BIG TIME SPOILERS
The Indestructible Hulk #108/10
Sometime after the avengers film, somebody realized that people give a shit about Hulk, and people want to give a shit about Hulk. this book brings that quality. every issue reads like its a summer blockbuster. with giant action, quirky jokes, and a level of destruction that i always thought was required for hulk, this book in particular brings out all those qualities. the hulk goes blind and rampages, daredevil makes some smarmy remarks about how the Hulk is a little dumber than usual, and the bad guys nearly destroy hells kitchen trying to stop a blind hulk. if you liked the avengers film, this is a great follow up.
Justice League #22
6/10this starts as the opening act to the much talked about, long awaited, and much hyped, trinity war. in it we have a Shazam (or captain marvel if you're more comfortable with that) trying to spread the ashes of his fallen foes, Black Adam. Shazam says one of the best lines i've read in comics in a while when asked why he had to bury him. "because even "bad guys" deserve to be buried" and after getting to the end of this book its nice to read that there is still some heroism left in comics.
you see a basic setup for what you would expect from a JLA crossover. A rookie making a rookie mistake (shazam crossing a middle eastern border, making it look like an invasion). A bunch of people meeting for the first time (justice league/ justice league of america) and superman murdering the newly inducted JLAer. wait, what?
Quantum and Woody #1
8/10
OH YES! I have been looking froward to this book for a while now. this is the revival of the first "comedy" comic book i was ever given. I was a little let down that the jokes were few, I forgive it because they are setting up a new status quo for a book few know about. but should be reading.
Batgirl #22
9/10
Oh Batgirl, you are the crowning jewel of a diminishing batline. this book is to set up to what is going to be writer Gail Simone's next big arc "Batgirl: Wanted". and this book is what i love about this series, it acts as a decompression issue. Babs goes on a date with a failed former car thief, who's actually a great guy! they get mugged and instead of just one of them defending the other they go at them together and you really see that there might be more to this relationship than you think. you feel the drama and the weight of what Batgirl has gone through in the last year.
Superior Spider-man #13
8/10
this finally wraps up almost everything left dangling from Dan Slott's (soon to be legendary) Big Time arcs. Dr. Connors outs himself as his mind has been hiding in the lizard's body in jail, serving his penance. and Spider-man kills again! but there is more brewing under the surface here. This book lays the groundwork for what will be the superior spider-man's greatest (evil?) achievement!
Young Avengers #79/10
on the run from their parents and tweeting all about it. the writer/artist duo really seem to actually understand how this next generation interacts with each other and has a whimsical voice that is missing from certain other teen superhero books (looking at you teen titans).
Batman #22
4/10
boy, this whole book feels like a train wreck. Snyder, you're missing the point of the bat. if this book didn't look so damn good it would've been graded lower!
Uncanny X-men #8
6/10
this was a fun read, but i didn't think fun read should be in this book. following a team of outlaw X-Men I would be more interested in seeing how they run a school in the middle of Canada and still evade the government. there's a lot of promise in this book. but it just feels like Bendis (writer) is just biding his time with the reader
8/10
This issue starts off as Matt working out what has happened to him these past couple months and instead becomes about him facing his long lost bully. it gives you the other side of bullying. Grant it, I think the way they try to make you empathize with him is lacking, but i think that's mostly my own hang ups with bullies. but the end of the book really sinks it teeth into you and you just have to know what's going to happen next!
Hawkeye #12
7/10another piece of the puzzle is unfolding. follow the unconventional story telling Fraction is adapting these past 4 issues. focusing on the same day, but following different points of view. here we see the jealous older brother/failed super villain, trick shot, down on his luck, homeless, willing to take a punch in the face for 5 bucks. its a very hard up book that makes you think about how desperate people can get just to eat. this has a happier ending than the last few issues, but still very dark.
Astro City #2
9/10
BOOK OF THE WEEK
Mr. Busiek, you are a gift to all of superheroes. It's a shame that mainstream comics don't handle superheroes as well as you do. If Man of Steel felt half as hopefully as this book does it would be oscar worthy! i would say more about this story but i would just be gushing. The art is simply great, the perfect amount of cartoon layered over realism. a must read.
Nightwing #223/10
Man, i really want to care about this book. but reading it feels like such a chore. It's always last in my stack and it takes me an hour because i would rather be doing something else. at least the art is improving, but this story lacks so much heart that it feels like a rehashing of the dark knight, but, like, the transmorphers version of dark knight.
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