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sdelmonteWhat's that inside this week's issues of Jonah Hex, Outsiders and Y - The Last Man? Why, it's an ad for Masters of American Comics, the new comic book exhibition that is coming next week to The Jewish Museum and The Newark Museum. The ad is also in the new issue of Wizard. How cool is that, that we bought ads in DC comics?
And because I needed to get copies of the comics with the ads, we have two extra things in the review pile. (As Y is at issue 49 of 60, and doesn't appeal to me, I am not reading it.)
I am disappointed that there was no ad in 52 or Detective, though. And the new American Spelndor comic would have been a perfect place, but it has no ads (which is not a bad thing in itself).
Onto the spoilers...
52, Week 18 - In Kandahq, Black, Renee, Charlie and Isis meet. In Marseilles, Detective Chimp recruits Ralph Dibny to solve a supernatural locked door mystery, one that leads to Egypt. And in Cincinnati, Booster gets a sad farewell and Skeets meets someone familiar. The sequence with Renee, et al, was a bit forced, but the entire Renee-Adam-Intergang plotline is about to take off. The rest of the issue was quite intriguing, with Detective Chimp stealing the book, and with Ralph still in a bad way but clearly not a madman. Things continue to come together.
Detective Comics 823 - Something is after Poison Ivy, and only Batman can help. As a mystery, once again this comes up short. But as a Batman story and as a character study of a villain, it's on a par with Dini's best TV work. It would be nice if this comic had a regular artist, but the art is still pretty good. And the ending is great.
Outsiders 40 - I haven't read this since the first two issues, and I can't say I feel like I've missed much. There's a lot of fighting involving Katana and a shadow Metamorpho, but not much else. It's all kinda dull. But it's a good place to run our ad, since our show is not meant for the kiddies, no more than this comic is.
Jonah Hex 11 - I've been hearing great things abut this book, so I'm glad to have had the chance to try it. The art is great, and the atmosphere is strong, but the story was just okay, and Hex is such a bastich that I think I'd get annoyed with him on a monthly basis. He was a lot more tolerable in the 1990s miniseries by Lansdale and Truman, if still as ornery. Far more intriguing is El Diablo, an avenging spirit of the Old West who shares his body with a mild man named Lazarus Long. If DC gave him a miniseries, I might be ready to buy.
And because I needed to get copies of the comics with the ads, we have two extra things in the review pile. (As Y is at issue 49 of 60, and doesn't appeal to me, I am not reading it.)
I am disappointed that there was no ad in 52 or Detective, though. And the new American Spelndor comic would have been a perfect place, but it has no ads (which is not a bad thing in itself).
Onto the spoilers...
52, Week 18 - In Kandahq, Black, Renee, Charlie and Isis meet. In Marseilles, Detective Chimp recruits Ralph Dibny to solve a supernatural locked door mystery, one that leads to Egypt. And in Cincinnati, Booster gets a sad farewell and Skeets meets someone familiar. The sequence with Renee, et al, was a bit forced, but the entire Renee-Adam-Intergang plotline is about to take off. The rest of the issue was quite intriguing, with Detective Chimp stealing the book, and with Ralph still in a bad way but clearly not a madman. Things continue to come together.
Detective Comics 823 - Something is after Poison Ivy, and only Batman can help. As a mystery, once again this comes up short. But as a Batman story and as a character study of a villain, it's on a par with Dini's best TV work. It would be nice if this comic had a regular artist, but the art is still pretty good. And the ending is great.
Outsiders 40 - I haven't read this since the first two issues, and I can't say I feel like I've missed much. There's a lot of fighting involving Katana and a shadow Metamorpho, but not much else. It's all kinda dull. But it's a good place to run our ad, since our show is not meant for the kiddies, no more than this comic is.
Jonah Hex 11 - I've been hearing great things abut this book, so I'm glad to have had the chance to try it. The art is great, and the atmosphere is strong, but the story was just okay, and Hex is such a bastich that I think I'd get annoyed with him on a monthly basis. He was a lot more tolerable in the 1990s miniseries by Lansdale and Truman, if still as ornery. Far more intriguing is El Diablo, an avenging spirit of the Old West who shares his body with a mild man named Lazarus Long. If DC gave him a miniseries, I might be ready to buy.
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Date: Sep. 7th, 2006 07:13 pm (UTC)The Jonah Hex series has been filled with absolutely superb storytelling, but the stories are extremely mature. And in some cases, downright disturbing. Be warned.