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Star Trek: Khan - Ruling In Hell

2011-05-31T19:06:00.007-04:00

Star Trek: Khan - Ruling In Hell

Published by: IDW Publishing
Written by: Scott Tipton and David Tipton
Art by: Fabio Mantovani
Colouring by: Fabio Mantovani and Chiara Cinabro
Lettering by: Neil Uyetake

Synopsis:

The SS Botany Bay and a few cargo containers from the USS Enterprise land on Ceti Alpha V. Khan Noonian Singh is reading Moby Dick when Captain Kirk approaches him and gives him the honour of being the first to step on his new home, which Khan appreciates :) Khan surveys his new home and is pleased while Scotty asks Kirk if this is a good idea and Kirk says that it's better than risking Khan take over a re-education facility or a starbase given how fast he took the Enterprise.

Kirk wishes Khan the best as they shake hands and Kirk beams off. One of Khan's followers named Tamas curses Kirk for stranding them there but Khan tells him not to b/c Kirk proved that he is nobody's inferior when he beat Khan and took back the Enterprise, and that given that Khan tried to take Kirk's ship, it was more than generous for Kirk to let them settle on a planet rather than incarcerate them. :) Khan is excited at the prospect of taming the new world :D

Khan's loyal friend Joachim (who is also in Star Trek II) expresses doubts as well but trusts Khan and is reassured by him that things will be okay :)

Khan reflects briefly on his past: how he was genetically engineered and that he and his kind took over much of Earth and established empires, but that the regular humans eventually rebelled and he was forced to flee with other superhumans and decided that it was better to go into space than face defeat on Earth. He then recaps being awoken by the Enterprise on his sleeper ship, and taking it over easily w/ his men but that he underestimated Kirk and ultimately lost. However he credits Kirk for not punishing him and offering him a new life and a chance to build a new empire :)

Khan starts by organizing search parties to explore their new home. We see montages of days, weeks and months passing as they discover the dangers of the planet and the weird plants and animals that inhabit it. As dangerous as it is at first, with people being attacked and captured by plants, 6 months later, they have already built cabins and mastered how to hunt and kill the animals :)

Khan gives a stirring speech that night w/ Marla Macgyvers (the Enterprise historian who fell in love w/ him and came w/ him to the planet as his wife) about how much they've accomplished in such a short amount of time and how this will be a great civilization that will eventually take it's place among the stars :3

He and Marla kiss in the starlit sky... but then there is an explosion in the night sky! :O Khan determines using futuristic binoculars that Ceti Alpha VI exploded :| Khan assures his followers that everything will be fine, but Tamas is skeptical. Joachim believes him even though he too is worried.

Khan confides to Marla that it may not be fine, but is confident that if there is any problem, Kirk will return b/c he believes Starfleet must be monitoring the situation, as much for their own sake as for the colonists.

6 Months later things on the planet are deteriorating. Plants and animals are dying and the world is no longer lush and vibrant. Joachim and Tamas are talking. Joachim is hopeful, believing that it could just be a natural seasonal change of the planet, but Tamas believes it has to do with the explosion of Ceti Alpha VI.

A piece of debris from Ceti Alpha VI then impacts in the distance, causing a mushroom cloud which makes Tamas believe he is more right than ever.

Back in the Botany Bay, Joachim asks Khan if there is a way to send a signal but Khan says that all the Botany Bay can do is send radio signals and nobody would be able to get them in time. He says that Kirk is an honourable man, and will return to help them.

Tamas and his loyalists believe Khan is being foolish and confront him, Marla and Joachim :o They argue w/ Khan saying that there is nothing that can be done at the moment but wait for help and again reiterates that Kirk will be back. Tamas calls him a traitor and mocks his irrational faith in Kirk, who he sees as the cause of all their problems and Khan's weakness in losing to him. :o

This enrages Khan who backhands Tamas :o He tells Tamas that they can only prepare for a worsening situation until Kirk comes and Tamas obeys even though it is clear he has other plans. Khan mutters that Kirk will come. :(

Three months later, the world is becoming more inhospitable and cold as winds blow dead leaves and debris everywhere. Joachim tells Khan that the river is dry and the wells are drying up and that the hunting parties don't even bring back enough to support the energy expended in the hunt :( He says that it keeps getting colder but they don't have enough pelts to make furs to keep warm.

Khan orders all fabric and upholstery to be stripped from the Botany Bay and turned into coldweather clothing. They then go to check on "the patients" :o Apparently during the last few months, several colonists have gotten mysteriously ill. The illness starts with madness and then turns into paralysis and death. :o Tamas walks in and talks about how paralysis is a terrible thing and how awful it is to be unable to move or save yourself. He then notes pointedly to Khan that at least the infected ppl did not CHOOSE to be paralyzed. :o

Tamas speaks to other colonists who are loyal to him that things are getting worse, that the meteorite impacts have caused a nuclear winter and that the planet's orbit shifting has only compounded the problem. :( He suggests Khan is not willing to make the hard decisions necessary to save his people. Tamas says that even though they owe Khan everything for helping them escape Earth, Khan seems unable to make hard decisions to save the colony and that he is foolishly hoping for a rescue that will never come. :o He suggests that soon it will be up to them to make the hard decisions o_o

Joachim tells Khan that all attempts to create a subspace transmitter has failed, and the knowledge from the Enterprise's databanks suggests that there's no way they could do it. Khan gets angry and chases Marla and Joachim out and begins to brood about how his people are dying and yet Kirk is still not here. :(

Khan and his people push and weld the cargo containers together to create a sand proof and wind proof place for them to live. He bitterly says that these containers are the last "gift" from their friend Kirk.

Elsewhere in a cave, Tamas and his followers plot. They agree that it would be impossible to assassinate Khan as he doesn't trust anybody enough to let them near him. Tamas says that he trusts Marla. The followers are horrified at what he is suggesting, but Tamas says that Marla is not one of them, and that it needs to be done. :o

Back in the cargo shelters, Joachim and Khan are tending to the ill. Joachiim reveals to Khan that he has discovered is behind the mysterious illness that has afflicted some of his men: a tiny eel that crawled out of one of the corspe's ear :o Joachim suspects that they were subterrainian animals that came to the surface in search of food, i.e. human brains :o He also believes there is a mother creature out there that they have not found :o

Joachim then tells Khan that there is another symptom he's discovered of the afflicted :o He orders one of the patients out of bed and to stand on his head. Khan is amazed as the patient does so. :o Joachim says that afflicted patients are very susceptable to "suggestion". Khan takes Joachim with him to hunt for the mother eel to find a cure.

While outside doing an errand, Marla is captured by Tamas' men and brought to the rebel cave :o Tamas puts the eel in Marla's ear :(

Meanwhile, Khan and Joachim are out looking for the mother creature and finds it. She leaps out at Khan but Khan catches her with a gloved hand and brings it back where they put it in the plastic container we see it in in Star Trek II. :o

Khan and Joachim analyze the creature and talk about ways to get the eels to leave. They dismiss surgery and flushing with water when Marla approaches Khan from behind and tries to stab him! :O Khan manages to stop her but finds out she is infected :( She dies in a few hours and Khan realizes that this was no accident. >:O

Khan realizes that in the case that she failed, the rebels must be up to something else. He and Joachim go to the power generator to find that it is missing :O He gets angry that he has been betrayed like this and that the only person he truly cares about has been taken from him :( He says that this is now war.

Khan and Joachim forge weapons for his loyalists to wield and Khan gives a speech to rally his troops while Tamas rallies his. Both armies march out into the desert to battle. It is a vicious battle but Khan's side has the advantage :o Khan sees Tamas observing the battle rather than fighting in it and pursues him into the cave :O

Inside the cave, Tamas ambushes Khan but Khan defeats him. Joachim arrives to tell Khan that his forces have won and there were fewer casualties than he had feared. :) Tamas attacks Khan from behind but Khan is prepared and stabs him, killing him :(

Joachim congrulates Khan for his victory and that he has proven his superior intellect. Khan looks around the cave and discovers it has mushrooms and other fungus and clean water, ensuring their survival. :)

Khan goes back to the cargo containers and rips off the broken Starfleet symbol that was on the side of the container and turns it into a pendant around his neck as an ironic reminder of who stranded them on the planet and abandoned them.

Years pass.

One day Khan and his band see a pair of transporter beams in the distance. They go to the cargo containers and see Captain Terrell and Chekov exit them in spacesuits. Khan says that their salvation has arrived and to greet their guests...

:o

I wonder what happens next? :o

>_>;;

Review:

I wasn't sure what I was expecting when I picked this up in my local library but I dun think I was expecting a story that had so little going on but yet so much character development :) I thought maybe lots happened to embitter Khan, but I think it's rly effective that it wasn't like all sorts of crazy happenings or creatures or something :)

Also I didn't think I'd feel so bad for everybody :( I sympathized with both Tamas and Khan. They rly did their homework w/ watching "Space Seed" and also extrapolating from that episode what Khan's personality was like pre-Star Trek II and how being defeated by Kirk would affect him. I rly felt bad that he felt betrayed by Kirk and also shocked that the Enterprise or another ship DIDN'T come back to check up on them -_-;; I mean even if you thought that the explosion was Ceti Alpha V, Starfleet would still check it out wouldn't they? Especially since they know how smart and dangerous Khan can be, wouldn't they be worried that a planetary explosion could be caused BY him? Or just to make sure that he wasn't discovered by some other ship and made his escape? As Khan says, it's in their best interests to help... but no :(

That to me was the one weakness of the book. I was thinking about halfway through that they were going to flash to the Federation and give us a plausible explanation as to why nobody checked on Khan, that way we know that Khan is raging against innocent people. :\ But it seems his greivances have some foundation -_-;; (I'm also shocked how Starfleet can be so out of it that they dunno that the planet Ceti Alpha VI blew up and Ceti Alpha V is not Ceti Alpha VI... I mean just COUNTING the planets should alert you something's up, besides all the math and astronomy that would let you know what happened in that solar system)

I rly like how they made Khan kinda trusting... even if he's "evil" he was a born and bred noble. And in that way he kind of shows that he has noble simple principles. Also that his ego wouldn't allow him to think that Kirk's defeat was a sign of weakness on his part, but instead he had to elevate Kirk up, which is why he seemed to believe that Kirk would come. (they also sully Kirk a bit at the beginning, cuz in Space Seed, Kirk seems earnest in wanting to not send Khan to prison, but here he says he fears Khan will take it over, so his intentions are hardly pure themselves :o )

I sympathize w/ Tamas a lot too, b/c Khan DOES seem unable to make hard decisions and he seems obsessed with Kirk. Which I think he is. It's interesting how the writer's made his obsession a POSITIVE obsession which turned into a negative one. :\ B/c he credits Kirk for leaving there, it then turns into blame. His idolizing of Kirk for defeating him turns into bitterness.. :\

I guess if I had another complaint it would be that the story is mostly about Khan and Tamas, and Marla and Joachim dun do v much. Joachim exists to exposit a lot so we know the situation as time passes basically :\ Altho they do show that he is loyal to Khan from beginning to end to explain his actions in the movie, and how his loyalty kept him alive when Khan wins, but kills him when Khan loses (an interesting thing about blind loyalty I guess xD )

Marla on the other hand, for somebody who was kinda a big part in the episode, other than telling Khan how awesome he is at the beginning, she doesn't do nething at all :( She basically serves her purpose, to be used as the assassin and die. But we dun learn nething about her. She's basically a checkmark on the "Star Trek II prequel list" :\ "Kill off Khan's wife using the eel" CHECK! >_<

That was v disappointing :( Not just cuz she's a female char and they fridged her (I mean we knew she was going to die) but that she doesn't DO nething. It's easy to understand why Tamas doesn't see Marla as one of them. :\ It's not just his bias, but Khan keeps saying she's "the superior woman" (like in Space Seed) but they dun show her doing nething other than romp around in a mesh catsuit o_O If she DID things, or SAID things, then at least we can understand that.

But I also think that's the point. That we also get to see that despite his intellect, Khan is just rly a mass of feelings that he justifies using his intellect :\ He thinks Marla is sexy and loves her, so she's "superior" and more intelligent than regular humans. He respects Kirk, so he pins all his hopes on Kirk coming back, even though Tamas' attempts at survival are rly what saved them (discovering the cave, not being content w/ sitting around and waiting for help). Later he's angry and bitter, so he blames Kirk. In the movie, he chases Kirk into the Nebula when he could just have used Genesis to create a new home for him and his ppl.

Adding to that and his feelings is his ego. He likes Marla so she MUST be a "superior" woman... Kirk beat him so he MUST be this godlike figure who can save them...

Khan is just one giant ball of feelings and impulses. And I think THAT if nething made the book rly worth it. :) The writer's rly fleshed out his char. I mean we all know he's hateful and vengeful in Star Trek II, but we dun rly know who he is, or why he's like that, and I have a much better idea after reading this :)

And Tamas... poor Tamas :( He's Khan's opposite. Unfeeling and logical. (sound familiar btw? xD ANOTHER interesting thing :) Khan is Kirk :) ) His decisions are made to ensure survival, tho many might die. Khan's decisions are about satiating his faith, or his desires, or his anger. :\ Khan rallied his followers at the end talking about trust and faith and loyalty. Tamas talked about survival.

It's rly interesting to me how the writer's set this up actually. :) Maybe they didn't mean to... but it's RLY interesting to analyze. I mean, if Khan had kept Tamas by his side and listened to him, he might have succeeded.

I think it's interesting b/c in Star Trek II, Kirk's trust and faith got him almost killed by the Reliant. His emotions and perserverance are his strength and his weakness. Like how cheating on the Kobiyashi Maru got him a pass, but he never learned a lesson from it. And Khan is the same way. He survived b/c of Tamas, he didn't learn to make hard decisions. And he chases Kirk into the Nebula...

And who ends up saving Kirk at the end? Spock. Logical Spock xD

It's very ironic and interesting to me, how this book kinda sets that up. Khan had his own Spock and he killed him. (in a way Tamas died to saved HIM too)

Neways, so yeah :) Everything else was paint by the numbers prequeling... the cargo containers being sealed, the eel mother being captured (it lived for 20 years? o_O ) Explaining how they managed to survive for so long (tho where is the water in the cave coming from? o_O ) And Khan putting that Starfleet pendant around his neck.

But yeah, as I said, it's amazing how little happened and yet how much we learned about Khan and what a great job the writer's did (IMO) of paralleling Khan and Kirk as people, which also explains why Khan believes in Kirk so much, b/c Kirk is in many ways HIM.

I still feel bad for them all tho :( They were doing so well... and then things went pear-shaped :( Stupid Kirk >:\ I rly think they should have given us an explanation, so we know Khan is blaming somebody wrongly.

The art in the book is rly good :D Except there's a brown haired woman wearing the exact same mesh catsuit that Marla wears that I had trouble realizing wasn't Marla (she was one of Tamas' co-conspirators). They should have changed her hair or skin colour or something :\ But the art is very solid and pretty, and they rly do the expressions on ppl's faces well so you can tell what they are feeling without them having to exposit about it :)

Neways, so that's it :D I rly enjoyed it :) I dunno if it's worth whatever it would cost. But if you have some cash, I think it'd make a great present to yourself or the Trek(ie/er/etc) in your life :)

Angelwings Rating: 4/5

Recommendation: It's not very exciting, but it's a rly well written and scripted book that teaches us a lot about Khan and what he learned... and what he didn't learn

Smallville 10x20: Prophecy Review

2011-05-08T23:00:00.001-04:00

Smallville 10x20 - Prophecy

Liveblog blow-by-blow

Smallville begins! :D 2nd last episode is a go!

Previously on Smallville: Kara telling Clark about Darkseid, stuff about the Omega symbol, Green Arrow turning omega, and Hawkman's death and stuff about the bow of Orion and Tess having Gold K... Granny Goodness now too :o

Lois has her own office now and she's swamped in notes :o Clark thinks Lois is paranoid for thinking that Marionette Ventures buying out small businesses in Metropolis is a conspiracy, but we know it's not cuz it's about Toyman :o

Clark says they have to tell Jor-El about their marriage o_o;; He called him "his father"... it's weird given how Jor-El was in early Smallville that Clark thinks of him as his father now... :o

"Life union" o_O;;; NO LIFE WITHOUT EQUAL PAY!

xD

Jor-El is swapping their powers now (or lack of powers) :O Go Superlois! Lana should come back w/ Bee powers :o

Pillar squashed Lois, Clark realized he has no power, but Lois does :O She lifted it up :O

SOMEBODY SAVVVEEEEE MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

xDDDD I dun need to describe the opening too right? >_>

Ollie is going spelunking now :o I guess looking for the Bow of Orion... I didn't know Orion used a bow (the New Gods Orion is who they refer to :o)

Ah! Kara is here! Refers to Apokolips finally! :D She is trapped in a cave :o a weird circle :o I wonder why she's wearing heels o_O Nice heels tho :)

She thinks Watchtower found her but GA tells her that he's not part of a search team :o She is suspicious that Ollie is looking for the bow without Clark. :o But she is too, but she's trying to find the bow "for [her] own reasons" :o Apparently this cave has the prophecy of the end of the world written down by Orion himself :o

Ah a balance must exist between light and darkness.. surprise surprise >_>;;

Ollie has figured out how to solve the puzzle :o Since Kara got trapped touching the Orion symbol so Ollie has to touch the Omega symbol on the wall :o Kara doesn't know he has one on his forehead yet. :o

Now Kara is free :)

Ollie isn't hitting on Kara is he? He's married to Chloe xD *glares at Ollie* he's evil ... we can't trust him >:O

Lois is zipping all over the place now xD She's using her powers to cover all their their deadlines for the wedding now xD

Oh Clark >:O Clark is again thinking Jor-El is up to no good just cuz Clark doesn't have powers nemore xD He doesn't seem to get that he has to learn how Lois feels being helpless compared to him >_> Of course w/o his powers he's thinking THE WORLD IS DOOMED W/O him -_-;;

Lois figured out that all of the businesses that Marionette Ventures bought out were connected by the Metropolis reservoir line :O

COMMERCIAL BREAK!

Lois is late meeting Clark b/c she had to stop and save things along the way back to him :o Clark is trying to help Lois use her super hearing to spy on Marionette Ventures and she hears all these ppl needing help but Clark tells her to calm down, and that certain emergencies can be helped by local police and firemen nearby, and etc... helping Lois learn that he hears this all the time but has to prioritize :)

Somebody is being beaten up in a store so Lois showed up and threw her through a wall :O Clark unmasks the person and it's Stargirl! :O SHe's being mind controlled w/ a thin on her neck :O

Meanwhile Kara and Ollie are still searching for the Bow of Orion in caveland :o Ollie says he has to use the bow of orion cuz he's GA and a bow is what he uses o_O

Ollie realized that Orion is Darkseid's son and Kara says he had to turn away fromthe darkness to use the bow :o And thus, Ollie has to too..

it would be rly cool if Ollie is the one who takes down Darkseid at the end while Clark is tanking him :D

xD

Orion and Darkseid symbols on the ground :O They have to stand on each symbol and shoot the ones on the wall... :o Apparently Ollie has a ton of bows folded up in his bag xD

It's pretty cool that Kara is represenative of goodness here while Ollie is darkness :D

Yay! They did it! Door opens!

Kara w/ bow is pretty awesome too :D

Jor-El is calling Kara away :O It is up to Ollie to retrieve the bow and give it to Clark. "I'm trusting you now." Something tells me Ollie will be tempted to not give it to Clark :\ Perhaps that's the test of his Omega symbol... can Ollie give up his hubris and help Clark rather than try to redeem himself by having to be the one to kill Darkseid :O

Break! :D

Back! :O that was fast O_O;;

Kara is at the Fortress now. Jor-El tells her that the Bow is Clark's destiny, not hers :o She says he told her to help him, but he says that's not what she has to do :o Jor-El tells Kara that she has 2 choices, whether to leave Earth and let Clark be a hero, or stay and risk the future. :o WTF!? RISK KARA! RISK!

o_o Jor-El says that Kara's destiny is in another time and place. o_O (the future? w/ the Legion? :O ) also that Clark will one day turn his back on him but will still make theright decision, and that Kara has to make a sacrifice for the good of ppl she cares about o_o

WTF.. JE is back to being a jerk >_<;;;

Now at Watchtower, Tess is telling Stargirl about the thing that was on her neck controlling her like a puppet :o

BAH

ok so it is Roulette, Dark Archer and Metallo around that table? >:O

I lose :(

But that's so stupid! Roulette isn't rly evil and Metallo is not evil in this show >:O

They found out Toyman is in charge now :O

Lois is visiting Toyman in jail. Lois found his iphone and took it from him :o

I have this feeling that they're gonna use Gold K on Lois but Clark will get his powers back at the end from Jor-El after the re-swap. :o

Does Toyman know Clark's identity? o_O He's talking about Lana Lang as the "Blur's first beau". Yup, he does, he just said his name..

Toyman says that his team of villains are closing in on Clark, and Lois realizes that Clark wun get his powers back in time. :o Toyman says that he'll call off his dogs if Lois will wear the mind control device :o I see... they'll use gold K on Lois to stop her :o

UGH

Lois! WHy would you do that!? Now Lois is under Toyman's control now! :O And Toyman says that Lois will kill Clark >_> OH COME ON, WE ALL SAW THAT COMING! >:O

Great line from Trish while we're chatting right now about Lex coming back and if he'll be a clone: Smallville Season 10: It's all clones from now on

xD

Ok now Ollie has found the bow and is moving towards it. He's circling it as it hovers xD It's like a video game item! xDDD

The Only True Power Comes From Within. :o Writing on the bow.

Ollie is going to grab it but it flew away to Granny Goodness who has suddenly shown up :o Pointing out that it's selfish of him to try to grab it. The traps were designed to keep the 3 "Prophets" out (Desaad, Goodness, Godfrey) out. :o She disintingrated the bow :O ANd Granny says she has plans for Ollie now while controlling him :o Is activating his Orion symbol now :o

Toyman is contacting the Legion of Doom now :o Black Manta, Metallo, Roulette, Grundy, Iceman and Dark Archer :o Each one has a JLA target :o Aquaman, Kara, Black Canary... I didn't catch them all :\ I assume Impulse for Cap Cold. Roulette is Kara? o_O So I was right about them being anti JLA but not good JLA but Smallville JLA :o Actually thinking about it, I think I remembered wrong... Metallo is prolly Kara and Roulette Black Canary or something :o Grundy is thinking enuf to be part of a leadership? o_O

Lois is beating up Clark now :o Tess told CLark to stall Lois. :o Clark managed to break the hold briefly by saying "I love you" but then it re-engaged :o She goes to punch Clark but he stops her just in time when the sun goes down and he gets his powers back :o

Clark whooshed to Toyman's cell now and broke his phone :o Clark tells Winslow that if he wanted to tell the whole world his identity he would have, but he won't b/c he won't be able to play nemore. :o very Batmanish xD

Clark is back to Jor-El, telling him it's not a gift but it's a trial :o And it wasn't about Clark and Lois learning, it's about control. He's not wrong >_>;; Jor-El in Smallville is all about control xD Clark said that this was to teach him that he has to make his own destiny at some point, and that he has to learn to break away from Jor-El and Jonathan :o (what'd Jonathan do!? >_> )

The Superman suit! :O Clark turns off the Fortress and zips away :o

Evil Ollie has dug up the gold K now :o Ruh roh :o

Lois tells Clark that being in his shoes is so different from what she'd thought it'd be :o And that when you're a reporter, once you've written the story it's over, but it's never over for Clark :o Clark is now talking about balance of good and evil and up to him to tip the scale o_o;; Lois is telling Clark how strong his heart is xD Now embrace and huggings! :o

Kara is at Watchtower w/ her pseudo Supergirl outfit w/ the Legion ring :o Yup, she's to go to the 31st century :( Stupid Jor-El >:O GO KARA! :D I wish we could see her adventures in the 31st century :(

Lois says she's weak cuz Toyman was able to leverage Clark to control her, and she's worried she'll be Clark's weakness :o Clark assures her that that's not true and that Jor-El is part of his past regardless. :o

Oh crumbs.. -_-;;

Lois is breaking off the wedding isn't she? >_>;;; Yup... she's telling Clark that every minute she's w/ Clark is time Clark could be using to save other ppl, and she can't be that selfish :o Ah Smallville drama! How I missed you! >_>;;

She breaks off the wedding. The end -_-;;;

Review:

My immediate thought right now, after watching the episode, is a quote from the Star Trek: TNG episode "The Chase": "If she wasn't dead I'd kill her myself!" xD

If this show wasn't ending I'd kill Lois myself! xD

Just kidding xD But srsly after so many seasons of Lana drama and will she/won't he, random dramatic emotional bad decisions from Clark and Lana and everybody in between, it was SUCH a breath of fresh air in the last 3 seasons to GET AWAY from that xD And now this >_>;;;

TO BE FAIR... at least Lois isn't breaking it off for ridic reasons like Clark and Lana have in the past. I mean, I can see how right after having his powers, Lois would feel that Clark could be saving a billion ppl and it'd be selfish for her to take up any of his time. And that's also very Lois, feeling very much a part of the fight against evil and Clark's heroing and etc :) But in this case it's LOIS being controlling of Clark and assuming Clark can't make his own decisions and prioritize his own time. This is a lot like Clark's early moves of cutting Lois out of the loop and stuff like that to "protect" her. Now for Clark's own good, Lois is telling HIM what he should be doing and acting as if he can't make his own good decisions -_-;;

I suppose that's fair, I mean they ARE in love for a reason and that's very much in Lois' character in this series as well xD And turnabout is fair play and all that.. it's just.. with ONE EPISODE TO GO we now have this dramuh to resolve as well as the return of Lex, the fight against Darkseid, the appearance of Apokolips and Clark becoming Superman? -_-;;;

Buh >_<;;

Stressssyyyy!!!!

xD

But I dun think it was out of char or rly bad or nething, and the more I think of it the more it makes sense as a reflection of how Clark has been treating her and ALSO how complicated relationships are and how sometimes caring can turn into posessiveness or into a selfish generosity or fear in this case. So it's not UNrealistic, but it's still a writer's decision and I'm just concerned how they're gonna fit all this in :o

I SUSPECT that it's just a small hiccup, b/c since Lois will be in her wedding dress and the wedding (from the previews) is a go, that prolly means that in the first few scenes of next episode Clark will talk Lois out of it :)

Moving onto the rest of the episode :o Not much RLY happened, but a lot happened :o

I mean basically, Lois got powers, they found out about Toyman, Kara and Ollie solve puzzles, Jor-El tells Kara to leave, Ollie loses the bow and his soul to Granny, Lois fights Clark, emotional break up ending >_>;;;

But a lot happened also as you can see :o First off, the supervillains are gathering :o Which in itself makes me want to yell at Smallville for having ONE episode left xD OH COME ON, the show is FINALLY GETTING GOOD and now you're ending it!? xD You stalled for SEVEN YEARS with terrible leadership, and only give the new crew 3 years to fix the past and make a STELLAR 9 and 10 season!? xD BAH BAH BAH!!! xD BAH! >:O I luffed the appearances of the villains tho :) They looked very much on par... but since according to the creators, the JLA won't show up in the final episode, it doesn't seem like the Legion of Doom will either :( Tho I STILL think that missing chair is NOT meant for Toyman but meant for Lex :) And he's been manipulating the whole thing all along. :o It's unclear whether or not Toyman told the other villains :o Presumably he didn't since he was being circumspect around them about how he's taking care of "The Blur". Neways, it seems kinda sad that htey're showing us ALL THESE AWESOME VILLAINS but we wun actually be SEEING this wonderful world Smallville's finally set up :( It can't even be "okay now read the comics" b/c hte COMICS ARE SO FAR OFF FROM THIS right now xD And it's just.. if nebody left Smallville and thought "I wanna follow the adventures in the comics" wow... talk about disappointment (and total confusion xD) THO, there ARE Smallville comics, so hopefully they might continue it there :)

And then there's the Ollie quest which predictably led to failure b/c as I suspected, and as I think most viewers figured out, his reasons for trying to get the bow were selfish and his hubris showed his impure heart >_>;; I suspect the Bow meant nothing in the first place, since the inscription basically said to clap your hands and TInkerbell will come alive xD So I think it'll be the power of good thoughts that will be the weapon that kills Darkseid or something! Clark will spirit bomb him! (PLEASE DON'T MAKE IT THAT PPL WISHING THE BLUR ON MAKES CLARK FLY AND HS DEFEATS DARKSEID THO, PLZ PLZ PLZ PLZ PLZ DX ) It's gonna be a Dr Who thing >_> What w/ Apokolips appearing next to Earth in the preview like the Dalek Worlds, and Clark changes in a phone booth too right? xDDD

Ollie being evil isn't rly a surprise given that they've been subtlely changing Ollie evil the same way Anakin subtlely turned evil in the Star Wars prequels >_>;; But apparently he is just being mind controlled now and wun remember nething which is a little disappointing cuz it's not actually his dark impulses taking over, but rather than that his weakness allowed Granny to just control him as a puppet -_-;;; Boooo... also he has Gold K! Nebody think it means Clark will have to turn Jor-El back on to get his powers back OR THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING xDDD NEWAYS, I'm half betting that Ollie will be finally redeemed and help lead ppl in happy chanting to give Clark his powers back xDDDD

I'll stop >_>;;

Kara's fate is ANNOYING AS ALL F! >:O

I know it's a way to get her off the show, but.. OKAY if there was a Supergirl in the 31st Century w/ the Legion show, this would TTLLY BE AWESOME :D But it's not and she seems SAD to go, and she seems FORCED to go! FFS if this episode was about Clark learning to break free from Jor-El, then why is Kara essentially playing the good soldier, esp when Jor-El says Kara is too strong for him to control or tell what to do. SINCE WHEN ARE WE TRUSTING JOR-EL TO TELL US THE TRUTH NEWAYS!? >:O But like a good little Kryptonian Girl she takes him at his word and reluctantly goes to the Legion :\ It just.. if she ACCIDENTALLY went, that'd be more FUN! That's been the BIG problem w/ Smallville, nothing just HAPPENS. Clark doesn't just want to save ppl, Jor-El has to strongarm him kicking and screaming to become a hero -_-;; Lex isn't evil.. Lionel took YEARS to force him to be evil -_-;;; It's like.. the non mains are the ones who seem to make their own decisions: Tess, Lois, Chloe, Ollie... maybe that says something :D GO REGULAR HUMANS! (or maybe it says something about abusive father figures huh? >_>) Brargh.. it just... I GET that she should leave on her own adventures, but it's annoying she just accepts Jor-El's prophecy and ALSO the idea that she can't be a hero on Earth WITH CLARK! I dun want to sound feministy about it, but Jor-El basically said "you need to step aside for the man to be the hero, little girl" >:O And it's just awful that she's not even HAPPY w/ it but just cryingly goes to the 31st century. I would have liked it more if in trying to help Clark she gets zapped away and then realizes that Clark can handle himself and she has her own fun and games w/ the Legion :) THAT would be much more fun :D I just HATE the idea of superheroes as miserable pawns FORCED to do good -_-;; Which is what much of Smallville has been like with Jor-El.

Just a thought: Wouldn't it be great if Jor-El told Kara that she was needed in the 31st century and SHE chose to go cuz she trusted Clark to take care of Earth? :o There RLY IS a controlling/mistrust gene in Kryptonians on this show xD Clark wasn't lying when he told Lois that that part of him was his Kryptonian side xD

Mind you, I wouldn't trust Clark to take care of Darkseid either >_> He can't even fly! xD

The JLA patrolling in Clark's place during the wedding is cute, but presumably they haven't been sitting on their butts while Clark was saving Metropolis right? So wouldn't this take away from their other duties? o_O Not a nitpick, just something I was wondering xD Are they eschewing sleep now or something xD

I'm guessing Clark turning off the Fortress isn't a permanent thing considering the suit is in the fortress and the previews shows him returning to it.. :|

The whole test thing was ok, but... honestly... the Clark/Lois part felt like filler in this episode and the big part was rly to show us villains and Ollie to turn evil and Kara to go away -_-;; Neither rly LEARNED nething, and it turns out the whole thing wasn't even ABOUT that, which honestly, I think would be RLY interesting, for Clark to learn what Lois feels like sitting helplessly on the sidelines while your loved one goes off and risks her life. Clark takes Lois for granted a LITTLE too much sometimes, at least in the way he plays w/ her feelings about sitting in the bleachers, or WANTING her to. A better episode would have been Lois SAVING ppl (and not failing and turning into a mind controlled puppet) and Clark realizing that he can't sit still and helps by doing reporting, the way LOIS DOES, and then realizing that Lois "risks her life" cuz she can't NOT help Clark :)

Instead we get this -__-;;; And it's SO stupid Lois puts on the MC device too... I mean I get that she's panicking and this is new to her... but.. YOU HAVE SUPER POWERS... first.. destroy his phone... secondly, you could even THREATEN him with superhearing and laser beam eyes that if he sicced ppl on Clark... or THIRDLY, realize that Clark will get ihs powers back soon and all you need to do is delay the supervillains (also how does Toyman KNOW that Lois has powers now? o_O it was v odd how he just went w/ it... also why would he assume Clark DOESN'T have powers? How does HE know what happened? -_- But more to the point... SHE HAS CLARK'S POWERS. Besides that you should NEVER TRUST A VILLAIN to keep their world, once you put on the MC device, HE'LL JUST USE YOU TO KILL CLARK!!

AUGH!

I can forgive her for being overwhelmed by the powers and responsibility and fear for Clark's life.. but STILL, the Lois that's been written in S9 and 10, would have figured this out -_- It just seemed like such writer's fiat and VERY arbitrary just to get all the stuff on the plot checklist done -_-;;

And Tess kinda sat around while Lois was beating up Clark, when in the past, w/ EVIL Clark from Earth 3, Tess AND Lois both revealed they had anti Clark weapons rdy (esp in the Watchtower) to fight Clark -_-;; But here... just.. sit on hands -_-

THERE'S A LOT OF HANDS SITTING IN THIS EPISODE! Ppl seem like they're dealing w/ a hangover or something, they're a lot slower on the uptake than usual -_-;;;

ANd CLark is lucky that Lois lost her powers just in time or his hand would have been a pile of goo -_-

Then blah blah blah the ending which you all know about...

you know... the more I write this review, the more I realize that I didn't like this episode at all. -_-;; I WANTED to... but really it was MEANINGLESS and a lot of poor decision making and out of char stuff going on JUST so we could get evil Ollie, Kara gone, and Lois breaking up w/ Clark -_-;;

How they got rid of Kara was indicative of a lot of this episode... not v creative, very direct, and in an unsatisfying way. Just like Ollie isn't SEDUCED to the dark side (Darkseid, BA DA BUM!) but kinda just taken over and turned into an EVIL EVIL EVIL zombie -_-;; And Kara is just PUSHED to go on her own adventures crying by Jor-El. It's literally "GO TO YOUR OWN COMIC BOOK YOUNG LADY!" -_-;; It's bad writing and it's unsatisfying tv >:\

Oh yeah, and Stargirl guest stars and doesn't DO ANYTHING! You'd think that at least she'd be sent WITH Lois to talk to Toyman (since Lois has no exp, you'd think an exp'd hero would go w/) OR be there to fight Lois when she turned evil... but noooo... for THAT matter, she mattered so LITTLE that they never even rly explained HOW she got mindcontrolled either, or if Toyman is putting these on everyhero, or HOW WIDESPREAD his power is!!?! >:O You would THINK that Toyman having MIND CONTROL DEVICES that can CONTROL HEROES would concern everybody, but as to my point about this being a series of plot points strung together by writers prolly too busy w/ the finale to rly make this a good episode, eveyrbody just goes LALALA once the device is taken off Lois -_-;;; And there isn't nething about Tess saying "I fixed up this thing piggybagged to cellphone waves to interfere w/ the device so nobody will be mindcontrolled again" or nething like that -_- (for that matter, is Toyman controlling the villains? Is that why Metallo there? and if he can control ppl why doesn't he control ppl and ESCAPE!? >_<;;) Nope, it's just, well we solved the immediate problem in this episode, our 40 minutes is up, ON TO THE DRAMATIC CLIFFHANGER BREAKUP!

-_-

This episode rly was just "let's get plot points A B C D done and go home k? We have a series finale to do! chop chop!" And that's just what it was: get rid of Kara, turn Ollie bad, have Lois leave Clark, show the villains.. DONE! >_<;;; It rly feels like they needed 10 more episodes for this season (or another season) and they're just rushing things or something >:\ (like introducing the LoD w/ no episodes left >_>, or how Kara leaves without EVEN GETTING TO SAY GOODBYE TO CLARK, she's NOT A MINOR CHAR in the shows mythology for chrissakes -_-;; )

-_- Disappointing. And for fans of... well basically ALL the characters, but ESP Kara and Ollie and Stargirl too I guess... it was annoying and frustrating as well -_-;; Kara deserved a better send off than that. Unless she's getting a spinoff series or something, WTF. Supergirl is LEAVING THE SHOW. If she's not gonna be in the finale (and she wun be) she deserves a good send off, and at LEAST one where Clark gets to SEE HER OFF! A HUG OR SOMETHING! NO NO NO.. she's not even allowed to TALK to him. She just looks sad, puts on the ring and BOOM :( It's a terrible way to send off a char, that while just a guest star, is still an important part of Superman mythology and also an important part of Clark's LIFE in Smallville :) (and she was a main character for a season ffs)

Disappointing and anger mongering >:|

RAWR!

AMI SMASH!

(who knows, maybe they ARE leaving it open to a Supergirl & the Legion CW spinoff, one can hope...)

Bah... so yeah.. ONTO THE FINALE! I hope it doesn't disappoint :) (poor Supergirl :( AND STARGIRL if this is rly her last appearance like they say :( )

It's kinda disappointing honestly that if it's TRUE the JLA wun be in the finale, that we didn't get a decent send off for the chars :( At least Aquaman had an awesome episode this season. But we dun be getting one for Canary, Cyborg, Impulse, J'onn, etc.. and Stargirl was used as plot filler (that could have been ANYONE, she didn't even USE HER POWERS) :\

bah :(

Angelwings Rating: 2 out of 5 disappointed and annoyed Angelwings of fan angry doom >:O

Recommendation: It hits on plot points, but rly all you rly need to know is what happened. If you're watching for certain guest chars, there's not rly very many great Ollie scenes, and the Kara scenes are just her being sad and stuff, and Stargirl's cameo is meaningless and the villains dun say or do nething :( As an episode, it's not v strong :\ Not much recommendation here :(

Smallville 10x18: Booster Review

2011-04-24T22:51:00.003-04:00

Smallville 10x18: Booster

Liveblog blow-by-blow:

Hihi :) I've decided rather than do the long tweet thing I'll just liveblog this episode as a running commentary :D Tho the teaser is alrdy over so I'm gonna just say what happened :D

Lois is helping Clark try to be a bigger loser in his Clark identity but he finds it hard b/c he was a loser in highschool, which I think is a nice bit of writing, at least it makes sense, I think a lot of us know how that feels and not wanting to go back. :) Jaime is being portrayed as a loser here that bumbles like Peter Parker o_o At least he hasn't been whitewashed xD Booster came and saved him from a car and it was AWEEESSSOME :D He's EXACTLY Booster as he would be irl, and SKEEETS IS THERE :D SKEEEEEEEEEEETS :D He sounds like Skeets too :3 Also apparently Booster knows Clark's identity, or at least Clark thinks he does, tho that makes sense since he's from the future :3

Ron Troupe is here now! :D And Cat Grant too! :D She's up for the same promotion as Lois xD Too bad no Perry White back yet :( She wants to promote Booster as the new big hero. :o And Lois is trying to get Clark to unmake "Clark" more so that the "Blur" can finally show his face. xD

Jaime scene now! :O Being a loser again :( That's odd... Geoff Johns knows Jaime wasn't a loser before... why is he writing him like one? :( He's being bullied like woah :( No Paco or Brenda tho :(

Lois is talking to him, having observed him and trying to teach him out to be strong and tough (I have no idea why Lois is even there) :o I kinda dun like Jaime like this, cuz it's not very Jaime like but I think he's being acted well :)

Jaime is in alley now :o Always a good place to develop powers! :O Scarab activate!!!!!!!!!! :OOOOOO

Commercial break :o

lalalalalalala

Yay it's back! :D It's alrdy one of my favourite episodes :D

Booster Gold promotion commercial xD With dancing Texas Cowboysesque cheerleaders xD I LOVE that his ad plays on the fact that he's playing on the fact that the "Blur" never shows his face or stops to introduce himself saying that it's heroing but w/ friendliness xD

Clark is suspicious of Booster :O Cuz Booster knows when each accident appears but doesn't stop the accident, shows up to save them for the fame. Is very Superman thinking actually, like it :)

TEEDDDD KORRRRDDDDD :D

The Scarab is made by Ted Kord here or at least he had it in his possession :o They seem to think Kord Industries is up to no good here :o

Booster doesn't sign things, he just stamps them o_o Cat is introducing herself to Booster now :o Booster is OBSESSED with Lois for some reason o_o Sending her flowers and not interested in Cat Grant cuz she's not Lois.

OHHHHHH Booster came back b/c Lois made Superman hero of Metropolis the first time around w/ an interview and that's why Booster wants her to interview him o_o;; That's very neat :3

I wonder why Booster just came back now rather than before, when Clark wasn't even in Metropolis o_O It's weird that Booster doesn't ever slip up and call him Superman tho o_o;;

I LOVE the idea of Booster coming back to try to replace Superman as hero of the world before he's Superman tho... it's great :D

Commercials again :o

Ah, the heroic Duracell commercial xD Without Duracell firefighters would be dead everywhere! Buy their batteries! >_>;; (it sounds almost like a threat honestly -_-;; Like protection money >_<;;)

Commercial reminding me that Stargate Universe has 3 episodes left >_>;;

YAY Smallville is back! :D

Awww Cat is all angry at Lois. >_>;; Oooh mean Lois :o Catsy! :O

Ted Kord now! Clark is trying to grill him :o Hay! Kord is being played by the hero guy from First Wave! :O Clark is doing a good job of being rly bumbling :o Booster is apparently working w/ Ted Kord to try to find the Scarab back :o Booster wants the mayor to give him the key to the city in exchange for helping Kord find the Scarab :o

Jaime is seeking out Booster now :o Trying to get him to help him w/ the Scarab :o Booster of course is trying to blow him off. >_>;; I LOVE how assholeish Booster is xD Jaime left after being blown off... >_>;; Oooh Cat Grant has pretended to be one of the Booster girls to get close to Booster :O

Scarab going off!! BLUE BEEETTTLEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He looks a bit like Waspinator and some other transformers mixed together o_o;;; But he looks GREAT! :D

Ruh Roh.. the Scarab wants to destroy Metropolis :(

Commercial! :O

Too bad this isn't going to lead to a Blue Beetle spinoff series :( Would be so great >_>;;

Adddd for Swamp Demon :O W/e that is >_>;; Looks terrible and b-movieish -_-;; Apparently Space is showing it soon.... e_e;; That's nice xD

THIS PROGRAM CONTAINS SCENES OF VIOLENCE!!! VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISEEEDDD!!!!

*is advised and being discreet :3 *

Clark is showing Lois the Scarab now :o Apparently the Scarab bonded with Dan Garrett (a scientist for Kord here) and he killed 3 ppl :( Look Johns, I appreciate the shout out to Garrett but I dun like him as just cannon fodder who's a murderer :( Bad homage :(

I like how Booster calls Clark "Golden Boy" xD Clark talking to Booster now. Notices the Legion Ring and realizes that Booster's from the future :D (very awesome deduction by Clark for how Booster knows when to save ppl) :3 For some reason Clark in that trenchcoat looks and sounds a lot like Stabler in SVU o_O SuperStabler :O Ewww >_>;;

Booster is telling Clark that "whoever gets the key to the city becomes this city's man of steel.. or gold" according to history. "A suit doesn't make the hero, a hero is made by the moment and the choices he makes" GREAT line by Clark :D

Booster is gonna go get his key to the city now :O Booster just gave Clark a hint of his future o_o "hang up the glasses and the red and blue suit" I rly feel like Booster came from the wrong continuity or something XD WRONG UNIVERSE BOOSTER YOU'RE IN EARTH-CW!!!!

xDDD

Blue Beetle is here now destroying the whole set w/ Booster in the middle of it :O Booster is hiding like a coward >_>;; So... odds on Clark or Booster being the one who talks him down? o_O Beetle is going to kill Cat now :O

This is SUCH a geeky episode xD I feel sorta bad for non comic fans... they wouldn't know what Skeets is talking about to Booster about football >_>;; YAY CLARK IN PHONEBOOTH CHANGE!!! Clark going to save Cat! Clark takes the energy blast! :D

WOW, Booster blasted Blue Beetle! :O Awesome! :DDD Uh oh.. Beetle is crushing Booster :O That suit looks like a mix between a Decepticon and Ironman :O

Booster is admitting to Jaime he's not a hero :o telling Jaime that he's not a hero but Jaime can be a hero and what Clark told him "the suit doesn't make the hero, fight it!" Awesome lines by Booster right now :D "you choose"

Awesome strength by Jaime too! :D He can do it! Now I know why Johns made him a loser, so he finally exerts his will in this scene :D

YAY! HE DID IT! :D

Jaime and Michael clasping hands :D Awesome awesome awesome :D Have no idea how much I'm smiling right now :)

Clark watched the whole thing and is pleased :)

AWWWWW Typical new smallville, SO FULL OF AMINESS AND HAPPINESS :D The way I want comics to be is how Smallville has ttlly been this episode, full of happiness, goodness, heroness and no random irrelevant violence, sex or bad writing while still being awesome actiony and smexy! :D

Commercial time! Final scene coming up! Hope that Clark keeps in contact w/ both Jaime and Booster :)

I rly hate how they homaged Dan Garrett by making him a murderer tho >:O Not much of a name drop Johns! >:\

Booster/Beetle hug was rly nice too :) :) :) Men hugging! :D (tho it's Booster, he played football, he's not afraid of hugging men! :D )

YAY Smallville is back! :D

Clark talking to Booster again :) Telling him he surprised him.. Booster now explaining his backstory to Clark and why he's doing this :) Booster is realizing his ego is hurting ppl :) I like that line "it was easier to lose than try to win" on him throwing games in the future.

Skeets is SO CUTE xD OOH reference to Booster's sister! :D

I like that they're pronouncing Jaime's name correctly :)

o_O Ted Kord says he'll be able to remove the scarab from Jaime? :o so this is JUST like Smallville... Kord becomes Beetle for a bit and Jaime will get the Scarab BACK later? -_-;; Are they doing old Smallville again where Ted gets the Scarab for a while and Jaime will get it back LATER? >_<;;

Hehehe... Booster jus gave Clark a Booster T-shirt (with the comic face on it) :3

OOHHH no :O Jaime doesn't want the Scarab removed! :D Jaime says he wants to keep it, to learn to use it and become a hero :D Awww AMAZINGLY CUTE BOOSTER/BEETLE MOMENT :D NEW SMALLVILLE DOES NOT LATE ME DOWN! :D And Booster gave credit for being a hero to Jaime :)

Lois got promoted! :D And Cat is now taking her old desk and partners with Clark xD "Clark's nice and all but he's a bit of a fixer upper but he's no Blur"

xD

V Cute :)

Lois wears glasses sometimes? o_O

Clark is now getting used to the glasses :) But he's hurt by ppl thinking he's a loser :( Clark is worried that ppl think badly of Lois for having a loser fiance o_O;; Clark is becoming an MRA xD OH NOOEEEZZZZZZZZZ xD But of course Lois is AWESOME in Smallville now and wun let him being stupid about it! :D YAY KISS!!!!!!

HEHEHEHEHEHEHE :DDDD

AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME EPISODE!!! :D

w00000000000000000 :D

Review:

What a great awesome kickbutt episode (w/ one downside :( which I'll get to in a sec) :D I loved it from top to bottom (more or less) and that opening teaser alrdy got me thinking this is gonna be an awesome episode! :D Booster Gold was SPOT ON! He's EXACTLY what Booster SHOULD be and exactly what I imagined him to be if he existed irl xD The actor has his cockiness and also his humanity and insecurity down to a T :D And I liked how Johns wrote him and had him be both overtop and a scared self-doubting/hating person and how he grew as a character at the end :) Plus Skeets is pretty awesome too for a char that unfortunately never shows up :( (he's only a voice coming out of Booster's earpiece :( ) but Skeets is bang on too and hearing him and Booster talk was a geeky joy :D

Jaime was also rly good :) I initially rly disliked the way he was being portrayed as Peter Parker: the loser who bumbles around and everybody is mean to, but I see what Johns was trying to do, making the Scarab the first "bully" that Jaime has ever stood up to :) And I thought it worked rly well even if it's not the Jaime we know exactly from the comics but I ultimately rly liked it and thought it did work for the way Johns was trying to interpret the Superman/Booster/Jaime dynamic :) (Clark having to learn to be okay with his loser side from HS, and also learning how to be a public hero from Booster, Booster learning what it rly means to be a hero and Jaime learning the other side of what it means, to stand up for yourself and others :) )

Yay! :D

And the Clark/Lois stuff was rly cute too, and I thought the way Johns wrote Clark, having him be uncomfortable adopting the loser persona b/c he feels that he's going backwards was v real :) Also that he projected onto Lois w/ the "well what about you? what if ppl think you're married to a loser?" and having Lois, in typical awesome S10 Smallville fashion, be fine w/ it was a rly great bit of reinforced characterization there :) V cool :) (I just wish that Clark can be himself in both forms, like how in Lois and Clark Superman was akin to a god so that's why nobody suspects regular person Clark, but if you're gonna go w/ this version of "loser" Clark then at least they're doing a good job w/ it :) )

It was nice to see Ted too even tho he didn't do nething. It's possible he might become Blue Beetle LATER in this continuity (it wouldn't be the first time things happened out of order in Smallville world xD) but either way, it's still nice to see him :) The actor didn't rly work for Ted to me tho, cuz he was more sinister and sneaky rather than goofy and amusing like we generally see Ted as xD

The ending was rly good too :) This is yet another S10 Smallville episode where a hero talks down a potential villain and I rly am starting to like this trend in Smallville :) Rather than the initial season Smallvilles which was filled with Clark doing hte "might makes right" thing and just beating up (or killing, however inadvertant) the "freak of the week"s, now we have real comic heroism: being a good person, talking preferred to fighting, and showing that being a good caring person can save the day as often as being a strong guy with laser beam eyes :) And that's not just an awesome message, it's awesome superhero storytelling in my book and why I am RLY enjoying the last few seasons of Smallville, we're FINALLY SEEING real heroes :D

And now to the one part I HAD a problem w/ which you prolly can all guess at this point -_-;; Yup, it's the namedrop of Dan Garrett :( It was nice that Johns dropped him in, and I was RLY excited when I heard his name at first, I was hoping that it'd turn out he was one of the old heroes in the past along with the JSA, but it turned out he was not :( Instead he's just some random scientist who got the Scarab and became a killing machine and killed ppl :( Rather than an example of the good that can be done w/ the Scarab and a hero to look up to, he's just sacrificed as fodder for the writers to show "this is what happens if you can't control the Scarab!" -_- And they could use ANY person for that role. Why namedrop Dan just to use him in that role? :\ If you're gonna do a geeky reference that only comic book fans will get, then you should do it in a way that they'll enjoy too :) So that was the one down spot for me :( And a bit of a nitpick I know >_>;;

On that point tho, I worried at first that the intense amount of comic references in this episode would make it v difficult for Smallville ONLY watchers to get into, but given that they eventually explained everything at the end (and in fact it made the football reference kind of a neat foreshadow to make viewers go "hmm so he's a football player!" if they got it :) ) I think they pulled it off well, and maybe even got a few Smallville-only watchers wanting to read comics! (and BOY WILL THEY BE DISSAPOINTED xD Tho if they read Johns stuff they will find a lot of stuff they'll like since Johns writes comics like he writes TV and movies, big simple and fun xD and COLOURFUL, like Legion and JSA, there was a lot of colour to this episode, and the heroes all looked like the way they should and it was AWESOME :D )

As for the visuals, Smallville often takes a lot of heat for skimping on the special FX, and they often DO and I doubt it's nething they can rly control, but this episode made use of the SFX they had quite well, and the way the story played out meant that I didn't feel cheated we didn't see Superman fight Booster or Beetle, b/c it ended w/ a talking down that fit the story well :) And when we did, it was pretty awesome :) Booster flying off, the Beetle suit going on Jaime, Beetle blasting away, Booster blasting Beetle, etc :) V cool, and v worth it :) And I think the Beetle suit looked about as good as it could look on TV w/o it being a big budget movie or animated :) So ... pretty nifty! :D

Oh yeah and before I finish, I like the inclusion of Cat in this episode too :) In a way she's Lois' Booster, somebody w/ the potential to be great, but isn't there yet, and Lois is helping her figure it out the way Clark helped Booster :) Yay! :D

So yus, great episode (except for that ONE LITTLE BIT) w/ awesome writing and foreshadowing (LOVE all the little hints and things Booster drops about Clark's future :3 ) and a wonderful awesome message and ending :) Am v v pleased w/ this episode, and rly rly impressed that it lived up to all the expectations I, and so many other pp,l have had for it :D I literally was like IT'S TWO EPISODES TO BOOSTER!!! IT'S ONE EPISODE TO BOOSTER!!! W00T! :D But then I shouldn't be surprised cuz Johns has knocked every episode he's done in Smallville out of the park and has done an excellent job bringing the comic book world to TV, keeping it both colourful and believable :) *thumbs up* (also SRSLY CW LET'S SPINOFF SMALLVILLE AND GIVE JAIME A SERIES NOW! :D YUS YUS YUS! I say great idea! :D xD )

Oh and before I go one more thing, I was rly worried that this episode would be all geek and not much meat, and that outside of going OMG BOOSTER and OMG BEETLE, there wouldn't be much point to the episode, but it was not, even if you dunno who they are, besides making you want to FIND OUT :D, you would enjoy the episode and enjoy the themes it was playing on and tying into Clark's final steps to being Superman :)

Angelwings Rating: 4.9 out of 5 super fun awesome Boosters and Beetles :D (the .1 taken off is for the crummy Dan Garrett reference :( other than that, win all the way! :D )

Recommendation: YUS WATCH THE CRAP OUT OF THIS THING IF YOU CAN (or if you can DL it) :D Srsly, even for ppl who HATE Smallville but love the comics, it wun dissapoint :) DOOO ITTTTTT >_>;; :D

Ami Livetweets/blogs Smallville 10x17: Kent

2011-04-17T22:53:00.002-04:00

ami_angelwings New Smallville is on! :D 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings The return of Clark from an alternate reality :O (Ultraman) 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings Awww cute Clark xD Oooh... Lois is going for a promotion? :O Wish Perry would show up :( Maybe in the finale... 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings Lois lives at the Kent farm? o_O;; It's a 3 hour drive from Metropolis isn't it? o_o;;; 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings Martha gave Clark and Lois the farm as a wedding present o_o;;; Clark thinks Martha wants them so sell the farm :O 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings Given that Clark is not the black Blur nemore why does the opening still end w/ him in the black outfit -_-;; 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings I find it amusing that Clark is like Spider-man in Smallville xD He has a black costume phase! xD 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings Ruh roh... Ultraman is here! D: I'll just call him that so ppl know it's evil Clark... or maybe I should call him Kralc xD 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings Smallville real estate has shown up to look at the farm now :O also apparently Connor is w/ Martha in Washington :o 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings Ruh roh... Ultraman is here... i love how Superman is always "nurture over nature" he is w/e his parents raise him as >_>;; 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings Uh oh... Clark's been sent to Earth-3 (I like calling it that xD) :O where everything is washed out and sepia toned! xD 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings Ultraman (Clark Luthor)'s just destroyed the AU travelling device D: I dunno why he wants to be in E-1 but he is.. :o 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings Clark is at the funeral of E-3 Ollie and Lois is his grieving widow D: Now Jonathan Kent is crashing the funeral :O 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings Lois has Green K to kill Clark w/ :O Jon is mad b/c Ollie bought out all the farms in Smallville to mine Green K to kill Ultraman :\ 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings Wow... Ollie gave EVERYBODY in Metropolis w/ Green K so they can be protected from Ultraman :O Too bad Lex never thought of that >_>;; 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings Good guys fighting evil superman have more success than bad guys fighting good superman xD It helps to be generous & work together :) 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings Awww E-3 Lois remembers Clark from the last AU ep & believes him :) Lois is smart & awesome in both unis in this show :D 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings I assume the main thrust of this episode is about Clark talking w/ AU Jonathan & learning something about himself o_o 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings Okay.. kwestchuns: a) how is Clark gonna get back home w/o the mirrorbox? b) is E-3 Ollie rly dead? after all he's DKR Batman... xD 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings I LOVE how in the last AU ep, E-3 Ollie had gathered up all the K to put K weapons in EVERY CITY for a final battle w/ Clark Luthor xD 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings That's SO Batman xD Esp DKR Batman xD So I suspect he is not truly dead >:3 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings I guess Clark came to E-1 b/c everybody in Metropolis has green K >_>;;; I hope Tess, Ollie & Lois remember Ultraman from last time... 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings Last time was awesome, they beat the CRAP out of him :D I love that Clark gave them anti-Clark weapons just in case he goes evil :3 trust! 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings Wait.. if Lois' ONLY home is the Kent farm, where has she been LIVING b4 she & Clark got together!? O_O;;; 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings Ruh roh.. D: Ultraman is going after Tess Dx FIGURE IT OUT ALRDY! HE'S EBILLLLLL EBILLLLLLLLL 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings Ruh roh... I think Lois figured it out :) I like how now she RLY knows Clark, and can't be fooled by Ultraman :D Not last time, not now :) 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings Lois calls Tess immediately :D w00t! Smart Lois :D But Tess is busy :( not answering cell :( 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings Lois calls Tess immediately :D w00t! Smart Lois :D But Tess is busy :( not answering cell :( 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings Why would she leave her cell LYING AROUND!? D: And now Ultraman is here to threaten her D: 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings ANSWER YOUR F-ING PHONE TESS Dx 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings Tess is gonna figure it out... she figured it out :3 They rly should ALLL carry green K around w/ them just in case -_- 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings I like how the women on this show no longer are written as idiots :D Tess & Lois both figured out Ultraman quickly :) 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings Clark is now looking for E-3 Jonathan :o everything is SO sepia'd xD wow.. Jonathan knocked Clark out? :O oh... green k... 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings Emil Hamilton is putting the E-1 mirrorbox back together :O apparently Emil & Tess gathered up the pieces after Clark destroyed them :o 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings Clark is lucky to have such great friends on this show :) Ultraman is blowing s- up now... :o Tess & Emil, Lois r talking now :) 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings Ewwwwwww... Ultraman is trying to seduce Tess & make her dress up for him >:O 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings I'm constantly worried they're gonna make Tess evil, so I hope this isn't an episode where she gets seduced to evilness :( 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings So far I love that she's chosen to be good, despite Granny Goodness raising her, despite her Luthor genes, despite everything :) 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings DO NOT GIVE UP TESS!!! >:O 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings Clark is tied up by Jonathan now :o Why can't this world be normal coloured? xD 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings This should be good... how is Clark going to convince E-3 Jonathan that he's not Ultraman? o_o 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings ooh.. here the meteor shower destroyed the Kent farm :O Lionel found Clark... 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings Jonathan found gold K :O according to Ultraman it causes permanent damage :O Lionel used it to brand an L into him :o 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings Ruh roh... Martha left Jonathan in this universe? o_o Jonathan is rly losing it tho o_o;;; 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings Clark is LUCKY that E-3 has similar Smallville as E-1 and he can use that knowledge on Jonathan.. >_> 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings It is rly weird that the Ace of Clubs is a swanky club in Smallville o_O;; Ugh.. Ultraman is forcing kisses on Tess -_- 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings Gross gross gross... I SUSPECT that they're gonna permanently kill Ultraman in this ep w/ gold k.... i HOPE they do >:O 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings Ultraman is claiming that Tess has feelings for Clark o_o I think she DOES but not as a lover, as a brother :) 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings I'm still always surprised that Tess & Chloe's actresses are the same age, and MY age too xD Lois is older :o and Clark & Ollie way way.. 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings Ultraman is tempting Tess to kill Lionel -_-;; Tess doesn't have to... she's alrdy defeated him & put nanobots in him -_-;; 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings Yup.. Ultraman fled b/c everybody knows how to kill him in E-3... he's threatening Tess w/ death now :( Tess need to get the JLA ASAP D: 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings Neither Clark or Ultraman can fly here... surely Stargirl & Martian Manhunter would be a match for him w/ that adv right? >_>;; 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings & since he can't fly, Cyborg, Impulse, Black Canary, Mera & Aquaman also can help out :) + Speedy & Ollie :3 TAKE HIM OUT >:O 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings & you still have Supergirl too! and she CAN fly xD can't she just whup Ultraman's butt!? >:O where IS SHE lately!? o_O 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings Clark is proving his goodness to Jonathan :) Yay! :3 Clark showed that he knew where Jon's father's gun was kept & other stuff :) 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings I want to see more Jon/Clark & not creepy Ultraman trying to molest & blackmail Tess >:O 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings Tess KNOWS that Emil & Lois are working to save Clark tho :3 So she might just be delaying :) 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings wow :o they warped Clark back before he could hug Jonathan :( Yay! Clark is back w/ 20 minutes left... TIME TO TAKE OUT ULTRAMAN! >:3 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings D: Ultraman has his hands around Tess' neck D: Trying to force Tess to lead him to Lionel... she said she turned on the GPS for him... 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings Uh oh... Ultraman came back :o he claims "it's done" but I dun believe him... yup.. he didn't kill him.. trying to kill Tess now D: 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings Ultraman is hanging Tess out the window :( she is trying to convince him she loves him... YAY! Clark to the rescue! :D 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings Clark vs Ultraman! :D -_- c'mon Clark u should have been rdy for that! xD Ultraman is assuming that he's stronger cuz he's evil xD 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings Clark brought Ultraman to the fortress, which Lionel shut down in E-3.. good plan >:3 this is something he doesn't have reference w/ :) 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings Awww Clark is believing he can redeem Ultraman xD I love how hopeful S8-10 Clark is xD He's right, Ultraman couldve killed Tess easily... 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings Is trying to convince Ultraman to be a hero in his world :) :o apparently Jor-El (fortress) in E-1 can activate the fortress in E-3 :D 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings Also yay Tess did not turn! :D It'd be awesome if Clark DID convince Ultraman to be good :) That's very Superman of him :) 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings Uh oh :( Emil & Tess have found the gold K in E-1 :O Emil knew of the dinner w/ Ultraman: o He believes in Tess :) 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings I thought the Emil/Tess romance was a bit forced, but in this ep, it's actually working :) he believes in her goodness :) 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings Clark is wearing Jonathan's jacket now :O Lois & Clark are talking now :) Is cute :) i bet they wun sell the farm tho >_> 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings :o Clark is being honest again :) I LOVE how wonderful and honest to their loves the men are in this show since S9 :) 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings Clark esp since Aquaman beat him over the head with feminism earlier this season :) That was the best bro-feminism explaining scene evar :) 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings Wow.. they ARE selling the farm! :OOOOO And moving to Metropolis! :O YAY!!! xD And now E-3 Jonathan is tracking down E-3 Martha :) 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings Awww :) ends w/ him buzzing her apt :) <3 Great episode :) 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings I didn't actually think I'd like this ep, cuz I was worried about Tess being evil & annoying AU stuff & that it's just filler until Booster 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings but it was a good episode :) showed the strength & faith in Clark that Tess has :) Emil's faith in HER.. & Clark's goodness :) 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings You would never have seen Clark talk down a villain in the old seasons, but now, he does it a lot :) he is a shining example :DDDD 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings And next week: BOOOSSSTERRRR AND JAAAIMMMMEEEE :DDDDD YAY!!! :3 another Geoff Johns episode! :D 18 Apr 2011 from web
ami_angelwings Legion & Absolute Justice were both great episodes, I bet this one will be too :) He keeps choosing chars he knows how to write too :) 18 Apr 2011 from web
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Nancy Drew - #3 Review

2011-03-21T23:50:00.007-04:00

Nancy Drew - #3 "The Haunted Dollhouse"

Synopsis: It's Nostalgia Week in River Heights so everybody is wearing clothes from the 1930s and Nancy Drew is driving a 1930s roadster (loaned from a local antique car dealer) instead of her usual red hybrid. :3 Bess and George are in costume as well but George complains about having to go w/o technology for a week. xD

They go to city hall for speeches and an Emma Blavatsky is introduced as a partner in the whole event. :o She says that in honour of her puchasing an old mansion in the town recently, she's putting on display a dollhouse replica of the mansion she came into possession of. She also warns that it's believed to be haunted :O

OOOOooooOOoooOooOOOooo

>_>

xD

Nancy looks into it w/ a magnifying glass and is amazed at the level of detail inside it. She then notices that a thief doll is stealing one of the paintings inside the dollhouse! :O They get to the mansion and it turns out there WAS a break in and theft at the same time! :O Emma is there by the time they get there w/ the chief of police, and she begins speaking about ghosts and spirits which Nancy rolls her eyes at. Nancy wonders why a ghost would need to break a window to enter the mansion, or leave footprints? Emma responds by saying they controlled whoever did it. The chief believes that she's crazy. >_>

Nancy and friends go back to city hall where she tries to check the security camera but is told that it's broken. :o The dollhouse scene has now changed and it appears somebody is stealing a horse! :O

Nancy then takes Ned to the mansion near a famous tree that suddenly appeared in the dollhouse scene and they have a picnic that is rly an excuse for Nancy to make sure nobody is stealing horses! :O Suddenly Deidre (Nancy's HS dramuh nemesis who Nancy seems to be oblivious to her nemesisnessness... xD) shows up... riding a horse! :O She mocks Nancy, ignores her warnings and tries to hit on Ned (as is her wont >_>) She then goes to ride away but suddenly the masked thief from before shows up and spooks the horse, throwing her off! :O Nancy tells Ned to distract the thief and then gets on the horse to ride it away but she hits a snag and is thrown off and the thief escapes with the horse D:

She has a dream where she's a doll and trapped but then wakes up in her home w/ her housekeeper watching over her. :)

Nancy tries to talk to the police chief but he mocks her >_> She then takes a sleeping back and stays at city hall next to the doll house and at night she witnesses the dolls actually moving!!!!!!!!!! :O

DUN DUN DUNNNNNN

End Chapter 1 :o

Chapter 2! :D

The security guard comes rushing in hearing Nancy make some noises and prevents Nancy from cracking open the glass case surrounding the house to find out what's going on b/c it's private property. The police are called, but the police chief doesn't take any action against Nancy b/c he himself has wanted to break open that dollhouse too :O

The next day, Nancy, Bess and George go to the jewellry store that looked like what was in the doll house post the dolls moving and the scene changing o_o They browse when suddenly the same masked robber from before shows up, snatches a necklace and runs off :O Nancy chases after him but he vanishes :O Nancy finds tire tracks which continues to support her idea that this is not a ghost but a real person.

A random scene where the three heroines are at a soda shop and Deidre shows up to mock Nancy happens. >_>;;;

At night, Nancy attends a big town party on an old steamboat. :o She dances w/ Ned for a while but retires to the balcony to think about the mystery when Emma Blavatsky walks up next to her and tells her again of her believe in spirits and offers Nancy the chance to talk w/ them.. in a seance! :O dun dun dunnn >_>

Nancy takes her up on her offer and she and her friends go to Emma's mansion to do it :O Nancy remains skeptical the entire time and her thought boxes explain to us what Emma is doing to fool them the whole time the seance is going on :3

As they're leaving the house after the fake ghost appearance, Nancy explains to her friends what happened, and while she's explaining about the hidden crevices in the furniture, she realizes something about the dollhouse! :O They rush back to city hall and she looks under the dollhouse stand and finds a locker lodged underneath :O She again insists they take the display apart but the police chief shows up and won't let her because it is owned by Emma. :o Then they realize that the scene has changed and a doll of Nancy is lying dead on the ground next to the old mansion!!!!! :OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

OH NOEEEEEEEEEEEZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Chapter 3! :D

Of course this means Nancy must go to the old mansion to check out what's going on xD However, when they're almost there, her car runs out of gas, because Nancy has a tendency to get so wrapped up in a mystery she forgets to fill her car up, and the old car runs out of gas even faster than her new hybrid o_o Also she and her friends don't have cellphones to call for help because Nancy won't let them because it's Nostalgia Week -_-;; So they walk in the rain to the mansion where she's fated to die. They see a police car at the mansion, where the police chief had an officer watching the mansion just in case :O However, Nancy insists they go inside rather than radio for help, because she wants to take a look around first. When they get inside they see from a window that the police car is gone now and Nancy's old roadster is there, JUST LIKE IN THE DOLLHOUSE WHERE SHE WAS SHOWN AS DEAD! :OOOO

OH NOEEEZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ D:

Nancy insists on continuing and goes upstairs to find out more but Bess and George are grabbed from behind by the mysterious burgler! :O Nancy doesn't notice, cuz she's Nancy, and in the top floor room she finds all of the missing loot! And from the window she can see the horse that was stolen across the field under a bridge :O But as she looks, a shadowy figure approaches her from behind! :O

Meanwhile, Bess and George are locked in a room w/ the police officer knocked out cold :o George tells Bess to look for some way to call for help and Bess finds a large old-fashioned wall phone :O But before they can do nething, George is attacked by the burgler (who apparently locked himself IN the room w/ them) and calls for Bess to help! :O Bess rips the phone off the wall and knocks the Burgler out w/ it xDDDD

Back to Nancy now, who's figured out the mystery but suddenly a sekrit door opens in the wall near her! She follows the hidden staircase up and finds herself on the top balcony when suddenly somebody tries to push her off the roof! :O She fights the person off and unmasks her and it turns out to be... Emma Blavatsky! (of course >_>) She tells Nancy that she's broke and that if ppl believed the dollhouse was TRULY haunted, it would sell for a fortune, along w/ the book and film rights and she'd be rich... RICCCCHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! MUHAHAHAHAHA... but first Nancy has to be dead... >_>;;; (ohyeahalsoshesmuggledhernephewintothecountrytohideinsidethedollhousedisplaythewholetimewithmagnets >__> also she refilled Nancy's car w/ gas and drove it to the house and then ran back in to kill her >______________>)

e_e

MOVING ON

Nancy is shocked that Emma confessed but Emma says she only did so b/c Nancy will be dead neways! MUHAHAHAHA >_> She then tries to push Nancy off but fails and falls off herself! :O Nancy then helps her up and Emma promises to go peacefully :o However, AS Nancy brings her down the staircase she betrays her and tries to kill Nancy again! :O She sees her nephew below and says they can still bring Nancy to the roof and throw her off O_O;;; BUt her nephew is w/ Bess, George and the police chief and has been arrested! :O Bess and George explain that using their tech and magical mechanical powers, they fixed up the antique phone to be able to call the police chief and he came here just in time! They arrest Emma and all is good w/ the world! Nancy says that George and Bess are so amazing they should start their own detective agency (or at least commission themselves off to repair superhero cars and space stations and invisible jets >_> )

The next day, Nostalgia Week is over, and George is so happy to get all her gadgets back but then freaks out when Bess puts a George shaped doll on her shoulder to freak her out O_O;;; Everybody has a good laugh and the credits roll!

DOOO DOOO DOOOOO DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! (that was supposed to be whacky 70s sitcom ending music >_>)

Review: HOLY CRUMBS WHERE TO START!? O_O;;;;; xDDD Actually I found this book quite fun! At least in that there's a lot of running around, the lack of gadgets made things a LITTLE more interesting, even if it made no sense (more on that later) and George and Bess have a lot of amazing scenes. xD Plus, it's another fairplay mystery, and you could figure this one out from the pieces provided... THO...

what threw me was the magnets. I knew it HAD to be magnets.. but the dolls move like REAL PEOPLE and magnets can't do THAT -_- nor could magnets change the ENTIRE SCENE and turn a mansion into a jewellry shop... or make dolls APPEAR suddenly (like the Nancy Drew doll) and THAT really bugged me... I figured out the mystery cuz it's the ONLY WAY it could be... but nothing about it MADE SENSE >_<;;;

Talking about not making sense, the big reveal... HOLY WTF (i need to say something different than holy crumbs all the time XD which is my new catchphrase of the month >_> ) :o Okay, so it's another villain that is doing crazy things cuz they're broke... that's.. fine. >_> I mean it's the plot of the first book and it becomes the plot of MANY of the books later too xD But... there's SO MANY WAYS this could have gone wrong... for one... what if her nephew had been caught trying to steal the horse (he almost was, Nancy just got unlucky and fell off the horse and Ned was too crappy to actually TACKLE him when they were next to each other xD) Or what if he hadn't been successful stealing the jewels? (I'm shocked that even tho the chief had the same thoughts as Nancy he didn't have police near that jewellry store -__-) or he had been caught in the car fleeing the store? And how did he get the car THERE w/o Nancy noticing thru the storefront? It just MAGICALLY APPEARED to get him away and then all Nancy had to prove a car was there was tire tracks? o_O also in broad daylight aren't there PEOPLE ON THE STREET who would see the guy and therefore convince the chief that Nancy is NOT crazy and that it's NOT a ghost!?

And do ppl often mistake guys wearing a ski mask as being ghosts? o_O

Emma as the bad guy was also RLY obv cuz she shows up that much and clearly has a lot invested in ppl believing the dollhouse was haunted.

I have no idea how her grown adult nephew fit inside that little piller supporting the dollhouse or got OUT of there w/o Nancy, or the security guard, or the police chief noticing, EVER. Esp when the dollhouse was on display in front of everybody at city hall. How long was he IN there!?

Was Emma FEEDING the horse? How did she manage to hide a horse on that property when the police keep searching it cuz it's the house in the dollhouse scene where crimes keep being shown? o_O How do you hide a horse underneath a bridge from everybody!? o_O Don't horses sometimes make noises?!?

And how did she predict that Nancy would run out of gas? And why would she KNOW this beforehand so she had gas to bring w/ her to refill the car!? And if she didn't plan this, then she improvised REALLY REALLY FAST... cuz she got OUT of the house, somehow, got into the car, drove it to the mansion, got rid of the police car, and then ran upstairs to kill Nancy O_O She's very active for an old woman! She should be commercials for vitamin supplements O_O;;

And her nephew... after kidnapping Bess and George and putting them in the same room you have the unconscious cop... WHY WOULD YOU LOCK YOURSELF IN THE ROOM WITH THEM!? Was he planning to KILL them? And why would you wait for them to wake up AND THEN TRY TO KILL THEM!? If not.. wtf was he doing!? (there's another thought but honestly I don't think a book where the audience is for kids and not a DC "for kids" would imply that... so.. yeah.. besides... wouldn't you tie them up at least? >_> ) It's just... RAWRRRRR xD You bad guys DESERVED TO BE CAUGHT!

And I just LOVEEEEE how they are SUCH sticklers to the rules of ~~fight club~~ Nostalgia Week that they can't even do things that could.. y'know.. save their lives... Like bring cellphones JUST IN CASE.. or a flashlight... or use the internet or computers to research the dollhouse like George wanted to. xD Nancy scolds George saying that ppl solved mysteries before technology. Well... sort of... how many do you think were wrong or false arrests, or that they just COULDN'T solve xD Also.. you're also assuming that the BAD GUYS PLAY BY THE SAME RULES! Given that they use modern cars and such to commit crimes, it's pretty obvious THEY DO NOT... srsly... Nancy is lucky that her need to follow the rules didn't kill her >_>;; xD

MIND YOU

Nancy's ability to not pay attention to her well being is also extremely dangerous and truly legendary here xD After figuring out the mystery, she figures it's a good idea to go up a suddenly opened door that leads to the roof where the dollhouse (and by now she KNOWS why it keeps predicting things) says she'll die... and doesn't watch her back. She's only lucky that Emma was so tired from all her running around and hiding of cars xD

Emma is a great supervillain tho xD Srsly.. she's like a Batman villain... needlessly complicated plans... gimmicks to predict and telegraph her plans... incompetent sidekicks xD I'm shocked she didn't say "good help is so hard to find these days" at the end (before shooting her nephew w/ a joker "bang!" gun >_> )

But srsly, she's part of why I like the story.. cuz she's such a great mUHAHAHAHA over the top supervillain (who doesn't give up on trying to kill the hero after her first try fails xD silly trusting Nancy >_> ) .. .I'd actually rly like it if she returned.. she seems like a good foil for Nancy and I like the way she thinks xD

The other part is just how goofy the whole thing is xD I mean it's bad, but it's FUN bad... the plot makes sense, in that sure it's POSSIBLE... just... when you think about how it could actually be implemented it's just so silly xD All the coincidences and remarkable feats of dexterity and endurance by the bad guys necessary and the incompetence of the police xD It rly is a Batman story xDDDD

Plus, having Nancy romp around in the old roadster in the type of outfit she was in in the original books, was cute... a little nostalgic trip for 90 year old fans xD ... and girls who grew up reading the originals :3 (and not the remakes of the originals)

And George and Bess are rly at their best here! Esp Bess... 30s TELEPHONE-FU! WHACK! xDD i just love the effectiveness of the 3 of them as heroes. There's no panicky or typical girl flailiy or crying or other stuff when they're kidnapped. What? Bad guy? RIP THE PHONE OFF THE WALL AND BEAT HIM W/ IT! xDDD <333

So much lurve xD Plus they manage to fix the thing AFTER AND somehow dial the police chief w/ it xDD (he srsly is like the only cop in River Heights too >_> except for the guy he sent who got knocked out... maybe it was a prototype police bot or something o_O He never appears to wake up xD)

<3

And the ending was cute too just cuz,... Nancy's right.. HER FRIENDS ROCK!! Which is the other thing, I LOVE how much they're a team in this series and Bess and George aren't just side chars or meant to be the serious tomboy/silly femme girl combo... they rly are EXTREMELY useful and full heroes in their own right :D And this episode is a great example of that and another reason why I love it. xD Plus, I love that they show Nancy as being strong, focused and determined.. and she isn't afraid of threat of death either :D She's not just some girl playing at hero, she's a freaking hero >:D And that's ultimately why I love this series so much, and this book is a great early example of the strength and temerity of the 3 leads :D

And ultimately... I mean... it's fun... and isn't that what counts? xD I mean we put up w/ Batman plots that make less sense xD (or Supergirl plots that make no sense at all >_> AND there's no 1930s telephone fu either! xD )

Neways.. silly, flimsy, bold and fun :D

Oh yeah.. and Nancy fights yet another villain on a cliff/edge >_>

Angelwings Rating: 3/5

Recommendation: I'd say... yes :D Whether you just get lost in the childish fun and ignore the plot holes, or you find the crazy plot fun and hilarious, it's a fun book, and hits all the right notes in terms of characterization w/ Nancy's absentmindedness and determination and Bess and George's awesome kickass sidekicking :D

Nancy Drew - #2 Review :o

2011-03-07T11:33:00.008-05:00

Nancy Drew - #2 "Writ In Stone"

Synopsis: Nancy Drew is babysitting during a storm when she hears a car crash in the distance. A tow truck driver that she knows comes by w/ one of the ppl involved in the car crash b/c it is the closest dry place he knew. The person involved is David Severe (best name evar), an archaeologist. He says that he's glad he was in an SUV or he might be dead. Nancy says that SUVs are actually more dangerous b/c they have a tendency to roll over. He then shows Nancy a rock in his possession that he claims is a shore marker found in California that proves that the Chinese came to North America in 1421, before the Europeans :o

He says that there's lots of circumstantial evidence that the Chinese were in America, but now he has proof since it bears the birth date of the Admiral of the Chinese fleet's son. Nancy Drew remarks that raising a son on the high seas must have been difficult and then invites David to give a talk about the stone in River Heights since their museum could use the fund-raising. He agrees since he's stuck in the town anyways with his car totaled.

At the event, George arrives w/ her new camcorder which she's excited about, while Bess keeps trying to get Nancy to let her put make up on her o_O David appears on stage just then and opens his case to show off the stone but... it's missing! :O

DUN DUN DUNNN >_>

Nancy immediately runs on stage and finds out that he was just backstage in the washroom, so she asks the museum director who else could have been backstage, and is told only the old security guard, but he is good and trustworthy, he even holds down 3 jobs. o_o Nancy sees that as possible motive for stealing an artifact and goes backstage to pursue the guard but finds herself locked in a room :O She uses her call to call her boyfriend, Ned Nickerson, to unlock the door, but by then the guard is gone. :o

Nancy returns to the auditorium and realizes that from George's vantage point her camcorder must have recorded the washroom and so they could check to see who came in or out of there besides David. George laments that in the chaos, her camcorder was stolen! :O At the same time, the mother of Owen, the boy Nancy was babysitting and who was at the Museum as well, runs in saying that Owen is missing too! :O

DUN DUN DUNNNN x 2 >_>

We get some disjointed scenes involving the camcorder and apparently Owen using it to video cats and squirrels when somebody approaches him and offers him candy for the camera. He kicks the mysterious person in the shins and runs off. :o

Meanwhile, Nancy has been narrating the whole time and tells us she & her friends still suspected the guard and went by the cemetery where he worked at night (in his 3rd job) :o He discovers them and they run but Nancy doesn't watch where she's going, trips and smashes her head on a rock :O Bess clutches Nancy Drew and screams out "OH MY GOD! NANCY DREW IS DEAD!!!!!!!"

Best cliffhanger ending of a Chapter 1 evar xD

Chapter 2

Nancy Drew immediately tells Bess to stop yelling cuz it's giving her a headache and gets back up. (Best anti-climactic opening of a Chapter 2 evar xD) George says that they thought Nancy was dead b/c she knocked off a piece of solid tombstone w/ her head. :o But Nancy says that it's not solid, it's actually made of Styrofoam, like a prop, and it's hollow.. something was hidden inside it! :O Nancy measures the Styrofoam rock and as she suspected, it is just big enough to hide the shore marker. She uses Bess' eyeliner to write measurements on her hand (as Bess whines that she won't use it >_> )

In the morning, she and her dad are discussing the case and her dad said that they should concentrate on finding Owen, while Nancy thinks the two mysteries are linked. Their housekeeper suggests that he might just have run away and found himself a little place to hide :o

Bess, George and Nancy go to question the security guard at his house but he refuses to answer questions and slams the door on them! :O Nancy has Bess and George pretend to drive off to distract him while Nancy herself sneaks in thru the back door. She finds that it is roach infested and dilapidated inside but she also discovers the guard's bank statement where he's recently gotten 10,000$ :O She goes into the basement where she finds mysterious dust that might have come from the shore marker :o She scoops it up into the cap of Bess' eyeliner (eyeliner to the rescue this episode! xD they should rly get a deal w/ Maybelline or something and then just have their products save the day xD ) and then calls her friends to get them to honk the horn to distract the guard so she can escape out the back again :o

Nancy goes to talk to David and ask him about the dust and why nebody might want to destroy the shore marker, he says that ppl might to stop him from showing proof of his discovery. :o He looks at the dust under a microscope and says that it's actually just concrete. :|

The next day, Nancy talks w/ Ned and says that she doesn't trust David's analysis and wishes she could get the dust really tested. Ned says he has a friend at the university who could help and calls him. Nancy goes to the post office to mail the sample to him but as she's coming out a car tries to run her over! Ned pushes her out of the way in time as the car drives off! :O

Owen's mom wanders by as Nancy is getting her bearings and says she misses Owen a lot. Nancy thinks that maybe she should be trying to find the shore marker through finding Owen (she's so caring >_> ) They go to his room and finds a painting of a tree and a tree house, which makes Nancy think that it might actually exist! :o

We now switch to the tree house where Owen and the camcorder are. He says he's bored and this isn't fun nemore. But then the guy who was chasing him earlier shows up and captures him in a bag! :O

End Chapter 2

Owen kicks the evil person in the bag and runs off while the evil person laments that he wishes the penalties for hurting a child weren't so severe. o_o

Suddenly scene change and Nancy Drew is pretending to be shot and it turns out she is playing with Owen. Nancy has been doing this for half an hour to try to get Owen to tell her where the camcorder is :o He finally leads them to the tree house where they find the camcorder! :O

They bring it back to Owen's house, along w/ Owen and then plays it on the TV but it turns out he erased almost everything on the tape. :O Nancy gets a call from Ned's friend who tells her the test results. She says that she's solved the mystery but needs to enact a plan to catch the culprits. :O

Nancy does an interview with local reporters about the disappearance of Owen and says that unfortunately they did not recover the camcorder and if anybody finds it please turn it into the police.

They then go back to the tree house where George drops her camcorder to have it look like it fell out of the tree. :o They then hide in the bushes, waiting. While they wait it starts to rain and storm and be windy! :O The bad guy shows up after a while and destroys the camcorder freaking George out D: They try to chase him but in the storm they have trouble locating him. :o He gets into an SUV and tries to escape but like Nancy predicted in the opening, the SUV rolled over as it tries to get out of the woods :O The bad guy gets out and makes a run for it w/ Nancy in hot pursuit! :O They go up the side of a cliff by the water where Nancy confronts him with the storm raging, the water below and them on a small ledge! :O

Dramatic!

>_>

Nancy reveals that she knows who he is: Professor David Severe (Professor Severe is an even better name)! She said that she figured it out b/c Owen gave her a rough sketch, and along with Severe lying about the dust and Severe limping (Owen said he kicked the bad guy) it all pointed to him. She asks why he didn't wear a mask before, and Severe says cuz he's been making it up all along. :o He explains that when Nancy mentioned how hard it would be to raise a child on a boat, he realized that historically the Admiral was a eunuch and therefore he could never have had children and so the shore marker was a fake and he'd be a laughing stock. :O He was going to go along w/ it neways, but then the security guard stole the marker and called for a ransom but he paid the guard to destroy the marker instead. :O When he heard about the camcorder, he was afraid that the guard would be caught and then rat out Severe, so that's why he tried to kidnap Owen and kill Nancy. o_o

The bad guys are arrested (it turns out the guard had been stealing from the museum for years and had lots of money saved up despite where he lived and all his jobs o_o ) and Owen's mom (who is wealthy) insisted on giving Nancy a reward. :o Nancy uses it to buy George a new camcorder, Bess new eyeliner and Owen a play camcorder... and everybody is happy! Yay! (except Professor Severe, who's career is ruined and is in jail.. tho he'll be back... >_>)

THE END!

Review: o_o Honestly, this is prolly the weakest (and maybe overall worst) book of the entire series (actually there's another one that is pretty bad too >_> ) It was rly confusing how the story kept jumping around and they don't segue into the scenes involving the camcorder and Owen very well. :| The first time I read through it I didn't get what was going on, and Nancy having her own narration on TOP of Owen and the bad guy talking made things even MORE confusing. :\ Also the whole mystery was really flimsy. I mean it was easy to figure out b/c there was rly only one person w/ motive and that was Severe and the "artifact being fake" thing isn't new in terms of a mystery plot so it was kind of surprising it took Nancy that long to think along those lines :|

Also the beginning is rly random, how this guy suddenly shows up literally on Nancy's doorstep and then gives random exposition about the artifact. o_o At least there is foreshadowing about the SUV (Nancy gives a lot of stats in her narration at the end about SUV accidents too... this series often talks about the benefits of hybrid cars vs polluting SUVs xD), but the plot is still just far too convenient.

Plus Nancy Drew seems rly out of character o_o Her first priority should have been to find Owen, not the shore marker. Esp since given the scene changes and how it's night then day, then night again, then day... Owen's been gone THREE DAYS O_O How did he survive in just a tree house? Also why is Nancy so nonchalant about the whole thing? It's not like he was missing for only a few hours even though everybody seems to act like he was. Did the writer not pay attention to the scene changes, or were the writer and artist not on the same page? (it's pretty hard to not be though when the graveyard scene clearly could only have taken place at night and then Nancy's dad was eating BREAKFAST the next scene). Neways, it seems rly sloppy and also rly awful and callous of Nancy, which isn't in character for her. :| Even if she gets wrapped up in mysteries, her friends surely wouldn't, AND she still would normally care more about actual PEOPLE than just a shore marker mystery. I mean it wasn't even until she thought finding the kid would help her solve her mystery that she even tries to look.

Also I find it funny that nobody a) knows of the treehouse and b) thinks to look there when Owen's been drawing it. His mom chalks it up to his imagination (and how does a 5 y/o kid build a treehouse sekritly w/o nebody knowing? o_O )

And Severe's actions seem... well... Severe... for a guy who just was worried about a little academic embarrassment. Esp since he didn't seem to have given any other talks on the subject or shown his rock around much (and even if he had, is it worth kidnapping charges or murder? o_O ) so it's not really like it would hurt him THAT much would it? (tho I'm not an academic, so maybe it would! but it's still not worth trying to KILL somebody) AND what rly bugs me, is that given how much he was afraid of the penalties of hurting Owen, and that he seems like he is sort of a not evil guy, it's a HUGE jump to try to run over and kill Nancy O_O (also how did he go from having an SUV to having a sports car to try to kill Nancy and then an SUV again?)

Although.. w/ the ending it means this is the second book in a row to start the series that has Nancy Drew confronting a villain on a cliff! Which, as I said last review, happens a lot. xD So... I just wanted to mention that. :] That and her fighting animals (which she doesn't do here, unless you count the brief scene involving the cockroaches) are the two recurring themes in these books. xD But that's just an "Ami keeps track of these things" aside >_>

RAWR

So yeah, the plot and characterization and the ultimate solution to the mystery was rly rly awful... plus there was that unintentionally hilarious ending to Chapter 1 where Bess screams that Nancy's dead (it's an obvious forced plot point to allow them to put the scene on the back of the book to advertise Nancy's "death") and then she gets right up the next page in Chapter 2 xD But it was v over the top forced :\

The art is okay for most of it but I'd almost say it got worse from Book 1. And when it gets bad, it gets bad and confusing :( It's still rough, like the first few books are, but at some points the art gets REALLY REALLY sketchy... like when Severe is trying to kidnap Owen.. I guess it's to try to hide his face, but his face just ends up being this blank skin colour oval at times (and this isn't from a far away shot), so we SHOULD see detail but we don't, and it's freaky o_o

Also, Ned, David, Owen (who's a CHILD!) and George (who's a teen girl) all look the same at periods of time in the book, which made my understanding of it even MORE confusing the first time through. I can only imagine how annoying it must be for kids to try to get through this, or even adults to explain to kids what's going on at some of the points o_o

Basically, anybody with short brown hair (those 4 chars) all end up looking similarly b/c the art gets so sketchy at times :\ And that rly detracts from the book AND makes it extremely annoying to try to parse -_-;;

Owen and Ned, in particular have a lot of issues. Sometimes Owen looks 12, sometimes he looks 3, sometimes he's at Nancy's chest, and then he's the size of a small pillow when his mom picks him up near the end of the book o_o And Ned sometimes looks taller and older than Nancy (which he is) and then when he's rescuing her from the car he looks like he's 12 and young o_o It's REALLY REALLY inconsistent and.. honestly... sloppy :\ But then in the first few books, as I say, it seems the artist is rly trying to get a handle on the chars and drawing and maybe get more experience of her own as well... the art improves a lot in the later books. :) Tho the series is written and drawn over 4 years (and counting) so there's bound to be lots of improvement and fine tuning... But still... it's very rough here, and it hurts the book a lot :\

And so does the writing and a plot that's held together by leaps of logic, twine and spittle... so... yeah :\ No Ami recommendation here :( (except that hilarious end Chapter 1 scene...)

Angelwings Rating: 1.5 out of 5 uncaring Nancy Drews :( (the .5 is cuz of the OMG NANCY DREW IS DEAD cliffhanger xD)

Recommendation: Unless you really want to read them in order (Severe DOES show up in a later book), if you don't have the money to spend, I wouldn't recommend this book. :\ The plot is a mess and the art is so bad in places it makes it hard to tell what's going on and the characters apart :(

Nancy Drew - #1 Review :D

2011-02-20T11:19:00.002-05:00

Nancy Drew - #1 "The Demon of River Heights"

Synopsis: Nancy Drew is hanging from a cliff as her boyfriend, Ned Nickerson, is trying to save her as she screams that she saw the Demon of River Heights and it's real! :O Her fingers slip and she falls... and then we "zoom out" and see that the whole thing is actually an amateur film being made by her 2 best friends: cousins Bess and George, and 2 local college film students. George remarks that htey seem more concerned about flirting with Bess than filming Nancy. >_>;;

Hours later Nancy, Bess and George are eating in a coffee shop and Nancy remarks that the boys who are to meet with them for the project still hadn't shown up yet. Nancy's rival (in the high school dramuh sense, not the Moriarty sense sadly), Deidre, comes in with her new boyfriend, Canton Angley II, son of wealthy entrepreneur Canton Angley who is in River Heights for business. Deidre mocks Nancy that her father is now the lawyer for Angley who has dumped Nancy's father in that role. Nancy calls her dad to confirm and he says it's true but only b/c he wouldn't help Angley with some shady business which he won't elaborate on. :O Nancy and George wonder why Angley Sr. would be in River Heights at all since the iron ore mines were all tapped out years ago.

Bess, however, has more pressing concerns on her mind, and waves a newspaper at Nancy that has a photo of a supposed monster spotted in the woods in River Height's on the cover :O The same woods they were filming the movie in! :O DUN DUN DUN.... :o Bess worries the boys were killed or harmed by the monster >_>

Of course Nancy wants to investigate as she is awesome that way, so off they go! :D

In the woods at night (b/c night is the best time to go looking for monsters :D ) Nancy finds some broken branches and foot prints which leads them to scattered rolls of exposed film that the boys must have dropped :o Nancy wonders what would have scared them so much they ran off w/o their film... and then a bear shows up :O The bear starts to stalk Nancy, and George tells her to not back down but not be threatening. :o Nancy tries this but the bear attacks and George tells Nancy that she has to defend herself and then...

NANCY DREW UPPERCUTS THE BEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (best scene EVAR)

Actually she punches the bear with a left and then follows it up with a right uppercut! :D

But this does not faze the super bear and Nancy is forced to climb up a tree and smack it's head with a stick multiple times until it slinks off in defeat. :D

Nancy Drew 1, Bears 0

Jay Cutler would be proud. xD

NEWAYS, they gather up the rest of the equipment and start heading off. Nancy decides to watch the film on the camcorder which shows the boys being startled by something and running off, when suddenly the girls hear a noise! :O Scared, they run to Nancy's car, but as usual (she says she does this often b/c she is so focussed on mystery solving), Nancy forgot to gas up and they are stuck as they fear that the Demon of River Heights is real! :O

End chapter one! :O

ONTO CHAPTER TWO!

Car headlights pull up, saving them, and the car window rolls down and it is Angley Sr :O He condescends them and then avoids Nancy's questions about why he's in town except to say that he doesn't believe what everybody thinks about the mines being worthless :o He drops them off at the police station where the police chief also condescends Nancy Drew. She tries to get him to play the tapes they found on his VCR but he says the VCR is broken :o Bess offers to fix it and, w/ her nailfile, does so quickly! :D Yay Bess! :D

On the tape, the boys hear something, and then drop the camera and run off.. the rest of the tape is blank :o

Nancy and co leave while the chief mocks them a little more cuz he's a jerkface >:|

In the morning, they hike back to the forest and her car and Nancy asks Bess and George to keep tabs on Deidre and her new b/f for her b/c she promised her dad she would. Weird hijinks ensue with the two girls hiding behind plants and stuff spying on Deidre and Angley II on a date. Deidre spots them and bothers them in irrelevant to the plot scenes. >_>;;;

Meanwhile, Nancy sneaks into one of the boys' dorm rooms to find out more info and finds folders about their movie plan when the roommate comes in, startling her. :o He reveals that the two film guys have been fighting lately but he doesn't know about what, and that one of them wanted to spread rumours about the Demon being real to promote the movie, while the other didn't. Nancy looks at the drawing of the Demon that they had sketched and says it looks nothing like what they saw in the forest the other night. :O

Nancy returns to the forest that night, but again, forgets to fill up on gas and is stranded :o She tries to call her AAA friend but her cellphone has trouble getting a signal this far out. She sees the mine but it isn't abandoned at all and there is light coming from it :O As she goes to investigate suddenly 3 "monsters" appear! :O Nancy tries to get away but they capture her! :O

End of chapter 2 :O

DUN DUN DUNNNNNN >_>

George and Bess are still spying on Deidre on her date and finally Angley II drops her off at home and drives off. Suspicious, they follow him :o

Nancy Drew wakes up in the mine to find the monsters are actually the 2 film guys, Angley and his son in hazmat suits. :o The 2 film guys fight as one doesn't want to be involved in murdering Nancy Drew and the other calls him a wuss :o Nancy tries to escape in the distraction but runs into Angley II :O Angley one questions her about what she knows and she tries to feign ignorance but he doesn't buy it b/c she has a reputation for being smart xD She finally explains that she figures that he believes that there's something valuable like gold in these mines, which is why he's back, but that he couldn't use conventional methods to test for it or it would draw attention and increase the value of the land. Instead, he's probably using environmentally destructive and illegal methods like cyanide leaching to test and the film guys stumbled onto the plan by accident and so were paid to help and keep quiet. :o

Angley admits that she's right but also that he had to do it b/c his company was bankrupt and he needed money fast, so he planned to buy the land cheap and then "discover" the gold. He then grabs Nancy wondering how to dispose of her. :o The "wuss" guy attacks him saying to leave Nancy alone, giving her a chance to try to get away. However, the ensuing fight cracks one of the beams supporting the mine and causes a cave in :O

Mostly everybody gets away safelty but Angley Sr. is knocked down by rocks :O Nancy asks the boys to help her help him but they flee leaving her alone with Angley Sr. trapped :O

She sees a little opening in the ceiling and laments being too short to reach it. :o As Nancy is looking around, she accidentally backs off onto a cliff and slips down, hanging on by her fingertips :o Angley Sr. gets up and approaches her and threatens her a little and then helps her up, saying that he was conscious enough earlier to know that she saved him, so he is returning the favour :]

Together they dig out a few rocks to the entrance but then Angley says that he can't face the cops and asks Nancy if she can smell the methane gas filling the cave. Then he brings out a cigarette and lights it causing the cave to explode as Nancy escapes! :O The police are outside waiting for her, having been brought there by Bess and George :]

The police lament that Angley died in the explosion until Nancy remembers that the hole at the top of the cave was too high for her but not Angley! :O She leads the police to where the hole would lead and they capture Angley Sr. as he's about to escape! :D

Angley Sr. and Jr. and the film student guys are taken away in handcuffs as Deidre appears and tells Jr. that she will get her dad to represent them in court but Jr. tells her that her dad is a terrible lawyer and they only chose him to replace Nancy's dad b/c they thought he'd be too stupid to discover what they were up to and that he only dated her to spy on her dad :O Deidre then tries to save face by claiming she was spying on THEM all along to help Nancy and her friends just kinda mock her.

THE END!!!!!! :D

YAY NANCY DREW! :3

Review: Mox mox mox. Ami is barks! :D It has taken a while to get back into reviewing, for various personal issues and also me not getting DC or Marvel comics nemore (lack of money and lack of interest and overall annoyance with the companies) factors in too. :| But lately I have been reading lots of various mangas/graphic novels I have found at the library (also going to the library and rediscovering fun things! :3 ) and so I have decided to try to get my reviews up and running again! Mostly for myself, as part of therapy stuff.. to try to get back into being opinionated and stuff :) Also to share the wonders and fun of Nancy Drew with you ppls! :D (also other books >_> but we will try to get this one done first)

But neways.. enuf about my mysterious return from the dead >_> It'll be retconned out later neways >_>;; ONTO TEH REVIEW! :D

This is a rly good beginning to the series and rly sets the tone for the kind of adventures she has later. :3 It rly surprised me when I started b/c I've had limited exp with Nancy Drew before reading the comics, and the stuff I've seen before were rly fun and not mundane or nething but ... well I was rly shocked and amused when she punched that bear xD And then it just keeps going up from there! Explosions and hanging off cliffs and stuff! :D Actually... fighting animals and hanging on for dear life are things that happen to Nancy Drew a LOT as this series goes on as you will see! (hopefully) xD

But yus... the bear scene rly kicked things off with a bang... I mean at first it's just, ordinary girl detective, and there's annoying Deidre (who always hilariously seems to be in the WRONG series xD she should be on Gossip Girl or something... all her whininess is always rly rly silly compared to what Nancy is dealing with.. PLUS Nancy ignores her EVERY TIME, so she's very random xD) and etc.. and then... UPPERCUTTING BEARS! :D It's just a rly great statement early on in the first chapter of the first book to introduce readers and say "this series is not going to be boring, or stereotypical girl dramuh folks!" :D

The ultimate mystery was pretty neat, and I liked that it was hinting about what was going on before, and you could figure it out before Nancy does the big reveal at the end (this isn't, unfortunately, something that continues later >_>) plus the villain is pretty villainous, but also not CARTOONY villainous (that happens later >_>) so that's a good balance too imo :3 And it also helps to establish Nancy's personality and beliefs, esp her environmentalism, which is addressed both in her being angry that he's doing cyanide leaching and also when she notes that she drives a hybrid car :) I like how we get a sense for who Nancy is, without just lots and lots of monologuing. :]

Altho, there IS an internal monologue also! The way the books are is very much like how DC likes to do their comics, and esp the Batman ones, with the little boxes in the corner that shows her thoughts as things goes on. :) I've always rly rly liked it b/c it made the story more interesting and it adds to the detectivey sort of thing. :) And Nancy's internal monologue is rly fun, and like a cross between Batman and... me I guess... I can't think of a non dark Superhero in DC right now xD But she's not super dupr serious, while also being pretty serious :)

I'm using a lot of smileys >_> But I luff this series so much xD

The art in this book is a little rougher than it gets later. In a way I like it, b/c Nancy looks more like a girl and less like a 20 something actress in a hollywood production as she sometimes looks later (and sometimes she gets RLY thin later too >_>) She also isn't shown as being very made up here (later when they get a separate colourist and inker, she gets v obvious mascara and lipstick and nail polish) which is good, not b/c I'm against make up, but b/c in the VERY BOOKS, Nancy says she never uses it and barely knows what it is whenever Bess annoys her to use make up (except when she uses it as part of crime solving!) so when you've established THAT in your character, having an inker that insists on putting heavyish make up and eyeliner on all your female chars incl Nancy is v inconsistant and odd. :| But I rly like Sho Murase's art in general, and even in this first book, when sometimes the same pose is being reused in different frames and sometimes the art is more webcomicy, it is pretty fun and "fits" really well. :) It gets better, but then this is hte first book, and you can tell the writer and artist are rly hammering out the kinks and getting down the characters looks and stuff :)

Talking about the looks, the design of the chars are all rly well done, you can tell their personalities by how they dress, how they stand... you can tell George is a "tomboy" (she might be more than that actually >_>) and Bess is clearly not your stereotypically thin fashion girl, which is something I rly like, b/c even tho I know Bess has always been thicker than Nancy, they do a good job of making her look larger and still pretty (i.e. not stereotypically fat for comedies sake) and also I applaud the writer for having her be shown as the attractive one the boys flirt with :) Plus Bess is a tech genius! xD Which is a trait I rly enjoy in this series :] And as the series gets more comic booky adventurous, so does her powers (she fixes a VCR with a nail file here, later she fixes a magnetic tank with a comb xD)

This book also sets the tone for the rest of the series in that Nancy wears LOTS of very neat outfits while sleuthing. :] She changes her clothes 3 times (whenever she goes home off scene) and each outfit is very pretty and very neat, without being jarring (she's wearing an ankle length skirt in all 3 outfits with matching tops) and I rly applaud Murase for her attention to detail in this way and also creativity in having cute outfits in every book that match Nancy Drew's personality (i do wonder why her wardrobe is so large and awesome when she also states she HATES clothes shopping tho... I guess her housekeeper does it for her.. or Bess :3) It's just a neat a little cute thing (and makes me jealous xD) that you notice, and adds to the book, and ALSO, I like seeing "civilian" chars change clothes rather than just wearing the same clothes all the time as if it's a uniform :] Bess & George also get different clothes every book, which all fit their chars also AND helps us get to know them better in a way :)

Hmm.. what else..

I guess that is it for this review :) I obviously rly liked this book, and I think it's rly a great beginning for the series and obv a great way to introduce Nancy Drew in general to kids and stuff. :) It's fun, it's drawn pretty well, and Nancy, George and Bess are all amazing heroines who are brave and awesome and not dark! (you know I've read too much DC when "not dark" is something that I think of as complimenting chars xD) :D The art is still rough at points, and the plot isn't as "together" as it gets later, but it's still a rly good first book and first effort from Petrucha and Murase :)

Angelwings Rating: 4 out of 5 Nancy Drewwings! :D

Recommendation: A fun read, and def recommend it for ppl who like fun and serious adventure and to give to kids who like the same :D (but it definitely isn't a book that condescends or nething, even not trying to be kiddy I rly enjoyed it as just a comic book fan :) )

Red Robin - #1 Review

2009-06-11T01:50:00.002-04:00

Red Robin - #1

Synopsis: In Spain, bad guys have kidnapped the daughter of an outspoken Spanish politician. They get their ransom demand but have no intention of returning the daughter. :o Red Robin follows them to their hideout and beats everybody up except for a guy with flamey hands who punches him. Red Robin catches the punch and headbutts him and escapes with the girl :o

In his apartment, Red Robin, who is Tim Wayne, takes off his costume and holds his burnt hand under cold water wondering how his life got to this point.

The next day he motorcycles around showing off a picture to ppl, asking if they have seen somebody but they haven't. He insists he knows he's "right" about something.

Flashback time! Tim is yelling at Nightwing who is now Batman, in the batcave. Dick says that Damien is his responsibility and it's his job to take care of him or he'll become a killer. Damien who is now Robin shows up and mocks Tim and refuses to acknowledge his last name as being Wayne. Tim punches Damien and stalks off.

In Prague, somebody kills a businessman who was trying to blackmail the wrong people. But then he himself is killed by a mysterious person who cuts him in half or something :O

We're now in Paris where Red Robin is racing along in his Robincycle being chased by gangsters in a car shooting at him. He jumps on the car and causes it to flip :O

Flashback again to mopey Tim after his fight with Dick and Damien. He mopes until he realizes that Batman is still alive and he will find him.

Back in the present, half naked Tim is being spied on by a bald girl and her compatriots who call somebody and tells them that they've found Tim.

It's Ra's Al Ghul >.>;;;

DUN DUN DUNNNNNN

Review: Blah. That's.. like my review. xD The entire thing just made me feel blah.. or meh.. like.. w/e... I dunno.. it's more mopey Tim and I HATE mopey Tim... esp the wannabe Miller monologues. I'm so tired of it. I'm so tired of the running narration of a superhero's actions. It's like sports commentators in North America, they just can't stop talking.. xD But more than that it's just.. I dunno.. not even creative monologuing.. it's like they ran his thoughts thru a batmonologue computer or something. xD

Neways... I haven't rly been following Battle for the Cowl much, so maybe I just missed stuff, but why IS Tim not Robin or given ANY sort of other role by Bat!Dick? Like, Dick says it's cuz they're equals or something, but I thought Dick and Tim were always close, like brothers... why would he just be like... shrugging him aside. Yeah he wants to take care of Damien (why is he taking care of Damien btw? o_O I know Zhinxy has a theory that Talia's going to be revealed to have died, so maybe that's it? ) but if Tim is having issues too, wouldn't it be important to try to include him more also, or try harder to work things out? It seems like Dick doesn't even rly care what's going on, esp with his surrogate little brother.. and that's... I dunno... it just seems like he's being rly blase about Tim having clear emotional issues >.>;;

So is Tim killing now or just being rly rough? :o Is that the line he's crossing? o_O I know he flipped the car but in comics, that's hardly any inference to killing xD Maybe it's just that he doesn't care how rough he is anymore or if it leads to death?

*shrug* I dunno, as I said, I just feel blah about it so it's like "oh well car flipped.." xD And Ra's is back! Oh yay >.>;; I guess he'll finally have his apprentice or w/e? Maybe we'll find out if Zhinxy was right about Talia :]

Um.. I guess that's it. I just feel like... a lot happened but at the same time nothing rly happened. It just felt like background noise as Tim brooded and brooded more xD

Oh and apparently we dun have Red Robins in Ontario xD Just FYI >.>;; Or I would ttlly go to one every week that Red Robin came out and read it there xD And ppl would stare >.>;;; XDDD Maybe I should go to Timothy's or Tim Horton's to read it though :O

XDDDDDD

Angelwings Rating: 1.5 out of 5 ultimate broody Red Robin Timbits

Recommendation: Unless you rly like current Tim Drake or are into what happens to every single Bat family char during this Batman: Reborn period, I dun recommend this issue at all :\

Green Lantern Corps - #37

2009-06-11T01:25:00.003-04:00

Green Lantern Corps - #37

Synopsis: Inside the red sun of Daxam, Sodom Yat uses his Ion power to turn it yellow :O Mongol watches while being told by his minions that the Daxamites are now super powerful.

On Daxam, the Daxamites who were with Sodom and Arisia are going out of control with their new powers and Arisia has to encase them in bubbles. Sodom's father tells her that they need to take their revenge on the Yellow Lanterns but she says they have to be patient and train first and then they will retake the planet! :D

In space, inside the boot of the Anti-Monitor (xD), Ash, the vampire slaying Green Lantern, is slaying vampires when Saarek, the GL who speaks to dead ppl, shows up. :O Saarek tells Ash that Ash's wife does not want him running around killing vampires to avenge her death and wants him to stop. Ash tells Saarek to shut up and doesn't believe he's actually talking to his wife. :o They then ask what the other is here for and discover that they both have been sent by the sekritly!ebil!Guardian to find the Anti-Monitor's corpse :O Saarek senses the dead calling from a black desolate place and they go off together...

On Oa, the sciencell riot rages on as GLs try to contain the rampaging Yellow and Red Lanterns :O Guy Gardner is saved from a YL by a RL carrying a giant axe. He then saves the RL from a YL. RL, in Klingon like fashion, declares that he still hates Guy and will kill him later. xD

Kyle Rayner convinces Kanjar Ro to help the GL contain the riot in exchange for Kyle asking for leniency on Kanjar's sentence from the Guardians. :]

In the chaos the Sinestro Corps Bookkeeping Girl gets her ring to find the book of the Sinestro Corps. :o It leads her into Oa where she finds the Big Black Book Of Evil Doom :O She starts to read it but then sekritly!ebil!Guardian shows up behind her and shoves her INSIDE one of the pages, trapping her... :O

Back outside, the GL recruits demand to be allowed to fight in the riot and with their collective willpower are able to break through the bubble encasing them and they rush in only to be met by bloodthirsty Sinestro Corps members! :O Before the YLs can do nething tho, they are killed by the Alpha Lanterns who have shown up! O_O;;

They instruct all the GLs to initiate Phalanx Directive which apparently is to encase all the escapees in a giant green shell xD

Inside Oa, sekritly!ebil!Guardian says it's time and the door needs to be open :o Black stuff flows out of her and the giant Lantern thingie that encases Oa starts to crack and explode! :OOOOO

To be continued >.>;;

Review: That sounded pretty silly actually now that I've wrote it out. xD But it's pretty fun and I think they did a rly good job with the riot and making it look rly chaotic and action packed! :D Plus I ALWAYS love it when bad guys help good guys in these situations xD Esp with Klingon Red Lantern guy xD I just have such a soft spot for those types of chars >.>;;;

"I WILL kill you after I kill all the ppl trying to kill you!"

AWWWWW

*gives him a hug*

Aren't you an adorable warrior cliche? :D

I'm confused about what happened to bookkeeping girl tho :o She got put in the book... I didn't know ppl could do that.. is she dead now or just trapped or like.. coming back as a Black Lantern? o_O;; I guess we'll see! I kinda WANT to like her, I guess cuz she kept being pushed as a fairly major char in the SC War plot, but we never actually did rly find out much about her, but I find her intriguing so I hope she returns :) I guess I kinda want to like her... or.. hate her.. or whatever it is I'm supposed to feel for villains... XD

I rly enjoyed the story tho, and I think part of that is cuz they showed so little of the Daxam plot and so much of what's going on in Oa :D I dunno, I just find Sodom and Arisia boring in general, or at least I'm not interested in their chars as much as I am with like Guy or Kyle or even vampire hunting guy and dead speaking man >.>;; Plus I just found the whole Daxam plotline kinda blah :\ I guess cuz of everything else going on with Blackest Night and the scarred Guardian and all the build up, that it just seems like Sodom and Arisia vs Mongol for the fate of Daxam is like the European Title match on a Royal Rumble card or something (I might be dating myself, does the ET even exist nemore? XD) But it's just like, it doesn't feel like it rly matters... or that it's just kinda filler until Sinestro shows up and tosses Mongol into a black hole xD (I dun find kid Mongol intriguing either >.>)

On the flipside, I did rly enjoy the interaction between Ash and Saarek (tho I would have enjoyed it more if it was Pokemon Ash and Spock's dad XD and an extra A floating around >.>;;; ) XD We haven't rly gotten to know these two chars very well since they were introduced.. at least *I* haven't, I have no idea if they had a ton of characterization before I got into comics xD and it was rly nice to have a quiet moment (esp in between all the chaos on Daxam and on Oa) to have these two chars talk a bit and get some nice character moments. :] I like that they are both kinda loners but are now going to be journeying together on the same quest :D I can't wait to see more of them :)

And yus, the ending was nifty... like, yeah it's the generic kinda cliffhanger, and I dun rly know the significance of the giant outer shell of Oa cracking apart, but I still can't wait to find out what happens b/c I know this is Blackest Night finally starting and even tho yeah, it's another super mega crossover, at least I understand what's going on and it's silly but fun in a summer blockbuster kinda way (which I think it was basically advertised as one) so I can't wait for the funness chaos! :D At least I hope that's what's coming xD After Final Crisis I could use some simple fun action in my Super Mega Crossovers :D

Um... yus.. so that's it I guess... yay! :] As I said, it's a bit silly when I actually write it out and look at it, but it was also fun to read and I thought the riot scenes esp were fun and laid out well :D

Angelwings Rating: 4 out of 5 cliffhangers of OH NOEZ doom! xD

Recommendation: If you're alrdy following the plot, definitely get this :] If not but you want to get into GL and GLC before Blackest Night starts, this is a fun issue to start and also it appears to be the issue that kicks things off big time :D

Week of June 10, 2009 Super Short Reviews of DOOOOM the return of the revenge of ultimate super cat ami :o

2009-06-11T00:39:00.003-04:00

RAWR >:O

I know it's been a while... I've been dealing with lots (ppl who read my rants blog know what I mean xD) but today I had a good day and felt a little more like my old self for the first time since... a while >.>;; Neways, I was in the comic store and looking at JSA vs Kobra and considering getting it thinking that "well if it sucks at least I can review it xD" but I'm between jobs right now (stupid economy) so I decided I prolly didn't want to put in $18 for the whole mini series :|

Mind you, I got Red Robin #1 so what do I know about smart investments? xD

Neways so yus, besides RR#1 I also got Green Lantern Corps #37 :] Yus, only two :\ My pull list is small lately (some weeks I dun get nething at all) cuz of the money thing and just cuz my enthusiasm for DC and Marvel comics has rly dropped off sharply from where it was like 2 years ago :\

But meow! Still reading some :)

So on to the super short reviews :D Let's hope I still remember how to do these things xD

Green Lantern Corps - #37 - I enjoyed this issue a lot :) It was fun and action packed and had good charater moments :) Also the build up to Blackest Night is apparently ending and the good stuff is starting now and we see a little in this issue! :D So that was good too! :] I can't wait xDDD 4/5

Red Robin - #1 - >.>;; I didn't expect a whole lot from this issue, as the whole Battle for the Cowl thing in general has been rly blah and nonsensical to me in general, but I thought at least more would happen :\ There's way too much angry monologuing for me I guess xD It's the first issue though so I understand the need to set everything up, esp when you're starting in media res :\ But.. I dunno, the flow seemed a bit off and I just didn't rly enjoy it nor did I rly feel revved up for what's to come or nething. :| 1.5/5

Mrow... hrm.. that was short... xD But fun! I kinda miss this.. it's amazing what eating a little will do for your energy levels and wanting to write! xD Neways.. I hope I wasn't TOO rusty >.>;;

Till next week (for SSRs neways, I think I'm gonna write the GLC review right now actually) :]

Ami Angelwings will return in Goldenwings

Warb warb! Ami Angelwings returns for a third season! xD

2009-03-12T14:58:00.002-04:00

I've moved (again, 2nd time in 3 months >_>) and finally am settling down. :\ I've got a lot on my plate lately tho (I lost my job for one and I'm dealing with other serious issues) so that's why I haven't rly been posting. And right now I'm sick :\ But since I'm "bed ridden", I might as well review comics! It's something I just haven't rly felt like doing b/c a) I dun buy that many comics nemore and b) my headspace has been all screwed up lately dealing with things and b/c of something else I'm dealing with, I have no energy to think or do much lately too :(

*flails* Talking with Zhinxy about the last 2 issues of Green Arrow: Year One has made me want to finish that review now, and maybe review some other back issues and whatever I'm reading now :) So hopefully I can get some of those done. I need to get back to doing things, and feeling like things are "normal" again and writing and doing what I find fun :) Hopefully this is a good place to start :D

So yus... unfortunately I dun buy that many comics nemore (since.. no money and I'm rly not interested in what's going on in the main DC and Marvel lines) there wun be a ton of relevent reviews maybe, but.. we'll see! :D

Also I RLY need to review Damnation, an excellent graphic novel created by David Wynne (who is a good friend :) ) b/c I promised him from the outset that I would and b/c it is awesome and I want to share it. :]

Kk.. so um.. reviews away!

<3 Teh Ami

Week of November 12 2008, Super Short Reviews :]

2008-11-13T10:13:00.000-05:00

Hi hi :)

I know, it's been so long since I've done a review :( I've been rly exhausted and tired lately and dealing with something kinda big :\ I dunno if I have a problem (tho my friends think I do) or not :|

Neways.. so I'm back :D Also this week had some comics that interested me so this is a good time to be back I guess xD I can't promise that I'll stay back or even get to longer reviews but I'll try my best! :] It's just so hard for me to get any energy to care about nething lately and I just feel like I wouldn't be able to deal with trolls or just the usual stuff that posting online can sometimes bring :( Also I am SO FREAKISHLY COLD RIGHT NOW ;-; I feel paper thin.. D:

Neways so this week I got:

Booster Gold - #14
Detective Comics - #850
Green Lantern Corps = #30

:]

I feel like I should throw in more books from weeks past, like Secret Six #3 or Final Crisis: Resist but I'll start small for now :)

So here are the Super Short Reviews! :D

Booster Gold - #14 - I actually didn't rly like this issue :( I wanted to, but I've found the recent arc boring, and this issue, which I guess ends it, doesn't break the trend. It just felt very blah to me, like there's no real rhyme or reason for what's going on to make me care about it, just.. some stuff happens... :\ 2/5

Detective Comics - #850 - Was rly rly rly looking forward to this, and the larger format (and larger price) raised my expectations more. :] At about the midway point, I was kinda dissapointed, I expected something a little more substantive but then it rly picked up and the ending was fantastic and didn't dissapoint :) I esp like how Selina was not forgotten in this equation or treated as merely a plot device for Batman or something :) So yay! :D 3.5/5

Green Lantern Corps = #30 - Strangely, this was the book I rly rly rly enjoyed this week and given the other two titles I got, I didn't expect that. xD Even tho not a lot actually "happened" in terms of action or nething, I thought it was rly interesting and I enjoyed the amount of characterization in it. :) The ending is also something that's been building and I thought it was executed rly well :) I'm excited for more! :] My only issue is that the art seems a bit sloppy or just off in places :| 4/5

That's it for now :) Hopefully this wun just be a one time thing and I'll be updating again, if not with longer reviews for the moment, at least with SSRs :)

*hugs to all* be goods! :D

<3 Teh Ami

Week of September 3, 2008 Super Short Reviews :)

2008-09-08T22:29:00.003-04:00

Meow meow :D Sry my week has been SO HECTIC O_O You would not believe it. xD

*flaps arms*

Neways, here is what I got this week :D

Detective Comics - #848
Green Lantern - #34
Secret Six - #1
Spiderman Loves Mary Jane Season 2 - #2 (of 5)
Supergirl - #33

Rawr :o Just when I start cutting back Sekrit Six pops up! xD At least it's worth it tho! :D

On to the SSRs! :D

Detective Comics - #848 - Mrow! :O Disturbing! D: But good :) But disturbing! Also a little dissapointed in how some of the chars were used but the story seems good so far so I'm willing to give it some leeway :) The end made me sad :( But this was mostly enjoyable and interesting if a bit slow :) 3.5/5

Green Lantern - #34 - This was ok :) I enjoyed the characterization and stuff, it was just a lot of exposition xD But at least it was written well and continues to fill in the new backstory to set up the current storyline of GL :) 3/5

Secret Six - #1 - YAY SIMONE AND SCOTT ARE BACK TOGETHER!!!!!!!!! :D And as usual they rock together! The writing is awesome, the dialogue is great (except for one char which I'm a little confused about, but am liking nonetheless) and the art is wonderful as usual :) This issue rly hooked me and I'm v interested to see where this goes :) 4.5/5

Spiderman Loves Mary Jane Season 2 - #2 (of 5) - This "season" is def not as dramatic as the last one, and def not as WB drama-ish, but it is a nice change and I rly like what Moore is doing :) Not much happens and it's not very exciting so far, but the characters are rly great and believable but also very interesting and easy to care about, and the interactions are what makes this book rly good :) I liked it :) 5/5

Supergirl - #33 - Rawr D: A lot of stuff in this issue doesn't make sense. The characterization of Empress is off, and there's one thing that rly just jumps out as "huh did I miss something!?" Overall it's another typical "Supergirl has to learn to get over her angst" story but not executed very well :\ I was hoping for more :( 1.5/5

Mrow... :o

And that's it! :D

*waffles and flops* I'm gonna go lay down now! :D

<3

Teh Ami :)

Weeks of August 20 and 27 2008 Super Short Reviews! :D

2008-08-29T01:42:00.001-04:00

Rawr!

Sry I didn't put up last week's SSRs! My life has been very busy lately, so I've been kinda lost in everything :O

I'm back now! :D For the moment... >.>;;

Neways so I'm going to combine what I got last week with what I got this week :D

So!

The Brave and the Bold - #16
Catwoman - #82
Final Crisis: Legion of Three Worlds - #1 (of 5)
Justice Society of America - #18
Superman/Batman - #51

:DDDD So yus, that kinda makes a full week. xD My list of comics I read has shrunk more and more lately as my interest in current titles and storylines have waned, and as books I like keep getting cancelled! Also I'm having a little bit of money issues, so I haven't been able to just grab stuff like I could a year ago and hope it's good. xD

Neways... on to the SSRs! :D

The Brave and the Bold - #16 - I got this b/c I thought it would be fun and interesting, esp since it had Catwoman in it :O But it wasn't :( It was OKAY, but like... it just seemed rly SIMPLE and not rly that FUN... and the characterization seemed kinda 1 dimensional to me :( I was hoping for more :| 2/5

Catwoman - #82 - Yay Catwoman!!! Boo being cancelled! :( I'm so so so sad to see this series go :( Except for a blip in Salvation Run, this title has been a mainstay with me :D I'm so sad to see her go, but this was a good wrap-up issue imo, and a nice farewell to the fans :) I enjoyed it :) 4.5/5

Final Crisis: Legion of Three Worlds - #1 (of 5) - This doesn't seem to have nething to do with Final Crisis and that suits me just FINE tyvm. It seems more like a continuation of the Legion plotline in Action Comics with Earthman and stuff... which is fine too since I liked that plotline! :D Plus it involves the other Legions I like too :D (Sadly post-Saturn Girls new costume :( ) so yay! :D Also cats :D Many many cats! xD From all 3 worlds! :D >.> <.< Ignore me xD So yus, this was a good extra fat issue :) It seems as if every issue is going to be extra fat now.. and also slightly more expensive o_o;; Well as long as it's actually LONGER.. >.>;; Superboy Prime amuses me more than annoys me now. xD He's just so amusing :D Meow! 4/5

Justice Society of America - #18 - Interesting! :D Also neat to see the different chars talk with each other and show different viewpoints about things! :] This issue was a little slow paced but I enjoyed it b/c of all the ideas and interesting dialogue :) I'm scared that this storyline is heading to a predictable end tho :( 3.5/5

Superman/Batman - #51 - Hee! I initially skipped this issue b/c I got rly sick of Superman/Batman after the whole "OH NOEZ ALIEN SUPERHEROEZ ARE TURNING EBIL" plotline way back when which was TERRIBLE xD But scans_daily made me want to get this and I dun regret it one bit! It is amazingly cute and fun :D And me and my sister spent half an hour laughing about what the storylines and origin stories of the other heroes and villains must have been in the chibi world! xDDD RLY RLY cute and fun :] 5/5

Neways :D So yus!!! Yay!!! Rawr!!!! *flops*

I'm gonna go and sleep now. Exhausted. :(

Good night ! :D

<3 Teh Ami :]

Week of August 13, 2008 Super Short Reviews

2008-08-16T03:58:00.002-04:00

*yawns* I'm tired :( I've been very busy lately... got a new job (it's a sekrit for nao cuz i dun want ppl to judge me for it :( ) and trying to find a new place to live :]

Neways... so this week I got:

Action Comics - #868
Batman - #679
Booster Gold - #11
Green Lantern Corps - #27
Supergirl - #32

Actually I got Supergirl in the middle of LAST week with Manhunter, but I didn't get around to reading it until this week and I never got around to reading Manhunter b/c the horrible HORRIBLE art just turned me right off :\ I might read it later :\

Neways since I need to write an email and I'm just delaying that plus I have a friend coming over for the weekend tmrw, I should prolly get on with this xD

Action Comics - #868 - Good! :D I rly like the art and stuffs, and the story continues to be build and be exciting :] Supergirl is in it and while I have some qualms about her character at least she HAS character, and at least it seems they're mostly ignoring the Kelly characterization. xD Plus she's adorable! :D A good issue :) 4/5

Batman - #679 - Even tho I'm clearly not Morrison's intended audience since I dun understand any of his references, at least I UNDERSTAND WHAT IS GOING ON in this issue, and that is a pretty big accomplishment for all the Batman RIP and Final Crisis stuff lately! XD This was okay actually, and the plot that makes somewhat sense to me helps a lot to make it okay xD I am curious about what is going on now that I'm not like BWUH in every panel :] So that's good! It still is kinda blah to me but I'm intrigued :) 2.5/5

Booster Gold - #11 - I liked this issue muchly and can't wait for the next one! It took me a bit to follow the time travel stuff but I like alternate universes and stuff and Booster has CONFIDENCE now and yay! :D It's nice to see things go well and have a story that doesn't involve Mr. Mind or the TIME DESTROYERS (or whatever their name was) finally :] 5/5

Green Lantern Corps - #27 - Interesting but also gross. D: Very gross :( But interesting? Also character development! Yay! And a build up to Blackest Night, one of the few megacrossovers I am not pre-emptively hating! :D Yay! Except for the grossness I liked this issue :) 4/5

Supergirl - #32 - Yeah this issue made no sense :\ And the more I think about it the less sense it makes. :( However Supergirl's future costume looks awesome and she came up with a plan (even if it makes no sense) :] So it doesn't get a -1000000 for not making any sense. xD 1.5/5

Yub yub.. so that's it :D

My back hurts :(

*hugs* I'll see you next week!

<3 Teh Ami

Week of August 6, 2008 Super Short Reviews

2008-08-07T03:43:00.002-04:00

Meow meow meow meow meow meow :D

Meow!

:D

Hihi! :D So I'm back with another installment of the Super Short Reviews! I feel more enthused today, possibly b/c I have a new comic to look forward to and that makes me happy! :D Or... somebody slipped something in my food >.>;;; That could be it too D:

So today I got:

Detective Comics - #847
Final Crisis - #3(of 7)
Spiderman Loves Mary Jane - #1

Rawr! :D Like a cat! xD

Spiderman Loves Mary Jane made me SO happy, and I just read it like FIVE MINUTES AGO so the happiness is staying for now :D *bops* It's been a while since a comic made me happy after reading it so that is good! :]

SOOOOOOOOOO ONTO FUN AND CRAZY THINGS :O

Detective Comics - #847 - Rawr it's Hush and he's being Hush-like. >.>;; I still dun like the char but Dini does a good job making the story interesting, and including interesting characters :] Also I can follow this plot which is a plus with Batman stories lately XD In general tho it was an okay read but it wasn't super great or nething. Just okay. :) 3/5

Final Crisis - #3(of 7) - I actually didn't hate this issue of Final Crisis! OMG :O Mebbe b/c I KINDA SORTA GET what's going on now as long as I just understand that nothing in this book is rly affecting any other book. Things are still just kinda happening and I'm a little confused about stuff but I think it appeals to the
"OMG EVERYTHING THAT CAN GO WRONG IS GOING WRONG" part of me, the part that likes the stories about things being thrown into chaos, the world being completely broken and only a few ppl are still unaffected enuf to fight back but they have no idea what they're going to do. :] I like those plots... I dunno why :] I just like.. the desperation and the confusion and also just seeing chars kinda sort things out, amidst chaos. :o So yus... it's enjoyable in a OMGWTFTHINGSAREHAPPENINGTHEWORLDISFALLINGAPARTAHHHHHHH aspect :D 3.5/5

Spiderman Loves Mary Jane - #1 - YAYYYYYYYY!!!!! At first I thought this was a reboot of the series but it turns out to only kind of being like a reboot, it feels rly different and seems to only gloss over the past continuity and is starting anew which actually is pretty refreshing b/c it gives it a nice fresh feeling that is accessible to new readers (also that I didn't like how the mood and things were going last time neways) and YAYYYYYY I lurve it to death!!! :D Except not to death cuz then the issue would be dead and I couldn't read it nemore :( I luffed it to kitties! There! :D MANYWAYS... I enjoyed the last series too, but this one is more realistic, and it actually seems like the chars are students this time and not WB "students" who never do homework, never carry school bags and seem to have infinite money and time on their hands. ALSO THEY HAVE PARENTS. WOAHMG :O XDD And MJ is very down to earth and likeable, as are the other chars and I like hearing her thoughts on things and seeing her life and stuff :] This issue is simple but also very well written (even if sometimes it felt like "guys help me out, how do teenage girls talk!?" xD ) and just made me feel very happy and stuff :) Yay! :D The art is good too and does a good job of making the chars look more down to Earth (even if everybody but Flash is like a stick figure xD) :D 5/5 CATS OF DOOM

YAY!!!

I'm pleased about the comics I'm buying again :D PLEASED!!! :]

So.. that is that :O

Oh!

Nevermore999 is famous!!! :DDD I know a famous person! YAYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!! :DD Also she is ttlly awesome and smarts and it doesn't surprise me that she'd be noticed for that, even in a large crowd! :D

YAYYY!!!

I am too happy right now >.>

*pricks self* *deflates*

Mrow....

>.>

<.<

*reinflates*

OKAY.

So that's that then :D I'll put up a longer review of stuff soon hopefully! :D

Bais :]

<3 Teh Ami

Week of July 30, 2008 Super Short Reviews

2008-08-04T18:22:00.001-04:00

Warb :o

Hihi :D

Sry for the delay, I've been busy and stressed D: But today is a holiday in Ontario! Yay! :D Tho it's non statuatory so some ppl still have to work :(

Neways.. so this is what I got this week :D

Blue Beetle - #29
Catwoman - #81
Green Lantern - #33
Huntress: Year One - #6 (of 6)
Justice Society of America Annual - #1

Rawr... so yus :D Due to sudden money constraints I may have to cut down on my comic buying by a lot :( Sadly, that might spell the end of BB which I haven't been enjoying as much since Rogers left :( But we'll see :O A lot of the books I like have been cancelled tho, so that's helped my money a little... >.>;;

So onto the SSRs! :D

Blue Beetle - #29 - I didn't rly like this issue :( While I thought the characterization was good in parts, in other parts it was just very "wtf"? Plus I had some problems with how they're so far handling the sensitive subject they're tackling and the messages they're sending :( There were some cute moments tho, but in general I didn't rly enjoy this issue at all :( 2/5

Catwoman - #81 - Yay Catwoman! I liked this issue cuz it was fun and a nice break from some of the more serious depressing stories in Catwoman of late :D Also Batman's in it! :D I'm going to miss Selina when this series ends :( 4/5

Green Lantern - #33 - This is kind of a slower issue as there's a lot of exposition and stuff, but it's still a good read and it continues to develop the characters :D Plus I like seeing Sinestro as a good guy xD I'm rly enjoying this retelling of Hal's origin story arc! :D 4/5

Huntress: Year One - #6 (of 6) - YAY HUNTRESS!!! This is a fantastic end to a fantastic series and I rly rly enjoyed it :D It had some problems like the previous issues, the dialogue is a little clunky, the pacing is uneven and seems to be rly rushed at the end, and there was one scene where I thought the analysis of established characters was a bit off. :\ But I still rly liked it. :D I LOVE Helena here, and I loved her development as a hero and how kickass awesome she is in general! :D My only problem is there seems to be a lot left hanging at the end and I rly hope for a Huntress: Year Two to come out and solve all this soon! This is still an amazing read tho. :] 4.5/5

Justice Society of America Annual - #1 - This was kinda neat at first :D But the ending was kinda predictable D: I did enjoy seeing different takes on the chars tho and seeing Earth-2 and how it's changed :] But.. I dunno.. b/c of the ending, it just kinda feels like the whole story had no real impact on nething and it was kinda blah-ish. It was kinda fun to read tho :D I just kinda was left wondering "what was the point?" at the end. :( 2.5/5

Meow meow :D Neways that's it :D My plan is to review all 6 issues of Huntress back to back to back to hopefully get myself back into long reviews.. xD I'm lazy D: Also busy :O

Neways, there's some stuff I need to do now. >.>;; Be goods! :D *hugs*

<3 Teh Ami

Week of July 23, 2008 Super Short Reviews

2008-07-25T02:51:00.003-04:00

RAWR

I didn't get any comics last week so there were no reviews >:| I think with the summer and everything I'm just getting very blah about comics in general. xD It's more fun to read comics when it's cold and gloomy outside than when it's hot and fun! :D

At least for me. >.> I hate cold so much <.<;; I even get cold in the summer :(

Neways, nothing came out last week that I read tho, so.. no comics :O My credit card thanks me xD

But this week things came out that I read! :D

What things you ask? :O THESE THINGS :D

Green Lantern Corps - #26
Huntress: Year One - #5 (of 6)
Legion of Superheroes - #44

:o

I'm starting to look forward to the "minor" titles like these more than the "main" ones (like Batman or Final Crisis) xD I dunno why... I guess I just have event and "OMG STORIES THAT ARE A BIG F-ING DEAL TO EVERYTHING" fatigue :\ Or mebbe it's just summer XD I'm enjoying summer way too much >.>;; I honestly feel like this is my first summer evar... for.. reasons... >_>;;

NEWAYS

On to the reviews of doom :O

Green Lantern Corps - #26 - Very very enjoyable issue :D Also sad b/c of something that happens :( But the ending was very nice and also made me happy b/c of what happened. Plus the story had a lot of emotion and sucked me in rly well with it. :) 5/5 :]

Huntress: Year One - #5 (of 6) - I dun remember if I pointed this out before or not, but Huntress: Year One seems to be good every other issue o_O That is, the odd number issues have been FANTASTIC while the even ones have not rly felt as good to me :( This issue is no exception as it's amazing :O I rly rly liked it and I enjoyed the characterization of the different Bat family chars involved.. also Huntress continues to be SO AMAZING :O I rly identify with her and stuff :) YAY HUNTRESS! :D The only problem I have tho is that the dialogue is kinda bad in places, esp at the beginning :( 4.5/5

Legion of Superheroes - #44 - blah :\ Just like the last issue I felt like way too much was going on with not much characterization and I didn't rly feel involved. :\ It feels bland.. also b/c so much is going on, I'm kinda confused.. and the new artist isn't as good as Francis (I saw him at Paradise Comicon too :D He was next to Agnes! :D) So that doesn't help. :( Neways.. I didn't enjoy this comic much at all, b/c of how rushed and confusing everything was :( Also there was a scene in it that made me feel rly uncomfortable and triggered :( 1/5

*flomps*

That is it I guess :D I had to take a break and listen to the radio and then reread Huntress (to cleanse my comic palate xD) after LoS just cuz of how unsettled and upset I felt :( It's a personal thing but it still rly affected me and my enjoyment of the comic :(

Huntress luckily is saucesome :)

Rawr :o

Neways... hopefully I will have time for reviews this week XD I was in Rochester for 4 days last week (for Rochester Pride! And to visit my friends and watch Dark Knight :D ) and this weekend I'm going to London (Ontario) for London Pride! xD >.>;; It's so crazy.. XDDD I keep having friends involved in their local Prides tho who want me to go! XD So... hopefully I'll have time for reviews.. but.. summer :(

*flaps arms*

NEWAYS :D

Be goods! :D

<3 Teh Ami

Week of July 9, 2008 Super Short Reviews

2008-07-15T01:36:00.003-04:00

Rawr! :D

Sry for teh delay in SSRs this week! I just didn't feel like reading Detective Comics until today xD I dunno why...

NEWAYS... So this week I got:

Action Comics - #867
Booster Gold - #1000000
Detective Comics - #846
Justice Society of America - #17

:)

Booster Gold made me SOOOO happy :D It was exactly what I've needed in comics lately, just something happy and positive and cute and fun that made me smile the whole way thru :) Things have been kinda grim and crossovery and final crisisy and stuff... I miss fun :(

But YAY! :D *bops* :)

I'm sad that Geoff Johns is leaving the book tho :( I hope whoever replaces him is good :)

So onto the SSRs! :D

Action Comics - #867 - Neat! :O I like this plotline and I find it intriguing and interesting :) I also like how they are trying to make all the various versions of Brainiac make sense and stuff too :] Also the characterization of Supergirl is better than in her own book (where she has none xD) :\ I'm not sure if this is good or sad >.>;; But the story setup so far is neat and interesting and I'm enjoying the art and writing too :D 4/5

Booster Gold - #1000000 - YAYYYY!!!! Lots of great and happy things happen in this book! :D I like it lots and it is a rly nice wrap up and conclusion to everything that came before! :D Also the "surprise" at the end (which is prolly not a surprise nemore) is wonderful also! I was kinda hoping against hope for it, but it still was a pleasent surprise I didn't expect! :D YAY! :D I'm sad that Johns is leaving tho :( I hope the book continues to be smexcellent after he's gone :) 5/5

Detective Comics - #846 - Yay it's Hush >.>;; It would take Dini to fix up Hush's creation story and make him less of a random villain and have his gimmick make a little more sense. :) I'm still not enthralled by his character, but the writing is good, and I like the inclusion of Catwoman in the plot :D This was a decent start to an arc :) 3/5

Justice Society of America - #17 - I'm getting very intrigued by what's going on now :O Normally I'm not rly fond of books where not a lot actually happens, but I think the character development and stuff that happened here is rly good, and I just enjoyed this issue in general :) I hope it doesn't head towards the cliched conclusion this "type" of story does, but so far I like it :) 4/5

Neways so YAY! This was a good week :D

*bops*

I must sleep tho :o So good night! :D I know I keep saying it but I hope I'll have some longer reviews up! It's just been rly hectic in my life lately and since it's the summer I've been going out a lot so O_O;; Not a lot of time to do stuff! xD

I'm sry :(

Neways :D Be goods!

<3 Teh Ami

Week of July 2 2008 Super Short Reviews

2008-07-03T02:54:00.001-04:00

MEOW :DDDD HAPPY LATE CANADIA DAY AND HAPPY EARLY INDEPENDENCY DAY!!!! :D

*shoots pink fireworks!* :DDDD

I know I know :( I haven't down a SSR in a while :( Well not since I went on vacation neways... and I was just so tired and stressed when I got back and I had so many appts I had to catch up on and then Pride and stuff.. so that's why I haven't rly had a chance to do my reviews or nething for June. :(

*sad*

:(

On the bright side, I'm back and hopefully will be back to reviewing! I just find it rly hard lately to do some longer reviews cuz I haven't rly felt very passionate about nething I've read! :\ It's just like.. meh... weird Final Crisis stuff I dun care about.. :\ But now MANHUNTER'S BACK! And I do care about that, so hopefully that will spur me on! :D

NEWAYS ONTO THE SUPER SHORT REVIEWS! :D

So this is what I got this week :]

Batman - #678
Blue Beetle - #28
Legion of Superheroes - #43
Manhunter - #32
Supergirl - #31

Why AM I still reading Supergirl!? D: *sighs* I guess it's rly hard for me to let go of my favourite char :\ I spent half of Pride weekend wearing a Supergirl shirt after all! xD And I bought a Supergirl touque the other day too! :D It's the same type of thing she wore in the Infinite Holiday Special, except blue instead of red and it has the Supergirl symbol on it :DDD I wish it was red ;-;

My friend is having a party soon where ppl come dressed as their favourite fictional character and when I met her at Pride she invited me to it and then kept coughing and pointing at my shirt as a hint as to who I should come as. XDDD

I should prolly have my hair ttlly blonde for that.. >.>;; Tho mebbe instead of that Supergirl can add a little dark brown to her hair! :D That would look smexy! xD

Ok ok >.>;; I'll stop ranting about Supergirl! xD ONTO THE SSRs! :D

Batman - #678 - o_o;; WTFISGOINGON!? Srsly.. I was just like BWUH??? the whole time I was reading this. I have NO idea what is going on, and it just seems like things are happening at such a rapid fire pace with so many different things going on at once that it makes it even harder to follow. >.<;; And I was enjoying Batman RIP too :( Now it's just like BUH!? o.O;; 1/5 Angelwings

Blue Beetle - #28 - This is Pfieffer's second issue on BB and it's an improvement over the last one. :) He still doesn't have the characters down pat (esp Dani and Peacemaker) but the plot is very Beetle like (even if it has a glaring plot hole xD) and is very in tune with his previous adventures and personality and stuff :D So I mostly enjoyed it even if I thought ppl weren't rly acting like themselves :) And the ending rly made me smile, and that always helps! :D 3/5

Legion of Superheroes - #43 - There's SO MUCH GOING ON IN THIS BOOK!!! I srsly had trouble following, it seemed like whenever there was a scene switch it, time jumps ahead and different things are happening when we switch back >.>;; Also, the overall plot is kind of dragging and it's a pretty cliched plot too :( On the other hand, I still find the characters fun and colourful and I esp like Chameleon xD 2.5/5

Manhunter - #32 - YAY!!!! :D I actually haven't picked up #31 yet o_o But I liked this one lots! Also Jaime is in it and written fairly well! :D YAY! :] I was hoping for good things from this book and I wasn't dissapointed. The characterization is awesome, the plot and dialogue is intelligent and intriguing and the artwork is fantastic :) I'm so glad this book is back! :D It's exactly what I've been needing :] 4.5/5

Supergirl - #31 - This is the opposite of "too much is happening". And this isn't the first book in the current run that's been like this. >.>;; I felt like I had finished a 5 page issue or something. It seemed like NOTHING HAPPENED! And basically, nothing did. It was one long exposition >.>;; *sighs* At least Supergirl is KIND OF getting some sort of characterization and motivation now (even if they keep changing her past on Krypton from writer to writer) but.. this plot is just rly boring and more of the "Supergirl is doing weird and crazy things" thing that I'm just SICK OF. GIVE HER A DIRECTION ALRDY! GIVE HER A LIFE AND FRIENDS AND RECURRING CHARACTERS AND HER OWN STABLE SETTING TO STAR IN AND THEN LEAVE HER ALONE TO HAVE STORIES AND ADVENTURES WITHOUT INFINITE GUEST STARS FOR A WHILE!!! SRSLY I'LL WRITE SUPERGIRL FOR FREE (OR BUBBLE TEA (OR CATS) )!!! Ugh... >.<;; 1.5/5

Of course if I wrote Supergirl, she'd prolly have a pink alternate costume, a billion cats and bunnies, and be bi >.>;;;

:D

MEOW!!! :D

Neways so that's it for the SSRs :) I'm SOOOO glad that Manhunter's back! YAY KATE!!!

And Kate + Jaime in the same book = lurve :] I hope they get to team up more. :D

So.. yus :D Hopefully I will have some longer reviews up soon! Maybe a Supergirl review since I can sum up the plot pretty fast! XDDD

BAI4NAO!!!

<3

Teh Ami :3

Week of May 28, 2008 Super Cute Vacation! :D

2008-05-29T02:45:00.001-04:00

Meow! :D I got comics today but I'm too busy to review them right now :( Needless to say they were tasty xD

I'm gonna be off at the Trans Health Conference in Philadelphia this weekend and then in Boston after that, visiting friends :) I'll be around and I might post in my rants blog and stuff, but there will be no SSRs and stuff during that time prolly :(

*hugs* I'll miss you :(

Be goods :D

<3 Teh Ami

Week of May 21, 2008 Super Short Reviews of sickness :(

2008-05-24T23:28:00.001-04:00

Mrow :\

I feel ill right now. I had some bad sushi when I went out on Friday and now I feel gurgh :(

*sighs*

On the bright side I watched this awesome movie based on a manga called "Love My Life" :D It was soooo sweet :D Ichiko is TTLLY me! :D

XDD

Neways :o Of course, I also got comics this week! :D

They were:

Catwoman - #79
Checkmate - #26
Justice Society of America - #15
Robin - #174

:D

I didn't originally get Robin but after finding out what happened I had to and I wasn't dissapointed! :D I also was eating tasty food while reading it so that helped! XDDD

The comics store I go to and the one that is across the street from it (that I also go to if the other one does not have something :] ) are having a sale war and so they've slashed prices on everything by tons :O It's crazy and I'm obv not complaining XD *whistles innocently* XD It should be over soon tho :\

I've actually been thinking of getting the Supergirl shirt that I alrdy have, but in a L and I wears smalls. XD I got a L 2 years ago for various reasons, and it just completely hangs off me now and I use it as PJs. XD I just dunno if it's worth $19 (it's also on sale with everything else at the comic store) to get a small of a shirt I alrdy have :\

Mrow...

NEWAYS Here are the SSRs! :D

Catwoman - #79 - Yay! Selina's back in Gotham!!! :D This makes me happy :) The plot is a little generic tho, involving ppl I have no idea who they are :\ But I'm glad she's back :D Even tho I'm sad the series is being cancelled :( I hope she goes out with a bang tho and this story is leading into something awesome :D 3.5/5

Checkmate - #26 - Blah :( I miss Rucka :\ The story is... not rly very Checkmatish.. at least not what we've been used to. I'm kinda intrigued by the set up, but also kind of dissapointed that we appear to be moving away from the political intrigue that highlighted the previous stories :( Also not a lot of chars we rly know show up here so it's a little blah. 2/5

Justice Society of America - #15 - Lots of fighting! :O Lots. o_o;; I rly liked the characterization, esp given how many characters were involved, and how each got their own time to shine and stuff. I think that's rly important in a book like this. :) The plot doesn't rly interest me that much tho and is a little confusing honestly. :( I do luff watching heroes work together tho :) 3/5

Robin - #174 - YAY!!! I rly liked this issue a lot :) It was fun and sweet and fixed lots of things :) I had a lot of fun reading it tho and just the fact that it had a happy tone to it was a nice change :) I like happiness :] 4.5/5

:D

Mew XD

kk... so that's it! :D Yay! :D

I think I need to sleep and heal now :(

*hugs*

<3 Teh Ami

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

2008-05-17T01:13:00.001-04:00

Meow meow meow meow meow :D

Meow meow meow meow meow :D

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

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

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

Also yay robots! :D

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

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

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

On to the comics I got this week! :D

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

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

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

Neways so here are the SSRs! :D

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

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

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

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

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

:O Many 4s o_o

But yus :D So there they are :D

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

<3

Teh Ami

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

2008-05-10T21:59:00.003-04:00

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

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

Blah. >.>;;

NEWAYS

So this is what I got this week :D

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

So this week I got:

Detective Comics - #844
Supergirl - #29

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

Neways here are the SSRs :)

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

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

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

<.<;;

Teh Ami

Week of April 30, 2008 Super Short Reviews :D

2008-04-30T22:58:00.004-04:00

Hi :D

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

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

Neways so this is what I got today :D

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

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

So here are the Super Short Reviews™! :D

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

:D

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

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

<3

Teh Ami

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

Week of April 23 doomsick and missing teeth :(

2008-04-25T19:46:00.002-04:00

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

Sry :(

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

2008-04-21T20:34:00.003-04:00

Hi :D

This week I got...

nothing xD

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

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

*stretch*

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

Um.. that's it xD

Bai :D

<3 Ami

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

2008-04-11T23:34:00.000-04:00

Hi :)

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

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

:)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Good night :D

<3 Teh Ami

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

2008-04-09T01:14:00.002-04:00

Blue Beetle - #25

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Maybe not >.>

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

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

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

Week of April 2, 2008 Super Short Reviews! :D

2008-04-05T07:20:00.001-04:00

Rawr :o

Ami here again! xD I'll get the REAL Blue Beetle review up soon k? :D

I've just been busy and hectic lately :\ Haven't had a lot of time for comic reading, comic buying or comic writing abouts :( I'm sry :\

Neways here's what I got today :D

Action Comics - #863
The All New Atom - #22
Checkmate - #24
Detective Comics - #843
Secret Invasion - #1 (of 8)
Supergirl - #28

Yus :)

I was pleasently surprised by some of the ones I didn't expect much from :] So here are the Super Short Reviews! :D

Action Comics - #863 - Awesome :D I rly liked this plot in general and the conclusion was rly well done with cliched moments that fit well and felt right :D And just.. YAY SUPERMAN! :D 5/5

The All New Atom - #22 - WAY more interesting than the first one but STILL ppl are acting out of character :( And the Atom is still monologuing like Batman :( Still, while I still find everything kinda off and Ryan's characterization to be like.. a total 180 from regular Ryan, at least stuff happened in this issue and it was somewhat interesting to read. :) 3/5

Checkmate - #24 - This issue felt both dragged out AND rushed, like things happened very quickly WHEN they happened, but then slowed down when things weren't happening :( I still am rly enjoying this plot, but some of the rushed parts kinda bothered me :( Also the cliffhanger was kinda out of the blue. I dun think it was even on my mind that it was something that needed addressing but in retrospect it was! xDDD It still seems random tho since there was no build up or set up o.o;; Still a decent issue to continue an interesting plot :D 2.5/5

Detective Comics - #843 - Rly neat! The new ventriloquist gets more layers added to her and stuff :D Also more Zatanna and building on previous issues and her appearances and I rly like that aspect of intra-series continuity. :) Plus there's stuff hinted that I would just SO BADLY WANT TO SEE, even if it's only for a short arc or something! :D Very enjoyable :) 5/5

Secret Invasion - #1 (of 8) - Bwuh? I admit to not knowing as much about Marvel as DC so maybe this doesn't have the gravity it might to a serious Marvel fan, but still... bwuh? xD I understand what's going on and it's entertaining and stuff.. sort of. xD But I fear DRAGGINESS. This first issue didn't drag or nething b/c it was just setting up all sorts of stuff which I find neat. But 8 issues over 8 months (barring delays of which there always seem to be a couple for either of hte big 2's big events)? That's a long time to drag out a plot. :( Is there RLY 8 months of plot in this concept? o.O I dunno.. but for now, this first issue was decent and mysterious enuf that I picked it up after flipping thru it. xD I hope that the payoff matches the setup. 3/5

Supergirl - #28 - Great! :D I rly liked this issue. I know the plot is still silly and there was some random Wonder Woman stuff that just seemed incorrect to me. >.> But... STILL.. Supergirl actually seemed heroic (if a little naive in the cute way xD) and determined and NOT selfish and hateful and stuff. She actually cares and stuff! And even tho the plot isn't great or nething, it's just that characterization of her and her goodness and stuff that has just been missing for so long and it's so great to see it! :D Now if only Superman would stop showing up :( Let her stand in her own book for once! >:O 4/5

:D

Kk! :D So that's it for now! Longer reviews coming! :D

<3 <3 <3

Teh Ami

Blue Beetle - #25 Review

2008-04-01T21:18:00.003-04:00

Week of March 26 2008 Super Short Reviews :o

2008-03-28T19:01:00.001-04:00

Meow hi :D

Sry for the lack of updates! I've been having trouble getting comics lately :( I'm not even sure I got all the ones I needed to to make up for last week :(

Neways.. this is what I got this week :D

Batman - #674
Blue Beetle - #25
Green Lantern - #29
Legion of Superheroes - #40
Salvation Run - #5 (of 7)

For some reason I'm currently not feeling that enthusiastic about the comics (except for Blue Beetle xD) so this might be kind of a blah super short review :( I'm not having a very good day and I got cancelled on for something I was rly looking forward too :\ I apologize in advance :(

Batman - #674 - Weird :o And confusing :o I'm rly not that interested in this plot and it's been stretched out over such a long period of time that I'm just sorta "meh" about the whole thing :( I'm sorta curious about what happens next, but I didn't rly enjoy this issue :( 2/5

Blue Beetle - #25 - This is pretty much the most perfect conclusion you could come up with to end Rogers' 25 issue (more or less, there've been a couple filler issues) run on Blue Beetle! :D It's great and action packed, full of surprise appearaces (well maybe not that surprising) and lots of scenes that show just why Jaime is such a special and great hero! :D It stumbles a little at one point where it gets a little cliched, but everything else is just awesome and I dun think we could ask for nething more :D 5/5

Green Lantern - #29 - I dun rly know the "official" origin of Hal Jordan, so I can't tell you if this is accurate or not, but I did enjoy it and I thought it did show me a lot about Hal and how he came to be who he is now and stuff :) Not action packed and exciting, but I liked it! :D 3.5/5

Legion of Superheroes - #40 - I'm rly liking this current run of LoS :D It's cute and funny with a strong focus on characterization over action and forced plots and I rly like that :) Plus we finally get to see Brainy and he's a joy to see again :D And yus it's a bit of a teen drama/soap opera, but it's a teen drama done RIGHT! Sean McKeever could take some notes for Titans from Shooter. >:\ 4/5

Salvation Run - #5 (of 7) - Mrr... I dunno.. I rly liked SR when it started out but now it's just kinda.. more of the same... I dunno xD I was hoping for more characterization and less "name on name" fighting :\ However, the story is apparently going to move in a new interesting direction judging from the end of this issue and that intrigues me :) 3/5

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Yus, so that's it for this week :) I will hopefully have some reviews up tho I've had a very busy week and I have a busy weekend too so I dunno... we'll see! :D I apologize for all the busyness and everything lately tho :(

Bai :D

Teh Ami

A small update :o

2008-03-27T05:48:00.003-04:00

I know I didn't get anything up last week but it's cuz I didn't get comics last week :\ My life and schedule have been all over the place lately and my ability to get to a comic shop is rly limited right now so I can't get them on Wednesday or even Thursday each week :\

I got them today tho and whatever of last week's I could find. xD

I'll put the SSR up soon. And of course longer reviews for Blue Beetle and Legion of Superheroes and prolly others :] BB was SO GOOD IT MUST BE REVIEWED THO! :D I am trying to keep up my streak of always reviewing BB and Supergirl comics :] (my hiatus doesn't count) xD

Also I watched Stargate SG-1: The Ark of Truth finally xD I'll review that too when I have time. :] I have a TON of nitpicks (and bigger than nit picks) for that movie xD

And I'll hopefully review the last episode of Jericho too :) So rushed xD I'm sad that it's finished tho :( I WANNA SEE THE CIVIL WAR!!! DAMN YOU CBS DAMN YOU TO PINK HELL! >:O

I dropped Catwoman and Teen Titans due to disinterest and money issues. :\ I'm going to miss Miss Martian, but I rly am not enjoying McKeever's run on Titans >:| Also money issues :(

Neways, that is all :)

Reviews up soon!

Teh Ami

Week of March 12 2008 Super Short Reviews v_v

2008-03-17T22:25:00.002-04:00

Meow :(

I'm rly tired so I'm going to make this fast and go to bed :(

I FINALLY got a chance to get my comics today so I'm pleased xD

Cuz I'm tired I'm just gonna quickly say what I got:

Booster Gold - #7
Green Lantern Corps - #22
JLA Classified - #54
Superman - #674
Wonder Woman - #18

:o This is the last JLA Classified :( I liked it even tho others didn't just cuz I like stories that are set in older continuity and older teams and I find that neat :D Esp since I'm not that enamoured with the current JLA xD

Neways here are the SSR :D

Booster Gold - #7 - Good :D Tho a little predicatable since we get a heel turn of a char I'm sure we all alrdy guessed was ebil. xD However, I luff dystopian alternate universe stories and I just enjoy the "what if the bad guy succeeded" idea and to see what would happen and stuff, so I thoroughly enjoyed this story for the most part :D 4/5

Green Lantern Corps - #22 - Not a lot happens in this story, ultimately, but we get to see the Guardians actually do things that aren't ebil and mysterious and we also get a little more character development of Boddika and her ppls which is cool :D Not exciting but not bad :D 3.5/5

JLA Classified - #54 - The story itself is pretty generic, tho I guess for an end to a series, it's a good way to go, and the ending is a neat little "this is what the Justice League is about" thing which is a good way to end this book I think. :) I rly liked the double storyline running concurrently tho where the past story is being told at the top of the pages while the present story is being told at the bottom :D My only question is... did the JLA KILL the villain at the end!? :OOOO I thought they didn't kill.. even like... when they have to... :o Neways :D It isn't a bad story but it is kinda generic :| However it's a pretty satisfying ending to a pretty entertaining arc :] Not a bad way to end the series on! 3/5

Superman - #674 - I dunno who this guy Superman is fighting and I dun rly care since he seems like "generic bad guy #29423" or something. xD Just like, at least we're TOLD who he is, but still! Umm.. there seems to be a lot of plots running at once and it seems a little crowded sometimes. This is clearly leading up to something bigger but I was just mostly bored with this issue. :( 2/5

Wonder Woman - #18 - Wonder Woman fighting Khund = Awesome. Other stuff in the book, not so awesome. :\ I'm not rly sold on the WW/Nemmy relationship at all, also I dunno.. the story rly didn't GRAB me, and things seem to just be happening out of the blue. It IS nice to see more involvement from WW's regular cast tho and development of those characters and stuff. :) But I didn't rly like this issue much :( On a side note I had a dream about Khunds capturing me as Supergirl (before I read this issue)! :O It was very very very odd xD 1.5/5

Kk... XD That's it. Maybe it's cuz I'm tired that I feel so blah about everything :\ I'll hopefully put up some longer reviews when I get my 50 hours of sleep! :D

I am SO tired v_v

Good night! :D

<3 teh Ami

Sry :(

2008-03-16T23:22:00.002-04:00

Sry for the lack of reviews :\ I haven't had a chance to get comic books for this week yet so there is nothing to review so far D:

When I get them (should be tmrw) I'll put stuff up :]

I may or may not put up a review of the latest Smallville episode just cuz it was SO FULL OF STUPID! >:O And I like ranting about Smallville being full of stupid XD (as Michelle knows :D)

Jericho - S2E5 "Termination for Cause" Review :)

2008-03-12T07:29:00.008-04:00

Jericho - S2E5 "Termination for Cause"

Synopsis: Mimi is taken to the hospital to be treated for her gunshot wound. Jake talks to Major Beck to try to get him to intervene and stop Goetz but Beck and his men are called away to New Bern to stop insurgents there. He says he'll be back in the morning and not to harm Goetz.

Jake, realizing that Goetz will come after Mimi to eliminate all evidence that he has been stealing money from Jennings and Ralls, brings all of his rangers into the hospital in order to protect Mimi. Goetz hears that Mimi is alive and was in the house when Ravenwood fought with Bonnie (YAYBONNIEKICKINGASS!) and goes to get her. He and Jake have a confrontation but Jake refuses to allow him in and threatens violence if he tries.

Stanley, upset at the death of his sister, goes to see Bonnie's body and Eric accompanies him. Jake orders every entrance barracaded as Goetz has power cut to the hospital. Darcy, who was in the hospital getting medicine for her children, is recruited by ~~Aasif Mandvi~~ Dr. Dhuwalia to assist him in surgery.

Hawkins talks to his informant on the phone. He discovers that the conspiracy behind the September Attacks goes all the way to President Tomarchio who once worked for Jennings and Ralls and that most of his cabinet is made up of former J&R employees as well. :o

Russell and another New Bern resident confront Heather and tell her that her actions have led to Beck's crackdown on New Bern and that they were sent to kill her! :O

Back at the hospital, Goetz brings the wife of one of Jake's rangers to the seige in order to get him to leave Jake. Everybody gets worried that their families will be threatened. :(

Hawkins goes home to find members of Ravenwood there. They tell him that Darcy (his wife) is being held hostage at the hospital and that he must come to talk her into leaving. Hawkins finds that suspicious and disarms the guards! :D He holds one of them at gunpoint.

Darcy talks to Mimi who realizes that Bonnie died defending her. D:

Eric tries to tell Stanley that it's not his fault but he says that he doesn't blame himself. He tells Eric to give him some time with his sister where he signs to her and tells her how proud he is of her and to tell their parents he loves them.

Hawkins brings the guard he captured in his home to the hospital where he uses him to get close enuf to the 2 guards guarding one of the entrance to kill them. He then asks Jimmy who is guarding the entrance to let him in.

Goetz is told that some of his men have dissapeared. Concerned, he calls Fred, who is the mole he has inside Jake's men. Emily notices that he is acting suspicious.

Russell tells Heather that he's joined a resistance led by Constantino to oppose Beck b/c he feels New Bern is being treated unfairly by Beck b/c they were aggressors in the war with Jericho. He says that the resistance was going well until Heather gave Beck information on their movements and that Heather has to stop. Heather says as long as they are allied with Constantino she will keep helping Beck. Russell says that they're going to try to capture Goetz and execute him, and if they fail in that then Constantino will send different ppl to kill Heather next time :(

Back at the hospital, Jake and Hawkins tie up and gag the guard and Jake explains the situation to Hawkins. They talk to Mimi who explains to them that she discovered Goetz was embezzeling money from Jennings and Ralls and that he killed Bonnie to get Mimi's ledger that proved it. She figures he destroyed it (which he did). However, the proof can be reconstituted if somebody had access to J&R's private data. Hawkins calls his contact and gets the private email address and contact information of one of the heads of J&R. He gives that information to Mimi.

Back in the hospital, the Ravenwood operative that Hawkins captured has escaped! :OOO Jake surmises that he had help from the inside and Emily points out Fred as the probable culprit. Jake and Hawkins decide to use him.

Mimi calls Trish who is able to use her access as a J&R employee to get the data necessary to prove Goetz's guilt. Trish tells Mimi that she's responsible for Goetz finding out about the ledger and therefore responsible for Bonnie's death. :(

Jimmy and another ranger work on digging a hole thru one of the walls of the hospital. :O

Jake and Hawkins seek out the Ravenwood guy and defeat him in a shoot out when Hawkins successfully counts the bullets the guy used and catches him while he's forced to reload. :D YAY HAWKINS! xD

They lie and tell Fred that they were unable to capture him and that they have to pull guards off one of the exits and that Fred must cover it by himself. Fred calls Goetz and tells him to attack that entrance.

Minutes later, Goetz and his men rush in but find the hospital deserted. They rescue their captured guard who tells them that he heard Jake and company talking about another way out of the hospital and directs them to the tunnel. Goetz realizes that Fred was made as the mole and believes that they escaped to a farm. He orders his men out to meet reinforcements! :O

When they leave, Jake and company come out of a room where they have been hiding and confront Fred who says he had no choice but to help them b/c they were going to take his farm away. He tells them that Goetz is planning to meet more troops before attacking.

Jake, Hawkins, Eric, Emily and others wait in ambush where Goetz is making his rendez-vous. More Ravenwood ppls arrive but as Jake suspects, they aren't on Goetz's side at all. Coming out of the truck are Trish and the regional director for Ravenwood. They disarm Goetz's men and Trish informs Goetz that he's fired. They then leave, leaving Goetz to fend for himself. It's then that Jake and friends attack! :D

At the same time Russell and men from New Bern attack! :O In the ensuing fight, all of Goetz's men are killed except Goetz. Russell and Jake fight over who has custody of Goetz when Stanley drives up and puts a gun to Goetz's head! :OOOOOOOOOO After a short hesitation he kills him! D: Hawkins says that at this point it doesn't matter who gets Goetz b/c Beck will bring down his anger on both towns once he finds out Goetz is dead. They give Goetz's body to New Bern which strings him up outside the town for all to see.

Review: :OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I WAS RIGHT xDD Well not TTLLY but enuf! I said that New Bern and Jericho should share Goetz (which they kinda did) and that should string him up between the towns. :O Also that everybody should get 1 shot at him, but oh well XDDD

I wrote the plot by memory btw so some of the events might be out of order but I think I got all the important points! :D Also I dun have a TV review blog so I'm just gonna stick this here! MAYBE I'LL DO OTHER TV REVIEWS IN THE FUTURE TOO!!! YOU NEVER KNOW!!! DUN MAKE ME MAD OR I JUST MIGHT DO MORE!!!!!!!! XDDDDDDDD

I liked how Stanley DIDN'T blame himself and was pretty blameful of Goetz :D It's nice that he's not blaming himself since it WASN'T his fault.

I also liked that Stanley acknowledged that Bonnie died protecting Mimi and it wasn't treated PURELY as this death just to give him incentive to kill Goetz. Tho he did neways. XD At least, as I said, if you're going to WiR, that was the way to do it, where Bonnie goes out fighting and taking out a ton of Ravenwood before dying to the bad bad bad super bad ultimate bad guy. :D

But still... poor Bonnie :( I know my friend immediately went "poor Stanley" but I was like poor Bonnie. :( I mean it's automatic for ppl to think of the guy affected by the death of a girl like that in TV and stuff.. where it's like "oh.. poor him.. now he must get revenge!" but srsly. She died! D: I feel bad for Stanley too.. but I'm still so upset that Bonnie DIED! At least she died fighting as I keep saying tho :D

It is saucesome tho what happened :D I always feel let down when major villains are killed and defeated sorta... accidentally... when you dun feel the heroes RLY showed the villain up and rly proved that they beat him. More like "oh circumstances conspired where we ended up defeating you".

Also there was no BS "he has a gun!" moment where they're FORCED to kill Goetz b/c he tried to backstab them or something. >_>

As usual I enjoy Jake's panicky experessions xD Like at the beginning when he confronted Goetz outside the hospital and Goetz was all "dun mess with me bitch!" XD Jake was like O_O But as usual that means >:| in Jake faces :D

Also that he's showing himself to be a rly capable leader. Which he always was, but I always felt he was a little uncomfortable in doing it, but lately he's rly evolved into somebody who is willing to take charge and give orders and stuff :D And it was SO cool to see all the rangers with rifles and stuff guarding Mimi's door and just protecting the hospital from Ravenwood. It's nice that an episode that featured the end of a major villain lived up to expectations like this :) I rly liked how it was like a big showdown between the good guys and bad guys, and also how it wasn't just a big fight, it was a game. :]

I guess that's what I rly rly liked from the beginning of the episode! :D I think it was set up beautifully with Beck and his troops leaving for the night (tho it's odd they would take all of them troops or at least such a large amount of them out that nobody noticed that there was an armed stand off going on at the hospital XD) and making it so that it was like a seige. They had to hold off Ravenwood until Beck came back. :]

In a way I think this episode benefitted from the short season just cuz if it was another 20+ episode season, I think this might just have been a seige episode where they had to hold out until Beck came back and chased Goetz away. xD Or something... I've noticed that so far this season has been RUSHED. Where everything is plot plot plot and 4 episodes are crammed into one. Sometimes it hurts the episode (as I believe Episode 2 felt EXTREMELY rushed) but sometimes it means that there's no episodes where we're like "*sigh* back to the status quo until we near the end of the season" or "*sigh* have something HAPPEN alrdy!" :D And it's rly great to see plot points created and resolved fast. XD In a way it's a change from all the dragging out of mysteries and sekrits and OMGMAYBEBIGREVEALSARECOMINGSOMEDAY that's become so vogue in TV nowadays.

It's fun to have lotsa stuff happen quickly :D

But neways, I rly like how it felt like this seige, and it was like trying to hold them off and stuff, and it had a very dramatic, very important feel to it and the FEELING of it was just so.. awesome to me :] I rly like "seige thru the night" stories when they're done RIGHT. :] I dunno why but those are just plots that I rly enjoy and situations that I luff seeing chars in just to see how they react and Jericho, at it's core, is a very character driven show. :D This episode was just great for playing off of that strength :D

I luff how they outsmarted Goetz btw, even if it was a little cliched. xD I luff the "1 step ahead of you" thing and the "he thinks that we think that he thinks" stuff they used at the end :D See, what made Goetz so HATED was that he always found a way to get at ppl. That he was so cocky and protected and had answers to things. So it was great for him to get pwned the way he did, to be tricked, humiliated, fired and killed while on his knees. XDDD Very satisfying!!! >:D

I'm vengeful I know. xD But it's just.. if you're gonna build a villain up so much there should be a satisfying pay off and they gave it to us :D When Ravenwood started pulling ppl's wives and loved ones out I was worried that Goetz was gonna take the upper hand again or that it would keep going on but it didn't :D Plus I luff that Hawkins showed up just cuz he's been kinda uninvolved in the non-conspiracy-related storylines and it was great to see Hawkins and Jake team up and just kick pure butt like that! :D

I felt SO SAFE when they were together and just like NOTHING BAD CAN HAPPEN NOW JERKFACES CUZ WE HAVE HAWKINS AND JAKE TOGETHER AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >:D

I luff that everybody got roles to play, that Emily had an important role, even tho it was a small one, and that Mimi and Trish played key roles :D It was a rly nice scene to show Trish feeling so guilty about Bonnie's death. :]

It's odd how quickly Trish became a "good guy" and esp since she seemed so suspicious in the first episode of this season. :o But then it IS the 7 episode rushed season, so they had to rly push her and Beck into the good guy category FAST, and it STILL feels odd that I shouldn't trust them and still kinda dun. I mean I've only known them for 5 episodes, and barelyk now much ABOUT them, so it's just weird. XD Still I'm getting used to feeling like Trish is just good. It's just weird to meet a GOOD character that isn't rly that complex other than being GOOD. :o She can be Jericho's Supergirl! :D

Stanley signing to Bonnie was very very sweet. :) I luff Bonnie and I luff how her character is played by a deaf actress and it doesn't feel like it's a "we're throwing in deafness as a gimmick" thing. It was part of her character and it never BECAME ALL SHE WAS nor was it brushed aside like it meant nothing. :] I think it's so great that Stanley acknowledges her heroism and sacrifice and bravery. That she is acknowledged as a hero and not as a victim purely (tho sometimes the episode still played it in a way where if you didn't know you'd guess she just was killed by Goetz in cold blood for Stanley to be mad). But it was still a very sweet scene :D

BUT SHE's DEAD!!!!!!!

*whines*

D:

I'm still kinda split on her death D: On one hand, yus she clearly was killed b/c the plot needed a sympathetic victim for Stanley to get angry and to give Goetz MAJOR HEAT. Killing girls b/c of the way our society looks at the gender imbalance, does get heat fast.

ETA: Having just watched the commentary track, the producers confirmed that they came up with the idea b/c they needed "something so horrible" that would make ppl realize how evil the government is and they thought "well what if they shot a 17 year old girl?" Which is the thing. Shooting a 17 year old boy wouldn't be the same. Women, esp girls are seen as helpless, innocent and weak in our society, so there's more sympathy towards them as victims, so they're used more often to gain sympathy for the heroes, to motivate the male heroes and to gain hatred for the villain. :\ Nuking 20+ cities is not enuf cuz it's too vague and nebulous for ppl. You need to show a real live dead person and young girls are the most sympathetic dead ppl b/c of our society's unbalanced views on the genders :\

HOWEVER I rly LUFF how they decided that if she was gonna die she'd die FIGHTING and FIGHTING EFFECTIVELY. :D And to me that made a HUGE difference and it was just GREAT to see it happen :] And that she was acknowledged as having saved Mimi's life and stuff :] And just.. SHE KICKED RAVENWOOD'S ASS!! Except for Goetz cuz he has a power level of 1000000000000000. :\ So I still applaud Jericho's writers for that :D Also she wasn't created TO die, she was an established character and therefore at least she died as a character and not a prop with breasts purely to get a "OMG U KILLED A GIRL!" response. :] It's a little sad when that is something special to be applauded. XD Even if she did die for the "female victim" effect she at least died fighting and NOT being weak and helpless :] Tho having a dead girl is still seen as "worse" than a dead guy and "more horrible". :\ But at least she died a hero and not a victim. :)

AT LEAST JERKFACEWHATSHISNAMEDALE ISN'T IN THIS EPISODE!!!

God I *hate* Dale! >:| He's SO annoying and his mercernary turn this season has been unconvincing. :\ I still hate him >:O String him up with Goetz! XDD

I wish Aasif had more scenes. :( I luff him as Kenchy :D It would have been nice for him to get a role in beating Goetz since he has so much history with him, but he *did* heal Mimi. :D

What happened to Darcy's children without the medication for a night? Are they okay? :O It seemed like an excuse for her to be at the hospital at the right place and right time b/c it was pretty much brushed off and ignored. XD Not that it IS important, but with Darcy and Robert (Hawkins) both out, are they gonna be ok? Esp if they're sick without medication D:

I like Jake's way of dealing with ppl. How he let that guy go when Goetz threatened his wife and how he told Fred to go home when they confronted him as the mole at the end and not like "YOU BASTARD IMMA SHOOT YOU NOW", just like "fine k, go away now" :] I like how nice Jake is! :D But he can also be plotty and serious :D

Hawkins + Jake = invincible tho. :O Superman and Batman my cute booty XD Hawkins and Jake are the REAL World's Finest! When they're together there's NOTHING THAT CAN STOP THEM!!!! XDDD I also like how they're allies and trust each other but not like super great friends with a strong past together or nething. :] They respect each other, they trust each other and they're great allies but it's not super mooshy or nething which makes sense. :D And that they came together sorta without knowing each other at all :D

The whole Jennings and Ralls thing is sorta random tho. I mean just cuz they just recently took a huge major role and that... I agree it sounds a little cliche for the whole thing to have been planned by a giant company, cuz y'know, companies are ebil! XD I dunno... maybe it's all the capitalist propaganda I've absorbed over the years XD It just feels like it shouldn't be. But I accept that it is. And it makes sense in a way. Like ppl in control of that powerful a company might think "why dun we control the whole country?" I just hope there's a more interesting explanation than that tho, since they're re-writing textbooks and stuff to suit their more extremist idea of what America should be. And therefore, it seems more than a company wanting control than ppl who seriously want to reshape America and who are ideologues who have this vision of what Americans should think and believe. :O

I do like that J&R used their own contingency plan that they worked up for the old government in case of nuclear attacks on major cities, as a way to both enact that very scenario AND to quickly take over from it. :O It's sneaky and ebil and very insidious :D

I hope that now that Goetz is out of the way it's nonstop to Valente and Tomarchio and BEYOND! :D

I rly like that the producers have planned two endings for the season finale. One cliffhanger in case they get renewed and one that ties things up in case they don't. :D That's rly smart b/c having a cliffhanger when a series is cancelled is RLY ANNOYING but tying things up just to have another season afterwards surprise you can rly hurt the quality of the next season too when it's obv the writers are quickly trying to add more plot to a wrapped up story (like Babylon 5 and to a lesser degree JLU where they got surprise!renewed after wrapping everything up at the end of their supposedly last seasons).

In a way I'm hoping this IS the last season cuz I can't see much else for the next season. All the secrets have been exposed, the bad guys are revealed. We know who was behind the attacks, power and stuff is restored, we know who Hawkins rly is, we know what Jake did while he was away, we know EVERYTHING rly. All that sekritive stuff in season 1 has been answered. Nothing is mysterious nemore. Which kinda dissapoints me :( But at the same time things are building to a good natural conclusion and it's better that than to DRAG THINGS OUT FOREVAR AND EVAR just to have more seasons. :] So it would be nice just to get a nice ending to everything. Beat the bad guys, unite America and everything is great :D

THO

A third season might deal with how America deals with all this. Their status in the world now and if they can truly unite after having the country split literally into two seperate nations. :o Also cats. The third season would need more cats! :D

It IS hilarious tho that this unstoppable fascist government/conspiracy thing is stopped in it's tracks b/c they decided to walk into a tiny town called Jericho and the actions of just a handful of ppl who happen to be in the town completely destroy this juggernaut that brought down the most powerful country in the world! XD

It's like how in sci fi, every powerful alien empire or species or entity that has roamed space unchallenged gets completely PWNED OR DESTROYED when it reaches a tiny backwater planet called Earth. XD I just feel SO BAD for them sometimes. How EMBARESSING! XD

If I were a bad guy and I ran into some tiny place that had an overabundance of hero units in it, who were stronger, faster, smarter, nicer, kinder, more charismatic, and just BETTER, than everybody else in the whole damn universe, I'd just ignore them and move on to the next planet/town! XDD

NEWAYS... hrm...

What else did I miss. Eric rly didn't do much this episode other than talk to Stanley. I hope he does more later :D He's SUPPOSEDLY acting mayor now. He should may more! :D

Ohh.. and poor New Bern. I suppose a confrontation with Constantino will come tho, hopefully by next episode since we only have TWO left. He still needs to pay for his actions and I think he will :] Unless he turns good, but it seems more likely that Beck will finally make a full blown face turn :D HOPEFULLY!!! I am borderline about Beck and I WANT to like him and I hope he gives me lots of reasons to next episode! :D

HRMF I think New Bern is right to resist the occupation tho. It seems unfair since power and stuff is back. They shouldn't be punished for their insanity just cuz.. well they thought that everything was hopeless and gone and there was no more civilization out there to help, but there is now :] It just sucks to live under military rule in general tho D:

I guess we all knew Stanley would kill Goetz. XD Regardless of how she died, Bonnie DID die for his character's personal revenge arc :( *sighs* I'm kinda glad he shot him just cuz it causes drama and I doubt many ppl rly blame him tho it is still in cold blood. Still Goetz is such a giant asshole! >:O And I guess it'd be less satisfying if he just died by a stray bullet in the shoot out. Plus he clearly wanted to live since he surrendered. >_> It was SO nice to see him as the underarmed, outgunned person for once being surrounded and shot at by Jericho and New Bern ppls, ppl that he's hurt and killed.

Stringing him up reminds me or Morden's head being put on a pike in B5. :D It was a very fitting end to a horrible villain. >:|

I like when Stanley threw up after shooting Goetz tho. He must be SO broken up from EVERYTHING that's happened and KILLING A MAN in cold blood. It's nice to see he's NOT ttlly consumed by rage and that it DID take such a toll out of him. I like that it didn't treat his execution of Goetz like this great awesome thing that makes him feel great or something. :]

I think this is a great episode in general. It wasn't too rushed like some of the other Season 2 episodes but it didn't drag at all. It went at a fast pace, had great character moments but also advanced the plot in important ways as well :D I think this is prolly one of the best Jericho episodes I've seen yet and I rly liked it a lot :D

Oh and on a random note, I luff how Jericho still uses episode titles that's more than one word like most shows seems to have taken up doing. :O Esp like SMALLVILLE and it's "let's use one rly obvious generic word for every episode" title which I find boring and uncreative. XD I miss the Star Trek "phrases as titles" thing and stuff XD I guess I just like interesting titles where it seemed like they thought about it a little outside of "the episode is about aliens, let's call this episode "Alien" or, the episode is about somebody being afraid, let's call the episode "Afraid" ". XD

Neways next episode Beck is gonna be crazy and mad and stuff. I can't wait but I also want to wait b/c there's only 2 episodes left and given how bad the ratings have been, Jericho prolly WUN get a third season :(

If that happens tho at least they went out with a bang and an exciting 2nd season that wrapped everything up nicely! :D

And I guess that's another reason I suddenly wrote this review. :\ Just to give it a little more attention even if it's very very little since I'm not like super popularly read or nething. But I rly luff the show and I want to at least point ppl at it before it's cancelled. :]

YAY JERICHO!!!

Angelwings Rating: 5 smart Jakes out of 5 dead Goetzes
Recommendation: WATCH WATCH WATCH :D

Teen Titans: Year One - #3 (of 6) Review

2008-03-09T23:12:00.001-04:00

Teen Titans: Year One - #3 (of 6)

Synopsis: Wonder Girl flies to the UN where she sees Wonder Woman fighting UN Peacekeepers. She saves them but is confused and seeks the help of Robin, Aqualad, Speedy and Kid Flash. She cries.. alot.

Robin determines that they must team up to stop their mentors who have now gone bad. He assigns them to take on the mentors that aren't related to each teen hero in order to take away the advantage the adult heroes have which is that they know their sidekicks well.

Robin and Aqualad and Kid Flash take out Wonder Woman. Wonder Girl and Speed take out The Flash. Robin, Flash and Speedy defeat Aquaman and Wonder Girl and Aqualad capture Green Arrow. xD

They meet in the old JLA headquarters where a noncorporeal being called Antithesis appears and tells them that they've weakened him by defeating the heroes under his control but he will still destroy them. Batman appears and beats up the young heroes, but Robin manages to talk him down, telling him that he's becoming what he hates: a criminal. Batman snaps out of it and Antithesis fades away swearing revenge.

They free the heroes and there are hugs all around :D Kid Flash wonders what they should name their new team and Wonder Girl suggests they name themselves after the Titans of Greek mythology. Aqualad adds in "Teen" and the Teen Titans are born! :o

However, Batman drags Robin away from them to continue on with his duties as sidekick. D:

Review: I would have thought there'd be more to the Titans learning to be a team and having to struggle to defeat their mentors. :o That was rly.. fast :o It was just like "let's beat them up!" then they do! >_>

Donna cries a lot :o I dun mean frequently. Just like... water gushes all over the place :o Is that.. normal for her? XD I guess this is in keeping with her char from the original stories tho that she was a very stereotypical girly girl? :\ I dunno I never read them XD It's just what I hear :o

Antithesis seems boring. And I think there's an error in the dialogue involving him too. :o When Batman approaches a downed Robin, Antithesis speaks thru him and says "The most evil the JLA commits, the stronger I become."

"The MOST evil?" He means "The MORE evil" right? o_O I wonder if that was intentional and Antithesis just can't speak english or something XD or an error that slipped past the editors. o.o

I like that Robin talked Batman down and used Batman's willpower and righteousness to beat Antithesis' control :D I was just expecting a little more in the take down of the OTHER heroes. Is Superman under Antithesis' control too or just coincidentally the mentors of the Titans? Cuz that would be bad if Antithesis had Superman :(

Also the "let's be the Titans!" thing is.. I dunno.. very pat. xD It's just like "let's get from A to B" and they do. From the first couple of issues I had been expecting a lot more characterization and character moments, maybe more development of the characters as they are forced to defeat the world's greatest heroes. Instead there's not a lot of that and it's mostly things happening but we dun even get to rly see them happening :(

So that was dissapointing to me :\ Maybe it's cuz this story has been told before and this is just a re-telling, but it would be nice for more modern Titans fans who aren't familiar with the original story (like me! xD) to get a little more :D

The art is rly cute tho and I think it rly livens up the book and makes it more fun to read and enjoy :) I guess we'll see where the final 3 issues go XD I just kinda was hoping for a little more for this issue since they were fighting their mentors. :o

Angelwings Rating: 2.5 crying Donnas out of 5 funny speaking Antithesises
Recommendation: Maybe pick it up if you're following the series or a fan of the original Titans, but I wouldn't recommend it to readers that aren't invested in either the TT or this mini :\

Green Lantern - #28 Review

2008-03-09T20:22:00.003-04:00

Green Lantern - #28

Synopsis: On Ysmault, a demon named Atrocitus beats up on the demon Qull who told the prophecy of the fall of the GLC to Abin Sur when he was on the planet. He blames Qull for making the Guardians leave them on Ysmault instead of transferring them to the Sciencells on Oa. He kills Qull with the first Red Lantern in his rage saying that Qull's death will lead him to freedom and revenge on the Guardians and who he believes is still the greatest Green Lantern: Sinestro.

Meanwhile on Oa, Laira stands trial for killing Amon Sur in cold blood. Alpha Lantern Bodikka finds her guilty. With the Alpha Lanterns now in place and functioning, the Guardians add the 2nd new law to the book of Oa: lethal force can be used on all enemies of the Green Lanterns. :o

Hal visits Sinestro who explains to him that he knew the Guardians would go this path b/c they believe the only way to avoid the prophecy that Abin Sur brought back from Ysmault is to destroy all powers of the emotional spectrum. :o Sinestro believes that while the Guardians will not be able to prevent the prophecy from happening, when the Blackest Night arrives, the GLC will be so feared and powerful in the universe that they will be able to crush any foe that opposes them.

The Guardians gather, worried about a flash of red in space which they believe is the birth of the Red Lantern Corps, the corps based on hate and rage. The Anti-Monitor scarred Guardian who is sekritly ebil appears and tells them that there is somebody out there calling himself Agent Orange. :o

Elsewhere, the Controllers, rivals of the guardians, believe that they must find and harness the orange light in order to keep up pace with the Guardians.

Hannu takes Laira back to her homeworld when the ship is breached and a red ring finds Laira! :O Red foam bubbles out of her mouth and then she appears in a red version of her GL outfit and calls herself Red Lantern! :OO

Review: :O I'm rly enjoying this slow build up to the Blackest Night event in 09 :D I know I complained about event fatigue and rly I AM tired of it, but at least it should be slowly built up instead of just sprung on us like Amazons Attack which was randomness personafied. >.<;;; I think this way we know what's coming and we can see how things get there without things being rushed or nething and with the ability to tell other stories in between :D

I had to do some wikiing to figure out what was going on on Ysmault but that's ok. xD Hopefully a little more backstory will be provided for ppl who aren't familiar like me. :] But in general I thought that this story which is deeply rooted in Green Lantern history and canon is fairly accessible to ppl who aren't well-versed in GL mythos like me. xD

All the female lost Lanterns are slowly turning into odd things! :O I wonder if something will happen to Arisia XD Or if she counts. >_> I munno, I'm just being weird :D

I know that Ganthet said that the more extreme the emotion, the more control it has over the user. So does that mean that Laira is under the control of the ring now? Is that what the red foam coming out of her mouth was, or does it just mean she has less control over the hatred and rage in her and she's "controlled" by that but not "mind controlled" in the sense we think where her actions are her own? :D I like the idea of just having those emotions represented by the ring be more at the forefront, and it seems like that's what it is :D

Also having a former Lantern and "big name" like Laira represent the Red Lanterns to start is a great idea and I think will help to introduce us to the Red Lanterns and stuff :]

Poor Sinestro. xD He's so right but also so wrong. Since we know the Black Lanterns are death, killing just makes the problem worse, and while his intentions were to help, he's only pushing them TOWARDS the prophecy XD

It's neat that the Red Lanterns want to go after him tho. :o Will they send Laira or will it be this Atrocitus guy? XD And does every evil alien have a name that coincidentally comes from an English word? Atrocitus, Despero, Sinestro XD

I guess that the Red Lanterns (the actual physical object) are powered by blood or something tho? Cuz Atrocitus said that Qull's blood will give him the power he needs. :o

I like how they are subtley playing up the Controllers greed to unseat the Guardians and have a corps equal to theres in their search for the Orange Light. :o However Ganthet said that it would be controled by "a being whose greed knows no bounds" so maybe it's not the Controllers? :o I guess it's this person called "Agent Orange"? I munno. As I said I'm not ttlly versed in this but I like being in the dark and just bopping along and finding stuff out as it happens! :D

Um... I guess that's it. :D Oh.. and the sekritly ebil Guardian is as usual suspicious. :o I'm shocked the other Guardians are okay with her sneakily always being away and stuff XD

So yus :] I am enjoying this so far, even when things are kinda slow, b/c it's a build up to something bigger and I'm enjoying watching things slowly unfold knowing that there's a big payoff coming that's alrdy set :D

Angelwings Rating: 4 out of 5 Red Lanterns :o
Recommendation: Def pick it up if you're a Green Lantern fan and I'd also recommend it for ppl who want to get in on the build up to Blackest Night :D

The Atom - #21 Review

2008-03-09T06:18:00.000-04:00

The Atom - #21

Synopsis: Ryan suspects that whatever's causing the problems in Ivytown should be found in his blood if it's related to usage of the belt. He shrinks himself into a sample of his own blood and finds a weird creature organism thing. :o It tries to kill hiim and he escapes and grows big again.

He sleeps for 3 days ignoring calls from the Dean, his dad and Jia.

Ryan grabs Panda and tells him to help him figure out what's in his blood. He blows up a sample of his blood and tells Panda to freeze one of the organisms so they can study it. However when Panda tries to, the organism grabs him and grows huge and attacks Ryan! :O

Review: Yus that's rly all that happened in this issue. >_>

It was mostly a lot of him angsting while being in his blood. :\

This new creative team doesn't seem to "get" Ryan, at least not from how Simone wrote him and developed him :\ Ryan here is mean, he's a lot angrier and seems to have a real edge to him, instead of the happier, more optimistic and tongue-in-cheek Ryan that Simone wrote. :] I miss that Ryan :(

And since when does Ryan cut Panda and the professors out of his life and his research? He's always had them helping him in the past, but now he's just all super angry loner? o.O It makes no sense that he'd have nobody monitor him trying something risky lying going so small into his own blood D: It's just more stuff that makes the characterization feel off. :(

Panda also seems less like Ryan's best friend than somebody annoying who Ryan tolerates :(

Why does Jia suddenly care about him? She always just seemed to be using him. Maybe she's up to it again? I'm glad that Ryan put her picture down tho. It's about time he got over her considering the flimsy circumstances he met her in in the first place (saw her at a dance... wow.. that's a lot of interaction! >.<) and he has Giganta now doesn't he? I mean srsly they had actual chemistry xD Tho she's on Salvation Run tho :( It's sad to see that cut short by another DC crossover D: But still, so he should be way over Jia. XD

It was neat to hear about Ryan's thoughts regarding his mom's death due to cancer and his own fears that one day cancer will claim him too. I think that rly added something to his character and stuff :]

But other than that... nothing much else happened :( Just small creatures in his blood and then big creatures coming out of his blood :O

>_>

I guess we'll see where this goes in the next issue but this one didn't impress me at all :(

Stupid daylight saving time XD I need to go to bed :( I was hoping to get the GL review up but I have a lot of thoughts on that and I'm too tired to write them out right now... hopefully soon tho! :D

Neways.. this issue was boring rly and the characterization was all off. I wouldn't recommend it :(

Angelwings Rating: 2 out of 5 angry Ryans
Recommendation: Maybe for hardcore Atom fans, but otherwise, I wouldn't recommend this book since not much happens at all, and the characterization is all off :\

Supergirl - #27 Review

2008-03-09T03:44:00.004-04:00

Supergirl - #27

Synopsis: Karate Action Supergirl promises to save the boy with cancer that she saved last issue. A weird man in a suit appears and freezes time and shoots the boy with a kryptonite bullet that Supergirl catches but hurts her. :( She falls down, affected by the Kryptonite. The strange man prepares to kill her but Superman manages to laser his suit with his heat vision.

His suit leaks some weird energy and him and Supergirl are teleported elsewhere. With the Kryptonite now gone, Supergirl defeats the guy but is attacked by other ppl wearing similar outfits nearby. They shoot past her destroy the machines around her. They try to kill the weird guy too but Supergirl grabs him and flies away.

They fly outside and Supergirl questions the guy who says that they're in the future and shows Supergirl a giant statue of herself. There is a mini pillar too with Superman's S on it and a small blue flame to honour Superman's death. Apparently there is one on every planet that Superman saved in his death :o

The guy explains that in trying to cure cancer, Supergirl makes all humans have super powers like she does. And that it makes them not human nemore and it ended their "world". He went back in time trying to kill Superman and altho he failed he managed to trap Supergirl in the future where can do no harm. He said that that's why they destroyed the time travelling machine that was around her. Also that he ate a suicide pill after she "rescued" him, so that he cannot rebuild the machine.

Supergirl rushes him back to the machine telling him to fix it but he refuses. However it's alrdy fixed and a bunch of Bruce Wayne clones who are known as the "Batmen" appear and tell Kara to go back in time and do what she believes is right. :o

Review: O... kay...

Supergirl's been mind controlled on Apokolips, ran around on Kandor in that awful Candor storyline that was never rly explained well, went to a "future" that was a delusion where the sun was red and phantoms were everywhere, she's been to the future with the Legion and now.. she's in the future again?

So when do we get to settle down and get to know Supergirl a little, maybe give her a LIFE and FRIENDS? She's off the Titans now too, and no longer friends with Cassie so there's even LESS of that around now.

Instead it's more Supergirl doing weird things with plots that barely make sense where things are just rushing by and we're ttlly going wtf!? >_>

She certainly likes spending time in the future :\

These plots would be great if Supergirl had some sort of established setting and supporting cast and stuff but she DOESN'T. And she's still being purely tied to Batman and Superman. Superman and Batman are constantly saving her. So when does she get to stand on her own two feet?

And now she's in the future again xD Okay.. soo... by giving humans special powers, and presumably resistance to diseases, she made them not human. Just like the Flash isn't human right? Or Elongated Man? Or any of the metagene ppl? All not human. Nope. Once you gain powers you are INHUMAN.

Did she force this on them? It was never explained :( I dun understand why trying to cure disease would be so bad? :\ It seems kinda flimsy to me mainly cuz it's poorly explained. "Without human weakness we aren't human nemore" is a pretty cliched thing to shout out, esp since it's not rly that simple, esp not in a world of superheroes. So Superman isn't human? I thought everybody agreed he was the most human of all the heroes. And like Flash again, or other human heroes who have meta powers? Not human? Is dying the only thing that makes ppl human? Cuz even WITH superpowers you can still die! Should we not try to cure cancer cuz that would make ppl less human? >_> Were we more human back when we were living shorter lives and dying more? o_O

I'm just so confused XD Rly just.. stuff is happening again.

AND WHAT'S WITH THAT POSE xD OMG. WHO STANDS LIKE THAT WHILE TALKING!? Wouldn't the Kryptonite affect Superman too or does the time distortion thing means the effects work slower on him?

I rly didn't like how Kara thought that Batman would think of a way out of the situation or Superman would, while the guy had the gun pointed at her, but all she can think of is her own death. *sighs* It's issue 27, and Supergirl's reverted back to being not a hero, even tho she's supposedly been heroing for 2 years and she even REMEMBERED HER TIME WITH THE LEGION WHERE SHE WAS CLEARLY A HERO WHO WAS VERY READY TO FACE DEATH BY TAKING THE BOMB TO THE DOMINATOR HOMEWORLD.

ARGH

I mean this isn't BAD characterization if this was early on in the Supergirl series, but this just proves how her character is NOT developing and how NOBODY has any idea how to write her! Everybody has their own idea of what to do and Bedard, so far, has been the only one to actually try to grow her as a character with interactions with the Kents and stuff! *sighs* And now we're back to Supergirl running around while crazy things happen!

So first she has that weird thing where she flies around space following the alien invasion ships. Then the invasion is over, she fights Reactron who we never get an explanation for, and now she's in the future with BatMEN! *sighs*

And now she's going back in time again! It's sad b/c the future actually looks sorta neat with the giant black dome in the ocean and a giant pillar of fire. But we dun get to find out what those are :( I'm sad, it's like a Final Fantasy overworld thing! XD

Still... wtf!? ARGH

PLZ SOMEBODY SETTLE ON A DIRECTION FOR SUPERGIRL PLZ? CRAZY INSANE FUTURE/DIMENSION SETTINGS IS NOT A DIRECTION! THINGS HAPPENING IS NOT A DIRECTION!!! >:|

Mrow!

Last issue wasn't that bad, and I thought it would follow up to something interesting about Supergirl growing as a hero, but now there's a TIME TRAVEL TWIST. -_-

Just move her to Canada and give her a supporting cast AWAY from SuperBatman plz. :| PLZ? :D Pretty plz? :D

Blargh.

I hope that the next issue will be more interesting and MAYBE work with this plot in some way that's not TTLLY CLICHED!!! But this issue rly just.. :\ Let's keep Supergirl in one place/dimension/time period for a little longer than a couple issues at a time ok? :) And build a supporting cast for her instead of a never ending list of guest stars ok? :)

Angelwings Rating: 1 future crazy worlds out of 5 Batmens :(
Recommendation: Maybe for Supergirl fans following this arc you should get it, but this is rly not a very good issue :( Not recommended for non Supergirl fans :\

Detective Comics - #842 Review

2008-03-09T01:49:00.000-05:00

Detective Comics - #842

Synopsis: Batman (in the suit of armour Talia gave him which she calls the Suit of Sorrows) chases a villain called "Gotham Jack" who mutilates girls. :\ He knocks him out but starts to strangle him and manages to stop himself. :o Jack escapes. e_e

Back in the Batcave, Batman has Robin analyze the suit and a piece of a plant found inside.

While patrolling, Batman suddenly gets a suicidal impulse to just let go and fall which he resists. Robin discovers that the suit originated around the time of the crusades and that the suit was supposedly involves with the order of St. Dumas. Batman says that the valley where the suit came from was the site of an infamous massacre by the Moors and they were eventually defeated by Geoffrey De Cantonna who supposedly had a pure heart.

Batman goes to the valley where he confronts a Monk who says that the suit is not connected to the order of St Dumas but with a splinter group called the order of the pure. :o

Batman goes to seek them out but bad guys following him trigger an avalanche which buries him :o However he manages to get out of the snow, possibly with help from the suit.

The monk talks to the bad guys saying that the "terrible secret" is safe once more but that the suit should be destroyed and not recovered. The bad guys feel the monk will betray them and tries to kill him but Batman intervenes! He defeats them and gets the monk to tell him the "terrible secret". The monk tells him that the moors did not slaughter the valley but rather Geoffrey De Cantona did b/c the suit tapped a dark part of him that he wasn't pure or strong enuf to fight.

Jack is spotted once more and Batman leaves again to fight him, still *sigh* wearing the suit. He decided not to destroy it. He fights Jack, pushes him off then saves him. He decides that he has triumphed over the suit and puts it away in a trophy case. >.>

Review: Buh? Did somebody rly think that we needed a story about the suit Batman wore in the Resurrection or Ra's Al Ghul arc? Srsly? I mean... it reminds me of those old 60s stories which had titles like "What's the secret of Batman's pink shirt?" or something XD

Neways so basically somebody had been watching a lot of the 90s Spiderman cartoon and decided that it would be a great idea to have Batman have a suit that made him more aggressive and want to kill ppl. >.> I mean that's basically what this is. I mean it's SO cliched with the "hero out of control" thing complete with him letting a villain go b/c he almost killed him *sighs* Spiderman did that in the cartoon too with Rhino! xD

Oh and the "pushing the villain off then saving him" thing! Spiderman did that with Shocker! XD I'm sure this trope has been done to DEATH in SO many stories too XD

Batman certainly travels the world quickly. How'd he get to the Alps so fast? And in a glider? I guess he parked his plane xD You'd think given the prevalence of this type of plot, Batman, being the world's greatest detective, would have figured out that the suit was ebil alrdy.

Why does he KEEP WEARING IT? In fact why does he wear it at ALL after the Ra's arc? Nobody said it was spesho back then and he never felt it was. He didn't feel faster or stronger (again it sounds just like a certain black symbiote XD ) or more violent or nething. So it's like this came out of left field. And why is he STILL wearing it? Once he got back to Gotham wouldn't he switch back into his regular uniform?

Worse than that, once he figures out it's bad (I MEAN IT'S ONLY CALLED THE SUIT OF SORROWS RIGHT?), why does he keep wearing it? It's like... Spiderman again! Where Curt Connors tells him to take off the suit and he's like "no I need it right now!"

*sighs* xD

Sry I have those episodes on my computer XDDD

The redeeming factor tho, is he DOES wear it to prove he can beat it (tho that's some risky thing to do, what if he doesn't? What if fighting the suit means that Jack gets away and hurts more ppl?) and to show that maybe Geoffrey had a moment where he could have resisted and prevented what happened. :o I always like stories that kinda wonder if things are destined or if they're just caused by ppl who took the easy way out.

Oh :o

Is the story about the Moors REAL or just made up? The order of St. Dumas was made up for Azbat right? I dunno nething about this history so I'm not sure. xD I'm guessing that they wouldn't interfere in real history tho :o

I wasn't shocked by the Geoffrey being bad twist at all. XD It's so cliche, down to the "crusaders weren't actually good!" thing. xD

Neways, this felt like the DEFINITION of a filler issue to me. It's cliched, it's random, it answers manufactured questions nobody asked, and it ultimately affects NOTHING (we'll see if any future artists draw the Suit of Sorrows next to the other Batsuits). XD

Angelwings Rating: 2 out of 5 Symbiotes of Sorrows
Recommendation: Not rly worth it as it's just a meaningless filler issue :\

Legion of Superheroes - #39 Review

2008-03-09T01:14:00.004-05:00

Legion of Superheroes - #39

Synopsis: (Ex-)Princess Projectra goes back to her castle but a Science Police officer is outside with robots and tells her she's not allowed in since it's not her home nemore. She uses her powers to make the officer think the robots are attacking him and slips inside. There she is met by Councilwoman Ardeen who is Saturn Girl's mother. She explains to Projectra that her political status has been revoked because of her planet's destruction and that with the loss of her parents and trusts, Projectra fell behind in her debt payments and that's why everything has been taken from her. :( She tells Projectra to behave or there will be consequences that even with her clout as Councilwoman, she will not be able to prevent. :\

Meanwhile in the Legion headquarter somebody MYSTERIOUS™ is sitting in Lightning Lad's command chair and reading thru all the mission updates.

On Triton, Saturn Girl is being told by the SP not to use her powers as it's a felony while Timberwolf gets mad about the biased reporting by the press saying that the Legion caused problems while the SP was the one that saved the colony from attackers.

Timberwolf wanders off and talks to Gisselle, the girl who helped the Legion fight in the last issue and who is rejected by the others of the city b/c of her powers.

The city manager angrily tells the press that the Legionnaires are a danger b/c they are different and ppl who aren't normal are freaks :(

Timberwolf gets super mad and attacks the city manager and the SP but Saturn Girl intervenes using her mind powers to convince ppl that he just tripped. Timberwolf gets mad at Saturn Girl who tells him that he's making things worse.

In New Beijing, Element Lad, Ultra Boy and Colossal Boy are capturing the muskshrew that have infested the city and apparently smell rly bad. xD They detect one final one in the sewers and Colossal Boy goes down to find it. It's apparently the pet of a memeber of a gang. He tries to take it from her but her friends show up. Much fighting ensues. Colossal Boy wins but is knocked out by the member who is the owner of the muskshrew. xD Ultra Boy shows up at that moment and saves Colossal Boy. They take the muskshrew (poor shrewy!!! D: ) and leave.

In the Legion rec room, Light Lass and Phantom Girl have a panty party where they talk about how Lightning Lad is clearly in over his head while prancing about in nighties. XD Karate Kid shows up. Phantom Girl leaves, the bad porn music kicks in and Light Lass and Karate Kid get all cuddly and flirty. We scene switch as smex is hinted at XDD

Lightning Lad goes to his command chair thinking that somebody is there but when he gets there it's vacated. :o

Elsewhere, Projectra comes upon ppl looting a jewellry store. She puts on a bracelet and thinks sadly about how she used to be able to have whatever she wanted. :( She creates the illusion of SP officers raiding the store and forcing the looters to stay in one place while she calls the real SP. Then she flies off with the bracelet on her wrist :O

Review: I know I haven't done a review since the Shooter/Manapul run started, but I have RLY enjoyed it. :) In general the art is great and the writing is sharp. :] Also labelling each Legionnaire as they show up is a great way for us to kee track of them, esp somebody who isn't completely familiar with them like myself. :]

I like how things are building to something more sinister, esp with the MYSTERIOUS PERSON™ who is spying on the Legion. Personally I think this is M'rissey who is the guy who tried to join the Legion last issue and who's specialty is in manipulating complex systems and analysis and data management. How the MYSTERIOUS PERSON™ was checking thru the mission files, and stuff seems like something he'd do. XD

Also Saturn Girl is great. XDDD I luffed her in last issue where she led the team to victory and despite having her powers not rly being useful, fought hard using just a gun :D It's awesome to see ppl keep going even without powers :] She's always been one of my favourite chars but thru the Supergirl + The Legion run she was kinda in the background, now she's just kicking butt! >:D

And I rly like how she's managing things there and keeping a firm hand on the team even tho she's clearly very wounded and exhausted. :]

The New Beijing scenes were weird. XD Just cuz, I guess they'll prolly lead into something bigger. They were cliched but fun, complete with the "bad girl" who dresses all in black leather and the gangmembers who are just all muscle. xD Yay for Colossal Boy tho! Altho he got knocked out he still managed to fight back even when it looked like things were bad and he lost his flight ring. xD

I feel so bad for Projectra!!! ;-; Tho it must be hard for her to deal with things when she's so used to everything being taken care of for her :( Esp with teh debts and stuff :\ I wonder what the significance of her taking the bracelet was? :o I dun rly know much about the char but I do alrdy like her. xD Also she stopped the looters when she could have joined them :D Tho she kept the bracelet.. >.> So I'm confused!! xD Mo well :D

Srsly tho, dun girls just always romp around in smexy lingerie to have casual convos with? I KNOW I DO!!! We wear those for people, not just normally! I swear some guys dun understand this at all! There's rly no real comparison for guys that they have stuff they wear specifically for somebody spesho, but for lingerie and stuff... like... yus I wear it, but not just normally XD It's like how some guys seem to think we just romp around in lingerie and have smexy panty parties with our g/fs and stuff behind their backs. XD Yus I know, maybe in the future.. blah blah blah.. or whatever... but srsly, it's just the artist going "hmm since I'm drawing girls at night neways they might as well be wearing lingerie!" >.> *sighs* That part was a little jarring to me just cuz it rly felt like this was unnecessary and showed little understanding of what we actually wear for ourselves and stuff. XD It just felt gratuitous to me. :\

I did like the Light Lass/Phantom Girl convo tho and stuff. :] It's rly nice to see characters just sit around and talk like that. :)

Plus the Karate Kid/Light Lass stuff was cute tho :D I enjoyed that. :] They make a hot couple XDDD If she KNEW he was coming tho then her clothing might make sense...

Still cute :D

Poor Lightning Lad :( He's in his undies too but just.. undies... XD There's no male comparison rly :( That's just part of how the onus for being smexy is on us so much in society... I need to make Ami-brand male lingerie! >:D

Cute tho xD Esp with the open shirt XDD

I still think the MYSTERIOUS PERSON™ is M'rissey but I guess we'll see :o

Neways I still rly enjoyed this book and I'm rly enjoying this new run in general! :D Altho the Supergirl run was great too it was a lot more plot based and less character based while this is more character driven and I like that :D

Angelwings Rating: 4 panty parties out of 5 awesome Saturn Girls :D
Recommendation: I recommend this current run and issue to fans of the LoS and also ppl new to it but looking for a good ensemble book :) Plus the art is great XD

Week of March 5 2008 Super Short Reviews :DDD

2008-03-08T19:10:00.005-05:00

Hi :D

Okay so I'm slowly easing back into this review thing again XD It's only been 2 months but it's felt like 2 years :( Time just got all messed up for me while I was dealing with what happened to me :\ I think I'm mostly okay now, tho I still have flashbacks... ;-; *growls*

I'm trying to get my happy back so hopefully my reviews aren't more dour than usual or something! xD

Neways, so on to the first Super Short Reviews for 2008 :D

So this week I got:

The All New Atom - #21
Detective Comics - #842
Green Lantern - #28
Supergirl - #27
Teen Titans: Year One - #3 (of 6)

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Sably this week wasn't as good as I had hoped, at least imo :\ But that is okay :) Last week with Blue Beetle and LoS was good enuf to tide me over neways XD Plus GL :D

So here are the SSRs!!! :D

The All New Atom - #21 - This is first issue of the new creative team and it kinda shows. Ryan just doesn't seem like RYAN. He seems a lot less optimistic and a lot angrier than Simone's Atom :\ Same with Panda :( Also the plot is pretty generic. Hopefully things will pick up but this issue didn't grab me at all :( 2/5

Detective Comics - #842 - This is a servicible "filler" issue, but rly, did we need a story about Batman's new armor? Also it reads a lot like a Venom Symbiote knock off story :\ I think the ending kind of saves it, and as usual shows Batman's determination, but it just feels very thrown together in general :( 2/5

Green Lantern - #28 - This was another great issue and I rly luff how interesting GL's gotten since the Sinestro War and I rly can't wait to see what other twists and turns are waiting :D Esp relating to the 10 new laws. Also we finally get to see the birth of the other Lantern Corps :D 4/5

Supergirl - #27 - One day Supergirl will get a stable creative team that knows what to do with her and develop for her a real cast of supporting characters and an environment unique to her and her life and adventures. One day Supergirl will stop spending all her time in different time periods, alternate universes, hallucinations and shrunken cities. Today however is not that day :( It's another "Supergirl is in another reality/time period" story and just... blah :\ Srsly can we stop with the Supergirl in crisis stories and just start to figure out WHO Kara is and give her a REAL CAST? :\ 1/5

Teen Titans: Year One - #3 (of 6) - This seems kinda rushed, but I guess they want to tell more than just a re-telling of the creation mission of the Titans. xD It IS very pat how quickly they resolved things, tho hopefully it's not over yet :D The art is cute tho the story was just kinda blah to me. It was just sorta like things were happening. :\ It's cute but not as interesting as I had hoped for. :\ 2.5/5

Neways, yus, so that's the Super Short Reviews for this week :) Hopefully I'll get some longer reviews up soon :D

*hugs*

Take cares!

<3 Teh Ami

YAY I'M BACK!!!! Blue Beetle - #24 Review :D

2008-03-03T18:47:00.003-05:00

Blue Beetle - #24

Synopsis: Jaime's family crawls out of the ruins of his house (destroyed by the Reach), saved by Traci 13 who introduces herself as Jaime's g/f XD They all hop into Paco's car and race off.

On the Reach spaceship, the Negotiator (from now on called Neggy :D) throws Jaime in a cell for further analysis as he refuses to believe that Jaime overcame the Scarab's programming through his own will and goodness. He takes the Scarab (which he declares is "dead") to be scanned.

Alone and nekkid in his cell, Jaime gets back up and speaks in the Reach language which allows him to open the door and get the jump on the surprised guard outside. xD Jaime hijacks a pod in the launch bay and instead of trying to escape, heads deeper into the ship instead! :D

Back in El Paso, Dawur (the big mean looking Reach person) shows up on orders of Neggy to destroy Jaime's family but is faced by the collective powers of Traci 13, Peacemaker and the Posse who say that they owe Jaime for saving the family of one of their members! :D

Jaime, now powerless and clothed with goggles similar to Ted Kord's starts speaking in Reach and tells Neggy that he's going to overload the engines and destroy the ship and that the Beetle gave him all the knowledge of the Reach (that they got from Peacemaker earlier) before they took it out. ^-^ In response, Neggy orders a complete shutdown of the engines even though that will decloak the ship. :o

On Earth, the fight is fast and frantic but Darwur manages to discover where Jaime's family is (as they've been cloaked by a magic user in the Posse). However before he can destroy them, La Dama, Brenda's crime boss aunt arrives with her own men and magic users! :D They provide arms for Jaime's parents and join in the fight! :D

In the ship, Jaime reaches the engine room but Neggy says that the engines are down. However, Jaime has another plan, and he inputs an algorithm into the Reach's computers :O Neggy and his cute little scientists ppls can't figure out what it is and in anger Neggy orders Jaime brought to him and sends ships to finish off Jaime's family and friends (and enemies!) D:

Jaime's mom tells Brenda to take Milagro to safety and Brenda orders Paco with her. However there's an explosion and Brenda's knocked out cold :( Something lands behind the good guys.

Neggy holds Jaime at gunpoint and demands to know what the program is. Jaime refuses and says only "Khaji Da!" (Dan Garrett's original magic word to transform into the Blue Beetle) in response! :O

Review: :OOOO

I remember when Jaime first appeared as the successor of Ted Kord in Infinite Crisis, I think everybody wrote him off. Even I was a bit skeptical b/c it seemed a little done. Regular teen boy in a small town? Check. Best friend and potential love interest? Check. Not wanting to be a hero? Check. Given a super alien killing machine? Check. But I also had hope that it would not be like that at all :D

I remember reading a review in IGN talking about how unconvinced they were that Jaime would be nething other than just another "regular kid dealing with a killing machine" trope. But just like he has in his own story, Jaime has defied everybody's low expectations and become something special. :D

I mean this entire issue is rly a great pay off to everything that's been building up for the last 23 issues :D And it's SO BLUE BEETLE!! Which is what I luff so much :D B/c he's always won his fights not thru sheer force, but thru negotiation and friendship. He's done good things for his villains, and in this issue it all pays off as everybody (good, bad or otherwise) involved in Jaime's life shows up, on their own free will, to defend his family! :D

That's Jaime's superpower, and that's exactly what the whole thing with Neggy is about. It's not the Scarab suit, that just allows Jaime to do more, but he's inherently a GOOD PERSON, a kind person and somebody who helps unconditionally, and that means ppl, good and bad, respect him and like him :)

It's often hard to throw in "surprise saves" more than once in an "seige" setting, but Rogers does it expertly with Traci 13, Peacemaker and the Posse and La Dama all showing up at the right times, and it doesn't seem corny, but instead it made me wanna cheer b/c I luff all those characters since they've been DEVELOPED throughout the series and it's just great to see them all together making a stand for a common cause :D The Reach dunno what they're up against. XD

I also luff that Jaime's family doesn't just run or scream or hide. They grab weapons and fight back! Even Brenda takes charge and orders Paco with her when tasked to take Milagro to safety! :D No WiR here! :D

I'm sad that she got knocked out so easily tho, but b/c it's so odd for the story (that she'd take charge only to be knocked out), I suspect there's more that's gonna be happening and Brenda will rly come thru next issue! :D Also the landing party may not be who we think it is, since next issue stars Booster Gold, Fire, Ice and Guy Gardner apparently! :D

I think Rogers has rly shown the perfect way to introduce a "legacy" hero. I mean he came in with the whole "We love Ted Kord, how could you kill him and replace him with a stupid kid?" thing on his back and not only did he make us love Jaime, he honoured Ted Kord's legacy. Jaime studied Ted's notes, a lot of his thinking comes from learning from Ted's way of thinking. And Ted's friends have made appearances too, not just to give Jaime a stamp of approval for the fans, but to get to know him and to help teach him as a hero. :)

So it would be great to see them help him in the final issue of Rogers' run :D

I luff that Jaime is STILL a fairly non-violent hero, one who uses his brains and his compassion to overcome his obstacles :D I luff that he takes advantage of the linear thinking of the Reach and their overconfidence to undermine and defeat them, and I luff how brave he's become :D

What's great is that this didn't happen overnight. It took 24 issues to get here, and in each one he slowly learned a little more about what it means to be a hero, and also about himself and who he is inside. Jaime was always a hero, he just never got the chance to rly show it until he got the scarab, and that's what's so great about this series :)

Also he has an AMAZING supporting cast that exist as characters in and of themselves as well as to SUPPORT him and not just to be cannon fodder for him to grieve over! :D

Also he's had mentors, which is a nice change, and more of a fantasy story hero thing than a comic book hero who tends to just jump into things. :) I rly like that he's learnt from Peacemaker, Batman, Guy Gardner, Ted Kord (from his notes) and to some degree Booster Gold. :D Also Superman XD These aren't guest stars for the sake of it like in Supergirl, these guest stars are important to his development as a hero. :) He learns and he grows and now he's taking on a foe that's supposedly way beyond him (and his OWN enemy, I like how his series stands alone) :D

Personally, I feel bad for Pfeifer. XD I LIKE him, and I think he can be a good writer, but to me issues 1-25 will be the definitive Jaime Reyes Blue Beetle story. He got the scarab and learnt how to be a hero and finally confronts the bad guys at the end and defeats them :D

I'm sure the future stories can be good too, but even if they're not, 1-25 told a complete story for me and I'd be happy even if they completely ruin Jaime, kill off his entire family, rip out his eye, and have him make a deal with the devil so that he and Traci 13 never dated. >_>

DC should collect 1-25 in some sort of giant TPB! xDDD

Oh!! OH!!!

Also also!

The Scarab is great! :D And we all know it's just playing dead neways cuz Neggy said to hook it up to the ship to scan it. For a race of intergalactic geniuses, the Reach are pretty DUMB xD Tho I guess it's cuz they're so overconfident. Once the Scarab is hooked up, you know it's gonna wake up as part of Jaime's plan.

In fact I think that's what him saying Dan Garrett's magic word was about (again this is great legacy hero writing :D ), that it had special programming that the Reach doesn't know about that can turn it on and off. And that's the explanation as to why Garrett was able to use it. And that's what Jaime's doing: waking it up. And then it'll wreak some havoc on the Reach ship! :D

I always find it funny tho that the bad guys dun seem to be able to do ONE WAY SCANS. It's always some scan that allows the good guys to reverse it. xD Like that scan on Superman's mind in the Third Kryptonian conclusion where Superman reads the other guy's mind instead XDDD That still makes NO SENSE.

Hmm... what else... :o

All the women in Jaime's life rock! :D That's why I'm hoping Brenda wakes up. OH OH, what happened to Jaime's hacker friends? They haven't shown up yet. HMMMM... mebbe they will? :D But La Dama is great, and Jaime's mom grabs a gun and fights along with Jaime's dad and Peacemaker! :D And Traci 13 is teh awesome with her magic bees!!! :DDD

No WiR here :D In fact, there's no cheap "dead father or best friend" substitute either, which is GREAT. I mean this is my whole problem with it, that there are characters created (or brought in in the case of family members) just to be offed to give the hero grief, and there's none of that. Everybody fights back! >:D

Besides, Jaime doesn't need cheap WiR gimmicks to develop his character of make his villains look villainous! :D That's just how good the book is :]

Plus, all the female chars look like regular girls and women, and aren't running around in clothing that doesn't suit the char just for male titillation! :D B/c as I said, Blue Beetle doesn't need and doesn't want those gimmicks to get fans :D And it's ttlly awesome and great b/c of it :D

I feel like I'm giving an eulogy to the book in a way, since next issue is the last one Rogers is doing. :(

Oh, I also like how Traci 13 is an established char and therefore not likely to be killed off in the future just to give BB angst or nething and that they have a relationship of equals and he's not lying to her or nething. In fact he's not lying to ANYBODY which is GREAT that he actually TRUSTS his family with his sekrit. And that usual Spider-Man bs about "if I tell you it puts you in danger?" thoroughly gets it's ass whupped here b/c a) they're gonna be in danger neways b) they can take care of themselves! :D

Oh! And they had faith that Jaime would be okay and Jaime had faith that they'd be okay. He focussed on escaping thinking to himself that his family was okay. :) I like how the chars all trust and have faith in each other like that. It's an incredible advantage for a hero to have to be able to trust that the ppl he cares about, even if they are targets, will not just be victims and can handle themselves while he focusses on the task at hand. :D

YAY BLUE BEETLE!!!!!!!!! :D

(that's actually what I shouted out to an empty cafeteria after I read this xDDD)

:D

This is prolly one of my favourite issues of the whole series. The whole battle royale involving all his friends and family (and supposed enemies) just made the whole book for me! :D

I can't wait for the final issue of the arc!!!! But at the same time I'll be sad cuz then Rogers will be gone. :(

THO

#26 is supposedly all in Spanish and I bet THAT will be neat! :D I hope it's done WELL. :]

Angelwings Rating: 5 great supporting casts out of 5 awesome Jaime Reyes :D
Recommendation: GET IT OR SUFFER THE WRATH OF AMI-DOOM!!!! >:OOO

a small note

2007-12-28T21:19:00.000-05:00

I'm kinda numb right now...

I just wanted to say that Blue Beetle and Crime Bible were rly good this week. Rly good.

Also Batwoman looks awesome, very awesome :|

That is all... I'm sorry there's not more :\

Apologies :(

2007-12-27T08:16:00.001-05:00

Hi

Something.. happened to me... I think need some time to come to terms with what happened... so I will prolly be on hiatus from reviewing for a bit. Tho I do wanna put the end of the Ra's story up :( But... I dunno...

I'm sry.. I'm just.. crying a lot and trying not to think about nething right now... but I feel bad if I just vanished cuz I know ppl like my reviews... so that is why :|

Hopefully I will be back to reviewing soon

<3 Ami

Week of December 19, 2007 Super Short Reviews :o

2007-12-23T13:19:00.001-05:00

Mew mew! :D

This is me not sleeping >_>;; Holidays are bad to me xD

So I got many comics this week but none were rly the "big" comics as I view them. xD Catwoman may be being dropped again as she's going into Salvation Run and I need to save money. >_>

Kk neways this is what I got:

Birds of Prey - #113
Catwoman - #74
Checkmate - #21
Countdown Presents: The Search for Ray Palmer: Superwoman/Batwoman - #1 (One Shot)
Detective Comics - #839
Superman - #671

:o That Countdown title needs to be WAYYYY shorter >:| From now on it's "Countdown: Reverseverse" xDDD

Opay, so here are the super short reviews :D

Birds of Prey - #113 - Good! But sad :O And crazy! I thought something else happened at the end but mebbe it did. I get the feeling that what we thought happened, didn't actually happen. xD Superman is in King Superman Jerkface mode again >.> What's funny tho is that something happened similar to what sparked Marvel's Civil War but registration's not on the table here xDDDD But this is the DCU after all XD The way they reached the end tho felt very rushed and very contrived (and a tad unbelievable to me) which is why I suspect there's more going on. :D For now tho... 3/5 :]

Catwoman - #74 - Nothing much happened here. :\ A new villain was introduced and... Catwoman is going off to Salvation Run. :\ There seemed to be no point except to quickly put Selina in the personality and appearance that the writers for Salvation Run want her to be in. >.> 1/5

Checkmate - #21 - I rly liked this issue b/c it explores the history and background of one of the supporting characters that we rly dunno much about at all :D There's a bit of a gender reversal thing going on too that I find neat b/c they play it off realistically without seeming like they're going "hay look how smart and edgy I am" but without hurting the character either. :) Now that the set up to Salvation Run is finally over, Checkmate seems to be getting back into the swing of things and I luff htat :D I can't wait for the next part :) 4/5

Countdown: Reverseverse - #1 (One Shot) - I rly enjoyed this story :D Lots! xD It was rly fun to watch the heroes with their personalities intact (for the most part xD) but just genders reversed. :D It was neat to see costumes on female heroes that were designed to look primarily cool like male costumes (cuz they ARE the male costumes) rather than for men to gawk at. xDD On the downside, the art is incredibly inconsistant (b/c of many artists working on the book) and some of the art is just plain awful. :( Still, I rly liked it :D 4/5

Detective Comics - #839 - Another Bat family crossover fails to live up to the potential of the set up. :\ I'm extremely dissapointed in this story since it was a big fight but ultimately the status quo was completely reinstated and ppl act out of character just to keep the status quo enforced. :\ Also there's a MAJOR deus ex machina to "Save us" from something cool actually happening for once! >:O It's silly and dumb. It's bad enuf to fake a "dramatic turning point" as a cliffhanger between issues, it's even worse to do it IN an issue >:O 1.5/5

Superman - #671 - This was a weird story. :o Given that we're finally done with Camelot Falls, it's kinda nice to have a break where Superman punches giant bugs xD But it's also not that interesting. It just kinda.. is. :\ I dun rly have much to judge until next issue. :( It's sorta meh for me. 2.5/5

Kk so that's it :D

I need to sleep now :(

I'll put up some longer reviews eventually.. xD I'm busy with holiday stuffs as you can imagine :)

Baibais :D

Teh Ami

Edit: Thanks so much to Filby for pointing out that the information going around about how Earth-11 is a paradise is actually incorrect and it was Earth-51 that was being referred to as having no crime. :D Earth-11 still has crime (otherwise why would there be superheroes? :D) and nothing has changed except the genders of the heroes. However, society has not changed, and the leaders are not women, etc. Only the genders of the heroes have been swapped. :D

I'm glad I took a chance on this :D

2007-12-19T20:20:00.001-05:00

I'm trying to write the review but I'm too tired and dizzy to... I keep fading in and out so I need go sleep now :(

Dun wurry I'm just kinda sleep deprived lately. :\

NEWAYS

I just wanted to quickly post and say that The Search of Ray Palmer: Superwoman/Batwoman was a rly fun and great issue that I enjoyed :] I liked that the "gender reversed" world was not much different than our own and that all the chars for the most part acted like "our" Earth's heroes (I thought that a couple seemed to have their personalities swapped, like Flash and Red Tornado, but that could have just been me xD) and I found that rly neat. XD It was also rly great to have strong, well written female heroes who wore iconic and full covering costumes that their male counterparts normally wear xD It was like somebody waved a comic I've been dreaming of in front of my face xDDD

There were many things I liked about it, but it just makes me wish we could see some of these characters in the regular DCU! :D I esp like Kylie Rayner and Aqua Woman :D Aqua Woman was awesome xD

I'm just so glad that they did it in a way that the genders were reversed but nothing changed. The heroes weren't "more girly" or nething. There seems to be some differences in the timeline tho since I never read the other books with Superwoman and Batwoman I dunno why this is xD

I think what was so great wasn't that women were the dominant heroes (or gender? I wasn't clear on if the social structure of that Earth was completely different) but that keeping the same personalities (and costumes) of all the male characters and just switching the genders worked SO WELL, there was nothing weird or glaring about it at all. At no point did I think "omg that's a guy talking!" and now I'm just like... awwww :( I miss seeing Superwoman standing strong as a silhouette with only the S showing, and I miss Kylie Rayner and just.. I miss them all. :( It's like my Ami-verse come to life for a brief moment xD

Neways, it was a rly fun book (made more fun by the fact that the challengers barely showed up and they tried to show as many gender swapped chars as possible :D ) and I greatly enjoyed it as a fun read :]

I just needed to say that before I collapsed xD

Good night! :]