'Just Rewards (2)'
Discussion of Buffy and Angel comics, books, and more. Please don't get into spoilery details in the first week of release.
52, DC’s year-long weekly series that is probably the most enjoyable “event” comic produced by either of the big two publishers since the yearly tradition started in the 1980s.
Are you SHITTING me? 52 is "enjoyable"?!? 52 has become to comic books what Lost has become to TV. Interesting idea, decent start, occasional flares of greatness, but overall a gigantic clusterfuck of all questions (pun partially intended) and no answers, which to me is SO not worth my time or money.
Grumble.
Eh. All those "groundbreaking" Doom Patrol stories that everyone raves about as being such works of genius always struck me as sour grapes rehashes of Alan Moore's work by somone who was pissed off by all the accolades it earned.
Really? Because I've always seen Morrison as quite greatful to Moore for blowing open the doors for that sort of work at DC.
Are you SHITTING me? 52 is "enjoyable"?!?
I'm actually rather enjoying 52. It's not changing my life or anything, but I look forward to it every week.
It's not changing my life or anything,
Yeah, what exactly are the life changing comics in Victor's life?
Well, I'm not Victor, but I just got caught up on four issues of Powers, and I really am amazed at how much I still dig this title. It's made even more interesting by the fact that Christian and Deena both have powers now, and are reacting to them in wildly different ways, while still having this awesome case to go on. Really one of the most consistently enjoyable titles I've ever read.
Hey, what's the word about the Manhunter title sequel?
Powers is a terrific book.
I think the other thing I find impressive about it is that it survived a reset. And not a continuity-spurning reset either, a reset that was within the context of the story while still driving forward the action. I think that's pretty remarkable.