Blackest Night Titans #1: Poor BeastBoy. Hooray Ed Benes!
Green Lantern #45: Good! Star Sapphire's history appreciated!
Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps #s 1-3: Excellent background info for everyone!
Timestorm 2009-2099 #4: Good story, mediocre ending. Sequel?
29 August 2009
19 August 2009
Five-word reviews: Everything I read today.
Power Girl #4 - In a single word? Fun.
Daredevil #500 - Surprising. Going to keep reading.
Blackest Night: Superman #1 - Can't wait for the rest.
Amazing Spider-Man #602 (last week's) - Loving the current story arc.
Amazing Spider-Man #603 - Didn't finish. Liked so far.
X-Men Forever #5 - Always get interrupted while reading.
Witchblade #129 - Dunno the story, art's gorgeous.
Tales of the TMNT #61 - Not bad. Fun Batman-esque panels.
Batgirl #1 - Surprising new Batgirl! Way fun.
Daredevil #500 - Surprising. Going to keep reading.
Blackest Night: Superman #1 - Can't wait for the rest.
Amazing Spider-Man #602 (last week's) - Loving the current story arc.
Amazing Spider-Man #603 - Didn't finish. Liked so far.
X-Men Forever #5 - Always get interrupted while reading.
Witchblade #129 - Dunno the story, art's gorgeous.
Tales of the TMNT #61 - Not bad. Fun Batman-esque panels.
Batgirl #1 - Surprising new Batgirl! Way fun.
12 August 2009
Quickie Reviews...again?
I'm kinda digging these quickie reviews. I can get more stuff covered, and give out fewer spoilers.
- Gen 13 #31: I guess I missed last month's issue, 'cause I was kind of confused... But it wasn't bad. The series definitely has a direction that it's moving in, but that direction is more of a traditional team book than the quirky, fun, teenage book that the original series was. But maybe that's what the book needs, in the current market. As a random aside, the Worldstorm Gen 13 title has now lasted about half as long as the original ongoing, and twice as long as the Herod relaunch from 2002.
- Blackest Night #2: More black lanterns! More mayhem and violence! More death! And, for once, I actually find Aquaman intimidating! Definitely sticking with this one through the end.
- Blackest Night: Batman #1: "What's happening in Gotham during the Blackest Night?" Deadman has both been turned into a Black Lantern, and is still Deadman. But he's gotta warn the new Batman and Robin about what's coming! Not bad, but the cliffhanger ending makes me wish I had issue 2 right here. I might suggest waiting until all 3 issues are out, on this one.
- Green Lantern Corps #39: Blackest Night tie-in! Kyle Rayner and Guy Gardner talk about their bizarre lovelives, when the Black Power Rings zing past their heads and start resurrecting even more fallen heroes. Not as essential a tie-in as Green Lantern #44 was, but certainly nothing to scoff at.
- Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #1: Bendis has still got it! David LaFuente's artwork is a little more cartoony than I think this series really calls for, but it's still hard to get over Mark Bagley's 110-issue run. Either way, this is definitely one to stick with.
- Ultimate Avengers #1: Not a bad first chapter, but this had the same effect on me as Blackest Night: Batman, where I wish I had more of the story at once. I guess that's a good thing, really, since it means I'll be back next month. This issue debuts the Ultimate Red Skull! OooOOOOoooo!
- Ms. Marvel #43: "War of the Marvels" continues. And the original Ms. Marvel is revealed to be... Catherine Donovan? Wait, that's not Carol Danvers at all! I'm not sure about this alternating artist thing... I wish they'd just get Sana Takeda doing the pencils all the time.
- Gen 13 #31: I guess I missed last month's issue, 'cause I was kind of confused... But it wasn't bad. The series definitely has a direction that it's moving in, but that direction is more of a traditional team book than the quirky, fun, teenage book that the original series was. But maybe that's what the book needs, in the current market. As a random aside, the Worldstorm Gen 13 title has now lasted about half as long as the original ongoing, and twice as long as the Herod relaunch from 2002.
- Blackest Night #2: More black lanterns! More mayhem and violence! More death! And, for once, I actually find Aquaman intimidating! Definitely sticking with this one through the end.
- Blackest Night: Batman #1: "What's happening in Gotham during the Blackest Night?" Deadman has both been turned into a Black Lantern, and is still Deadman. But he's gotta warn the new Batman and Robin about what's coming! Not bad, but the cliffhanger ending makes me wish I had issue 2 right here. I might suggest waiting until all 3 issues are out, on this one.
- Green Lantern Corps #39: Blackest Night tie-in! Kyle Rayner and Guy Gardner talk about their bizarre lovelives, when the Black Power Rings zing past their heads and start resurrecting even more fallen heroes. Not as essential a tie-in as Green Lantern #44 was, but certainly nothing to scoff at.
- Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #1: Bendis has still got it! David LaFuente's artwork is a little more cartoony than I think this series really calls for, but it's still hard to get over Mark Bagley's 110-issue run. Either way, this is definitely one to stick with.
- Ultimate Avengers #1: Not a bad first chapter, but this had the same effect on me as Blackest Night: Batman, where I wish I had more of the story at once. I guess that's a good thing, really, since it means I'll be back next month. This issue debuts the Ultimate Red Skull! OooOOOOoooo!
- Ms. Marvel #43: "War of the Marvels" continues. And the original Ms. Marvel is revealed to be... Catherine Donovan? Wait, that's not Carol Danvers at all! I'm not sure about this alternating artist thing... I wish they'd just get Sana Takeda doing the pencils all the time.
02 August 2009
More quickie reviews!
Here's some stuff I've read in the last couple weeks:
- Marvel Divas #1: The premise for this book sounded so terrible that I HAD to check it out. Pretty much, the entire book is Black Cat, Hellcat, and Monica Rambeau gossiping about their relationships, until Firestar finally shows up on the last page, with a startling reveal!
- Gotham City Sirens # 1-2: Paul Dini, the head writer of the 90s Batman: The Animated Series is writing a book about Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, and Catwoman. It doesn't sound SUPER-great, until you realize, holy crap, Paul Dini totally is writing this. And Guilliem March draws some nice-looking ladies, I must say.
- Dark Wolverine #75-76: Not sure where this is going, but that might be why it was so fun. Daken is playing everybody, from Bullseye/Hawkeye to Norman Osborn to the Fantastic Four, for his own nefarious purposes. But to what end? I'm on board for the remainder of Daken's stay.
- Ultimatum #5: Well, if Marvel wanted to hit the big cosmic "reset" button on the Ultimate Universe, killing off half of the most important characters in the regular Marvel U is certainly an interesting way of doing it. Too bad Jeph Loeb hasn't been able to write his way out of a paper bag in the last few years. Finch's pencils fit the story very well, though. I'm curious to see where they go from here - With so many of Marvel's traditional Big Bads getting killed off in this series, where does the Ultimate Comics line go from here? Apparently, back to the future with Kang...
- Essential Wolverine Volume 3: Thought I'd go back and check out some old Wolverine stories, written by Larry Hama and drawn by Marc Silvestri. Man, no wonder Logan was so popular in the early 90s. Issues 48-54 are incredible, if a bit more sci-fi and surreal than today's comics tend to get. Say what you will about the lack of color in the Essential volumes, but looking at just Dan Green's inks over Silvestri's pencils (and Andy Kubert's, in issue 51) really shows the talent that both men have.
- Deadpool: Suicide Kings #1-4: Holy crap, this is awesome! I always forget how much fun Deadpool comics can be until I sit down and read them. Terrible puns a-plenty, dismemberment, and violence as far as the eye can see! And in the middle? Deadpool and Spider-Man talking smack to each other. I'm looking forward to #5, and may need to start checking out Deadpool more frequently, now.
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