Here 'tis. Interesting hints in Outsiders; Mystery In Space references 52’s Lady Styx and we get to see Star Hawkins one last time.
FF comes the closest to a believable portrayal of Reed in Civil War yet (tieing with ASM last week, but it’s the same writer, and partially the same scene) but Sue says it best. “You’re not Reed.”
Nightwing takes a strong uptturn, though some will be turned off by the Crisis overtones that hearken to Brave New World #1.
Star Hawkins? Is Mystery in Space set in the future?
Apparently Star goes to the present and ends up a rather sad space drunk.
Refresh my memory, who’s Lady Styx again?
Detective Comics #842: I like the treatment of the Penguin here. “I even left you the belt!” A good story, with some cool guest stars, even if Paul Dini doesn’t seem to know how casino poker works (you can’t count cards, and you can’t break the house).
Jonah Hex #12: Extra points for centering around an obscure bit of western history. A peak at how Jonah found his calling, and the usual badassery.
The All-New Atom #4: Yeah, this town is horribly broken and I love it. Morrison designed weirdness + Simone fun = Teh win. If you’re not reading this one, folks, you’re missing out.
**Y The Last Man #50: ** I saw the first twist coming for months now. Hell, since the second TPB, the second one was unexpected, and just nifty. I do hope this story doesn’t stray too far off its path of social allegory into sci-fi weirdness.
52 Week 22: Huh. Well, that blows my second favorite guess at Supernova’s ID. After Booster from the future, of course. Also, yay! They’ve retconned away the big mistakes of the Metal Men, and returned us to something awesome. God bless you, SB’, and you’re hyper-chronal temper tantrums.
Mystery in Space #2: Dying in coming back in a younger body seems to be all the rage these days. Captain Comet (I refuse to call him just Comet, yeah, the first Comet is currently out of continuity, but you *really *don’t want to be confused with Supergirl’s equine lover) has a great little space opera mystery, and the Weird lives up to his name. They intertwine together very well.
It’s about time a writer actually made us feel some sympathy for someone on the pro-reg side. And ya gotta love the shout out to Tom Lehrer.
Atom - Pure brilliance. Pure, pure, unadulterated brilliance. ‘Acrazygiantredheadkissedme…andlongstoryshort: She ATE me!’ I want to have Gail Simone’s babies. I don’t care that she’s female and I’m male.
52 - I take rather unflattering glee in the context of the ‘Kon-El didn’t die’ line. The stuff with Magnus was fun.
Amazing Spider-Girl 0 - I’ve never read Spider-Girl before, so this was a nice intro.
Oops, forgot my favourite bit…The Fastback bus. Also, interesting…‘Silverblade returns! 10.13.06’ Random references to 80s series all over the place in this series…
Hmmm… :dubious:
Pre-Crisis Comet: Single being, magically cursed into two separate forms;
Peter David’s Comet: Two beings, resurrected from the dead by being spiritually fused into a single entity;
Jim Starlin’s Comet: Apparently resurrected from the dead by being fused with another entity.
Therefore, it seems inescapable that unless the new Comet swiftly acquires a legitimate captaincy, he will inevitably turn into a horse. Or a gay woman. Or perhaps both. Anyway, If I were him I’d buy a boat just to be on the safe side.
Can someone spoil this issue of 52?
The scary space nemesis that even Lobo is afraid of?
Detective continues to entertain, but I hate the covers badly.
The Atom is also a solid read.
<B>Harborwolf</b>, I wouldn’t say they portray the pro-reg side as <i>sympathetic</i>, at all. Straczynski just makes it remotely plausible that Reed would be going along with it.
[spoiler]Luthor’s men present their conclusions on the identity of Supernova: Kon-El. Lex immediately rejects it. He thinks its Superman. We also learn that Lex is incompatible with his own metagene therapy.
A trouble young man learns that he’s the heir to the mantle of “Super-Chief”. He smothers his grandfather (at the latter’s request?).
A person who had the Everyman treatment taken away by Luthor is approached by Steel.
Dr. Magnus has been cut off by the military, and is being stalked by SHADE. He’s afraid of going mad scientist again (the whole “Metal Men are mind transplants from living people and Magnus is an alien metal” is now only a delusion on Doc’s part), so he refuses to rebuild the other Metal Men as he did Mercury. Soulless Metal Men and what looks to be a Sentinel attack. [/spoiler]
Thanks, Menocchio!
I get my comics monthly now, and I’m way behind in these discussions. I was wondering if DC is going to put 52 in TPB. I hvae the first 13, and I figured that those 13 would’ve shown up in TPB by now.
They’ve stated that 52 will not be collected until it’s all over.
The theory behind this is that they really want people going to the store every week, and perhaps picking up some other DC books while they’re at it. They don’t want to make it too easy to wait for the trade.
Don’t get me wrong, 52 has been a great comic so far, but the format is a rather calculated sales gimmick.
So, guys, who’s Supernova?
I’m guessing it’s Booster Gold, faking out Skeets by using some time-travel shenannigans and a diffferent suit.
Second guess was Luthor, but that got killed today.
I, on the other hand, am greatly enamored of a theory I saw on a comics blog today, which was in turn borrowed from the Newsarama forums : Supernova = Ambush Bug.
There are a number of points in favor of it, including the teleportation-centric nature of Supernova’s powers, but my favorite of the reasons enumerated?
The Bug’s first appearance was DC Comics Presents… #52.
Is it me or is Teen Titans turning into the hunt for Carmen Sandiago?
YES!!!
And of course the only books I got this week that I haven’t yet mentioned are KODT and 52.
And I’m glad to see other fans of Irwin. 