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sdelmonteSorry I'm late, folken, but with two holidays bookending the week, I just got caught up...
Spoilers? Maybe.
52, Week 4 - Well, after a month, I'm hooked enough to keep reading happily and with a degree of fannish anticipation. This despite wanting to slug Booster Gold. The Booster arc is getting dull, but thankfully the rest is not. Week 4 focuses on Montoya and the Question, and it's clear that Rucka is having a ball with two of his favorite DC characters. If these two are as well-written in six months as now, I will be happy.
Superman/Batman 26 - This is the special issue plotted by the late Sam Loeb, son of writer Jeph Loeb. Sam, as some of you no doubt know, died last year from cancer, only a teen. To honor Sam, Loeb got a whole bunch of friends - friends like Joss Whedon and Brian Vaughan and Jim Lee and so forth - to write or draw a page or two of the story, with the proceeds from this comic going to a scholarship fund set up in Sam's memory.
This could have been a mess. But the story itself - Superboy and Robin having a grand time of it on a mission - was simple and fun to start with, and everyone involved gets into the spirit. And for once DC's editors do a great job of making a whole from the pieces. Never mind that this is a worthy cause and a fine tribute. It's just a fun comic (as well as a reminder of why I wish Superboy hadn't been killed off).
Oh, and there is also a short "Superman for All Seasons" story that serves as Jeph Loeb's own tribute to his son. And it's damned good.
BTW, this is Loeb's final work for DC prior to his exclusive contract with Marvel. While I think his work for Marvel has been more consistent, he's done some great things for DC. I hope he can find his way back to Metropolis someday.
Runaways 16 - Thigns are not going well for the team, while Geoffrey Wilder seeks help. A good read, but the story is dragging. Vaughan also throws in a brief scene with an astronomer who doesn't believe in ETs. Never mind that the scene was (well-written) filler. How can anyone in the Marvel Universe not believe in aliens?
Spoilers? Maybe.
52, Week 4 - Well, after a month, I'm hooked enough to keep reading happily and with a degree of fannish anticipation. This despite wanting to slug Booster Gold. The Booster arc is getting dull, but thankfully the rest is not. Week 4 focuses on Montoya and the Question, and it's clear that Rucka is having a ball with two of his favorite DC characters. If these two are as well-written in six months as now, I will be happy.
Superman/Batman 26 - This is the special issue plotted by the late Sam Loeb, son of writer Jeph Loeb. Sam, as some of you no doubt know, died last year from cancer, only a teen. To honor Sam, Loeb got a whole bunch of friends - friends like Joss Whedon and Brian Vaughan and Jim Lee and so forth - to write or draw a page or two of the story, with the proceeds from this comic going to a scholarship fund set up in Sam's memory.
This could have been a mess. But the story itself - Superboy and Robin having a grand time of it on a mission - was simple and fun to start with, and everyone involved gets into the spirit. And for once DC's editors do a great job of making a whole from the pieces. Never mind that this is a worthy cause and a fine tribute. It's just a fun comic (as well as a reminder of why I wish Superboy hadn't been killed off).
Oh, and there is also a short "Superman for All Seasons" story that serves as Jeph Loeb's own tribute to his son. And it's damned good.
BTW, this is Loeb's final work for DC prior to his exclusive contract with Marvel. While I think his work for Marvel has been more consistent, he's done some great things for DC. I hope he can find his way back to Metropolis someday.
Runaways 16 - Thigns are not going well for the team, while Geoffrey Wilder seeks help. A good read, but the story is dragging. Vaughan also throws in a brief scene with an astronomer who doesn't believe in ETs. Never mind that the scene was (well-written) filler. How can anyone in the Marvel Universe not believe in aliens?
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