Again, a couple weeks worth:<\/p>\n
The Flash #233 <\/em>– Waid and Eddie Williams II (backup by Waid & Rogers & Braithwaite). It’s a bad sign when the comic about the fastest man alive feels too slow. The villains are the sort of distraction that Wally would have dalt with off-panel a few years ago, and the character development is all happening too slow. Add to that an out-of-character JLA “intervention,” and I’m done. I did almost stick around for the lively back up, but the slow front doesn’t need anything stealing its focus.<\/p>\n Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters #2 <\/em>– Palmiotti, Gray, Arlem.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m liking this quite a lot.\u00c2\u00a0 This issue focuses on the FF’s party girl, Phantom Lady, drawing from today’s tabloid culture fascination pretty reasonably for a mainstream underwear book.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s fainter praise than the book really deserves; this is good work.\u00c2\u00a0 The detailed and gritty art tells the story clearly and the stroy’s interesting and well paced.\u00c2\u00a0 This is worth reading.<\/p>\n Captain America #31<\/em> – Still solid.\u00c2\u00a0 Man I live in fear that something will happen to screw up this team’s creative footing.\u00c2\u00a0 But so far, so good.\u00c2\u00a0 Bucky’s in the clutches of Dr. Faustus and the Skull, the Skull’s plans moving forward and S.H.I.E.L.D. playing catch-up.\u00c2\u00a0 Everyone still behaves like they should and tensions are high.\u00c2\u00a0 Still a great book.<\/p>\n Black Summer #3 – <\/em>Ellis & Ryp. The point of this issue is to let us know what Tom Noir can really do, and why he’s important at all.\u00c2\u00a0 And Ellis does it beautifully.\u00c2\u00a0 The art’s beautiful, the pace is breakneck, and now we know who’s the really dangerous gun.\u00c2\u00a0 Catch up while you can.<\/p>\n Doktor Sleepless #3 – <\/em>If Black Summer<\/em> is getting clearer, we’re only beginning to see all the twisty passages in Doktor Sleepless.\u00c2\u00a0 Interconnections and magic and technology all bouncing off one another.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s good and creepy and probably has a point.\u00c2\u00a0 This issue is fleshing out the supporting cast some more, so it may be a bit confusing if you haven’t read the earlier two. Top notch stuff!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Again, a couple weeks worth: The Flash #233 – Waid and Eddie Williams II (backup by Waid & Rogers & Braithwaite). It’s a bad sign when the comic about the fastest man alive feels too slow. The villains are the sort of distraction that Wally would have dalt with off-panel a few years ago, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}