Wednesday #10
Woo hoo! I've done ten of these already (not counting the specials and the gabbing about comics I did without the Wednesday title). I feel like I should have a speech prepared or something. I don't, but I do have a link to Kevin Smith telling a hilarious story about trying to write a script for a Superman movie. I think anyone, comic book geek or not, would enjoy it. It's Kevin Smith, so plenty of cursing in it.
Onto the comics (spoilers as always).
Teen Titans #54: The best thing I can say about this storyline is that it's over for now, though the epilogue left open the possibility of more future evil Titan stories. As least that storyline would be complete concocted by McKeever (or whoever is on the book at the time) and not another writer's leftovers. McKeever did the best he could with the story and put in some fun bits, but in the end, it just wasn't his story. Here's to fresh starts!
Crime Bible: Five Lessons of Blood #3: Another great job by Rucka. We get to see how deep into the religion of crime Renee as gotten and her motivations for persuing its followers. Plus, Renee meets up with her on again off again girlfriend and they get to kick ass together for a bit.
All New Atom #19: Ryan ventures deep below Ivy Town to save members of the Ivy College faculty from CHUDS--cannibalistic humanoid underground dwellers, as the cover nicely points out. This was a fill-in for Gail Simone written by Keith Champagne and while funny in parts, I felt her absence. I did enjoy the part were Ryan shrinks to a sub-sub-atomic level to escape a fire.
The Brave and the Bold #9: This one features three short tales of superhero team-ups. In the first one, the Dial H for Hero guy helps out the Metal Men. Next, the Blackhawks fight mummies with the Boy Commandos. Finally, Hawkman teams up with the current Atom. The only one I truely liked was the Hawkman-Atom team-up. Waid did such a great job writing Ryan I half-thought that Gail Simone (Ryan's usual scribe) had ghost-written his section. The Metal Men-H story was cute, but I have no attachment with the characters. The Boy Commandos don't age well, not at a time when kids their age really are picking up weapons and waging wars, sometimes against their will.
Supergirl #25: "Look who's back: Reactron!" says the cover. My response: Who? The answer: a guy made out of a galaxy who can draw stars from himself and detonate them in nuclear blasts and who apparently likes to pick random fights with superheroes.
Supergirl's current writer, Kelley Puckett, like Andy Diggle in the Green Arrow Year 1 story, like to rely on action to tell his stories. So you get cool scenes like this:
You can almost feel the wind on your face as Kara races across the continent to find Reactron. The thing is Diggle also gave us scenes in which Ollie got to speak to other people or monologue to himself, so I could get a sense of who Oliver Queen was. I'm still trying to figure out who Kara Zor-El is and Puckett isn't helping as much as I'd like on that account. She's brave and wants to do the right thing (she journeys out multiple times to try to find the enemy ship that was attacking the Green Lanterns). She's curious (asking Reactron how he functions) and a bit impatient (cutting off the GL as he explains the mission). I still want to know more.
At one point, Supergirl gets knocked into the ocean.
The poses are completely different, but I can help thinking about the opening to Kingdom Hearts 1 there.
Legion of Super-heroes #37: We get a new creative team (Jim Shooter and Francis Manapul) who do a great job of building on the foundation Waid and Kitson made rather than tearing it all down and starting from scratch. Overall, I enjoy the art and the resigned costumes. I miss Light Lass's bob haircut and the random arrows on her back and I wish Karate Kid weren't so buff, but I can live with it. I'm glad that they didn't give Phantom Girl the boob window that she has on the cover. Only PG may rock the window.
I've got a good feeling about this. The story, for the first time in awhile, feels epic, as it should.
Oh, Lyle. Atom Girl has been a very bad influence on you.
Green Lantern #26: We get a brief breather to recover from from the Sinestro Corps War then launch right into more adventures. There are some really cool character moments like Sinestro admitting that the only people in the Corps that he considered friends were Hal Jordan and Abin Sur and Hal actually feeling bad about Sinestro being placed on death row. We also get a cool character moment were we are shown that John Stewart knows his fellow Earth Lanterns very well and that he has an insane amount of willpower, enough to exceed the capabilities of his ring. We also get this creepy page:
What is it with Oan prisoners and being shirtless?
The Flash #235: John gets to be awesome again and talk some sense into Wally.
I don't know, John. Canary yells pretty loud.
The backup story is great as always ("Is that a jumpsuit of shame?") and finally ties into the main story.
Invincible Presents: Atom Eve #1: Atom Eve finally gets a full origin story in this two-part mini. She's a military experiment who was hidden from the government by her creator. She grew up with uncanny chemistry aptitude, as shown in short vignettes in this issue.
I never knew that.
Eventually, Samantha Eve Wilkins discovers that she has my favorite superpower--transmutation. She can alter the chemical makeup of items, changing them from one thing (an ugly dress for Christmas) to another (a cool jacket). She uses this power to become Atom Eve, a superhero.
I actually like this costume better than the super swimsuit she usually wears.
Onto the comics (spoilers as always).
Teen Titans #54: The best thing I can say about this storyline is that it's over for now, though the epilogue left open the possibility of more future evil Titan stories. As least that storyline would be complete concocted by McKeever (or whoever is on the book at the time) and not another writer's leftovers. McKeever did the best he could with the story and put in some fun bits, but in the end, it just wasn't his story. Here's to fresh starts!
Crime Bible: Five Lessons of Blood #3: Another great job by Rucka. We get to see how deep into the religion of crime Renee as gotten and her motivations for persuing its followers. Plus, Renee meets up with her on again off again girlfriend and they get to kick ass together for a bit.
All New Atom #19: Ryan ventures deep below Ivy Town to save members of the Ivy College faculty from CHUDS--cannibalistic humanoid underground dwellers, as the cover nicely points out. This was a fill-in for Gail Simone written by Keith Champagne and while funny in parts, I felt her absence. I did enjoy the part were Ryan shrinks to a sub-sub-atomic level to escape a fire.
The Brave and the Bold #9: This one features three short tales of superhero team-ups. In the first one, the Dial H for Hero guy helps out the Metal Men. Next, the Blackhawks fight mummies with the Boy Commandos. Finally, Hawkman teams up with the current Atom. The only one I truely liked was the Hawkman-Atom team-up. Waid did such a great job writing Ryan I half-thought that Gail Simone (Ryan's usual scribe) had ghost-written his section. The Metal Men-H story was cute, but I have no attachment with the characters. The Boy Commandos don't age well, not at a time when kids their age really are picking up weapons and waging wars, sometimes against their will.
Supergirl #25: "Look who's back: Reactron!" says the cover. My response: Who? The answer: a guy made out of a galaxy who can draw stars from himself and detonate them in nuclear blasts and who apparently likes to pick random fights with superheroes.
Supergirl's current writer, Kelley Puckett, like Andy Diggle in the Green Arrow Year 1 story, like to rely on action to tell his stories. So you get cool scenes like this:
You can almost feel the wind on your face as Kara races across the continent to find Reactron. The thing is Diggle also gave us scenes in which Ollie got to speak to other people or monologue to himself, so I could get a sense of who Oliver Queen was. I'm still trying to figure out who Kara Zor-El is and Puckett isn't helping as much as I'd like on that account. She's brave and wants to do the right thing (she journeys out multiple times to try to find the enemy ship that was attacking the Green Lanterns). She's curious (asking Reactron how he functions) and a bit impatient (cutting off the GL as he explains the mission). I still want to know more.
At one point, Supergirl gets knocked into the ocean.
The poses are completely different, but I can help thinking about the opening to Kingdom Hearts 1 there.
Legion of Super-heroes #37: We get a new creative team (Jim Shooter and Francis Manapul) who do a great job of building on the foundation Waid and Kitson made rather than tearing it all down and starting from scratch. Overall, I enjoy the art and the resigned costumes. I miss Light Lass's bob haircut and the random arrows on her back and I wish Karate Kid weren't so buff, but I can live with it. I'm glad that they didn't give Phantom Girl the boob window that she has on the cover. Only PG may rock the window.
I've got a good feeling about this. The story, for the first time in awhile, feels epic, as it should.
Oh, Lyle. Atom Girl has been a very bad influence on you.
Green Lantern #26: We get a brief breather to recover from from the Sinestro Corps War then launch right into more adventures. There are some really cool character moments like Sinestro admitting that the only people in the Corps that he considered friends were Hal Jordan and Abin Sur and Hal actually feeling bad about Sinestro being placed on death row. We also get a cool character moment were we are shown that John Stewart knows his fellow Earth Lanterns very well and that he has an insane amount of willpower, enough to exceed the capabilities of his ring. We also get this creepy page:
What is it with Oan prisoners and being shirtless?
The Flash #235: John gets to be awesome again and talk some sense into Wally.
I don't know, John. Canary yells pretty loud.
The backup story is great as always ("Is that a jumpsuit of shame?") and finally ties into the main story.
Invincible Presents: Atom Eve #1: Atom Eve finally gets a full origin story in this two-part mini. She's a military experiment who was hidden from the government by her creator. She grew up with uncanny chemistry aptitude, as shown in short vignettes in this issue.
I never knew that.
Eventually, Samantha Eve Wilkins discovers that she has my favorite superpower--transmutation. She can alter the chemical makeup of items, changing them from one thing (an ugly dress for Christmas) to another (a cool jacket). She uses this power to become Atom Eve, a superhero.
I actually like this costume better than the super swimsuit she usually wears.