Carrie Kelly? Why her? Really? WTF DC?! ~possible spoilers~
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xxadverbxx’s 2013 Pull List
Pic unrelated (though I want Steph back DC!)
My pull list for 2013! Please feel free to suggest a comic for me to check out or drop in the comments!
Review: H’el on Earth wave 2
Running this in a same fashion as the last group. Three small reviews (with possible spoilers) for the three comics that work with H’el on Earth; Superboy, Supergirl, Superman.
Review: H’el on Earth
Yet again, I got reeled into a cross over event, this time being H’el On Earth involving Superboy, Supergirl, and Superman comics. While Superman #13 leads up to this event, the real crossover begins with the 14 issues. And for any wondering about order to read them: Superboy, Supergirl, Superman. Really, Superboy peaked my interest in it, and I’ve been interested how Lobdell’s Superman would be. Have to say so far I’m not disappointed, and that some spoilers may lie ahead.
Batfamily #0s
Okay, so the title is a bit misleading. Not all the Batfamily has had a zero issue so far, and I haven’t picked all the zero issues yet. This will look at five titles though going in “order” of their crime fighting debut: Batman, Nightwing, Batgirl, Red Hood/Outlaws, Batman and Robin. Expect spoilers.
DCnU Timeline v3
Been a while, huh? Some of the latest #0 issues though has given some nice input to the timeline that I just couldn’t ignore it. Due note spoilers (mainly beneath the timeline) and that this has a very Bat-family focus on the new parts.
~Updated 12-5-12
Batman Inc. in the eye of Leviathan #1
Batman Incorporated is back and in full swing within the new 52 universe. And it now comes with 100% more Batcow!
Review: Men of War #8
DC ends one of its underloved cult titles with a feature-length ad for another underloved cult title.
Men of War #8
Review: Green Arrow #7
Green Arrow #7
Green Arrow #1 was my vote for Worst Comic of the New 52. It was also the first book I dropped. I thought I’d be writing off Green Arrow for the foreseeable future, but after a few issues, DC decided to change up the creative teams on a number of titles, Green Arrow included, and with new writer Annie Nocenti (a respected veteran writer of the 80’s and 90’s) coming in with #7 to shake things up, I thought I’d pick it up and see what she was bringing to the table.
DC New 52 – One Sentence Reviews, Part 22
A debilitating toothache has made it hard to read, let alone review, comics this week, but I persist. Apologies if some of the below isn’t my best work.
I don’t know if painkillers are leveling me out, or what, but I seem to have dished out a lot of 4s this week (and no obvious failures). Either these titles have achieved a fairly high level of quality across the board or I’ve completely lost it. You decide.
As usual, each comic is scored out of five and at the end I have a cumulative leader board to show which are consistently excellent, which are on the rise, and which are circling the drain (excluding reviewed one-shots and mini-series).
Warning, there could be spoilers ahead (although I try to avoid them).
DC New 52 – One Sentence Reviews, Part 21
Thanks to my wife taking the children to visit their grandparents for a night, I had a little extra time to read comics this week, hence the early delivery of my habitually late One Sentence Reviews.
As usual, each comic is scored out of five and at the end I have a cumulative leader board to show which are consistently excellent, which are on the rise, and which are circling the drain.
Warning, there could be spoilers ahead (although I try to avoid them).
DC New 52 – One Sentence Reviews, Part 20
Okay, this is it. This is the week in which all of my One Sentence Reviews will be genuine, single sentences.
Every week I bend, twist, break, coerce, violate and traumatise the English language in order to squeeze most of what I want to say into mega-mutant sentences. I don’t apologise for indulging myself in this way because I enjoy it too much.
But this week, just to prove that I can do it, I’m going to play by the rules. I have no idea what next week will bring.
As usual, each comic is scored out of five and at the end I have a cumulative leader board to show which are consistently excellent, which are on the rise, and which are circling the drain.
I have also reviewed the mini-series issue from this week but it isn’t included in the leaderboard.
Warning, there could be spoilers ahead (although I try to avoid them).
DC New 52 – One Sentence Reviews, Part 19
Between work, delayed comic deliveries, an understandably demanding five-week-old daughter and my almost three-year-old son thinking my tablet PC (on which I read the comics I don’t collect in hard copy) is exclusively his for the purpose of playing Angry Birds – my New 52 One Sentence Reviews are becoming increasingly late.
I apologise, but am stubbornly committed to continuing my series and I know that, because of the leaderboard, dropping the ball just once means the whole thing is over red rover.
So, better late than never (like Justice League #5, I guess) … here are last week’s reviews.
Each comic is scored out of five and at the end I have a cumulative leaderboard to show which are consistently excellent, which are on the rise, and which are circling the drain.
I have also reviewed the mini-series issues but they aren’t included in the leaderboard.
Warning, there could be spoilers ahead (although I try to avoid them).
DC New 52 – One Sentence Reviews, Part 18
Once again – with gusto – here are my New 52 One Sentence Reviews.
Each comic is scored out of five and at the end I have a cumulative leader board (averaging the scores of each title) to show which are consistently excellent, which are on the rise, and which are circling the drain.
I have also reviewed the mini-series issues but they aren’t included in the leaderboard.
Warning, there could be spoilers ahead (although I try to avoid them).
The Next Three New 52 Cancellations?
Rob Liefeld joins three ongoing series
Can DC honestly not understand that Rob Liefeld’s contribution to Hawk and Dove was the worst thing about it and – I have no doubt – one of the primary reasons it didn’t sell particularly well?
Their next step after canning the low-selling Hawk and Dove – GIVE LIEFELD THREE OTHER TITLES TO F@#$ UP!!!
Every so often I can look at a single Liefeld drawing and find something slightly appealing about it (I didn’t mind him on Deadpool Corps just from a historical perspective), but he is an AWFUL visual storyteller.
And as bad and lazy as a visual storyteller he is, he’s an even worse writer – from Youngblood (cough Teen Titans cough) to Agent America (ahem … no further comment necessary) his work is first and foremost derivative and unoriginal. Let’s not even discuss the obvious links between Deadpool/Wade Wilson and Deathstroke/Slade Wilson (especially in the beginning before Deadpool’s character was developed in a way that differentiated him significantly from the DC villain).
Once again, DC are making decisions that make the New 52 feel less like a “bold, new direction for the future of comics” and more like Image Comics circa 1992.
New 52: The First 6 Cancellations (and their replacements)
Anyone who has been paying attention to comic sales has doubtless seen countless reports on the performance of the New 52. And while DC’s ambitious relaunch has done a lot of good for their market share (with Justice League routinely topping the charts and four books selling over 100k copies per month), the sales for a number of their books started lower than they hoped and dropped fast to pre-relaunch levels. Cancellations were imminent, and today, DC made the announcement, naming six books that will be concluding with issue number eight.
Review: The Ray #2
The Ray #2, cover by Jamal Igle
In part because of the holidays, I did not review the first issue of DC’s new mini-series, The Ray. This is a problem for me. Now, sure, there are plenty of books that go unreviewed. Ideally, I’d like to buy every new #1 I see on the comics shelves each week, but with the rising cost of comics and the ever-diminishing amount in my bank account, that isn’t realistic. I’m sure it’s the same for a lot of you – sure, I firmly believe that almost everyone who gives Animal Man or Mystic or any of a dozen of other awesome books a shot will like it… but that’s an investment we can’t all make.
DC New 52 – One Sentence Reviews, Part 17
So, I’m soldiering on with my One Sentence Reviews, in which I read every DC New 52 comic for the week and sum each of them up in badly constructed single sentence reviews. Despite the arrival of a new baby and the fact that some titles are a real chore to get through, I’m too hard-headed to quit at this stage and will keep it up as long as I can. I can’t promise, however, that sleep deprivation hasn’t affected my ability to be fair or rational in my reviews.
Each comic is scored out of five and at the end I have a cumulative leader board (averaging the scores of each title) to show which are consistently excellent, which are on the rise, and which are circling the drain.
I have also reviewed the mini-series issues from the week but, as usual, they aren’t included in the leaderboard.
Warning, there could be spoilers ahead (although I try to avoid them).
DC New 52 – One Sentence Reviews, Part 16
As foreshadowed last week, I’m still playing catch-up on my comic book reading/reviewing, but here is last week’s (the final week of the #4 issues) New 52 One Sentence Reviews.
Each comic is scored out of five and at the end I have a cumulative leader board (averaging the scores of each title) to show which are consistently excellent, which are on the rise, and which are circling the drain.
I have also reviewed the mini-series issue but it isn’t included in the leaderboard.
Warning, there could be spoilers ahead (although I try to avoid them).
Review: Animal Man #5
Animal Man #5
As I read Animal Man #5, I couldn’t stop thinking about David Cronenberg. Cronenberg’s older films often dealt with the way repression and science could meet to do horrible, horrible things to the human body, and the disgusting, visceral thrills of films like The Fly or Crash (the one about car crash fetishists, not the crappy one) are not that far removed from, say, the frankly terrifying transformation Buddy’s face undertakes as the Rot briefly captures him. Lemire and Foreman are taking a look at nature and parenthood the same way Cronenberg often looked at sexuality and repression: by making physical all the fears and perversions people have about these issues. And it works very well here, as Lemire continues his strong run on DC’s coolest new title.
read/RANT! 