Hello

Work still sucks and takes up most of my time so sorry for still not getting back on track with weekly reviews. However as to not totally ignore this blog I will ramble for a little while.

EVENT BOOKS: This one is pretty simple. Final Crisis is good and Secret Invasion is not. 

Being a relative new comer to the DC side of things I am not always exactly sure who all the characters are on a given page, but I am still captivated by the story. Morrison has written the story in such a way that I actually fear for the heroes and citizens of the DC Universe. Sure I might have to read the book more than once to catch everything, but why should that be considered a bad thing? The recent artists problems for the series are unfortunate, but I expect the story to get better and better as Morrison begins to reveal more of his epic story to us. 

On the other hand is Secret Invasion. After being beat over the head with the "Who Do You Trust?" build up for months the event finally kicked off with Secret Invasion #1, and it was a pretty good and promising issue. However, since then the series has fallen flat on its face. Granted I was never expecting this event to be some ambitious think piece, but with one issue left we have failed to move beyond the basic "Who Do You Trust?" plot device that I was starting to grow sick of before issue #1 even hit. This event feels way too similar to the Hollywood Summer Blockbuster type of event that was World War Hulk; not only in issue #7 but in almost the entire series little has happened besides super heroes and villains fighting some aliens. Okay, Hawkeye had some cool moments but not enough to make up for the poor quality of this event. More and more this event feels like its sole purposes were to get us to Point A to Point B and sell us a bunch more books in the Post-Secret Invasion Marvel Universe. You might say well isn't that the point of every comic book, and in part you will be right but what Bendis and Marvel forgot to do alongside those two other things was to tell an interesting and entertaining story.

Good and Bad Things:

BAD - The art in some of my favorite Marvel Books - Both Invincible Iron Man and Immortal Iron-Fist are great books that continue to get better month by month, but man sometimes these two are tough on the eyes. 

GOOD - All things Super - Action Comics has quickly become my favorite super hero book being published thanks to great writing and amazing art by Gary Frank. Additionally the recently begun New Krypton cross-over has been excellent so far; Robinson's Superman issue this week was wonderful and easily his best yet. Gates' first issue of Supergirl was good also hopefully all three continue to shine during the cross-over and after.

BAD - No new hardcovers - Still waiting on the 4th Volume of both The Walking Dead and Invincible. Hopefully these show up sooner rather than later as both books are great reads.

GOOD - Chief Red Crow - The main "villain" of Jason Aaron's amazing American-Indian drama is without a doubt my favorite current character in all of comics. In the most recent issue we see a flashback of Red Crow punching some hippies in the face, best. thing. ever. I have said it before, but you really have no reason to be missing out on this book. 

GOOD - Lady Bullseye - The recent four-part arc with Rucka as co-writer helped bring Daredevil back to prominence despite a somewhat weak ending, and the first two parts of the Lady Bullseye storyline have been wonderful. Like many I was skeptical of a character called Lady Bullseye, but so far no complaints here at all.

Take care. Remember my birthday is on Tuesday.