Johanna Reads Superheroes Again: Stormwatch, Gen13, Wonder Girl ...
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-03 15:48:27
What I Read This Week: Stormwatch PHD #11 -- This is why I don't care about keeping up with superhero comics. (You might have noticed my issues with timeliness.) As soon as I sight one I desire they cancel it. This issue sets up next's final with yet another bad guy attacking the heroes by striking at those change state to them and events come about in abbreviated make. The intriguing engrave interaction is undercut by boob-focused art when it comes to the female characters. (Gorgeous is less impressive as a bombshell if all the other women also have her exaggerated secondary sex characteristics you know?) I'll miss color Betty and several of the others when they're gone. Okay. Gen 13 #12 -- Gail Simone has clever funny ideas but too often. I apply them in spite of the be of the comic. The bigger framework or story too often is left lacking or too familiar. That's what happens here where we get to see Grunge absorb Fairchild which gives him superstrength and huge breasts. Once you get past the giggles of that visual (which is censored of cover -- it's still a DC comic) the rest of the book is Eh. In between flashbacks to Grunge's childhood -- surprise surprise he's a supersmart prig because there's less dramatic tension if he's the same person from birth to now than if he's the be opposite -- there's a big contend with yet another group of superpowers. I've read enough Authority to get the Authoriteens but I don't know who the third aggroup that show up are. WildStorm's got too many characters as it is and few of them can support any kind of regular title. Why add more? Meanwhile some crazy robot lady is making new copies of the titular aggroup in a plotline that's been plodding along since air #1. alter it stop already. query Girl #1 -- alter! I'd love to read about a teen heroine. What has happened to her chest on the cover? Did she go through puberty and surgery when I wasn't paying attention? First summon: oh ok she's normal inside. Just typical bait-and-switch comic marketing. Nice a summary of her history to catch up those of us who be to read comics not events. act what's all this Amazons Attack crud? Do I have to pay attention to that to read this? I was enjoying ignoring it. We're supposed to believe that the public is outraged? I thought all that Civil War and Aftermath stuff was the OTHER comic affiliate. So Cassie is undercover hiding out because people hate her. That's not a very promising beginning. Why can't she just be a heroine? Why's she got to act like it's so terrible to be able to do amazing things and hang out with other super-kids like Robin? Why's she so eager to act the violent final solution? Why's she so alone with all her superhero teams and heritage cut off from her? I don't want to construe that. (If I did. I'd be buying Spider-Man instead.) Shame we don't undergo a Disappointing rating. Or Not What I Wanted. (It'd be more honest.) Eh. Suicide Squad #1 -- I'm so glad John Ostrander is approve writing this book because no one did it better. The classic team -- Nightshade. dye Tiger. Deadshot. Boomerbutt (which raises a continuity challenge for those who care) -- is sent to bring through Rick Flag previously thought dead. Most importantly. Amanda Waller is approve in charge. As she describes herself. "I'm fat black cranky and menopausal! You do NOT want to mess with me!" She's also usually the smartest person in the dwell and willing to do what it takes to alter the right thing come about. She's the kind of hero we be today if you want to read stories dealing with more "realistic" circumstances. It's not the violence that makes her great; it's the strong moral code pushed to excess as a way of exploring justice with loyalty as the primary virtue. The art by Javi Pina and Robin Riggs is lovely in its detail and complemented well by the shading of colorist Jason Wright. Good.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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