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OK, I was in the neighborhood of my LCS today, so I stopped in and picked up this week's books. And while I’ve been cool on Lemire in the past, I really loved JSA! An arguing JSA is *exactly* how I first encountered them in the 70s, between tensions between the old guard and the “Super Squad,” and then it all getting exacerbated by the Psycho Pirate! So yeah, JSAers arguing with each other, and otherwise separated from each other, was old home week for me. This feels more like 70s All-Star Comics than 90s JSA, and I'm here for it.
Prowler 1-3 - This is an Eclipse series from the 80s written by Timothy Truman. Has this been part of your Truman reading, Jeff? I learned yesterday this series only went 4 issues, so I kinda wish I had that one. I'm just not sure if the story actually wraps up or its just in limbo. That being said, it was just "okay"
Star Wars: The Battle of Jakku - Insurgency Rising #1 (of 12) - Well, that's a mouthful. We're finally getting some comics post-Jedi and I'm interested to see where we are going. Marvel doesn't have Darth Vader to lean on now as a big baddie or as someone to carry his own series. We do have a new bad guy, Grand Moff Adelhard, who is trying to keep the Empire together. As well as some new Sith bad guys of some kind, or maybe something different. I'm not sure.This had 2 stories. The first one had Leonard Kirk on art, which I usually enjoy, but there was something off with it, that I can't put my finger on.
What If...#15: The Fantastic Four Had Lost the Trial Of Galactus. Well, Reed Richards dies. The Fantastic Four goes on a rampage, and end up destroying the Shi'ar homeworld. The other alien races decide they must destroy the Earth in retaliation. Unbeknownst to them that the Skrulls plan on destroying the alien force (and their "allies") as well as the Earth. Then taking over the that galaxy. The FF discover this, and sacrifice themselves to save the alien armada. learning of the sacrifice, Earth is spared and invited to join the alien alliance. Not too bad. Written by Roy Thomas, and man I forget how much he likes to fill up the pages with text. Made it a slog.
WildC.A.T.s - X-men: Golden Age - Really just Zealot and Wolverine meeting in World War 2. They meet and stop the Nazis from summining a Daemonite something or other. It was okay, but it does make me realize how much I miss Travis Charest's art. I've alwasy loved it.
WildC.A.T.s - X-men: Modern Age - A true meeting between the two teams, as a member of the Hellfire Club tries to...wait for it...summon a Daemonite something or other. A rare instance of Adam Hughes doing interior art. Homestly, both comics were pretty good. What I also enjoyed was in the back of each comic it has reprints of "virgin" printings of both covers of the comics.
Prowler 1-3 - This is an Eclipse series from the 80s written by Timothy Truman. Has this been part of your Truman reading, Jeff?
Actually it has not, but Total Eclipse has kind of put me in the mood, so I may rotate it in soon.
I'm just not sure if the story actually wraps up or its just in limbo.
After #4 comes Total Eclipse, then the story moves into a second four-issue limited series, Revenge of the Prowler, which ends with the classic "action hero explosion walk."
Oh, there's an Airboy Meets the Prowler one-shot as well.
Oh cool. Thanks for the info!
I've just started reading David Collier's Morton: A Cross-Country Rail Journey, a rather wordy but potentially interesting graphic novel about a middle-aged man's musing-filled journey across Canada by rail.
I finally got around to reading the end of (and re-reading the first two-thirds of) the most recent Fables revival (issues 151-162) by Bill Willingham and Mark Buckingham. It wasn't quite as gripping as the absolute best of the series -- I missed the sprawl of it, and a lot of the characters who went by the wayside with the official finale -- but it pulled me right along, and I enjoyed the heck out of it.
Avengers Assembled #3
The Question: All Along the Watchtower #1
I wish I were more sold on the new Question series. I like the Question, I like Renee, I like the premise of a mystery for the Justice League’s head of security to solve, and I like Alex Segura’s writing. And yet I finished the book and felt like I was missing something.
I think, ultimately, I just feel a yawning disconnect between the Question and the job she’s been called to do. It’s simply not why I love the character — even this version of the character, who’s been more embroiled in DCU goings-on than Vic Sage ever was. Also, I don't like the gun at all. Not only do I hate seeing the Question with a weapon like that, but also the idea of it being some sort of science-fiction paralysis/teleportation gun makes it worse, not better. This is a character built for the real world, and we’ve strayed pretty far afield.
That said, I’ll be reading the rest of this on DCUI, and will likely enjoy it as it goes along. It’ll probably be a fun romp, the poor redshirt notwithstanding. (When he showed up, I thought, how nice! Someone’s remembered him! Maybe some of the new characters will show up in the new Challengers book — there’ve been a good dozen or so people who could call themselves Challs at this point. One less, now.)
Segura seems to have an especially good handle on Renee’s alcoholism; her characterization is the one real selling point of this series for me. I’m just not sure how long her grounded perspective can hold up against preposterous androids that attack out of nowhere. Hopefully the new Green Arrow storyline will show DC there’s still a market for heroes and villains made of flesh and blood. I haven't been a fan of the Green Arrow series up to now, but I think the new, street-level direction Chris Condon is bringing to the series has promise. And maybe it'll make up for the lack of a recognizable Question series in my life.
Recently I have been reeading DC Finest: Superman, The First Superhero at the rate of one story per day. Currently I am between Action Comics #16 and Superman #2.
How's it look? I've only seen the Batman DC Finest out in the wild so far; if my LCS ordered any of the Superman or Wonder Woman volumes, they were for people's pull lists. Just as well; I won't feel guilty buying them online for much cheaper than cover price. The Wonder Woman book should arrive in the mail before Thanksgiving.
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