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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 29, 2024 16:08:23 GMT -5
For a real Batman story? If you're not reading the Last Halloween you're missing out. I didn't think Loeb could recapture lighting in a bottle after all these years but this really is a fantastic read. It fits in so well with the Long Halloween, Dark Victory and Catwoman: When in Rome that you'd honestly believe it was contemporaneous to them. I’m not that big a fan of The Long Halloween and I found When in Rome to be pretty bad. I didn’t like Gotham: Nocturne that much at first, but it’s grown on me. I’m reading my entire Detective Comics collection from #244 to the present and I’m up to #490. So in two or three years, I’ll get caught up to Gotham: Nocturne once more and I’m really looking forward to reading it again. |
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Post by The Captain on Sept 30, 2024 7:57:25 GMT -5
Phases of the Moon Knight continues to be a fun anthology; and although I loved the throw back story the future Moon Knight tale was definitely amazing. I leafed through the first two issue and thought that they looked pretty good. That said, I’m at the point where I’m trade-waiting mini-series, so I’ll pick this up in one package and read it that way, as I am running out of room for floppies. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Oct 2, 2024 7:53:16 GMT -5
I think that in today's market environment, the break from the Krakoa status quo is the type of thing that warrants a relaunch as much as anything. Old school readers with their attachments to numbering and trade dress may not think so (I doubt some of them feel any relaunch with numbering or title change is warranted), but in the current market where the periodical is is only one of the paths to market for stories not the only one, such things are part and parcel of the landscape. -M Last time I checked in on the X-Men (maybe ten years back), they had established a new haven for mutants in San Francisco. Before that was Genosha, right? Then Krakoa, and now multiple places. This is starting to feel a bit like Where in The World is Carmen Sandiego, homo-superior edition. The Krakoa era was like Genosha era on steriods... EVERY mutant (good and bad) lived there, and they figured out a way to 100% be immortal (via a group of mutants called the Five that could clone a body, then Cebero scans of the brain and Voila). They were a legit country in the UN and everything. Oh, and they also took over Mars. Then mutant hating humans took over and destroyed everything (including using Stark tech Sentinels)... as usual. Now the reset button has been pressed, and it's more like the 90s it seems. I have only read NYX (which has been interesting), but I'll read some of the others on Hoopla eventually. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Oct 2, 2024 8:11:20 GMT -5
I think this was the last Tom Taylor of Titans .. it ended extremely predictibly, but Taylor writes the characters they way I like them, so it was ok.
I'm concerned this is the end of the all too short run of Titans as primary superteam though.
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Post by Dizzy D on Oct 9, 2024 4:08:35 GMT -5
I think it was this week, but it could have been an earlier week, shipping was delayed and it took me some time before I got time to post something about it so:
The Power Fantasy #2 by Kieron Gillen and Caspar Wijngaard
What Happened Before: Superhumans are real and there are six of them whose power level is above anybody else, making them the human equivalent of weapons of mass destruction. One of them, Ray "Heavy" Harris has come into conflict with the U.S. after a failed assassination attempt on him, but another of the six, Etienne Lux intervened and killed only the people involved with the assassination attempt, instead of the total war Heavy was planning to do. Lux went into hiding afterwards as those involved included the president and other high-ranking government officials.
Plot: Etienne Lux appears on television to explain his actions and cautions the nation to not go for reprisals. He also frees Tonya, the journalist that was interviewing him when the attack on Heavy happened and sends her to Haven, Heavy's home for her protection.
The other Superpowers react to these events and Magus figures out that Etienne has gotten stronger, disturbing the balance between the Superpowers. Unknown to the others, there is another disturbance to the balance: Heavy's son is implied to also be a Superpower.
Art: Wijngaard's art is still the highlight of the series.
Overall: There is also a text essay at the end where Gillen explains how the Power Fantasy title came to be; as expected from last issue it is born out of Immortal X-Men, both an extension and a counterpoint to that series. There also are some influences from Peter Cannon - Thunderbolt, this teams previous collaboration. This series will be low on action as with these power levels the point is that any fight could have massive casualties.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Oct 10, 2024 7:24:06 GMT -5
I think this was the last Tom Taylor of Titans .. it ended extremely predictibly, but Taylor writes the characters they way I like them, so it was ok. I'm concerned this is the end of the all too short run of Titans as primary superteam though. Yeah, the characters were well written but the plots themselves were fairly vanilla. Nothing terrible, but nothing memorable either. |
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