{"id":12189,"date":"2007-10-26T16:22:55","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T23:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/10\/26\/comic-book-quickies.html"},"modified":"2007-10-26T16:22:55","modified_gmt":"2007-10-26T23:22:55","slug":"comic_book_quickies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/26\/comic_book_quickies.html","title":{"rendered":"Comic book quickies"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"kidscomics\"<\/div>\n

<\/em><\/strong>The Authority: Prime <\/em>#1<\/strong>:  Ugly art, dull story.  How the Authority (and Stormwatch) have fallen. <\/p>\n

<\/em><\/strong>Hellblazer <\/em>#237<\/strong>:  The plot nearly squeezes out the title character, who comes across not all that well.<\/p>\n

<\/em><\/strong>Death of the New Gods <\/em>#1<\/strong> of 8: Why is Jim Starlin drawing people with such oddly long necks.  And why the hell did they kill my favorite New God?<\/p>\n

<\/em><\/strong>Justice League of America <\/em>#14<\/strong>:  Image-like art, Image-like big battles.  Whatever.<\/p>\n

<\/em><\/strong>The Sword <\/em>#1<\/strong>:  Okay, I begin to see why the Luna Bros. have such a good rep. New series, good stuff.<\/p>\n

<\/em><\/strong>The Mighty Avengers <\/em>#9<\/strong>:  Pretty Cho, but Bendis’ story will work better in a trade paperback.<\/p>\n

<\/em><\/strong>The Brave and the Bold<\/em> #7<\/strong>:  George Perez manages to give us a busty PG who doesn’t look like a freak.  And WW and Supes look pretty good, too.<\/p>\n

Powers <\/em>#26<\/strong>:  Good as usual, but still too small a chunk of too busy a tale.<\/p>\n

Action <\/em>#857<\/strong>:  If there is a God, this will be the last Bizarro story for, oh, a decade or two.  ‘Nuff said.<\/p>\n

<\/em><\/strong>Teen Titans <\/em>#52<\/strong>:  A nice, if busy plot, and attractive art.  A bit too much sound and fury.<\/p>\n

<\/em><\/strong>Black Panther <\/em>#31<\/strong>:  More FF-era action (new and old),with the annoying Golden Frogs.  Still, not bad.<\/p>\n

<\/em><\/strong>Thunderbolts<\/em> #117<\/strong>:  The grim, gritty, nasty, human bits of the Initiative\/Civil War.  Good Warren Ellis stuff.<\/p>\n

<\/em><\/strong>She-Hulk<\/em> #22<\/strong>:  Peter David takes over.  A decent first ish of an intentionally different era.<\/p>\n

<\/em><\/strong>Countdown <\/em>#27<\/strong>:  Still interested, but the independent bits aren’t nearly as good or interesting as 52<\/em>.<\/p>\n

<\/em><\/strong>X-Men<\/em> #204<\/strong>:  How could Mike Carey be so good on Lucifer and so bad on this?  On the other hand, I don’t think anyone can do much with the X-Men<\/em> any more …<\/p>\n

Supeman<\/em> #669<\/strong>:  The “third Kryptonian” arc reveals its titular character.  Not bad, aside from further diluting the uniqueness of Superman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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