Getting back into the swing of reviews.
Legion of Super-Heroes #26
There are times when I feel this comic is really just treading water: we’ve had Supergirl for a while, and now Mon-El is back, but those events just don’t seem to have much resonance anymore. We get a lot of exposition, with the origins of the Ranzz kids recapped. Finally, towards the end, we get what the cover promises: Giant Robots.
And, you know, any comic with Giant Robots automatically becomes better. Giant Dominator Robots are even better. I liked the cockiness of Supergirl, Mon-El and Ultra-Boy thinking that they could handle anything, only to fail (though Mon-El seems a little too familiar with members of the team, calling Brainiac 5 “Brainy” at one point).
I admire what Mark Waid is trying to do here, but the pacing on this comic is extremely leisurely. Plodding, almost. In itself, that’s not a bad thing, but combined with the limited amount of character development, it becomes a very generic comic. But I’m still intrigued by the whole Dominator angle (and how it eventually fits in with the rest of the DC Universe).
Robin #158
So, Robin and Klarion team up to save the latter’s magical cat.
That’s a pretty awesome concept, and it works fairly well. Seeing the different styles of the two characters make this a worthy outing. The weirdness of the whole "Judgement Beast" creature and Robin’s general inability to deal with the whole magical angle combined to make this a very good arc.
I think of all the One Year Later comics, Robin ends up being the most consistently enjoyable.
52: Week Thirty-Eight
This series really annoys me. Each month, there’s four new issues and each month, there’s usually one issue’s worth of decent story development. But since there’s a new issue every week, I overlook the failings. The series itself is totally forgettable: each issue is like cotton candy: really cool looking, but with a fleeting, insubstantial taste.
Even though I read the issue two days ago, all I really remember from it is Will Magnus acting weird and Renee dragging Vic around in the snow.
Helmet of Fate: Ibis the Invincible
While reading this comic, I felt a strong sense of deja vu. Let’s see: teenager is tapped by a powerful being to take over for him, but the powerful being dies before passing on enough information. Heck, that’s the origin of a lot of heroes, but I was reminded of the Son of Vulcan mini-series from a year or so back (probably because it was so recent).
Still, this was an interesting story, with a Deus Ex Machina ending, but it was inoffensive enough. I liked the Detective Chimp story much more, though.
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“Even though I read the issue two days ago, all I really remember from it is Will Magnus acting weird and Renee dragging Vic around in the snow.”
….don’t forget the terrible cover where you can’t actually work out what bit of what monster thing goes where.
January 28th, 2007 at 12:42 pm |