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Doom Academy #5: I enjoyed this, it was OK, but if you told me that it had begun life as a Strange Academy storyline that got adapted to fit in with the current Doom "event", I wouldn't perish from astonishment, I can tell you that.
New History of the DC Universe #1: This also OK, but it's very reminiscent of the Marvel history from a couple of years ago, except that it's narrated by a retired (?) Barry Allen, instead of Franklin Richards and Galactus.
I've been making fitful stabs at reducing my "to be read" pile by actually reading some of the books in it. Some thoughts:
* Ghost. This is the old series from Dark Horse about a woman who was murdered and comes back as an avenging ghost. In the early going, there is a mystery about who she is, how her powers work (sometimes she's solid, sometimes not, and sometimes she can be wounded by her adversaries), and why she was murdered. It turns out that she is Elisa Cameron, a reporter; finding out more is a fitful effort because she has the tendency to kill people with her twin .45 automatic pistols just after she gets some minor clue. That's because a lot of the people she encounters are sleazebags in sordid trades like prostitution, sex trafficing and porn movies. In one issue, she rescues her sister Margo from filming a porn movie, and Margo's reaction is "What am I going to do for money?" I've always read this series in bits and pieces, but I'm going to follow it in a concentrated chunk. One plus is it has Adam Hughes art, and art from other artists who hew close to his style.
* Detective Comics. I found from the dollar bin a run from 2017-18 during DC Rebirth. The stories were about a seige on Gotham City by the League of Assassins, and a long one about Tim Drake going full fascist, creating an algorithym and and army of operatives to control all crime in town. I also found a later run from about 2022 with a storyline about Arkham Tower, in which they finally did what I thought should have happened long ago: bulldozed Arkham Asylum to the ground and built a new, modern facilty with better security AND better treatment care for the inmates. Unfortunately, it's a scam; the director is getting his positive results because he's using the Psycho-Pirate to keep the imates docile long enough for the federal and state funding to come through he can embezzle itt. I came to the conclusion that as much as I like Batman as a character, they aren't writing these stories for me. I grew up with a Batman and Robin that were in single-issue stories where they were detectives who did some detecting. Not months- and years-long epics where there isn't a moment to breathe, let aloine for Batman to act in his civiilian identity. I've long lamented that Bruce Wayne has essentially been written out of the Batman books, and nothing in these runs refuted that.
* Zatanna and Fire & Ice. I find myself buying more four- and six-issue miniseries rather than ongoing series, and these two are hitting the sweet spot.
* Self Help. This follows the adventures of an ex-con turned rideshare driver who happens to resemble a wealthy TV self-help guru who rakes in millions of dollars telling people they are losers. Fate conspires for said self-help guru to ride with the ex-con to a party in the Hollywood Hills. After the guru insults the dirver by calling him a loser, the driver makes him get out ... and the guru loses his footing on loose rocks and falls down the hill. His plea for help from the driver, however, is rejected: "Only you can help yourself," the driver tells him. The driver proceeds to the party and attempts to impersonate the guru, except he doesn't know enough to pull it off. He doesn't even know what he doesn't know; namely, that the guru is in bed with the Russian mob. Fortunately, the guru has a savvy assistant to help the driver fill in the blanks.
* Black. This is an indie, Kickstarter effort, about a world where only Black people develop superpowers. If focuses on one teenage kid who has powere no one has ever seen, bringng him to the attenion of two groups. One is the X-Men-like group that wants to bring folks like him in and teach and train them in how to use their abilities; the other is the eeeEEEvil government group that wants to imprison them and use them for nefarious purposes. It was an okay and thoughtful ride.
*Gotham by Gaslight: The Kryptonian Age. This six-issue series expands on Gotham by Gaslight, introducing versions of other DC heroes who toil in this Victorian world. About all it does is introduce them; it ends when the story is just getting started, but promises to pick up again later.
* Jonny Quest. This ongoing series opens with Team Quest somehow shunted 60 years into the future -- that is, our modern day.. Efforts to go back to the past bring them into contact with an elderly Jonny and an equally elderly Hadji Singh (never knew his last name) and a young woman who could be the granddaughter of Race Bannon and Jezebel Jade. They also have to fight off an AI version of Doctor Zin. Very entertainng!
* Dick Tracy. A blood-and-guts version of Dick Tracy's story, as he and a small team (Pat Patton, Tess Trueheart) tear through The City (could be Chicago, could be Gothem) searching for a serial killer targeting criminals.
There's more, but thems for starters.
Self-Help is (for me at least) a fairly difficult book to follow, albeit one with an interesting premise. It took me a while to realize that the protagonist is already using a different false identity when we first meet him.
NEW COMICS I HAVE READ TODAY THIS MONTH:
What I have read this week, or the at least theones I feel like mentioning.
Gatchaman vol. 1- Cullen Bunn writes and Chris Batista supplies the art (on most of it), of new adventures of the old anime. Not bad, as the Science Ninja Team Gatchaman stops the mechanations of Galactor. We also meet the team who is training to be their replacements if they ever...die.
Team Zero - This is a World War II comic out of Wildstorm of all things. Written by Chuck Dixon with art by Doug Mahnke. We have some of the familiar codenames here like Deathblow and Backlash. As well as some I am assuming some new ones like Cowboy and Claymore. Hell they could all have been modern day characters I don't know. Anyway, the team assembled to go behind enemy lines, of course, to bring back some German scientists and as much of their research as they can. Then burn the rest. They have to do this and escape before the Russians showup. Everything goes to hell of course. This was a pretty tight 6 issue miniseries. Good stuff.
DC Comics Presents #85 - This is the issue written by Alan Moore and co-stars the Swamp Thing. The main reason I mention this is, because this was the issue that completed by run of the series. Yay me!
The Magic Flute - This is P. Craiig Russe's adapatation of the Mozart opera that came out through Eclipse in 1990. I really liked it.
Marvel Spotlight #28-29 - Moon Knight's first solo adventure. It was okay. I did love it for the overcomplicted death trap for Moon Knight's girlfriend. She is tied up by her feet over a water pit full of crocodiles with a bag of sand keeping her up. The villain Conquer-Lord (terrible name and costume) then pokes a whole in the bag, and she will slowly be lowered into the pit as the bag leaks out. He also makes Moon Knight play a live game of chess, but MK can only move across the board like the knight does. The other squares are booby-trapped if he doesn't move correctly.
CAPTAIN AMERICA #1 (LGY #772):
I don't know how many people are left on the board who even read comics anymore, but if you're one of them, you should try the new Captain America #1
I'm eagerly anticipating its arrival on Marvel Unlimited, a few months from now!
FANTASTIC FOUR #1 (LGY #727):
As much as I liked the new Captain America #1, I disliked the new Fantastic Four #1.
I liked it... but as a first issue, I feel like it'd be better at a bigger size, combined with the next issue. It's a great cliffhanger (I think), but I really want to binge to the next chapter immediately.
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