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sdelmonteBuffy the Vampire Slayer – Season Eight 11 – Buffy copes with news of rogue slayers, the slayer in love with her, her feelings of alienation, and her first battle with Twilight. In another words, just another day at the office. A stellar script and strong art make this a great read from cover to cover, even as Joss seems to be setting up bigger and rougher stuff. Twilight is formidable and even if he is the bad guy, he does raise troubling questions about what it means to have so many slayers out there. Oh, and BTW, Xander owns this series. It’s amazing how well-written he is, even among the well-written.
Detective Comics 841 – The Mad Hatter is back, and is assembling his “Wonderland Gang” of similar Lewis Carroll-inspired villains. Only something isn’t quite right. Dini and Nguyen have a lot of fun creating these new (if unsuccessful) baddies, which means we have some fun, too. But there is a bit too much exposition, and the story is a bit on the basic side. Not quite up to what we know Dini can do, but still pretty good.
Fables 69 – And they all lived happily ever after (they being Flycatcher and most of his subjects)…
And that’s the problem with the conclusion of “The Good Prince.” While there were a lot of interesting bits, and while Flycatcher is an interesting character, everything seems amazingly pat. As it has at many points in this nine-part saga. It was never dull or anything less than interesting, but it never really tested this reader’s faith in the writer. In short, the arc was as suspenseful as an episode of The Flintstones . I know at least one of you will dispute this assessment, for which I apologize. But I call it as I see it, and will echo something that another of my f-list readers said, that once the Adversary was revealed, the tone of the series changed. Fables is still a good comic. But between being around for close to five years, with a spinoff and two specials, and with more of focus on the fairy tale worlds and less on the Manhattan Fables in Mundania, I am ever more sure that Willingham should be thinking about how to end this. Yes, there are many stories to tell. But perhaps not all of them need to be told just yet.
Teen Titans Year One 2 – Flash, Aquaman and Green Arrow join Batman in acting Weird. And Robin, Kid Flash, the easily overwhelmed Aqualad and Speedy are looking for answers. Or help. Can a new arrival named Wonder Girl help? There are only about 15 pages of story in this 22 page comic, but the art by Karl Kerschl is great, and the story is fun and lighthearted, as we would expect from a writer who came from the recent Teen Titans animated series. This isn’t brilliant, but we need more comics like this. Comics that you could actually give to a 12 year old!
Detective Comics 841 – The Mad Hatter is back, and is assembling his “Wonderland Gang” of similar Lewis Carroll-inspired villains. Only something isn’t quite right. Dini and Nguyen have a lot of fun creating these new (if unsuccessful) baddies, which means we have some fun, too. But there is a bit too much exposition, and the story is a bit on the basic side. Not quite up to what we know Dini can do, but still pretty good.
Fables 69 – And they all lived happily ever after (they being Flycatcher and most of his subjects)…
And that’s the problem with the conclusion of “The Good Prince.” While there were a lot of interesting bits, and while Flycatcher is an interesting character, everything seems amazingly pat. As it has at many points in this nine-part saga. It was never dull or anything less than interesting, but it never really tested this reader’s faith in the writer. In short, the arc was as suspenseful as an episode of The Flintstones . I know at least one of you will dispute this assessment, for which I apologize. But I call it as I see it, and will echo something that another of my f-list readers said, that once the Adversary was revealed, the tone of the series changed. Fables is still a good comic. But between being around for close to five years, with a spinoff and two specials, and with more of focus on the fairy tale worlds and less on the Manhattan Fables in Mundania, I am ever more sure that Willingham should be thinking about how to end this. Yes, there are many stories to tell. But perhaps not all of them need to be told just yet.
Teen Titans Year One 2 – Flash, Aquaman and Green Arrow join Batman in acting Weird. And Robin, Kid Flash, the easily overwhelmed Aqualad and Speedy are looking for answers. Or help. Can a new arrival named Wonder Girl help? There are only about 15 pages of story in this 22 page comic, but the art by Karl Kerschl is great, and the story is fun and lighthearted, as we would expect from a writer who came from the recent Teen Titans animated series. This isn’t brilliant, but we need more comics like this. Comics that you could actually give to a 12 year old!
