Late, but here!
Kind of a light week this week, unfortunately…
Black Lightning Year One - I knew that it was going to end as it did for Whale, as soon as the Big Bad showed up. I was a LITTLE surprised it happened quite the way it did (Whale initiating), but not that much.
X-Factor - Major uptick in quality since last issue, which is good - I wouldn’t even have bothered picking this one up, because last issue was the worst of a bad run almost since Messiah Complex, but, then Layla showed up on the last page, and…argh - still, depending how the Layla plot goes, I might still end up doing so.
Young X-Men - The good: Dust’s alive. The bad: It may have turned her evil. The meh: It’s over. It was never a great book, but it was shaping up into a good one, at the end. But, still, no great loss.
Uncanny X-Men - (Geeze…X-Book heavy week for me.) Scott’s always been a bit of a twit, but he’s never come across as naive as he does in his conversation with the mayor - hell if anyone should know that what they’re doing, and what they’ll be perceived as doing won’t necessarily line up, it should be him, since he’s been on the team forever.
X-Men Noir - (Told ya!) Nice ending - complete closure, unexpected, but perfectly logical twist, still open for a sequel (which I want to see)
Supergirl - I wish they’d just tell us who Superwoman is, or at least make it a simple mystery…this bouncing back and forth between different red herrings is getting obnoxious. If she IS Allura (I still doubt it), she’s acting even more insane in her behaviour toward Kara than otherwise. Sad thing is, the way she’s been acting, even without that factor…I can’t really rule it out on that basis. Just that it’s too obvious, and there are two many scenes where the implied timeline doesn’t work.
Outsiders - Still liking it better than Dixon, and he’s writing Katana very well, but turning Metamorpho into Plastic Man is rather odd. And I don’t think Rex’s run-down of who everyone is as their ‘parts of Batman’ makes real sense, in the context of the team’s mandate - they’re going ‘off the grid’ so they can do what other teams, other heroes, can’t. They don’t need, and shouldn’t have, a Robin for that - or, at least they should be an outside balance, rather than an active member of the team. The whole ‘heart of the team’ idea is silly, whether it’s Jeff, or J’onn, or whoever. And Brion’s role is redundant to Alfred’s. Katana representing Batman’s personal dysfunction and history doesn’t make sense in a tactical sense. Still, that aside, the book’s enjoyable.
Quiet week for me. Got an issue of GL Corps I had missed (#33 which made #34 make a lot more sense), Trinity, which I’m basically just following because…at this point I guess it’s easier than stopping, and Supergirl which I’m finally enjoying. Well, I’ve been enjoying it for a while now, but I’m glad they got past that “evil killer Kara-false memory” thing.
I think Alura was probably always more than a little crazy and Zor-El was helping her stay sane, though whether through medication or just kindness and love I don’t know. His last words to Kara were “Watch out for your mother,” not “look after your mother” or “take care of your mother” so I think Kara will soon realize her mom has mental problems, possibly directly related to Kara for some Kryptonian reason.
As I see it now, Superwoman is Kryptonian and her costume protected her from Reactron’s K-blasts. While she’s working for General Lane (unwillingly?) she’s under orders to keep her identity secret and she won’t let on to Reactron that she is Kryptonian. I don’t know if she’s Alura or not, although it wouldn’t surprise me.
Um… ditto for me.
And I also agree that they should just reveal Superwoman and stop with the red herrings.
I’m liking that the Supergirl book actually has a direction now. 