I wanted this blog to be a recap/review site for all my monthly comics, acting both as a reference source when I've forgotten what happened last month and as a forum for discussion for other fans, but it's recently become clear to me that I just can't do that during the school year when I'm working full time.  Maybe I'll go back to that format over ( Read more... )

In the hallway outside the apartment he's just been evicted from, Hal Jordan is given grief by Sinestro about what a mess his life is without the ring and attacks him with his bare hands.  That goes about as well as could be expected, and Sinestro further disses Hal by calling out his ring-slinging - unlike Sinestro, who imagined and created a ( Read more... )

I'm going to try to catch myself up by not letting myself read last Wednesday's crop of comics until the one from the week before are done.  So without further ado:

Batman and Robin #2

Bruce and Alfred are watching Damian while discussing his and Bruce's relationship.  Bruce is concerned that he won't be able to "fix" Damian after what Talia's put ( Read more... )

Week of 10/5/11

Action Comics #2

My earlier question about how they were going to keep Superman imprisoned is answered - apparently, with constant electrocutions. Lex Luthor has him strapped to an electric chair and is zapping him every time he moves with people monitoring his responses.  They keep giving him reports like "He's X-Ray opaque," but Lex ( Read more... )

The reason why I am so late with my comics is that I've been stuck with this one for so long.  I have really mixed feelings about this issue, because I really enjoyed the storyline itself but I found that the changes made to the status quo removed everything I loved about what was, prior to Flashpoint, my second-favorite comic (after Birds of Prey. ( Read more... )

Week of 9/28/11

Superman

We begin with corporate drama as the Daily Planet has merged with its multi-media competitor Galaxy Broadcast System and everyone's smug, preachy, and afraid that the newspaper will lose its integrity.  Lois and Clark have a fight about the decline of print media in which Clark looks like an idiot.  Lois has been promoted in ( Read more... )

This was, overall, a bad week for DC comics, and since nothing much happened in each of the issues, this is going to be a quick entry.

Green Lantern:  New Guardians

We rehash Kyle Rayner's origin story, but with no indication that this is a flashback or in any way occurring in the past.  Way to confuse new readers DC; even I double-taked at all the ( Read more... )

Week of 9/21/11

Batman

I want to say right off the bat (pun not intended) that I don't like the art in this issue.  I don't think the artist is intentionally bad, like I do the Green Lantern guy, but the style's not to my taste.  (I know that the writer comes first on the list of names on the cover of a comic, but I can't identify whether the names ( Read more... )

Week of 9/21/11 Continued

Green Lantern Corps

Out in Space Sector 3599, two Green Lanterns are escorting a prisoner when an invisible being invades their ship and cuts everyone in half.  He says something about the force of will and the force of destiny, whatever that means.

Meanwhile, back on Earth after having lived on Oa, Guy Gardner and John ( Read more... )

New 52 - Week of 9/14/11 Continued and Week of 9/21/11

I'm a week behind on the comics now, and it's going to be tough to get caught up by Wednesday since last week I bought 5 comics that I need to talk about instead of three (I also buy both of DC's all-ages comics for my library, but I've decided not to review those.).  So I'm going to try ( Read more... )