This Week's Comics - 52, The Spirit
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sdelmonteNow with extra rant regarding 52's end.
The rant first...DC has announced that 52 will end with something called World War Three. OK, it's another big blowout battle, and while I can't say I wanted another, this isn't a surprise. Though I can't see the point since the battle is before all the current DC books and the DCU doesn't have the look of a world that had another crisis.
But then DC announced four specials tied into this. And that bothers me. 52 was supposed to be a standalone. The idea was you could spend your $105 on 52 and not have to worry about any crossovers. Well, so much for that. Yes, it could be a lor worse, but I really don't like that DC is trying to take more of my money when they said otherwise. Guess what I am not going to buy?
Anyway, I don't think missing the spinoffs will affect my enjoyment of 52. Only the actual ending will. But till then, we have 15 weeks. And this week, we have the Big Reveal...
52, Week Thirty-Seven - The cover, with Booster Gold's relfection in Skeets' faceplate and Supernova's in the rest of Skeets' body, says it all. Supernova is Booster Gold! (Which I think many of us suspected, but whihc I didn't until last week.) Rip Hunter hid himself and then Booster as part of a cunning scheme to buy Rip time to confront Skeets. That really was Booster's body, in fact, but just not from now. Too bad Skeets seems to be ready for BoosterNova (even if he didn't guess the truth). But the fight isn't over yet.
Meanwhile, Ollie is making strides in his run for maoyr of Star City, but still worried about Ralph Dibny, and in space, Lobo conducts a memorial for Buddy and parts ways from Starfire and Adam, but fate, and the aliens who remade Buddy Baker all those years ago, are not done with Animal Man yet.
Tons of exposition from BoosterNova, but it works (in part because Rip tells him to keep talking and stalling). And a good reveal. I am glad that Booster is back, and not the total idiot we thought he had become. But I will be happier once we see just what Skeets is up to.
I'm also glad Buddy is alive, but this now makes three non-deaths in this series. It gets a little predictable.
The Spirit 2 - P'Gell, the temptress who's made trouble for the Spirit for ages, has her sight set on a new husband, an Arabian prince. The Spirit is not going to let this happen. Only there is more than meets the eye.
Or so Darwyn Cooke wants us to think. While the art and pacing are great, the story is a muddle of politcally incorrect and overtly lustful Arabs, political asides that don't amount to much, and a misguided effort to give P'Gell a backstory. She was fine without one for years. She doesn't need one this hackneyed. And unforturnately, the Spirit takes a backseat in a comic where (at least for the first few months) he should be the star. Yes, I know that he often was not the star in the Eisner comic. But that was only after his presence was established. Not a terrible comic, but not a great one, either, and not what I want to see here.
The rant first...DC has announced that 52 will end with something called World War Three. OK, it's another big blowout battle, and while I can't say I wanted another, this isn't a surprise. Though I can't see the point since the battle is before all the current DC books and the DCU doesn't have the look of a world that had another crisis.
But then DC announced four specials tied into this. And that bothers me. 52 was supposed to be a standalone. The idea was you could spend your $105 on 52 and not have to worry about any crossovers. Well, so much for that. Yes, it could be a lor worse, but I really don't like that DC is trying to take more of my money when they said otherwise. Guess what I am not going to buy?
Anyway, I don't think missing the spinoffs will affect my enjoyment of 52. Only the actual ending will. But till then, we have 15 weeks. And this week, we have the Big Reveal...
52, Week Thirty-Seven - The cover, with Booster Gold's relfection in Skeets' faceplate and Supernova's in the rest of Skeets' body, says it all. Supernova is Booster Gold! (Which I think many of us suspected, but whihc I didn't until last week.) Rip Hunter hid himself and then Booster as part of a cunning scheme to buy Rip time to confront Skeets. That really was Booster's body, in fact, but just not from now. Too bad Skeets seems to be ready for BoosterNova (even if he didn't guess the truth). But the fight isn't over yet.
Meanwhile, Ollie is making strides in his run for maoyr of Star City, but still worried about Ralph Dibny, and in space, Lobo conducts a memorial for Buddy and parts ways from Starfire and Adam, but fate, and the aliens who remade Buddy Baker all those years ago, are not done with Animal Man yet.
Tons of exposition from BoosterNova, but it works (in part because Rip tells him to keep talking and stalling). And a good reveal. I am glad that Booster is back, and not the total idiot we thought he had become. But I will be happier once we see just what Skeets is up to.
I'm also glad Buddy is alive, but this now makes three non-deaths in this series. It gets a little predictable.
The Spirit 2 - P'Gell, the temptress who's made trouble for the Spirit for ages, has her sight set on a new husband, an Arabian prince. The Spirit is not going to let this happen. Only there is more than meets the eye.
Or so Darwyn Cooke wants us to think. While the art and pacing are great, the story is a muddle of politcally incorrect and overtly lustful Arabs, political asides that don't amount to much, and a misguided effort to give P'Gell a backstory. She was fine without one for years. She doesn't need one this hackneyed. And unforturnately, the Spirit takes a backseat in a comic where (at least for the first few months) he should be the star. Yes, I know that he often was not the star in the Eisner comic. But that was only after his presence was established. Not a terrible comic, but not a great one, either, and not what I want to see here.
