Well it's the second month of the DC rebootaverse and I'm back from my 10 minute retirement! Aren't you people lucky! And no Marvels this week - they're still hiding in their bunkers waiting for the buzz to die down on the New 52. Might be a long wait on that.
ACTION COMICS #2
Written by Grant Morrison art by Rags Morales and Brent Anderson
Superman's fine! Sure he's being tortured by the US government but he's pretty cool with it, you know cos he's superman. That's all that really happens this issue. Superman breaks out and finds the rocket he came to earth on and at one point Lex Luthor accuses Supes of being a space goat. Yeah. The art was pretty shaky this issue probably cos of the other artist, there's this one panel of Lois Lane thats just comedy gold. There's a lot of behind the scenes gumff this issue and while it is nice to see how it was all put together it does feel like it's trying to make up for how shot the actual comic felt. So not as fun as issue one but still worth a read.
RED LANTERNS #2
Written by Peter Milligan art Ed Benes
Well this was kinda grim. Atrocitus is still beat up about not being the one to kill his “lover” Krona, and yeah I think I'll keep calling Krona that too. It's just so damn weird. Atrocitus is all like "grrrr! My rage is lest than it used to be cos the handsome dude that was responsible for the massacre of my planet was killed by another dude ohh grrrr!". This cool and all but it's weird that he's not out and about killing dudes, he does later in the comic but for the first issue and half of this issue he's all in mourning for his lost love. The killing part is where it gets pretty grim which I guess is normal? Atrocitus talks about and then goes to this planet where these techno dudes are fighting theses non techno dudes in a bloody war. Pretty much everyone dies. The art is nice though, very Liefeld-ian but well drawn. I really like the pages with Red Lanterns on them, dumb thing to say I know but the pages without them kinda suffer from the generic lantern book art much like the lantern rangers book from last week . It's not a bad art style but it dosent really stand out or pop. I really want to like this book but so far its just been OK.
DETECTIVE COMICS #2
Written by Tony S. Daniel art by Ryan Winn
Terrible gruesome things keep happening around Batman! That's what this issue was about and I get the feeling that's what this runs going to be about. Didn't really enjoy it as much as the first issue but I think that's to be expected with the rebootaverse, its going to be top loaded with awesomeness. Just like expected we didn't find out what was going on with the Joker this issue and even though I thought that going in it still feels a bit of a let down. We do get another gruesome cliffhanger to end the issue so points there and it's nice to see at least in my local comic shop that it's selling out after being put down as the Bat-book not to get.
JUSTICE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL #2
Written by Dan Jurgens art Alberto Aaron Lopresti
This was damn good! Far and away my best of the week. The JLI fight a giant robot, lose and run away. Now hear me out on this one. I know how what I just said sounded bad. The JLI fight this giant robot and get beaten down by it, and I know what you're thinking - Batman's there so how could they lose? Well I guess he was just having an off day and wasn't able to channel the Bat god but that doesn't matter it's the way it was written that is the cool part. It all just feels right, they weren't ready to fight the giant robot and Booster didn't want to get anybody killed. It's so against the way I normally like comics to go but it's so well written I just dig it. Oh and the banter on the team is AMAZING it just feels so real for the characters to be saying. And personally the art in this book was my favourite of the week. Maybe its not to everyone's taste but it fits the tone of the book perfectly. Like Doovydavy will tell you, it's an 80's comic but damn you should be reading it.
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