I spent £20 this week.. oops. Oh well. Prepare for my thoughts, internet!
Spoilers ahead for: Green Arrow #5, Wonder Woman #604, JLA & the 99 #1, Superman #704.
JLA #50, Teen Titans #88, Supergirl annual #2 come tomorrow.
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Green Arrow #5
I had high hopes for the issue, mostly because of the cover. I find it dynamic and interesting.
But in reality, it just seems that we are retreading the same old ground that the other Brightest Day tagged books have dealt with. It doesn't really move Ollie's story on. We get given more background on how Ollie's parents died, which looks suspiciously like a(nother) retcon to me. It's boring. Ollie is boring and miserable. Where's his hope? Where's his joy for life? He may be a left winger, a snarky grumpy socialist, but he's always enjoyed life. I know he's had a lot of shit happen recently, but you wouldn't know it from this book. there's no reference to Cry for Justice, there's just miserable, dark Ollie.
Wonder Woman #604
This was just poorly written. Cliched, hackneyed, boring plot devices. Terrible dialogue. Diana gets her lasso, the burnt villain is defeated (by Diana's mother no less), but unfortunately not until after some predictably formatted exposition.
JLA & the 99 #1
This completely threw me because of continuity issues - the 99 are teaming up with the JLA as they haven't been for quite a while, certainly before Cry for Justice but Wonder Woman is in her new costume. Basically, we've got Bruce!Batman, Superman, this new costumed WW, John Stewart GL, Flash, Atom, Firestorm, Martian Manhunter, Dr Light, Vixen Hawkman and Aquaman.
As an introduction to The 99 it did nothing for me. The free download from The 99 website got me interested, not this rubbish hastily put together book. Don;t give up on these superheroes guys, go to their website instead.
Superman #704
Oh christ. An attempt to look at Lois's motivations and analyse her character. She declares herself a bad feminist for wanting a family and derides all her journalistic achievements (because BABIES are what's important, right??!!).
Ugh.
So Ollie got his past retconned this week, too?!
ReplyDeleteWhat is going on?! Argh!!
I'm getting less and less happy with comics lately.
Diana was in her new costume in a non-WW book?
ReplyDeleteCrap!
That seems to blow my theory/hope that she's only in a telepathic coma-dream completely to hell.
@notintheface: to be fair, JLA & the 99 didn't make a lot of sense (continuity wise) and the new costume could be a mistake - the JLA lineup was an old (iconic) version from way before Di got her new costume (and before the sidekicks were allowed to be the team).
ReplyDeleteIt could be a future JLA but it's too recogniseable as an old version for this theory to make much sense, and anwyay if it was the future JLA, this mini as the vehicle for introducing the 99 would be even less effective.