After 5 days of being ill and then having a visit from a friend all weekend I'm finally ready to get back to blogging. Before I go any further however, I'd like to say a massive congratulations to my friends Admiral and Mrs Drax on the birth of their little Draxette! Congratulations guys! And so you're warned well in advance, I *will* be stockpiling suitable comics for her for when she can read. ;)
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This is the last time I buy into an event, I swear. I’m running out of shelf space, it’s not good. Spoilers ahead for Worlds Finest #1, Teen Titans #76, Gotham City Sirens #5, Green Lantern Blackest Night #47, Blackest Night: Titans #3 (my absolute favourite this week) and Blackest Night #4 and a picture of the nifty promotional giveaway I got. And a few thoughts on Flash: the fastest Man Alive - Full Throttle.
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Worlds Finest #1
I got a choice of covers when I went in and selected the Nightwing version. The colours are so lovely and I figure I was in more of a blue peaceful mood than a red mood when I was in the shop. This was not a setting up issue, it dived right into the story and action. An excellent, character driven story.
Teen Titans #76
Much better than issue 50. A good battle, some mysterious villainous creatures and fully fleshed believable conflict between team members. I felt that M’Gann M’orzz was the star of this show, despite the fact she was captured and had to be rescued by the rest of the Titans. Something about her just resonated with me.
The Ravager back up saw Rose moving in to destroy a human-slave ring. She has lost some of her precog abilities which is causing problems when in the midst of a fight and the issue ends with her enemy intending to use her as a super soldier. After reading this I realised that the Ravager story in the Halloween special last week has greatly impacted on my reading of Rose and has served to make all her other stories that much richer. Now, that’s impressive for a one page story!
Gotham City Sirens #5
Another favourite and one that spares no opportunity for gratuitous bum and breast shots - make of that that you will. I love these three as a team and Paul Dini is writing their relationship with each other really well. The art remains great and the I enjoyed the twist at the end.
Green Lantern Blackest Night #47
I think that the GL and GL Corps Blackest Night stories are the weakest of the bunch so far. L Please don’t shoot me anyone.. They aren’t bad stories but I think my disinterest may be because they are both focusing on big fights and involving characters that on the whole I know little about, and only marginally care about. So, as a new reader to the GL canon Blackest Night may not have been the best time to come in. However, they are pretty vital to the whole event so I’m not about to drop them, but I don’t think I’ll be converted to a regular GL reader when BN is finished.
Having said that, I did very much enjoy the last couple of pages of Agent Orange running away. :)
Blackest Night: Titans #3
Now this features characters I know and love! I especially love Dove’s role in this event. Avatar’s of peace, love compassion and hope please me, and I have liked every incarnation of Hawk & Dove that I have come across. After all, the idea behind them is a pretty enduring (and timeless?) one.
I have this horrible feeling that some fans will whinge about Donna snapping her (revenant) baby’s neck, a la Diana with Maxwell Lord, and that her story and life history is likely to become more complicated – she was bitten by her dead baby in issue #2 and now the poison is spreading and she is seeing people with a Black Lantern’s eyes. I persoanlly like the Donna/Diana comparison – can this suggest that Maxwell Lord was, in a sense, already dead when Diana killed him? Or am I being just a bit wanky thinking that?
Blackest Night #4
Oh my, oh my! First, look at the cover:
Chilling!
Inside, Mera is tough and nails, the Atom is actually heroic and not torture happy, Scarecrow’s cameo just makes me like him more. I wonder if his comments are foreshadowing for Bruce’s role in BN? The WW/Supes/Flash comment was a great moment, Dinah and Ollie got a cameo (and instructions not to get hotheaded) and the rings get fully charged! The Black Lantern power battery is transported to Coast City and the whole of Coast City is commanded to rise! Holy fuck, this won’t be good.
The art on the final splash page is fabulous, as is the scythe (which I would like, please), but I can’t help feeling I’d be getting more out of this if I knew who Nekron was.
Before I head off and read Flash: Lightning in a Bottle: Full Throttle* (contender for longest trade name ever) I shall supply you with this picture of the promo bag I got with my books today:
Cool huh?
*Now read and of course loved. Poor Bart. Poor Tim, and Jesse. The two pages with them are really affecting. This was a series which made me love the Rigues even more. they really aren't your average comic book villains. They really are 3 dimensional and you can sympathise with them. They have a code of honour and ethics and aren't through and through bad. When Libra comes to them to persuade them to join Darkseid because evil will win, I get the sense that that is a stupid thing to fofer the Rogues, because they aren't evil. They aren't interested in causing evil, they just want to get on with their lives. They may do this be being petty criminals but it's done in the same way that used car salesman break the law, you know? Their primary objective isn't to cause pain, or to hurt people or maim them for the fun of it.
I then re-read Final Crisis: Rogues Revenge which just made me love them even more, and hate Inertia.
Both the Flash book and Rogues Revenge should be essential reading for any Flash fan.
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