Comics for the week of May 26, 2010 (mildly spoilery)

[Doc Beechler (mod-MD)]

Archie #609 - Wow, the for-now ending to Archie and Val's romance was very well done and implies that she, not Betty or Veronica, could be Archie's true love.  Nice.

 

Secret Avengers - Gave it chance because of Brubaker and Hank McCoy and really, really liked it.  It's echoing back to 80's Marvel Two-In-One storylines...very cool.

 

War of the Supermen #4 - All of the toys are shoved back into the box...ugh, glad that whole thing is over.  Bring on JMS and Paul Cornell!

 

Super-Friends - Rose was very pleased to have found Marlin and Dorrie in one of the Aquaman panels.  :)

[Doc Beechler (mod-MD)]

Brian Hibbs has read the worst comic book of his life...(the f-bomb is dropped quite a bit here)

http://www.savagecritic.com/brian/i-have-read-the-worst-comic-i-hav...

[Alan M.]

Doc Beechler said:

Brian Hibbs has read the worst comic book of his life...(the f-bomb is dropped quite a bit here)

http://www.savagecritic.com/brian/i-have-read-the-worst-comic-i-hav...

I love the tautology of that post's title.... It's kind of a truism, isn't it?

[ClarkKent_DC]

Is this an accurate description of the contents of this book?

[Doc Beechler (mod-MD)]

ClarkKent_DC said:

Is this an accurate description of the contents of this book?

Yes.

[Rich Lane]

ClarkKent_DC said:

Is this an accurate description of the contents of this book?

I generally dislike "worst comic ever" rants, but I have to say, I may have read worse comics than this one in my life, but at the moment, I can't think of any.

Well...maybe the "JUSTICE!" miniseries that spawned this dreck itself might qualify.

[ClarkKent_DC]

Julius Schwartz and Mort Weisinger must be rolling over in their graves. How something as inane as that was thought to be professional-level work at the company boggles the mind.

[Figserello]

Doc Beechler said:

Brian Hibbs has read the worst comic book of his life...(the f-bomb is dropped quite a bit here)

http://www.savagecritic.com/brian/i-have-read-the-worst-comic-i-hav...

That was hilarious! Anyone who looked the way Arsenal did in the 90s obviously has a very tenuous grip on sanity anyway...

What's he doing for an arm these days?

I thought Cheshire's child was currently being used as fodder in the current highly entertaining Secret Six slaughterfest? Did she have one by Red Arrow and one by Catman? Maybe a whole litter by a passel of befuddled heroes and anti-heroes? Having all her children kidnapped and murdered may expalin why she applied the wrong nail polish by mistake.

[Rich Lane]

Apparently, Cheshire's hobby is seducing guys in spandex and getting impregnated by them.

Figserello said:

I thought Cheshire's child was currently being used as fodder in the current highly entertaining Secret Six slaughterfest? Did she have one by Red Arrow and one by Catman? Maybe a whole litter by a passel of befuddled heroes and anti-heroes? Having all her children kidnapped and murdered may expalin why she applied the wrong nail polish by mistake.

[Figserello]

The way the DCU is run these days, its hard to be sure if you're joking or not...

[Captain Comics]

I just read Green Arrow #32 last night, and noticed that it was especially bad. Not as bad as Fallen Sun: Sentry, but bad enough to notice that it was really, really bad. Bad enough that I checked the credits to see who had vomited it from their keyboard, and it was a name I was only familiar with through DC's hype machine: J.T. Krul. I don't know how long he's been writing Green Arrow, but I do know he'll be writing it for the foreseeable future, which is now sounding ominous, because Arsenal #3 sounds even worse than Green Arrow #32, which was worse than Arsenal #2 (which I also found bad, but not atrocious.) So evidently he's getting worse.

Did he have anything to do with Cry for Justice? Because they need to come up with some new synonyms for "awful" for that whole mini.