March 2012
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Swamp Thing #2
The Swamp Thing that confronts Alec Holland at the end of issue one is not a new plant elemental but an old one that has come out of retirement to bring Holland a message. He said he died on May 3rd, 1942 and his name had been Calbraith A.H. Rodgers. He had left his rooting at the Parliament of Trees to find Alec.
This got me curious about the Parliament of Trees and the original DC Swamp...
February 2012
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Swamp Thing #1
As Alec Holland (I’m making an assumption here!) narrates the story, the reader sees Superman, Batman, and Aquaman watching as creatures die all around them in their respective homes.
Superman is represented by pigeons.
Alec Holland rambles on about plants screaming at him. Then a tornado hits an archaeological dig and scatters Mammoth bones everywhere. And Holland throws out a bunch...
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Justice League Dark #4
The Enchantress hit by Deadman and June Moone turned out to be an empty shell. But it still had power. It’s hunting for June Moone. Perhaps Enchantress can’t quite keep her world sane enough to function without June Moone being a part of her. Does that also mean June Moone needs Enchantress? Probably. They probably need to merge to save the world from the destruction Madame Xanadu...
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Justice League Dark #3
Issue three is called ‘Shibboleths and Alcohol.’ So I think it’s going to focus on John Constantine. It begins with Enchantress (I don’t know if it’s The Enchantress or just Enchantress. I’m probably the only one who cares) sitting by the side of the road full of resentment and rotten teeth. Madame Xanadu must have helped her out of the envelope. My guess is...
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Justice League Dark #2
After Zatanna immobilizes Batman, she rushes off to find a city filled with vines and glowing green bugs feeding off of humans. The Enchantress speaks to her through a car radio, blaming her for whatever the Enchantress is currently going through. Perhaps in a pre-9-11 society (that’s the new 9-11, September ‘11, when DC flew a bunch of editors into their established storylines),...
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Justice League Dark #1
Madame Xanadu begins the tale jabbering about the future and some such nonsense. She’s throwing her Tarot Cards around the room and blabbing on and on about wickedness and innocence. Whatever! Stop looking into the future and just deal with the present! It’s practically the same thing! Madame Xanadu is basically a police woman standing in the middle of a prairie with a police baton...
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Red Lanterns #4
Living on the planet Ysmault is a bit like living in the Big Brother house. When you think you’re in control, that’s when you become the most paranoid.
Except instead of a pool, you have a blood ocean. And instead of a hammock, you’ve got the corpse of the Mad Guardian Krona. And instead of voting each other out of the house, you just tear each others’ throats out....
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Red Lanterns #3
I don’t think the Red Lantern rings actually do anything except cause the wearer to vomit bloody acid. I guess the rings let them fly and breathe vacuum. Or breathe in a vacuum. Or make Oxygen for the wearer to breathe out of the microscopic space dust that must exist in the vacuum of space for the ring to convert into Oxygen. Or maybe Power Rings just have the ability to make something...
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Red Lanterns #2
First off, Kitten Red Lantern did not make an appearance in this issue so I drew some fan-art of him.
Atrocitus is hanging out on the planet Ysmault wondering where to start on his Universal Vengeance Quest.
Atrocitus: Man. The universe is soooo biiiig! Where do I start?
Atrocitus: Does some pain demand greater vengeance? Srsly! Do I start by vomiting all over those Junior High School...
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Red Lanterns #1
Let’s try this again!
Red Lanterns is the 3rd title in the new 52 with a Teen Plus rating. Hopefully that means Milligan can be a little freer with his storylines. The cover of the 3rd issue has that Red Lantern from New Guardians (the one with skeleton wings and garters and boobs and a butt) looking sexy while being soaked in blood.
This garners a Teen Plus rating? Bah! Apparently this...
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Red Lanterns #0
I’m quite excited to read a new comic series by Peter Milligan. And not only do I get to read one new one, I get two with Justice League Dark as well! Two in a row even!
I don’t know how good a writer Peter Milligan really is. He did a fantastic job with Shade the Changing Man. I found something about Shade’s odd, tentative, destructive, crazy romance with Kathy George...
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New Guardians #4 Update
I should apologize to Tony Bedard. I’ve been reading the Green Lantern comics fairly quickly because I’ve got such a backlog of comics to get through and haven’t been giving them the focus I should. For the most part, I’ve been reading the comics while writing a stream of consciousness blog. As questions come up in my mind, I spit them out on the blog. I speculate about...
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New Guardians #4
I really like this cover even though it’s a total lie and has nothing to do with the comic inside.
Let’s start at the end and work backwards to see if this storyline makes any sense. I’m of the opinion that it doesn’t but I might convince myself otherwise as I work through it. And starting at the end is like starting at the beginning because the end is the big reveal of...
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New Guardians #3
Did the cover artist not get the notice that Ganthet’s hair has been cut?
I really, really, really want to like this comic. I’m hoping it all comes together eventually. I’m hoping that it slowly reveals the reason for all of these different color rings internally instead of relying on the reader’s previous knowledge of the Green Lantern storyline. I would go ahead and...
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New Guardians #2
So a brawl breaks out in New York just like Issue #1 promised. First, the Red Lantern does this:
Is this what I have to look forward to in Milligan’s Red Lanterns? Month after month of bloody vomit?
And then the Sinestro Corps Member does this to Kyle:
I bet those building contractors are wishing they’d listened to Green Lantern 2814.3 now!
And then the Star Sapphire utters...
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New Guardians #1
Oh! There’s Kyle!
New Guardians doesn’t tell us when in the New 52 timeline it occurs. It doesn’t say NOW or TEN YEARS HENCE or SIXTEEN YEARS AGO or LAST CONTINUITY or anything that explains anything. But Ganthet has a pony tail so it either takes place before Green Lantern #1 or long enough after Green Lantern #1 for Ganthet to regrow his ponytail. But all of the other...
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Green Lantern Corps #4
John Stewart and a handful of other Green Lanterns are taken prisoner by the aliens. They’re brought back to the aliens homeworld where they must cross a vast expanse called the Emerald Plains. The entire way has imprints of Green Lantern Batteries.
Okay. So these aliens have some sort of sick obsession with the Green Lanterns. Like I thought earlier, their homeworld has most likely...
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Green Lantern Corps #3
The issue begins with the Green Lanterns being overwhelmed by a titanic force of invaders. And, *le sigh*, here is Guy Gardner’s reaction:
Really, Guy? That’s your comparison? Custer had it tough? Custer who was trying to force the Lakota back into government reservations through violence and intimidation? Custer who led the attack on the Native American village at Little Big...
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Green Lantern Corps #2
The Green Lantern Corps begin investigating what happened to the dead Green Lanterns. We know the first two Green Lanterns killed belonged to Sector 3599. And then their rings zipped off to find new fingers. How do those new recruits learn to be a Green Lantern? Does the ring download all the information they need into their heads? And do they have the opportunity to reject the ring’s...
Dear DC Comics: a letter from a female fan about...
remybannach:
Dear DC Comics,
Hi. Let me start off by saying that I absolutely adore you. While I originally favored Marvel comics, in the last few years you’ve really won me over and I cannot say I prefer one over the other. And also let me say that you have some really fun artists drawing for you. Like Adam Hughes; he is one of my favorites and constantly draws beautiful, breathtaking...
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Green Lantern Corps #1
Yay! Guy Gardner & John Stewart together!
I’m not sure why anybody would read the normal Green Lantern title when all of the best Green Lanterns are in this comic book! Guy. John. Kilowog. Probably G’nort. (is that G’nort in-between Guy and John?) Maybe G’nort is too silly for the New 52. This is the new Millennium, dammit! Silliness shall be left behind!
I hope...
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Green Lantern #4
The fights between Green Lantern and Sinestro were always my favorite parts of the old Super Friends cartoons. Even though Sinestro could have just shot yellow bullets at Green Lantern and there was nothing he could do about it, he never did. He would always play the game and make a giant glove to catch Green Lantern’s giant green balls or something stupid. That cartoon is mostly all I know...
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Green Lantern #3
This issue begins by showing us that Carol Ferris is just as stupid as Hal Jordan. So they probably deserve each other.
Her phone rings. She looks at the screen to see who is calling. And then she answers, “Hal?” And it isn’t Hal. Unless this Tom guy has Hal’s phone or Hal keeps his number blocked from his girlfriend, I must come to the conclusion that Carol is an...
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Green Lantern #2
Art Direction for Green Lantern Aliens: “Who cares how they function? Just make ‘em weird!”
Sinestro creates a new Green Lantern ring with his green lantern powers and gives it to Hal Jordan. I suppose this means Hal’s ring and power will be subservient to Sinestro’s. At least until Hal gets a real ring.
Does the uniform automatically appear when the ring is...
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Green Lantern #1
Green Lantern #1 begins with Sinestro being freed and given a new Green Lantern and Ring. Then all the little blue Oans gang up on Ganthet, possibly because he’s the only one wearing a little green and white bib instead of red and white robes. One of the Oans, while trying to convince Ganthet that giving Sinestro a ring was a good idea [My note: Probably not a good idea.], says that thing...
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Red Hood and the Outlaws #4
The question, “What does Crux want?” is finally answered!
The snow globe the Outlaws found last issue bring them to Middleton, Colorado. Why? Because the snow globe said Colorado on it! And Colorado only has the one city. They check for leads in a bar where we see the residents of Middleton are either big, giant oafish men…
Or itght-assed, perfectly-breasted women.
I...
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Red Hood and the Outlaws #3
Future Perfect Progressive!
The team continues deeper into Cliché Valley. And since they’re deep in the Himalayan Mountains where everything is much more profound than the rest of the world, they encounter a 4,000 year old boy smoking a dozen hookahs from his ancient Papasan chair while guarding the entrance to the Chamber of All.
Also, he’s entirely hairless.
This old kid...
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Red Hood and the Outlaws #2
This comic book will be either action packed or very confusing.
This issue begins one and one half years previously. I think I’ll start a timeline and label the years AFP (After Flash Point) and BFP (Before Flash Point). Year One will begin with most of the new 52’s first issues. Any comic that declares the time is now will begin in the current year and month. AFP 1 begins November...
In Which the Ghost of Richard F Burton Frightens...
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Red Hood and the Outlaws #1
You can’t tell by this cover but Starfire’s outfit is boots.
The series begins with Red Hood (Jason Todd, formerly dead Robin) breaking Roy Harper (formerly Speedy but I can’t imagine he’s keeping that name) out of a prison in Qurac. It’s not unbelievable that they succeed. It’s not unbelievable that Roy Harper can fire eight arrows and kill eight guards...
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Birds of Prey #4
Ha ha ha! I knew David Finch was dying to get his hands on these Birds!
Is this a Birds of Prey story about them in their teenage years? I think David Finch draws men twenty years older than they truly are and women fifteen years younger. I wonder if he walks around and sees the world this way as well. I bet if he’s ever accused of statutory rape, he can use his art as a defense.
Finch:...
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Birds of Prey #3
A bunch of the initial pages of this issue are filled with Katana and Starling trying to kill Poison Ivy. You know, because Poison Ivy is a whacko Arkham Asylum loony nutjob terrorist murderer. But if she can help the team, Black Canary is willing to overlook those faults! And all it takes for the others to go from trying to kill her to welcoming her on the team is for Poison Ivy to save their...
“She’s American, my love—her tattoos mean nothing.”
– Tatsu Yamashiro
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Birds of Prey #2
Yes! Shoot the new recruit in the face, Starling!
This Issue starts off with Katana slaying a bunch of assassins that have come after her for some reason. Also, she’s talking to her husband’s soul in her sword! Yay! This makes me very happy.
Her slaying technique is boring.
Back at the airport, Dinah and Ev (Black Canary and Starling) steal pieces of the exploded journalist and...
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Birds of Prey #1
Why do the Birds of Prey call themselves the Birds of Prey? Are they using the British slang for Birds? So they’re chicks who prey on evildoers? You know, since Black Canary is the only actual bird in the group. Unless that girl with guns has a bird name.
I hope this comic book is good because it has Katana in it. I hope Katana’s sword still has the soul of her husband still...
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Nightwing #4
I don’t know why this cover has me in the mood for jokes but here it goes. I’ve got two of them for you and they’re themed. You’ve probably heard the first one but I have to tell it to set up the second one.
Joke #1: A grasshopper walks into a bar. The bartender says, “Hey! We’ve got a drink named after you!” So the grasshopper says,...
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Nightwing #3
Clownton Abbey!
The Joker Clown behind the truck on the cover had a big meltdown in the first issue about having to wear a green wig! And he should have! I’m not sure clowns can be funny in Gotham. Even without the green wig, as soon as he ran into the ring, not only the children but the grown-ups as well would run screaming from the tent.
Here we see a flashback to five years ago....
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Nightwing #2
Last issue, Nightwing said this guy was quicker than he was. So I expect this cover to end with Nightwing minus one leg.
We left Nightwing lying at the base of a busted water tower with a bunch of broken ribs and a maniac about to kill him! I have a secret wish that this comic only has one panel in it! STAB!
Does that normally happen on Friday?
By the way, Saikou in Japanese means...
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Nightwing #1
Worst cover of all time.
What exactly is the concept of this cover? Nightwing is falling from the roof of a building where he’d been spastically playing the drums? And the best way to break is fall is to squat like a frog and land on his crotch? And why all the bats? And Nightwing’s name on top of the Bat Symbol? Is that so everyone will buy this title?
With a character like...
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Catwoman #4
The last time this title was used for a storyline, the Joker sold a Nuclear Bomb to terrorists, became the ambassador to the United Nations, and killed Robin. I don’t think this ‘Death in the Family’ will be quite so outrageous.
This time, Catwoman attends a funeral, meets with an old friend, robs some drug dealers in an alleyway, and gets her ass kicked by some telekinetic...
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Catwoman #3
That’s a strangely shaped room. Also, Bat Joke.
Catwoman escapes from the clutches of Boner’s men and then hunts him down. She beats him up on the top of a building and then is about to push him to his death for killing her friend Lola when Batman arrives and convinces her not to.
She does it anyway even though she knows Bats will save him. And she takes off back to the...
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Catwoman #2
Does that Gargoyle have a Prince Albert?
Okay, now that the Batman and Catwoman sex scene is out of the way, we can move on with the rest of the comic. Hopefully, the first issue is a sign there will be a kind of reversal of the usual Catwoman/Batman relationship. Usually it’s filled with sexual tension and blue bat balls. But now, right from the start, BANG!
Now I hope Batman will be...
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Batwing #3
Who wants to bet it isn’t their final battle? Well, maybe their final battle together since Thunder Fall could die.
We’re never getting back to the present!
During this little walk down memory lane, we learn that David and his brother Isaac were natural born killers. At least killers of armed men. They would not harm the women and children of a village and when their commanders...
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Catwoman #1
Here is Catwoman. Her super power is being sexy and acting like a cat. Gotham is really just a town full of Furries. Or Otherkin. You know, there are probably quite a few Plushies as well, like the Ventriloquist.
This is the second comic series of the 52 that has a Teen Plus rating. Batwoman was the other title. So if the title of your comic has ‘woman’ in it, you’re going...
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Batwing #2
Some people and/or robots might not have understood my synopsis of the first issue of Batwing so before I begin with Issue Two, I’ll do a quick recap of Issue One.
Batman gives some guy named David Zavimbe a Batman Franchise in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Oh, by the way, doesn’t the name ‘The Democratic Republic of Congo’ sound like they’re trying too...
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Batwing #4
There it is. The today tag again. And this is two weeks after Massacre has been killing people for three weeks. And the opening of issue one took place six weeks before Massacre came on the scene. So we’ve got one week left until the fight by the pyramids and Batwing realizes Massacre is his brother Isaac. Unless it’s his husband Isaac? No, wait, that’s a different story.
...
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Batgirl #3
Where are they fighting? What’s she swinging on so high in the air? Why does Nightwing have a Magic Wand?
Batgirl #3 begins with Batgirl (big surprise, eh?) trying to foil the dastardly plan of THE MIRROR (I don’t know why he’s called that!). He’s planning on blowing up a train so that some guy that fell into a coma on the tracks should have been hit by the train but he...
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Batwing #1
Yes! A comic book about Batman’s plane! This comic must be pretty exciting. Except it’s not on the cover! How can a comic’s main character not be on the cover? Stupid comic book. Maybe that guy with the bat symbol is Batwing. But who is he? Does he have to pay Batman for franchising rights?
I wonder why he’s in Egypt. Is he Egyptian? Is this the Batman, Incorporated...
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Batgirl #4
Is The Mirror called The Mirror simply because he’s supposed to be a reflection of Barbara Gordon? Sort of like The Joker is a reflection of Batman? And Bizarro is a reflection of Superman? And Sinestro is a refraction of Green Lantern? That was a joke!
Because his mirror power doesn’t seem to do shit. Maybe it’s just because people with survivor’s guilt have a tough...
