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WOYL apologizes for the one week hiatus but trusts that none of you were really interested in Firestorm anyway. We now return to our award winning, Malkmus/ComicBlogosphere-pilfering segment: CRISIS OR BORING CHANGE, already in progress. As always, spoilers abound.
Superman #650
CRISIS!
Superman, Powerless!
Supergirl at his Wrist-Com beck and call!
An All New, All Vanilla Kryptonite Man!
Lex Luther kicked off his own board of directors and hit in the head with a rock!
Whilst not as viscerally satisfying as Detective, Superman was quite an enjoyable read, focusing as it does on young Clark Kent, mysteriously freed from the burden of being a superhero, riding a wave of journalistic integrity as he dishes his editor Percival "Hudsucker Who?!?" White on scoop after scoop. He gets his ribs broken by a petulant Lex Luthor and watches his movies in the park with his wife and his chum Jameserly Olsen, who he also neglects from time to time. Apparently he's off Rucka's crime beat and back in the big leagues. Also, the Planet has some interesting headlines in its Easter Egg section: WHO IS BATWOMAN and SUPERNOVA SIGHTING among them. Well, 52? WHO IS BATWOMAN? And, does she ride in a BATWHEELCHAIR? Time (52 weeks of it!) will tell...
Nightwing #118
Crising Change?
What's this? Dick's marriage to Babs already in tatters? You'd be forgiven for your confusion on the matter as Jones et al have decided to open on Dick banging (adeptly, apparently) a redhead in New York City. But apparently not our favorite paralyzed redhead. Bait and switch, or colorist ASLEEP at the switch? We may never know. In other news, that rascal Jason Todd is also galavanting around Manhattan, displaying some incredibly awful narration (including the return of comics favorite non-expletive, "FRAPPIN'") and a knife he uses to kill people. And he's also claiming to be Nightwing! Quel confusion! What will happen when Nightwing faces Nightwing? Is the Manhattan Guardian covering the story? Will they all take five for a performance by Shilo Norman? Has all of Grant Morrison's lovely NYC geography been razed to the ground?!? And just who was Mr. Grayson arguing on the phone with? Time (52 weeks of it!) will tell...
Green Arrow #60
Crising Change?
America reels as what was once thought to be a hackneyed attempt to ape Ex Machina turns out to be...HURRICANE KATRINA COMMENTARY WITH TIGHTS! Yes the horrible bombing we witnessed in the closing issues of Green Arrow has left Southern (Or Northern? You don't care.) Star City in shambles and the quixotic government of the DCUSA has seemingly left them behind. But lo and behold, Winick raises the stakes as a newly built highway overpass has forms a de facto wall seperating affluent Star City and the Mardi Gras Star City. Who will protect the downtrodden? Ex-criminal Brick? Of a fashion. More likely their new mayor Ollie Queen! But, does the city know that Queen is also Green Arrow? Did they really not recognize the beard? Time (52 weeks of it!) will tell...
Birds Of Prey #92
Crising Change?
What's this? Black Canary gone into training related seclusion in Asia? Replaced by Lady Shiva who now calls herself JADE Canary? Has the whole world been turned upside down?!? Babs still sitting pretty in a wheelchair? Fingers ringless?!? But what of the fairytale romance of Dick and Babs? Was the ridiculousness of their shortened names strung together too much for them to bear? Time (52 weeks of it!) will tell... |
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