Teen Titans - #43
Synopsis: Nightwing is talking with Ravager and Jericho and tells them that if they ever need him, he'll be there for them. :)
In the "Robin Cave", Robin and Wonder Girl try to get Raven to use her powers to bring back Superboy from the dead. However, Raven says that it's not possible and Superboy's soul has moved on. :| Suddenly they are attacked by Inertia who beats them around a bit until Match (Bizarro Superboy) shows up to join in the fun. :O
Meanwhile, Cyborg and Miss Martian go to a prison to visit Bombshell and interrogate her. :O While talking to her they're attacked by Risk and Batgirl! Batgirl slashes Bombshell's throat with a Batarang!!! :OOO Joker's daughter and Riddler's daughter then attack followed up by Sungirl who badly burns Miss Martian! :(((
Kid Devil is in the rafters of a church, following the sermon, hoping for redemption from God for his deal with Neron when he's attacked by Kid Crusader. :O
Robin wakes up in the "Deathstroke Cave" where Deathstroke and Batgirl are. Deathstroke says that Robin took away his family (Jericho and Ravager) and he wants them back or he'll change the Titans like he changed Batgirl! He then reveals that he's been giving Batgirl the same drug that he gave Ravager orginally that drove her insane and had her rip out of her eye to be more like her father! :O
Meanwhile in New York, Jericho and Ravager are walking along the harbour when Jericho points to something! Ravager turns around and sees a giant T, much like the Titan's tower, but it's made of wood and looks very ominous! O_O;;;
Review: I actually rly enjoyed this story! :) I had some issues, but they weren't very big ones. :D
I still rly like Miss Martian. I love how happy and sunny she is! :) It seems like they're trying a little hard to force her into the role of the "cute girl" (esp since in her short bio at the beginning they call her a "sweetheart") but I still do like her! :D She's like me!!! Her skirt's a little too high for my tastes tho. :| I hate the comic skirts that seem to make it like the girls have no private parts. :( Just legs coming out of their waist. :\ Srsly, I have short skirts too, and they are smexy, but they're not THAT short. :O Just a LITTLE longer plz? :D Not much.. just a *little* more to be believable ^-^
I like how one of the villains described her as the "Hello Kitty" hero! XD Hehehehe.. I totally want to be the Hello Kitty hero! :D I <3 Hello Kitty!! :3 I'm not ashamed of saying that either! ^-^;;;
It's been a year. I wish ppl would just get over the death of Superboy alrdy. :\ MIND YOU, in the comicverse where EVERYBODY comes back to life, I guess I'd feel it was unfair if my best friend/boyfriend couldn't come back too. XD So in context, sure, I'll accept it X3
I wish teenage girls would be drawn without C cups being the smallest size. :| Breasts dun show THAT MUCH thru clothing! I know that an A or B wouldn't show much in most shots, but you dun NEED to keep reminding ppl that they're looking at girls! I'm sure most readers know that a character is female without the obvious big boobs. :S I just find it a little disconcerting. :( Muscles on guys, I understand, you get those thru working out. You dun get bigger boobs thru working out to fight crime. :\ I just find that it kinda ruins the idea of them being regular teenagers. :(
Kid Devil is quickly becoming my favourite Titan! :O I feel so bad for him and I love that he goes to church even tho it burns him to be in a house of God. :O Kid Crusader seems to actually believe that he's doing good tho and isn't like all crazy evil or nething. :O Which also raised the question, are ALL the Evil Titans (Titans East) drugged like Batgirl or are they actually evil or do they just believe that they're doing good? :O Interesting questions! I hope there are interesting answers!
And onto Cassie. :) I think that DC rly wants to get the msg across that Batgirl is not gonna be crazy evil all the time and that her character is still intact. Why? B/c normally a reveal like this would happen in a LATER issue of the plot, not in the FIRST issue. They'd string it along for a while and ppl would wonder why Batgirl's being all crazy, and then they'd explain it near the end. *nods* HOWEVER, if they did that, MOST PEOPLE WOULD STOP READING! And I think DC knows that. They dun wanna run the risk that ppl will think Batgirl's still being written badly, so they're making sure we know now "HEY SHE'S BEEN GIVEN CRAZY DRUGS!"
Is that a cop out? Yes. Is it a necessary one? Yes.
Like, the bad writing happened. Nothing we can do about it. :\ So the next best thing is to say that it's not her fault she's like this! I mean there's no logical way to explain why she'd become crazy evil except that she's been given crazy evil pills. :] And I dun think there's nething condescending to her about this either b/c Ravager went crazy too and I'm fairly certain that if a MALE character was given crazy drugs, it'd have the same effect. :)
I COULD BE WRONG. I wasn't reading comics when the Ravager thing happened. :| Maybe the drugs dun work that way? However, it can be easily explained that maybe this is a new batch and they do work that way now? Either way she's clearly not herself. Given Deathstroke's obsession with the Bat family and Nightwing and Robin in particular, and given that in Infinite Crisis, Batman, Nightwing and Robin beat the carp out of him, it makes sense that he would want to take revenge by using one of the Bat family. :O
My thing tho is that Batgirl killed Bombshell! I know she's not in her right mind but... will they deal with that or just make it go away? Cuz it's not nothing. She's responsible for ANOTHER death now, and it's not one she did as a child. :O I HOPE that they do.
I ALSO HOPE that Batgirl brings Deathstroke's downfall by FIGHTING the mind control. I dun want her to do it b/c Robin loves her or something like that. I dun want her to do it b/c Robin's strength of will helps her defeat it. It's fine if she looks at Robin being beaten or dying or something and breaks free. But I would like it to be b/c of HER strength of will. :) B/c that's what would happen if Robin was drugged (AND MAYBE HE WILL BE!) Maybe Batgirl helps Robin break out of it! :O
I dunno, but still, until this story goes bad (IF it happens), I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt! I know some fans will not and will prolly not like this turn at all. I can see why they might not, but *I* am okay with this :)
However, what I'm not okay with is Batgirl's super puffy pouty lips. :O She looks like a geisha girl or something! Did Deathstroke give her collagen implants too? WHY ARE THEY SO SHINY RED!? Why would you need to coat on the lipstick under a full covering mask!? :O
Mind you, with Deathstroke controlling her, maybe he makes her do that b/c he's a creepy old man? That might also explain his obsession with the TEEN Titans.
I think it'd be rly interesting tho if Deathstroke used this crazy evil serum on the other Titans tho! It seems like that it might be up to Ravager and Jericho to stop them then! I just like seeing the super good teen idols not be totally invincible to this too. It'd also make what happened to Batgirl make sense if it could happen to nebody! :) Given how strong Batgirl's will is, it's hard to believe she was easy to control :O Even with drugs.
I like the coordinated attack on the Titans tho. :) That showed Deathstroke's intelligence. I know it's used (the whole coordinated attack on a group of heroes thing) but I still think it was executed well :) You can't ALWAYS be original, but if you use cliched things but do it WELL, it can come off rly great. :D
I found it very funny that nobody but Jericho noticed a GIANT T MADE OUT OF WOOD SITTING IN THE MIDDLE OF NEW YORK CITY. XDDDD
It must rly be true that nothing can freak New Yorkers out! :O
I find the fact that Deathstroke has a cave very amusing and that he keeps little capsules with ppl's costumes in it like Batman does! Bruce needs to sue him for copyright infringement! XD I'm surprised Batman doesn't seem to care what happens to Robin. :O
On an aside tho, despite the lips, I think the art for Cassie Cain was rly well done. :) She looks right to me. Sometimes artists have trouble drawing Asian features and it comes off very screwed up, but I think she looks great :) I wish I looked that great :( I think I need collagen injections to make my bottom lip that huge! XDDD
I'm very very interested to see how this turns out tho! As I said, I'm totally giving this book a chance and Johns a chance to show what he can do with the corner Cassie's been written into. :O I just HOPE that it turns out good for her and her character can be likeable again! I'm just worried (given what's going on in Supergirl) that she'll continue to be a villain or something. :(
MIND YOU, given how Supergirl's acting, maybe Batgirl's good at that point and is out to stop Supergirl!
Actually tho, given how delayed the Supergirl series is and how Deathstroke eluded to the way Batgirl's been acting, maybe the Supergirl vs Batgirl thing was supposed to have ALRDY come out by this point and we'd have more stuff about how crazy Batgirl was acting? :O
I dunno. XD I dun work at DC (sadly. :( Dan, I'll write for free!!!) XD
But still, I liked this book and I think it's worth picking up for ppl who are Titans fans or just are interested in the fate of Batgirl! Maybe it'll turn out badly, in which case I will be the first to stop getting Titans, but I rly like Johns' writing and I have faith he'll turn out something good. :)
I just want Cassie to be a hero again.
Angelwings Rating: 4 Batgirls out of 5 Puffy Juicy Full Ruby Red Lips
Recommendation: Def worth getting if you're a Titans fan. :) Worth checking out even if you're not just for the beginning of what seems to be a good story :]
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Week of Jan 31 Comics and Super Short Reviews :3
Moo! :D
Hi ppls! :) I'm back with another installment of my super short reviews! :D Today was a good day for comics! At least for the ones *I* read XD I'm surprised b/c normally there are some bad ones but I think I enjoyed everything today.
The big news (for most of us neways) is Teen Titans where Batgirl returns! It seems like Johns wasn't lying when he said he'd fix her (or at least explain her crazy behaviour). I KNOW that there are gonna be ppl out there who dun like it. :\ That's their prerogative. HOWEVER, I want to say that I *DO* like it :D
It's not supergreattotallyawesome or nething, but I think Johns did the best he could with what he had. :O And there's not that many great ways to write yourself out of a corner. It's kinda obvious in a way, but at least he wrote himself out of it. :) At worst, it was a servicible way to fix things. :]
I personally hope that Batgirl goes the direction I'm thinking Johns plans. There's another way it could go, and that would be sad and stuff. :(
Now, I dunno what goes on at DC behind the scenes, but it seems TO ME, that this wasn't planned from the very beginning, that somebody had an idea for Batgirl, it didn't go right and fans got angry, and there was a decision to fix it. :| Of course, DC might claim they did this all along to screw with the fans, and MAYBE THEY DID, but since it's happening in different books, it seems like a round about way to do it. :\ Personally, I dun rly care one way or another as long as they're fixing it. :D I dun fault ppl for making mistakes, I fault them if they stubbornly refuse to do nething about it or even acknowledge other opinions. It seems that they did tho :)
Maybe there's hope for Supergirl after all! Can we get Johns or Simone to write her pretty pretty please? XD That's just my preference as a fangirl of those two! XD I'm still interested to see what Mr. Sable will do with her tho! I know nothing of him, so I bring no assumptions one way or another into his run :]
OH! I saw the SMEXIEST little Batman Beyond baby tee at my comic shop today! I alrdy have the Supergirl one which I wear sooo much it's not funny XD But this one is just so smexy. :D I'm thinking of getting it but it's like $25, so I dunno... >.>;;;
Neways onto what I got today!
52 - #39
American Virgin - #11
Batman and the Mad Monk - #6 (of 6)
Blue Beetle - #11
Ion - #10 (of 12)
JLA Classified - #33
Teen Titans - #43
So yah... 7 books :) I was pleased with all of them! WOW! This is gonna be hard to rate. :(
52 - #39 - Another fine chapter that I enjoyed except for one part that was RLY GROSS! XP OMG!!! I'll allow it tho just b/c there prolly wasn't a better way to get the same impact across without using many panels. :| Still... GAH-ROSS. x_x However, the rest of it was rly good and rly interesting and there's a new twist in the Lex Luthor plot! I dunno if the ending is a "women in the refrigerators" thing, but I didn't take it as such :) 3.5/5 Angelwings
American Virgin - #11 - More interesting things happen! Things are finally get neat and I like the way Adam's character is developing! He's becoming somewhat heroic, more assertive and not willing just to take things as they come! As well he's coming off as more of a genuinely good, likeable person that we can relate to and root for! :D Plus... the cover.. omg... I dunno what it is about it.. but... TEH SMEX! :O Why is it that big muscly guys (mimbos supposedly) dun do nething for me but... GAHHHH.... :O Srsly, a great book tho! :D 4.5/5 Angelwings
Batman and the Mad Monk - #6 (of 6) - Rly great end to the series! A bit sad and maybe not very well composed at the end (not enuf pages?) but still, I liked it. :) And it sets up nicely for the rest of Batman's adventures! It's not the BEST of series, but it's a decent ending :) Plus I think Julie Madison's portrayal is done rly rly well. ^-^ 4/5 Angelwings
Blue Beetle - #11 - XDDDDD This issue was even funnier than the last one! Jaime has some great lines that just make me explode in giddiness! :D I rly like everything that's happening and just the sheer craziness of it makes the whole book worth reading! Rly made me enjoy my subway ride home! XD 5/5 Angelwings
Ion - #10 (of 12) - :O The story was very weird, and maybe not as interesting as it hinted at. :| Still, we get the return of a character we wondered what happened to and more hints as to what's going on! I think if done right this new plotline we're heading towards could be rly interesting! Blue Beetle hinted at this too. :O The ending brings back another one of my favourite characters! There's a lot of exposition that I think bogs that book down a bit, but I still enjoyed it! :) 3.5/5 Angelwings
JLA Classified - #33 - The 2nd part of the Red King storyline is very enjoyable. :) Great interplay between the League and it's obvious why the Red King is so successful in his first attempt. :) However, I thought the characterization of Wonder Woman was a bit off, just cuz I dun think she can be so easily charmed. Just cuz she's a woman doesn't mean she'll act like a silly schoolgirl around a guy who is heroic or nething. XD Still, the good stuff outweighs the stuff that makes me go o_O :D 4/5 Angelwings
Teen Titans - #43 - Great start to the Titans East storyline! :D Honestly, I was rly skeptical about this and opened it like I would a Supergirl book (with great apprehension) but I think it's off to a good start. :) The art for the most part was good tho I think the breasts got too exagerrated for teenagers at times, but in general, I enjoyed what's going on and I think the explanation at the end, even if it rly came off as a "this is what you wanted fans" sorta thing, worked for me and I liked it. :) I think this story could be rly GOOD if done right :) 4/5 Angelwings
So that's that! :) I dun care what ppl say, I liked the comics this week b/c I had fun reading them. ^-^ And that's all that rly matters!
In depth reviews coming up soon! :)
<3 Teh Ami
Hi ppls! :) I'm back with another installment of my super short reviews! :D Today was a good day for comics! At least for the ones *I* read XD I'm surprised b/c normally there are some bad ones but I think I enjoyed everything today.
The big news (for most of us neways) is Teen Titans where Batgirl returns! It seems like Johns wasn't lying when he said he'd fix her (or at least explain her crazy behaviour). I KNOW that there are gonna be ppl out there who dun like it. :\ That's their prerogative. HOWEVER, I want to say that I *DO* like it :D
It's not supergreattotallyawesome or nething, but I think Johns did the best he could with what he had. :O And there's not that many great ways to write yourself out of a corner. It's kinda obvious in a way, but at least he wrote himself out of it. :) At worst, it was a servicible way to fix things. :]
I personally hope that Batgirl goes the direction I'm thinking Johns plans. There's another way it could go, and that would be sad and stuff. :(
Now, I dunno what goes on at DC behind the scenes, but it seems TO ME, that this wasn't planned from the very beginning, that somebody had an idea for Batgirl, it didn't go right and fans got angry, and there was a decision to fix it. :| Of course, DC might claim they did this all along to screw with the fans, and MAYBE THEY DID, but since it's happening in different books, it seems like a round about way to do it. :\ Personally, I dun rly care one way or another as long as they're fixing it. :D I dun fault ppl for making mistakes, I fault them if they stubbornly refuse to do nething about it or even acknowledge other opinions. It seems that they did tho :)
Maybe there's hope for Supergirl after all! Can we get Johns or Simone to write her pretty pretty please? XD That's just my preference as a fangirl of those two! XD I'm still interested to see what Mr. Sable will do with her tho! I know nothing of him, so I bring no assumptions one way or another into his run :]
OH! I saw the SMEXIEST little Batman Beyond baby tee at my comic shop today! I alrdy have the Supergirl one which I wear sooo much it's not funny XD But this one is just so smexy. :D I'm thinking of getting it but it's like $25, so I dunno... >.>;;;
Neways onto what I got today!
52 - #39
American Virgin - #11
Batman and the Mad Monk - #6 (of 6)
Blue Beetle - #11
Ion - #10 (of 12)
JLA Classified - #33
Teen Titans - #43
So yah... 7 books :) I was pleased with all of them! WOW! This is gonna be hard to rate. :(
52 - #39 - Another fine chapter that I enjoyed except for one part that was RLY GROSS! XP OMG!!! I'll allow it tho just b/c there prolly wasn't a better way to get the same impact across without using many panels. :| Still... GAH-ROSS. x_x However, the rest of it was rly good and rly interesting and there's a new twist in the Lex Luthor plot! I dunno if the ending is a "women in the refrigerators" thing, but I didn't take it as such :) 3.5/5 Angelwings
American Virgin - #11 - More interesting things happen! Things are finally get neat and I like the way Adam's character is developing! He's becoming somewhat heroic, more assertive and not willing just to take things as they come! As well he's coming off as more of a genuinely good, likeable person that we can relate to and root for! :D Plus... the cover.. omg... I dunno what it is about it.. but... TEH SMEX! :O Why is it that big muscly guys (mimbos supposedly) dun do nething for me but... GAHHHH.... :O Srsly, a great book tho! :D 4.5/5 Angelwings
Batman and the Mad Monk - #6 (of 6) - Rly great end to the series! A bit sad and maybe not very well composed at the end (not enuf pages?) but still, I liked it. :) And it sets up nicely for the rest of Batman's adventures! It's not the BEST of series, but it's a decent ending :) Plus I think Julie Madison's portrayal is done rly rly well. ^-^ 4/5 Angelwings
Blue Beetle - #11 - XDDDDD This issue was even funnier than the last one! Jaime has some great lines that just make me explode in giddiness! :D I rly like everything that's happening and just the sheer craziness of it makes the whole book worth reading! Rly made me enjoy my subway ride home! XD 5/5 Angelwings
Ion - #10 (of 12) - :O The story was very weird, and maybe not as interesting as it hinted at. :| Still, we get the return of a character we wondered what happened to and more hints as to what's going on! I think if done right this new plotline we're heading towards could be rly interesting! Blue Beetle hinted at this too. :O The ending brings back another one of my favourite characters! There's a lot of exposition that I think bogs that book down a bit, but I still enjoyed it! :) 3.5/5 Angelwings
JLA Classified - #33 - The 2nd part of the Red King storyline is very enjoyable. :) Great interplay between the League and it's obvious why the Red King is so successful in his first attempt. :) However, I thought the characterization of Wonder Woman was a bit off, just cuz I dun think she can be so easily charmed. Just cuz she's a woman doesn't mean she'll act like a silly schoolgirl around a guy who is heroic or nething. XD Still, the good stuff outweighs the stuff that makes me go o_O :D 4/5 Angelwings
Teen Titans - #43 - Great start to the Titans East storyline! :D Honestly, I was rly skeptical about this and opened it like I would a Supergirl book (with great apprehension) but I think it's off to a good start. :) The art for the most part was good tho I think the breasts got too exagerrated for teenagers at times, but in general, I enjoyed what's going on and I think the explanation at the end, even if it rly came off as a "this is what you wanted fans" sorta thing, worked for me and I liked it. :) I think this story could be rly GOOD if done right :) 4/5 Angelwings
So that's that! :) I dun care what ppl say, I liked the comics this week b/c I had fun reading them. ^-^ And that's all that rly matters!
In depth reviews coming up soon! :)
<3 Teh Ami
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Checkmate - #10 Review
Checkmate - #10
Synopsis: Pawn 502 and the other Kobra initiate meet with a Kobra agent who tells them they must pass a test to show that they truly want to be part of Kobra. The agent then cuts both their hands and draws their blood. :O
Back at Checkmate, it is revealed that many attempts have been made by various agencies to put a spy in Kobra but all of them had been discovered and killed :O The reason is that Kobra has a magician working for them who can tell who is a spy and who is not using the blood. :O To counter this, Checkmate uses Shadowpact to do another spell at the same time as the blood test. :|
Meanwhile, the Kobra initiate is visited by the other member of his group: the guy who can turn invisible. :O The invisible guy escaped captured in the last issue b/c he was... invisible XD He tells his friend that Pawn is a spy sent by Checkmate.
They go to see the magician who discovers the invisible guy who then says that Pawn is a traitor! The magician tests the blood as Shadowpact performs the ritual, and the results show that Pawn is loyal while the other two are traitors!
At that moment, Checkmate comes barging in to arrest Kobra! However the Kobra operatives escape with Pawn 502, believing him loyal! :O
Checkmate does come away with the invisible guy and the initiate however, who reveals himself to also be a Checkmate agent in disguise! The real initiate was still back at Checkmate being used for the blood ritual that Shadowpact had to do. :OOO
Sasha then reveals that their double agent was actually turned into a Kobra agent (with the snake eyes, etc) b/c he rly has to go all the way to infiltrate them, and she hopes he still remembers his duty. :O
Review: :O So did Shadowpact kill that guy? o_o;;; It seems like they might have! Checkmate plays hardball after all. :O
I was hoping that the double agent would actually have to become a snake person at the end to be part of Kobra and he did! That was rly cool and interesting that now, is he rly one of Kobra or not? Like, how much control does Kobra have?
It can't be mind control I guess tho, otherwise they wouldn't have to do the loyalty test. So maybe he just like becomes sorta bad, but still knows who he is and stuff? :O This is the end of the story arc (for now) and I can't wait to see what happens when they decide to continue with it! :O
I rly liked this story b/c it was very secret agent-ish and had both sides trying to anticipate each other and stuff! I also like how both sides use aspects available to them in the DCU like magic, etc. You get the feeling these are both organizations that could exist irl (i.e. a terrorist organization and a spy organization) but they're merely using the powers that are available to be used in the DCU. :O
As usual the characterization is teh awesome, and Sasha is just so great :D Like, Checkmate is THE book for people who want to see all sorts of different races, sexualities and genders working together. :) It's kinda like Star Trek XD None of the differences are pointed out. They're just THERE, and the characters are what's important :D
This is why I think Checkmate is the best new book of 2006. :]
Checkmate is definitely one of those books I absolutely look forward to. :)
Angelwings Review: 4 out of 5 invisible peoples!
Recommendation: Highly recommended, even for those who aren't regular Checkmate readers, b/c it'll give you a good sense of what the book is like :)
Synopsis: Pawn 502 and the other Kobra initiate meet with a Kobra agent who tells them they must pass a test to show that they truly want to be part of Kobra. The agent then cuts both their hands and draws their blood. :O
Back at Checkmate, it is revealed that many attempts have been made by various agencies to put a spy in Kobra but all of them had been discovered and killed :O The reason is that Kobra has a magician working for them who can tell who is a spy and who is not using the blood. :O To counter this, Checkmate uses Shadowpact to do another spell at the same time as the blood test. :|
Meanwhile, the Kobra initiate is visited by the other member of his group: the guy who can turn invisible. :O The invisible guy escaped captured in the last issue b/c he was... invisible XD He tells his friend that Pawn is a spy sent by Checkmate.
They go to see the magician who discovers the invisible guy who then says that Pawn is a traitor! The magician tests the blood as Shadowpact performs the ritual, and the results show that Pawn is loyal while the other two are traitors!
At that moment, Checkmate comes barging in to arrest Kobra! However the Kobra operatives escape with Pawn 502, believing him loyal! :O
Checkmate does come away with the invisible guy and the initiate however, who reveals himself to also be a Checkmate agent in disguise! The real initiate was still back at Checkmate being used for the blood ritual that Shadowpact had to do. :OOO
Sasha then reveals that their double agent was actually turned into a Kobra agent (with the snake eyes, etc) b/c he rly has to go all the way to infiltrate them, and she hopes he still remembers his duty. :O
Review: :O So did Shadowpact kill that guy? o_o;;; It seems like they might have! Checkmate plays hardball after all. :O
I was hoping that the double agent would actually have to become a snake person at the end to be part of Kobra and he did! That was rly cool and interesting that now, is he rly one of Kobra or not? Like, how much control does Kobra have?
It can't be mind control I guess tho, otherwise they wouldn't have to do the loyalty test. So maybe he just like becomes sorta bad, but still knows who he is and stuff? :O This is the end of the story arc (for now) and I can't wait to see what happens when they decide to continue with it! :O
I rly liked this story b/c it was very secret agent-ish and had both sides trying to anticipate each other and stuff! I also like how both sides use aspects available to them in the DCU like magic, etc. You get the feeling these are both organizations that could exist irl (i.e. a terrorist organization and a spy organization) but they're merely using the powers that are available to be used in the DCU. :O
As usual the characterization is teh awesome, and Sasha is just so great :D Like, Checkmate is THE book for people who want to see all sorts of different races, sexualities and genders working together. :) It's kinda like Star Trek XD None of the differences are pointed out. They're just THERE, and the characters are what's important :D
This is why I think Checkmate is the best new book of 2006. :]
Checkmate is definitely one of those books I absolutely look forward to. :)
Angelwings Review: 4 out of 5 invisible peoples!
Recommendation: Highly recommended, even for those who aren't regular Checkmate readers, b/c it'll give you a good sense of what the book is like :)
Friday, January 26, 2007
Supergirl and the Legion of Superheroes - #26
Supergirl and the Legion of Superheroes - #26
Synopsis: Using Supergirl's X-Ray vision, the Legion find the Wanderers and face off. :O Lightning Lad is shocked to find that his brother (and Light Lass' sister), Mekt Rannz is leading the Wanderers. :| After some talking, the Legion discovers that the robot rebellion underground has been working with the Dominators to create a giant robot to take over Earth! :O
Cosmic Boy sends Mon-El, Ultra Boy, Supergirl and Brainiac to get to Tokyo to stop them. :O They tunnel thru the ground as it's the fastest way. O_O;;
Then Cosmic Boy and Lightning Lad confront Mekt while Light Lass speaks to the Wanderers. It's revealed that on their home planet, children are usually born as twins, but Mekt was born alone which made him different and lonely. :( One day, he was flying a spaceship when he crash landed on a planet with lightning people. Unbeknownst to him, his younger brother and sister had stowed away. They looked for help and got zapped by the alien ppl on the planet! Mekt was able to get his siblings to safety and they found they had powers which they used to power the ship and escape! When the twins awoke, Mekt had alrdy vanished. :
Lightning Lad had been trying to track Mekt down for years, but kept running into dead ends. Meanwhile, Light Lass tells the Wanderers that Mekt, like other single-birth children, has a death-wish and that they stowed away to protect him from himself. She says that the mission Mekt is recruiting them for is a suicide mission. :|
While tunneling, Mon-El reveals he alrdy knows Kara from the past and that she will eventually return to her own time. Superman put him in the Phantom Zone to save him from death from lead poisoning. :O
Supergirl, Mon-El, Ultra Boy and Brainy reach the robots and beat them up but then a giant robot that resembles a Dominator shows up beneath them and rises up thru the ground! They start beating it up, but Brainy realizes that it's not a fighting robot but a delivery system! It releases a large red.. something... and Brainy tells Cosmic Boy that they've lost as a red cloud covers Earth. :(
Review: "Very well... we've lost". XDDD Best line to report the end of the world evar! I just love how casual Brainy is about it.
I wonder what that red thing is tho! Maybe ppl with more knowledge about the LoS universe can tell me :O
Me and my sister were talking about Superman sending Mon-El into the Phantom Zone to save him and we agreed Superman would prolly be against abortion, euthanasia, etc, simply b/c his attitude is life at ALL costs. XD Like... the Phantom Zone is NOT a fun place! Superman refuses to use it to lock up his criminals b/c it's cruel! It's a place of sensory depravation and it's for criminals, and even Superman wun use it. :| But he'll throw Mon-El in it, leaving him there for thousands of years where he slowly goes mad!? Just so he wun die to lead poisoning. :\ For all Superman knows Mon-El might never be cured and just be there for millions and millions of years. That seems mean to me. :(
Mon-El took it remarkably well tho! He seems none the worse for wear XD
So this Supergirl is the same as the other Supergirl? :| Or maybe not! B/c according to 52, the multiverse is still here! So if that's true, maybe she's from another Earth with another Superman! In fact, maybe a lot of the books that contradict each other are actually just on different Earths! It's possible! :O
It would be nice neways if there was another, nicer, Supergirl out there XD I still dun understand how this Supergirl could be the one in the Supergirl series. :|
Good use of her vision powers! I'm glad they remember that Supergirl isn't just rly strong and can fly XD
There was a lot of exposition in the book, and it's kinda boring when everybody just stands around to get the reader up to speed on what's going on. :| But I guess it was necessary XD Mekt seems like a sort of tragic figure. I wikied him, and learnt about Lightning Lord and stuff, so it's kinda interesting that they made him a little more sympathetic than just a straight up villain. :| I wonder if the Wanderers will join the Legion now or just leave and be like.. the anti-hero Legion after? :O
I found it confusing that after all this talk about the Wanderers being needed to save Earth, they send 4 ppl (3 of which aren't Wanderers) to fight the evil robots. :| And everybody else just stands around and listens to ppl talk. :| Esp since Mekt was all about action and less talk. XD
Neways, this issue wasn't as fun as the other ones and I guess it's kinda necessary, but I thought the pacing was a little off, and it felt like there was a danger that nobody was rly dealing with. :| I'm curious to see what happens next tho! Hopefully Supergirl still sticks aruond for a bit longer! :)
Angelwings Rating: 3 Supergirls out of 5 Red stuffs coming from robots!
Recommendation: Worth checking out cuz it's an interesting issue, but not super great, so if you're not a LoS fan and you dun have the money, you might want to wait until next month :)
Synopsis: Using Supergirl's X-Ray vision, the Legion find the Wanderers and face off. :O Lightning Lad is shocked to find that his brother (and Light Lass' sister), Mekt Rannz is leading the Wanderers. :| After some talking, the Legion discovers that the robot rebellion underground has been working with the Dominators to create a giant robot to take over Earth! :O
Cosmic Boy sends Mon-El, Ultra Boy, Supergirl and Brainiac to get to Tokyo to stop them. :O They tunnel thru the ground as it's the fastest way. O_O;;
Then Cosmic Boy and Lightning Lad confront Mekt while Light Lass speaks to the Wanderers. It's revealed that on their home planet, children are usually born as twins, but Mekt was born alone which made him different and lonely. :( One day, he was flying a spaceship when he crash landed on a planet with lightning people. Unbeknownst to him, his younger brother and sister had stowed away. They looked for help and got zapped by the alien ppl on the planet! Mekt was able to get his siblings to safety and they found they had powers which they used to power the ship and escape! When the twins awoke, Mekt had alrdy vanished. :
Lightning Lad had been trying to track Mekt down for years, but kept running into dead ends. Meanwhile, Light Lass tells the Wanderers that Mekt, like other single-birth children, has a death-wish and that they stowed away to protect him from himself. She says that the mission Mekt is recruiting them for is a suicide mission. :|
While tunneling, Mon-El reveals he alrdy knows Kara from the past and that she will eventually return to her own time. Superman put him in the Phantom Zone to save him from death from lead poisoning. :O
Supergirl, Mon-El, Ultra Boy and Brainy reach the robots and beat them up but then a giant robot that resembles a Dominator shows up beneath them and rises up thru the ground! They start beating it up, but Brainy realizes that it's not a fighting robot but a delivery system! It releases a large red.. something... and Brainy tells Cosmic Boy that they've lost as a red cloud covers Earth. :(
Review: "Very well... we've lost". XDDD Best line to report the end of the world evar! I just love how casual Brainy is about it.
I wonder what that red thing is tho! Maybe ppl with more knowledge about the LoS universe can tell me :O
Me and my sister were talking about Superman sending Mon-El into the Phantom Zone to save him and we agreed Superman would prolly be against abortion, euthanasia, etc, simply b/c his attitude is life at ALL costs. XD Like... the Phantom Zone is NOT a fun place! Superman refuses to use it to lock up his criminals b/c it's cruel! It's a place of sensory depravation and it's for criminals, and even Superman wun use it. :| But he'll throw Mon-El in it, leaving him there for thousands of years where he slowly goes mad!? Just so he wun die to lead poisoning. :\ For all Superman knows Mon-El might never be cured and just be there for millions and millions of years. That seems mean to me. :(
Mon-El took it remarkably well tho! He seems none the worse for wear XD
So this Supergirl is the same as the other Supergirl? :| Or maybe not! B/c according to 52, the multiverse is still here! So if that's true, maybe she's from another Earth with another Superman! In fact, maybe a lot of the books that contradict each other are actually just on different Earths! It's possible! :O
It would be nice neways if there was another, nicer, Supergirl out there XD I still dun understand how this Supergirl could be the one in the Supergirl series. :|
Good use of her vision powers! I'm glad they remember that Supergirl isn't just rly strong and can fly XD
There was a lot of exposition in the book, and it's kinda boring when everybody just stands around to get the reader up to speed on what's going on. :| But I guess it was necessary XD Mekt seems like a sort of tragic figure. I wikied him, and learnt about Lightning Lord and stuff, so it's kinda interesting that they made him a little more sympathetic than just a straight up villain. :| I wonder if the Wanderers will join the Legion now or just leave and be like.. the anti-hero Legion after? :O
I found it confusing that after all this talk about the Wanderers being needed to save Earth, they send 4 ppl (3 of which aren't Wanderers) to fight the evil robots. :| And everybody else just stands around and listens to ppl talk. :| Esp since Mekt was all about action and less talk. XD
Neways, this issue wasn't as fun as the other ones and I guess it's kinda necessary, but I thought the pacing was a little off, and it felt like there was a danger that nobody was rly dealing with. :| I'm curious to see what happens next tho! Hopefully Supergirl still sticks aruond for a bit longer! :)
Angelwings Rating: 3 Supergirls out of 5 Red stuffs coming from robots!
Recommendation: Worth checking out cuz it's an interesting issue, but not super great, so if you're not a LoS fan and you dun have the money, you might want to wait until next month :)
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Week of Jan 24 Comics and Super Short Reviews! :3
Hi again! :D
Yus! I'm tired so I'll be napping soon :\ But here are my super short reviews! Today was a very lean day for me, so I only picked up 3 comics. :O That's good tho, I can't be buying 10 a week. :x
Also, DC comics editor Eddie Berganza wrote something about Supergirl, promising some changes, but also mostly putting the blame on us fans for not liking it. :\ It had a very "I'm sorry you ppl are too stupid to understand what we're trying to do" feel to it. :|
I write in detail about it in the post below! :D
I'm trying to be my usual hopeful self while being a little cynical too. :O But I hope for the best! ALWAYS :)
It's proof that our voices DO make a difference tho and that by voicing our problems with things, we will get attention. :D Also that our wallets do a lot of talking too XD
So this week I got:
52 - #38
Checkmate - #10
Supergirl and the Legion of Superheroes - #26
Here are my super short reviews XD
52 - #38 - An interesting issue that touched on storylines that I though they just forgot about XD It's also kinda sad :( 4/5 Angelwings
Checkmate - #10 - Great move/counter-move story as usual as Checkmate and Kobra continue to try to out maneuvre each other! :) The ending was what I hoped for but didn't think they had the imagination to do. But they did! :D So I'm happy! ^-^ 4/5 Angelwings
Supergirl and the Legion of Superheroes - #28 - A bit of a let down, esp compared to all the other issues! We find out that Supergirl will eventually be returning to her own time. Which is sad :( Esp if she becomes current Supergirl *shudder* Also, I think they packed way too much exposition into one comic, and it got a bit confusing at the end. Rly interesting cliffhanger tho and a GREAT Brainy line! 3/5 Angelwings
And yub yub. That's all!
I also got some "how to make comics" thing that is thin but seems more than just "how to draw", so I'll let you know if there's nething worthwhile in it :)
Take care ppls! :)
<3
Teh Ami
Yus! I'm tired so I'll be napping soon :\ But here are my super short reviews! Today was a very lean day for me, so I only picked up 3 comics. :O That's good tho, I can't be buying 10 a week. :x
Also, DC comics editor Eddie Berganza wrote something about Supergirl, promising some changes, but also mostly putting the blame on us fans for not liking it. :\ It had a very "I'm sorry you ppl are too stupid to understand what we're trying to do" feel to it. :|
I write in detail about it in the post below! :D
I'm trying to be my usual hopeful self while being a little cynical too. :O But I hope for the best! ALWAYS :)
It's proof that our voices DO make a difference tho and that by voicing our problems with things, we will get attention. :D Also that our wallets do a lot of talking too XD
So this week I got:
52 - #38
Checkmate - #10
Supergirl and the Legion of Superheroes - #26
Here are my super short reviews XD
52 - #38 - An interesting issue that touched on storylines that I though they just forgot about XD It's also kinda sad :( 4/5 Angelwings
Checkmate - #10 - Great move/counter-move story as usual as Checkmate and Kobra continue to try to out maneuvre each other! :) The ending was what I hoped for but didn't think they had the imagination to do. But they did! :D So I'm happy! ^-^ 4/5 Angelwings
Supergirl and the Legion of Superheroes - #28 - A bit of a let down, esp compared to all the other issues! We find out that Supergirl will eventually be returning to her own time. Which is sad :( Esp if she becomes current Supergirl *shudder* Also, I think they packed way too much exposition into one comic, and it got a bit confusing at the end. Rly interesting cliffhanger tho and a GREAT Brainy line! 3/5 Angelwings
And yub yub. That's all!
I also got some "how to make comics" thing that is thin but seems more than just "how to draw", so I'll let you know if there's nething worthwhile in it :)
Take care ppls! :)
<3
Teh Ami
Promises, Promises...
So I turn to the last page of my DC comics this week and instead of seeing Dan DiDio's usual "why DC is so great" diatribe, I find a bit about Supergirl by Eddie Berganza. :O
You can read it here. :)
It seems that DC is indeed concerned about the general anger and dislike towards the Supergirl book and character! :O So much for ppl saying that nobody listens to angry fanmail or blogs! XD It's clear this is a response to that.
So I read it and my first time reading it sounds a bit like an apology and sorta "plz plz read our book". Which is I guess better than nothing XD
But then reading it again I think it sounds like a BACKHANDED apology. :O Sorta like the difference between "I'm sorry I'm being a jerk" and "I'm sorry you think I'm being a jerk."
Sure, some of you may not be keen that we didn't go straight into America's Sweetheart mode with her, but, hey, we know that's what she will eventually become.
That's defining the argument to suit his purposes. >.<;; I, for one, have never argued that she should be America's Sweetheart (whatever that means e_e). It sounds like I'm hoping for her to be America's Next Top Superhero. It sounds like "yah, you guys want her to be a Mary Sue, but WE actually want her to be an interesting character".
Maybe this is cynical, but the way he's singling out women as the people who dislike Supergirl, it's almost like he's telling the male readers, "hey if you're unhappy with what we do, blame those GIRLS". >:|
But maybe I'm just reading too much into it! XD I try to hope for the best but part of me is a little "once bitten, twice shy" with the comic industry >.>;;
For us, it's the hero's journey that's interesting. I compare this to what's being done with Clark on SMALLVILLE.
Oh that's a good way to prove quality storytelling. Compare yourself to Smallville. >.>;;; The Smallville hero's journey for Superman has been HORRIBLE. And honestly, I rly dun think that a hero's journey needs angst and relationship break ups, etc... Smallville is a teen drama. I do enjoy watching it (sometimes, depending on the episode XD) but it's not rly a superhero show. And if Kara is gonna go that route... ugh. D:
After a very serious conference call that involved Joe, our amazing penciller Ian Churchill, and my then Assistant Editor Jeanine Schaefer (she was pivotal in giving us a woman's point of view on the character—like, can Supergirl gain some weight, please?), it was decided to have Kara just try to be a real teenager.
And how's that working out for you? >_>
But I'm annoyed that you feel that a "woman's point of view" was necessary to know that Supergirl was emaciated. Like, SRSLY, without her help you wouldn't have known!?
I know MANY MANY MANY guys who had a problem with Supergirl's look. This is what I mean when he's acting like it's just us gosh-darned feminists mucking things up. :| This speaks volumes about what's going on behind the scenes that they need to bring in a "woman's point of view" to tell them the obvious!
It also makes it sound like that all guys agree with them and it's just women who would notice the problems. Thom Wade would disagree with you I think.
We were gonna make Kara a typical teenager, which meant she wouldn't listen to the grownups (in her case a guy named Kal) and wouldn't appreciate being given chores (killing Kal for her dad, Zor-El). She'd just be a girl trying to find her place in the world.
Uh yah. "Typical teenager". So I was an atypical teenager b/c I wasn't mean to everybody and b/c I wanted to help ppl? So teenagers who read superhero comics wanting to be superheroes who save ppl and are good ppl are ATYPICAL teenagers!?
Again, this is a stereotype. When they think "girl" they think the girl they're staring at at the mall and who they ASSUME her personality. They think 'hey she looks superficial and a shopoholic, she prolly wouldn't want to save ppl'. The average teenager is NOT Paris Hilton! The average teenager is NOT what you see on the OC or on TV in general! >:O If the various Robins can be good responsible teenagers who just want to do good, why can't Supergirl?
But again, this is just saying "hey we're doing GOOD writing, but if you want lame writing, that's fine, whatever YOU want, idiot fans who know nothing". That's what it sounds like. :\ It's "we're doing nothing wrong, but we'll give you philistines what you want."
Now, she has a new love interest in Power Boy, a "hero" that Ian designed, keeping in mind the great attributes that are usually associated with female characters…and the reason most women don't like the super-hero genre. Like the chest window of his costume? His constant posing? Yes, he's a mimbo, but he'll be a lot worse to Kara when issue #15 hits.
Honestly, why does she NEED a new love interest? Is she Nightwing? XD Srsly tho, if this is their idea of a "clever" turnaround on the bimbo thing, it fails. I dun like Power Boy. If he's supposed to be female cheesecake, he fails. And honestly, two wrongs dun make a right. I've always believed the solution to treating women poorly, is not to treat men poorly too, it's to treat both genders well! But yah... he's not a mimbo. How is he ne more of a mimbo than Superman? Maybe if he had the bare legs or chest or something... Now Aquaman in his beard days.... mmmmmmmmmmmm
:D
He'll be a lot worse TO Kara? Umm... I know that that issue has him holding her cape in a "I just beat her down" way. So... plz plz plz dun have an abusive relationship. Even if you have Kara go nuts and smack him down... plz dun do that. I'm tired of abusive relationships being a staple of writing women's characters (as Thom Wade so satirically pointed out).
Then things heat up for the last daughter of Krypton with #16, when Joe is joined by new artist Ale Garza (as Ian will eventually be going on with Joe to one of my other books) and co-writer Mark Sable for a story arc that runs through issue #19, which will delve further into the fragments of Kara's past and give us a new understanding of the character.
This is finally where the admission that something isn't right with the book shows up. Ian Churchill is being reassigned, and they're giving us a co-writer! THIS is what we want to hear, that there are changes. If Ale Garza draws Supergirl like he drew her story in the Holiday Special, I'll be pleased. But this HAS to include the writing to back up the art. That is CRUCIAL. But I hear that some writers write for the artists. Given Churchill's drawings, I can understand if writers get flustered about how to portray Supergirl XD I just hope that we dun get more of the same, and Supergirl still ends up as some horny fantasy girl (Garza's art on Witchblade worries me). :|
I HOPE I'M WRONG THO!!
I know it sounds like I picked on it a lot. But I'm glad that at least they've admitted there's a problem (even if they're acting like we're just nuts for wanting a better Supergirl). And I appreciate that they're listening to fans and happy that we ARE getting our msg across. :)
The last part sounds like a beg for us to buy Supergirl tho. I feel that ppl should still be skeptical until they PROVE that things will be different. We're not gonna buy just cuz you say "in 10 issues she'll be wonderful, WE PROMISE". Give us changes now, not "gradual changes that will conveniently ask you to buy 20 issues to see".
Also, it sounds like she's gonna be an annoying prissy beauty contest winner at the end when they say "America's sweetheart". MY Supergirl isn't nebody's sweetheart. She's just her, a decent, good person. She's lost her home, she's lost her family, and she finds herself in helping people on her adopted planet. :) She's not perfect. She might be silly sometimes, but she still comes thru in the end. She doesn't try to kill ppl or fight heroes or act like a jerk all the time to everybody.
As my sister said, Supergirl is basically about a bad person. XD It's not about a villain, just a bad person.
She's right.
Kara doesn't need to be America's sweetheart. Just a good person.
Let's get that message out. And let's let DC know that it's not just women who dun like Supergirl but men AND women. :)
At least this msg from DC is a start (not a great one, but it's better than nothing). But words mean nothing if there aren't ACTIONS that follow. Hopefully they will deliver. :) As for the message, I'm glad that they've noticed the dipping sales, but I reject their arguments about why the book isn't broken.
I'm HOPING that this is a sign that things will change for our beloved Kara Zor-El. ^-^
In closing:
So, ladies, I hope you'll come out to the stores and give SUPERGIRL a shot.
-E
Enuf talk E. You want our money? It's time to put up or shut up. Give us the Kara we want, not the one you think we want.
-A(mi-cat :3)
You can read it here. :)
It seems that DC is indeed concerned about the general anger and dislike towards the Supergirl book and character! :O So much for ppl saying that nobody listens to angry fanmail or blogs! XD It's clear this is a response to that.
So I read it and my first time reading it sounds a bit like an apology and sorta "plz plz read our book". Which is I guess better than nothing XD
But then reading it again I think it sounds like a BACKHANDED apology. :O Sorta like the difference between "I'm sorry I'm being a jerk" and "I'm sorry you think I'm being a jerk."
Sure, some of you may not be keen that we didn't go straight into America's Sweetheart mode with her, but, hey, we know that's what she will eventually become.
That's defining the argument to suit his purposes. >.<;; I, for one, have never argued that she should be America's Sweetheart (whatever that means e_e). It sounds like I'm hoping for her to be America's Next Top Superhero. It sounds like "yah, you guys want her to be a Mary Sue, but WE actually want her to be an interesting character".
Maybe this is cynical, but the way he's singling out women as the people who dislike Supergirl, it's almost like he's telling the male readers, "hey if you're unhappy with what we do, blame those GIRLS". >:|
But maybe I'm just reading too much into it! XD I try to hope for the best but part of me is a little "once bitten, twice shy" with the comic industry >.>;;
For us, it's the hero's journey that's interesting. I compare this to what's being done with Clark on SMALLVILLE.
Oh that's a good way to prove quality storytelling. Compare yourself to Smallville. >.>;;; The Smallville hero's journey for Superman has been HORRIBLE. And honestly, I rly dun think that a hero's journey needs angst and relationship break ups, etc... Smallville is a teen drama. I do enjoy watching it (sometimes, depending on the episode XD) but it's not rly a superhero show. And if Kara is gonna go that route... ugh. D:
After a very serious conference call that involved Joe, our amazing penciller Ian Churchill, and my then Assistant Editor Jeanine Schaefer (she was pivotal in giving us a woman's point of view on the character—like, can Supergirl gain some weight, please?), it was decided to have Kara just try to be a real teenager.
And how's that working out for you? >_>
But I'm annoyed that you feel that a "woman's point of view" was necessary to know that Supergirl was emaciated. Like, SRSLY, without her help you wouldn't have known!?
I know MANY MANY MANY guys who had a problem with Supergirl's look. This is what I mean when he's acting like it's just us gosh-darned feminists mucking things up. :| This speaks volumes about what's going on behind the scenes that they need to bring in a "woman's point of view" to tell them the obvious!
It also makes it sound like that all guys agree with them and it's just women who would notice the problems. Thom Wade would disagree with you I think.
We were gonna make Kara a typical teenager, which meant she wouldn't listen to the grownups (in her case a guy named Kal) and wouldn't appreciate being given chores (killing Kal for her dad, Zor-El). She'd just be a girl trying to find her place in the world.
Uh yah. "Typical teenager". So I was an atypical teenager b/c I wasn't mean to everybody and b/c I wanted to help ppl? So teenagers who read superhero comics wanting to be superheroes who save ppl and are good ppl are ATYPICAL teenagers!?
Again, this is a stereotype. When they think "girl" they think the girl they're staring at at the mall and who they ASSUME her personality. They think 'hey she looks superficial and a shopoholic, she prolly wouldn't want to save ppl'. The average teenager is NOT Paris Hilton! The average teenager is NOT what you see on the OC or on TV in general! >:O If the various Robins can be good responsible teenagers who just want to do good, why can't Supergirl?
But again, this is just saying "hey we're doing GOOD writing, but if you want lame writing, that's fine, whatever YOU want, idiot fans who know nothing". That's what it sounds like. :\ It's "we're doing nothing wrong, but we'll give you philistines what you want."
Now, she has a new love interest in Power Boy, a "hero" that Ian designed, keeping in mind the great attributes that are usually associated with female characters…and the reason most women don't like the super-hero genre. Like the chest window of his costume? His constant posing? Yes, he's a mimbo, but he'll be a lot worse to Kara when issue #15 hits.
Honestly, why does she NEED a new love interest? Is she Nightwing? XD Srsly tho, if this is their idea of a "clever" turnaround on the bimbo thing, it fails. I dun like Power Boy. If he's supposed to be female cheesecake, he fails. And honestly, two wrongs dun make a right. I've always believed the solution to treating women poorly, is not to treat men poorly too, it's to treat both genders well! But yah... he's not a mimbo. How is he ne more of a mimbo than Superman? Maybe if he had the bare legs or chest or something... Now Aquaman in his beard days.... mmmmmmmmmmmm
:D
He'll be a lot worse TO Kara? Umm... I know that that issue has him holding her cape in a "I just beat her down" way. So... plz plz plz dun have an abusive relationship. Even if you have Kara go nuts and smack him down... plz dun do that. I'm tired of abusive relationships being a staple of writing women's characters (as Thom Wade so satirically pointed out).
Then things heat up for the last daughter of Krypton with #16, when Joe is joined by new artist Ale Garza (as Ian will eventually be going on with Joe to one of my other books) and co-writer Mark Sable for a story arc that runs through issue #19, which will delve further into the fragments of Kara's past and give us a new understanding of the character.
This is finally where the admission that something isn't right with the book shows up. Ian Churchill is being reassigned, and they're giving us a co-writer! THIS is what we want to hear, that there are changes. If Ale Garza draws Supergirl like he drew her story in the Holiday Special, I'll be pleased. But this HAS to include the writing to back up the art. That is CRUCIAL. But I hear that some writers write for the artists. Given Churchill's drawings, I can understand if writers get flustered about how to portray Supergirl XD I just hope that we dun get more of the same, and Supergirl still ends up as some horny fantasy girl (Garza's art on Witchblade worries me). :|
I HOPE I'M WRONG THO!!
I know it sounds like I picked on it a lot. But I'm glad that at least they've admitted there's a problem (even if they're acting like we're just nuts for wanting a better Supergirl). And I appreciate that they're listening to fans and happy that we ARE getting our msg across. :)
The last part sounds like a beg for us to buy Supergirl tho. I feel that ppl should still be skeptical until they PROVE that things will be different. We're not gonna buy just cuz you say "in 10 issues she'll be wonderful, WE PROMISE". Give us changes now, not "gradual changes that will conveniently ask you to buy 20 issues to see".
Also, it sounds like she's gonna be an annoying prissy beauty contest winner at the end when they say "America's sweetheart". MY Supergirl isn't nebody's sweetheart. She's just her, a decent, good person. She's lost her home, she's lost her family, and she finds herself in helping people on her adopted planet. :) She's not perfect. She might be silly sometimes, but she still comes thru in the end. She doesn't try to kill ppl or fight heroes or act like a jerk all the time to everybody.
As my sister said, Supergirl is basically about a bad person. XD It's not about a villain, just a bad person.
She's right.
Kara doesn't need to be America's sweetheart. Just a good person.
Let's get that message out. And let's let DC know that it's not just women who dun like Supergirl but men AND women. :)
At least this msg from DC is a start (not a great one, but it's better than nothing). But words mean nothing if there aren't ACTIONS that follow. Hopefully they will deliver. :) As for the message, I'm glad that they've noticed the dipping sales, but I reject their arguments about why the book isn't broken.
I'm HOPING that this is a sign that things will change for our beloved Kara Zor-El. ^-^
In closing:
So, ladies, I hope you'll come out to the stores and give SUPERGIRL a shot.
-E
Enuf talk E. You want our money? It's time to put up or shut up. Give us the Kara we want, not the one you think we want.
-A(mi-cat :3)
JLA Classified - #32 Review
JLA Classified - #32
Synopsis: Dr. Destiny, that JLA supervillain who has powers in the dreamworld, is fighting the JLA in the dreamworld! :O He is winning cuz he has the dream energy of all 6 billion ppl on Earth. :| However, in the real world, J'onn is able to find his body and distract him long enuf for the JLA to beat him in the dreamworld!
Meanwhile, a regular guy named Darrin Profit catches the dream gem that Dr. Destiny was using to power his scheme. When he wakes up, along with the rest of the people in the world, he still has the gem. :O
It turns out he's a "loser" who works at a deadend job that he's not sure what he's rly doing, and is just kinda bluffing his way thru it. o_O;; He has a girl he likes but who doesn't remember his name. :S When he goes home he hears Dr. Destiny inside the gem. :O Destiny brings him in and explains about the gem, that it houses 6 billion different realities (one for the dream energy of every person on Earth).
Profit decides to take the power for himself. Since he now has access to 6 billion different possiblities, he keeps trying different choices in life. For example he bets on all 12 horses in a race in 12 different realities, and "keeps" the reality in which he wins. He keeps this up until he's rich, famous, has the girl of his dreams, and the life he wants. :O However, Dr. Destiny goads him into wanting more: world conquest.
Profit sees this as a challenge to his awesomeness and accepts! :O He uses the different realities to gather the greatest minds and research different ways to give himself power! At the end, he has the plans he wants, but he failed to realize that every time he uses (and destroys) a reality, he has one less. :O He only has 6 billion, and by the time he's done, he's used up all but 3, much to Destiny's amusment. XD
He says that 3 is all he needs, since it'll give him 3 chances to defeat the Justice League and rule the world! He renames himself the Red King and prepares for his first attempt...
Review: At first I thought this was gonna be another Dr. Destiny story, but it wasn't! :O I found the concept of having 6 billion tries at your life rly interesting! It's like groundhog day! You become God b/c you can try every possiblity!
I also found the character of Darrin Profit rly interesting too! Like, it's sorta used, in that he's a "loser" who gets power, but I like these stories, b/c it shows that not all villains are crazy psychopaths or even sociopaths! And that many villains start off like heroes, regular people who dun have great lives. The difference is that heroes see their power as a chance to improve other ppl's lives while villains see it as something they deserve to improve their own! And the problem with power, is that if you want it, you can never have enuf! Greed will never be satiated. :|
So while Profit has the life he wants, he still feels he wants more. :
I feel bad for him in a way. I think we've all been in jobs that we feel we rly dunno as much as we SHOULD to do it, and sometimes we're like "OMG I HAVE TO TALK TO THE BOSS WHAT DO I SAY I BARELY KNOW WHAT I'M DOING!!!" And it makes him very human, more so than if his wife left him, his dog died, etc etc... It's a more realistic sort of bad life. :( But then when he gets powers he shows that he doesn't deserve them b/c he's so selfish with them! Also that he destroys the realities that doesn't get him what he wants! He doesn't have to, he just decides that if his life isn't as good in that one, it's gone! And that comes back to hurt him :O
I think what was rly key tho, was that in his reality where he was rich, famous and had the girl of his dreams, it wasn't enuf for him. He wanted to trade her in for a famous actress and then spent many realities figuring out how to do it and still be liked. Ultimately he did a lot of charity work and slandered her and used the sympathy to get the actress. :\ It shows how little he rly cares about ppl, it's like it's a game to him.
Which I think is why I like these kinds of stories. :) They highlight the differences between heroes and villains. Both have bad things happen to them in life (usually) but each reacts to it differently, like I think in real life ppl react to things differently. Some ppl with a good life appreciate it and use their advantages to help others. Others get spoiled and ignore ppl in need. :\ Then there are ppl with bad lives who appreciate the difficulties in life and want to help ease other ppl's problems, while other ppl with bad lives just get angry and upset and bitter and when they have a good life, they only want to feel better than other ppl. :(
Also, we're back to stories that aren't political! YAY!!! :D
Neways, I rly can't wait for the next issue! I rly like JLA Classified b/c it tells stories that are set in the past, and so you can use teams and heroes from other eras. I rly like the big 7 era and tho I wish this book had Kyle Rayner instead of John Stewart (nothing against John, I just <3333 Kyle XDDD), I'm still happy that it's them (and Plastic Man XDD)
So, yah, I recommend ppl to give it a chance :D
Angelwings Review: 3.5 out of 5 dream crystals!
Recommendation: I think this will be a good arc, and something to check out if you just like a good, fun superhero story :)
Synopsis: Dr. Destiny, that JLA supervillain who has powers in the dreamworld, is fighting the JLA in the dreamworld! :O He is winning cuz he has the dream energy of all 6 billion ppl on Earth. :| However, in the real world, J'onn is able to find his body and distract him long enuf for the JLA to beat him in the dreamworld!
Meanwhile, a regular guy named Darrin Profit catches the dream gem that Dr. Destiny was using to power his scheme. When he wakes up, along with the rest of the people in the world, he still has the gem. :O
It turns out he's a "loser" who works at a deadend job that he's not sure what he's rly doing, and is just kinda bluffing his way thru it. o_O;; He has a girl he likes but who doesn't remember his name. :S When he goes home he hears Dr. Destiny inside the gem. :O Destiny brings him in and explains about the gem, that it houses 6 billion different realities (one for the dream energy of every person on Earth).
Profit decides to take the power for himself. Since he now has access to 6 billion different possiblities, he keeps trying different choices in life. For example he bets on all 12 horses in a race in 12 different realities, and "keeps" the reality in which he wins. He keeps this up until he's rich, famous, has the girl of his dreams, and the life he wants. :O However, Dr. Destiny goads him into wanting more: world conquest.
Profit sees this as a challenge to his awesomeness and accepts! :O He uses the different realities to gather the greatest minds and research different ways to give himself power! At the end, he has the plans he wants, but he failed to realize that every time he uses (and destroys) a reality, he has one less. :O He only has 6 billion, and by the time he's done, he's used up all but 3, much to Destiny's amusment. XD
He says that 3 is all he needs, since it'll give him 3 chances to defeat the Justice League and rule the world! He renames himself the Red King and prepares for his first attempt...
Review: At first I thought this was gonna be another Dr. Destiny story, but it wasn't! :O I found the concept of having 6 billion tries at your life rly interesting! It's like groundhog day! You become God b/c you can try every possiblity!
I also found the character of Darrin Profit rly interesting too! Like, it's sorta used, in that he's a "loser" who gets power, but I like these stories, b/c it shows that not all villains are crazy psychopaths or even sociopaths! And that many villains start off like heroes, regular people who dun have great lives. The difference is that heroes see their power as a chance to improve other ppl's lives while villains see it as something they deserve to improve their own! And the problem with power, is that if you want it, you can never have enuf! Greed will never be satiated. :|
So while Profit has the life he wants, he still feels he wants more. :
I feel bad for him in a way. I think we've all been in jobs that we feel we rly dunno as much as we SHOULD to do it, and sometimes we're like "OMG I HAVE TO TALK TO THE BOSS WHAT DO I SAY I BARELY KNOW WHAT I'M DOING!!!" And it makes him very human, more so than if his wife left him, his dog died, etc etc... It's a more realistic sort of bad life. :( But then when he gets powers he shows that he doesn't deserve them b/c he's so selfish with them! Also that he destroys the realities that doesn't get him what he wants! He doesn't have to, he just decides that if his life isn't as good in that one, it's gone! And that comes back to hurt him :O
I think what was rly key tho, was that in his reality where he was rich, famous and had the girl of his dreams, it wasn't enuf for him. He wanted to trade her in for a famous actress and then spent many realities figuring out how to do it and still be liked. Ultimately he did a lot of charity work and slandered her and used the sympathy to get the actress. :\ It shows how little he rly cares about ppl, it's like it's a game to him.
Which I think is why I like these kinds of stories. :) They highlight the differences between heroes and villains. Both have bad things happen to them in life (usually) but each reacts to it differently, like I think in real life ppl react to things differently. Some ppl with a good life appreciate it and use their advantages to help others. Others get spoiled and ignore ppl in need. :\ Then there are ppl with bad lives who appreciate the difficulties in life and want to help ease other ppl's problems, while other ppl with bad lives just get angry and upset and bitter and when they have a good life, they only want to feel better than other ppl. :(
Also, we're back to stories that aren't political! YAY!!! :D
Neways, I rly can't wait for the next issue! I rly like JLA Classified b/c it tells stories that are set in the past, and so you can use teams and heroes from other eras. I rly like the big 7 era and tho I wish this book had Kyle Rayner instead of John Stewart (nothing against John, I just <3333 Kyle XDDD), I'm still happy that it's them (and Plastic Man XDD)
So, yah, I recommend ppl to give it a chance :D
Angelwings Review: 3.5 out of 5 dream crystals!
Recommendation: I think this will be a good arc, and something to check out if you just like a good, fun superhero story :)
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Birds of Prey - #102 Review
Birds of Prey - #102
Synopsis: Manhunter is still outside the Mexico prison. She's been captured by the resident big strong prison guard. :O
Meanwhile, Lois Lane shows up to have dinner with Oracle, and Oracle is scared b/c she knows of Lois' reputation as a great investigative reporter and that Lois will expose her. Oracle starts wondering if she'll have to leave the country now and hide. o.O
Misfit takes over Oracle's control room but is unable to use her computer skills (or lack thereof) to help the Birds who are held at gunpoint by government agents. :O She realizes that they dun need nething more than a distraction and she teleports into the fray, giving the heroes the chance they need to fight back!
In the melee however, the girl they were protecting is captured, and her father, who was trading his daughters safety for his testimony against the mob, is shot. :(
Manhunter has now been brought into the prison to be interrogated. There are American government agents there as well. :O Manhunter beats them all up and reveals that she only allowed herself to be captured! o_o Gypsy shows up too having been invisible all along and they beat up the guards. :O
Oracle, feeling pressued by Lois Lane, prepares to show her a photo of Lois kissing Superman, as leverage, but Lois draws her a picture of Oracle's computerized image mask and leaves, saying she doesn't see a story here. :|
Oracle then gets a call from Spy Smasher telling her that Manhunter is beating ppl up in Mexico. Oracle says that Manhunter was supposed to be finished there and thinks that Manhunter must have gone rogue! :OO
Review: I thought that Lois Lane knew all the heroes and their identities! At least that's been the implication they keep giving us, that Superman doesn't hide nething from Lois. :| Like, if Superman told her Batman's identity (and Batman's extremely paranoid about his identity) then she HAS to know Oracle's. :O Oracle herself seems unaware that Lois is Superman's wife. Tho it's possible she knew but was just rly scared neways. :o
The whole thing is silly tho! Like srsly! I thought all the heroes and their family knew each other! If Jean Loring knows their identities, then Lois has to! :O And like, it makes me giggle thinking about what would happen if Lois was to publish a story blowing open all the heroes and their identities. Like.. imagine Clark's reaction! XD He walks in, "hi honey, what are you doing?" "Oh just working on a story that will unmask that sneaky Oracle person and destroy her organization!" "Um... Lois honey, I ... dun think you should do that..."
>.>;; So yah... everything about that rang false. :|
I rly liked the rest of the book tho! The Manhunter stuff was a bit cliched... like it was obvious she threw the fight b/c no hero would get whomped by some random tough. XD I dun think she's AWOL tho. Tho it does add a layer of intrigue. :O Like, maybe Barbara doesn't know as much as she thinks she does? :o I rly hate it when characters are showing up in multiple books tho! Like, if she's in Mexico, when do the events in Manhunter take place!?
I didn't rly like Misfit when she first showed up b/c I thought she was just there to say "HA there will be no more Batgirls!" but she's grown on me XD I'm amused she calls herself Misfit, and I like how fun loving and happy she is! XD She's kinda like how I wish Supergirl was: helpful, cute and enjoying being new to the superhero thing! :D
Her expressions and poses are marvelously drawn and convey a lot about her. :)
Barda still seems to be missing her chestplate tho. :( That's sad. Like, it's kinda important since it's ARMOUR and not just decorative. :\ And as a former Fury and a warrior, wouldn't practicality trump showing off her breasts? :o
It's like Huntress and the bare stomach. :| She's human, and like Batman, she outfits her suit with kevlar to protect herself. So why isn't an important part of her body covered? Not like being stabbed or shot in the stomach doesn't SUCK or nething XD
Still, I think the good parts outweighed the bad and Misfit outweighs everything XD I'm kinda interested to see how things turn out. :) I just thought the Lois Lane part was rly confusing and seemed to contradict things we alrdy knew about the DCU. :|
Go Misfit! XD
Angelwings Rating: 3/5 missing costume pieces
Recommendation: Worth checking out, esp if you're a Birds of Prey fan :)
Synopsis: Manhunter is still outside the Mexico prison. She's been captured by the resident big strong prison guard. :O
Meanwhile, Lois Lane shows up to have dinner with Oracle, and Oracle is scared b/c she knows of Lois' reputation as a great investigative reporter and that Lois will expose her. Oracle starts wondering if she'll have to leave the country now and hide. o.O
Misfit takes over Oracle's control room but is unable to use her computer skills (or lack thereof) to help the Birds who are held at gunpoint by government agents. :O She realizes that they dun need nething more than a distraction and she teleports into the fray, giving the heroes the chance they need to fight back!
In the melee however, the girl they were protecting is captured, and her father, who was trading his daughters safety for his testimony against the mob, is shot. :(
Manhunter has now been brought into the prison to be interrogated. There are American government agents there as well. :O Manhunter beats them all up and reveals that she only allowed herself to be captured! o_o Gypsy shows up too having been invisible all along and they beat up the guards. :O
Oracle, feeling pressued by Lois Lane, prepares to show her a photo of Lois kissing Superman, as leverage, but Lois draws her a picture of Oracle's computerized image mask and leaves, saying she doesn't see a story here. :|
Oracle then gets a call from Spy Smasher telling her that Manhunter is beating ppl up in Mexico. Oracle says that Manhunter was supposed to be finished there and thinks that Manhunter must have gone rogue! :OO
Review: I thought that Lois Lane knew all the heroes and their identities! At least that's been the implication they keep giving us, that Superman doesn't hide nething from Lois. :| Like, if Superman told her Batman's identity (and Batman's extremely paranoid about his identity) then she HAS to know Oracle's. :O Oracle herself seems unaware that Lois is Superman's wife. Tho it's possible she knew but was just rly scared neways. :o
The whole thing is silly tho! Like srsly! I thought all the heroes and their family knew each other! If Jean Loring knows their identities, then Lois has to! :O And like, it makes me giggle thinking about what would happen if Lois was to publish a story blowing open all the heroes and their identities. Like.. imagine Clark's reaction! XD He walks in, "hi honey, what are you doing?" "Oh just working on a story that will unmask that sneaky Oracle person and destroy her organization!" "Um... Lois honey, I ... dun think you should do that..."
>.>;; So yah... everything about that rang false. :|
I rly liked the rest of the book tho! The Manhunter stuff was a bit cliched... like it was obvious she threw the fight b/c no hero would get whomped by some random tough. XD I dun think she's AWOL tho. Tho it does add a layer of intrigue. :O Like, maybe Barbara doesn't know as much as she thinks she does? :o I rly hate it when characters are showing up in multiple books tho! Like, if she's in Mexico, when do the events in Manhunter take place!?
I didn't rly like Misfit when she first showed up b/c I thought she was just there to say "HA there will be no more Batgirls!" but she's grown on me XD I'm amused she calls herself Misfit, and I like how fun loving and happy she is! XD She's kinda like how I wish Supergirl was: helpful, cute and enjoying being new to the superhero thing! :D
Her expressions and poses are marvelously drawn and convey a lot about her. :)
Barda still seems to be missing her chestplate tho. :( That's sad. Like, it's kinda important since it's ARMOUR and not just decorative. :\ And as a former Fury and a warrior, wouldn't practicality trump showing off her breasts? :o
It's like Huntress and the bare stomach. :| She's human, and like Batman, she outfits her suit with kevlar to protect herself. So why isn't an important part of her body covered? Not like being stabbed or shot in the stomach doesn't SUCK or nething XD
Still, I think the good parts outweighed the bad and Misfit outweighs everything XD I'm kinda interested to see how things turn out. :) I just thought the Lois Lane part was rly confusing and seemed to contradict things we alrdy knew about the DCU. :|
Go Misfit! XD
Angelwings Rating: 3/5 missing costume pieces
Recommendation: Worth checking out, esp if you're a Birds of Prey fan :)
Saturday, January 20, 2007
Catwoman - #63 Review
Catwoman - #63
Synopsis: Catwoman and Holly are watching the door to Holly's apartment building. A pizza delivery boy shows up as Catwoman has ordered a pizza to that address. Suddenly the cop who is after Catwoman for killing the Black Mask bursts thru the door (literally through) and grabs the guy! :O
Catwoman tells Holly that that's why she can't go home. However, since Holly can't live with Selina FOREVAR, Selina thinks of a way to clear Holly from the computer database. She doesn't want to approach Batman or Oracle however as she doesn't want to admit to them that she killed Black Mask, so instead she asks the Calculator for help. :|
Meanwhile, the cop who is obsessed with Catwoman killing Black Mask is summoned to his superior who yells at him for being obsessed with Catwoman killing Black Mask and to go do his job and work on other crimes. :o
Catwoman goes to see Calculator who sends 3 wannabe supervillains to fight her. She beats them and then Calculator says that he'll do her job if she steals a snowglobe off of the desk of Lex Luthor! :O
Review: The opening scene actually made me laugh so hard XDDD Like.. srsly.. what was that cop planning to do, wait behind the apartment building door and break thru it for EVERY person that came by? :O It's not Holly's HOUSE, it's her APARTMENT BUILDING. How many ppl live there? :O And this is his plan to catch her? XD Like... he can't stake it out or investigate or ask people questions or even OPEN the door? HE HAS TO BURST THROUGH!?
XDDDD
I'm sorry...
XDDDD
And given that the rest of the police force doesn't care about Catwoman, then why are they worried? He's clearly a crazy cop and he wun last long on the job being crazy. XD And the crazier he is, the less likely nebody will believe nething he uncovers on Selina or Holly.
I still dun get why she doesn't just ask the heroes for help. Manhunter will help her at the very least. And she's a lawyer and also.. Manhunter. Wonder Woman will DEFINITELY help her and currently she's like.. a super spy. Both of them have the resources to help Catwoman. And like, is she going to keep this from the heroes and Batman ALL the time? Batman will eventually find out who killed Black Mask neways, and then what? The writers can't avoid this FOREVAR. :|
I still dun like how other heroes kill or injure and ppl have a problem with it, but everybody around Selina is like "yah it's okay, no problem!" >:|
I didn't like the fight scene where Catwoman beats up the 3 guys cuz it's very... ugh. :( She didn't have to snap the guy's arm and they didn't have to DRAW THE BONE STICKING OUT OF HIS ARM!! EWWWWW :| I'm okay with violence and gore, but like smex and nudity, it shouldn't be used just for shock value. :( I found it unnecessary. o_o;;;
I also thought it was odd that Catwoman would automatically assume that Calculator wanted smex in return for doing her a favour. Does she rly think that every guy is a horndog and that every guy wants her body? :| But it was just a throwaway line so that's okay XD
The challenge is interesting! I like it cuz it's kinda pointless. Tho since Calculator has OCD, it would make sense that he might want something strange like that. :o Is Lex still the most powerful guy evar or not? :O I'm soooo confused! Some books (like Superman/Batman) seem to imply that he is. While other books (like Action Comics) imply that he's a fugitive now and doesn't own a company. So.... o_O
But I think it's a good fun challenge for Selina to try to steal something small off the desk of Lex. :) So for that reason, I'm interested to see how the next book turns out! Yes it's arbitrary, but it's a fun kind of arbitrary :) And her being sneaky means using her brains and not having to snap ppl's arms. :3 I've always had a soft spot for espionage and stealth. :)
I dunno if this book is worth getting for non-Catwoman fans, but the next one might be! :)
Angelwings Rating: 2 and a half Pizzas out of 5 Broken Doors
Recommendation: If arbitrary violence and crazy cops aren't your thing, you might want to pass on this, but the next one promises to be interesting! :)
Synopsis: Catwoman and Holly are watching the door to Holly's apartment building. A pizza delivery boy shows up as Catwoman has ordered a pizza to that address. Suddenly the cop who is after Catwoman for killing the Black Mask bursts thru the door (literally through) and grabs the guy! :O
Catwoman tells Holly that that's why she can't go home. However, since Holly can't live with Selina FOREVAR, Selina thinks of a way to clear Holly from the computer database. She doesn't want to approach Batman or Oracle however as she doesn't want to admit to them that she killed Black Mask, so instead she asks the Calculator for help. :|
Meanwhile, the cop who is obsessed with Catwoman killing Black Mask is summoned to his superior who yells at him for being obsessed with Catwoman killing Black Mask and to go do his job and work on other crimes. :o
Catwoman goes to see Calculator who sends 3 wannabe supervillains to fight her. She beats them and then Calculator says that he'll do her job if she steals a snowglobe off of the desk of Lex Luthor! :O
Review: The opening scene actually made me laugh so hard XDDD Like.. srsly.. what was that cop planning to do, wait behind the apartment building door and break thru it for EVERY person that came by? :O It's not Holly's HOUSE, it's her APARTMENT BUILDING. How many ppl live there? :O And this is his plan to catch her? XD Like... he can't stake it out or investigate or ask people questions or even OPEN the door? HE HAS TO BURST THROUGH!?
XDDDD
I'm sorry...
XDDDD
And given that the rest of the police force doesn't care about Catwoman, then why are they worried? He's clearly a crazy cop and he wun last long on the job being crazy. XD And the crazier he is, the less likely nebody will believe nething he uncovers on Selina or Holly.
I still dun get why she doesn't just ask the heroes for help. Manhunter will help her at the very least. And she's a lawyer and also.. Manhunter. Wonder Woman will DEFINITELY help her and currently she's like.. a super spy. Both of them have the resources to help Catwoman. And like, is she going to keep this from the heroes and Batman ALL the time? Batman will eventually find out who killed Black Mask neways, and then what? The writers can't avoid this FOREVAR. :|
I still dun like how other heroes kill or injure and ppl have a problem with it, but everybody around Selina is like "yah it's okay, no problem!" >:|
I didn't like the fight scene where Catwoman beats up the 3 guys cuz it's very... ugh. :( She didn't have to snap the guy's arm and they didn't have to DRAW THE BONE STICKING OUT OF HIS ARM!! EWWWWW :| I'm okay with violence and gore, but like smex and nudity, it shouldn't be used just for shock value. :( I found it unnecessary. o_o;;;
I also thought it was odd that Catwoman would automatically assume that Calculator wanted smex in return for doing her a favour. Does she rly think that every guy is a horndog and that every guy wants her body? :| But it was just a throwaway line so that's okay XD
The challenge is interesting! I like it cuz it's kinda pointless. Tho since Calculator has OCD, it would make sense that he might want something strange like that. :o Is Lex still the most powerful guy evar or not? :O I'm soooo confused! Some books (like Superman/Batman) seem to imply that he is. While other books (like Action Comics) imply that he's a fugitive now and doesn't own a company. So.... o_O
But I think it's a good fun challenge for Selina to try to steal something small off the desk of Lex. :) So for that reason, I'm interested to see how the next book turns out! Yes it's arbitrary, but it's a fun kind of arbitrary :) And her being sneaky means using her brains and not having to snap ppl's arms. :3 I've always had a soft spot for espionage and stealth. :)
I dunno if this book is worth getting for non-Catwoman fans, but the next one might be! :)
Angelwings Rating: 2 and a half Pizzas out of 5 Broken Doors
Recommendation: If arbitrary violence and crazy cops aren't your thing, you might want to pass on this, but the next one promises to be interesting! :)
Friday, January 19, 2007
52 - #37 Review
52 - #37
Synopsis: Supernova and Rip Hunter work on their invention to stop Skeets when Skeets finds them in the bottle city of Kandor and announces that they must come out or be destroyed. :| Hunter tells Supernova to confront Skeets and buy him some time. Nova grows big using Atom's belt and reveals himself to be....
Booster Gold!
Yay! :D
Booster then stalls for time by telling Skeets how he's still alive. Way back when he found Rip Hunter's lab and the pictures that pointed to Skeets as being the one who caused all the time problems, Rip Hunter showed up and told Booster what happened. Booster, knowing that he couldn't operate freely with Skeets around, faked his own death by teleporting his future corpse to replace him. He went back in time and became Supernova! :O The whole Booster/Supernova rivalry was set up to throw ppl off the scent. His "powers" were created using the phantom zone projector to teleport things. :O
Rip Hunter then grows big and shoots Skeets with the phantom zone projector to suck him in! However Skeets.. um... eats the Phantom Zone... o_O And then Rip and Booster try to teleport out but Skeets eats them too! :O Or at least tries to.
In space, Lobo, serving as minister, performs last rites on Animal Man's corpse, and he parts ways with Adam Strange and Starfire. :| They leave Animal Man's body on an asteroid and go away. Animal Man then wakes up and screams for them not to leave him! He then sees that he is surrounded by the aliens who granted him his powers. :|
Review: Yay Booster! He's alive!!! But then... so is Animal Man? :| And Question isn't dead either... so... nobody's rly dead!? o_O You know that saying that nobody who dies in comics stays dead? I guess now there's a new saying. Nobody that dies in 52 stays dead... in 52. XD But at least our favourite b-listers aren't dead! :D
*cheers*
When Supernova showed up everybody thought he was Booster, so it's kinda nice that DC didn't decide to do a Monarch-esque swerve XDDD For those unfamiliar with the reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armageddon_2001#Response_and_last-minute_changes
:)
But yah.. the problem with this "mystery" is that since it involved a time travelling Rip Hunter, ne theory could be possible b/c when you can time travel, Supernova could rly be nebody. XD What I find funny is how by deducing the use of the phantom zone projector, did Ralph Dibny figure out that it was Booster Gold under the mask. :| It's not like the PZP and Booster are intrinsically tied together. :|
Oh.. and I wish I wrote this down before, but I guessed that Supernova was using the projector! Mainly b/c of the Ruin storyline being so recent. Ruin was a Superman villain (who turned out to be Emil Hamilton) who used the PZP to simulate teleportation and light effects too! So that wasn't rly that big a deduction :)
BUT AT LEAST IT MAKES SENSE!!
TY FOR SUPERHERO MYSTERIES THAT ACTUALLY HAVE REVELATIONS THAT MAKE SENSE!!!
None of this Hank Hall or Jean Loring carp! >:|
I think it's more important for stories to have logical and satisfying conclusions than to do illogical stuff just b/c you dun want the attentive fan to be able to figure out the ending. :|
Neways... I rly liked this issue and it raised many interesting questions.. like.. who is Skeets rly? Booster hinted in this issue that Skeets isn't rly Skeets, which is good cuz I like Skeets and I'm glad he's not evil! XD But now I wonder who he rly is. :O
Maybe he's the love child of Hank Hall and Jean Loring!!!
XDD
Also, how can this Skeets impersonator eat the phantom zone? :O How do you eat phantom zones? And what do they taste like? XD And did Booster and Rip manage to escape? :O I hope they did!
At least Booster being a jerk was just a lie :) I'm glad to see that! I dun like Booster being jerky :(
It was almost dissapointed to see Animal Man come back just cuz... ppl keep.. like.. not dying! XD And when they kept the frames on his dead body you just KNEW he was coming back. :| Still at least he's back! And him meeting those aliens is interesting! I just hope that they have enuf issues in 52 left to deal with ANOTHER storyline now. :o
But neways, this book starts to finally wrap some mysteries and stories up and that's good :) I enjoyed it, and it feels good to finally have a pay off after following a series for 36 issues. :| Wow it's been that long? XDD
Neways... I can't wait to see the resolution of the other story arcs! :)
Angelwings Rating: 4 Booster Golds out of 5 Animal Men
Recommendation: A good issue to get, esp if you want to see some light finally being shed on Supernova :)
Synopsis: Supernova and Rip Hunter work on their invention to stop Skeets when Skeets finds them in the bottle city of Kandor and announces that they must come out or be destroyed. :| Hunter tells Supernova to confront Skeets and buy him some time. Nova grows big using Atom's belt and reveals himself to be....
Booster Gold!
Yay! :D
Booster then stalls for time by telling Skeets how he's still alive. Way back when he found Rip Hunter's lab and the pictures that pointed to Skeets as being the one who caused all the time problems, Rip Hunter showed up and told Booster what happened. Booster, knowing that he couldn't operate freely with Skeets around, faked his own death by teleporting his future corpse to replace him. He went back in time and became Supernova! :O The whole Booster/Supernova rivalry was set up to throw ppl off the scent. His "powers" were created using the phantom zone projector to teleport things. :O
Rip Hunter then grows big and shoots Skeets with the phantom zone projector to suck him in! However Skeets.. um... eats the Phantom Zone... o_O And then Rip and Booster try to teleport out but Skeets eats them too! :O Or at least tries to.
In space, Lobo, serving as minister, performs last rites on Animal Man's corpse, and he parts ways with Adam Strange and Starfire. :| They leave Animal Man's body on an asteroid and go away. Animal Man then wakes up and screams for them not to leave him! He then sees that he is surrounded by the aliens who granted him his powers. :|
Review: Yay Booster! He's alive!!! But then... so is Animal Man? :| And Question isn't dead either... so... nobody's rly dead!? o_O You know that saying that nobody who dies in comics stays dead? I guess now there's a new saying. Nobody that dies in 52 stays dead... in 52. XD But at least our favourite b-listers aren't dead! :D
*cheers*
When Supernova showed up everybody thought he was Booster, so it's kinda nice that DC didn't decide to do a Monarch-esque swerve XDDD For those unfamiliar with the reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armageddon_2001#Response_and_last-minute_changes
:)
But yah.. the problem with this "mystery" is that since it involved a time travelling Rip Hunter, ne theory could be possible b/c when you can time travel, Supernova could rly be nebody. XD What I find funny is how by deducing the use of the phantom zone projector, did Ralph Dibny figure out that it was Booster Gold under the mask. :| It's not like the PZP and Booster are intrinsically tied together. :|
Oh.. and I wish I wrote this down before, but I guessed that Supernova was using the projector! Mainly b/c of the Ruin storyline being so recent. Ruin was a Superman villain (who turned out to be Emil Hamilton) who used the PZP to simulate teleportation and light effects too! So that wasn't rly that big a deduction :)
BUT AT LEAST IT MAKES SENSE!!
TY FOR SUPERHERO MYSTERIES THAT ACTUALLY HAVE REVELATIONS THAT MAKE SENSE!!!
None of this Hank Hall or Jean Loring carp! >:|
I think it's more important for stories to have logical and satisfying conclusions than to do illogical stuff just b/c you dun want the attentive fan to be able to figure out the ending. :|
Neways... I rly liked this issue and it raised many interesting questions.. like.. who is Skeets rly? Booster hinted in this issue that Skeets isn't rly Skeets, which is good cuz I like Skeets and I'm glad he's not evil! XD But now I wonder who he rly is. :O
Maybe he's the love child of Hank Hall and Jean Loring!!!
XDD
Also, how can this Skeets impersonator eat the phantom zone? :O How do you eat phantom zones? And what do they taste like? XD And did Booster and Rip manage to escape? :O I hope they did!
At least Booster being a jerk was just a lie :) I'm glad to see that! I dun like Booster being jerky :(
It was almost dissapointed to see Animal Man come back just cuz... ppl keep.. like.. not dying! XD And when they kept the frames on his dead body you just KNEW he was coming back. :| Still at least he's back! And him meeting those aliens is interesting! I just hope that they have enuf issues in 52 left to deal with ANOTHER storyline now. :o
But neways, this book starts to finally wrap some mysteries and stories up and that's good :) I enjoyed it, and it feels good to finally have a pay off after following a series for 36 issues. :| Wow it's been that long? XDD
Neways... I can't wait to see the resolution of the other story arcs! :)
Angelwings Rating: 4 Booster Golds out of 5 Animal Men
Recommendation: A good issue to get, esp if you want to see some light finally being shed on Supernova :)
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Week of Jan 17 Comics and Super Short Reviews :D
Hi! :) I feel teh tired right now :(
So today I got:
52 - #37
Birds of Prey - #102
Catwoman - #63
Green Lantern - #16
JLA Classified - #32
Spider-Man Reign - #2 (of 4)
Welcome to Tranquility - #2
It's a bit of a slow comics week for the books I read cuz rly none of these were the titles I rly like. :| However some did surprise me :) But some were just blah. :(
Here are my super short reviews! :D
52 - #37 - So I guess not only does nobody in the comic world stay dead, but nobody in 52 stays dead... in 52. XD Finally we see who Supernova is! It's actually the first person everybody thought it was way back when he was introduced! I'm glad it made sense tho :D I'm pleased with the issue, b/c finally we get some resolution :) It seemed a little rushed, but I'm not complaining! ^-^ 15 issues left! 4/5 Angelwings
Birds of Prey - #102 - The stuff with Manhunter was pretty well written, even if it was VERY cliched. :\ Misfit is teh AWESOME! I think she's rly fun and I love how happy she is when she helps out!!! XDD The scenes with Lois rang rly false to me tho :\ And it left me a bit confused about what Superman's told her and what he hasn't. And what Batman's told Barbara and what he hasn't. :| Still, more of it was good than bad. :) 3/5 Angelwings
Catwoman - #63 - They're not letting this go :\ Catwoman seems to like causing her own problems too and I rly hate that she's avoiding asking the heroes for help. She doesn't HAVE to ask Batman, there are many other heroes who could help her. :( However, the set up for the next issue is interesting and it might be worth it just for that! 2.5/5 Angelwings
Green Lantern - #16 - I'm finding it hard to care about Hal, esp when he's in like a gajillion comics at once XD And like, the JLA fighting Rocket Reds? :\ There was no easier way to help Hal? They rly didn't have to resort to violence :| I didn't rly like this issue very much :\ 2/5 Angelwings
JLA Classified - #32 - I thought this issue was pretty neat :) It's got a new bad guy who's got a cliched background, but the idea behind him is interesting! Also, it's a good old fashioned type of JLA story where they're not being political and stuff :) I think it could be a good story if done right :D 3.5/5 Angelwings
Spider-Man Reign - #2 (of 4) - I rly hate how hard they're trying to be The Dark Knight Returns. :| Spiderman rly isn't suited for this. But I did find the book's story sorta interesting even tho some elements are very blatant. I wish politcal commentary would be subtle. :( Worth checking out tho! 3/5
Welcome to Tranquility - #2 - I <3 this book so much! :D I like the little throwback comics and I LOVEEEE THE EMOTICON!!!! He's teh smex! :D Hehehehe I wish I had a mask like his! :D *bops* But srsly, this is a great new series, and it's not too late to jump on board! The characters are very lovable and the plot seems interesting! Also a small commentary about rape in comics. Make of it as you will. 5/5
Neways, I'm rly tired so I'll put up bigger reviews later!!! :D TTFN :)
So today I got:
52 - #37
Birds of Prey - #102
Catwoman - #63
Green Lantern - #16
JLA Classified - #32
Spider-Man Reign - #2 (of 4)
Welcome to Tranquility - #2
It's a bit of a slow comics week for the books I read cuz rly none of these were the titles I rly like. :| However some did surprise me :) But some were just blah. :(
Here are my super short reviews! :D
52 - #37 - So I guess not only does nobody in the comic world stay dead, but nobody in 52 stays dead... in 52. XD Finally we see who Supernova is! It's actually the first person everybody thought it was way back when he was introduced! I'm glad it made sense tho :D I'm pleased with the issue, b/c finally we get some resolution :) It seemed a little rushed, but I'm not complaining! ^-^ 15 issues left! 4/5 Angelwings
Birds of Prey - #102 - The stuff with Manhunter was pretty well written, even if it was VERY cliched. :\ Misfit is teh AWESOME! I think she's rly fun and I love how happy she is when she helps out!!! XDD The scenes with Lois rang rly false to me tho :\ And it left me a bit confused about what Superman's told her and what he hasn't. And what Batman's told Barbara and what he hasn't. :| Still, more of it was good than bad. :) 3/5 Angelwings
Catwoman - #63 - They're not letting this go :\ Catwoman seems to like causing her own problems too and I rly hate that she's avoiding asking the heroes for help. She doesn't HAVE to ask Batman, there are many other heroes who could help her. :( However, the set up for the next issue is interesting and it might be worth it just for that! 2.5/5 Angelwings
Green Lantern - #16 - I'm finding it hard to care about Hal, esp when he's in like a gajillion comics at once XD And like, the JLA fighting Rocket Reds? :\ There was no easier way to help Hal? They rly didn't have to resort to violence :| I didn't rly like this issue very much :\ 2/5 Angelwings
JLA Classified - #32 - I thought this issue was pretty neat :) It's got a new bad guy who's got a cliched background, but the idea behind him is interesting! Also, it's a good old fashioned type of JLA story where they're not being political and stuff :) I think it could be a good story if done right :D 3.5/5 Angelwings
Spider-Man Reign - #2 (of 4) - I rly hate how hard they're trying to be The Dark Knight Returns. :| Spiderman rly isn't suited for this. But I did find the book's story sorta interesting even tho some elements are very blatant. I wish politcal commentary would be subtle. :( Worth checking out tho! 3/5
Welcome to Tranquility - #2 - I <3 this book so much! :D I like the little throwback comics and I LOVEEEE THE EMOTICON!!!! He's teh smex! :D Hehehehe I wish I had a mask like his! :D *bops* But srsly, this is a great new series, and it's not too late to jump on board! The characters are very lovable and the plot seems interesting! Also a small commentary about rape in comics. Make of it as you will. 5/5
Neways, I'm rly tired so I'll put up bigger reviews later!!! :D TTFN :)
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
The All New Atom - #7 Review
The All-New Atom - #7
Synopsis: Dean Mayland is sitting in his home watching tv when he gets a call from Dwarfstar who is still stuck as the size of an atom thanks to his fight with the Atom. :| Dwarfstar begs Mayland for help but if rebuffed :O
Ryan is also sitting on his couch watching TV, but is with his friend Panda and the giant floating Waiting head. The head is apparently enjoying television and also wants more orange soda. :O
Ryan goes into the kitchen to get some when he hears Panda cry out that there are cowboys in the living room! Ryan checks and there are indeed cowboys and they want to capture him! Ryan changes into the Atom and fights them! He defeats them but then this weird green guy called Ryak shows up o_o;; Ryak kills the 3 cowboys and says that he sent them to find Ryan. He says that he's one of the Linear Men and that a man named Dr. Hyatt will seek Ryan out for help and that he must contact Ryak when this happens. If he does not, Ryak will wipe out all of Ryan's family from existence, as he is a time traveller. :O
With all this on his mind, Ryan still has a job to do, and rushes off in the morning to teach his class when he runs into Dr. Zuel who, no longer mind controlled, still wants to date him. :O Ryan gets to class, but his students still do not listen to him. After they've left, he hears somebody calling for his help behind some curtains and it's revealed to be Dr. Hyatt except that Dr. Hyatt is missing half of his body!!! :O
Review: O_O;;; Okay that was gross. At least it wasn't bloody, gory gross, but STILL!!! HE'S MISSING HALF HIS BODY!!! EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW x_x
Ew ew ew...
However, the story was good. :) And interesting XD It was fun to see Ryan still learning how to be a hero and how very very bad he is at saying "heroic" stuff while fighting. His one liners are AWFUL XD But they're a fun kind of awful. Srsly, how many of us would say good one liners if we were heroes >.>;;;
I think there was an implication that the cowboys were racist and were hostile towards Ryan not just cuz they were sent to capture him but that he was Asian. Altho they didn't say nething overtly racist, Ryan felt that they were treating him "like I (he) wasn't fit to walk the streets". :| It makes sense tho, and I think that was a pretty good way to walk the fine line between characters who would be racist, and actually using racist terminology which would get ppl angry at the writer. It does work for me tho, b/c these are bad guys, and bad guys from an era where they would look down on an Asian person.
Ryak was an interesting character. :O I just noticed that his name is very similar to Ryan. Maybe he's an alternate Ryan or some sort of future Ryan? :O He claims to be a Linear Man, but he doesn't seem like a good guy even tho he says he is. I think Ryan picked this up too b/c he notes that Ryak casually killed 3 ppl without remorse. :( I like how aware Ryan is of things and how he seems to pick up the same things the readers do. :)
The Dr. Zuel part is confusing XD She's Giganta... right? Isn't she bad? At least in Wonder Woman she's pretty bad. But here she seems okay. :O I'm confused XD I hope she's not bad tho b/c I find her amusing XDDD
I'm very interested on where Ryan's adventures lead him. :) Just... guy with half a body... EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
Angelwings Review: 4/5 full bodied ppl
Recommendation: Definitely worth reading :) And a good jumping on point for new readers!
Synopsis: Dean Mayland is sitting in his home watching tv when he gets a call from Dwarfstar who is still stuck as the size of an atom thanks to his fight with the Atom. :| Dwarfstar begs Mayland for help but if rebuffed :O
Ryan is also sitting on his couch watching TV, but is with his friend Panda and the giant floating Waiting head. The head is apparently enjoying television and also wants more orange soda. :O
Ryan goes into the kitchen to get some when he hears Panda cry out that there are cowboys in the living room! Ryan checks and there are indeed cowboys and they want to capture him! Ryan changes into the Atom and fights them! He defeats them but then this weird green guy called Ryak shows up o_o;; Ryak kills the 3 cowboys and says that he sent them to find Ryan. He says that he's one of the Linear Men and that a man named Dr. Hyatt will seek Ryan out for help and that he must contact Ryak when this happens. If he does not, Ryak will wipe out all of Ryan's family from existence, as he is a time traveller. :O
With all this on his mind, Ryan still has a job to do, and rushes off in the morning to teach his class when he runs into Dr. Zuel who, no longer mind controlled, still wants to date him. :O Ryan gets to class, but his students still do not listen to him. After they've left, he hears somebody calling for his help behind some curtains and it's revealed to be Dr. Hyatt except that Dr. Hyatt is missing half of his body!!! :O
Review: O_O;;; Okay that was gross. At least it wasn't bloody, gory gross, but STILL!!! HE'S MISSING HALF HIS BODY!!! EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW x_x
Ew ew ew...
However, the story was good. :) And interesting XD It was fun to see Ryan still learning how to be a hero and how very very bad he is at saying "heroic" stuff while fighting. His one liners are AWFUL XD But they're a fun kind of awful. Srsly, how many of us would say good one liners if we were heroes >.>;;;
I think there was an implication that the cowboys were racist and were hostile towards Ryan not just cuz they were sent to capture him but that he was Asian. Altho they didn't say nething overtly racist, Ryan felt that they were treating him "like I (he) wasn't fit to walk the streets". :| It makes sense tho, and I think that was a pretty good way to walk the fine line between characters who would be racist, and actually using racist terminology which would get ppl angry at the writer. It does work for me tho, b/c these are bad guys, and bad guys from an era where they would look down on an Asian person.
Ryak was an interesting character. :O I just noticed that his name is very similar to Ryan. Maybe he's an alternate Ryan or some sort of future Ryan? :O He claims to be a Linear Man, but he doesn't seem like a good guy even tho he says he is. I think Ryan picked this up too b/c he notes that Ryak casually killed 3 ppl without remorse. :( I like how aware Ryan is of things and how he seems to pick up the same things the readers do. :)
The Dr. Zuel part is confusing XD She's Giganta... right? Isn't she bad? At least in Wonder Woman she's pretty bad. But here she seems okay. :O I'm confused XD I hope she's not bad tho b/c I find her amusing XDDD
I'm very interested on where Ryan's adventures lead him. :) Just... guy with half a body... EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
Angelwings Review: 4/5 full bodied ppl
Recommendation: Definitely worth reading :) And a good jumping on point for new readers!
JLA Classified - #31 Review
JLA Classified - #31
Synopsis: The UN allows JLA interference into South America now that it's been revealed that the Dutch representative was corrupt and working with Cristoffel's company to create a metahuman army.
The JLA arrest the leaders of both warring nations in South America, and then fight Cristoffel's superhumans and the giant monster that he created. They arrest him (after Batman gives him a hilariously unnecessary kidney shot). All guilty parties are tried and convicted by the world court and everybody goes away happy. The President of the United States is angry to discover that the special mineral deposits in the area have been stripped by the time his agents get there and angrily calls the JLA demanding answers. Batman and Aquaman tell him that they took them so that they wouldn't fall into the wrong hands and then hang up on him.
The JLA rebuilds the affected cities and their infrastructure.
Review: :| The idealist in me would have liked this story a LOT if it wasn't so political. :\ I like the idea of Superheroes helping ppl rebuild their infrastructure, etc, but this story was very pro-American. :\ And it wasn't pro-American in the Superman way about freedom and truth and stuff, but about how American military intervention is always a good thing and how those scummy European countries are weak and worse, corrupt, trying to stop Americans from doing the right thing. :|
Please leave your politics out of my comic books :(
I rly hated how thru this entire arc the JLA were working with the President of the United States and how if the UN refused American intervention, then the JLA couldn't interfere either. :| I hate how the president was their boss and allowed to listen in on their mindlinked conversations with J'onn. WTF. They may be the Justice League of America but they're not attached to America in ne official way! The "of America" thing is something that's a holdover from the past comic book ages. I like to think that my heroes are above politics. They do the right thing, not the things that are right for ne government, American or otherwise. :(
My sister's big problems have been that it portrays a very lopsided view of the world, that South American countries are all corrupt, anti-democratic and evil. I saw this too in the book, but I'd be more okay with it if the story was better. These Dutch superpeople just popped up after being introduced last issue and were beaten up just as fast. The giant monster showed up and was defeated. Nobody ever explained why Cristoffel has a giant monster!
ARGHHHHH!!!
And I honestly dunno why the JLA would get involved. J'onn's a Martian, Diana's Greek, Aquaman's the King of Atlantis and Batman fights street crime. None of these ppl have ne reason to be involved in an American political venture. The problem with toppling a dictatorship and the reason why they dun do it on a regular basis is that it's not that simple. Superman HAS the power to topple every regime. If he did that, he'd be god, or at least King Superman. And if he stops some corrupt regimes, does he stop every one then? Why isn't he in Africa? Or the Middle East? Or China? And who decides who gets overthrown?
It's stuff I rly dun wanna deal with in my comics b/c it's complicated and something you can't write easily, as this attempt has shown. :| A head of state of a sovereign nation (Wonder Woman and Aquaman) being personally involved in overthrowing another country's government? I can't even begin to guess what the fallout from THAT would be! :|
It seems that they tried to balance it out a bit at the end with the implication that the President wanted to benefit from the whole thing by taking the minerals. But even that seemed wrong. Like... so it's not okay for a Dutch corporation to have it... and it's not okay for America to have it... but it's okay for the JLA to have it? Who decided that they have the right just to take potentially dangerous minerals and keep it for themselves?
BLAHHHHH
I'm reading the JLA, not the New York Times! I dunno... I just didn't enjoy this comic. I think some ppl did, and that's good, but I didn't. :\ I like JLA classified b/c it tells stories about the JLA that I rly liked, the big 7 JLA, and their stories can be simple without needing to be tied in with current continuity. So it's dissapointing when the story isn't simple or fun at all. And this issue just seemed very rushed with plot elements being brought in out of nowhere and then removed just as fast. :(
Angelwings Review: 2/5
Recommendation: If you like political comics and this arc in general, you should get it, but even those who like politics in their comics will be dissapointed by how rushed this story is and how there's very little explanation to what was rly going on :(
Synopsis: The UN allows JLA interference into South America now that it's been revealed that the Dutch representative was corrupt and working with Cristoffel's company to create a metahuman army.
The JLA arrest the leaders of both warring nations in South America, and then fight Cristoffel's superhumans and the giant monster that he created. They arrest him (after Batman gives him a hilariously unnecessary kidney shot). All guilty parties are tried and convicted by the world court and everybody goes away happy. The President of the United States is angry to discover that the special mineral deposits in the area have been stripped by the time his agents get there and angrily calls the JLA demanding answers. Batman and Aquaman tell him that they took them so that they wouldn't fall into the wrong hands and then hang up on him.
The JLA rebuilds the affected cities and their infrastructure.
Review: :| The idealist in me would have liked this story a LOT if it wasn't so political. :\ I like the idea of Superheroes helping ppl rebuild their infrastructure, etc, but this story was very pro-American. :\ And it wasn't pro-American in the Superman way about freedom and truth and stuff, but about how American military intervention is always a good thing and how those scummy European countries are weak and worse, corrupt, trying to stop Americans from doing the right thing. :|
Please leave your politics out of my comic books :(
I rly hated how thru this entire arc the JLA were working with the President of the United States and how if the UN refused American intervention, then the JLA couldn't interfere either. :| I hate how the president was their boss and allowed to listen in on their mindlinked conversations with J'onn. WTF. They may be the Justice League of America but they're not attached to America in ne official way! The "of America" thing is something that's a holdover from the past comic book ages. I like to think that my heroes are above politics. They do the right thing, not the things that are right for ne government, American or otherwise. :(
My sister's big problems have been that it portrays a very lopsided view of the world, that South American countries are all corrupt, anti-democratic and evil. I saw this too in the book, but I'd be more okay with it if the story was better. These Dutch superpeople just popped up after being introduced last issue and were beaten up just as fast. The giant monster showed up and was defeated. Nobody ever explained why Cristoffel has a giant monster!
ARGHHHHH!!!
And I honestly dunno why the JLA would get involved. J'onn's a Martian, Diana's Greek, Aquaman's the King of Atlantis and Batman fights street crime. None of these ppl have ne reason to be involved in an American political venture. The problem with toppling a dictatorship and the reason why they dun do it on a regular basis is that it's not that simple. Superman HAS the power to topple every regime. If he did that, he'd be god, or at least King Superman. And if he stops some corrupt regimes, does he stop every one then? Why isn't he in Africa? Or the Middle East? Or China? And who decides who gets overthrown?
It's stuff I rly dun wanna deal with in my comics b/c it's complicated and something you can't write easily, as this attempt has shown. :| A head of state of a sovereign nation (Wonder Woman and Aquaman) being personally involved in overthrowing another country's government? I can't even begin to guess what the fallout from THAT would be! :|
It seems that they tried to balance it out a bit at the end with the implication that the President wanted to benefit from the whole thing by taking the minerals. But even that seemed wrong. Like... so it's not okay for a Dutch corporation to have it... and it's not okay for America to have it... but it's okay for the JLA to have it? Who decided that they have the right just to take potentially dangerous minerals and keep it for themselves?
BLAHHHHH
I'm reading the JLA, not the New York Times! I dunno... I just didn't enjoy this comic. I think some ppl did, and that's good, but I didn't. :\ I like JLA classified b/c it tells stories about the JLA that I rly liked, the big 7 JLA, and their stories can be simple without needing to be tied in with current continuity. So it's dissapointing when the story isn't simple or fun at all. And this issue just seemed very rushed with plot elements being brought in out of nowhere and then removed just as fast. :(
Angelwings Review: 2/5
Recommendation: If you like political comics and this arc in general, you should get it, but even those who like politics in their comics will be dissapointed by how rushed this story is and how there's very little explanation to what was rly going on :(
Nightwing - #128 Review
Nightwing - #128
Synopsis: Nightwing heads back to the cemetary where he was buried last issue, trying to find I-Pod guy, but he gets a call from his tech guy that Raptor is back :O Meanwhile, the 3 ex-LexCorp project heads have fixed the Raptor suit which supposedly doesn't have the flaws the first one did. They send him out for a test run so that they can tape it and show their potential buyers.
Nightwing fights Raptor, and the scientists working with the project heads realize that the reason they couldn't find the flaw in the Raptor suit was b/c it wasn't there until the person using it discharges the weapons. When they do fire the weapons, the suit leaks, causing radiation to flood into the person's body! :O
Finding no way to penetrate the suit, Nightwing forces the Raptor pilot to fire on himself, rupturing the suit and killing the person. :O However, it turns out that lucky for him, the pilot had died from the radiation poisoning and not the blast. o_o;;
The project heads get a call from their buyer and they try to weasel their way out saying that there have been some problems and that they'll cut the price as a gesture of good faith. However, the buyer turns out to be none other than Lex Luthor himself! Lex informs that they he doesn't like ppl stealing from him and the only reason that he kept them alive was b/c he was hoping to get the suit back! He then activates a bomb that destroys the whole floor of the building, killing everybody there. :OOO
Meanwhile, the family of the original Raptor grieves for him at his burial plot, but his wife is relieved that her husband wasn't a murderer and it was the project heads who were killing the ppl to try to recover the suit. :| However, his son still hates him and walks off. Nightwing promises to keep an eye on him. While walking down a street, the boy is asked by a lady in an S&M type bridal outfit what the time is. He answers and she seems pleased.
Behind her, in a room, out of sight of the boy, is a woman tied up and gagged. :O The "bride" says that there's less than a minute and she wonders how "groom" is doing with his kill. :O
Nightwing stands atop a rooftop and finally decides that the most important thing in his life now is that he's still alive, even tho he should have died during Infinite Crisis, and that he must never give up. :O
Review: Blegh. At least this plotline is over. :\ I was hoping that with Wolfman writing Nightwing, he'd finally get a decent story, but this story has been as bad as the last one! Now he's getting beaten up by mysterious ppl wearing I-Pods!
Last issue was silly enuf with this I-Pod guy coming in and thoroughly trouncing Nightwing (who was trained by Batman!) and then burying him alive. And Nightwing wasn't even tied up! He was just lying there being buried and too scared to fight back!!!
I joked with my sister that Nightwing does a good job hiding his identity XD Dick Grayson is a brave, fearless acrobat while Nightwing is this cowardly, fearful individual who apparently can't beat the villain of the week. XD
And this villain doesn't even show up again! And apparently wun be in the next arc either! So who is he? Apparently he knows Nightwing's identity and can beat him, but he's not important or interesting enuf to show up again? >:O
I fear that by the time he returns, I wun be buying Nightwing. In fact I might stop with this issue now that the plot is over. This new "bride" and "groom" killer duo dun seem interesting at all. :|
I never understood why ppl who can figure out Nightwing's identity can't figure out Batman's considering once you figure out that Dick Grayson, former Robin and former ward of Bruce Wayne is Nightwing, then it wouldn't be hard to figure out that Batman is Bruce Wayne. :|
And Nightwing killed somebody! Like, yah, it's convenient to say that the guy was alrdy dying from the radiation of the suit, but if he WASN'T then Nightwing just killed him! >:O
Nightwing and Supergirl rly should just like.. get it on... and marry or something >.>;;; Both are being written SO horribly and have become these whiny, dislikable characters. :(
Considering how every issue now seems to be about Nightwing thinking about the women in his life, I think my sister is right that he's becoming Spiderman. XD He's even being drawn to move like Spiderman XDDD
Altho my sister thinks Jurgens is a terrible artist that never grew from the 80s, I dun hate him. I think his art is a little stale sometimes, esp since Dick Grayson looks like Jurgens' Superman, but I think the art is prolly better than this book deserves. :|
What rly bothers me tho is I feel gypped. :\ This arc finished without tying up the loose ends that were raised when Wolfman started this book. Namely:
1) Dick Grayson needing a new job.
2) The 2 girls that showed up in his life. Neither of which factored into the last 2 issues.
3) Who is that I-Pod guy!? :O
So yah, maybe they're hoping to string us along for more issues with those questions, but they're not interesting enuf for me to keep reading just for that. :( I might be done with Nightwing now. We'll see. :
Angelwings Review: 1/5 I-Pod Assassins
Recommendation: Not worth it even if you were following the plot
Synopsis: Nightwing heads back to the cemetary where he was buried last issue, trying to find I-Pod guy, but he gets a call from his tech guy that Raptor is back :O Meanwhile, the 3 ex-LexCorp project heads have fixed the Raptor suit which supposedly doesn't have the flaws the first one did. They send him out for a test run so that they can tape it and show their potential buyers.
Nightwing fights Raptor, and the scientists working with the project heads realize that the reason they couldn't find the flaw in the Raptor suit was b/c it wasn't there until the person using it discharges the weapons. When they do fire the weapons, the suit leaks, causing radiation to flood into the person's body! :O
Finding no way to penetrate the suit, Nightwing forces the Raptor pilot to fire on himself, rupturing the suit and killing the person. :O However, it turns out that lucky for him, the pilot had died from the radiation poisoning and not the blast. o_o;;
The project heads get a call from their buyer and they try to weasel their way out saying that there have been some problems and that they'll cut the price as a gesture of good faith. However, the buyer turns out to be none other than Lex Luthor himself! Lex informs that they he doesn't like ppl stealing from him and the only reason that he kept them alive was b/c he was hoping to get the suit back! He then activates a bomb that destroys the whole floor of the building, killing everybody there. :OOO
Meanwhile, the family of the original Raptor grieves for him at his burial plot, but his wife is relieved that her husband wasn't a murderer and it was the project heads who were killing the ppl to try to recover the suit. :| However, his son still hates him and walks off. Nightwing promises to keep an eye on him. While walking down a street, the boy is asked by a lady in an S&M type bridal outfit what the time is. He answers and she seems pleased.
Behind her, in a room, out of sight of the boy, is a woman tied up and gagged. :O The "bride" says that there's less than a minute and she wonders how "groom" is doing with his kill. :O
Nightwing stands atop a rooftop and finally decides that the most important thing in his life now is that he's still alive, even tho he should have died during Infinite Crisis, and that he must never give up. :O
Review: Blegh. At least this plotline is over. :\ I was hoping that with Wolfman writing Nightwing, he'd finally get a decent story, but this story has been as bad as the last one! Now he's getting beaten up by mysterious ppl wearing I-Pods!
Last issue was silly enuf with this I-Pod guy coming in and thoroughly trouncing Nightwing (who was trained by Batman!) and then burying him alive. And Nightwing wasn't even tied up! He was just lying there being buried and too scared to fight back!!!
I joked with my sister that Nightwing does a good job hiding his identity XD Dick Grayson is a brave, fearless acrobat while Nightwing is this cowardly, fearful individual who apparently can't beat the villain of the week. XD
And this villain doesn't even show up again! And apparently wun be in the next arc either! So who is he? Apparently he knows Nightwing's identity and can beat him, but he's not important or interesting enuf to show up again? >:O
I fear that by the time he returns, I wun be buying Nightwing. In fact I might stop with this issue now that the plot is over. This new "bride" and "groom" killer duo dun seem interesting at all. :|
I never understood why ppl who can figure out Nightwing's identity can't figure out Batman's considering once you figure out that Dick Grayson, former Robin and former ward of Bruce Wayne is Nightwing, then it wouldn't be hard to figure out that Batman is Bruce Wayne. :|
And Nightwing killed somebody! Like, yah, it's convenient to say that the guy was alrdy dying from the radiation of the suit, but if he WASN'T then Nightwing just killed him! >:O
Nightwing and Supergirl rly should just like.. get it on... and marry or something >.>;;; Both are being written SO horribly and have become these whiny, dislikable characters. :(
Considering how every issue now seems to be about Nightwing thinking about the women in his life, I think my sister is right that he's becoming Spiderman. XD He's even being drawn to move like Spiderman XDDD
Altho my sister thinks Jurgens is a terrible artist that never grew from the 80s, I dun hate him. I think his art is a little stale sometimes, esp since Dick Grayson looks like Jurgens' Superman, but I think the art is prolly better than this book deserves. :|
What rly bothers me tho is I feel gypped. :\ This arc finished without tying up the loose ends that were raised when Wolfman started this book. Namely:
1) Dick Grayson needing a new job.
2) The 2 girls that showed up in his life. Neither of which factored into the last 2 issues.
3) Who is that I-Pod guy!? :O
So yah, maybe they're hoping to string us along for more issues with those questions, but they're not interesting enuf for me to keep reading just for that. :( I might be done with Nightwing now. We'll see. :
Angelwings Review: 1/5 I-Pod Assassins
Recommendation: Not worth it even if you were following the plot
Sunday, January 14, 2007
Batman Confidential - #2 Review
Batman Confidential - #2
Synopsis: The Waynetech rescue robot thing rampages out of control, apparently trying to kill Lex Luthor! :o Bruce Wayne changes into Batman and attempts to stop it but everything he has doesn't seem to faze it. :| Eventually it gives up and goes away.
Back at Waynetech, Commissioner Gordon investigates and finds that the person controlling the robot is dead. He wonders if it's foul play and Bruce assures him that it has nothing to do with his company. Lucius Fox informs Bruce that the technician was dead BEFORE the robot went out of control.
Batman steals the corpse and takes it back to the Batcave to be studied. :O He discovered that a little device was in the person's heart and that it could be used to simulate a heart attack! He finds that the device is made only by Lex Corp.
At night, the rescue robot is at a construction site about to open a barrel of toxic waste. Batman shows up and informs the robot that he's figured out that the technician was being paid off by Luthor to sabotage the project but was double crossed and killed. However some of the technician's mind was transferred into the robot and that's why it wants to kill Luthor! Batman asks for his help, but the robot attacks him! Apologizing, Batman pulls out a remote control kill switch and shuts the robot down. :\ He says he feels like he just killed a man, but hopes that in the future they can rescue the person's brain. :(
Review:This is my 50th post! WOOHOO!! :D I know it's not my 50th review, but it's nice to know that my blog is getting a work out. :) I rly like writing here cuz it destresses me and makes me feel productive when I feel lazy ^-^ Neways on to the review!
Both Batman and Superman Confidential aren't rly coming along that well. It SOUNDS like a great idea, telling stories about their past and their first encounters with stuff, but the stories haven't been so great. :(
THIS is Batman's first encounter with Lex Luthor? A crazy rescue robot that has the mind of a scientist trapped in it? o_O It doesn't seem up to par with Lex's usually more subtle schemes. I guess they had to put some action, but I would prefer it if it was more about wits and business since Lex would most likely try to take Gotham by buying out Waynetech. I know he was sabotaging the project but it was still kinda over the top. :(
However, there will be more, so hopefully the Luthor/Wayne conflict will be more interesting! I hope they change artists tho. :| The art is not very good and Lucius Fox looks bad :( Also Bruce Wayne is drawn VERY inconsistantly and Lex Luthor has these deep hollowed out eyes that make him look like he hasn't slept for years. :\ Blegh.
Neways, this issue was okay. At least Batman used his brain to figure out what was going on (tho how he made the leap and figured out that the person was stuck in the robot was never explained) and used the remote control to beat the robot. That's the Batman I like seeing, the person who prefers to win a fight without throwing a punch. :)
Angelwings Rating: 2.5/5
Recommendation: I dun rly think you should get this one unless you got the first one, but the next issue might be worthwhile to check out :)
Synopsis: The Waynetech rescue robot thing rampages out of control, apparently trying to kill Lex Luthor! :o Bruce Wayne changes into Batman and attempts to stop it but everything he has doesn't seem to faze it. :| Eventually it gives up and goes away.
Back at Waynetech, Commissioner Gordon investigates and finds that the person controlling the robot is dead. He wonders if it's foul play and Bruce assures him that it has nothing to do with his company. Lucius Fox informs Bruce that the technician was dead BEFORE the robot went out of control.
Batman steals the corpse and takes it back to the Batcave to be studied. :O He discovered that a little device was in the person's heart and that it could be used to simulate a heart attack! He finds that the device is made only by Lex Corp.
At night, the rescue robot is at a construction site about to open a barrel of toxic waste. Batman shows up and informs the robot that he's figured out that the technician was being paid off by Luthor to sabotage the project but was double crossed and killed. However some of the technician's mind was transferred into the robot and that's why it wants to kill Luthor! Batman asks for his help, but the robot attacks him! Apologizing, Batman pulls out a remote control kill switch and shuts the robot down. :\ He says he feels like he just killed a man, but hopes that in the future they can rescue the person's brain. :(
Review:This is my 50th post! WOOHOO!! :D I know it's not my 50th review, but it's nice to know that my blog is getting a work out. :) I rly like writing here cuz it destresses me and makes me feel productive when I feel lazy ^-^ Neways on to the review!
Both Batman and Superman Confidential aren't rly coming along that well. It SOUNDS like a great idea, telling stories about their past and their first encounters with stuff, but the stories haven't been so great. :(
THIS is Batman's first encounter with Lex Luthor? A crazy rescue robot that has the mind of a scientist trapped in it? o_O It doesn't seem up to par with Lex's usually more subtle schemes. I guess they had to put some action, but I would prefer it if it was more about wits and business since Lex would most likely try to take Gotham by buying out Waynetech. I know he was sabotaging the project but it was still kinda over the top. :(
However, there will be more, so hopefully the Luthor/Wayne conflict will be more interesting! I hope they change artists tho. :| The art is not very good and Lucius Fox looks bad :( Also Bruce Wayne is drawn VERY inconsistantly and Lex Luthor has these deep hollowed out eyes that make him look like he hasn't slept for years. :\ Blegh.
Neways, this issue was okay. At least Batman used his brain to figure out what was going on (tho how he made the leap and figured out that the person was stuck in the robot was never explained) and used the remote control to beat the robot. That's the Batman I like seeing, the person who prefers to win a fight without throwing a punch. :)
Angelwings Rating: 2.5/5
Recommendation: I dun rly think you should get this one unless you got the first one, but the next issue might be worthwhile to check out :)
Martian Manhunter - #6 (of 8) Review
Martian Manhunter - #6 (of 8)
Synopsis: FBI agents burst into the home of the head of the secret Martian researching team. She casually greets them. During interrogation she is calm until they reveal that they have proof she was involved in various murders which shocks her as she believed she was well protected. They release her and follow her to see where she leads them. She goes to her boss, killing one of the guards and accuses him of setting her up but he says it's not him. :O
Meanwhile, J'onn confronts his fellow Martians that one of them is a traitor. He gets the girl that he rescued (who conveniently is a scientist) to set up a lab to research what's wrong with the Martians. He asks for Batman's help but Batman refuses him. Alfred goes behind Batman's back and provides J'onn with the name of the person behind it all.
J'onn tracks him down and forces him to tell him what they did to the Martians. The man claims they did nothing and that J'onn doesn't know what he's gotten himself into. Superman stops J'onn from doing nething bad and J'onn leaves to return to the other Martians sensing something is wrong.
The scientist discovers that the blood of the other Martians is unlike J'onn's. J'onn, not knowing this yet, tries to help one of the Martians who claims to be under mind control and is acting evil. He then bursts out and fights J'onn, turning into a White Martian! :O
Review: Given how often Green Martians are being revealed to be White Martians, you'd think that J'onn would have stopped being so trusting of Green Martians. >:O So they're all White Martians? That means that everybody was right about J'onn trusting ppl just cuz of their skin colour. Way to go J'onn, you've proved that prejudice isn't just a human trait. >:|
I rly dun like how J'onn is acting like he was written by Mark Millar in Civil War. He's TOTALLY out of character. He's rude, mean, untrusting and violent. :\ Also, I dun like that Batman refused to help him. Or Superman too. Like, by what J'onn was saying, his friends had been trying to warn him all along. If this is true, they could do a better job about it than just like "sorry wun help you".
Then again maybe they thought J'onn should know better? XD
The opening panel with the naked head of the organization in bed when the FBI burst in was gratuitous but not in a sexist way. Why? First off she was drawn well and had good musculature. Secondly, EVERYBODY in comic books sleeps naked. >:O I have a comic book where Peter Parker gets out of bed naked as a rippling mass of muscles. o_o;;; I just wonder why everybody sleeps naked XD
And srsly, when you arrest ppl, unless they're like.. holding hostages.. you dun need to burst thru the window of their apartment! Use the door! XD
Thie story arc is still annoying me. I dunno why everybody's acting like this and this isn't a good reason for J'onn to be mean and not join the Justice League! I'm very sad that this is gonna be the first Justice League WITHOUT the Martian Manhunter! :O He basically IS the league.. not to have him is sad ;-;
There's still 2 more issues to go which shocks me b/c it seems like next issue would prolly be the end. I guess there's still a mystery here but I think it's kinda obvious by now that it wasn't a plague that the Martians were injected with, but that they're White Martians but "turned" into Green Martians by the government to experiment with or something. :|
Neways, it's still boring :(
Angelwings Review: 2/5 naked sleeping ppls
Recommendation: If you're alrdy reading the story and interested in the outcome, it's still worth picking up I guess, but if you dun rly like the story, this is the jumping off point. New Readers shouldn't bother at all.
Synopsis: FBI agents burst into the home of the head of the secret Martian researching team. She casually greets them. During interrogation she is calm until they reveal that they have proof she was involved in various murders which shocks her as she believed she was well protected. They release her and follow her to see where she leads them. She goes to her boss, killing one of the guards and accuses him of setting her up but he says it's not him. :O
Meanwhile, J'onn confronts his fellow Martians that one of them is a traitor. He gets the girl that he rescued (who conveniently is a scientist) to set up a lab to research what's wrong with the Martians. He asks for Batman's help but Batman refuses him. Alfred goes behind Batman's back and provides J'onn with the name of the person behind it all.
J'onn tracks him down and forces him to tell him what they did to the Martians. The man claims they did nothing and that J'onn doesn't know what he's gotten himself into. Superman stops J'onn from doing nething bad and J'onn leaves to return to the other Martians sensing something is wrong.
The scientist discovers that the blood of the other Martians is unlike J'onn's. J'onn, not knowing this yet, tries to help one of the Martians who claims to be under mind control and is acting evil. He then bursts out and fights J'onn, turning into a White Martian! :O
Review: Given how often Green Martians are being revealed to be White Martians, you'd think that J'onn would have stopped being so trusting of Green Martians. >:O So they're all White Martians? That means that everybody was right about J'onn trusting ppl just cuz of their skin colour. Way to go J'onn, you've proved that prejudice isn't just a human trait. >:|
I rly dun like how J'onn is acting like he was written by Mark Millar in Civil War. He's TOTALLY out of character. He's rude, mean, untrusting and violent. :\ Also, I dun like that Batman refused to help him. Or Superman too. Like, by what J'onn was saying, his friends had been trying to warn him all along. If this is true, they could do a better job about it than just like "sorry wun help you".
Then again maybe they thought J'onn should know better? XD
The opening panel with the naked head of the organization in bed when the FBI burst in was gratuitous but not in a sexist way. Why? First off she was drawn well and had good musculature. Secondly, EVERYBODY in comic books sleeps naked. >:O I have a comic book where Peter Parker gets out of bed naked as a rippling mass of muscles. o_o;;; I just wonder why everybody sleeps naked XD
And srsly, when you arrest ppl, unless they're like.. holding hostages.. you dun need to burst thru the window of their apartment! Use the door! XD
Thie story arc is still annoying me. I dunno why everybody's acting like this and this isn't a good reason for J'onn to be mean and not join the Justice League! I'm very sad that this is gonna be the first Justice League WITHOUT the Martian Manhunter! :O He basically IS the league.. not to have him is sad ;-;
There's still 2 more issues to go which shocks me b/c it seems like next issue would prolly be the end. I guess there's still a mystery here but I think it's kinda obvious by now that it wasn't a plague that the Martians were injected with, but that they're White Martians but "turned" into Green Martians by the government to experiment with or something. :|
Neways, it's still boring :(
Angelwings Review: 2/5 naked sleeping ppls
Recommendation: If you're alrdy reading the story and interested in the outcome, it's still worth picking up I guess, but if you dun rly like the story, this is the jumping off point. New Readers shouldn't bother at all.
Batman - #662 Review
Batman - #662
Synopsis: Bruce Wayne talks to Amina Franklin and learns that her brother is not dead, that he faked his death but in doing so horribly disfigured himself and then hurt himself more using the I-Gore. Grotesk attacks again, going after his sister. Batman shows up to stop him but Grotesk shoots Amina with some poison that will kill her. He escapes and Amina, dying, tells Batman to go after him. :O Batman chases Grotesk down while he is trying to escape on a boat and the two fight! Batman defeats Grotesk and the boat explodes. Batman cannot find the body but assumes that Grotesk was killed in the explosion or was caught in the frigid waters. The last scene shows us that Grotek is in fact frozen in a block of ice that's washed up on shore. :O
Review: >.>;;; Honestly, I think I missed some stuff up there but I rly dun care. :O I know I didn't review the other 2 issues in between 1 and 4 so I'll sum up the entire plot now:
A villain named Grotesk is killing ppl in Gotham City. Batman links the ppl being killed to enemies of Wayne Franklin who is the brother of a woman he used to date. The Russian mob and the Japanese mafia are owed money by Wayne and use his sister to draw him out. Grotesk traps his pursuers and kill them all. He kills his sister. Batman defeats him. The boat they are fighting on explodes. Grotesk is revealed to have survived.
*rolls eyes* That was teh awesome wasn't it? XD No twist, just... bad guy does bad thing, is beaten, explosion, bad guy is still alive.
This was the least imaginative story I've ever read. Srsly, it even had the explosion at the end! The whole story didn't make much sense and it was never rly explained. It appeared that Wayne Franklin ripped all the skin off his face (ew btw) and now he's just a skull. o_O Okkaaay... how did he survive? I mean, last I checked, having a skull for your head and no flesh would mean... like.. you can't survive right!? :OO
Did we rly need FOUR issues? The only bright spot is that the 4 issues came out over like 8 weeks, so we didn't lose 4 months over this. :| Still, the story was rly bad. And the big winter storm thing never rly played a big factor. I <3 the use of natural disasters as a way to make a plot more interesting or inject elements into a story that are out of the control of the characters, but the storm didn't do nething. This could have happened on a warm spring day and it'd be the same. :|
And I still wonder where Gotham is that it can be struck with winter storms AND massive earthquakes AND still be on the East Coast.
Neways... this whole series was just awful. :( Very forgettable. :(
Angelwings Rating: 1/5
Recommendation: At $2.99 US, it's pretty expensive for bird cage lining
Synopsis: Bruce Wayne talks to Amina Franklin and learns that her brother is not dead, that he faked his death but in doing so horribly disfigured himself and then hurt himself more using the I-Gore. Grotesk attacks again, going after his sister. Batman shows up to stop him but Grotesk shoots Amina with some poison that will kill her. He escapes and Amina, dying, tells Batman to go after him. :O Batman chases Grotesk down while he is trying to escape on a boat and the two fight! Batman defeats Grotesk and the boat explodes. Batman cannot find the body but assumes that Grotesk was killed in the explosion or was caught in the frigid waters. The last scene shows us that Grotek is in fact frozen in a block of ice that's washed up on shore. :O
Review: >.>;;; Honestly, I think I missed some stuff up there but I rly dun care. :O I know I didn't review the other 2 issues in between 1 and 4 so I'll sum up the entire plot now:
A villain named Grotesk is killing ppl in Gotham City. Batman links the ppl being killed to enemies of Wayne Franklin who is the brother of a woman he used to date. The Russian mob and the Japanese mafia are owed money by Wayne and use his sister to draw him out. Grotesk traps his pursuers and kill them all. He kills his sister. Batman defeats him. The boat they are fighting on explodes. Grotesk is revealed to have survived.
*rolls eyes* That was teh awesome wasn't it? XD No twist, just... bad guy does bad thing, is beaten, explosion, bad guy is still alive.
This was the least imaginative story I've ever read. Srsly, it even had the explosion at the end! The whole story didn't make much sense and it was never rly explained. It appeared that Wayne Franklin ripped all the skin off his face (ew btw) and now he's just a skull. o_O Okkaaay... how did he survive? I mean, last I checked, having a skull for your head and no flesh would mean... like.. you can't survive right!? :OO
Did we rly need FOUR issues? The only bright spot is that the 4 issues came out over like 8 weeks, so we didn't lose 4 months over this. :| Still, the story was rly bad. And the big winter storm thing never rly played a big factor. I <3 the use of natural disasters as a way to make a plot more interesting or inject elements into a story that are out of the control of the characters, but the storm didn't do nething. This could have happened on a warm spring day and it'd be the same. :|
And I still wonder where Gotham is that it can be struck with winter storms AND massive earthquakes AND still be on the East Coast.
Neways... this whole series was just awful. :( Very forgettable. :(
Angelwings Rating: 1/5
Recommendation: At $2.99 US, it's pretty expensive for bird cage lining
Saturday, January 13, 2007
Superman and Batman vs. Aliens and Predator - #1 (of 2)
Superman and Batman vs. Aliens and Predator - #1 (of 2)
Synopsis:In the mountains in South America, some researchers are approaching a volcano that will erupt soon to do some research when they are killed. :O
In Gotham, Batman is spying on a mob deal when he hears some noises. :O Investigating, he sees some Predators. They knock him down and escape!
Superman is investigating a weird device under Metropolis and he sees some Predators there too! They also escape before he can apprehend them. :O
At the Daily Planet, Clark Kent is sent to investigate the volcano deaths and Lois takes vacation time to go with her husband :O
They reach the moutain but Clark hears signs of danger and sends Lois and the sherpas back down! He becomes Superman and finds some special ops agents in the volcano but they are dead! Batman appears and says that these agents are a government force that was put together to fight the Predators. He says that he traced the volcanic ash that was left behind by the Predators in Gotham to this volcano! :O
Superman and Batman's conversation is interrupted by an explosion that sends Batman falling into the crevice! Superman rushes to help but runs into some Aliens who are lurking underneath some rocks! :O Superman fights the Aliens as he recognizes them. o_o;;;
Batman, meanwhile, is okay b/c of his special suit that he was wearing, but he also runs into Aliens! Before the Aliens can kill him however, they are killed by Predators! Batman surrenders to them as he is no match for them currently. :O They take Batman into their Volcano base where he meets their big Alien chief! He slaps the Chief, challenging him to a duel and uses a gadget to disable the Chief and win!
Superman senses that the volcano is about to erupt and escapes, lamenting that the Aliens and Predators will both die in there. However he hears Lois' screams for help and finds that some Predators have captured her and are taking her away! He rescues her but she notes that they seem to want him to follow :O He follows and meets Batman who has made friends with the Predators! :D
He has convinced them that Superman is a Sun God and they apologize for taking "his female". They then sit down and have a little campfire talk. :) Batman explains that these Predators are an ancient tribe of the Predators and aren't the current types of Predators. :] They crashed on Earth long ago during the Ice Age. Predators apparently dun like the cold, so they went into the volcano and made their base there. They brought some Alien eggs with them b/c hunting Aliens is part of their culture. The Aliens and Predators have existed under ground for thousands of years since until the volcanic activity forced them to find a new place to live which is why they were in Metropolis and Gotham looking for a new home! :O They were surprised to see humans and how much the world has changed which lead to them killing cuz they were scared (I guess?) XD
Superman and Batman agree that the Predators and Aliens cannot live among humans as they are too dangerous, but that neither deserve to die either, so Superman tells the Predators that their God is making a convenent with them! They will not kill humans and Superman will fix their ship and help them leave Earth and find their home :)
He then leaves the volcano to bring his Fortress to them to fix their ship :D However, they do not have much time as the volcano will explode soon and shadowy government agents are watching from afar, planning their next move to kill the Aliens and Predators! :OOO
Review: XDDDDD Honestly I dunno why ppl dun like this book! I think it's b/c they expect some sort of fight! And I'm glad there ISN'T one! Srsly, I'm tired of fan-service books which is just A vs. B! I'm not interested in seeing who would win between Movie Franchise 1 and Movie Franchise 2. It IS nice to see a change of pace like this and I'm glad that there's an actual plot. :) Also, if you take this book srsly, you wun like it. :\ If you allow that this is a silly concept in the first place, then you'll like it b/c it's fun. :)
I kinda miss the days when comics were about FUN and not about dark brooding serious storylines all the time. This story isn't canonical, so I'm not super critical of it :) And I like that the dialogue is kinda cheesy and Superman says "nuts" XD The dialogue is a little unusual for those two characters, but I like it, cuz as I said, this book isn't supposed to be serious! Batman is friendlier than usual and Superman is a little more goofy than usual, but it's a nice turn from the angry Batman and egotistical Superman that we usually get. This is Batman and Superman as friends, and I miss when they WERE friends and not grudging allies. :)
Also the fact that the Aliens are basically mindless pets and the Predators are friendly (if a little violent) individuals is amusing too! It's like, Superman and Batman help Predators and hey! there are Aliens!!! XDDD
The real villains here are man! And for once, given that humans are usually victims in Alien/Predator stories, that's a refreshing change. :) These Predators just want to live their culture and leave this crazy planet!
Superman totally accepting his godhood is funny to me also b/c usually Superman acts like a jerk and then claims he doesn't want to be a god XD In this case Superman acts like a NICE guy but doesn't mind being a god and making convenents :) AND BATMAN MADE FRIENDS! XDD That's all he rly needs, Predators! It's just us humans he can't stand XDDD
Neways, I think the story is cute, esp given the subject matter. :) It doesn't have bad intentions and seems to be just focussed on giving the readers a good time. :) The no advertisements thing is a nice addition too and the painted art is rly pretty :D The only problem would be the price tag. :\ It's like 8 dollars CDN, but since my comic store loves me, it was only like 5 for me :)
It's a 2 parter tho, so ultimately, I think it's worth it. If it was like 4 or more parts, that would get expensive, but the book format and the no ad thing makes the price tag worth it. :)
I think that if you're a HUGE Alien and Predator fan, or a big VERSUS crossover fan, you wun like this book. This isn't a book meant for ppl expecting their big dream fight. But if you're a casual reader who's tired of comic books taking themselves too seriously, this is the book for you. :) It's light, it's fun and Batman makes friends with Predators and has a campfire circle with them! XD What more could you want? :D
This book rly should be called Superman and Batman and Predators with Aliens (Oh My!) :DDD
Angelwings Rating: 4 Predators out of 5 Aliens
Recommendation: A little pricey, but worth it if you're looking for a fun story, great art and a change of pace :)
Synopsis:In the mountains in South America, some researchers are approaching a volcano that will erupt soon to do some research when they are killed. :O
In Gotham, Batman is spying on a mob deal when he hears some noises. :O Investigating, he sees some Predators. They knock him down and escape!
Superman is investigating a weird device under Metropolis and he sees some Predators there too! They also escape before he can apprehend them. :O
At the Daily Planet, Clark Kent is sent to investigate the volcano deaths and Lois takes vacation time to go with her husband :O
They reach the moutain but Clark hears signs of danger and sends Lois and the sherpas back down! He becomes Superman and finds some special ops agents in the volcano but they are dead! Batman appears and says that these agents are a government force that was put together to fight the Predators. He says that he traced the volcanic ash that was left behind by the Predators in Gotham to this volcano! :O
Superman and Batman's conversation is interrupted by an explosion that sends Batman falling into the crevice! Superman rushes to help but runs into some Aliens who are lurking underneath some rocks! :O Superman fights the Aliens as he recognizes them. o_o;;;
Batman, meanwhile, is okay b/c of his special suit that he was wearing, but he also runs into Aliens! Before the Aliens can kill him however, they are killed by Predators! Batman surrenders to them as he is no match for them currently. :O They take Batman into their Volcano base where he meets their big Alien chief! He slaps the Chief, challenging him to a duel and uses a gadget to disable the Chief and win!
Superman senses that the volcano is about to erupt and escapes, lamenting that the Aliens and Predators will both die in there. However he hears Lois' screams for help and finds that some Predators have captured her and are taking her away! He rescues her but she notes that they seem to want him to follow :O He follows and meets Batman who has made friends with the Predators! :D
He has convinced them that Superman is a Sun God and they apologize for taking "his female". They then sit down and have a little campfire talk. :) Batman explains that these Predators are an ancient tribe of the Predators and aren't the current types of Predators. :] They crashed on Earth long ago during the Ice Age. Predators apparently dun like the cold, so they went into the volcano and made their base there. They brought some Alien eggs with them b/c hunting Aliens is part of their culture. The Aliens and Predators have existed under ground for thousands of years since until the volcanic activity forced them to find a new place to live which is why they were in Metropolis and Gotham looking for a new home! :O They were surprised to see humans and how much the world has changed which lead to them killing cuz they were scared (I guess?) XD
Superman and Batman agree that the Predators and Aliens cannot live among humans as they are too dangerous, but that neither deserve to die either, so Superman tells the Predators that their God is making a convenent with them! They will not kill humans and Superman will fix their ship and help them leave Earth and find their home :)
He then leaves the volcano to bring his Fortress to them to fix their ship :D However, they do not have much time as the volcano will explode soon and shadowy government agents are watching from afar, planning their next move to kill the Aliens and Predators! :OOO
Review: XDDDDD Honestly I dunno why ppl dun like this book! I think it's b/c they expect some sort of fight! And I'm glad there ISN'T one! Srsly, I'm tired of fan-service books which is just A vs. B! I'm not interested in seeing who would win between Movie Franchise 1 and Movie Franchise 2. It IS nice to see a change of pace like this and I'm glad that there's an actual plot. :) Also, if you take this book srsly, you wun like it. :\ If you allow that this is a silly concept in the first place, then you'll like it b/c it's fun. :)
I kinda miss the days when comics were about FUN and not about dark brooding serious storylines all the time. This story isn't canonical, so I'm not super critical of it :) And I like that the dialogue is kinda cheesy and Superman says "nuts" XD The dialogue is a little unusual for those two characters, but I like it, cuz as I said, this book isn't supposed to be serious! Batman is friendlier than usual and Superman is a little more goofy than usual, but it's a nice turn from the angry Batman and egotistical Superman that we usually get. This is Batman and Superman as friends, and I miss when they WERE friends and not grudging allies. :)
Also the fact that the Aliens are basically mindless pets and the Predators are friendly (if a little violent) individuals is amusing too! It's like, Superman and Batman help Predators and hey! there are Aliens!!! XDDD
The real villains here are man! And for once, given that humans are usually victims in Alien/Predator stories, that's a refreshing change. :) These Predators just want to live their culture and leave this crazy planet!
Superman totally accepting his godhood is funny to me also b/c usually Superman acts like a jerk and then claims he doesn't want to be a god XD In this case Superman acts like a NICE guy but doesn't mind being a god and making convenents :) AND BATMAN MADE FRIENDS! XDD That's all he rly needs, Predators! It's just us humans he can't stand XDDD
Neways, I think the story is cute, esp given the subject matter. :) It doesn't have bad intentions and seems to be just focussed on giving the readers a good time. :) The no advertisements thing is a nice addition too and the painted art is rly pretty :D The only problem would be the price tag. :\ It's like 8 dollars CDN, but since my comic store loves me, it was only like 5 for me :)
It's a 2 parter tho, so ultimately, I think it's worth it. If it was like 4 or more parts, that would get expensive, but the book format and the no ad thing makes the price tag worth it. :)
I think that if you're a HUGE Alien and Predator fan, or a big VERSUS crossover fan, you wun like this book. This isn't a book meant for ppl expecting their big dream fight. But if you're a casual reader who's tired of comic books taking themselves too seriously, this is the book for you. :) It's light, it's fun and Batman makes friends with Predators and has a campfire circle with them! XD What more could you want? :D
This book rly should be called Superman and Batman and Predators with Aliens (Oh My!) :DDD
Angelwings Rating: 4 Predators out of 5 Aliens
Recommendation: A little pricey, but worth it if you're looking for a fun story, great art and a change of pace :)
52 - #36 Review
52 - #36
Synopsis: Question is apparently not dead, but is barely alive. The monks from Nanda Parbat send herbs with healing properties to Renee but they die when they're removed from their native soil and they're always dust by the time they reach her. :( She decides the only thing to do is to take Question back to Nanda Parbat despite the objections of Batwoman who wants her to stay. :
Lobo, Animal Man and Starfire are taken to Lady Styxx who sends her guards against them. Lobo asks for his money but Styx refuses him. Fishy tells Lobo that Styx is insulting him and calling him a coward and a pacifist. Finally snapping, Lobo goes against his pacifist oath and kills all the guards and then attacks Styxx! Animal Man, rejecting the cult's calls to believe in Lady Styx declares he believes in his family and then calls for Adam Strange (who has apparently been lying in wait) to shoot at Styx :O The Emerald Head of Akron then bursts in and begins to fight Lady Styx. :O Lobo reveals that he waited until the Sun Eaters had begun their migration for a reason and The Head flies into one of the Eaters with Styx, killing them both (in theory neways).
In the aftermath, Animal Man lays dying in Starfire's arms, the victim of the zombie toxin that Styx's followers use. He says that his family knows he loves them and tells Starfire not to let him be a zombie. :\ Back on Earth his wife looks up into the sky and starts to tear up, knowing her husband is dead. :(
In Khandaq, Osiris is upset that the world has branded him a killer and that the Teen Titans said that if he showed up they'd have to arrest him. :( Sobek comes in to console him.
In an unknown laboratory, Rip Hunter and Supernova are together. Supernova says that he's brought Rip Hunter all the objects he asked for: The Starman Staffs, Luthor's Kryptonite Gauntlet, and many more and asks if Rip can make something of them. Rip, who is not totally there, is incomprehensible in some of his responses. Nova assures him that altho Skeets is looking for him, they are in a place where Skeets will never find them. We zoom out to see that they are in the Bottle City of Kandor in Superman's fortress but Skeets unfortunately is there watching them. :(
Review: Yay a storyline is over! :D The Styx storyline ended rly fast tho o_o;; Almost like they realized they didn't have many more issues left and had to get something out of the way. :\ Poor Lady Styx, we barely got to know her :( It's funny that it seemed like Fishy was lying to Lobo just to get him to help. :O Yay Fishy! I'm sad Animal Man died tho :( I liked Buddy b/c altho he didn't have great powers and wasn't a top tier hero, he was a genuinely nice guy, and a family man who left his family to fight with the heroes in Infinite Crisis even tho he rly didn't have to. He's a true hero in that sense and he deserves a better fate :(
I'm surprised Question is alive tho! I thought he died 2 issues ago. :O Montoya definitely is a very loyal friend and I like the evolution of her character in this sense :) I'm confused about her relationship with Batwoman tho. It's like... 2 lesbians, broke up, then meet up again and are back together? :o I dunno... the Batwoman stuff has still been confusing. :( I fear for Batwoman now :\ Since Mannheim is still alive, that means her prophecized fate is still possible! I fear that Renee leaving her means that she'll be dead when Renee returns :( Hopefully she wun die before we finally get some characterization for her!
Poor Osiris! WTF is wrong with the Teen Titans!? It seems unfair that the heroes protected Wonder Woman but the Titans feel they HAVE to arrest Osiris? :\ That's a double standard! Poor Black Adam's family :( So persecuted... :| I WANT a happy ending for the ppl in 52, but it seems like none of them are gonna get one. :(
I think the plot that is most interesting to me is the Skeets/Supernova/Rip Hunter plot. :O I think this might very well lend credence to the Supernova is Booster Gold theory. Booster knew from reading Rip Hunter's notes that Skeets was the bad guy, and he didn't tell Skeets about what was in the lab, so there must have been a reason for that. And if he knew that Skeets was evil or had his own agenda, then he must also know that he couldn't do nething as long as Skeets was his partner, so he faked his own death. :O Maybe! It makes sense :) But Supernova could also be other ppl :O
It's scary that Skeets knows where Rip Hunter and Supernova are tho :( But hopefully the next week will be an interesting one that follows up on this! :)
This is definitely an issue that improves greatly over the last one and I'm glad that some stuff is finally wrapping up :) You can sorta feel that we're winding down now and that plots are finally moving towards their conclusions :) I just want SOME happy endings! >:|
Angelwings Rating: 3/5 Angelwings :)
Recommendation: Definitely an issue to read :]
Synopsis: Question is apparently not dead, but is barely alive. The monks from Nanda Parbat send herbs with healing properties to Renee but they die when they're removed from their native soil and they're always dust by the time they reach her. :( She decides the only thing to do is to take Question back to Nanda Parbat despite the objections of Batwoman who wants her to stay. :
Lobo, Animal Man and Starfire are taken to Lady Styxx who sends her guards against them. Lobo asks for his money but Styx refuses him. Fishy tells Lobo that Styx is insulting him and calling him a coward and a pacifist. Finally snapping, Lobo goes against his pacifist oath and kills all the guards and then attacks Styxx! Animal Man, rejecting the cult's calls to believe in Lady Styx declares he believes in his family and then calls for Adam Strange (who has apparently been lying in wait) to shoot at Styx :O The Emerald Head of Akron then bursts in and begins to fight Lady Styx. :O Lobo reveals that he waited until the Sun Eaters had begun their migration for a reason and The Head flies into one of the Eaters with Styx, killing them both (in theory neways).
In the aftermath, Animal Man lays dying in Starfire's arms, the victim of the zombie toxin that Styx's followers use. He says that his family knows he loves them and tells Starfire not to let him be a zombie. :\ Back on Earth his wife looks up into the sky and starts to tear up, knowing her husband is dead. :(
In Khandaq, Osiris is upset that the world has branded him a killer and that the Teen Titans said that if he showed up they'd have to arrest him. :( Sobek comes in to console him.
In an unknown laboratory, Rip Hunter and Supernova are together. Supernova says that he's brought Rip Hunter all the objects he asked for: The Starman Staffs, Luthor's Kryptonite Gauntlet, and many more and asks if Rip can make something of them. Rip, who is not totally there, is incomprehensible in some of his responses. Nova assures him that altho Skeets is looking for him, they are in a place where Skeets will never find them. We zoom out to see that they are in the Bottle City of Kandor in Superman's fortress but Skeets unfortunately is there watching them. :(
Review: Yay a storyline is over! :D The Styx storyline ended rly fast tho o_o;; Almost like they realized they didn't have many more issues left and had to get something out of the way. :\ Poor Lady Styx, we barely got to know her :( It's funny that it seemed like Fishy was lying to Lobo just to get him to help. :O Yay Fishy! I'm sad Animal Man died tho :( I liked Buddy b/c altho he didn't have great powers and wasn't a top tier hero, he was a genuinely nice guy, and a family man who left his family to fight with the heroes in Infinite Crisis even tho he rly didn't have to. He's a true hero in that sense and he deserves a better fate :(
I'm surprised Question is alive tho! I thought he died 2 issues ago. :O Montoya definitely is a very loyal friend and I like the evolution of her character in this sense :) I'm confused about her relationship with Batwoman tho. It's like... 2 lesbians, broke up, then meet up again and are back together? :o I dunno... the Batwoman stuff has still been confusing. :( I fear for Batwoman now :\ Since Mannheim is still alive, that means her prophecized fate is still possible! I fear that Renee leaving her means that she'll be dead when Renee returns :( Hopefully she wun die before we finally get some characterization for her!
Poor Osiris! WTF is wrong with the Teen Titans!? It seems unfair that the heroes protected Wonder Woman but the Titans feel they HAVE to arrest Osiris? :\ That's a double standard! Poor Black Adam's family :( So persecuted... :| I WANT a happy ending for the ppl in 52, but it seems like none of them are gonna get one. :(
I think the plot that is most interesting to me is the Skeets/Supernova/Rip Hunter plot. :O I think this might very well lend credence to the Supernova is Booster Gold theory. Booster knew from reading Rip Hunter's notes that Skeets was the bad guy, and he didn't tell Skeets about what was in the lab, so there must have been a reason for that. And if he knew that Skeets was evil or had his own agenda, then he must also know that he couldn't do nething as long as Skeets was his partner, so he faked his own death. :O Maybe! It makes sense :) But Supernova could also be other ppl :O
It's scary that Skeets knows where Rip Hunter and Supernova are tho :( But hopefully the next week will be an interesting one that follows up on this! :)
This is definitely an issue that improves greatly over the last one and I'm glad that some stuff is finally wrapping up :) You can sorta feel that we're winding down now and that plots are finally moving towards their conclusions :) I just want SOME happy endings! >:|
Angelwings Rating: 3/5 Angelwings :)
Recommendation: Definitely an issue to read :]
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Week of Jan 10 Comics and Super Short Reviews :)
So today's comic day again! :) Yay! :D
I didn't get much today:
52 - #36
Batman - #662
Batman Confidential - #2
Gen 13 - #4
Martian Manhunter - #6 (of 8)
Superman and Batman VS. Aliens and Predator - #1 (of 2)
Neways... what amazed me so much was just how shoddy the editting this week was o_o Like, in 52, a piece of dialogue meant for Osiris was said by Sobek instead. :O That was rly confusing and it took me a while to realize that the word bubble was attached to the wrong person >:O Sloppy!
And in Martian Manhunter there's not one but TWO cases where "you're" is used instead of "your". >:|
For a professional company this is very dissapointing. :\ I know mistakes happen, but that's why we have editors.
Neways here are my super short reviews :)
52 - #36 - Well the Lady Styx thing ended as soon as it had begun. o_o;; Another week where apparently nothing happened to the other major characters. :\ Still at least a plotline is finally closed and a major character has died! (not the one you think tho) More importantly, the ending is very interesting! Finally 52 is picking up again :) 3/5 Angelwings
Batman - #662 - The Grotesk storyline is over! :O It wasn't very interesting and this issue was basically one big, long, confusing, fight. No twist ending, no twists at all actually, this story was just very straightforward. :\ 2/5 Angelwings
Batman Confidential - #2 - It's nice to see Batman use his brain occasionally XD The ending seemed rushed and confusing, but I'm interested to see where it goes with him and Luthor. I hope Superman show up too since this would be one of the first meetings between the two heroes (this being a year one or two story). 2.5/5 Angelwings
Gen 13 - #4 - It still seems kinda like the characters have read the previous Gen 13 and alrdy know who they are XD But I like the ideas raised and I think Simone's take on the Gen 13 story has been very interesting. Grunge finally gets character development and I rly like it! :) 3/5
Martian Manhunter - #6 (of 8) - More J'onn being mean to other heroes. I thought Batman stopped being a jerk after Infinite Crisis? Could the other heroes be MORE vague about something that J'onn badly needed to know? :\ The "twist" ending is also kinda spoiled by Teen Titans earlier PLUS it seems like they use this "twist" whenever the plot involves J'onn and his past. And why does everybody in the comic world sleep naked? XD 2/5
Superman and Batman VS. Aliens and Predator - #1 (of 2) - A very charming story :) Very fun, a little violent, but no gore, tho there are body parts. :| But the story itself is cute and I like that the actually "vs" part is just the title and not actually a fight thing XDDDD The dialogue seems wrong for Superman and Batman, but it's a fun little story :) 4/5
:)
So neways, those are the stories this week. :] Nothing too bad or too good, which isn't that bad I guess xD
I'll be posting more in depth reviews later! :) Also I'll be putting up a little something in my rant blog. :D Just something I wanted to write about the appeal of Superheroes and why they mean something to me.
Take care!!!
<3 Teh Ami
I didn't get much today:
52 - #36
Batman - #662
Batman Confidential - #2
Gen 13 - #4
Martian Manhunter - #6 (of 8)
Superman and Batman VS. Aliens and Predator - #1 (of 2)
Neways... what amazed me so much was just how shoddy the editting this week was o_o Like, in 52, a piece of dialogue meant for Osiris was said by Sobek instead. :O That was rly confusing and it took me a while to realize that the word bubble was attached to the wrong person >:O Sloppy!
And in Martian Manhunter there's not one but TWO cases where "you're" is used instead of "your". >:|
For a professional company this is very dissapointing. :\ I know mistakes happen, but that's why we have editors.
Neways here are my super short reviews :)
52 - #36 - Well the Lady Styx thing ended as soon as it had begun. o_o;; Another week where apparently nothing happened to the other major characters. :\ Still at least a plotline is finally closed and a major character has died! (not the one you think tho) More importantly, the ending is very interesting! Finally 52 is picking up again :) 3/5 Angelwings
Batman - #662 - The Grotesk storyline is over! :O It wasn't very interesting and this issue was basically one big, long, confusing, fight. No twist ending, no twists at all actually, this story was just very straightforward. :\ 2/5 Angelwings
Batman Confidential - #2 - It's nice to see Batman use his brain occasionally XD The ending seemed rushed and confusing, but I'm interested to see where it goes with him and Luthor. I hope Superman show up too since this would be one of the first meetings between the two heroes (this being a year one or two story). 2.5/5 Angelwings
Gen 13 - #4 - It still seems kinda like the characters have read the previous Gen 13 and alrdy know who they are XD But I like the ideas raised and I think Simone's take on the Gen 13 story has been very interesting. Grunge finally gets character development and I rly like it! :) 3/5
Martian Manhunter - #6 (of 8) - More J'onn being mean to other heroes. I thought Batman stopped being a jerk after Infinite Crisis? Could the other heroes be MORE vague about something that J'onn badly needed to know? :\ The "twist" ending is also kinda spoiled by Teen Titans earlier PLUS it seems like they use this "twist" whenever the plot involves J'onn and his past. And why does everybody in the comic world sleep naked? XD 2/5
Superman and Batman VS. Aliens and Predator - #1 (of 2) - A very charming story :) Very fun, a little violent, but no gore, tho there are body parts. :| But the story itself is cute and I like that the actually "vs" part is just the title and not actually a fight thing XDDDD The dialogue seems wrong for Superman and Batman, but it's a fun little story :) 4/5
:)
So neways, those are the stories this week. :] Nothing too bad or too good, which isn't that bad I guess xD
I'll be posting more in depth reviews later! :) Also I'll be putting up a little something in my rant blog. :D Just something I wanted to write about the appeal of Superheroes and why they mean something to me.
Take care!!!
<3 Teh Ami
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