What’s the consensus on spoilers? Should they be boxed for this week’s comics? The TV threads don’t box spoilers after the episode has aired. Should we?
For now, I’ll box 'em but I’d rather not unless everyone else feels strongly that we should.
Astonishing X-Men: I want to like this book…but I don’t. Part of it is that I just hate the art. This Simone person really wants to be Alex Ross…and isn’t.
Trinity: More “Tarot” drivel. More “Cavemen retell us stuff we already know”. Lois is grossly out of character. More “Nothing actually happens”. Busiek has earned a LOT of credit with me for his other work and who knows…he may pull a rabbit out of his hat–that’s the ONLY reason (well…plus I LOVE Bagley’s art) I’m still buying it. If it was almost any other writer, this issue would be the capper for me quitting.
Tangent: Superman’s Reign: I’m surprised at how much I’m enjoying this. It reminds me of that Captain Atom: Armageddon thing where Atom ends up in Wildstorm–I didn’t expect to like it and ended up really enjoying it.
Supergirl: Eh. They really need to take time to let us get to know who the real Kara is–I liked how these guys fixed all the dumb inconsistancies in her origin, but now…who is she? And I don’t care about this Superwoman.
Justice League: Did I miss an issue? Wasn’t there a whole thing with the Dakota heroes? And Superman let Icon take…I dunno–Dr Light’s corpse or something? Was that it? If so, I’m pissed. I don’t like paying for 2-3 issues and not getting a story. That said–it’s kind fun reading Len Wein’s stuff. I grew up with him and he was a consistently competent writer (not a knock–he never had a hit series but if you saw his name, you knew you’d be getting a good story). This issue was very…retro. In a good way. You could give it to someone from 1978 and they wouldn’t blink.
Green Lantern: I’m not enjoying the Red Lantern stuff as much as the Sinestro stuff. I liked the issue, but honestly? I wish we’d get a break and get a few non-cosmic issues–GL vs Sonar or something.
Brave & Bold–I’m lost. I think I have to go back and read the last three issues.
Final Crisis Superman Beyond 3-D: Wha?..
…so…um. [ul]
[li]Is Mandrakk the big-bad? Or is it Darkseid? How does Darkseid tie in anyway?[/li][li]They said the multiverse was collapsing because Darkseid incarnated on New Earth over in Final Crisis. Here, they’re saying it’s cause of Mandrakk. I’d assume that this was just bad coordination between writers, but it’s the same guy[/li][li]Over in the Wildstorm-verse, the multiverse is “A theoretical snowflake existing in 196,833 dimensional space. The snowflake rotates. Each element of the snowflake rotates. Each rotation describes an entirely new universe. This is the multiverse”–but over in the DC verse, there are only 52 universes in the bleed/multiverse. Wha’?[/li][li]I saw the “Superman carries Bleed-juice in his mouth” thing a mile off. But since it’s not that hard to get into the Bleed–isn’t part of the Hall of Justice there?–now Superman has access to a universal cure-all? That’s…problematic.[/li][li]Who’s Mandrakk’s master. He point black says “The Master, my brother awakes.”–or is that another Monitor who just happens to look exactly like Mandrakk?[/li][li]Shouldn’t Superman have ended up in the future in the Legion of Three Worlds before coming back to earth? How does last issue of Final Crisis tie into this issue? [/li][/ul]
I have no idea what’s going on.
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