New Comics Day - Post your Reviews 12-8-2010

So who's buying what? Preview of what hit shelves

Pretty much just Red Robin #18. 'Tis a slow week for me.

Slow week for me too. Red Robin #18, Flash #7 and New Avengers #7. Probably wont be able to get to my LCS before the weekend though.

Wow. I didn't know we did this anymore. We've lost some people who used to buy whole tons of comics each week, and with their loss so went the weekly thread.

I miss the weekly threads telling me what's happening in my favorite comics I cannot afford.

Just Flash for me this week, so I'm waiting until next week to pick up my stack. We need this thread though, thanks!

A few of my comics:


Justice League: Generation Lost #15: Captain Atom returns from a bleak possible future that would result if Max Lord manages to kill Wonder Woman. And this was after Max framed Cap for the murder of Magog and the deaths of nearly a thousand people (all really caused by Max). Cap decides to kill Max dead, but Booster gives him a big lecture to talk him out of it, insisting that Max has to go to prison AFTER Booster beats the "ever-loving @#$% out of him". The interesting part is that no one remembers Wonder Woman, except for Max, Cap, Booster, Fire and Ice. Apparently, when Max wiped out everybody's memory of him except our heroes, he also protected all of them from having their memories changed when Wonder Woman's timeline got changed (see Wonder Woman comics). Nice way to tie in the different comic titles. (Another tie-in occurred in a recent issue of Brightest Day, when we found out that Batman (Bruce) does in fact remember Max, because he was lost in time when Max mindwiped everybody.) Needless to say, Max is very frustrated that he can't find Wonder Woman, because he wants to kill her. Some surprise military guests show up at the end, and something bad happens to one of our heroes.

Flash #7: Captain Boomerang knows that he has to kill Dove (actually the vision only told him to throw the boomerang at her) to fulfill the conditions of his resurrection, but he's having some qualms about that. So he does a dumb thing and frees Reverse Flash, hoping Prof. Zoom will let him know what will happen to him if he doesn't fulfill his duty. Because, you know, Zoom is a fellow resurrectee, and he's from the future and might know about Boomy's fate. A bit of a stilted way for the writer to set Zoom loose, but it's a nice characterization story for Boomy. Say, does anyone remember that the Rogues hate Prof. Zoom? Boomy has some serious explaining to do...

R.E.B.E.L.S. #23: Vril Dox and Adam Strange get together to have everybody settle down and make peace. The Green Lantern Corps wants in on that, led by John Stewart. More to the point, the Corps wants everybody to remember who the SENIOR law enforcement agency is: the Corps, not Dox and company. But wait, some terrorists are going to blow up a sun with a black hole bomb! What coincidental timing! Can the sector's disgraced rookie Green Lanterns stop the bomb in time, or will they have to lose face and call on Dox for help? Could Dox have arranged the whole thing? He wouldn't be so amoral as to do something like that, would he? (It is kind of fun to read a series that features a domineering, amoral jerk.) Don't underestimate those GLs. By the way, Starro is back.

Slow week for me only one book in my comic box at the comic shop, the latest issue of Thor, but I haven't read or picked it up yet.

Reviews for Flash and JL: GL were already posted above, but I will add that the "theme" of the Capt. Boomerang spotlight on his life story seems to be one of karma. In other words, what you do comes back to you. Kinda clever in a way, I thought. Y'know... like a boomerang?

Anyway.

Booster Gold #39 - Booster seems to be having problems with finally letting go of his old pal Ted (Blue Beetle) Kord again after their wacky adventures together in the past during the last few issues. Skeets tries to counsel him, and they run across some dumb kid trying (very poorly) to get in on the whole vigilante hero scene in Ted's old hometown.

YAY it's back!

The preview stuff for the New Avenger's comic made me lol. I like Bendis because you can clearly see that people like Iron Fist, Luke & Jessica Cage are his favorite characters but he doesn't Mary Sue them like Fraction does with Cyclops.

Also looking at the Black Panther: The Man Without Fear. So if he's taking over doing the street-level stuff in Hell's Kitchen, is he still with Storm? I know they are still married but do they have plans on using her within the comic? Cause most of the rogues gallery that DareDevil went up against wouldn't really stand a chance against someone who can just summon up a hurricane I'd think.

I don't know all the stuff that is coming out... so i can't comment. But if Superboy and Red Robin are coming out...that's at least something even though I won't be reading Superboy for a while... hopefully the other 10 titles don't all come out the same week >.>

No one got Fables #100?

For shame.

I'm actually going to do this as a weekly thing in addition to the first look thread - I will also start posting the Soliscitations again as as welll - part of my early start of on proactive geektasticness.

I don't even remember most of my books this week, but I can say:

New Avengers: Bendis you magnificent *******. Squirrel Girl is the Cage family nanny.

and Generation Lost's Maxwell Lord does not appreciate irony

are my two 'At least comic books are still funny on occasion' picks of the week.

Comicvine has a list of all comics, i think, that released on a particular day... the preview that is linked does not list any where near a complete list...

question though... are comics on a 4 week or 5 week cycle? I thought it was 4, but I've heard 5...