This Week's Comics - 52, Fables
Dec. 20th, 2006 01:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sdelmonteIt's Christmas in both Fabletown and the DCU, and happily, it's a time to celebrate good comics.
Type your cut contents here.52, Week Thirty-Three - In Central City, Ralph is looking for something of Sue's at the Flash Museum. In Gotham, Alfred leads the carollers while Dick gives Batwoman a special gift, and she then helps Renee cope with Charlie's descent into delirium. In Metropolis, Lex gives his team of heroes expensive cars, but laments his "failures" until he gets his own twisted Christmas miracle. We get glimpses of the hoiiday throughout the DCU, from Buddy Baker' s wife in San Deigo to Metropolis to Gotham (where Jim Gordon is back) to deep space. After the holiday, the Black Adam Family, trying to prove that Adam has changed, reveals their true powerless selves, but the new Suicide Squad is ready to take them down.
Wow. So much is packed in here, and all of it is well done. Except...
I gotta give DC a hard time on this. Kate Kane has a Hanukkah lamp. It has six branches. As does one that Guy Gardner makes for a holiday display. Yes, the menorah in the Temple looked like that, and the artists looked at the wrong reference. But this seems like a really basic and silly error. A small one, given that this is a weekly comic with ana amzing amount of stuff going on. But it's really hard for me to miss. (Unless the DCU Hanukkah is only six days long? A shorter miracle?)
Otherwise, this was just good comics, full of gripping and occasionally gut-wrenching scenes (especially for fans of the Denny O'Neil Question comic book). We get character moments, advancement of plot, and a holiday spirit sometimes joyous and sometimes not, and never cloying. The best single issue of this in about two months, and one that maintians this book's promise.
Fables 56 - Ten extra pages of story (with a fair 50 cent price increase) allow us to visit with Snow and Bigby and the cubs, and with Rose and Blue, as we meet that jolly old Fable himself, Santa Claus. And as we might expect, there is more than meets to the eye to Santa, as is made clear when he visits Flycatcher with a terrible gift. Again, the holiday spirit is strong, this time balanced out by a sense of the dark times to come for the Fables, and enlivened by an all-too rare visit with Snow and Bigby, arguably the most beloved characters in the series. Willingham and Buckingham and company finish the year with Fables remaining the single best comic book out there.
Wow. So much is packed in here, and all of it is well done. Except...
I gotta give DC a hard time on this. Kate Kane has a Hanukkah lamp. It has six branches. As does one that Guy Gardner makes for a holiday display. Yes, the menorah in the Temple looked like that, and the artists looked at the wrong reference. But this seems like a really basic and silly error. A small one, given that this is a weekly comic with ana amzing amount of stuff going on. But it's really hard for me to miss. (Unless the DCU Hanukkah is only six days long? A shorter miracle?)
Otherwise, this was just good comics, full of gripping and occasionally gut-wrenching scenes (especially for fans of the Denny O'Neil Question comic book). We get character moments, advancement of plot, and a holiday spirit sometimes joyous and sometimes not, and never cloying. The best single issue of this in about two months, and one that maintians this book's promise.
Fables 56 - Ten extra pages of story (with a fair 50 cent price increase) allow us to visit with Snow and Bigby and the cubs, and with Rose and Blue, as we meet that jolly old Fable himself, Santa Claus. And as we might expect, there is more than meets to the eye to Santa, as is made clear when he visits Flycatcher with a terrible gift. Again, the holiday spirit is strong, this time balanced out by a sense of the dark times to come for the Fables, and enlivened by an all-too rare visit with Snow and Bigby, arguably the most beloved characters in the series. Willingham and Buckingham and company finish the year with Fables remaining the single best comic book out there.
