I am less familiar with DC than I am Marvel, obviously. I mean, when your husband gets you into comics, you naturally jump on to titles that he is all ready interested in, and Michael tends to favor Marvel story lines and characters. Despite this, I do know--Geoff Johns is one of the big shots, one of the really good writers comics have today. One of my favorite comics ever was written by him (it was a retelling of Hal Jordan's origin story, which I enjoyed immensely).
While the wind rages something fierce outside, I am going to dive back in.
First, I gotta ask...who is the black guy with the metal arm?
No, no--not him; the other guy....
Okay, I am evidently going to have to be clearer.
This guy. He is prominently featured on the cover, in front of some of the more recognizable characters, so I am intrigued. Even more so as I do not recognize him.
Right quick: who are Flash and Superman fighting? It looks like he took out the rest of the team, and my first thought was that he looked like a baby sentinel from the Marvel X-Men universe.
(note right here: there is apparently a lymph node called the sentinel so you should exercise extreme caution when typing "sentinel" into google with no elaboration).
Okay, it is Darkseid? Somehow I missed that memo, along with the recap page. Are they not doing that any more? Now that I know it is him, I am surprised that my mind jumped to sentinel when skrull, Thanos, or Apocalypse might have been more of a natural assumption. Maybe it was because of the unusual coloring.
Hal Jordan is either incredibly brave and badass, or else suicidal. One thing is for certain, he is not a good team player yet--he is overly confident, doesn't work well with others, rushes in haphazardly and without plan...makes for an interesting character.
I do like the idea of Green Lantern/Hal Jordan and Batman/Bruce Wayne becoming close friends. I don't know how their relationship was prior to the new 52, but Bruce wouldn't normally unmask in the middle of a fight, wouldn't give people pep talks to motivate them, would probably be the one struggling the hardest not to try and take on the world by himself...
Great issue. I actually really enjoyed myself. It feels freeing to read a story that is not bogged down by more history than you could ever comprehend or ever conquer, especially with several new stories being churned out every month...that actually is neither here nor there; my point being: it is nice not having to stop every couple of panels to go "what the fuck? When did that happen? Weren't you dead?"..you get the idea.
I may take this series from the beginning. Certainly seems interesting enough. Do wish they had stuck with their original intent of giving Wonder Woman pants; at least that way she would have been noteworthy enough for me to mention before the very end.
--Andie--
oh! And the guy....? Cyborg. So now I know.
No comments:
Post a Comment