The Best Stuff In Comics: 3-30-15

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Each week we take a look at the other Best Stuff you might have missed...this week.

SECRET AVENGERS #14

Best Fight Sequence

Ales Kot sets them up and Michael Walsh knocks them out of the park. I can't get enough of the change in perspective and storytelling in this series. This sequences shows Hawkeye taking down "seventeen hired guns without killing a single one of them while avoiding a monster and still totally following the plan..."

BATMAN AND ROBIN #40

Best ‘Brave and the Bold’ Team-Up

It's actually been kind of fun seeing Damian Wayne with superpowers. The team-up between him and Shazam has been a blast as well. Could this be the start of a new Brave and the Bold?

Best Attempt at Using Heat Vision

Imagine having heat vision. Imagine trying to turn it on for the first time or even wondering if you can turn it on. Either way, it makes a pretty great panel when Damian makes the attempt.

UNCANNY X-MEN #32

Best Goldballs to the Face

Not many people would want to get smacked in the face with a ball. Cyclops gets several balls to the face. When the team is outraged over his decision to turn them over to the Jean Gray School, Goldballs couldn't control himself.

R.I.P. Cyclops?

Coldest Remark This Week

We also see a flashback to a conversation between Scott and Emma. Emma suggests maybe they should just start over with everything. Scott's reply was a little chilly.

Best Future Plans for the Summers Brothers

Cyclops and his brother (Havok) have reunited. They've been on separate teams for sometime and Alex has been going through some things. What does the future hold for these two brothers? A suggestion is made.

Would you read a SUMMERS BROTHERS PIZZA PARLOR comic series?

GOTHAM ACADEMY #6

Best Reason Not to Talk

Speaking of pizza, sometimes, there's a reason to look forward to lunch in the cafeteria. Pizza Day was always a highlight for the lunch menu. And when someone is trying to have a conversation with you, they might as well wait until the pizza is gone.

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY #25

Best Indiana Jones Reference

Sam Alexander is such a little rascal. Who else would think about the Indiana Jones theme song while trying to run off with one of the most dangerous space artifacts in the galaxy while an army of evil aliens are hot on your trail?

DEATHSTROKE #6

Best Hamlet Reference

Deathstroke (and Harley Quinn) came face to face with Possum, one of Deathstroke's new villains. It turns out there is a tiny bit of culture within Slade. Then again, hasn't everyone read Hamlet in high school?

Best Butt Shot

Here we get a butt shot involving Lady Shiva.

It's a literal butt shot. Harley shoots her in the butt. Get your mind out of the gutter.

PAST AWAYS #1

Best Way to Deal with a Deadly Creature

Speaking of butts, here we have a strange creature that can secret some sort of acid out of its butt. Earlier in the issue a dude thinks it's funny to get his pic taken with one. Everyone soon witnesses the results of this mistake. Seems there's one safe way to deal with them.

DAREDEVIL #14

Best Costume Change

Now "best costume change" can bet taken two different ways. Daredevil's decision to change his outfit does make sense. What's the point of wearing a mask if he's embraced having everyone know his true identity? This new look may take some getting used to and who's to say how permanent it will be. It is a little snazzy though.

"Oh good lord" indeed.

THE FLASH #40

Best Creator Cameos

Sometimes we get to see comic book creators in the actual comics. With this week's THE FLASH, we see co-writers Van Jensen and Robert Venditti busy working on their laptops.

DARTH VADER #3

Best Day in the Life of a Sith Lord

What does Darth Vader do in a typical day? When he's searching for someone, it's probably a little something like this.

BATMAN ETERNAL #51

Best Family Reunion

This next one...well, we can't really say anymore or who it involves. It's a great moment. You'll just have to read it yourself.

That's it this week. Let us know in the comments below what other Best Stuff you dug this past week. Thanks to @djfanco, @Bamz2Bluntz, @mak13131313, and @Vermirak. If you want to participate or felt we missed some other Best Stuff, you can @reply me on Twitter at@GManFromHeck by Saturdays using the hashtag #BestStuffInComics. We'll give you a shout out and I'll think you're pretty groovy.

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1. I kinda hoped Damians interaction with the JL would result in him getting punched through a wall atleast once.
2. I see New 52 Shiva still isn't worth a damn, which is sad.
3. Red Riddler is now at Marvel.

Great stuff this week! It would be awesome to have a Damian and Shazam team up book. I completely missed Van Jensen and Venditti in The Flash. And thanks for using both of my suggestions!

The Nova thing made me laugh when I read it.

Well doesn't Mr. Murdock look fabulous

Lady Shiva needs to not be garbage.

quite

Matt Murdock lookin snazzy!

Cyclops and Emma need to be a thing again!

Digging the new Look of DAREDEVIL! I hope he and Moonknight teams up with his white suit costume!! WOULD BE SO EPIC!!

Also he should have kept the red SHADES!!!
~MIB

Many good stuffs today!

Oh man I should have written in there was another Indy ref in Vadar.

@madeinbangladesh: @madeinbangladesh: it's funny when you say that, I picture Matt and Marc together wearing the orange and blue suits from Dumb and Dumber

Great stuff. Loved the Brave and the Bold reference. It wold be cool to see Shazam and Damian team-up.

That Daredevil attire may be the ugliest suit I have ever seen in a comic.

@mak13131313: the flash will always be my favorite thing to read. When this team took over I was like a spoiled child refusing to accept it. I'd read it every month and still be like, gimmie manapul back. In retrospect, have re read this whole run. I enjoyed the booth van and venditti run leaps and bounds more than what came previous. It just works for me. Yes booth has a house style, but it's a fantastic house style. The flash has never looked so energetic on a page before. I can't forget dalhouse on colors and rapmond on Inks. Together, they are a perfect team.

just got a question: What is Hamlet?

btw Nice To be or not to be reference hehehehe. I make one with the head of my ex but she send me to hell too.

Daaaaaaamn, D! Looks like you turned that swagger "on". Oh, wait, I forgot, it was never "off".

@divell: Hamlet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet

As a person who hates Emma Frost. Cyke dissing her made me so happy.

Gonna need Context on why Cyke is the one dissing Emma now since he pretty much caused the rift. ( not that it matters since the whole young cyke and jean are still here and getting their will-they-won't-they stuff )

Also...Why disrespecting Lady Shiva like that ? I mean she suppose to be top 3-4 best fighters in the world and Harley shoots her in the butt ? really ?

@starbrand1: I completely agree.

Best convince your little brother out of evil moment!

BEST FINISHING MOVE

BEST GAME OF THRONES REFERENCE

When you see Lady Shiva in Nightwing she is much more formidable. They write her as she truely should be written

Is DD trying to copy Moon Knight now?..

These are all fantastic! I always have the indiana jones music going in my head when I just barely make the subway.

That's what it looks like. It'd be funny if moonknight started wearing daredevil's old costume.

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Now that was one heck of a remark.

Two: Took me 5 minutes to get that Past Aways scene (what in the...)

Three: Sorry DD, MK still gets the best superhero suit award.

And finally!

Vader: You get a Force throw! You get a Force throw! Everybody gets a Force throw!

Only if you count the first encounter, she lost the return match against Nightwing, and apparently she was all talk in RH&O before Jason apparently one-shots her.

Best Dick Grayson Reference

SHAZAM

Is Nightwing the guy in Eternal

Shazam became a joke

@space4rentt: yeah that would be something fun to see)

The fact that Lady Shiva has been reduced to that caused me physical pain.

I agree with all of these. People are gonna start discrediting her if there's more showings like this.

@synack1138: Is that actually Bruce? What issue is that?

@darthaznable: Bruce is in the first panel. The masked man I'll leave spoiler free, if you choose to read the issue. The issue itself is The New 52: Futures End. #47.

Harley has stealth taken down Batman before. Yet nobody calls Bruce garbage.

Because Bruce has endless oppertunities to make up for an occasional hickup, Shiva on the other hand does not, and as said before, if all encounters with her ends like that, then her name isn't going to be worth much.

I honestly don't see the problem. Nobody freaked out when Jason, as Robin, stealth punched her in the back of the head in Death in the Family, hell, that's one of her best showings.

New 52 Shiva has beaten Batman and Robin as a teenager, beaten Nightwing rather easily, and has been stated as the best assassin in Ra's secret city. Cheshire, who beat Arsenal, Green Arrow, Memoryless Jason, and Starfire, at the same time, said she was inferior to Shiva.

I wasn't aware she even appeared in DotF.

The beating of Batman and Robin/Dick is as far as I can tell, the only feat to her name as it stands. Dick eventually defeated her in Nightwing, which only raised the question if he was even fighting the same Shiva that defeated him as Robin or not. And the statement of 'being the best there is' rings hollow like a church-bell when Jason then one-shots her.

DC apparently wants to claim Shiva is the best, they just haven't given us proof to actually believe it's the case. Like they wants us to think Cheetah is a League-level threat, a true A-level badguy, but then they also lets Green Arrow defeat her with little to no difficulty...

@outside_85:

"Dick eventually defeated her in Nightwing"

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You obviously didn't read it. That never happened. She beat him and left.

What's next? Your gonna talk about how Shiva came back and kicked Jason's ass after the one shot? Cause that didn't happen either.

Ok buttmuch, is Dick Grayson dead or not? No he isn't. Is the target Shiva was after dead or not? No. Guess she failed, end of story.

@synack1138: excellent issue also !! Especially when you find out who was wearing the batman beyond suit.

@outside_85: so since Grayson's not dead, Shiva lost? I guess Shiva lost all her fights with Dick then.