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| Posted by: Jake Bell |
Thursday, March 15, 2007 8:07 PM |
First stop this week is a look at Dark Horse’s latest installment of the hit series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Series creator Joss Whedon takes the reins and slams us back into the life of Sunnydale’s favorite daughter. A year or so after the end of the seventh and final season of the television series, we see Buffy and her newly acquired legion of slayers still doing what they do best… beating the stuffing out of anything that goes bump in the night. We have the return of other favorites like Buffy’s slightly annoying sister Dawn and everyone’s favorite cyclopean handyman Xander. So far this book has me really pumped. The thought of seeing what happens after the destruction of Sunnydale and the horde of new characters and return of old favorites makes waiting 30 days for the next issue seem impossible. I don’t know what’s better the story or the all-star team of writers that will be writing the stories for the next year and a half. After Whedon, Brian K. Vaughan and Jeph Loeb put Buffy and crew through their paces. Man, can a book get better?
Buffy gets an A+ in my book.
As the weekly powerhouse counts down to the big climax and World War 3, we have been put through an emotional rollercoaster. Villains have been toppled, beloved characters have died and one man has had his world collapse around him...
...and now he's gonna collapse the world around everyone else.
Black Adam begins his rampage in 52 Week 45 and who can blame him? All his good works and all the people he loved have been destroyed. Now, even Death himself runs scared as the head of the Black Marvel Family seeks revenge on the world that turned on him.
This book gets better and better. I personally think that the upcoming countdown book will be even better. This is the best $2.50 a week I spent. Is there a higher grade than A+ I can give this?
Civil War: The Confession answers the age old question: Is Iron Man a jerk? The answer is yes, a massive one. That megalomaniacal technophile makes me think that the outcome of the battle was inevitable but that does not mean that it is right. The Marvel Universe has been changed forever by his actions. I hope that Captain America’s death will act as a rallying point for the Marvel heroes and that someone--preferably Namor--knocks Tony Stark down a few pegs.
B+ with room for adjustment if Namor shows up soon to finish the fight he never got to have in Civil War #7.
Now for the Lightning round, in no specific order.
Green Arrow #72: Batman and the Emerald Archer butt heads and poor Speedy has to face off against former Robin Jason Todd. A+
Detective Comics #829: Bruce Wayne stuck in a hostage situation where he can’t change into the Dark Knight. A break from the current Paul Din run but a fun read anyway… just not an awesome Dini story. B+ due to disappointing lack of DIni.
Chronicles of Wormwood #2: Garth Ennis weaves a fun tale of the reluctant Anti-Christ. This is a twisted and dirty tale full of crazed saints and foul-mouthed popes that leaves the reader craving more. A+
Gen 13 #6: A fun albeit slightly confusing romp with a newly revised version of the 90’s fan favorite team. C
Ghost Rider #9: This book is finally getting really good but reads way too fast. I felt like it was a flip book. I opened it, went WOW, and then I was done. C+
Green Lantern Corps #10: This was been one of my favorite books to come out of One Year Later. Gardner acts like an arrogant jerk... which is typical, and Natu makes good with the unwashed masses of Korugar. A great read. A+
Grifter/Midnighter #1: A fun book that would probably make more sense if the new WildC.A.T.S and Authority books came out more regularly. Fun none the less but it loses points due to the tardiness of the other titles. C+
Hack/Slash vs Chucky: An amsuing and well thought out crossover that ties Child’s Play slasher, Chucky, into the Hack/Slash universe. B+
Irredeemable Ant-Man #6: The new Ant-man is a bigger jerk than the old one and that is a feat. Finally big questions are answered and Eric O’Grady still is a character you love to hate, like the brother you never wanted. I don’t think I’d like this if it wasn’t for the cartoonish style of Phil Hester's art though. B
Mystery in Space #7: Man Jim Starlin packs a lot of words into a tiny book. Good art and amazing storytelling has turned a character I had never heard of into a character I can’t get enough of. If Capatin Comet got his own series, I would be a happy space cadet. A+
New Avengers #28: There was not enough Iron Fist in this book--call it an Iron deficiency. A little confusing and why does Silver Samurai have a thing for Lindsay Lohan? B+
New X-Men #36: The finale of Mercury Falling aka "the X-23 kills a buncha dudes story." Not a big fan of Girlverine and I feel like the rest of the team has taken a backseat to her lately. Wasn’t getting her own mini-series enough? C-
Stormwatch PHD #6: Explanations galore and the appearance of everyone’s favorite cosmic voyeurs, the Monitors. Everyone who knows me knows how much I love Christos Gage on this book, but this issue lacks Doug Mahnke on art so I only give it a B. |
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