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The panels from Leviathan Strikes are some of the most beautiful I've ever scene in any comic book. I haven't read it yet and can't comment on the writing.
About Demon Knights -- no book this past fall has caused me to question my taste in comics quite like this one. I didn't enjoy it at all but it has been consistently well reviewed.
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Has a different penciler for much of the story, who has a much cleaner, less wild technique which, thankfully, works beautifully for the scenes he gets to draw.
I'm a sucker for pretty much anything Arthurian so this issue -- the secret origin of the Shining Knight ! with Grail et al -- is an almost guilty pleasure for me.
Out of all of the new DC books I've been picking up, it's only really Captain Atom I'm giving much thought to dropping. I'll probably give it too #6 at least and then see how we're going.
But especially glad that I'm picking up Swamp Thing, Animal Man and Frankenstein, the latter especially proving to be a joy far beyond what i was expecting.
Legion Lost ..well... hmm... it's alright. Which is annoying as if mainly features most of my favourite Legion characters. Part of the problem here I suspect is that the essential premise -- they're stuck in the past 111!! -- has been done before, with the Legion and I'm not quite sure that the current DC universe needs this extra level of complication. Still a new writer joins soon, we'll see how he goes.
Almost forgot : Been picking up The Shade series as well. No idea how this book is even supposed to work in the current continuity. .. not sure the writer does either.. so he seems to just be cracking on and telling the story anyway, which if you've ever read the Starman series he did ( and if you haven't then you should do. ASAP) is absolutely the thing to do.
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
lol, What? It's what I said it was. It works doesn't it? I don't see what the problem is anyway, it made me pay more attention. Like a professor yelling his lecture DIRECTLY INTO MY BRAIN!
Great, I'm already on reds8n's list for disparaging Aquaman.
Ya, only six 14 minute episodes. Comes right out of the comic too. So you'd probably understand it better than I. Watched it all, it was a good adaptation.
Nope. It's called Astonishing X-Men. I guess it a "motion comic". Probably uses panels from the comic. That would explain why the animation is so stilted.
Who are these guys in the Anti-Superman Army? Seems fairly obvious that one is the Kryptonite Man...but are the other two red and green versions of the same? IIRC, the Kryptonite Kid turned red at one point. And who's the blobby guy? Could it be the Kryptonoid? Would be a different incarnation if true. And can anyone remember a Phantom Zone villain with a cybernetic arm?
I guess these could be new villains, but Morrison loves to revamp old villains from yesteryear, so I feel like the answer is out there.
Detective Comics was a good read. I'll see how long it holds my attention. Gonna check out the JLA stuff too.
Ultimates is surprisingly good too. Reed Richards solidifying himself as the most hated man in the universe. He destroys all of eastern Europe. Sorry Anung, Germany doesn't make it! Damn you Richards!
