DC Comics April 6th 2011
Batman Beyond #4
Dick comes clean about being Nightwing to the press, just as Terry has being starting to impersonate him to stop the rumors.
Whilst his friend and class mate is approached by an internet hacking super criminal/ organisation called Undercloud. Firstly I hate this new art direction and i think that due to this being a continuation of the cartoon in comic form, that we needed the certain amount of cartoon style in the artwork. I don't like the typical comic art look. The story is still pretty good. I was sooo tempted to drop this title as well. Now I don't know! It's only 3 part stories so I may give it the benefit of the doubt depending on how much I'm picking up when it next comes out. There was after all a pretty cool tease from some of the Clown gangs as to a massive clown uprising soon. This book just need to have a big kick up the arse to get it into a higher gear. It's promising stuff it's just not consistently good.
Brightest Day #23
Even before reading this I'm getting the feeling that all I need to know is on the cover. Now there's a sense of epic global effects kicking in in the second to last issue. Why not all the way through this series? Generation Lost had only one returned deceased character and they have used Max so well, globe trotting stories and epic build up all the way through, so why oh why has the book that had free reign over the other eleven characters been such a drag? Typical over use of splash pages in this issue.
I did read some stuff online about DC trying to push the elemental side of things for years, since some Alan Moore ideas back on Swamp thing ages ago. Sure enough Earths ultimate saviour, Alec Holland, Swamp Thing emerges from the bottom of the white tree in the Star City forest. Yet another move to bring the DC and Vertigo publishing universes together into one world. There will be a lot of ramifications in the last and final issue of this. Although I find myself caring more about what this means for the stories set in each publishing division than what it means for any character in the Brightest day story, and only very mildly about how the elemental thing could be furthered in the DC universe stories. It seems to be changing a lot about the overall stories but not effecting individual characters.
As for lasting effects I would like to see Martian, Firestorm, Aquaman and the Hawks remain in these forms from now on. As usual though I know that things will just go back to the way they were when this ends.
iZombie #12
Not technically a DC book but I cba to do a separate post for a single issue. Plus who knows, if Vertigo becomes mainstream DC then she will be!
The Love and Rockets indie legend is doing this fill in issue and they make full use of him. We see a different style of art for each story that Ellie and the ghosts are telling each other, a retro comic, a zombie story ( which sounds like it had our very same modern day monster hunters in it!), an aboriginal tale and even her own past told through photo's. It's quite upsetting to find out why El the ghost can't leave this town. She was never allowed anywhere by her overprotective father. So now that she's died she can't go anywhere new as she doesn't remember it. We also get treated to seeing Gwen climb out of her grave as we realise this whole issue is a flash back and we are shown why Gwen is so important to El.
This issue, although not furthering the story, was an absolute delight to read.
Secret Six #32
The Secret Six Hundred and Sixty Six, very clever there! There's quite a lot of so so dialogue. Everyone seems to have their own reason to be in hell and those who don't are pretty shocked that their actions on earth will lead them there in the future anyway. Catman has ran off to find his father and Ragdoll has become some kind of prophet in his short time down there. He's gotten an arranged marriage to become part of Hell's royal family. The Princess he's marrying is, yep the very person they came to hell to save:
It seems like Simone has a great love for all of the characters and wants each of them to develop individually. She seems to have a lot of fun writing this book. Can't wait for the finale of this arc. I literally have no idea with this book which way the story will go. That's what sets it apart from other books on the stands each month.
Dick comes clean about being Nightwing to the press, just as Terry has being starting to impersonate him to stop the rumors.
Whilst his friend and class mate is approached by an internet hacking super criminal/ organisation called Undercloud. Firstly I hate this new art direction and i think that due to this being a continuation of the cartoon in comic form, that we needed the certain amount of cartoon style in the artwork. I don't like the typical comic art look. The story is still pretty good. I was sooo tempted to drop this title as well. Now I don't know! It's only 3 part stories so I may give it the benefit of the doubt depending on how much I'm picking up when it next comes out. There was after all a pretty cool tease from some of the Clown gangs as to a massive clown uprising soon. This book just need to have a big kick up the arse to get it into a higher gear. It's promising stuff it's just not consistently good.
Brightest Day #23
Even before reading this I'm getting the feeling that all I need to know is on the cover. Now there's a sense of epic global effects kicking in in the second to last issue. Why not all the way through this series? Generation Lost had only one returned deceased character and they have used Max so well, globe trotting stories and epic build up all the way through, so why oh why has the book that had free reign over the other eleven characters been such a drag? Typical over use of splash pages in this issue.
I did read some stuff online about DC trying to push the elemental side of things for years, since some Alan Moore ideas back on Swamp thing ages ago. Sure enough Earths ultimate saviour, Alec Holland, Swamp Thing emerges from the bottom of the white tree in the Star City forest. Yet another move to bring the DC and Vertigo publishing universes together into one world. There will be a lot of ramifications in the last and final issue of this. Although I find myself caring more about what this means for the stories set in each publishing division than what it means for any character in the Brightest day story, and only very mildly about how the elemental thing could be furthered in the DC universe stories. It seems to be changing a lot about the overall stories but not effecting individual characters.
As for lasting effects I would like to see Martian, Firestorm, Aquaman and the Hawks remain in these forms from now on. As usual though I know that things will just go back to the way they were when this ends.
iZombie #12
Not technically a DC book but I cba to do a separate post for a single issue. Plus who knows, if Vertigo becomes mainstream DC then she will be!
The Love and Rockets indie legend is doing this fill in issue and they make full use of him. We see a different style of art for each story that Ellie and the ghosts are telling each other, a retro comic, a zombie story ( which sounds like it had our very same modern day monster hunters in it!), an aboriginal tale and even her own past told through photo's. It's quite upsetting to find out why El the ghost can't leave this town. She was never allowed anywhere by her overprotective father. So now that she's died she can't go anywhere new as she doesn't remember it. We also get treated to seeing Gwen climb out of her grave as we realise this whole issue is a flash back and we are shown why Gwen is so important to El.
This issue, although not furthering the story, was an absolute delight to read.
Secret Six #32
The Secret Six Hundred and Sixty Six, very clever there! There's quite a lot of so so dialogue. Everyone seems to have their own reason to be in hell and those who don't are pretty shocked that their actions on earth will lead them there in the future anyway. Catman has ran off to find his father and Ragdoll has become some kind of prophet in his short time down there. He's gotten an arranged marriage to become part of Hell's royal family. The Princess he's marrying is, yep the very person they came to hell to save:
It seems like Simone has a great love for all of the characters and wants each of them to develop individually. She seems to have a lot of fun writing this book. Can't wait for the finale of this arc. I literally have no idea with this book which way the story will go. That's what sets it apart from other books on the stands each month.
DC Comics April 6th 2011
Reviewed by Matt
on
05:54:00
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Reviewed by Matt
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