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Post by Gray Lensman on Feb 22, 2006 23:17:14 GMT
A pretty big comics week today. So what did everyone get?  My rather large haul... The American Way #1 Book Of Lost Souls #5 Supergirl #5: Much as I enjoyed Supergirl's debut, I think Loeb is leaving at the right time... Legion Of Super-Heroes #15 Lucifer #71 Green Lantern #9 Astonishing X-Men #13 Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: A-Z #2 |
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Post by hector on Feb 23, 2006 4:47:14 GMT
Supergirl #5: Much as I enjoyed Supergirl's debut, I think Loeb is leaving at the right time... wouldn't that be about four issues ago? God, I hope there is something nice when I go to store this week, or I'll have to get back with Supergirl or Astonishing... |
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Post by Gray Lensman on Feb 23, 2006 4:50:02 GMT
Won't argue there, Hector. Supergirl has been so tedious. I can't say this issue's big reveal impressed me either... especially when it's been left so vague. There's potential in this character, but I don't think Loeb's brought it out. I'm hoping that maybe Rucka will do better by Kara. An actual coherent direction would be a start. |
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Post by hector on Feb 23, 2006 5:01:31 GMT
At this point I'll go for anything other than Super Paris Hilton fighting randomly for four issues. I like brainless slugfests for one issue as much as anyone, maybe two, perhaps even three. But there are four and I don't have any reason to think five will be any different.
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Post by Gray Lensman on Feb 23, 2006 5:08:54 GMT
Five is a brainless slugfest... mostly. The rest of it is a brainless retcon.
Loeb does go out with an explanation for Kara's past. The problem is that it doesn't make a lot of sense and there's nothing to confirm it except for the testimony of Dark Kara... which makes it inherently unreliable. The whole thing is absurd and dredged up completely out of the blue, mainly because the motivations of Kara's father are completely stupid.
The whole thing seems to be basically Loeb introducing Kara to the DCU while beating them up. It's not horrible, just annoyingly mediocre. Loeb should have passed on the book if that's all he was going to do. Probably for the best he's going to Marvel...
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Post by Gray Lensman on Feb 23, 2006 7:39:34 GMT
Thinking on it, I can't help but wonder if Kara's origin would have made more sense if it had been tied to Infinite Crisis. Especially if she is the genuine Pre-Crisis article. Pre-Crisis Supergirl's death was one of the pivotal moments of the original Crisis. I don't think this would have been lost on the Earth-2 survivors. Especially not to Alexander, who probably had planned everything from the start. Let's say that Alexander Luthor was watching Supergirl's past the whole time. Let's say he noticed with interest as the real Pre-Crisis Kara returned in "Many Happy Returns". And let's say that when Kara supposedly went back at the end of "Many Happy Returns"... that Alexander intercepted Kara, brought her to his "heaven" and mentally reprogrammed her in order to further along his Crisis plans. Alexander could then have sent the reprogrammed Kara back as she did in Superman/Batman. Why would Alexander do this? In the first place, he needs to get rid of Darkseid. He's too big of a threat to leave undealt with. What better way to deal with this than to manipulate Darkseid, Luthor, and the JLA against each other? Alexander knows better than anyone that the best way to motivate Superman is to use his love for family. Conveniently, the events of Superman/Batman also benefits Alexander in another way, considering Harbinger is killed in that story. Harbinger is one of the few people who could have interfered with his plans. Turning Darkseid against Paradise Island conveniently removes another obstacle. Following Superman/Batman, Alexander gains another advantage. He has a sleeper agent within the hero community that he can use to throw the JLA into chaos at a moment's notice. She is also a useful distraction for the Society, who he is still trying to manipulate. All of this allows Alexander to set his own plans into motion with impunity. All this would account for what we already were told. Dark Kara is really a planted personality created by Alexander. If this is the Pre-Crisis Supergirl, it would explain why her powers interacted strangely with Power Girl's. (They are both Pre-Crisis survivors, and are in fact direct counterparts from the previous universe.) And Kara is as powerful as she is because she is a Pre-Crisis survivor, not because of any sunlight she absorbed (a red herring to throw Superman and Batman off the trail). Actually, I don't see why this couldn't be done now. But then, I expect the writing staff at DC to come up with better ideas than me. |
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Post by hector on Feb 24, 2006 4:05:45 GMT
Well, I did give out and bought Supergirl #5. Which was, really, exactly what I expected. The whole 'Cain and Abel' angle was...wierd. Not bad, because I don't care about Zor-El at all, just kinda strange. The rest of the issue was the same as all the other ones, a big fight that at this point it was just tedious.
Also bought Astonishing, which was quite good, mainly because it was plotless and there wasnt any risk of Whedon falling into Austen depths of stupidity as last run. Plus, it was nice reading him write Wolverine as other than a moron for the first time.
Green Lantern and Wonder Woman #226 were quite good, especially Green Lantern. WW had terrible continuity, though.
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Post by zyxba on Feb 24, 2006 14:34:29 GMT
Marvel Handbook 2
Ultimate Hulk vs. Wolverine 2
The Sentry 6
Green Lantern 9
Legion 15
Ultimate Spiderman 90
X-men 183
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