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sdelmonteTeen Titans Year One 6 - Robin faces his demons. Or something like that. A fairly lightweight and slightly confusing issue wraps up this surprisingly good miniseries. My biggest problem is that a miniseries usually tells one story, and this one didn't. Otherwise, I will once again say that I wish DC would do an ongoing Teen Titans: The Early Days comic with this creative team. Alas, I don't think there is much demand for it.
Final Crisis: Rouges' Revenge 2 - Seeking to make an example of the Rogues, Libra sends a team of replacement "Rogues" after the originals. Naturally, the originals dispatch the newbies with extreme prejudice, after which Capt. Cold confronts his father, taken hostage by the newbies even though Cold hates the old man. As a fight scene, the battle between old and new is well done and shows that clothes and gadgets do not make the villain. As a tie-in to FC, it works (though I am still not really buying the whole "look at us, we're EVIL" idea). But in terms of advancing the presumed main plot of the miniseries - revenge on Inertia - it doesn't really do anything. Johns' skill at writing the Rogues and the appropriately scratchy art carry the book. Hopefully, the third and last part will tie things together well.
Runaways 1 - Yes, it's another first issue for Marvel's team of teen rebels, with new writer Terry Moore and new artists Humberto Ramos. And alas, while Joss is gone, Moore isn't doing much better. His take on on the team is as broad and as bland as Joss', he seems unaware that Xavin's preferred human form is female, and doesn't seem to know what to do with the team in the first place. Whatever made the book and team special in the Brian Vaughan Era continues to elude other writers. At this point, I am inclined to stop after the first issue.
Final Crisis: Rouges' Revenge 2 - Seeking to make an example of the Rogues, Libra sends a team of replacement "Rogues" after the originals. Naturally, the originals dispatch the newbies with extreme prejudice, after which Capt. Cold confronts his father, taken hostage by the newbies even though Cold hates the old man. As a fight scene, the battle between old and new is well done and shows that clothes and gadgets do not make the villain. As a tie-in to FC, it works (though I am still not really buying the whole "look at us, we're EVIL" idea). But in terms of advancing the presumed main plot of the miniseries - revenge on Inertia - it doesn't really do anything. Johns' skill at writing the Rogues and the appropriately scratchy art carry the book. Hopefully, the third and last part will tie things together well.
Runaways 1 - Yes, it's another first issue for Marvel's team of teen rebels, with new writer Terry Moore and new artists Humberto Ramos. And alas, while Joss is gone, Moore isn't doing much better. His take on on the team is as broad and as bland as Joss', he seems unaware that Xavin's preferred human form is female, and doesn't seem to know what to do with the team in the first place. Whatever made the book and team special in the Brian Vaughan Era continues to elude other writers. At this point, I am inclined to stop after the first issue.
