Thursday, September 16, 2010

Comics this week

Brightest Day #10- Last issue, I said that there was an interesting development in the Aquaman’s story and I hoped that writers Geoff Johns and Peter Tomasi managed to keep the momentum going. Mission success! Aquman’s story this issue had spot-on pacing and good characterization as Black Manta chased after his son Aqualad. The fact that the young man didn’t know Blank Manta is his father makes things even more interesting. The second part of the issue deals with Firestorm and the Black Lantern inside him. The expansion of Firestorm’s power to “destroy the universe” seems unnecessary but everything was saved by the last page of the issue when the Black Lantern finally showed up. Now that’s one hell of a page!

X-23 #1- I admit when I heard that Wolverine's troubled clone daughter was having her own ongoing series, first thought that came to mind was that this will be another Wolverine rip-off. So I was pleasantly surprised by X-23 #1. This issue reads like an extension of Second Coming, when the rank-and-file of the X-Men knew of X-23’s involvement in the kill squad known as X-Force. The reaction from the New X-Men is much more natural than anything in the other X-books and writer Marjorie Liu rather surprisingly (and wisely) seems more interested in Laura’s social struggles than in letting her kill everyone in sight. Maybe it’s a case of low expectations, but this was a surprisingly excellent start to X-23

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