See, I loved Robinson’s Superman this week, but then Cry for Justice… bleh.
Finished my set of rings!
Anyone else reading IDW’s Transformers series?
More specifically, has anyone, unlike me, actually made it all the way through All Hail Megatron?
I was hoping for more of a capsule of what happened in the first issue of the new series, but, while there was enough that I wasn’t lost, there are a LOT of gaps. Like what’s the deal with Spike? And the humans’ energon-powered mecha? Any reason the Cybertronians have been redesigned AGAIN?
I read some of the early modern Transformers stuff, but the constant stream of miniseries just… wore down my attention span.
Been a while for all this…
Comic store finally got in all the Blackest Night tie-ins they’d under-ordered. One would think that is the reason they have pull-lists – so the pull-listers get the titles – but, whatever. Anyway, they’re all sort of a jumble. JLA and Outsiders were rather horrible. REBELS and Booster Gold actually worked in showcasing why they’re good books while also having the BN stuff.
Supergirl seems improved by dropping most of that World Against Superman crap.
Brave & Bold was nice to see Kent Nelson again, even though we’re already Hal-overloaded now.
GL Corps continues to be awesome – bettern than the main GL and BN titles, really. Not too surprised to have seen what happened (except that last panel), but I actually think I started to feel sorry for Kryb.
Yeah, I’ve not been good about making sure to post every week…
Heck, I’ve not been good about making sure to buy each week.
I’ve only just caught up on my reading! NaNo gave me a gigantic backlog…especially since I’ve been collecting other stuff to read, too.
I’ll be travelling for a couple of days around the holiday, so I won’t get this week’s books until next Tuesday or thereabouts, in all probability.
My store sent out an e-mail, saying, “everyone knows the 30th is going to be a huge day in comics”. What’s the deal with Dec 30?
Blackest Night # 6 comes out. That’s it.
My comic guy informed me that the week after Christmas was going to be a “no comics” week.
Well nothing is shipping except for a special arrangement to get the next issue of Blackest Night. So it’s either sarcasm that can be taken two ways or a bit of hype.
As long as I’m posting in this thread…
I read the first two volumes of Promethea yesterday. I liked the story and hated the neo-pagan proselytizing. Even taken in a fictional context the more the ideas are explained the more they fall apart and I get annoyed at wasting so much time explaining them to me. Is it worth continuing or will there continue to be chapters consisting of nothing but nonsense about magic?
I’ve never been able to find books 3 or 5, but I found book 4 very entertaining - a brilliant take on King Solomon at one point. Then again, I don’t mind reading the neo-pagan-mystical stuff.
Anyone read Nova or Guardians of the Galaxy? Or is this an all-DC club?
I’m reading Guardians and I intermittently read Nova. It’s good stuff, but my enjoyment is hampered by my distaste for the overall Marvel status quo.
Remembered to buy comics today!
… And it was mostly Blackest Night. Except BN: Wonder Woman, which they sold out of even though it’s on my pull list. I’m seeing a pattern here.
Anyway, found BN: Teen Titans and BN: Batman/Superman to be uncompelling and rather dull. BN: JSA was pretty good. And Green Lantern finally gets to the Jon Stewart payoff on Xanshi, and was pretty good, too.
Superman still sucks, and still somehow makes me find Mon-El boring.
JSA was somewhat better than JSA All-Stars, but the split team still seems utterly random and uncompelling. You’d think at least they’d’ve remembered which team PG got randomly assigned to when drawing the cover art, though.
Detective Comics continues to be awesome; good story, gorgeous art. Good stuff.
I’ve dropped every Marvel Universe book as of last month’s issue of Uncanny X-Men, though I’m still reading a few non-616 Marvel books - <X> of Oz, The Stand, Spider-Man 1602, and X-Men Noir - just not a lot to say about them. Other than that they’re all very good. (Although 1602 explained something that had bugged me about the original 1602 - there was no reason to change Peter’s name, darnit.)
Over at DC, the backups are starting to drive me a bit nuts - I’m loving that they brought them back (and I don’t mind that they’re switching most of them to rotating casts), but the chronology on some of them - specifically, the Manhunter backup in Streets of Gotham, and the Captain Atom backup in Action - is driving me batty.
I don’t insist on chronology in different books lining up - if a Wonder Woman story and a Flash story that come out at the same time are clearly at different points, due to the characters’ status quo in a concurrent Justice League story, well, that’s fine. But when you’ve got closely connected (to the point of regularly crossing over) books, like the Bat-books, or the Super-books, having major plotlines diverging wildly is noticeable, and a bit annoying. Manhunter’s doing a Two-Face arc, primarily after Batman did an arc that involved Two-Face being driven out of Gotham. The last instalment of Captain Atom (2 weeks ago) clearly happens after this week’s Superman - probably significantly after - being based on communication between two characters who’ve only just met.
Manhunter’s less annoying, since it’s too long a story to dispose of quickly, given the backups being 1/3 to 1/2 the length of the main stories. But Captain Atom could have included a filler story, to put the encounter in the next issue, after this issue of Superman.
I was surprised at New Mutants #6 - which featured the return of Doug Ramsey (in yet ANOTHER return of the Living Dead storyline). I’m mad, because the whole idea of him using his ability to read/translate any language to include BODY language, making him an awesome fighter was one a friend of mine had 12 years ago, in an alternative universe fan story we were working on (but never completed).
Doesn’t help that a lot of stores decided to hell with street dates and started selling the Blackest Night #6 a week early.