Hi :D
Okay finally I actually had comics to buy this week! :] So life is good :D
I think I'm mostly recovered now from my wisdom teeth being removed and being rly sick for a few days (which was bizarre xD) and stuff tho :) And I have comics! So hopefully I'll be back to regularly reviewing stuff :D
Neways so this is what I got today :D
Action Comics - #864
Batman - #675
Blue Beetle - #26
DC Universe 0 - #1 (0?) (One-Shot)
Green Lantern - #30
Legion of Superheroes - #41
Teen Titans - #58
Rawr.. I wasn't originally going to get Titans, but Miss Martian was in it, and I luff her, so I got it and I'm SO not sorry I did! :D Miss Martian is GREAT!!!! :D And I relate to her on many levels which I'll get into later :] Also it gave me the MOST HILARIOUS TIM CHARACTERIZATION EVAR xDDDD
So here are the Super Short Reviews™! :D
Action Comics - #864 - This is a set up issue for Legion of Three Worlds but I found it RLY interesting. :] Actually now that Countdown is finally DONE, it seems like things are finally picking up again! :D I rly liked this issue b/c it had lots of Batman/Superman interaction and was just rly interesting in general and had good characterization :D 4.5/5
Batman - #675 - I originally skipped this b/c I haven't rly been enjoying Morrison's writing in this title lately, but Zhinxy told me that it was decent, so I checked it out, and it IS decent :D Batman is still angry!Batman but I liked the plot mostly and Jezebel Jet is still wicked cool and stuff :D The ending doesn't bode well for her tho :( I still thought this was a decent issue tho :D 3/5
Blue Beetle - #26 - Okay this will be a tricky score. :o I rly DO like the story and stuff, and the ending was rly sweet. :] I had some problems with the scarab characterization b/c it seems to go against what was recently established :\ But I guess that's kinda expected with a new writer XD My bigger issue comes from the issue being billed as the special Spanish issue, when rly it's just an issue translated into Spanish, then the English is given at the end so it comes off as a gimmick. Also ppl who actually speak and read Spanish have told me the translation isn't even good and regardless, there's a lot that wouldn't translate well and there's just a huge difference between writing something for a particular language and writing something in another language and translating it. :\ So it just seems rly gimmicky and annoying to me. I mean if you're going to do a story in the language of the superhero and bill it as this awesome authentic thing, and that the English is only a "bonus" (which btw you shouldn't have to PAY extra for "bonus material") you should have somebody fluent in the language write it IN that language and then you can translate it to English. >:| Neways... so ultimately I give it a 2/5 b/c while I enjoyed it, making the special Spanish language issue which is supposed to be respecting Jaime and his family in the comic into just an English issue with a gimmick doesn't sit well with me :(
DC Universe 0 - #1 (0?) (One-Shot) - For a 50 cent comic this was rly enjoyable :D I rly liked all the little previews and the overall narration which turns out to be from a surprise person! :D It also finally has me interested in Final Crisis and the little arcs coming in the DCU for each char :D 4/5
Green Lantern - #30 - We continue our origin story revamp of Green Lantern and I'm enjoying it :) Esp the parts with Abin Sur :D The characterization seems solid to me and it's just sort of relaxing and fun :D 4/5
Legion of Superheroes - #41 - The story continues to be interesting and the characters continue to be neat, fun and cute :D LoS is a book I've been enjoying a lot of lately and I still like it just cuz it's fun and I like the dialogue and stuff and I just... like it :D 5/5
Teen Titans - #58 - Normally I would take off points for bad Robin characterization, but this one was SO HILARIOUS that I think it GETS points. xD It's just.. OMGWTFBBQOUTOFLEFTFIELD XD Also M'gann is awesome and.. just awesome :) We find out more about her history and.. I just rly identify with her and her struggles and her past. :] <3 The plot is okay, I'm not fond of the Terror Titans AT ALL, but M'gann more than makes up for that. :D 4/5
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K so that's it! :] Sry about the long BB SSR, but it's a sore spot for me :\ Also my sister's fluent in Spanish and she's none too happy about it either, so I guess I'm sorta expressing for both of us. xD
Detailed reviews coming! :D (hopefully xD) Tomorrow's my birthday tho so, so I may take it off for blogging :D
<3
Teh Ami
Edit: apparently my brain blocked out the first couple pages of TT and I forgot they existed :( for personal reasons i dun think i can review it right now :( hopefully later tho, b/c I rly like the other parts :) it's just right now i'm crying :(
10 comments:
The Spanish "gimmick" worked ok for me. Though charging extra for it was annoying. It was the pointless super-villain fight. I just wanted a whole issue of Jamie and Traci reacting to his family and them dealing with his dating an Anglo as well...
You had to pay for the English, you got ripped I think.
They kinda had to do it , since who would buy a comic that's not in the native language, and it's not like Blue Beetle is the top selling DC comic (though it would be a great world if it was)
hey, no crying! *hugs*
Hey Ami,
First of all a very happy birthday to you.
Second of all with the exception of Batman I agreed with your assessments.
Thirdly I'm sorry. Given your earlier posts I have a hunch as to what you've gone through recently. I'm sorry that anyone would have to go through that. I'm doubly sorry that it was you.
Honestly I was deeply displeased with the opening scene in Teen Titans. It was only as I was writing the post about it that I realized how angry it made me. I hope you don't mind I've included the url for the post for you and your readers to look at.(http://1afinerworld.blogspot.com/2008/04/was-this-really-neccesary-green-lantern.html) The rest of the issue was quite good, but it's like dipping prime rib in shit. It leaves a really bad taste.
To end on a more upbeat note, again happy birthday. I hope it's a great day filled with wonderful things for you.
Take care of yourself.
Toriach
Lurker: AGREED. Esp after the end of the last arc, a denouement would have been nice. :)
Arstal: The cover price of BB#26 is 3.50 I'm not sure what you meant? :\ Like were you saying that the cover was 2.99 and the store charged extra cuz that wasn't the case, or are you saying that having it be 3.50 is DC ripping us off, cuz it so is >:\
Also what I was saying was that they should have it written IN Spanish and then include the English translation, rather than having it written IN English and translated INTO Spanish, and then including the English as a "bonus".
Saranga: *hugs back* ty :)
Toriach: ty for the birthday wishes :) and I agree... the rest of the book was rly good... I'm trying rly hard to not think of the first couple pages tho... I've read the book 3 times and thru each reading my brain seems to block out the first couple pages and so I'm shocked and horrified each time again, like I forgot all about it... it's why I'm having trouble reviewing it :(
It was RLY UNNECESSARY as you said in your post, which was rly good. :) There are so many other ways without throwing that in there like that :(
*sighs* I hate even thinking about it.. just... esp since I associate with her so much.. and.. :(
I agree with the points about the BB translation. It was a good "fill-in" issue, though. It still felt like the same book, which is very good. Is Traci Anglo? I don't know what i thought her genetic provenance was, but i didn't think it was angloid.
I think Lurker meant anglo as in "anglophone". :)
As far as I know, Traci 13 is half asian, half white (white father/Asian mother, which often seems like DC's favourite mixed parentage for teen heroes). xD
Having now read that Teen Titans issue I can see why you are upset.
Maybe I got DC0 for free. The store might have given that away free and charged me 3.50. I don't look at the price for comics much- I just impulse buy. (The only time I do that, I'm usually a Clark Howard-esque tightwad otherwise)
They probably need to make their money on BB anyways, so I don't mind. The buying figures scare me. Why is it most of the comics I read can't even sell 20,000? Honestly, I don't think it was very good- the criticisms about needed more Traci and less parasite seem pretty spot-on to me.
Hey Ami, i was reading about this new series called "Vix" from Image, and thought i should share this paragraph:
“She’s somewhat puzzled by the mystery, but not really bothered by it,” Hoseley said of Vix, a teenage girl who finds herself with unusual super-human abilities that she doesn’t understand, both in regards to what she can do with them as well as where they came from. “She sees them as a great thing. The particulars don’t worry or concern her much and she’d be perfectly happy not knowing the whys and wherefores, being content to help people without them knowing she even exists.”
That sounds like an Amiverse hero to me! The rest of the story is here:
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=16301
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