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It's all been leading up to this: Half of the DC Universe vs. Megistus! Superman, Supergirl, Green Lantern, Flash and a host of others fight to stop the alchemist pulling the strings since the beginning of the series. But will the combined powers of these heroes be enough to stop what has already begun?
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Sunstroke
I am not sure how I feel about this book. I picked up because back in the day I really liked Jerry Ordway’s work. Partly because he was friends with two of my uncles. And I had meet him at my local comics shop.
This book felt a book that I may have picked up 20 years ago. Having not read any other issues oof this run of Brave and Bold I don’t know if that is the feel they are after. If so they really captured it. It was cool to see the Challenger of the Unknown in a book again.
But with out that retro feeling I am not sure I would have really enjoyed it.
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Sunstroke
It's another GREAT cover by George Perez. He is the master. But, here we are, years after his phenomenal run on the Titans and Crisis. After the JLA/Avengers team-up. After Infinite Crisis and 52 and Countdown heading into Final Crisis. This started as The Brave and the Bold, and it's ending like a crossover tie-in without being a crossover tie-in. Well, without being CALLED a crossover tie-in.
The Brave and the Bold is all about team-ups. Pairs. All of the classic Brave and the Bold team-ups have been pairs. Y'know, Batman and...Or, Superman and...if you remember reading DC Comics Presents. Or, how about Spider-Man and...from Marvel Team-Up, or The Thing and...from Marvel Two-In-One. Like your basic buddy picture, only it's a comic. Kinda defeats the whole point, when there are more that just a COUPLE of heroes running around.
Y'see that's an EVENT. Or a TEAM BOOK. That's Civil War or Infinite Crisis or 52 or Countdown. Or, Justice League of America. That's not the Brave and the Bold, no matter how hard you try.
Mark Waid's written some really good stuff. He wrote Justice League: Year One, so he knows what a team book is. The Brave and the Bold is not a team book or an event.
Megistus reminds me a lotof Krona, the guy who was searching for the knowledge of the universe, kinda like Darksied's been searching for the anti-life equation. So, there's another reason that this feels more like an event than a team-up book.
The good news - this wraps it all up. But kind of on a sour note.
Can't wait for the Batman - Jay Garrick team-up next issue.
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