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Final Crisis Aftermath: Ink 2
by Eric Wallace and Fabrizio Fiorentino
I think I’m going to start a new rule. Any time a hero wants to make a goon talk, and he protests that he can’t talk because “He’ll kill me,” and the hero responds “You think I won’t?” I’m just going to cancel the title. For like the third time out of the last six comics I’ve read, I have had to read a variation on that basic line, and it is so tired.
The story picks up slightly with one of Mark Richards’ tattoos missing, and it’s possible someone is controlling him to some extent. Mark’s kid is a flake: he wants to distinguish himself from his father (for no good reason that we have been given), but the gang leader treats him as bad or worse than his father does, so why does the kid act like a puppy and keep coming back to the gang? There’s more than one possible explanation, but the character is so one-dimensional, the writer doesn’t bother to tell us. In a story, one of the primary ingredients is motivation. The reader needs to know the motivation for something like this, and what’s given to us isn’t enough to justify the behavior.
The tattoos are fun effects, but that’s about the best part of the art. This new craze of people doing all their own art with no inks is seriously irritating me. Half of them are not experienced enough, and the other half are too in love with their original lines to do anything meaningful to flesh them out later. The colorist tries to make up the difference, but with lousy results.
If the story was better, or the art was better, I might hang in there, but this series fits right in with the rest of the Aftermath titles: taking a character given some screen time during Final Crisis and trying to drum up interest in them. It’s not working for any of them. Dropped.
The Last Days of Animal Man 2
by Gerry Conway and Chris Batista
What better to remind you that this is the future than to have a new Green Lantern save Buddy? And the new Lantern is… a whale! I love it. Batista’s art is nice, with green sea spray reflecting the wake of the flying whale, and varied backgrounds. The plot stalls slightly as the new villain explains her motivation for five straight pages. Whew! I know I just said we need to know the motivation, but that’s a serious case of monologing, she should seek therapy!
The daughter of the second Mirror Master wants to make her bones, much like Richards’ kid in Ink, but she isn’t seeking anyone’s approval, and she’s chosen someone she thinks she can take out to make her street cred. Buddy gets close to an animal and just like when he started out, as long as he stays close, his powers are okay for now.
Gerry Conway takes a veteran like Buddy and has him use this knowledge to change the nature of the fight by changing the locale. Just like in war, victory is often determined by who has the high ground. In this case, a zoo is Buddy’s “high ground,” and the new villain rushes in like a novice. Buddy gets a little lost in the primal ape rage, and is stopped by the future incarnation of the JLA, which has some interesting changes.
In the old days, glimpses like this would make us think of things like Kingdom Come, and we might feel a thrill later to see steps taken in that direction, much like fans of the Legion used to jump when they saw an event that might fulfill the early Adult Legion stories. Here, though, it feels like it will be contained within this story, and we will most likely never see this future configuration of the League in any series except this one.
Animal Man has often been treated as a B-list character or lower, but this series is proving to be interesting enough to keep on. Art and story could improve slightly, but a good effort.
Madame Xanadu 12
by Matt Wagner and Michael Kaluta
Part 2 of the murder mystery, and they are not through injecting other elements of the DCU into this title, when you least expect it. Xanadu tries to deliver a warning, which goes unheeded for the most part, and too late besides. The theme continues of her attempts to change fate, but her efforts seem not enough. The surprise character is Dian Belmont, lover of Weley Dodds, the original Sandman, and what an excellent appearance.
What can I say about Kaluta’s art, but that if I can make it to a convention, I need to purchase a sketch of Xanadu from him. I don’t want to spoil the villain of the piece, but his behavior is in fitting with evil deeds during each time frame, and Kaluta sets a great atmosphere full of darkness, fear and foreboding. Anyone miss that slightly creepy feeling you used to get from certain horror comics? You can get some of that here.
I believe Kaluta is only here for this five-part series, and I’m guessing Hadley returns after that. Regardless, the series continues to punch all the right buttons, doing more to intrigue me than half the super-titles out there. For all the people stuck on the capes, this would be the perfect title to experiment with something else.
Teen Titans 72
by Brian Q. Miller and Joe Bennett
The first page looks bad to me, with the light shining in such a way that the marks look like defects in the coffin, as opposed to a proper gleam or reflection. The narrative caption that declares it “Today” is unnecessary, as the third page lets you know we’re going back to yesterday. The teens are acting like teens at least, talking on the phone and playing video games, and Jaime’s freaked-out reaction to seeing Aquagirl while talking to his girlfriend on the phone is precisely that sort of awkwardness you might see at that age.
While the story isn’t the best, there are some neat touches, such as the prizes at the shoot, Starro, Darkseid, Galactus, and Brainiac, while Bombshell walks away with Captain Carrot on her shoulders as a prize. The guard stripped of his costume and frozen from Shimmer’s transmutive attack looked awesome. They have a little fun with Mammoth’s attempts to become something more than a buffoon, to slightly amusing effect. It’s all a revenge plot by the Calculator, and you have to wonder if he knows the dog attack came via an opponent of Wonder Girl’s, or if he wants to take out the whole team.
The beginning doesn’t play well, hinting at a death, but we don’t get to see anything more, leaving it to next month. There should have been some sort of further movement or closure on that.
Sean McKeever writes the second feature starring Ravager, drawn by Yildiray Cinar. Instead of a precognition from snorting drugs, she ends up hallucinating Wonder Girl? We see her end up walking in on a joke that doesn’t get a punchline, and now I have to wonder how the joke ended. Ravager is accosted by the people in the bar for no given reason, and then she suddenly coughs up blood and knocks out all by herself. Her first blackout took her from riding her bike on the streets to a frozen plain, so all we have is a lot of unexplained nonsense so far. Definitely need some explanations next issue for this to approach anything resembling good.
Wonder Woman 33
by Gail Simone and Aaron Lopresti
A visual spectacle greets you, as a magnificent horde of monsters attacks the Amazon island. Lopresti is impressive, with Matt Ryan on inks (see what neat things can happen when you have a separate inker). They fight off the first wave of monsters, and Ares decides to switch up tactics. Then the entire comic turns sideways, and we launch into the lamest endgame I have ever seen.
Wonder Woman is able to approach Areas directly, and after all of that talk about not killing for revenge, she drops Ares with one swing of her axe. Really? The god of war just stood there and let you slice his head in half?!? In one panel?!? Letdown!!!! How can this guy not have been ready to defend himself properly? He is (and I hate to repeat myself so soon) supposed to be the GOD OF WAR! Master of the fight, employer of endless strategies and tactics, ruler of the battle. And he gets taken out in one punch, more embarrassing than when Batman punched out Guy Gardner. Nope, sorry, not buying it.
Next comes the wrap-up, as Zeus has decided in his infinite wisdom to make Diana go barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen. He brings in men to replace the women for the fighting, and says they can all go home and find a good man. The reasoning is nonsense, and her refusal should have triggered his legendary rage, and he should have immediately devolved her back into clay.
I admire Simone’s attempt to shake up the title and change the status quo, but the story has to be believable, and it’s all smoke and mirrors that will be reset when a new writer takes over. There is not sufficient logic to sustain what has happened. Diana’s switch of allegiance to another deity was a great idea, too quickly covered and glossed over. What could have been a glorious romp in mythology and exploration of other myths, and even an inquiry into some philosophical questions was a plot device thrown away in two issues. Thanks for taking a good idea and smothering the life out of it like lightning.
Usually a writer takes a bad idea, but they can do a decent take on it. This is the first time in a while I’ve seen a brilliant concept so poorly executed. We waste the final scenes on a scene-setter that will allow Genocide to come back, which is not called for. The idea is a copy from Superboy in Legion of Super Heroes, and should not have a sustained existence. Genocide is the future Wonder Woman in a way, and we’ll have to put up with seeing her fight her own future self again?!? Please, no.
That about sums up this whole title for me (except for the art): please, no.
Tpull is Travis Pullen. He started reading comics at 5 years old, and he can't seem to stop.
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Posted by Travis on June 27, 2009 1:23 AM
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Ryan, that was a pretty concise recap of the twisted route the Amazons have been put through the past few years. You should do encyclopedia entries!
-TP
-- Posted by: tpull at June 27, 2009 2:12 PMI think you are confused. Genocide is NOT Diana's future self, she is made from Diana's future corpse. It's not like Diana goes evil some day and becomes Genocide.
-- Posted by: Steve at June 27, 2009 3:15 PMThat is true, Steve I was writing in shorthand. Genocide is indeed Diana's future corpse. Yet the representation of Genocide is still in the possession of someone at the end of the story, meaning we will see it again, which I dread. I think it's semantics to debate about whether her destined corpse is her future "self" or not.
-TP
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On Wonder Woman: Part of the problem is that DC has been "shaking up the status quo" with Wonder Woman over and over for years rather than shoring up the character and concept for readers as they drift in to check out the title (when something like, say, Gail Simone taking on the series occurs). Rucka made a stab at locking things down to an extent, but in the past few years, they've physically destroyed Themyscira and killed off Hippolyta (Our Worlds at War), Raised Themyscira into the air as a cultural center, dropped it back in the ocean, attacked it with OMACs and disappeared it into another dimension (Infinite Crisis), brought it back, attacked Washington DC, and restored Hippolyta (Amazons Attack), kidnapped the Gods and wiped turned the Amazons into housewives (Countdown), and just when it seemed Simone was en route to restoring the fundamentals that make up Wonder Woman and just @#$%ing get on with it, already, this is how they wrap the story.
I've read Wonder Woman for a long time, and I'm a little bummed that I may be dropping the title. Simone seemed to be heading somewhere, and I was interested in the concept of the Olympian, but this issue felt rushed and as if the conclusion didn't match much of what happened before (not to mention, the explanation for Genocide's origin is sort of... I can see how it looked good on paper, but...).
I didn't read Wonder Woman growing up. I don't have some era in my mind that I believe was "best". But I also don't feel like DC has taken the right steps to secure readers and keep them invested.
As a single issue, I didn't think it was that bad, but I'm getting the same feeling I've had of late in the non-Morrison Batbooks (and this week's Detective). I've been here and done this.
I'll give it another few issues, but...
-- Posted by: Ryan at June 27, 2009 1:07 PM