Comics! Again
Bought a lot of comics this week. Also picked up the trade of Green Arrow: Year One which was a very pleasant surprise.
Everything ahead could contain potential spoilers.
Moves the story forward, but I wasn’t too fond of this one. It’s Spidey and Electro, also the Thinker. Was hoping we’d have some more interaction with the red thought bubbles guy who is setting up a Gauntlet for Spidey to run. Can’t say I’m interested in the Dexter Bennett saga much at all.
Criminal: The Sinners Part Two
Brubaker and Phillips are still going strong. Sean Phillips isn’t overly flashy with his art, but his style complements Brubaker’s writing perfectly. I’m loving their work so far, having read Incognito 1 - 6 as well. Good issue touching on Tracy’s relationship with a detective, the mob boss’ daughter and the young man behind the recent murders.
This interdimensional stuff throws me sometimes. The adventure on Nu Earth is good and it works as a sort of one - shot story. If we can get to what the Fantastic Four is doing on regular earth, that would be swell. Child - genius Valeria is something I enjoyed, I just hope they make her a into a bit more of a likeable character. I guess what I’m asking for is a bit more maturity out of the 8 year old in my comic book.
This is shaping up to be pretty good. I like how Hebe’s character is working out, I like Cho, heck I like the inclusion of the Avengers. The Agents of Atlas backup was good too.
I’m excited for Stark: Disassembled. Matt Fraction is doing one hell of a job on this and I’ve started to like Tony Stark. Salvadore Larroca also does an awesome job on the artwork, even though 6 pages is just a hologram of Tony Stark’s head talking to the reader. Still great stuff.
The cartoony art plus the mature content is throwing me a little bit. The writing is good, I think. But I can’t really focus on it, would I think the writing is pure genius if it was done with a different art style? Don’t really know, the art is good and the writing is good, it just doesn’t feel like they really fit each other. Also, not sure who the chick with the cape is on the cover. The only panel she appears in is when the main character is fantasizing about her while banging his girlfriend. I might be able to appreciate this more as it goes on, we’ll see.
I liked the first two in the Nation X storyline. I can see how the “Mutants vs. Goverment” thing can get old, I was tired of it back when I watched the X-Men TV show as a kid. It’s a solid read for what it is, the X-Men vs. some crazy beasties called Predators. Plus the Rogue thing was pretty cool.
At 4 bucks an issue, I’m dropping this one next month. I didn’t mind the Electro origin story with Magneto, but I can’t get into Spider-Girl and the Clone Saga being redone in it. The third feature, a J. Jonah Jameson thing, wasn’t all that entertaining.
This was really good. I liked how Fortress was the center of the book and the side stories with Spawn and Youngblood that have been set up are going to be pretty cool I think. The art is, as expected, amazing. I don’t personally notice the different styles all that well, but the collaboration is creating some pretty spectacular results.
I like how it involves Freeze, Clayface and Croc. I’m not entirely sure what the point of this series is, though. I guess it’s to put together a new Arkham Asylum and hopefully the first two issues are building up to something interesting in the 3rd and final issue.
Larfleeze and the rest of the Lanterns, whoever the hell they are, have teamed up to battle the Black Lanterns on earth. The Flash is also there, and the other Flash and Kid Flash shows up with the rest of the heroes. Weird ending though. I feel like there were two kids playing with action figures and the next issue should contain the other kid going “Wait, you can’t just automatically kill off all of the heroes by saying “DIE” that’s not fair!”
Two of the best stories this week were in Detective Comics. The amazing duo of Rucka and Williams keeps rolling. Getting to know Kate Kaine is a lot of fun. I don’t even mind that next to nothing happened in the present day storyline. The Question was great and of course everything is improved by the appearance of Huntress.
I really love Guillem March’s art. I’m not going to expect a whole lot from Gotham City Sirens in terms of storylines though. I’m looking for a fun comic book involving Harley Quinn, and that’s what I’ve been getting.
This is the prelude to Blackest Night #5 and it teams up all the Lanterns. But who cares about any of that. Larfleeze:
This is another one of those MY GOD THESE ARE PEOPLE I KNEW WHO DIED BUT NOW THEY’RE WALKING AROUND AGAIN THE HORROR Blackest Night tie - ins. This one is better executed than the Outsiders one, that’s all I can say for it.
The Noob’s favourite character of the week:
Very easy pick this week with Larfleeze. Honorable mentions include: Fortress, Kate Kaine, Rogue, Huntress, Question and Tony Stark’s hologram.
The charming gent pictured above opens Green Lantern #48. “Do you know what people want most? Something somebody else has.” Larfleeze continues to steal the show all the way through GL 48 and into Blackest Night #5. His simple-minded greed is becoming one of the most entertaining things in comics.
