This Week's Comics: 52
Apr. 5th, 2007 08:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sdelmonteAs I haven't gotten to the comic shop yet this week, and will lay heavy odds that some of the comics I wanted are sold out, and as I found 52 at a newsstand on the way to work, this week's edition of reviews will be done in pieces.
52, Week Forty-Eight - Introucing Renee Montoya, aka The Question. She and Nightwing are racing the clock trying to find Batwoman, but get nowhere until they get an unexpected ally. Which doesn't help them stop Intergang from detonating part of Apokoliptian firepit generator, but does give them a lead. A lead that Renee follows without a face.
If you can accept that it was a necessary thing to redefine Renee as the next Question - down to having her dress exactly like Vic Sage used to - this is a good issue with a lot happening. I'm just not sure why we needed to take a character as strong as Renee and remake her in the image of an existing male hero. I wonder why Rucka - who mde her what she was priro to 52 - followed this path. Still, she makes a striking Question (thanks to great art by Darick Robertson), and the issue is worth reading.
But the big moment is the last page, where the Oolong Island crew makes an announcement.
Four issues to go, with the last now slated to be a 40-pager. There is still so much to be addressed with Skeets and Booster, with Black Adam and Intergang, and with Will Magnus. Plus we've been promised the final fate of Ralph Dibny. I think they can do it all, but ask me again in four weeks.
52, Week Forty-Eight - Introucing Renee Montoya, aka The Question. She and Nightwing are racing the clock trying to find Batwoman, but get nowhere until they get an unexpected ally. Which doesn't help them stop Intergang from detonating part of Apokoliptian firepit generator, but does give them a lead. A lead that Renee follows without a face.
If you can accept that it was a necessary thing to redefine Renee as the next Question - down to having her dress exactly like Vic Sage used to - this is a good issue with a lot happening. I'm just not sure why we needed to take a character as strong as Renee and remake her in the image of an existing male hero. I wonder why Rucka - who mde her what she was priro to 52 - followed this path. Still, she makes a striking Question (thanks to great art by Darick Robertson), and the issue is worth reading.
But the big moment is the last page, where the Oolong Island crew makes an announcement.
Four issues to go, with the last now slated to be a 40-pager. There is still so much to be addressed with Skeets and Booster, with Black Adam and Intergang, and with Will Magnus. Plus we've been promised the final fate of Ralph Dibny. I think they can do it all, but ask me again in four weeks.
