Comics for 9/7/06
Light week for comics, which were delayed by the holiday. In no particular order:
- 52 #18
- Detective Comics #823
- Uncanny X-Men #478
Continue reading and be impressed. By impressions. Go.
52 #18
Filler. Unremarkable art, unremarkable events. Several new plots and characters (new to 52 at least) are introduced, things are advanced, but there are no parts complete enough for uh, remarking on. So I won’t.
Detective Comics #823
An average Batman story with potentially interesting ramifications for one of Batman’s villians is completely ruined by horrible, horrible art. Really bad. Like, ripping off horrible 90’s Spawn art and not even pulling that off well bad. Run away.
Uncanny X-Men #478
Best of the week by virtue of not being bad. I just started reading Uncanny X-Men a few issues ago, so I’m still learning about the characters on the team. I’ve at least heard of most of them, and I have the X-Men: Deadly Genesis story that leads into Brubaker’s work here (in fact, it’s why I started reading this title) so I understand what’s going on, but I’m still trying to decide if it’s actually going anywhere interesting. My mutant power is optimism*, so I’ll keep reading it.
That’s it for this week’s impressions, but here’s something funny: I took all 13 trade paperback collections of the current volume of Daredevil to my parents’ house over the holiday weekend. Most of those are Bendis’s run; I got into Daredevil because he was the writer and picked up the few he didn’t write for the sake of completion. I was planning on bringing them to a friend in Columbia to read, but, get this, my dad started reading them. And then my high-school-senior sister. How weird is that? I mean, it’s not weird at all, it’s perfectly normal, and anyone who thinks reading comics is just for geeky boys is dumb and who asked you anyway. Ok, yeah, it’s weird. Unfortunately I didn’t realize it until my dad was half-way through Kevin Smith’s lackluster volume 1; I would’ve started him in the Bendis books right away. I don’t know if he’ll be hooked, but he did at least start on the first Bendis book (volume 4, I believe) afterward, and he said he thinks it’s better. My sister had gotten through at least the first two volumes by the time I left, and asked if I would leave the rest for her to read. I’ll make comic converts of everyone yet!
*or maybe my mutant power was poor impulse control on payday in the comic store, I can’t remember, and in this case it doesn’t matter
September 15th, 2006 at 8:29 am
Oh, I’ve finished them by now. I really liked them all–but the last one had a really terrible ending. It ticked me off. I like resolution in my stories, and that was a stupid ending. Other than that–I liked.
September 16th, 2006 at 6:03 am
The next volume comes out in October. It’s a different writer now, but I hear he’s at least as good if not better, picking up with what Bendis was doing and staying consistent with his style (not changing things up dramatically, like the difference between the first few volumes you read and the ones Bendis wrote, for example). It apparently has more of the resolution you’re looking for, though it’s still an ongoing comic and it’s not like you’ll ever get complete resolution.