Likely to be drunken reviews by the end of the post..
Spoilers ahoy! For: DCU Presents Black Lightning and Blue Devil 15, Ultimate Comics Spider-Man 18, Danger Club 3, Wonder Woman 15, Princeless Short Stories for Warrior Women 2, Superboy 15, Supergirl 15, Birds of Prey 15.
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DCU Presents 15 : Black Lightning and Blue Devil
I finished this and I thought, eh, not as good as the first one. Definitely a filler between the opening and closing issue. Then I thought about it and thought NO. This does expand their story, I did like it. What I don't like are that Blue Devil is human 70% of the time and I don't like Lightning's new costume. But that's superficial rubbish. I do like the story. If you exclude the silly physical and verbal posturing. Blue Devil now becomes a blue devil by putting on an old devil skin (I know, yeuuch). In this issue the devil in question want sit back. But it doesn't want him. Ooops. And Jeff's Dad gets involved and kidnapped.
Yeah. I'm looking forward to the concluding arc. I picked this up off the shelf, it's not on my standing order list, and I def think that's the way forward. Even though I'd recc pre new 52 Black Lightning Year 1 to folk who wanted to learn about the character.
Ultimate Comics Spider-Man 18
Marvellous! Much better! Still part of the stupid crossover but so much better! Mostly cause Miles is left alone and has to fight a giant woman in the desert. And then Spider-Woman turns up and they get all honest with each other (up to a point). And Miles' Dad has to face up to stuff he did in the military crisis. But overall, yeah! I do like Miles.
Danger Club 3
Finally got this in! MY local comic shop had problems with this title, so I got 4 before 3. Nevermind.
This may be about kids, but it's def one for the adults. It's violent, and distressing and sad, and threatening, It is nothing like Supergirl Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade, done by the same team, but it is still damn good. I believe the schedule has slowed due to personal, family problems with the creators, but that makes it more special when it comes out. If you're sick of DC or Marvel's offerings try this out. It's set on a world where all the adult heroes have left the planet, disappeared, perhaps dies. Just the kid sidekicks are left. They have to face up to the few villains also left, deal with rifts amongst their community, and deal with missing their parents and mentors. In this issue some of the kids get caught in a mindbending trap by a (presumably now dead) villain, another one finds out the president (himself an ex hero) killed all the adults, and another, the most grown up of them all (and probably analogous to a Robin), has to keep the Olympian sedated. The Olympian is another teen, who in the first issue went power crazy and had to be put down by our Robin analogue. The Olympian is still pretty destroyed in this issue.
Dammit this is good.
Wonder Woman 15
Better than I expected! perhaps I'm in a better mood this week because it's the Christmas holidays?
Anyway, Wonder Woman herself is, as always, amazing. She's diplomatic with Hera and Zola, she's a great fighter with Milan and Orion.
She got surprise swords after that battle cry too.
I adore the depiction of the Gods, and I'm dying to know more about Milan (blindfolded, sees through the eyes of flies). And Orion is here! Presumably heralding the rest of the new Gods. So long as they don't make the Greek gods inferior to the New Gods I'll be happy. If they do, you shall hear wailing and gnashing of teeth.
You know what though, I def preferred Cliff Chiang's art when he was doing Green Arrow/Black Canary. it seems awfully stilted now. Like there's lots of static shots and no flow.
Princeless Short Stories for Warrior Women 2
I HEART THIS TIMES A THOUSAND
Go buy it. Either in your shops or in comixology. It's a perfect antidote to the shit that Marvel and DC can put out. It's funny. You can give it to your kids to read. It turns fairy tales on their head. It's got a dragon and an elf and a hapless Prince (winning the Charm classes does not help you in daily life when your daily life is stuck in a dungeon and you have no castle to hand). And we learn a bit more about our runaway action Princess, but mostly about her armourer (and her family).
I rabbitted on at length about Princeless over on New readers.. and I have since found out you can buy it on Comixology. So go buy it. Now. Treat yourself to a late Christmas present.
Superboy 15
Hooboy. It's H'el on earth. I expected this to be utterly dreary. Instead, i got something fun. And moody Superman! T-shirted and Caped Superman! Why hasn't he thrown that stupid outfit out yet? I was disappointed to discover that Martha Kent has HAD NO INPUT into his costume. Way to go. Martha making his duds was cute, and sweet and lovely. Now he's got battle armour. Battle armour. On a Kryptonian living in Earth's atmosphere. That's ridiculous.
Nevermind. I liked the issue.
Supergirl 15
We see a bit of Kara at home, on Krypton, happy and smiley. I want more of this Kara please. I understand she's had a shit time, and man I want H'el to just be defeated and fuck off, but I also want positive, optimistic Kara back. I want to see her positively adjusting to earth life. Judging by what we've now seen of her in Argo City I reckon this art team can do it.
See, unlike other favourite heroes of mine, I can identify with Kara and want to emulate her. At her snottiest previous incarnation I understood her rage and her need to go and shitfaced and ignore the world. In her lighter days I admired her carefree attitude. I've always wanted her powers, and I reckon she gets to have more fun than Superman does (definitely this current Superman who I don't care for at all). I admire her silver age happiness, her good naturedness. Unlike my other favourite female heroes I feel closer to Kara. Wonder Woman is someone I aim to be (but I will never be mature or wise enough to be). Black Canary is someone I want to be friends with (and probably get drunk with) but Kara is someone who has been a mess, but has come through it and is a good sweet, kind person. She sometimes strikes out in anger, don't we all, but on the whole she does her best. And that makes her far more human than the others. Lets face it, I will never have Black Canary's ninja skills and Wonder Woman is a goddess. I can't match that. But I can make mistakes like Kara does and I can try and fix them. And try to be a decent person.
So for that reason, I want to see a different Kara in the pages of Supergirl. I want her happy. I want her content. I hope that will come soon, after the H'eL on Earth storyline.
Birds of Prey 15
A-ha! The one I do want to be drunk for. I've worked out what I'm not happy about with this series. they are too happy to kill people.
Starling has guns for gods sake.
Katana stabs people with her sword. And guts them and kills them.
I don't want to read a comic with heroes where they kill people. I want my heroes to be heroic. I want them to save the day and the innocents without murdering people.
And then there's the really stupid artwork. Katana and Condor are fighting lots of ninja nasties and they decide to destroy the cube shaped bomb which will otherwise destroy part of Japan.
The next 2 pictures are the top and bottom of the same page.
Let's look at Katana again shall we:
it appears we have an escher girl in our BoP comic.
Now for clarity, here is the panel afterwards where they look at the cut bomb:
After bitching about this to my boyfriend he drew this version:
I think it's better.
B/c it's blurry, top left corner says 'ZOMG!! A BOMS!!'. Top right says 'FAST! SLICE ITS'
bottom left says 'SLICES' and bottom right says 'YAY! WORLD A SAFE'
Figures are stick men and the bomb looks like an egg on a block, lying on it's side. He didn't use the comic for reference.
Spoilers ahoy! For: DCU Presents Black Lightning and Blue Devil 15, Ultimate Comics Spider-Man 18, Danger Club 3, Wonder Woman 15, Princeless Short Stories for Warrior Women 2, Superboy 15, Supergirl 15, Birds of Prey 15.
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.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
DCU Presents 15 : Black Lightning and Blue Devil
I finished this and I thought, eh, not as good as the first one. Definitely a filler between the opening and closing issue. Then I thought about it and thought NO. This does expand their story, I did like it. What I don't like are that Blue Devil is human 70% of the time and I don't like Lightning's new costume. But that's superficial rubbish. I do like the story. If you exclude the silly physical and verbal posturing. Blue Devil now becomes a blue devil by putting on an old devil skin (I know, yeuuch). In this issue the devil in question want sit back. But it doesn't want him. Ooops. And Jeff's Dad gets involved and kidnapped.
Yeah. I'm looking forward to the concluding arc. I picked this up off the shelf, it's not on my standing order list, and I def think that's the way forward. Even though I'd recc pre new 52 Black Lightning Year 1 to folk who wanted to learn about the character.
Ultimate Comics Spider-Man 18
Marvellous! Much better! Still part of the stupid crossover but so much better! Mostly cause Miles is left alone and has to fight a giant woman in the desert. And then Spider-Woman turns up and they get all honest with each other (up to a point). And Miles' Dad has to face up to stuff he did in the military crisis. But overall, yeah! I do like Miles.
Danger Club 3
Finally got this in! MY local comic shop had problems with this title, so I got 4 before 3. Nevermind.
This may be about kids, but it's def one for the adults. It's violent, and distressing and sad, and threatening, It is nothing like Supergirl Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade, done by the same team, but it is still damn good. I believe the schedule has slowed due to personal, family problems with the creators, but that makes it more special when it comes out. If you're sick of DC or Marvel's offerings try this out. It's set on a world where all the adult heroes have left the planet, disappeared, perhaps dies. Just the kid sidekicks are left. They have to face up to the few villains also left, deal with rifts amongst their community, and deal with missing their parents and mentors. In this issue some of the kids get caught in a mindbending trap by a (presumably now dead) villain, another one finds out the president (himself an ex hero) killed all the adults, and another, the most grown up of them all (and probably analogous to a Robin), has to keep the Olympian sedated. The Olympian is another teen, who in the first issue went power crazy and had to be put down by our Robin analogue. The Olympian is still pretty destroyed in this issue.
Dammit this is good.
Wonder Woman 15
Better than I expected! perhaps I'm in a better mood this week because it's the Christmas holidays?
Anyway, Wonder Woman herself is, as always, amazing. She's diplomatic with Hera and Zola, she's a great fighter with Milan and Orion.
I adore the depiction of the Gods, and I'm dying to know more about Milan (blindfolded, sees through the eyes of flies). And Orion is here! Presumably heralding the rest of the new Gods. So long as they don't make the Greek gods inferior to the New Gods I'll be happy. If they do, you shall hear wailing and gnashing of teeth.
You know what though, I def preferred Cliff Chiang's art when he was doing Green Arrow/Black Canary. it seems awfully stilted now. Like there's lots of static shots and no flow.
Princeless Short Stories for Warrior Women 2
I HEART THIS TIMES A THOUSAND
Go buy it. Either in your shops or in comixology. It's a perfect antidote to the shit that Marvel and DC can put out. It's funny. You can give it to your kids to read. It turns fairy tales on their head. It's got a dragon and an elf and a hapless Prince (winning the Charm classes does not help you in daily life when your daily life is stuck in a dungeon and you have no castle to hand). And we learn a bit more about our runaway action Princess, but mostly about her armourer (and her family).
I rabbitted on at length about Princeless over on New readers.. and I have since found out you can buy it on Comixology. So go buy it. Now. Treat yourself to a late Christmas present.
Superboy 15
Hooboy. It's H'el on earth. I expected this to be utterly dreary. Instead, i got something fun. And moody Superman! T-shirted and Caped Superman! Why hasn't he thrown that stupid outfit out yet? I was disappointed to discover that Martha Kent has HAD NO INPUT into his costume. Way to go. Martha making his duds was cute, and sweet and lovely. Now he's got battle armour. Battle armour. On a Kryptonian living in Earth's atmosphere. That's ridiculous.
Nevermind. I liked the issue.
Supergirl 15
We see a bit of Kara at home, on Krypton, happy and smiley. I want more of this Kara please. I understand she's had a shit time, and man I want H'el to just be defeated and fuck off, but I also want positive, optimistic Kara back. I want to see her positively adjusting to earth life. Judging by what we've now seen of her in Argo City I reckon this art team can do it.
See, unlike other favourite heroes of mine, I can identify with Kara and want to emulate her. At her snottiest previous incarnation I understood her rage and her need to go and shitfaced and ignore the world. In her lighter days I admired her carefree attitude. I've always wanted her powers, and I reckon she gets to have more fun than Superman does (definitely this current Superman who I don't care for at all). I admire her silver age happiness, her good naturedness. Unlike my other favourite female heroes I feel closer to Kara. Wonder Woman is someone I aim to be (but I will never be mature or wise enough to be). Black Canary is someone I want to be friends with (and probably get drunk with) but Kara is someone who has been a mess, but has come through it and is a good sweet, kind person. She sometimes strikes out in anger, don't we all, but on the whole she does her best. And that makes her far more human than the others. Lets face it, I will never have Black Canary's ninja skills and Wonder Woman is a goddess. I can't match that. But I can make mistakes like Kara does and I can try and fix them. And try to be a decent person.
So for that reason, I want to see a different Kara in the pages of Supergirl. I want her happy. I want her content. I hope that will come soon, after the H'eL on Earth storyline.
Birds of Prey 15
A-ha! The one I do want to be drunk for. I've worked out what I'm not happy about with this series. they are too happy to kill people.
Starling has guns for gods sake.
Katana stabs people with her sword. And guts them and kills them.
I don't want to read a comic with heroes where they kill people. I want my heroes to be heroic. I want them to save the day and the innocents without murdering people.
And then there's the really stupid artwork. Katana and Condor are fighting lots of ninja nasties and they decide to destroy the cube shaped bomb which will otherwise destroy part of Japan.
The next 2 pictures are the top and bottom of the same page.
Let's look at Katana again shall we:
Now for clarity, here is the panel afterwards where they look at the cut bomb:
After bitching about this to my boyfriend he drew this version:
B/c it's blurry, top left corner says 'ZOMG!! A BOMS!!'. Top right says 'FAST! SLICE ITS'
bottom left says 'SLICES' and bottom right says 'YAY! WORLD A SAFE'
Figures are stick men and the bomb looks like an egg on a block, lying on it's side. He didn't use the comic for reference.
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