4.7 |
Overall Rating |
9.0 |
Black Canary: Best of the Best (2024) #5 |
Mar 31, 2025 |
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. |
3.0 |
Fire & Ice: When Hell Freezes Over (2025) #1 |
Apr 10, 2025 |
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. |
2.0 |
Fantastic Four (2022) #30 |
Mar 28, 2025 |
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. |