcoming superhero movie, "Green Lantern". The film stars Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan, Blake Lively as Carol Ferris, Mark Strong as Sinestro, and Peter Sarsgaard as Hector Hammond.

The trailer already features a lot of characters from the Green Lantern universe - Kilowog, Tomar Tu, Sinestro, and a look at Oa. Also, we get to see the Green Lantern costume in action. What's interesting is that instead of the traditional spandex, the costume is made of a construct from GL's ring, and it definitely looks like that in the trailer.

The movie is set to be released in June 17th, 2011.

Review: Green Lantern: Emerald Warriors #4

Story: Peter J. Tomasi
Art: Fernando Pasarin, Cam Smith

I guess the cover of this issue says it all - Sodam Yat is back! He gets a major development in this issue but it pretty much doesn't meet up with the what the cover says.

Tomasi's work on "Green Lantern Corps" was really outstanding. But I gotta admit his work here is not that good compared to that. He gives most of the book to Guy Gardner, trying to make him likeable. But that's the downside of the book, sadly.

Review: Amazing Spider-Man #647

It's been three years since the "Brand New Day" era began, and now the web-heads braintrust are putting an end to it with this issue. After the very controversial arc "One More Day," many fans dropped the book, but some fans still supported "Amazing Spider-Man" despite of the big retcon Marvel did. I'm one of those fans.

Anyway, "Amazing Spider-Man" #647 is the final issue in the "Brand New Day" era of the book. And just like "Amazing Spider-Man" #600, all of the web-heads, or braintrust, each contributed a story. Since some of the stories aren't really connected with each other, I'm gonna review the stories individually.

Review: Brightest Day #13

Story: Geoff Johns, Peter J. Tomasi
Art: Adrian Syaf, Ivan Reis, Joe Prado, Vicente Cifuentes

"Brightest Day" has finally reached its halfway point with issue #13. And because Hawkman and Hawkgirl have been absent from the book for a couple of issue already, it's not surprising that almost all of the issue is dedicated to them, with the last two pages about Deadman and Dove.

One good thing about it is the story flows throughout the book consistenly. And because of that, we get to read almost a full story about the characters, instead of little chunks of story like in the previous issues.

Review: Amazing Spider-Man #646

Story: Mark Waid
Art: Paul Azaceta, Matthew Southworth

This issue wraps up the final arc on the Brand New Day era of Amazing Spider-Man, "Origin of the Species." Dr. Octopus has hired several of Spider-Man's deadliest villains to kidnap Osborn and Lily Hollister's baby.

Lizard has captured the baby from Chameleon, and has taken the baby to his underground lair, although it is unclear why he wants the baby aside from the fact Lizard hates Osborn.

"Captain America: The First Avenger" Pictures

Marvel has released some high quality pictures from their upcoming film, "Captain America: The First Avenger." The photos feature Chris Evans in his Captain America costume, as well as Hugo Weaving in a Hydra uniform.

Hit the jump to view the pictures. "Captain America: The First Avenger" is set to be released on July 22nd, 2011.