Powers #22
Girls #21
Wonder Woman #3
Ultimate X-Men #78
Justice League of America #5
Squadron Supreme: Hyperion vs. Nighthawk #1
52 #37
Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Space Between #1
The Helmet of Fate: Detective Chimp
Ultimate Vision #2
Green Arrow #70
Phonogram #4
Ultimate Spider-Man #104
Castle Waiting #4
Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis #48
Justice Society of America #2
All Star Superman #6
Jack of Fables #6
Notes:
It seems like everything came in the mail this week, which makes so much stuff out of date, but so much good stuff anyway.
Powers #22
I haven't read this one yet. While I was re-reading the series (and noticing some connections to Marvel's Civil War) I discovered that I'm missing #19. Yeah, it's been a couple of weeks, but I forgot to pick it up last time I was at the shop.
Squadron Supreme: Hyperion vs. Nighthawk #1
I don't understand what's going on here. Is this mini supposed to explain how Nighthawk joins the team? He is on the team in Ultimate Power, right? I wish the powers over at Marvel had just put this in under the regular title. Why do we need it to be a separate mini?
Green Arrow #70
Am I the only person who's enjoying this book? I like how Winick took advantage of the one year jump and really changed the status quo in Star City. I also like that in this book he has a real outlet in both Green Arrow and Ollie to vent left-wing rhetoric. It seems a good fit. I only wish the art didn't grate on me like it does.
Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis #48
*sigh* I like Aquaman, I really do, and I really want to like this title. I want it to be great. The problem is that the book isn't focusing on what I want to know about. I've given up on finding out the truth about Arthur/Orin, it doesn't really interest me now that I know he's the Dweller. What I want to know about is how the people of Poseidonis and Tritonis and all the other cities of Atlantis are dealing with the magic being stepped out of existence. And what's going on in Sub Diego? Is Lorena there defending the people?
Wonder Woman #3
I'm grabbing the first arc because I really want to like a Wonder Woman book. I want it to be good. I want it to be interesting. I want it full of great Greek mythology, not comicized mythology, Marvel has done enough of that, thank you. In the three issues here, I haven't seen any of that. I've seen a lot of whining, though. Maybe Nightwing can show up and he and Diana have a whine-a-thon.
Ultimate X-Men #78
Wow. So. Wait. What happened? Was it just me or did this issue seem like, except for the last couple of pages, a huge jumble of images that were thrown up in the air and picked out at random? The end was sort of a shocker, but since I actually read the solicits for a future issue, I knew what was going to happen. 'Course we all know it'll be undone because, as the regular universe titles have shown, you can't really have the X-Men with out the "X" man.
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Monday, January 22, 2007
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
The List For 12-28-06
52 #34
Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes #23
Connor Hawke: Dragon's Blood #2
Astonishing X-Men #19
Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane #13
1st Issue Special #12
Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis #47
Ultimate Fantasic Four #37
Ultimate Spider-Man #103
Fables #56
Justice #9
Quick Notes:
A pretty good week. I didn't pick up much new stuff at the LCS, so I grabbed the first appearance of phantom Mon'El or M'Onel or Valor or whatever he's being called in this post crisis.
The 1st Issue Special was a Christmas gift from my brother. It's the first appearance (and last until Starman #4) or Mikaal Tomas in his v-neck tights and groovey sonic jewel on a gold chain. Awesome.
The Ultimate Spider-Man "revelation" about Peter's father I saw coming from the beginning of the arch. The Doc Ock stuff was great, though.
My hopes for Connor Hawke: Dragon's Blood have been high. The two issues have been okay, but not enough to meet my expectation. Although, I have been wondering if sex with a ghost is really sex?
The newest issue of 52 had the best ending yet.
I didn't get my copy of Justice League of America #5 in the mail with Justice, which also came out last week. I didn't see it at the LCS when I went there on Thursday. What happened? Am I the only person who didn't get it?
Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes #23
Connor Hawke: Dragon's Blood #2
Astonishing X-Men #19
Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane #13
1st Issue Special #12
Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis #47
Ultimate Fantasic Four #37
Ultimate Spider-Man #103
Fables #56
Justice #9
Quick Notes:
A pretty good week. I didn't pick up much new stuff at the LCS, so I grabbed the first appearance of phantom Mon'El or M'Onel or Valor or whatever he's being called in this post crisis.
The 1st Issue Special was a Christmas gift from my brother. It's the first appearance (and last until Starman #4) or Mikaal Tomas in his v-neck tights and groovey sonic jewel on a gold chain. Awesome.
The Ultimate Spider-Man "revelation" about Peter's father I saw coming from the beginning of the arch. The Doc Ock stuff was great, though.
My hopes for Connor Hawke: Dragon's Blood have been high. The two issues have been okay, but not enough to meet my expectation. Although, I have been wondering if sex with a ghost is really sex?
The newest issue of 52 had the best ending yet.
I didn't get my copy of Justice League of America #5 in the mail with Justice, which also came out last week. I didn't see it at the LCS when I went there on Thursday. What happened? Am I the only person who didn't get it?
Thursday, December 21, 2006
Ultimate X-Men
Originally, I was just going to write about issue 77, but as I sat thinking about the issue, I realized that my problems with this issue are endemic to the whole series since Millar left way back when.
The biggest problem is that since he left the longest time a writer has been on the book was Vaughan for twenty issues, so there hasn't been a long, consistent voice on the book for a while. (This has been an even bigger problem with Ultimate Fantastic Four, and many comics out there as a whole.) A long term, consistent voice can once again add to the characterizations of the team. Every time a new writer comes onto the series they pick certain bits out of the last one's run and drastically change others.
One of the things that I really liked about Millar's run was that the book wasn't just about the X-Men, but it was about the place of mutants in the world. Millar never forgot that the X-Men and Magneto's Brotherhood of Mutants were how the world saw all mutants. He showed them being violent. Even the good ones, the ones, supposedly, trying to promote understand between the two species, were out there smashing property and getting people killed. Who, in the eyes of the public, are the heroes? Millar also showed explored the mob mentality of the scared normal people through out the Sentinel and the public's reaction to learning that Magneto wasn't dead.
There were big ideas about the world and about the different people who live there in Millar's run along with some great characterization.
Then came Bendis and what should have been an Ultimate Wolverine mini, rather than a run in this book. Bendis took away the focus on the big ideas and wanted to focus on the characters during his ten issue (I think) run. That's a decent goal, but after him, the larger world was forgotten. What happened to the regular humans? Where were they? What happened to the consequences of the fighting? Gone, to the best of my recollection.
For me, Vaughan's run had the highest point since Millar with the Longshot story because it showed, as opposed to just telling me, that normal humans hate mutants. Still he seemed to want to focus on the people on the team rather than the team’s purpose in the world.
And now there's Kirkman and I'm still not sure about his stuff on this book. It's been merely okay. Nothing's wowed me. The "Phoenix?" storyline just sort of petered out. Who are right? Lilandra's people of the Hellfire club? I still don't know. I hope it get's better soon because I don't know how much longer I want to hold on to lackluster just because I used to like this book.
The biggest problem is that since he left the longest time a writer has been on the book was Vaughan for twenty issues, so there hasn't been a long, consistent voice on the book for a while. (This has been an even bigger problem with Ultimate Fantastic Four, and many comics out there as a whole.) A long term, consistent voice can once again add to the characterizations of the team. Every time a new writer comes onto the series they pick certain bits out of the last one's run and drastically change others.
One of the things that I really liked about Millar's run was that the book wasn't just about the X-Men, but it was about the place of mutants in the world. Millar never forgot that the X-Men and Magneto's Brotherhood of Mutants were how the world saw all mutants. He showed them being violent. Even the good ones, the ones, supposedly, trying to promote understand between the two species, were out there smashing property and getting people killed. Who, in the eyes of the public, are the heroes? Millar also showed explored the mob mentality of the scared normal people through out the Sentinel and the public's reaction to learning that Magneto wasn't dead.
There were big ideas about the world and about the different people who live there in Millar's run along with some great characterization.
Then came Bendis and what should have been an Ultimate Wolverine mini, rather than a run in this book. Bendis took away the focus on the big ideas and wanted to focus on the characters during his ten issue (I think) run. That's a decent goal, but after him, the larger world was forgotten. What happened to the regular humans? Where were they? What happened to the consequences of the fighting? Gone, to the best of my recollection.
For me, Vaughan's run had the highest point since Millar with the Longshot story because it showed, as opposed to just telling me, that normal humans hate mutants. Still he seemed to want to focus on the people on the team rather than the team’s purpose in the world.
And now there's Kirkman and I'm still not sure about his stuff on this book. It's been merely okay. Nothing's wowed me. The "Phoenix?" storyline just sort of petered out. Who are right? Lilandra's people of the Hellfire club? I still don't know. I hope it get's better soon because I don't know how much longer I want to hold on to lackluster just because I used to like this book.
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