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JSA #15: I'm growing increasingly disenchanted with this "JSA: Year One", everyone seems way out of character, and I feel like continuity is bing nchanged in unnecessary and unproductive ways. If I keep buying this book, it'll be out of inertia or my touch of SFCS*.
Ultimate X-Men #23: On the other hand, I'll miss this book when it ends, and I hope that it's npt the end that I'll see of these characters. In particular, Maystorm (Mei Igarashi) is one of my favorite new charaqcters to come along in a long time.
*Stands for "Sad Fanatical Completist Syndrome"
Due to my situation at home, I've been pulling out some older trades that I had scanned but never fully read.
This week is S.H.I.E.L.D. by Lee & Kirby: The Complete Collection. I am reliving those early days of SHIELD with Nick Fury in command, taking on HYDRA, Mentallo & the Fixer, the Druid and THEM/AIM.
It starts with Fantastic Four #21 (D'63) where Colonel Nick Fury of the CIA manipulates the mentally altered FF into defeating the Hate-Monger with his astonishing secret! Sgt. Fury was out for seven months at this point, removing any dramatic tension for Fury's fate!
That must not have bothered Stan because in Sgt.Fury Annual #1 (S'65), he revealed that the entire squad survived World War II and fout in Korea! At almost the same time, Dum Dum Dugan and Gabe Jones appeared as top level SHIELD agents, with no explanation as to how and why they joined, except for loyalty to Fury.
There was also the introduction of Jasper Sitwell, SHIELD Academy graduate, eager to pleae and eager to make speeches. Fury was in equal measures impressed and annoyed with him!
Created at the height of the Spy Craze (Bond, UNCLE, Flint, Helm, Smart, etc), it is an entertaining read when Nick Fury wason the same level with the other Marvel heroes.
WONDER WOMAN BLACK & GOLD 2026 SPECIAL:
Four stories by a variety of creators. Needless to say, the best of the batch is written by Tom King. That would be true even if the other three were good, which they weren't, particularly. I can't recommend this one.
The Avengers #800
I Hate Fairyland #47
I enjoyed Criminal Volume 6: Last of the Innocent (Brubaker/Phillips), though I thought it rushed towards the conclusion with a couple too many plot conveniences. Still, it is kind of a Blue Velvet take on Archie, without touching the actual Archie characters, and it works on its own terms.
DC KO: The Kids Are All Fight Special #1
DICK TRACY #15 (MAD CAVE):
This issue finally brings the first storyline to an end. I started buying this series as a curiosity (and it is that), but the first story just went on, and on, and on. I hate to abandon a series mid-story, plus I kept thinking this can't go on much longer. It takes some rather extreme liberties with the source material, but it's better than that wretched Warren Beatty movie. Next up is a St. Patrick's Day special in March, then in April #16 is touted as a "new jumping on point!"
NEW COMICS I HAVE READ TODAY THIS MONTH:
AROC OF ZENITH: I'm up to episode #274.
(No Good as Dead #5?)
Shipped today.
PLANET OF THE APES VS. THE FANTASTIC FOUR #1:
I have bought all of these P.O.T.A. crossover series even though every single one of them has been objectively awful (perhaps that's why I buy them), and this one is no exception. It starts with the Watcher (Uatu, that is*), peering into two realities that have never collided... "until today!" It opens with the Fantastic Four on trial, at a point between the original movie and Beneath, then flashes back to an encounter between the Red Ghost and his super apes, when a malfunction of Mr. Fantastic's di-quantum stabilizer (or "quantum destabilizer" I should say) threw them them into this reality. (The device's "cosmic frequencies" served as "a beacons for interdimensional/interchronal travel," you see.) The FF are without their powers, but before the dust settles, Dr. Zaius has the Thing's powers, General Ursus the Human Torch's, Cornelius Mr. Fantastic's, and Zira the Invisible woman's. Back in our reality, the Red Ghost has an audience with Dr. Doom.
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