Thursday, April 26, 2007

Comics this week

52: Week 51- After World War III, the writers went to the inevitable task of wrapping everything up. We finally see the space-stranded heroes make it back to Earth (or Rann in the case Adam Strange). We also see Skeet's quest to hunt down Rip Hunter and Booster Gold and Skeet's transformation. The revelations there was...either surprising or baffling. Quite frankly, I couldn't care less about that storyline to bother. Lobo's story also finished, as expected with him killing things.

And all the heroes of the DCU gather around the Superboy statue to pay tribute to those who fell in the last Crisis and WWIII. Yes, I know AGAIN! Don't they get tired of all these tributes? I guess after WWIII anything the writers do would be underwhelming, but I still expected better! Afterall, coasting down to the end would be a injustice after 50 weeks of a very well-crafted series.


Astro City: Dark Age- 1 issue every 2 and a half month. Um...ok. Is this series so good that Kurt Busiek & Brent Anderson need 2 and a half month to come out with 1 issue. No! But this issue at least mark a return to form. The story finally moved! Charles & Royal finally have things to do outside bitching about their lives. We even get to see the F4 clones, the First Family!

Reading issue 3, I rediscovered why I liked Astro City so much (I have every Astro City issue out there). Now, if only it can come out more often.

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