Comics: Robin #177, Rann-Thanagar Holy War #4, Reign In Hell #2
With honorable mention to Superman Beyond 3-D, which is getting delayed for the same reason as Last Will and Testament. Full review to come, but a quick note of: I really, really liked it. Also, some of the pages looked pretty darned awesome with the 3-D glasses on, but for best impact you should already have them on the first time you turn to those pages.
Erm. Potential for spoilers.
Robin #177 - I had Robin on my pull temporarily because of its tie-in to the Batman R.I.P. storyline. Turns out I could have skipped those issues entirely. :P However, when I saw it was still in my pull, I picked it up anyway. Why? Red Robin's on the cover! Really, I'm just curious to see what the heck is the deal with him, since it's obviously not Tim Drake and obviously not Jason Todd. No answers this issue, but if the next issue contains him at all, I'm probably buying it.
Well, okay. The next issue contains Ragman, which is another point in its favor, so I might buy it anyway.
I really couldn't care less about anything in the issue that didn't pertain to Red Robin.
Rann-Thanagar Holy War #4 - I gave this one more of a try than it really deserves. The art is meh, the story is meh, and despite the issue containing Adam Strange, Animal Man, and Bizarro (three characters I'm rather fond of), the single moment I actually enjoyed was Bizarro commenting on the "pretty lights" of the Zeta Beam and the Weird agreeing. Not good enough to justify spending another $3.50 on this mini-series. It's dropped.
Reign In Hell #2 - What is it with DC and religion-oriented war-based mini-series these days? Anyway, jury's still out on this one. It contained a lot of characters I like in it. I'm interested in seeing what happens with Blue Devil, for example, and it amuses me that when all the infernal influences were recalled to Hell, he was left behind. It was also pretty cool seeing the new Dr. Fate. Does anyone know if that mini-series (Countdown to Mystery) ever finished up? I know that it was delayed due to production problems (the biggest one, of course, being the death of the writer before the series was complete :/ ). I'm trying to figure out whether I should be looking for the last couple of issues of that, or for the trade paperback of the whole thing at this point.
Anyway, while the main plot doesn't really grab me, a couple of the subplots do, so I'm going to continue giving this one a chance.
Erm. Potential for spoilers.
Robin #177 - I had Robin on my pull temporarily because of its tie-in to the Batman R.I.P. storyline. Turns out I could have skipped those issues entirely. :P However, when I saw it was still in my pull, I picked it up anyway. Why? Red Robin's on the cover! Really, I'm just curious to see what the heck is the deal with him, since it's obviously not Tim Drake and obviously not Jason Todd. No answers this issue, but if the next issue contains him at all, I'm probably buying it.
Well, okay. The next issue contains Ragman, which is another point in its favor, so I might buy it anyway.
I really couldn't care less about anything in the issue that didn't pertain to Red Robin.
Rann-Thanagar Holy War #4 - I gave this one more of a try than it really deserves. The art is meh, the story is meh, and despite the issue containing Adam Strange, Animal Man, and Bizarro (three characters I'm rather fond of), the single moment I actually enjoyed was Bizarro commenting on the "pretty lights" of the Zeta Beam and the Weird agreeing. Not good enough to justify spending another $3.50 on this mini-series. It's dropped.
Reign In Hell #2 - What is it with DC and religion-oriented war-based mini-series these days? Anyway, jury's still out on this one. It contained a lot of characters I like in it. I'm interested in seeing what happens with Blue Devil, for example, and it amuses me that when all the infernal influences were recalled to Hell, he was left behind. It was also pretty cool seeing the new Dr. Fate. Does anyone know if that mini-series (Countdown to Mystery) ever finished up? I know that it was delayed due to production problems (the biggest one, of course, being the death of the writer before the series was complete :/ ). I'm trying to figure out whether I should be looking for the last couple of issues of that, or for the trade paperback of the whole thing at this point.
Anyway, while the main plot doesn't really grab me, a couple of the subplots do, so I'm going to continue giving this one a chance.