Been an eventful week for me, water heater broke, took the kitchen sink with it. Got my Apartment complex's maintenance dept to replace the water heater, ended up fixing the sink myself. On top of that I rebuilt my computer after it crashed, built a computer for a friend, and installed a ceiling fan in my bedroom. I am very disappointed in DC this week. Quite a few issues I couldn't get past the first few pages.
Green Lantern Corps # 63
As I have said before, I am a huge GL fan. I managed to make it all the way through this issue only by sheer force of will. The art gets progressively worse. The one issue is divided into chapters to focus on different characters. None of these chapters actually focuses on one character long enough to pull you into the story. In the end, the lanterns are called to duty and put their issues with one another behind them.
Rating: Mediocre
Batman # 713
Need an issue to catch you up on what has happened in Batman, here you go. Only it won't touch on too much of the major events or any of the villains for that matter. This issue, like nearly everything DC published this week reeks of "we need something to fill the gap between DCU and DCnU". Not a bad read though.
Rating: Mediocre-Good
Titans # 38
Once Slade's Methuselah Machine is destroy, the group splits up and goes their own ways. Roy seems to have beaten his Heroine addiction (which won't even exist in the DCnU) and teams up with Jericho but neither of them knows what to do next. Slade slinks off and gets the focus of the last few pages of the issue in which he seemingly falls into insanity and you just wait around for him to laugh maniacally. Honestly, with this wrap-up, it feels like I can't help but ask myself why I was reading this in the first place.
Rating: Mediocre
Justice League of America # 60
Couldn't finish it. When you have the entire team pretty much standing around saying "we are disbanding the JLA cause we don't feel like having it any more" why should I even read it? This one issue attempts to tell what would have been a few months of issues and wrap-up quickly why the JLA is disbanding. DC should be ashamed they even printed this.
Rating: Not worth the paper it is printed on
Superboy # 11
Finally get to the end of the story that has been building for 11 issues. Superboy and the Phantom Stranger defeat the villain and Psionic Lad rescues the citizens of Smallville. Probably the best thing DC published this week, and I honestly don't have much to say about it cause it is still overshadowed by the impending reboot.
Rating: Good
Superman/Batman # 87
Clark Kent evades the Joker and Batman saves the day. Joker handcuffs himself to Kent and jumps out a window. Batman swoops in and saves Kent from falling after the Joker takes off the fake hand Kent is handcuffed to and parachutes away. Superman flies in and captures the escaping Joker. It is revealed that the editor for the Gotham Gazette had betrayed his writer for a payoff by Joker and did the same with Kent. Wayne enterprises buys out the paper and fires the editor. Batman tells Clark at the end of the issue when he asks how Batman can keep going, "You're an architect, Clark. You are building a future. I'm a fireman. I put out the fires as best I can, and move on to the next one."
Rating: Good
Zatanna # 16
Much like the JLA issue for this week, I have to ask why was this even printed? Uriah, a boy from Limbo Town (ala Klarion) shows up at Zatanna's home looking for someone to teach him to be a good magician. Again, this issue was so bad I could not even finish it. Way to go DC.
Rating: Would not be worth the paper it is printed on if not for good art.
Flashpoint Wrap-Up: Wonder Woman and the Furies # 3, Abin Sur # 3, Legion of Doom # 3, Outsider # 3
Wonder Woman discovers the Orn and her aunt working together after fighting the Resistance, (which spoils next week's Lois Lane and the Resistance) captures them, and goes off to fight Aquaman (which we saw last week in Emperor Aquaman). Orn and Diana's aunt escape and the focus shifts to them before going back to the battle. Abin Sur destroys Sinestro's ring, tells the Guardians of his trechery, and gets booted from the Corps. When he dies saving the Earth, the White entity saves him and turns him into a White Lantern. A nice ending, but terrible place to end it if he doesn't show up again. Both Legion of Doom and the Outsider really show that they had no reason to be written other than to show what other characters end up like in the Flashpoint U. Cyborg defeats useless fire villain and Outsider somehow kills Martian Manhunter.
Rating: Almost at the (Flash)point
Hellblazer # 282
This issue was pretty freaky. Constantine goes into a class "A" prison (which is like max security) to find out what is going on in there. His wife helps him and the demon inside the prison is eventually beaten to death by the inmates he had tortured.
Rating: Good
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