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Post by thwhtguardian on Jan 17, 2018 19:33:19 GMT -5
Another week of new comics means another batch of real reviews from real readers just like you!  |
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 17, 2018 20:17:42 GMT -5
I am so glad I started picking this up with the first issue! I only gave it a chance because Gail Simone is the writer, but the art is pretty cool as well. There are so many ways this could have gone completely off the rails, even with a thoughtful writer like Simone at the helm. But here we are, with the penultimate issue, and Simone is bringing this ship into port and avoiding all the reefs and submerged wreckage. Hardcore Conan fans might find the Cimmerian a little off-model because he's a little more thoughtful and considerate than usual. I'm a big fan of Robert E. Howard's best Conan stories and the Barry Smith issues of the comic, but I'm not otherwise a major aficionado of the big guy. I suspect a lot of really major Conan fans won't be enamored of Simone's interpretation of the character, but I was fine with it. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 17, 2018 23:51:29 GMT -5
Batman #38Batman has been pretty good lately. So it's understandable that we would get to an issue that's a bit, shall we say, disappointing? Lessee. Commissioner Gordon is in his office working late when he notices that the Bat-Signal is on and he gets REALLY MAD because he's the only one who's allowed to turn on the Bat-Signal and he says that he's LITERALLY going to kill whoever turned on the Bat-Signal, prompting me to wonder when Commissioner Gordon turned into a 14-year-old who doesn't know how to use the word "literally." Well, maybe he didn't turn into a 14-year-old. Maybe he turned into a modern comic book writer. And he gets to the roof and it was turned on by Wonder Woman. He asks her why she didn't use her JLA signal device and she said that using the Bat-Signal is something she always wanted to do because it looks like fun. Which seems kind of out of character for Wonder Woman, but that's OK because she's better written here than in her own book since Robinson took over the so-called writing there. So Batman shows up and Diana explains that there's this dimension where a guy called The Gentle Man fights off demons all the time. And these demons would invade Earth or something if not for somebody guarding the dimensional doorway or something. And Wonder Woman said that if he ever needed a breather, then she would make arrangements for somebody to take his place for a while. And now he's called in the favor and Diana wants Bruce to help her fight off the demons while The Gentle Man takes a little vacation on Earth. So Bruce and Diana go to the dimension and fight the demons while The Gentle Man hangs out on Earth with Selina and then goes to visit his wife. While hanging out with Selina, he tells her that many many thousands of years pass in the demon dimension (but you don't grow older) while not nearly as much time passes on Earth. So while just a few hours have passed on Earth, Bruce and Diana have gone through quite a long time, ten years maybe, and that's a long time. And the story ends with a break in the fighting and Bruce and Diana have both decided to start to GO FOR IT! Sigh. If an affair between Bruce and Diana causes an end to the upcoming marriage between Bruce and Selina, I will be most displeased. It's my favorite development in DC Rebirth.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 18, 2018 0:39:41 GMT -5
Harley Quinn: Be Careful What You Wish For #1This Harley Quinn one-shot came out last week but I didn't buy it then because the second week of the month is when most of my comics come out. So I put off buying this and waited to see if I still remembered that I wanted it the following week. And I did! The third week of the month is pretty slow for me. Only Batman and Wonder Woman/Conan came out. Let me start by saying that I love the idea of Harley Quinn a lot more than the actual reality of the character. This Harley Quinn Special is not so bad, as Harley Quinn stories go. The Amanda Conner art is BEAUTIFUL (and the main reason I bought the book). And the story is OK; I especially found the dialogue to be pretty snappy and fun most of the time. Harley finds a genie bottle when she is threatening a trash-dumping ship off Coney Island. (She's in a rubber raft and carrying a bazooka. Oh, that Harley!) She falls overboard and finds the bottle while floundering around. Power Girl saves her from drowning. PG's short appearance is pretty amusing. I love PG. She's great. And Amanda Conner really gets PG. So Harley calls forth the genie from the bottle and makes one wish after another and every wish turns out to be a nightmare because the genie takes everything literally. (Because he's a genie, dummy!) It's an OK issue. I think there should be more to Harley than just being DC's sexy version of Marvel's Forbush-Man.
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Post by The Captain on Jan 18, 2018 12:35:47 GMT -5
Batman #38Batman has been pretty good lately. So it's understandable that we would get to an issue that's a bit, shall we say, disappointing? Lessee. Commissioner Gordon is in his office working late when he notices that the Bat-Signal is on and he gets REALLY MAD because he's the only one who's allowed to turn on the Bat-Signal and he says that he's LITERALLY going to kill whoever turned on the Bat-Signal, prompting me to wonder when Commissioner Gordon turned into a 14-year-old who doesn't know how to use the word "literally." Well, maybe he didn't turn into a 14-year-old. Maybe he turned into a modern comic book writer. And he gets to the roof and it was turned on by Wonder Woman. He asks her why she didn't use her JLA signal device and she said that using the Bat-Signal is something she always wanted to do because it looks like fun. Which seems kind of out of character for Wonder Woman, but that's OK because she's better written here than in her own book since Robinson took over the so-called writing there. So Batman shows up and Diana explains that there's this dimension where a guy called The Gentle Man fights off demons all the time. And these demons would invade Earth or something if not for somebody guarding the dimensional doorway or something. And Wonder Woman said that if he ever needed a breather, then she would make arrangements for somebody to take his place for a while. And now he's called in the favor and Diana wants Bruce to help her fight off the demons while The Gentle Man takes a little vacation on Earth. So Bruce and Diana go to the dimension and fight the demons while The Gentle Man hangs out on Earth with Selina and then goes to visit his wife. While hanging out with Selina, he tells her that many many thousands of years pass in the demon dimension (but you don't grow older) while not nearly as much time passes on Earth. So while just a few years have passed on Earth, Bruce and Diana have gone through quite a long time, ten years maybe, and that's a long time. And the story ends with a break in the fighting and Bruce and Diana have both decided to start to GO FOR IT! Sigh. If an affair between Bruce and Diana causes an end to the upcoming marriage between Bruce and Selina, I will be most displeased. It's my favorite development in DC Rebirth. Wow, that sounds terrible. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2018 12:38:07 GMT -5
 Super Sons #12. Script: Tomasi & Gleason. Art: Tyler Kirkham. Cover: Giuseppe Camuncoli. Future Tim disappears into the time stream. After talking with Superman & the Teen Titans; Conner, Cassie & Bart also leave...back to the future! Superman then takes the TT to JLA HQ to let them meet/regroup since Titans Tower was destroyed. Batman shows up. TT vote on whether to allow Jon to join them. I am a bit disappointed. The ending was a bit "flat". I'm not sure what purpose this story arc had other than to show the Titans of Tomorrow again. The first few parts were entertaining but Tomasi & Gleason didn't "stick the landing". Kirkham's art was good. He does a pretty good job drawing kids as kids instead of miniature adults. I wouldn't mind seeing him on this title again. 6/10. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2018 12:48:31 GMT -5
Superman #39. Tomasi. Gleason. Kitson. Hanna.
Superman & the JLA spend a day with some children with terminal diseases. The kids get to visit the JLA satellite & the moon.
Hallmark Moment? Yes. Cheesy? Yes. Eyes get misty? Yes.
Great uplifting done in one fill in issue.
8/10.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2018 12:55:51 GMT -5
Spectacular Spider-Man # 299. Written by Chip Zdarsky. Art by Adam Kubert and Juan Frigeri. Cover by Marcos Martin.
Zdarsky fills in more pieces of the puzzle. But he still gives us a good issue without it feeling like just a piece of a story. A very satisfying read with nice art. Can't wait for next month's conclusion in #300.
8/10.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2018 13:00:41 GMT -5
 Aquaman #32.Written by Dan Abnett. Art by Ricardo Federici. Cover by Stjepan Sejic. The good: Abnett sets in motion the way Mera will be Queen of Atlantis. Aquaman & Mera are finally reunited. The bad: the slow pace. It's dragging. That has started to ruin what I thought would be a classic. And it's tough to deal with the loss of Sejic on interior art. 6/10. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2018 13:05:38 GMT -5
 Thor #704. Script: Jason Aaron. Art and Cover by Russell Dauterman. A Jane focused issue. Jane is in a hospital bed while Dr Strange, the Falcon & the Odinson plead with her to give up being Thor & focus on fighting the cancer that is killing her. Meanwhile Mangog continues his destruction of Asgard. We also get to see Odin & his son reunited. 8/10. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2018 13:11:21 GMT -5
Re: Batman #39-wasn't there a similar story years ago (maybe early-mid 2000s) in either Superman or Action where Superman and Wonder Woman were in a dimension where years and years passed while on earth only a few days passed. I think she and Superman had a romantic interlude or maybe Superman stopped it because he was thinking of Lois?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2018 13:11:56 GMT -5
Nightwing #37. Written by Sam Humphries. Art by Klaus Janson. Cover by Jorge Jimenez.
An interlude issue. A flashback to when Batman & Robin (Dick) first battled the Judge. It was a decent issue but it really didn't serve any purpose to this arc. However I understand why DC did this type of issue: to allow Chang time to tell the main story. #39 will be another flashback issue with art by Phil Jimenez. On the positive side Klaus Janson is still a pretty good artist! And his art saved this story for me.
7/10.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2018 13:13:56 GMT -5
Re: Batman #39-wasn't there a similar story years ago (maybe early-mid 2000s) in either Superman or Action where Superman and Wonder Woman were in a dimension where years and years passed while on earth only a few days passed. I think she and Superman had a romantic interlude or maybe Superman stopped it because he was thinking of Lois? Yes. Action Comics #761. Joe Kelly wrote it. And it was a pretty decent story. I read an interview with King that he was not aware of this story but read it after fans told him about it. If he had known about Kelly's story he would have changed some things and also given Kelly credit.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 18, 2018 16:57:24 GMT -5
Batman #38Batman has been pretty good lately. So it's understandable that we would get to an issue that's a bit, shall we say, disappointing? Lessee. Commissioner Gordon is in his office working late when he notices that the Bat-Signal is on and he gets REALLY MAD because he's the only one who's allowed to turn on the Bat-Signal and he says that he's LITERALLY going to kill whoever turned on the Bat-Signal, prompting me to wonder when Commissioner Gordon turned into a 14-year-old who doesn't know how to use the word "literally." Well, maybe he didn't turn into a 14-year-old. Maybe he turned into a modern comic book writer. And he gets to the roof and it was turned on by Wonder Woman. He asks her why she didn't use her JLA signal device and she said that using the Bat-Signal is something she always wanted to do because it looks like fun. Which seems kind of out of character for Wonder Woman, but that's OK because she's better written here than in her own book since Robinson took over the so-called writing there. So Batman shows up and Diana explains that there's this dimension where a guy called The Gentle Man fights off demons all the time. And these demons would invade Earth or something if not for somebody guarding the dimensional doorway or something. And Wonder Woman said that if he ever needed a breather, then she would make arrangements for somebody to take his place for a while. And now he's called in the favor and Diana wants Bruce to help her fight off the demons while The Gentle Man takes a little vacation on Earth. So Bruce and Diana go to the dimension and fight the demons while The Gentle Man hangs out on Earth with Selina and then goes to visit his wife. While hanging out with Selina, he tells her that many many thousands of years pass in the demon dimension (but you don't grow older) while not nearly as much time passes on Earth. So while just a few years have passed on Earth, Bruce and Diana have gone through quite a long time, ten years maybe, and that's a long time. And the story ends with a break in the fighting and Bruce and Diana have both decided to start to GO FOR IT! Sigh. If an affair between Bruce and Diana causes an end to the upcoming marriage between Bruce and Selina, I will be most displeased. It's my favorite development in DC Rebirth. Wow, that sounds terrible. I am LITERALLY going to kill somebody if the next issue is this bad! |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jan 18, 2018 19:14:56 GMT -5
Wow, that sounds terrible. I am LITERALLY going to kill somebody if the next issue is this bad! Hey, but atleast the cover is great. I nearly picked this up just because I liked that image of Wonder Woman though it sounds like I dodged a bullet. |
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