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Post by thwhtguardian on May 25, 2018 20:19:57 GMT -5
Super Sons #16: Written by Peter J. Tomasi. Art by Carlo Barberi. We get the concluding issue of this run with the Super Sons rescuing the JLA from Kid Amazo & earning the respect of their fathers. I was disappointed to read that this was the last issue of the Super Sons. However they will return in Aug in a 12 issue maxi-series by the same creative team as this issue. What can I say. I have enjoyed this title way more than I thought I would. Tomasi has really engaged me as a writer & excels at portraying families. This last issue was not as good as past issues but Tomasi had to wrap up this volume of Super Sons. Barberi's art is decent. 8/10. This was a lot of fun, I loved the framing narrative and I hope they keep it when it comes back. |
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Post by The Captain on May 26, 2018 9:32:43 GMT -5
Doctor Strange #390
And out it goes, not with a bang but with a whimper.
Seriously, I had no idea this was going to be the final issue of the series; I don't read Previews or keep up with a lot of industry chatter, so this came from out of nowhere for me at least. I've been relatively pleased with how this book has turned out, although the Damnation story wasn't all that great (I didn't see the point of having a side mini-series telling part of the story while this title recapped part of the mini each issue before furthering the story), but overall, it wasn't a bad run.
Unfortunately, the series ends on a note a limp as an overcooked noodle. Stephen's friend/sort-of apprentice/maybe love interest Zelma shows up on Bleecker Street looking for him, first running into Spider-Man, who just happens to be hanging around the Sanctum Sanctorum. She finally gets inside and has further conversations with Peter until Stephen shows up, then there are two totally unnecessary sequences where Peter meets Bats the Ghost Dog and where he gets to talk to a spider; this is more like an issue of the old Marvel Team-Up, with Stephen playing the very minor role of supporting character in his own book. Peter leaves, and Stephen and Zelma have a final conversation, wrapping up with her leaving and Stephen going to bed.
I'm not sure why this issue was printed, as the actual parts of the book that progressed Stephen's story could have been folded into the end of the previous issue and the Spidey parts not done at all. It really was quite unnecessary, and the solicits for the next Doctor Strange series (Doctor Strange...IN SPACE, written by Mark Waid, who currently is on my Naughty List for the crap job he's done on Captain America) left me thoroughly uninterested. Not picking up the next series will put me down to just three monthly books (Aquaman, which is on life support due to the dragged-out King Rath story, Moon Knight, which is really weird and probably won't survive much longer, and Captain America, which I am looking forward to once Ta-Nehisi Coates comes onboard), which is my lowest point since I started really collecting in the 80's with just GI Joe and Amazing Spider-Man on my pull list.
3/10 - It wasn't bad, just not a fitting final issue for the series.
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Post by thwhtguardian on May 26, 2018 17:38:41 GMT -5
Doctor Strange #390And out it goes, not with a bang but with a whimper. Seriously, I had no idea this was going to be the final issue of the series; I don't read Previews or keep up with a lot of industry chatter, so this came from out of nowhere for me at least. I've been relatively pleased with how this book has turned out, although the Damnation story wasn't all that great (I didn't see the point of having a side mini-series telling part of the story while this title recapped part of the mini each issue before furthering the story), but overall, it wasn't a bad run. Unfortunately, the series ends on a note a limp as an overcooked noodle. Stephen's friend/sort-of apprentice/maybe love interest Zelma shows up on Bleecker Street looking for him, first running into Spider-Man, who just happens to be hanging around the Sanctum Sanctorum. She finally gets inside and has further conversations with Peter until Stephen shows up, then there are two totally unnecessary sequences where Peter meets Bats the Ghost Dog and where he gets to talk to a spider; this is more like an issue of the old Marvel Team-Up, with Stephen playing the very minor role of supporting character in his own book. Peter leaves, and Stephen and Zelma have a final conversation, wrapping up with her leaving and Stephen going to bed. I'm not sure why this issue was printed, as the actual parts of the book that progressed Stephen's story could have been folded into the end of the previous issue and the Spidey parts not done at all. It really was quite unnecessary, and the solicits for the next Doctor Strange series (Doctor Strange...IN SPACE, written by Mark Waid, who currently is on my Naughty List for the crap job he's done on Captain America) left me thoroughly uninterested. Not picking up the next series will put me down to just three monthly books (Aquaman, which is on life support due to the dragged-out King Rath story, Moon Knight, which is really weird and probably won't survive much longer, and Captain America, which I am looking forward to once Ta-Nehisi Coates comes onboard), which is my lowest point since I started really collecting in the 80's with just GI Joe and Amazing Spider-Man on my pull list. 3/10 - It wasn't bad, just not a fitting final issue for the series. Yeah, it was really sad(not in an emotional way, more in a pathetic way) finale. Like you, I thought this was a really fun run; it hit a slump initially after Aaron left and there were just a few fill ins related to events I had zero interest in but after that it was back to being fun. I loved the supporting cast of Bats and Zelma and to see them just jettisoned without a meaningful goodbye was really disappointing. At least when they finished the recent run of Iron Fist you felt like you had read something worth while...here? Not even close. And yeah...Doctor Strange in Space by Waid isn't the , "But wait, there's more!" moment that I was hoping for either so I'm not likely to be continuing on. About the only thing I enjoyed was that I liked the way Spider-Man looked like he just left the Electric Company:   With his overly round head and small eyes. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 31, 2018 17:41:25 GMT -5
 Black Hammer: Age of Doom #2 by Jeff Lemire & Dean Ormston Lucy leaves the bar and starts us on a journey that appears that it's going to lead us through the Vertigo age of comics. Meanwhile the rest of the gang are slowly starting to try to figure out a way out of exile. It doesn't sound like a lot happens. And maybe not a lot does. This book doesn't give up its secrets readily. But it's a very good slow burn. 8/10 |
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