July 2012
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Justice League International #10
Should I even read this comic? Are the JLI just going to get beaten down again?
The Justice League International return from their vacation in Paris because New York is in trouble again. On the first page, August General in Iron gives a bio of all of his teammates.
Batman. Quiet. Determined. Driven.
Booster Gold. Irreverent. Brash. Leader-in-training.
Godiva. Lacks confidence. Secretive. A...
June 2012
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Worlds' Finest #2
Is Hakkou committing The Angry Dragon on Power Girl?
Last issue, I assumed that Power Girl and The Huntress made it to Earth 1 via Mister Terrific’s Quantum Tunnel Backwash. But he appeared on Earth 2 in Earth 2 #2 in a totally different Quantum Tunnel. My suspicion now is that Steppenwolf tried to escape using a Boom Tube as all of the Parademon Control Towers were crashing from...
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Green Arrow #10
So he’s been cornered by the editors at DC Comics?
Hopefully this issue of Green Arrow will have a blurb describing what’s been happening. The only thing I remember is Green Arrow had sex with three women at once (triplets!) and Green Arrow never did recover that Polar Bear he was looking for. Oh! Speaking of Polar Bears! Join me in the next paragraph for a little bit of Lost (the...
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“While Green Arrow is at the bar, Regan Skylark enters Cordelia Skylark’s room...”
– Me commenting on Green Arrow #9. Yeah, I just fucking quoted myself!
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Animal Man #10
When I look at this cover, “Who Wants To Live Forever?” plays in my mind. This is one of the least convoluted connections my mind tends to make so I’ll explain it (many of you possibly beat me to it and don’t need this explanation): Queen did the music for the movie Flash Gordon. Just before ordering the Hakwmen to attack, the lead Hawkman, Mr. Feathers, says, “Who...
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Swamp Thing #10
How bloody can it really get? Arcane’s fighting a plant.
Well, it’s bloody because Anton Arcane has just tortured the reader nearly to death. Well, not the reader. The listener because Anton is telling a story about Abigail Arcane to the victim at his feet. But I said the reader because the comic is from the point of view of Arcane’s soon-to-be-dead victim.
This is how...
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Stormwatch #10
The weirdest thing about the creature attacking Apollo is its haircut.
Stormwatch is currently researching Super Heroes. After Red Lanterns #10, they feel like they’ve got a pretty good handle on ways to defeat Green Lantern. Now they’re investigating the other big names. If Stormwatch is so good at watching and controlling everything, they should have already stolen all of the...
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Red Lanterns #10
Last issue I thought The Red Lanterns were ready for a plot. But now they’ve been distracted by Stormwatch! Good going, Apollo and Midnighter!
While the Red Lanterns, once again, fight amongst themselves (although this time in space since the planet Ysmault is breaking up beneath them), Atrocitus heads off on his own special mission to find Abysmus. He feels an energy that seems to be the...
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Earth 2 #2
Garrick’s costume is garish.
The first page of this comic brings Mister Terrific to Earth 2.
Okay, so I was wrong about the portal last issue bringing Mister Terrific from Earth 1. But then who was the the lone figure coming over from Earth 1? Mystery!
Mister Terrific finds himself in the middle of a downtown square where, once again, the big screens playing television and showing ads...
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Action Comics #10
Genesis 10:8-9: “And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.” So basically, Nimrod was such a mighty hunter before the Lord that people would gasp, “That’s Nimrod the might hunter before the Lord!”
Maxim Zarov, codenamed...
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G.I. Combat #2
DC didn’t think dinosaurs would work two covers in a row? Come on! Fuckin’ dinosaurs!
Last issue, I noticed that both stories weren’t full length and thought maybe that would be a normal thing. But then I realized: I bet both stories last issue were meant to be Men of War back-up stories. I still think it’s a slap in the reader’s face to cancel one war title and...
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The Ravagers #1
So, DC did this. Mislabeled Lightning and Thunder right on the introductory cover. Yay for quality control!
Somehow, I get the feeling nobody working on any comic with The Ravagers in it actually cares about The Ravagers. In one of The Culling issues, the creative team had the wrong character acting as Terra. And now right on the cover of the first issue, they’re giving the fans incorrect...
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Grunge's Death in Superboy
mangacide commented:
I think Grunge was a Ravager as well but it seems like they only brought him out in Superboy so that Kon-El could kill him. Which is really disappointing ._.||
My reply:
I didn’t realize Grunge was a Wildstorm character until I noticed a forum post on the Wildstorm Characters making appearances in the DCnU while searching for some other tidbit of information. I...
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Voodoo: The Only Comic in The New 52 Worth...
Donnymuppeteat comments:
Ok… So you have some problem with Williamson… That aside Voodoo is the only DC title worth reading unless you like the same old same old Batman and Sups stories. Unless the do a new Wildcats book I’m done with this company at the end of Voodoo’s run.
My Response:
Well, yeah! I don’t personally have anything against Voodoo! If she were...
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Batman Incorporated #1
This makes the 7th comic in The New 52 where Batman is the lead character or a member in the main team. Plus 7 other Bat-Family titles. DC Comics: We’d be fucked without Batman.
I’ve never read any previous versions of Batman Incorporated, so this whole shebang will be new to me. I first heard of Batman, Incorporated from the pages of Batwing or Batwoman. Is it Bruce Wayne’s...
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Animal Man Annual #1
Event the Animal Man Annual covers suck.
I have a feeling that this Annual will have nothing to do with the current story arcs going on in either Animal Man or Swamp Thing’s regular comic book. That’s because Animal Man #9 ended with the Baker Family meeting John Constantine and I don’t see him anywhere on the cover of this comic book! I guess judging what’s in the comic...
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Batman Annual #1
Good news, Doom Bunny! This is the last Night of the Owls commentary you’ll ever have to read!
Night of the Owls proves that DC still has quite a bit of work to do to get this whole New 52 thing right. The editorial leadership at DC Comics seem to think that showing the reader that the character they want to read about doesn’t live in a vacuum is the most important part of The New...
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All Star Western #9
Does a Night of the Owls crossover mean I don’t get to find out what happens to Hex and Arkham after they’re trussed up on the ship about to be sunk by the August 7?
Since this is the first panel, I guess I do get to find out what happens to these jerks!
Since Hex is still wearing the strength-giving amulet of Nighthawk, he’s able to break free from the ropes tying his...
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Aquaman #9
Last commentary, I guessed this fight would take place in-between issues. It would be cool if this cover were the only representation of the fight and it was already over in the pages of this issue.
Black Manta is currently infiltrating a psychiatrischer krankenhaus so that he can murder Prisoner of War. If you had a Seal of Clarity like Black Manta, you could smash it against your computer...
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Batman: The Dark Knight #9
Oh yeah! Teen Titans were doing a crossover of their own so Red Robin needed a comic book title to fight a talon of his own!
Judd Winick, writer of the best Night of the Owls comic so far, Catwoman, is writing this issue so maybe it’ll be a decent Night of the Owls’ story. At least David Finch isn’t writing it because the comic has been terrible up until this point.
And then...
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The Fury of Firestorm #9
I kind of like the throwback feel to this cover. Back before Miller’s The Dark Knight when comic books could be proud of being goofy.
Jasonstorm has turned the Eiffel Tower into rose petals, Ronniestorm has joined Pozhar, and Justice League International has just arrived in France to fight with Firestorms before everyone realizes they’re all on the same side. I imagine this plot was...
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The Savage Hawkman #9
Unleashed at last? Does that mean we’re going to have even less character development than the previous eight issues and even more brawling than before? Ye gods.
Everybody put your hands together and give Rob Liefeld a warm welcome to this book. It’s an odd day in the comic book industry when Rob Liefeld is taking over the writing duties on a comic book and I’m looking forward...
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The Flash #9
Do other gorillas act any different? What makes Grodd so special?
After The Flash exited The Speed Force last issue with Turbine, he ended up in Gorilla City. I’m not sure where Turbine ended up. He’s probably spinning around somewhere in Tokyo.
The Flash interrupts Gorilla Grodd as he eats his own father’s brains. I’m sure that’s some sort of faux pas in Gorilla...
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I, Vampire #9
Starring Julia Roberts and Jeffrey Dahmer.
Since the events of last issue, Andrew Bennett has led his people across the land and into Utah, just like the holy prophet Brigham Young. He’s also trying to find a place for his people where they won’t be persecuted and where they can be free to unlive just like everyone else. I wonder if they’ll be allowed to drink caffiene?
I...
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New Guardians #9
Blue Lanterns versus Blue Beetles!
Planet Odym, home of the Blue Lanterns, most boring world in existence, is about to become slightly less boring. A huge battle between Blue Beetles and Hope Loving Monastic Lanterns doesn’t sound like the fight of the century.
Blue Lantern #4: I hope those aren’t actually war ships coming out of that portal.
Blue Lantern #2: I hope the cloak on...
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Justice League Dark #9
Looks like Black Orchid and Andrew Bennett are joining the team.
Now that the Andrew Bennett/Gotham City Vampirefest crossover is done, maybe Justice League Dark can get on with being its own book. Peter Milligan is gone and Jeff Lemire has taken over the duties of writer. Milligan changed up the team himself in preparation for the transfer of writers, so Lemire is actually free to do whatever...
start-the-riot asked: so your art on the voodoo #9 i have to say you do hands and feet way nicer then Rob Lifeld .. that is all i got to
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Voodoo #9
Please, please, PLEASE don’t pass the test!
I’ve got a pretty good imagination so I’m actually capable of imagining people who loved the Wildstorm Universe.
Fuck, I’m a genius artist! Maybe I should have made this guy love Voodoo since this commentary is about Voodoo! Oh well! I can’t fucking control my imagination. I’m drunk! [EDIT: Picture edited to be...
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Superman #9
Why is Superman saving a sub? Where the fuck is Aquaman? Next time an asteroid is about to strike the Earth, Supes gonna have to take a back seat and let Aquaman deal with that shit.
You know why old people hate the young? It’s never anything personal. It’s just that youth is a standing wave which we all pass through. So once you’ve passed through that wave and are on the...
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Green Lantern Corps #9
Why don’t all Green Lanterns get the battery shoved into their chest? What a time saver!
The Alpha Corps are the worst Internal Affairs unit in the entire universe. I’ve come to that conclusion after an exhaustive bout of research where I read no books and I barely remember what happened last issue. But from what I remember, it shows how much they suck! They’re investigating...
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Supergirl #9
Murderous mercy? What the fuck does that mean? He kills to be kind?
Supergirl has once again found herself in the middle of a battle. Siobhan’s father has crashed their night on the town and decided his daughter needs to die. Siobhan is the Silver Banshee and I might be spelling her name incorrectly. For once, I think Supergirl would have done well to punch someone in the face when she...
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DC Universe Presents #9: Savage
Doc Savage? Vandal Savage? Chef Savage?
I’m not entirely sure what to expect with this issue of DC Universe Presents except a prison break by Savage. I think this must be Vandal Savage because it looks like Savage from Demon Knights and I think maybe Doc Savage is from Marvel. I could turn the page and find out for sure.
The first page shows a couple of college students being attacked...
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Captain Atom #9
I hope the end is near! Is this comic being cancelled in the next wave?
Captain Atom was busy in his own future trying to find out what to change in his present which is the future Captain Atoms’ past so that the world could be saved without the future Captain Atoms changing their past! Oh, just go with it! It’s a stupid story and a dumb plot device. But maybe it will end up simply...
ron--fucking--swanson asked: As you can see, Kyle's girlfriend was dismembered and stuffed in the fridge, by a villain called Major Force. There's a website about the mistreatment of women in comics, referred to as "Women in Refrigerators"
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Blue Beetle #9
Kyle’s just passing through to recharge his ring, Ted Jaime! Just leave him alone.
Last issue, Jaime had a great idea to improve his reputation: get into a public fight with a super villain. Oh, and win! So he told the Evil Scarab to find an enemy to fight and the Scarab did. It took him to battle Green Lantern since the Green Lantern Corps are long-time enemies of the Blue Scarab Legion...
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Sailor Moon R: The Movie AMV
Sailor Moon R: The Movie Anime Music Video
I created this in the mid-90s by hooking up my Laser Disc player and a stereo to a VCR. The quality isn’t great since I couldn’t hook up stereo sound to the VCR. This is how it was done back in the day. And I did this without even knowing that other people were doing the exact same thing all over the world.
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Justice League #9
Do Justice League covers always have to be dynamic? Just show them sitting around sipping coffee and reading the paper.
Four years ago, David Graves authored a book called Gods Among Men which was about the Justice League’s sudden appearance in the world. He’s also the author in the DCnU who writes about the kinds of things you’d hear on Coast to Coast AM.
The second book...
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Legion of Super-heroes #9
This cover is getting scarily close to being Hentai.
Last issue, some future stuff was happening in the future and some story lines from before the Reboot were affecting a storyline that takes place after the Reboot. A whole shitload of characters were doing things and having plots and experiencing conflicts and then another whole shitload of characters did some stuff as well. It was all very...
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Wonder Woman #9
Well this is a weird wedding ritual.
Wonder Woman was tricked into accepting Hades’ proposal last issue. Let the wedding commence! I wonder if I should have a few drinks to get me in the party mood! That’s probably a pretty good idea. Too bad Cliff Chiang is missing out on this shindig! We’re back to Tony Akins doing the art. The only real problem I have with Tony is that...
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Nightwing #9
I see Dick has a lack of knives in his chest now.
Last issue, Nightwing was kneeling on the ground with his chest full of the Talon William Cobb’s knives. The Talon is an ancestor of Dick Grayson’s. He is to kill Dick because Dick failed to become a Talon as he was supposed to many years ago. Dick Grayson just discovered the truth of all of this when Batman knocked out one of his...
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Batwoman #9
I hope Batwoman has sex in this issue!
Last issue, Batwoman was busy fighting all of Falchion and Maro’s Urban Legends. She’d defeated most of them but Falchion had the upper hand while the guy with the Hook was busy reattaching his hook to attack Batwoman from behind. But then Sune, the member of Medusa’s team who went over to the DEO in exchange for immunity, burst in on the...
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Birds of Prey #9
Travel Foreman is now working on this title. I probably won’t even notice a difference since his style was so similar to whoever the hell was doing the art in this comic the first eight issues. Oh yeah, Jesus Saiz!
Before I read the current issue of a comic, I always reread my commentary on the previous issue. Usually that’s the first time I’ve reread what I wrote and thus...
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Red Hood and the Outlaws #9
Just like Kenneth Rocafort to get all fancy with his Talon! Also possibly because it’s Chinese.
Last issue, Night of the Owls was beginning and Jason Todd was convinced to stay and help because Tim Drake is one of the few people who have actually been human to Jason Todd. And maybe Jason Todd can serve up a little justice, murder style! So there’s that!
Oh, that’s okay! I...
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Catwoman #9
Ouch! That’s a pretty Goddamned serious wound, Catwoman! I don’t think licking it and hiding under the porch for a few days will be the best cure.
Catwoman is on the hunt for the last dagger of a mystical set of five. They were probably owned by Vecna or Cuthbert. I know Cuthbert probably couldn’t wield them but even a Cleric can use cutlery for mundane things, right? That...
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Grifter #9
Hey look! A Liefeld book with more than just his name on the cover! He better get his lawyer to look over the fucking contract.
The last issue of Grifter ended with Grifter losing everything he held dear and even losing the will to live which means he’s now ready to be the meanest motherfucker in the world! So it sort of lets Rob Liefeld off the hook when Rob changes every thing about...
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Green Lantern #9
Can someone just give Hal Jordan a real fucking ring already? [After reading the comic, I believe this cover was meant for the next issue.]
Before I get started, I don’t think I paid proper attention to the last page of Green Lantern #8.
There’s a fucking Indigo Pigeon? Is this Hatoful Lanterns? And why do they all have a construct of their angry versions? Is that something...
joetothemax asked: I absolute love your commentaries on DC's New 52. We really see eye to eye on the whole thing. Keep up the great work you do!
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Deathstroke #9
Yet another Liefeld book where his Inkers, Adelso Corona and Jacob Bear, get no mention on the cover. What a dick.
This cover is a bit too polished to be Liefeld’s work alone and you can see Matt Yackey signed it as well. My bet is Liefeld sketched out the form of Deathstroke and Yackey polished the entire thing up. I do like that Liefeld was given a book where the main character wears an...
