Last week of August reviews
Some of this will go into the radio show I'm working on:
Legion of three worlds
Spiderman: New ways to Die
Angel : After the fall 11
Captain America 41
Final Crisis number three continues Grant's wacky and weird voyage through the more odd parts of the DCU, fiddling with Jack Kirby creations left, right and centre and giving us a classic Grant simmer-slow-burn to a hot sizzling complication and what's sure to be a great finish. Some of Grant's singularly high-concept and 'huge' ideas leap out such as the bullet being shot in the future and travelling back through time and now with Issue three, the visuals really come into their own with some mega-creepy moments such as the last few pages.
It's an interesting one as it's not old-school comics, not like the original Crisis or even the most recent 'Infinite Crisis' . It's not even like 52 or Countdown though it definitely uses and builds on the foundation stones that those series laid whilst throwing out two million other not entirely interesting plotlines and digging up so many ancient and second tier characters. I'm surprised that DC went with such a high-brow approach for their big deal cross-over but it is certainly nothing to sniff at, with a mini-series of this magnitude being allowed to ease into the big storylines and take it's time in telling it's rather complicated and multi-layered story.
Of course, being a crisis book, and being a Grant book means this will inevitably shift the goal-posts around a bit and allow us to more accurately get an over-view of the modern DCU and especially the modern Multiverse. Already in the last few months, the multiverse has been used extensively in JLA, JSA, Trinity and the Legion of three worlds mini and I'm hoping some kind of official structure will be put into place now with perhaps the first of many books being launched set in other worlds than the 'New Earth' that the consolidated 'Earth-1' realities have become, in the wake of 52.
Speaking of, 'FC: Legion of Three Worlds' is such a treat, it's hard not to gush. Geoff Johns knows and loves the Legion like very few do. He 'gets' the Legion as they once were and can be again- a very special family of super-heroes who've grown up together, fought alongside Superman since he was a boy and survived calamity after calamity without giving up or drifting apart.
Matching him up with George Perez is a LSH fan's dream come true. The crisp-clear art is a beauty to look at, taking much longer than usual to get through each page as it would be a crime to not fully look over every little corner and detail that Perez puts into the book.
Picking up from Johns two previous LSH story-lines, this book continues his ongoing plots with the post-crisis Levitz legion (without the original post-crisis changes) and throws a lot of changes at us fast in this first of five issues. This is exciting stuff and as good as Jim Shooter has been doing the monthly book, this definitely makes me want to see Johns on the Legion monthly, with whatever team we end up with once this massive mini finishes.
Legion of three worlds
Spiderman: New ways to Die
Angel : After the fall 11
Captain America 41
Final Crisis number three continues Grant's wacky and weird voyage through the more odd parts of the DCU, fiddling with Jack Kirby creations left, right and centre and giving us a classic Grant simmer-slow-burn to a hot sizzling complication and what's sure to be a great finish. Some of Grant's singularly high-concept and 'huge' ideas leap out such as the bullet being shot in the future and travelling back through time and now with Issue three, the visuals really come into their own with some mega-creepy moments such as the last few pages.
It's an interesting one as it's not old-school comics, not like the original Crisis or even the most recent 'Infinite Crisis' . It's not even like 52 or Countdown though it definitely uses and builds on the foundation stones that those series laid whilst throwing out two million other not entirely interesting plotlines and digging up so many ancient and second tier characters. I'm surprised that DC went with such a high-brow approach for their big deal cross-over but it is certainly nothing to sniff at, with a mini-series of this magnitude being allowed to ease into the big storylines and take it's time in telling it's rather complicated and multi-layered story.
Of course, being a crisis book, and being a Grant book means this will inevitably shift the goal-posts around a bit and allow us to more accurately get an over-view of the modern DCU and especially the modern Multiverse. Already in the last few months, the multiverse has been used extensively in JLA, JSA, Trinity and the Legion of three worlds mini and I'm hoping some kind of official structure will be put into place now with perhaps the first of many books being launched set in other worlds than the 'New Earth' that the consolidated 'Earth-1' realities have become, in the wake of 52.
Speaking of, 'FC: Legion of Three Worlds' is such a treat, it's hard not to gush. Geoff Johns knows and loves the Legion like very few do. He 'gets' the Legion as they once were and can be again- a very special family of super-heroes who've grown up together, fought alongside Superman since he was a boy and survived calamity after calamity without giving up or drifting apart.
Matching him up with George Perez is a LSH fan's dream come true. The crisp-clear art is a beauty to look at, taking much longer than usual to get through each page as it would be a crime to not fully look over every little corner and detail that Perez puts into the book.
Picking up from Johns two previous LSH story-lines, this book continues his ongoing plots with the post-crisis Levitz legion (without the original post-crisis changes) and throws a lot of changes at us fast in this first of five issues. This is exciting stuff and as good as Jim Shooter has been doing the monthly book, this definitely makes me want to see Johns on the Legion monthly, with whatever team we end up with once this massive mini finishes.