Comics!
Who would have thought: i like comics. So here are a few thoughts about the titles i remember reading from the last couple of days:
Batman & Robin Year One no.2 // Batman/Superman: World's Finest no.33 (2024)
Mark Waid's one-two punch this week, both with fitting art--who am i kidding, you can buy Batman & Robin: Year One for Chris Samnee's artwork alone.
DC could cancel Justice League and all the ancillary titles and just rely on the current *World's Finest series to tie the world together. There is a Justice League title written by Mark Waid coming on November 27th.
Batman & Robin rides the thin line of having to tell it's story in a post 36 pages per issue-world and making it feel like a natural progression instead of a series of vignettes that connect through half a sentence. But Uncle Mark has our backs, and Chris Samnee is … take a look:
Issue 33 of World's Finest isn't a high point in a series, yet delivers more than a lot of similar titles, in large part due to being free of the necessity to set up the next big thing, and make it feel important.
The Moon is following us no.3 (2024)
After issue two, i was ready to quit on the book. The "alternative medicine will heal your child" vibe didn't sit well with me. I trusted author Daniel Warren Johnson though, and got the next irritating thing presented to me. The whole thing could be caused by--possible spoilers ahead--the parents memories bleeding into the kids imagination and at the end, this whole story was therapy with the goal of coming somewhat to terms with loosing their child. I hope it doesn't drift off into the multiverse of coma patients…
The Power Fantasy no.4 (2024)
This comic does an amazing trick: it has the least action in a contemporary superhero title--to my knowledge--, but has constant tension woven through it, that keeps growing with every issue.
And the writer Kieron Gillen mentions other angles he tried to approach the topic of "superheroes as superpowers in a cold war scenario" and i want to read that book as well … or rather read that book instead. I have my problems with this issue, and i believe Gillen to be a writer who is aware of that, and address it down the line--i'm just ranting that the gold is not shiny enough.
