Swamp Thing copying Immortal Hulk. That's rich. Read Alan Moore's Swamp Thing.
Swift Planet reviewed Superman: Man of Tomorrow #10 May 16, 2021
That Lobo story was a pretty good use of the character. The Mongul one is fine too, but I don't imagine it will be very memorable.
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Superman wakes up in chains and doesn't know where he is. He'll need to put the pieces together quickly if he's to survive a brutal bout in this gladiator arena! The Main Man himself, Lobo, has come to Earth chasing a bounty, but Superman thinks Lobo is just hurting the little creature. Will Superman put a stop to Lobo, or does the alien have other...
Swift Planet reviewed Superman: Man of Tomorrow #9 May 16, 2021
That is actually a really cool way to implement the environment into a physical and sentient looming threat, it will definitely become an even more interesting issue as time moves forward.
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Story 1 - Superman and Lois respond to an emergency call at the mines outside of Metropolis. Can Superman save the miners from a horde of mysterious rock creatures? And where did these creatures come from?
Story 2 - Brainiac unleashes a monstrous creature on the Portland airport. Can Superman stop it before it spawns and overwhelms the plane...
Swift Planet reviewed Future State: Superman vs. Imperious Lex #3 May 14, 2021
This is a really fun story, with some pretty solid political criticisms, but at the same time I am glad this in no way canon because of Lex's character.
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Could the last days of Lexor be here already? Thanks to Lex Luthor’s greed, his adopted home is on the brink of financial and planetary ruin after leaving the United Planets. Now it’s up to Superman to act as a champion of these people and show them there’s a way through all of this. Will Lex stand down? Or is this the final showdown? The fut...
Swift Planet rated Future State: Superman vs. Imperious Lex #2 May 14, 2021
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It’s really happening: Lexor has joined the United Planets! While surveying, Lois Lane and Superman discover that the planet is rich in minerals, causing Lex Luthor to try and exit the federation to make a pretty penny! Realizing he can’t leave without agreement from Earth, he imprisons Lois Lane, then whips up the propaganda machine against Su...
Swift Planet rated Future State: Superman vs. Imperious Lex #1 May 14, 2021
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Welcome to Lexor, home of the greatest businessman in the Multiverse: Lex Luthor! After years of prosperity, Lex’s utopia is at last ready to join the ranks of the United Planets and promote peace among worlds. However, Lex has never done anything unless he had something to gain from it. What could he be up to this time? Sounds like a job for Sup...
Swift Planet reviewed Challenge of the Super Sons #14 May 14, 2021
This was a really fun series, more enjoyable than Adventures of the Super Sons, my only problem with it is how convoluted it kind of becomes because of the rule/non-rule(?) of the scroll.
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You thought this story as all wrapped, didn’t you? Not even close! Well a little close. In this final chapter of CHALLENGE OF THE SUPER SONS, Robin and Superboy must finally come face to face with their world’s-finest-fathers and explain what on earth just happened and why the entire Justice League was attacked in the span of a day. Superman an...
Swift Planet rated Challenge of the Super Sons #13 May 14, 2021
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The boys have saved just about every single member of the Justice League from a horrendous fate at the hands of the DOOM SCROLL…but can the boys save themselves?! It’s one final cross-time rumble between the Super Sons and their magical nemeses from the past: VANDAL SAVAGE AND FELIX FAUST! Can Superboy and Robin close the portal and seal out th...
Swift Planet rated Challenge of the Super Sons #12 May 14, 2021
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Well THAT could have gone better. Superboy and Robin have been defeated at the hands of Vandal Savage and Felix Faust, and it seems as though all hope is lost. Welp, guess it’s time to pack it up folks – everybody! Book’s closed, we can all go home now! Looks like I’ll just clock out and—wait a tick…who’s that there to save the day? I...
Swift Planet rated Challenge of the Super Sons #11 May 14, 2021
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It’s a knock-down drag-out brawl for the ages! Felix Faust and Vandal Savage are hell bent on dissecting the time-travelling Super Sons to unlock the secrets of the future the boys possess – but not if the young sorceress Rora has anything to say about it! Superboy and Robin team-up with their new mega-magical ally in battle for not just their ...
Swift Planet rated Challenge of the Super Sons #10 May 14, 2021
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Journey back with us once more through the mists of time to uncover the secrets of the Doom Scroll! Picking up where we left off in Chapter 5, Superboy and Robin have been rescued from the clutches of some truly wicked spells by their new ally, Rora. As Rora rushes to help the boys return to the present, their pursuers close in and prepare for atta...
Swift Planet rated Challenge of the Super Sons #9 May 14, 2021
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Hey Aquaman, what’s KRAKEN? As the guardian of the deep finds himself in the clutches of a gigantic underwater baddie courtesy of the deadly DOOM SCROLL prophesy, the Super Sons stand ready to assist! The only catch is, Aquaman can never know that the boys helped save his life. And after this encounter proves a little too close for comfort, Super...
Swift Planet added Challenge of the Super Sons (2020) to their pull list May 14, 2021
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The boys are back! Picking up where the sensational ADVENTURES OF THE SUPER SONS left off, the son of Batman and the son of Superman are back in the spotlight and ready to give evil a good spanking. But are Robin and Superboy in over their heads this time?! A mysterious woman from beyond time has appeared to the DCU’s favorite sons, and her arr...
Swift Planet rated Challenge of the Super Sons #8 May 14, 2021
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BOOP BOOP BEEP BOOP (that’s computer-talk for “Cyborg is in BIG TROUBLE.”) As Jon and Damian rush to save yet another Justice Leaguer from the death foretold to them upon the dreaded DOOM SCROLL, the super sons had better move quickly! It seems Cyborg has already fallen victim to an attack courtesy of GRID! But remember, if Cyborg finds out t...
Swift Planet rated Challenge of the Super Sons #7 May 14, 2021
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Here comes Vandal-Savage, here comes Vandal-Savage, right down Vandal Savage laaaaaane (what? He’s immortal! How do we know Santa Claus isn’t based on him somehow?) That’s right, a specter from our boys’ adventure in the past comes searching for them in the present courtesy of the immortal Vandal Savage! Can the super sons defeat him before...
Swift Planet rated Challenge of the Super Sons #6 May 14, 2021
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You ever take a mace to the back of a Justice Leaguer’s head to save their life? Well then your name’s not Damian Wayne: a 13 year old who really belongs in whatever the super hero equivalent of “detention” is. That’s right, our story picks up where we left off in chapter 3 – as Robin and Superboy rush to save the Justice League from th...
Swift Planet rated Challenge of the Super Sons #5 May 14, 2021
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The Super Sons are trapped in the past – locked in deadly combat with noted jerk and recipient of “worst person to ever be granted immortality” award Vandal Savage! In this second installment of Superboy and Robin’s adventures in the past (before returning to the present to save the Justice League from certain death), you’ll witness a har...
Swift Planet rated Challenge of the Super Sons #4 May 14, 2021
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Journey back with us, dear reader, to the pages of chapter one – where the Super Sons were whisked away to a different time! At last – all will be revealed! (I mean, c’mon! It’s been 3 weeks already!) See just what happened when the boys were snatched from reality, and how they encountered the DOOM SCROLL...in Dickensian England? Weird...
Swift Planet rated Challenge of the Super Sons #3 May 14, 2021
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OK, Robin and Superboy saved THE FLASH from certain annihilation...surly the day is saved and everyone can go home and watched the masked superhero singer or whatever, right? WRONG! Once the DOOM SCROLL inscribes a name to its mystical list, the bearer of that name will be imminently killed – and the JUSTICE LEAGUE are being targeted o...
Swift Planet rated Challenge of the Super Sons #2 May 13, 2021
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Wait a minute...weren’t the Super Sons just here? In OUR time? Blink and you missed Robin and Superboy’s mysterious trek to the outskirts of time, where the development of the deadly DOOM SCROLL spells disaster for these dudes! What did the boys learn when they were whisked away? Why on earth do they have to save THE FLASH from instant death...
Swift Planet reviewed Challenge of the Super Sons #1 May 13, 2021
Man, this book still captures the best of the DC Rebirth Superman and Super Sons sense of plain fun.
The boys are back! Picking up where the sensational ADVENTURES OF THE SUPER SONS left off, the son of Batman and the son of Superman are back in the spotlight and ready to give evil a good spanking. But are Robin and Superboy in over their heads this time?! A mysterious woman from beyond time has appeared to the DCU’s favorite sons, and her arr...
Merlyn reviewed Swamp Thing #3 May 4, 2021
I really don't want to rain on anyone's parade but this isn't a book that really deserves an average 10. I get what Ram V is doing here, he's trying to copy Ewing's Immortal Hulk with the Green being the Below-Place. And while it is an interesting idea, the execution is pretty different and not in a good way, the dialogue especially is pretty bad. It has potential but I don't think it will evolve more
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Reeling from his battle with the Pale Wanderer, Levi Kamei seeks the true nature of his transformations. And what better place to find his roots than the heart of the Green itself? There, he and Jennifer will encounter the realm’s many denizens, including one known as Holland and...Poison Ivy? Who will aid Levi and who will harm him? If he is to ...
I haven't read Alan Moore's Swamp Thing, I've heard good things about it and I plan to read it one day. I don't see what that has to do with what I said. I said that Ram V is copying here Ewing's whole Immortal Hulk shtick. What's so "rich" about that?
It was because Immortal Hulk was a book in very similar vein to Swamp Thing already. Don't get me wrong, I think they're both great and I wouldn't call Immortal Hulk a copy, but they use similar tones and themes.
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Swift Planet rated Wonder Woman: Earth One #1 Apr 27, 2021
In this new installment of the New York Times best-selling Earth One original graphic novel line, Grant Morrison (THE MULTIVERSITY) joins with Yanick Paquette (SWAMP THING, BATMAN, INC.) to reimagine Wonder Woman for a new era. Encompassing the vision of her original creator, William Moulton Marston, Morrison presents a Diana who yearns to break f...
Swift Planet reviewed Way of X #1 Apr 22, 2021
I read this because I like Si Spurrier. However it was a bit too ingrained in the saga of Krakoa for me to enjoy. I haven't been keeping up with the rest of the X-men titles, but even then I don't feel like I'm missing much context. The important part seems to be the knowledge that the mutants can be resurrected from a previous point, which I do know. The Patchwork Man is what's new to me. Anyway, more
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THE WAY TO THE FUTURE OF X!
Mutantkind has built a new Eden... but there are serpents in this garden. Some mutants struggle to fit in. Some mutants turn to violence and death. And the children whisper
of the Patchwork Man, singing in their hearts...Only one mutant senses the looming shadows.
Snared by questions of death, law and love, ...
Swift Planet reviewed Batman #106 Apr 18, 2021
Nice to see James Tynion IV trying something new with Batman, and making good use of any additions to the supporting cast. Robin was really a don't blink or you'll miss it story, but a nice extra.
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Following the tragic events of Infinite Frontier #1, Batman and his new ally, Ghost-Maker, must reckon with a new gang operating in Gotham City-but are they connected to the reemergence of the Scarecrow? Meanwhile, shadowy billionaire Simon Saint pitches an advanced law-enforcement system to the new mayor! The creative team behind the epic “The J...
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Spacey Medicine reviewed Rorschach #3 Apr 16, 2021
This comic keeps surprising me!
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In an instant, 15 million people are dead! What happens when the human psyche is forced to accept such a devastating truth? Follow the story of “the Kid,” a radicalized, gun-toting performer and the right-hand woman of the new Rorschach. See how this masked woman grows from an innocent child to the would-be cold-blooded assassin of a presidenti...
Swift Planet reviewed Infinite Frontier #0 Apr 17, 2021
The story was a great transition from the ending of Death Metal and Future State, but man they really needed better artists for such a book.
Also the last page had me so happy in more ways than one. One because of *y'know* being how he should be, and also that JrJr is no longer working for DC... because yikes.
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The next phase of the DC Universe begins here! Dark Knights: Death Metal presented the darkest threats of the Multiverse. DC Future State revealed what may lie ahead. Now it’s time to look into the Infinite Frontier of the current-day DC Universe.
In Gotham City, The Joker jolts citizens awake with an attack even the Dark Knight never exp...
Swift Planet rated The Department of Truth #7 Apr 16, 2021
It's another deep dive into the Secret Archives as guest artist TYLER BOSS (4 Kids Walk Into a Bank) joins JAMES TYNION IV (Batman) and THE DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH to investigate sightings of flying saucers...and the strange men in black suits trying to cover up their existence. Hold onto your cows-the truth is out there!
Swift Planet rated The Department of Truth #6 Apr 16, 2021
Acclaimed artist ELSA CHARRETIER (NOVEMBER) joins JAMES TYNION IV (Batman) and THE DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH to uncover the deep tangled roots of the Department of Truth - roots that stretch as far back as the Middle Ages. What is the Inquisition? Who are the Illuminati? And what is the truth behind the Phantom Time Hypothesis?
Swift Planet rated The Department of Truth #5 Apr 16, 2021
WHAT is Black Hat? WHO is the mysterious man pulling its strings? WHY is he in Cole Turner's apartment? The first arc of the smash-hit new series from JAMES TYNION IV (Batman) & MARTIN SIMMONDS (Dying is Easy) comes to a dramatic conclusion, as Cole questions whether or not he's on the right side of the War for the Truth!
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