For the second issue in a row, Sam single handedly takes on people much more powerful than himself and somehow survives because he has help from a talking city that flies. This is just silly. And how the Thinker and others never once referred to him as Falcon (to rile him up) was the writers mistake. The art was decent enough though.

I've been loving this mini. King hits all the right notes with this mother/daughter relationship (which has rarely been explored in the past). We still don't know exactly "why" Dinah is even in this fight and that last page clue doesn't help matters. I haven't watched a 'fight' since the Ali days so I give a pass to the announcers dialogue which sounds stilted to me but could be how they talk today. Ryan Sook is fantastic and beautiful and gruesome all at the same time. With this mini, the stink (by association) from the Bendis Legion-thing is forgiven.

North completely missed who the Thing/Ben Grimm is. The Marvel character with the greatest will power of them all (even Cap) is reduced to a babbling cry baby. He loses his power and instead of dealing with it or using multiple ways of becoming the Thing again, either by rocket, exo-skeleton, etc., he'd rather alter his mind into being a simp (that somehow only Alicia detects). That is NOT Ben Grimm. And speaking of Alicia, even she could have seen the trope mugging scene coming. The one saving grace this issue has is that North doesn't bore us with another multi-page science lesson.

North does it again - he continues to ignore proper characterization and history. History first: North says that the cosmic rays that powered the 4 ONLY happened once. I'm guessing he never read FF #13, #197, #310, Hulk #254, etc. Ben absorbs the majority of cosmic rays? Reread any of the issues I just mentioned - there are LOTS of cosmic rays, it's just not possible. And at the ending of this issue - again, North must never have read What If v1 #36 where the powerless foursome still became heroes. Characterization: Johnny - is not that much of a goofball (and really needs to lose the asinine moustache). Despite being one of the fastest and most agile fliers in the MU, he needs Sue to save him (because she is somehow faster?). Reed - Yes he's super smart but after a decade+ (MU time) of dealing with (as North writes them) dim Ben and idiot Johnny, you'd think Reed wouldn't be such a sesquipedalianistic grandiloquentish vocabularian who incessantly speaks logophilisticstically. (see, I can write like North too). Yet, despite being so smart he can't figure out a way to restore Ben's powers (via actual power or exo-suit (see FF #170)). Sue - She may as well be a Green Lantern now. A flyswatter? Are boxing glove arrows next? Ben - like last issue, Ben is a weak-willed fool here. He's gone from wanting to give himself the equivalent of a lobotamy to insisting he become the Thing again. He's all over the place (and in therapy?). Hey North, go read FF #25, 26 and Marvcek Two-in-One Annual #7 and see how Ben has THE sgtrongest will power in the MU. Devos the Devaster - Nice impression of King Kong climbing the Empire State Building despite being able to fly (LOL). Artwise, it's barely okay. The pencils might be decent, but the inking is atrocious. One last thing for whomever edits this mess, if you're going to cite a back issue to explain how the FF lose thier powers when traveling the multiverse (whish I am SO tired of), it helps to state more than "Marvel Two-in-One" (which has over 100 issues). For those that would like to know it was M2i1 v2 #3.

Somehow. Last issue left off with Sue losing her powers and the FF ceasing to exist. This issue begins with Sue somehow rescuing the kids (not her husaband, brother or friends) into force field bubbles that somehow exist when Sue doesn't. Doesn't matter because the kids end up not existing anyway. Somehow, Valeria is alive on Earth but she looks different and the FF are powerless. Somehow Franklin is alive too but he's a giant dressing like Galactus, has unlimited power and behaves like Anthony Fremont in the Twilight Zone episode "It's a Good Life". Franklin attempts to mindwipe Valeria when an EXACTLY PERFECTLY timed event in Europe distracts him. Somehow this allows Jean Grey and Namor to rescue Valeria and somehow they figure out how Franklin was able to control everything. Somehow Valeria knows how to fix everything and somehow creates a device to reset things. Franklin attacks and rather than get rid of the device and Valeria, he for some reason goes after Namor first and then the Valeria whom he then mindwipes. Somehow this gives Valeria her original appearance and she talks with Franklin in a void they somehow were sent to. Somehow Franklin loses his powers and the two siblings then somehow cease to exist. And yet, somehow, everything returns to the last page of last issue except now Valeria somehow knows how to fix everything. Somehow, Ryan North has come up with a story where everything that happens, happens solely because the writer says it does. The characters don't move anything. The art is just okay. There are a couple panels that seem to riff on Keith Giffen which makes them the only interesting things about this issue.

This is a must read series. Yeah, it's basically just another zombie apocalypse (with cats) but every page, every panel, it's just just so damn good. With this issue (and what's coming next) I'm hoping Elsie (finally) gets a chance to do something good.

I love these characters so much but this is not a comic for fans of them to buy (unless you collect Terry Dodson covers (which is his typical beautiful)). Inside, there's alcohol, sex, breasts, Black Lives Matter and other mature ideas, but the art is so Young Adult that it just doesn't work. Backgrounds hardly exist and when they do they look like colorform stickers - no depth. The story is pedestrian. Establish that the two switched powers, fill in with boring hair salon pages, a night out with some guest stars, and a Freaky Friday ending. As far as story goes for Bea and Tora, it's only a few pages. Then there's the jokes, or what were supposed to be jokes, they all fall flat. But worse of all, is this Honey charater, who 'persuades' people against their will and the 'heroes' just let her.

It's a good story, well written. Things tie in with the overall arc DC is in currently and the characters sound like themselves (well L-Ron is goofier than I'd like but, it's L-Ron so whatever :) ). The art is a negative from me however. It's good art but more suited for a YA book than the main DC Universe.

There's a reason why Geiger is Ghost Machine's (and maybe even Image's) fladgship title and this issue continues to prove it. An epic fight between Tariq and Ashley, Nate and Barney versus the Army, Junkyard Joe about to lose himself and a 'President' who looks to be more of a menace than all of them combined. Oh and a little nuclear armageddon being minutes away. Johns and Frank's partnership has been Grade A ever since they first teamed-up way back in thier Action days. Next issue can't come fast enough.

What could have been a fun and wacky story crumbles apart when Ghost Rider kills with his penance stare. I get he's "vengeance' but Benjamin J Grimm, is standing right there! and has no problem with Blaze. Zero "justice" which is what Ben was trying to do before thsi murder happens right in front of him. The subsequent scenes with Ghost Rider hitching a rocket ride, somehow finding Galactus in the depths of space and thier 'battle' all un-funned because of Ben's mischaracterization. Adding in that this issue had two scenes that felt too much two John Byrne bits. 1) Doctor Strange successfully shut Galactus down using his version of a penance stare in FF #243 (so why did Blaze's fail?). 2) That it did fail is just too reminiscent of Galactus being shocked that he couldn't eat Apokolypse in the Galactus/Darkseid crossover. The art is great but this book should have been called a What If because there's no way it can be canon.

How to take one of the greatest cartoons of the 60's and make it work for today's audience? This isn't quite it, but it's a valient effort. Penelope is the star of this issue with the other racers barely getting a mention or cameo other than Peter Perfect in the wackiest role ever as a President who never campaigned and won by write-in votes. If this has any chance for it's intended market (I'm guessing children of the 60's like me) you need more Slag Brothers, Prof Pat Pending, Max, Sawtooth, Bubba Bear and especially Dastardly! (who did have a kind of storyline with how he and Muttley teamed-up that was was told behind the scenes). The writing and story isn't too bad and the art is just above doable (but there's potential).

Another fine issue in both story and art. Pranky is out of control and needs to be stopped, but who would dare? If Mr X-Ray wasn't my favorite resident of Hyde Street before he is now. Miss Goodbody has been fun too (unlike in the Devour special (not written by Johns)). Johns is always great and it's nice to see Portela again - I've liked him ever since he made the New 52 LSH kind of readable. Hyde Street is building up to something and I wanna be along for the ride (unlike the bus passengers in this issue).

Hickman has a way with words - a lot of them and that's good because this book took more than the 5 minutes most issues do nowadays. But, I have to groan and roll my eyes at things such as She-Hulk ignoring a small alien being pummeled by a larger one, and worse yet, she watches Hulk murder someone and she doesn't blink an eye - so much for her being labeled "Lawbringer". And then there's Hulk himself, last time I checked, he was a spaceship (yeah, a spaceship lol). apparently he got better. I've never been a fan of aged-up characters (i.e. Jon Kent, the Wally West twins, Valeria Richards, Mar-Vell's kids, etc - and not to forget, Hulk's twins); so I could only applaud that one of them is now gone. If I had a farm, I'd bet that Wakanda is being set up (and on a related note, Space Wakanda has always been stupid). Obvious too was Nova not being a by-stander, or that it would take Quill's dad's death to strt the plot. Art is decent enough and it was nice to see some Legio... uhm, Imperial Guard characters. Lastly, if this council is as big as they infer it is, there's a number of races not present that should be like Dire Wraiths, Badoon, Ovoids, Toadmen, etc.

1) There's no way Ted Grant is really dead - so funeral issues are meaningless in the end. 2) The 'traitor' arc is getting tired because it just doesn't move at a decent pace. 3) Having the JLA basically scold the JSA is just weird. 4) I like this new guy's (Rafael De Latorre) art. 5) I would have given this a higher score but Lemire called Powergirl "Paige".

Lost in the time stream, the JL can't do anything, but the Legion of Doom sure can (poor Ralph). The art isn't to the standard the book has had, but Waid's writing compensats for it. The Luthor twist was well done. My only complaint with this storyline is that villains like the Joker, Cheetah, Captain Cold, etc haven't done much of anything and they could easily have been replaced with simple henchmen. One issue left to correct that (maybe).

Doc Doom doesn't need to be smart when North writes... OWUD #1 - let's make the Avengers dumb as a rock OWUD #2 - let's make the FF dumb as a rock OWUD #3 - let's make the Avengers dumb as a rock (again) Also dumb, is Dino Doom. I hated it when it was introduced and it makes even less sense now (knowing any iteration of Doom will eventually claim to be the ultimate Doom). "You big nerd."? Since when does Wanda talk like that? Junk like that just pulls one out of the story. I get the point that the Avengers recruited villians that are schemers - but they didn't scheme. Every move was an Avengers call. And what's the point of this Arcade - all he did was shoot a gun that anyone could have done. Thor (utterly out of character) threatens to decapitate Arcade's head and a couple pages later Iron Man says the Avengers don't kill. Did North and the editor read this stuff before printing? They want to figure out why world leaders agreed to let Doom rule (as if we didn't already know) - did anyone think to just ask the leaders instead of this waste of an issue? And if you want telepathy, why use magic users instead of calling in Moondragon or one of the hundreds of muties that have that ability? At least the art is decent most of the time. Lastly, how stupid has Stephen Strange been for all these decades to not do 1/100th of what Doom is doing now?

At the start, we learn Dormy sent all the heroes off Earth and into some other dimension. That's a mighty big event that is just glossed over and we're forced to accept it - but so many questions remain... Why can't the heroes just return? It's not like Thor can't travel between dimensions. Get Wanda, Lockjaw or any other dimesnion jumper working on it. Or Reed, who in the latest FF hops between whole universes a few dozen times [also written by North]. What about the villains (who are shown not transported)? Won't they want fight Dormammu too? Asgardians looking down? If Dormammu can do this, why didn't he just send them into the center of the sun? I know we need to suspend belief but all this and more - and it's not even Page 2 yet. The Snikt page - ugh. Dormammu has been shown to be a being of energy, a knife (or claw) should be meaningless (besides making the Wolvie fanboys happy). But if he is now corporal, with Vic's connection to the FF, I would have much preferred a "It's Clobbering Time" event. Doombots are the difference to return the heroes to Earth? Really? How'd Vic even know which of the kajillion dimensions to send them to? And the return of them was so laughably perfectly timed to fit the narrative. In the end, this issue finishes exactly where it could have begun, with the heroes fighting alongside Vic - so I'm not exactly sure that this issue was needed. Decent art though.

Power Girl is an incredible character and I've loved her since All-Star Comics #63. I loved her in Showcase. I loved her in Infinity Inc. I loved her in Crisis, Warlord, Justice League Europe, Justice Society, Infinite Crisis, JSA Classified, and of course Power Girl v1 & v2. And then there's v3 by Leah Williams and... it was truly horrible. The covers were great, but "Paige" was a complete mistake (and that it was cancelled is testament to that).

The cancelled Power Girl to make way for this? Thank you DC. Sophie Campbell should have been writing PG. That said, I resally liked this issue. It's a nice set-up story and a terrific plot with this mystery Supergirl (which might lead into the soliciated Satan Girl story that's coming in a couple months - and if you don't know who Satan Girl, you might not be a long time Legion of Super-Heroes fan). I was afraid the art was going to be over the top YA like Fire and Ice has been, so I was pleased to see it wasn't. It's not super detailed like the majority of artists today but it works well page after page. Whomever this Sophie Campbell is, I only see her getting better and better.