Week of May 14, 2008 Super Short Reviews of MEOWNESS :D

Meow meow meow meow meow :D

Meow meow meow meow meow :D

Kk, so it's Super Short Reviews time! :D Meow!

Sry I'm bopping to music right now XD Also I got to watch Ironman! Yay! :D

I rly rly liked it. Like rly :D I liked Pepper too :D But I was most surprised at how likeable they made Tony :) Like, that's why I was so skeptical when I first heard of it, and esp the casting of Downey Jr., but he rly did a good job making Tony somebody I liked. :)

Also yay robots! :D

XD I was making little sounds thru out the movie. My friend was quite amused XD But like I wasn't loud or nething, but I was like YAY ROBOTS! And yay warmachine! And awww poor guy, he died :(

But that just means that it was a good movie and I got rly into it :D

Neways, enuf about that :D I give it a 4.5 out of 5 :]

On to the comics I got this week! :D

Action Comics Annual - #11
Batman - #676
Booster Gold - #9
Green Lantern Corps - #24
Huntress: Year One - #1 (of 6)

Actually I got the AC Annual last week but I was too lazy to add it into last week's SSRs xD

So let's just pretend I got it this week!

Neways so here are the SSRs! :D

Action Comics Annual - #11 - I rly liked this one XD Even if it was A BILLION YEARS LATE!!! Also the ending confused me, about how it fit into the current storylines :( But I always luff it when good guys and bad guys team up to fight a greater foe :D And the parts with Parasite and Metallo in it were nice character moments :) 4.5/5

Batman - #676 - This is the beginning of the Batman RIP stuff and we are finally finding out who the Black Glove and stuff are :o I like that things are moving forward and stuff, I'm just kinda confused about what's going on xD Esp with the ending :o 3/5

Booster Gold - #9 - I rly liked this issue :D It was all crazy and alternate universe tropeys and I have a soft spot for AUs where horrible horrible things are happening. XD It was just mostly fun :3 4/5

Green Lantern Corps - #24 - I rly liked the characterization in this issue :D There was a bit of very blatant exposition in it, but in general, I enjoyed what was going on and esp how the characters were interacting and stuff :D 4/5

Huntress: Year One - #1 (of 6) - Yay Huntress! :D I've always liked The Huntress and I rly like this first issue :D She kicks total ass and I identify with her and her background a bit :] I'm interested to see what happens next! :D 4/5

:O Many 4s o_o

But yus :D So there they are :D

Meow meow :] I'll hopefully get some reviews up :D I've just had a busy week xD

<3

Teh Ami

Week of May 7, 2008 Super Short Reviews of DOOM :D

Rawr. Okay my Teen Titans review exploded b/c my brain blocked out the first couple pages of it and when I re-read them... it was very upsetting :(

I do wanna get to Miss Martian tho :) And I need to finish up my Supergirl review that I have almost written, it just needs a couple scans I have to make. xD

Blah. >.>;;

NEWAYS

So this is what I got this week :D

I ended up NOT getting the Atom just cuz the past couple issues haven't impressed me at all :(

So this week I got:

Detective Comics - #844
Supergirl - #29

I have mixed feelings about both actually.. like... that there's stuff I rly rly liked about them and stuff I wasn't that impressed by :\ And so it's odd o_o

Neways here are the SSRs :)


Detective Comics - #844 - I always luff the Zatanna/Batman pairing and I find their chemistry oh so adorable, so netime they get to talk in this issue it makes me smile and stuff :D Unlike others, I actually kinda find the new ventriloquist interesting... at least in that she COULD be rly interesting if they explore her char more :) What I rly didn't like tho was how most of this issue was exposition... and exposition... and MORE EXPOSITION D: There are other, more interesting ways, to show readers a backstory than just page after page of somebody telling it straight up :( And then there's the obligatory fight. xD I ended up enjoying it, but the huge chunk in the middle was like >.>;; It was just very dry :( 3/5

Supergirl - #29 - The characterization of Kara is finally halfway DECENT, and I like how she's being portrayed lately, esp in this issue when she's caring, determined, optimistic, etc etc... basically everything Supergirl SHOULD be :) The plot still sucks tho :( And that makes me sad :( I want to see this Supergirl with a better plot (and a more stable setting in general) :) 2/5

Mew :o Yus, so that's it 4 now :) Life is all screwed up lately and I'm dealing with things (as usual.. DAMMIT THINGS STOP MAKING ME DEAL WITH YOU) but hopefully I can finish off the Supergirl review and stuff :D I rly want to talk about Miss Martian cuz I luff M'gann cuz she is me and I am her :D It is decreed... we merged last night >.>;;

<.<;;

Teh Ami

Week of April 30, 2008 Super Short Reviews :D

Hi :D

Okay finally I actually had comics to buy this week! :] So life is good :D

I think I'm mostly recovered now from my wisdom teeth being removed and being rly sick for a few days (which was bizarre xD) and stuff tho :) And I have comics! So hopefully I'll be back to regularly reviewing stuff :D

Neways so this is what I got today :D

Action Comics - #864
Batman - #675
Blue Beetle - #26
DC Universe 0 - #1 (0?) (One-Shot)
Green Lantern - #30
Legion of Superheroes - #41
Teen Titans - #58

Rawr.. I wasn't originally going to get Titans, but Miss Martian was in it, and I luff her, so I got it and I'm SO not sorry I did! :D Miss Martian is GREAT!!!! :D And I relate to her on many levels which I'll get into later :] Also it gave me the MOST HILARIOUS TIM CHARACTERIZATION EVAR xDDDD

So here are the Super Short Reviews™! :D

Action Comics - #864 - This is a set up issue for Legion of Three Worlds but I found it RLY interesting. :] Actually now that Countdown is finally DONE, it seems like things are finally picking up again! :D I rly liked this issue b/c it had lots of Batman/Superman interaction and was just rly interesting in general and had good characterization :D 4.5/5

Batman - #675 - I originally skipped this b/c I haven't rly been enjoying Morrison's writing in this title lately, but Zhinxy told me that it was decent, so I checked it out, and it IS decent :D Batman is still angry!Batman but I liked the plot mostly and Jezebel Jet is still wicked cool and stuff :D The ending doesn't bode well for her tho :( I still thought this was a decent issue tho :D 3/5

Blue Beetle - #26 - Okay this will be a tricky score. :o I rly DO like the story and stuff, and the ending was rly sweet. :] I had some problems with the scarab characterization b/c it seems to go against what was recently established :\ But I guess that's kinda expected with a new writer XD My bigger issue comes from the issue being billed as the special Spanish issue, when rly it's just an issue translated into Spanish, then the English is given at the end so it comes off as a gimmick. Also ppl who actually speak and read Spanish have told me the translation isn't even good and regardless, there's a lot that wouldn't translate well and there's just a huge difference between writing something for a particular language and writing something in another language and translating it. :\ So it just seems rly gimmicky and annoying to me. I mean if you're going to do a story in the language of the superhero and bill it as this awesome authentic thing, and that the English is only a "bonus" (which btw you shouldn't have to PAY extra for "bonus material") you should have somebody fluent in the language write it IN that language and then you can translate it to English. >:| Neways... so ultimately I give it a 2/5 b/c while I enjoyed it, making the special Spanish language issue which is supposed to be respecting Jaime and his family in the comic into just an English issue with a gimmick doesn't sit well with me :(

DC Universe 0 - #1 (0?) (One-Shot) - For a 50 cent comic this was rly enjoyable :D I rly liked all the little previews and the overall narration which turns out to be from a surprise person! :D It also finally has me interested in Final Crisis and the little arcs coming in the DCU for each char :D 4/5

Green Lantern - #30 - We continue our origin story revamp of Green Lantern and I'm enjoying it :) Esp the parts with Abin Sur :D The characterization seems solid to me and it's just sort of relaxing and fun :D 4/5

Legion of Superheroes - #41 - The story continues to be interesting and the characters continue to be neat, fun and cute :D LoS is a book I've been enjoying a lot of lately and I still like it just cuz it's fun and I like the dialogue and stuff and I just... like it :D 5/5

Teen Titans - #58 - Normally I would take off points for bad Robin characterization, but this one was SO HILARIOUS that I think it GETS points. xD It's just.. OMGWTFBBQOUTOFLEFTFIELD XD Also M'gann is awesome and.. just awesome :) We find out more about her history and.. I just rly identify with her and her struggles and her past. :] <3 The plot is okay, I'm not fond of the Terror Titans AT ALL, but M'gann more than makes up for that. :D 4/5

:D

K so that's it! :] Sry about the long BB SSR, but it's a sore spot for me :\ Also my sister's fluent in Spanish and she's none too happy about it either, so I guess I'm sorta expressing for both of us. xD

Detailed reviews coming! :D (hopefully xD) Tomorrow's my birthday tho so, so I may take it off for blogging :D

<3

Teh Ami

Edit: apparently my brain blocked out the first couple pages of TT and I forgot they existed :( for personal reasons i dun think i can review it right now :( hopefully later tho, b/c I rly like the other parts :) it's just right now i'm crying :(

Week of April 23 doomsick and missing teeth :(

I had my wisdom teeth removed and now I'm sick too :( Blah :\ Just letting ppl know why I haven't been able to post nething :)

Sry :(

Week of April 16, 2008 Super Short Reviews of.. nothingness :O

Hi :D

This week I got...

nothing xD

Yup xD I didn't have nething to get this week (as far as I know) xD So I didn't get nething. :] Sry D: But at least this is good for my wallet :)

I have a Supergirl review almost done tho so that will go up! :D Hopefully a few others too. :)

*stretch*

So my SSR this week is that the universe gets a 3.5/5! :D

Um.. that's it xD

Bai :D

<3 Ami

Week of April 9, 2008 Super Short Reviews! *koffkoff* :(

Hi :)

I think I'm a bit sick right now so I'll make this fast :( This is what I got this week :D

Booster Gold - #8
Green Lantern Corps - #23
Justice Society of America - #14
Wonder Woman - #19

:)

Neways here are the SSRs! :D (sry sick :( I just wanna hop into bed :\ )

Booster Gold - #8 - As much as I've loved this series, this book is just rly boring cuz the plot is just.. so generic :\ I'm actually getting tired of the "worst case scenario" alternate present/future story where tons of ppl die b/c we know it's all gonna be undone. :( Plus the ending is a theme that's been pushed heavily since the build up to Infinite Crisis :\ I just want this arc to end and to get back to the unpredictable fun that was going on before :) 2/5

Green Lantern Corps - #23 - Interesting! :D Now that GL is taking a break from the Sinestro Corps aftermath, it's nice to see the storyline being picked up in GLC! :D I rly like how events are moving towards something and also just to see the chars I'd gotten used to seeing during the Sinestro Corps War plotline show up again :D 4/5

Justice Society of America - #14 - This issues bored me. Mostly b/c I didn't rly care about the chars and Gog has never rly been a villain I was impressed by or wanted to see more of. :( Also a brief Countdown plug *yawn* The opening I found rly neat but everything else kinda descended into a big fight and I didn't rly like it very much :( 2/5

Wonder Woman - #19 - Given how much I didn't like last issue, this issue wasn't bad at all :) There are some things that didn't feel rly right to me, and stuff seemed to move rly fast towards the end, like there wasn't enuf pages to cram everything in, but otherwise it was decent :) 3/5

Neways, that's it :) Now off to bed!

Good night :D

<3 Teh Ami

Blue Beetle - #25 Review (the real one this time, I promise xD)

Blue Beetle - #25



Synopsis: Blue Beetle says Dan Garrett's magic word and the Scarab wakes up and flies towards him and he becomes Blue Beetle again!

On Earth, Guy Gardner, Ice and Fire show up to help the Beetle Allies in their fight agains the Reach ground troops! YAY ^___^

Back on the ship, Blue Beetle explains to the Negotiator that the algorithm he put in the Reach Ship just consisted of random numbers to distract the Reach while the Scarab that was hooked up to the main computer downloaded their plans and transmitted them to Oracle and Batman to send to the world! He explains that the reason the Reach (who have been monitoring every electronic transmission Jaime has been making) didn't realize that Jaime had been in contact with Batman was b/c Jaime sent an old fashioned pen and pepper letter to Batman! :DDDDDDdd

The negotiator, in anger orders that the Reach world rippers prepare to destroy Earth! D:

On the surface again, Brenda wakes up and she and Paco kiss. Paco is attacked by Dawur and Brenda attacks him back and together they defeat him! :O

Jaime uses his own body to interrupt the Reach ship energies causing it to self destruct and prevent it from destroying Earth :o B/c he has to stay on the ship until the last minute for it to work, he and the Scarab accept that they have to die. Suddenly Booster Gold appears in a time rift, grabs Jaime (who tries to save the Negotiator too) and they escape. :DDD

A BBQ is held in the Reyes home (that was rebuilt by WayneTech of course) and a good time is had by all (tho Brenda and Paco pretend nothing happened on the battlefield :( ). :D


Review: Yay! :D This is pretty much as perfect an ending to this arc, and Beetle's growth into a full blown hero, as you could get! :D

I liked everything about this! Well almost everything xD I thought the Brenda/Paco stuff was a little too cliched.. just with the "oh we're gonna drag this out". Considering BB has been all about avoiding this type of plot stuff like Jaime NOT hiding it from his family and friends, Jaime not being obsessively sekritive about his identity, Jaime NOT have a problem asking for help, his family NOT freaking out or nething, it just kinda stood out to me. xD I know it kinda makes sense but it would have been rly cool if they just admitted things and went out :D So far BB has never been about beating around the bush or arbitrary drama and I've rly liked that :D Like Jaime and Traci just going out once they hit it off and no weird love triangles or nething! :)

But I also understand why there would be this twist b/c Rogers is leaving and Pfieffer needs SOMETHING to work with. xD Hopefully it doesn't turn into overdone dramuh :(

I rly like how everybody jumped in to save Jaime tho :) I rly like the old JLI showing up. :D THIS is how to handle a legacy character, you show him having his own cast and still be faithful TO the legacy. Ted's friends showing up, Dan's daughter and magic word, etc... Jaime is his own person and hero but he's also tied to his legacy too, they BOTH are part of him :D

Oh and it rly shows how much respect he's earned that all these ppl will show up to help him not cuz he's Ted but b/c he embodies the best traits of Ted, his heroism, his ingenuity, his determination and his intelligence :) And also b/c they respect and like Ted, it's about both of them not just 1 :) And ultimately, Jaime EARNED this. Which is the bottomline message that I luff SO MUCH about this conclusion. The previous 24 issues have been setting this up, that when it's on the line, Jaime has earned all this respect from everybody that he can confidently enact plans that involve others, and that others will show up without him asking to help :D

He even earned Batman's respect on the several times he's worked with him and Robin. :) And sending the letter to him was BRILLIANT :D Also him using Oracle even tho they had a bit of a crappy beginning when Oracle freaked him out. :)

I KNEW that the magic words was calling to the Scarab to reactivate it (as I stated in the previous review) but I didn't know it was it's name! :O That's cool! :D I like how we can understand the Scarab now, tho I think it's great writing that even BEFORE we kinda knew what it was talking about too :D And that thruout Rogers' run the Scarab's speech has become slowly more like English. :O

Everything Jaime did on the mothership was awesome tho :D How he had it all planned out, how including the previous issues leading up to this, his entire attack on the Reach has been one big well thought out plan that was both simple AND hard for the Reach to predict b/c he got to know how they think :D It's like that old "know your enemy and know yourself" thing :D The algorithm being a random bunch of numbers to distract them while the Scarab did stuff was great too :D

The ending was PERFECT. Jaime rdy to sacrifice himself and asking the Scarab if it would too and the Scarab ttlly agreeing! :D Yay heroic Scarab! I like how the Scarab is good and heroic too! I like how despite all his doubts and insecurities, when the time comes, Jaime ACTS without hestitation, without thinking about himself, he just does what he has to to save ppl and I rly rly like that about him :D And of course Booster's last minute deus ex machina rescue which WORKED SO WELL b/c a) it rly was unexpected b) it made SENSE b/c Booster's a time travelling hero now and it's not like this is out of his character :D Too bad Jaime doesn't remember his time with Booster in the Booster Gold series tho :(

And Jaime wanting to save Neggy at the end was so touching D: Poor Neggy! I felt so bad for him as he realized that this wasn't a fluke, it wasn't bad luck. Jaime had qualities the Reach didn't pay attention to, and that even HE didn't realize: his heroism, his compassion, his leadership, the way ppl respect and like him and will go out of their way to help him when he needs it :) And his intelligence, determination, perserverance and inner strength :D Neggy is right the Reach never had a chance :(

The ending was a rly nice end to this run tho. It was a nice wrap up with everybody having fun at the BBQ at Jaime's house. Of COURSE Batman had Wayne Enterprises rebuild his house XD Batman is behind EVERYTHING since he's so f-ing rich! xD He's always rebuilding ppl's houses or giving ppl jobs and stuff :O But it was a nice touch b/c it's perfectly Batman. He wun show up to the party but he'll send a gift :) Just cuz you're anti-social doesn't mean you're not a nice guy! xD

I think the only big problem I had is that La Dama VANISHED! She wasn't at the party at the end, and we didn't get the closure of her and Brenda's storyline :( Did they make up? Is Brenda moving back? Is she giving up crime for good now? Brenda became all about the Paco thing and La Dama kinda just never showed up again :( That's the only thing that rly bothered me :( She's a HUGE part of the Beetleverse, both as Brenda's aunt and as Jaime's supposed arch villain (even tho rly they're not xD) XD And.. just.. she should have been there and her relationship with Brenda should have gotten a little play :( That makes me sad D:

The 4 JLI heroes making excuses as to why they're there is weird. Jaime implies there's more. Is it that they wun admit that Ted's memory ties them together stronger than they would admit? :D It's very very sweet :)

And Jaime is comfortable with being a superhero now :) I like that b/c it makes SENSE! Over 25 issues, he's been slowly growing, learning things about himself, becoming a hero, both when he has power and when he doesn't, and also in many ways he's always BEEN a hero. :) He's always had the strength and compassion and determination inside him, he just had to find it :)

THAT'S how a teenage superhero who needs to grow into the role and find not just their inner hero but their inner strength and maturity should be written! Supergirl is at TWENTY EIGHT ISSUES and she's only now sorta getting some personality and figuring out how to be a hero! That's what I was complaining about before, and ppl kept saying "oh no it's just teenagers are selfish and stuff and she needs time to grow.. etc etc"

But the problem was she WASN'T GROWING. Jaime grew :) From issue to issue he learned stuff and became a better person. SLOWLY yes, but the movement was there. It wasn't for Kara :( Also teenagers AREN'T selfish and mean and materialistic. That's a stereotype. Teenagers are young, inexperienced, sometimes immature, but those things change as they gain experiences, as they mature, as they grow and find out who they are, it's not some immutable part of who they are. :) Kara never got to grow, they just played her as a stereotype :( She has more issues than Jaime and less characterization :\ It says a lot for Rogers and his writing (and a lot about Kelly too >.>) :D

I esp like how Jaime WANTS to be with the Scarab now! Remember how at the beginning he kept trying to find a way to take it out? Now they're FRIENDS and PARTNERS and he's glad to be reunited with the Scarab and they have conversations and stuff! :D

Oh! And the Scarab having a talk with his fellow Scarabs (presumably about being good, heroic, having free will, etc) is awesome too :D Maybe they'll make friends with the ppl they bond with too and then the Blue Beetles will be like another GL corps! xDDDD

Maybe not >.>

But it was another nice touch to wrap things up :)

Neways the entire issue was just so great and so wonderful and so.. BLUE BEETLE :D I'm gonna miss Rogers now :( I dunno if Pfieffer can take over adequately but no matter what this 25 issue run (tho I know there's been a couple fillers that Rogers wasn't on) is something special and to me, the definitive Blue Beetle story arc :D They should collect them all into one big TPB :D It's rly like "Season 1" of Blue Beetle :D I just hope the next "season" will be an adequate follow up :D

Angelwings Rating: 5 happy Scarabs out of 5 happy Jaimes :D
Recommendation: DEFINITELY BUY IT!!!! >:D