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For those of you who don't know what MARA is, it's a 6 issue comicbook published by Image Comics. It's the story of an especially gifted woman in a sports-and war-obsessed future. Young Mara Prince is at the top of the world, a global celebrity in a culture that prizes physical achievement above all else.

After she manifests supernatural abilities on live TV, she becomes famous all over again but for the worst reasons. Integrating themes of superpowers, celebrity worship, corporate power, feminism, and political brinksmanship, MARA takes a classic genre to new places.

That's the description taken from the official Image site.


I grabbed the first issue of Mara after reading this description because it somewhat reminded me of the manga series Mila Superstar (Attack No.1) which I used to watch as a kid.

After 2 issues I have to say that Mara is a very well written comicbook and Ming Doyle does a fantastic job on illustrating it. I became a fan of her work solely based on these 2 books.

What I really like is how Brian Wood (the writer) manages to always leave you wanting more at the end of each book. I just want to pick up the next book and continue reading the story which I think has the potential to be turned into a movie. I'm already sad that it's only a 6 part series. I'd love to read much more and delve deeper into Mara's world and adventures.

If you like a good comicbook that's well written and greatly illustrated, you should pick up Mara now!

With Marvel launching all these new titles under their Marvel NOW! umbrella around the same time I got back into reading comicbooks again, I picked up most of the #1 issues, just to figure out which series I want to pick up and read.

The problem with this is that it's not a Marvel relaunch but in most cases a continuation of stories from previous titles. So basically most of the stuff is hard to get into if you haven't read the previous stories, with a few exceptions of course.

A #1 issue definitely isn't a full representation of a full new series but it shows you how the storywriting goes and how the book is drawn and I must say that most of these Marvel NOW titles didn't impress me. All of the X-Men, Fantastic Four and Avenger stuff that I read (I really picked up every title so far) didn't grab my attention and didn't make me want to pick up the following issues.

Though Indestructible Hulk, Iron Man and Deadpool all have great writing and are drawn nicely and appealing to the eye. And all of them start off at a point where you don't really need to have any prior knowledge of the characters or what was going on in the previous comicbooks. One more thing that remains to be seen is how the Superior Spider-Man series will turn out to be. Definitely got it on my subscription list already.

Since I've been back into reading comic books I noticed that I really like mini series's with 4 to 6 issues and one shots. It's a quick way to get a full story and the most important thing... It's not too hard to find a mini series for a good price compared to getting a whole 52-104 issue comic book series. So I've been indulging in the first Rogue series, the first  Gambit one, She Hulks, the 4 book Spider-Man story arch "One More Day" and of course the new "Death of the Family" arch. I also read some Silver Surfer one-shots

Death of the Family has been very good so far. I must say I mostly only read the main story-line in the Batman books though plus the ones from the Die-Cut covers, I really don't feel like getting into all of the books involved to get every little detail of the story.

Currently I have the Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe TPB on the way and am very much loooking forward to reading that. I'm also eyeing some of the Domino mini series's, Deadpool's Circle Chase and the other Rogue ones. If you have any recommendations, let me know in the comments.

This week in The Cover Got Me we have the 617th issue of The Amazing Spider-Man. It is a triple variant cover. I originally only wanted the first one and saw it on eBay but then someone bought it before me so I looked a little more and I found this set of all 3 covers so I thought, hey, why not!

This is the one question you'll definitely get asked when you're into comic books. For me, I think the answer to this is not really that hard to give. I totally go with Marvel because of several reasons.

Once again, a white variant cover featured in The Cover Got Me. In case you can't tell by now, I really love these kind of covers. So when I saw this, I had to get it.

This cover was illustrated by Marko Djurdjević, which is pretty cool cause he's actually from Germany, as I am. He did a few other Spiderman covers and some for other series, too so I'm thinking about eventually picking up some more of his work as it really looks fantastic to me. Also the homie Sermon told me that this little One More Day 4 part series is dope, so I'll definitely get me the other 3 issues.

If you want to see some more of his stuff, click HERE

When I first heard that they plan on doing a whole new Spider-Man series with a new cast just shortly after they finished the series with Tobey Maguire, I was pretty sceptical. I know it's The Amazing Spider-Man now..but still.

However I watched the new movie, expecting it to be crap or boring cause I expected them to not do it as good as the previous one but I was wrong and it was great. Andrew Garfield's portrayal of Spider-Man is much darker, he's wittier and overall cooler than Maguire was. I also liked how the whole love story was only a side story and not so much a part of it like it was in the 1st Maguire Spiderman. Maybe this is due to the fact that his love interest in this one is Gwen Stacy and not Mary-Jane Watson.

Also in this one, Peter Parker is a tech savy skater, rocking SB-Dunks, making him much more relatable for me than the Maguire one ever was. Besides that, the way they solved how Spider-Man is shooting webs from his hands is much more realistic in this one and Garfield's body much more resembles the one of a spider.

Concluding, not only is Garfield the better Spiderman, the whole movie, the cast and the way they transferred and interpreted the story is way better than in the Sam Raimi x Maguire one. I feel like what they did with this Spider-Man movie is kind of like what happened with Batman, the new series is darker and basically for a more grown up audience while the previous series was lighter and for families.

Can't wait to see what they'll do next.