Cover to Cover: *bloody* edition with extra *blood*

Another week, another cover to cover. . .

Amazing Spider-Man #547 was pretty good, but pretty forgettable too. The plot was interesting enough, with spider-mugger finding that he can unveil Spider-Man's identity, but here's the sad part: we know he's not. The stories are becoming depressingly predictable.

Also, now that old flattop (JJJameson) is in the hospital, the Bugle has apparently gone over to Dexter Bennett.

Check out the cover though. I really like Spidey's head anatomy, particularly the eyes. It looks like a cross between Romita Jr. and Romita Sr.

(stands on soapbox)

But really, the art was painfully inconsistent. On one page, his eyes shift from those designed by Erik Larsen, and two panels later, it's the movie eyes. Then, on the next page, you get Todd McFarlane eyes, until you get Romita Sr. eyes later!

Also, Carlie's hair is red after being blonde. What is going on? Does she continually dye her hair?I'm sorry about complaining. It's just, if you're gonna do what you did in OMD, I expect nothing but the best to make up for it.

Aside from the art, I should mention again that the story was nice, but not that memorable. 3 thousand color-changing hair strands out of 5 thousand.
Bloodrayne: Automatonby Kevin Melrose (w) and Andre Coelho (a)

Bloodrayne was a game about a dhampir (=vampire +human) who beats up nazis. It had a sequel.

You can understand why I like this title, which is basically a series of mineries and one-shots. On the cover, if you look under the "DEC" you see a "BR. 13," which makes this issue the thirteenth in the "series" even though it's a one-shot.

Well, in this one-shot, Rayne (the redhead on the cover) has to retrieve the Book of the Fifth Sun in order to capture the malevolent Gods that were released in the last miniseries.

And then chaos ensues! Golems! Wyrms! Really huge castles! Also, you must see this page. It is awesome:Bloodrayne: supplying your daily dose of the occult. Another thing about the title is that Rayne has a sense of humor about her adventures. It's not blatant, but it's there, and it helps the reader relate a lot.

The art is pretty cool too. It reminds me of Terry/Rachel Dodson work. four hundred milligrams of O-positive donor's blood out of five hundred.

Well, that does it for this week's edition of cover to cover. You might be wondering why it's called *bloody edition* when only *one* character had blood in his/her name. That's because in Amazing, Mr. Negative was about to pump out this guy's *blood* and leave him for Spidey to save a la Adam West Batman villains.

For good measure: *blood*.