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The DCU's Beetleborg! 7

A new Blue Beetle for a new age, this is why this beetle has his own series.  A series that is being used as an accessible point because of the 52.  The Blue Beetle is now a sci-fi series with Tony Bedard writing it in his Green Lantern voice.  The story was entertaining setting up the alien scarab mythos and how a teenage boy would obtain it.  This is a Blue Beetle that feels like a rip-off of the Beetleborgs, but since this books' target market might barely remember Beetleborgs or never saw i...

6 out of 7 found this review helpful.

The many lives Deadman has lived. 1

WOW this is a text heavy issue.  I don't think I read as much words in any of the 52 until now.  Heck if you add all the comics with the controversial "Sex appeal" together I still don't think they would have as much words.  But this book sold sex as well with a stripper, but that is not the point, there is a lot to read, just to warn you guys.  All the text a side the visual narration was strong, the transitions made sense and the body language conveyed what I felt was the right emotions, which...

6 out of 7 found this review helpful.

"What are you Thinking Mr. Keen?" 0

This book has potential I give it that. It has strong female leads and a writer new to DC, but has shaped his narrative over at Marvel with Gritty books like Punisher.  This series I would classify as crime and espionage.  So if strong female leads and that type of genre is your cup of tea, then this might be a series you should check out.  I'll be honest I was not sold on the first issue and since I don't read solicits, I don't understand why Poison Ivy is on the cover.  Is it Ivy?  I will admi...

5 out of 5 found this review helpful.

"Where there is a Force of Will--There is a Force of Destiny" 2

From the 52, this is the none "accessible" jump in point for new readers.  This book already depends on another book, which was Green Lantern #1 released a week before.  What is nice for those who are using this as a jump in point, it show cases three core lanterns in Guy Gardner, John Stewart and Salaak.  My major problem was with the cover not even featuring most of who is on the cover, so it is a nice way of saying this cover is for the trade.  The same problem occurred with JLA #1, with Wond...

5 out of 5 found this review helpful.

I have a Wildstorm of fever for Starfire. 4

How did Scott Lobdell think of this and how did he convince DC to trust him?  I am not saying this idea was horrible, but how does it come about as a monthly?  Really?  It is a reverse Three is Company, but with action and excitement.  Action and Excitement is what sells this comic, action from fight scenes to action in the sheets, this book sells sex and sells a whole "arsenal"... okay horrible joke, but you get the point.  Starfire is fully loaded after all.  Sorry again.  But if bad puns are ...

7 out of 9 found this review helpful.

Why Superman is not "Super" when others are "Super" as well. 5

One of the problems with the "Superman family" books is that the connection to Superman is what makes then become shadows to the main book.  Superboy in some ways breaks out of it, since he is part "Luthor", but Supergirl is just a female Superman.  My Project 500 was a community relay review where we reviewed Crisis on Infinite Earths and the series was important because it cleaned house.  Superman was Special again since he was the only "Super" anything and the Flash was not Barry Allan anymor...

4 out of 4 found this review helpful.

"Her name was Lola, she was a showgirl..." 2

What turns me off about Judd Winick's writing is his formula, he learned at an early stage of comics Sex Sells.  He learned STDs and STIs were money in the bank with Pedro and me.  He learned the Gay Culture was award winning with again Pedro and me, as well as Green Lantern and Green Arrow. There is something about Winick writing where he caters to sexuality do the masses respond.  I guess this is one of the reasons I was not impressed with this book.  This book felt like a 90s comic targeted t...

6 out of 9 found this review helpful.

Looking at Wonder Woman with Vertigo Vision. 13

With Wonder Woman's "new look" and the 52 accessible points, why not write a contemporary Wonder Woman story?  Being a huge Batman and Vertigo fan I've read a lot of Brian Azzarello's work, since most of his body of work is Batman or Vertigo.  I honestly don't remember him writing a female lead of this importance and that is what scared me about him being the ongoing writer of Wonder Woman.  Brian Azzarello is not a one trick pony.  He mixes mythology and classic archetypes with this modern sett...

11 out of 11 found this review helpful.

This is better then Tec #1 Vol. 2 0

From the two "Batman" books of the 52, Batman beats out Detective Comics in my opinion.    Scott Snyder does a better job establishing the Bat family, from the Wards to the Rogue Gallery it seems like everyone was covered in this issue.  This issue makes a great "jump in" spot for those who are using the 52 for accessibility.  This comic also keeps you guessing what will happen next. Scott Snyder has seemed to become one of the major architects for Batman at DC Comics.  This series establishes t...

5 out of 5 found this review helpful.

Did I mention how good it is to be "me" again? 4

Mixed feelings I had when I found out Dick Grayson was going back to Nightwing.  I was happy he got the promotion and I felt the Batman Mythos was stronger if it was defined by just one man.  I still believe the Mythos of the Bat as an urban legend would be stronger with at least two Batmen running around, but it is hard to hate how we are reminded by Kyle Higgins' writing how comfortable Dick Grayson is in his own persona as Nightwing.  My favorite issues of the 52 were character pieces, the on...

7 out of 7 found this review helpful.

"You see I've only just started" 6

What I love most of what Peter Milligan is doing with Hellblazer he is systematically defining the man: John Constantine.  In the arc Scab, he defined the Flesh. In Hooked he explored John's addictive personality. In India John discovered more depth in his magick.  In No Future he explored John's Teenage rebellion.  In Sectioned, John's Sanity was pushed. Bloody Carnations was the Alchemy arc where John found his Anima. Phantom Pains, explored extension of the body with John getting back his thu...

5 out of 5 found this review helpful.

T for Terroism? 0

This book had an interesting concept of terrorism and I guess that is why I was not to huge on it.  I am not American and the us verses them, war on Terrorism thing is boring for me, especially those who preach war on terrorism tend to be a form of terror themselves.    The race card is played a little too much for me in this comic as well.  Black this, white that, etc, etc.  I also hated the throw in statements from background people, that is make unnecessary things to read, such as "Nice Bum"....

3 out of 3 found this review helpful.

A lost Legion indeed 0

I'm doing it.... I am doing the template! The Good: The good to come out of this book is that it is a hide and seek in the new Flashpoint history story.  Who plays hide and seek with DC characters?  Fabian Nicieza does!  There is a great visual joke within this comic that I don't know if everyone caught.  I live in Toronto and it is weird that I grew liking the Minnesota Timberwolves because of Kevin Garnett.  I am a Raptors fan now and that side story is not important, but the hiding is taking ...

4 out of 4 found this review helpful.

He is back... again the return of Mitch Shelly. 0

The "Dark" stuff of the DCU's 52 is a neat way of saying "New Vertigo" and that is what this series is, it is part of "new Vertigo" and Vertigo was a line of comics when they pushed the literature level of comics.   Comics as literature is interesting because the understanding of the Sequential Art is not just limited to the page layouts and how the pictures lay together, but it also deals with hues of colors and shades, visual homages and other semiotics.  A problem this comic suffers from is t...

2 out of 2 found this review helpful.

A DC comic for the Deadpool Generation 0

Adam Glass is not that high on my favorite writers list because he is not on it.  Part of the reason is his narrative is not my style, he writes for Sadist, but not in a the normal way, Sadist that are masochistic to themselves, or what I call the Deadpool generation.  Sure Deadpool has some interesting qualities to celebrate, but really the character harms creativity more then fertilizes it now a days.  Adam Glass is just that, he is a Deadpool generation writer.  If you like his work on Deadpo...

3 out of 4 found this review helpful.

I love the cliche' Fall from Grace Story. 2

One thing I learned from Reading Hellblazer is the best way to make a character the reader will love is to drag him in the mud for a while.  Geoff Johns now knows Kyle Rayner fans can't love Hal if he is forced on us since Hal was once a murder, so Sinestro fills in playing the Devil we know.  We can't love Sinestro and we are not suppose to, he is clearly played as a pawn to help Hal Jordan rise as "The Greatest Green Lantern".  Hal Jordan is broke, homeless and loveless, he is in the same situ...

4 out of 4 found this review helpful.

Sadist never looked so good. 10

Thank you Peter Milligan for being the deepest writer in comics psychologically. From insane stories like Shade, Face and Eaters, to the symbolic alchemy in Hellblazer, you get to the root of what makes people tick.  I am glad you are writing the Red Lanterns, because a lesser writer would have a lot of angry aliens beating things up without rhyme or reason.  The character piece stories of the 52 I find the most interesting because they create an accessible point.  This is ...

9 out of 10 found this review helpful.

"Should I be expecting those words on my next father's day card?" 4

This is one of the books I knew was going to have mixed feelings in the new 52.  I rather enjoyed the Dick Grayson as Batman and "lil Wayne" Damian as the sidekick.  I felt the chemistry was better. As neat of an idea it is that Bruce is a dad and I am glad Grant Morrison reintroduced the son, but Damian is a character I feel is better handled by a writer who brings out his duality of his linage.   While Bruce will always remember his parents in his heart, Damian physically personifies his mothe...

4 out of 4 found this review helpful.

It is all about "Cash". 2

It is all about "Cash" and we are introduced to the "Grifter" who is set to start taking our cash.  With Wildstorm now being part of the DCU, the Wildstorm characters are slowing making their way into the same universe of Superman and Batman.  The issue to start the who 52 off was the Justice League of America issue where we see the world presented in a more "real" feel where we do not trust the metahumans and that is why this comic has that feel that is it a Wildstorm book over a DC book.  Are ...

5 out of 5 found this review helpful.

Demon Knights and Magical Days. 0

This series had a a feel of Matt Wagner's Madame Xanadu run for Vertigo and if you enjoyed this issue I suggest you go out and pick up the Vertigo trades.The Demon holds a special place in my heart because I first cared for the character in Alan Moore's landmark Swamp Thing run, when Etrigan was the rhyming demon. With the new 52 being "accessible", I think Paul Cornell does a good job of establishing the key players and working with the classic literature characters set in the DCU's historical ...

6 out of 6 found this review helpful.

League of Extrodinary Creature Comandos? 0

I've been reading Jeff Lemire's work for years now and I am glad he is doing a monster book. Working on a Man-Thing short for Marvel, a couple of monster commission in the past and also the invisible man in the nobody, Jeff Lemire likes monster literature and with the 52 it appears he wants a modern accessible monster story, which makes me happy and a fan of his. I skipped the flashpoint mini and I understood what was going on, so I will go with saying Jeff Lemire succeeds with making this acces...

3 out of 3 found this review helpful.

"Being Human" or "Loving the Alien", can a boy be both? 7

When Geoff Johns did his run on Adventure Comics with Francis Manapul, we saw that his vision of Superboy was to pin his genetics against himself. His genetics don't fight physically, but symbolically Superboy struggles between his Human and Alien halves. The new 52 is interesting because this run is suppose to be accessible and is intended as a jump in point. I felt it was. There are familiar settings and characters weaved within this comic so that older fans can be given possible red herrings ...

6 out of 6 found this review helpful.

Get "Slayed" by Slade. 2

"My words are smooth like SILK but it CUTS like a blade,anyone to step to me is sure to get Slade.I'm a deathstroke with my free Wil-Son,Holding comicvine at Ransom". - SilkcutsI had to start this review with one of the verses I laid down on one of the battle rap threads. I love Deathstroke, he was a character I enjoyed when I started reading comics in the late 80s, when my older cousin would read Teen Titans and brag how cool the character was and revising those moments my cousin talked about a...

2 out of 2 found this review helpful.

Flowing like Water, but grounded like Earth. A perfect Duality. 0

Finally this series is released. I hate to plug an old review but because of my love for the Elegy arc, which you can read Here for the first time or again if you read it, I don't think there is a single fan who wanted to read this more badly then me.I've been in love with J.H. Williams III (J3) art since Promethea, the series where I felt he found his "Magick". As sad as it is that Greg Rucka is no longer on the series, J3 up holds the vision they shared on Detective Comics (Tec). This series i...

7 out of 7 found this review helpful.

I think DC needs to MOW down less trees. 2

The Army anthology is back. The last comic I reviewed with Ivan Brandon in it was Weird War Tales #1 (2010) and I had to reread what I wrote and I felt it was mean in retrospective, but it is true I really can't remember his story since I felt it was the weakest of the anthology and page count could of been a problem. Brandon has more pages in this one and that helps his story introducing Joseph Rock, the Grandson of Frank Rock, better know as Sgt. Rock. The story it self is framed in a strong b...

4 out of 5 found this review helpful.

One. More. Alarming. Cashgrab. 0

Is it Synchronicity or me being mean that I am reviewing Dan Didio's O.M.A.C. as my 666 review? I just wanted to point this out. I lost track of the numbers and I originally wanted to review Batman 666, but whattheheck someone needs the 666 homage and might as well be the greedy Devil who claimed the Vertigo characters to do this revamp in the first place.Okay, rant done and time for the review. To be honest this this issues was the overall worst of the second week of 52. It could be the simple ...

2 out of 2 found this review helpful.

This comic "Disarmed" me. 0

The greatest gift Dwayne McDuffie gave comics was a voice for minority. Minority in not just the black culture, but in the spirit of the word. McDuffie knew that:" If you do a black character or a female character or an Asian character, then they aren't just that character. They represent that race or that sex, and they can't be interesting because everything they do has to represent an entire block of people. You know, Superman isn't all white people and neither is Lex Luthor. We knew we had to...

5 out of 5 found this review helpful.

The legacy is dead with Tec Vol. 2 #1 4

From all the 52 this once I won't forgive.  Renumbering your namesake is really not caring about legacy and it is like a man changing his last name because his father's last name won't attract younger girls.  Yeah I said it.  This stunt of the 52 was to attract "new readers" or what I am calling younger girls.  Okay it is out of my system, time for the review.  First off Congrats to Tony S. Daniel's, one for finally getting to write Bruce and secondly being the second person to pen Detective Com...

5 out of 5 found this review helpful.

Whats inside the Totleben'ts Motel? 0

Many Vertigo fans were skeptical when China lost his series for this one.  I was one of the skeptics, mind you this was before I realized this creative team would be this creative.  The Search for Swamp Thing mini was a let down for me since I felt both Swamp Thing and John Constantine were not well represented.  This issues does not have John and I am glad since this issue really is a chain that leads a series to explain the difference between Alec Holland and the Swamp Thing Avatar.    I fe...

2 out of 3 found this review helpful.

Enter the RED 0

When I last spoke to Jeff Lemire in Toronto I told him I was excited for this series since I trust his writing and I know his love of classic Vertigo. Like me he is a fan of Jamie Delano and Delano's run is suppose to be more of his inspiration rather then the metaphysics of Grant Morrison. This choice of Jeff to be more character driven of the many facets of Buddy Baker is what makes this issue good.Jeff Lemire has done his study and his knowledge is shaped nicely in the scripts, where Buddy is...

5 out of 5 found this review helpful.

JLI: JUST LEAVE IT 8

No wonder that Booster Gold leads this team since Jurgens lost Booster's main book in the Flash-point reboot. A Booster driven book is not a bad thing, since it is sure to be fun and entertaining but Booster Gold doesn't push the medium. If Booster Gold could push the medium Grant Morrison would write him more often.Justice League International is were to me since I don't understand if it is in continuity with the Justice League book where heroes are not heroes yet, or is this book an excuse for...

2 out of 3 found this review helpful.

52's GA missed the mark. 0

I don't know if it is a flaw in the creative team or a flaw in the direction but I was let down with this issue. I guess it is my love for classic GA, you know the good stuff that Mike Grell use to do and with names attached to the 52 like Dan Jurgens and George Perez, why not have a return of Grell?I do understand J.T. Krul wanted to make GA accessible and the modern Robin Hood doesn't appeal to the youth, but another rich vigilante is not what readers need. GA is now a poor mans Tony Stark and...

4 out of 5 found this review helpful.

AH! doing Batgirl covers and Gail on scripts! WIN! 0

So here we have it Barbara Gordon walks again after the horrific events of the Killing Joke. Gail Simone accepts the events of the Killing Joke as canon since the series flashback to those moments of Joker in the tourist get up and the flashbacks are presented in a non intrusive way that even someone who has not read the Killing Joke will understand the reference. Gail Simone and her fine polished writing skilled has crafted an accessible #1 for those to up into since the 52 is meant for new rea...

5 out of 6 found this review helpful.

Judd Winick and Ben Oliver hit the ground running on Batwing. 0

Judd Winick and Ben Oliver hit the ground running on Batwing. The advantage this creative team has is they are working on a possible important character to the Batman Mythos and they get first crack at his story. They get to tell us what makes him tick. They show us what fuels him and best of all they show us how strong is his heart. You will understand the heart comment once you read the issue.This series has a lot of promise. An interesting character, limited interaction with the rest of the B...

4 out of 4 found this review helpful.

Without Warren Ellis knowing his creations would "Bleed"... 0

Without Warren Ellis knowing his creations would "Bleed" into the DCU. Okay that was a horrible joke, but it got your attention didn't it? The Bleed is a concept Ellis used in his Wildstorm run and now Stormwatch is presented as a shadow organization that worked in the DCU for hundreds of years. People like the concept of secret societies and now DC has its exclusive one in Stormwatch.What is good about this primer is that those who enjoyed Wildstorm get their characters back and they are presen...

3 out of 3 found this review helpful.

A story for all ages and a story for the ages. 5

From all of the 52 this is the one I was most excited for,  I trust Grant Morrison because everything he does is calculated.  Knowing Superman is a character meant for accessibility Morrison writes this story more for the classic elements of "Comics", meaning the surface drama and the kinetic Superhero action.  Rags Morales is a great compliment to this story, much like how Frank Quitely and Grant had great synergy in All-Star Superman, Morales proves to have great synergy with Morrison in Actio...

8 out of 9 found this review helpful.

Just another Geoff Johns' reboot 0

So I give in and I am reviewing the 52.  Being late to the party this review likely will be buried with the many review for this issue and why read mine?  Everyone has something to say and I don't think mine is ground breaking for this issue, since Geoff Johns does not write cryptic comics I cannot have cryptic comments.  Jim Lee's Pencil work is world class and Scott Williams makes Lee's Pencil's sing. So the art I cannot complain about at all.  As for the story this is a story intended to be a...

3 out of 5 found this review helpful.

Are we introduced to the "Messiah" of MGA? 6

No magick talk today.  Archetypes is what I want to explore.  There is a new character introduced and we get to meet Miss Hodge.  Miss Hodge is an interesting character in which so much of the student body love her and she generally seems like she wants to help.  This "archetype" I am going to present might seem offensive and I am truly sorry if it does, but I have to point it out, Miss Hodge seems to be being groomed as the "Messiah" archetype.  From Miss Hodge we can see that she is being set ...

5 out of 5 found this review helpful.

8 and its never ending fate 6

First off I need to address that most people hate on this issue since it is the so called "last" issue before the relaunch and because of it it is not a satisfying ending for those who don't get what Grant Morrison is doing.  Sorry if that if offensive of a statement, I am not saying I am smarter, but I get what he is doing.  This issue had to be released before the 52 releases and you can blame DC for hurting the momentum, not Grant.  I love how he got this issue out and that it is #8, the symb...

3 out of 3 found this review helpful.

CG and Batman before Grant Morrison's Batman Inc #8 0

One of the reason Batman is such an important character to North American comics is he is the character who has been used to experiment with the comic book medium the most.  Batman has been in 3D Comics such as Batman 3D comics and also he is the first Superhero to be completely generated in a digital form to tell a story.  From the early 90s DC Comics knew Batman is the real "Future" even if Superman is the Man of Tomorrow.  In words of Prince's song Future for the 1989 Batman movie, "I've seen...

2 out of 2 found this review helpful.