Anyone else find this cloying and nonsensical? What is with America's Santa obsession?
Horrors haunt the Christmas season as life-drained bodies litter the countryside, each marked with a strange symbol. The Justice League responds--but it's a trap! The heroes are pulled from our world, but not before Batman helps Robin escape. Now Damian Wayne must seek out Zatanna and the one and only Santa Claus if there's any hope of saving their...
The flashbacks are great. The present day stuff is just okay. A bit further away from the usual Diana than Absolute Batman seems to be from regular Batman, but the wheel doesn't really feel reinvented. Still, this is much better than most Wonder Woman comics since Rucka.
EISNER WINNER KELLY THOMPSON AND BREAKOUT ARTIST HAYDEN SHERMAN REINVENT WONDER WOMAN FROM THE GROUND UP! Without the island paradise...without the sisterhood that shaped her...without a mission of peace...what's left is the Absolute Amazon!
I love the Billy-Captain dynamic. A perfect threading of the needle between the idea that Billy and the Captain are different people entirely and that Billy is the Captain.
The rest is good but a bit schlepped out.
Christmas has come early for Freddy Freeman! But is all his success and notoriety as Philly's top superhero just ill-gotten gains? Mary and Billy can't help but link their brother's rise in popularity with the sudden emergence of Dr. Sivana. But as Billy continues to leak magic and monstrous societal issues begin to mount across the city, Sivana's ...
Not bad, but the decision to focus on Infinity Inc instead of the classic JSAers or the ones who starred in earlier 21st century JSA comics is odd. And as ever, no one remembers the excellent Vendetti Hawkman comic or that he ended up with Shayera Thal and not Kendra Saunders.
THE NEW ERA OF THE JSA BEGINS HERE! Long-time fan favorite characters Hawkman, Hawkgirl, Jade, Obsidian, Jesse Quick, Hourman, Ted Grant, and Sandman are all back on the roster as DC's first super team faces their greatest and most personal challenge yet. Will golden age ideals hold true in a world recovering from the events of Absolute Power? Or d...
Readable, and Watters has a grasp on Nightwing, but instantly forgettable.
A BRAND-NEW NIGHTWING ARC STARTS HERE, WITH AN ALL-NEW CREATIVE TEAM! Bludhaven has erupted in violence as rival gangs vie to fill the power vacuum left by Nightwing's cleanup of corrupt officials. But is an outside force turning the gangs against each other, escalating the violence in Bludhaven toward even more sinister ends? To find out, Nightwin...
The art is excellent, and the story shows promise, but I never quite feel like anyone writing Selina since Brubaker manages to do anything interesting for more than six months. So who knows where this might go? But Gronbekk showed promise with Jane Foster, so this could be worth the time.
Selina Kyle does not know why the attempt on her life was made, nor does she know who ordered it. As she desperately searches for clues as to who has suddenly orchestrated this lethal manhunt against her, one thing becomes abundantly clear: the answers don't lie in her life as the Catwoman of Gotham City. To save her own life, Selina Kyle must re-e...
I have so many qualms and questions about this - is this just another Elseworlds? Is this just another IP grab? Is this sustainable? - but the art is great and the writing is great. Sometimes I forget that Snyder is really good at this game, even if he's also had a tendency to bite off more than he can chew. For now, this plays to his strengths and is just compelling enough to justify stickingmore
BATMAN LEGEND SCOTT SNYDER AND ICONIC ARTIST NICK DRAGOTTA TRANSFORM THE DARK KNIGHT'S TALE FOR THE MODERN AGE! Without the mansion...without the money...without the butler...what's left is the Absolute Dark Knight!
Looks great, reads well, but will it do something new or do something better than Robin: Year One?
REUNITING THE ACCLAIMED TEAM OF MARK WAID AND CHRIS SAMNEE! While Bruce Wayne adjusts to the realities of adopting orphan Dick Grayson, a mysterious new crime boss called the General has come to Gotham to claim the city by disrupting and destroying its other mobs. But what is his connection to Two-Face? Batman and his new sidekick, Robin, are out f...
A solid and gorgeous story but a bit unfocused.
The seeds of war have been sown, and now a massive battle rages across the galaxy! Hal Jordan, John Stewart, and Guy Gardner must race to unlock the mystery of the Dark Star resurrection, what it means for their beloved friend Kilowog, and just how to battle an entire planet! The red rage of Mogo rains down on our heroes as the Civil Corps heats up...
The art is a bit off, and I don't love the retcon to Janeway making peace with Species 8472. But a really good focus on Paris, and one hell of an ending. The first crossover between the regular and Kelvin timelines since the first movie?
New Arc Starts Here! The android Lore has done the unthinkable: He has detonated the Orb of Destruction, unmaking the universe. After an extra-galactic tumble on the ensuing shockwave, the Theseus sinks into fluidic space. There, the crew melds in and out of a manifold of realities. Benjamin Sisko is against a godkiller once again, bu...
A mess and a miss, since Adams's style and Johnson's don't mesh even a little. Never mind that it's silly to assume everyone read the John Stewart series.
THE WAR FOR THE FATE OF THE GREEN LANTERN CORPS STARTS HERE! Lord Premier Thaaros sends a surprising foe to retrieve the Dark Star Ring from John Stewart, which leads to a desperate plan to expose the United Planets as a force of evil. Allies and enemies will join this special issue to launch the Green Lanterns in a direction that will change the D...
Entertaining but surprisingly slight. And Waid is literally repeating himself, cribbing off a Flash story from the late 90s.
A BRAND-NEW ARC BEGINS, AS RISING STAR ARTIST ADRIAN GUTIERREZ JOINS MARK WAID! DARKNESS FALLS! Eclipso, master of light and shadow, has risen to plague the World's Finest team of Superman and Batman! Powered like never before, Eclipso threatens to plunge the Earth into a state of eternal night--and eternal despair!
Real waste of time
As the team picks up the pieces from their last battle, Stargirl looks to the future and what it means to be a member of the first super-team! Don't miss the final issue of this star-studded run!
Another great issue, as we continue to see a side of Jurgens we never saw before. Maybe it's the cussing?
Monster men continue to terrorize Gotham City, but with the body count rising, the GCPD is no closer to solving the mystery behind these seemingly undead assailants, and the Bat-Man and Gordon are the only ones willing to brave the criminal underworld to crack the case. It's after a near-death brawl saving the mayor from the monster men that the Ba...
A reminder that the current series is a rarity since most Trek comics are about as boring as the stories here not written by Lanzing and Kelly. At least the Tribble story is readable (and Kirk draws Kirk). The rest are instantly forgettable and the one with Kirk's brother is incomprehensible.
Celebrate IDW's 500th issue of Star Trek comics (and an early Star Trek Day!) with this landmark oversized anthology issue! This collection of five short stories spans through fan-favorite eras of the beloved franchise from Lower Decks to Strange New Worlds, legacy characters from The Next Generat...
Things go from bad to worse as the evil society behind the latest monster attack is finally revealed. With Philly literally crumbling beneath their feet, it’s up to Billy and Mary to stop the city from sinking, but is the danger great enough for Billy to utter those magic words? And without powers, how in the world can Freddy help? Well, he might...
Another fun tie in to an event I am not reading. That is rare talent indeed.
Not sure about the John Stewart story, but glad someone remembered he is an architect, and like the new costume.
ABSOLUTE POWER TIE-IN! Hal has a problem... He needs to charge his ring but the entrance to the Power Battery is a continent away. Plus, the skies over Earth are patrolled by Amanda Waller's modified Amazos, which leaves Hal with one choice...to ride into the Danger Zone! Don't worry, he totally got permission to use the Batplane for this mission *...
Loeb, so many years removed from being relevant, and the late great Sale returned to the well one more time, and there is just enough here in Sale's art and some of the characterization to make it worth reading. But lord knows what the series to follow without Sale to stabilize the now-mediocre Loeb will be like.
Prelude to Batman The Long Halloween: The Last Halloween! You thought you knew the whole story of Batman: The Long Halloween…you were wrong! The final collaboration between legendary creators Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale, this special uncovers a deadly mystery that could destroy Batman, Commissioner Gordon, Two-Face, and…well, that would be telling, ...
Sweet and silly tribute to the legend Keith Giffen that probably confused younger readers - in theory this comic's main audience - not familiar with the obscure characters playing along the edges. Though where else are we likely to ever see Laurel Gand again?
Art by Adrian Gutierrez, Cully Hamner, Jeff Lemire and Howard Porter In order to get Ted Kord back on his feet, Jaime will need to work with Booster Gold! Can this Blue and Gold pairing help their friend, or are Ted's superheroing days over?
Great job capturing the essence of Lore, among other highlights.
After defying the laws of physics to reach the Pleroma, Captain Sisko and the Theseus crew find themselves unwelcome. The gods want them home and warn that everyone will die if they don't leave, but they're too late and their worst fears just might come true. The new godkiller is on their doorsteps... and it's none other than Lore!
The charms of the first two parts, limited though they might be, are gone. This is an ugly and badly written slog that shows limited understanding of Superman and none of Aaron's talent.
The startling finale of I, Bizarro sees the Man of Steel making his most shocking team-up ever as part of the mind-blowing final battle against the ultimate Bizarro.
That cover does not reflect anything in the comic.
Fun but basically a piece of a bigger story, so hard to really judge. Campbell writes a good Freddy, and what she's done to make Uncle Dudley work is pretty clever. But how long will Billy and his alter ego be on the outs?
Mary and Freddy have tracked Billy down to the unused tunnels of SEPTA—but the monsters plaguing Philly have followed them, too. With Billy refusing to turn into the Captain, can Mary and Freddy turn the tide and ?gure out what’s causing the monster onslaught? Can they convince Billy to come home? And what’s up with the weird kid in a toga th...
Fun but lightweight, the sort of thing Waid used to do in between arcs in The Flash, but without the strong narrator voice, it comes up a bit short.
Get ready to see the Trinity—Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman —take part in their ?rst adventure as a trio!
Gabe Hernandez gets it right.
Eel O’Brian might be a superhero now—but before he was anything else, he was a crook. Until the accident that turned him into the pliable Plastic Man, Eel was bad to the bone…and just because he no longer has bones doesn’t mean that’s not still true. When an incident on a Justice League mission leads to catastrophic cellular damage, Plast...
Nothing very compelling here. The planet of supervillain kids in the last Super-Sons series was a lot more interesting.
MEET DC'S DEVIOUS NEW DUO! They're bad to the bone, ready to brawl, and the sons of two of the deadliest villains in the galaxy: they're the Sinister Sons and the DC Universe will never be the same! When the son of General Zod was cast off of his adopted homeworld of New Kandor, Lor-Zod runs afoul of a kid on a mission: Sinson is out to prove he's ...
A decent fight, but not much else.
The Blood Scarab's plan is finally in motion as he descends on Palmera City! He will rip Khaji Da from Jaime and claim the scarab's power for himself. Can Jaime figure out a way to stop the Blood Scarab, or will this be the end of the Blue Beetle?!
Two things are true:
- This is about as dark a Superman story as we've seen in a long time, and in general it dos not suit Superman.
- Aaron has Superman's voice down.
So borderline recommended. And the last page does show promise for the finale.
The shocking second chapter of the Worst Bizarro Story Ever! Jason Aaron's first time writing Superman sees the Man of Steel trapped in a world gone mad, a Metropolis transformed into the City of Bizarro! While Superman struggles to save the lives of people who despise him, he's also battling the most powerful Bizarro of all...the one inside his ow...
Way way too quick a read. It's about 12 pages of story, not the first time Vendetti has done this. And the fight kind of just stopped.
But the Gene Hackman Luthor is always welcome, and "nobody wins wars" is the most Superman thing Superman has ever said.
Metallo declares war against Superman on American soil! These two men of steel will duke it out in the nation's capital, and only one can be declared the winner!
Fun but very straightforward in terms of the Spider vs Spider fight. The juice comes from the bad guys and from whatever is going on with the Warren brothers.
PETER PARKER vs. MILES MORALES!
No holds barred, each trying to take the other OUT! What could have pitted them against each other so viciously? Who has the skills to pull that off? What effect wiLL the collateral damage have?!
Rated T
Fun but really just too much fluff. And the joke at the end is that Bat-Mite looks like Superman? That isn't much of a gag.
The grand finale to Impossible is here, and it...well, it is as insane as you think it would be. First of all, we've got this big DOOM-MITE guy over here, check him out...he's about to eat Batman and Superman! What would that even taste like? Let's hope our heroes never let him find out, as the Man of Steel and the Dark Knight save the fifth dimens...