Friday, August 22, 2008

Fast Thoughts - The Week of 8/20/08

Since I'm on kind of a Mystery Science Theater 3000 buzz this morning, I'm going to do a good thing and a bad thing about each comic I read this week.



BIRDS OF PREY #121
GOOD THING: The picture-perfect scenes with The Joker.
BAD THING: The Birds are almost completely ignored in favor of letting Tony Bedard write a Sweet Valley High fanfic as Misfit adjusts to public school.


CONAN THE CIMMERIAN #2
GOOD THING: This month's cover, while ludicrous, is not as bad as last month's cover.
BAD THING: We're still listening to a story about Conan's grandfather instead of seeing Conan himself in action.


DOCTOR WHO: THE FORGOTTEN #1
GOOD THING: Art by Eisner-Award winner Pia Guerra!
BAD THING: The story is nothing we haven't seen before, with a fairly obvious villain behind it all and the plot itself seemingly borrowed, in broad concept, from The Eight Doctors.


JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #24
GOOD THING: Everybody gets to contribute to the fight against Amazo and gets a good lick in, including Black Canary literally blowing the head off of Amazo.
BAD THING: The cover has nothing to do with this issue. Seriously. While the last pages seem to set up a battle with some spider-related creature, nobody called Anansi is in this book.

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