Category Archives: DC
The Dark Secret of Before Watchmen
The controversy surrounding DC Comics’ Before Watchmen prequels is heating up, and it looks like original writer Alan Moore himself is finally going to do something about it! Be careful, I’ve always suspected him of being a dark wizard.
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Also, for anyone interested, I bought Nite-Owl #1 but haven’t read it yet. I also plan on reading Rorschach #1, and I may even review Rorschach. I’ll definitely let you guys know what I think!
Review: Teen Titans #10
Be careful what you wish for, you might just get it. I’ve been demanding an issue like this since the very beginning of the new Teen Titans series. And now that I have it, the issue doesn’t live up to its potential. After finally ending the N.O.W.H.E.R.E. story arc, the Teen Titans get a chance to kick up their feet, relax and interact with one another on a personal level. They finally get some down time, and writer Scott Lobdell tries his darndest to write an issue where the characters act like real people first and superheroes second. But considering how wobbly and breakneck the series has been up to this point, he just can’t pull it off.
Teen Titans #10
This reads like a case of a 40-something white guy whose spent his career writing superhero comics trying to write teenagers being teenagers. The fact that they’re dressed in colorful costumes and hanging out on an island filled with dinosaurs doesn’t help.
Comic rating: 3/5: Alright!
The biggest problem with this issue is that I just don’t care about the characters as people yet. They’ve been glued to their superhero identities for the entire series so far, attached at the hip to that ridiculous N.O.W.H.E.R.E. storyline. Now that they’re almost free of it and trying to be normal, it just doesn’t feel natural. Lobdell gives it the old college try, and for that it’s not a bad issue, but the emotional resonance that’s supposed to be behind all these scenes just isn’t there. When Kid Flash and Solstice share an adorable moment together, I was wondering when Kid Flash and Solstice were ever an item? When Superboy hugs the Titans like old friends, I asked myself when did that happen? When one character appears to die in the end, I just couldn’t care. The Titans on the page sure looked all broken up, but the series hasn’t spent enough time with these characters to make me care about them as characters.
So I guess this issue is just going to have to be a step in the right direction. Give me more like this, and maybe I’ll start caring. Though for the first time, the art of Brett Booth doesn’t work for me. His style has been a great fit for this series, but his colorful flashiness robs some of the down-to-Earth nature of some of the scenes.
Perhaps I’m just a big old curmudgeon, unhappy even when Teen Titans tries to give me exactly what I asked for. Oh well. Synopsis and more after the jump!
The Gotham Alphabat
Oh creative people on the Internet, you never cease to amaze me. By Dan Schreiner!
Justice League Fan Trailer
Because the geeks of the world have decided they’re not going to take any more of DC Comics’ crap, and they’re just going to make a Justice League movie all on their own, dammit! This one, which I think is part of a series, was made by the fine people at kashchei2003.
Darn it! Why am I Not in Love with The Dark Knight Rises?
Probably the distinct lack of Robin.
But time and again, each new trailer for The Dark Knight Rises fails to impress. This new trailer released today features a lot of action and violence, with a slight focus on Bane, but I just can’t bring myself to get excited! The trailer is mostly rapid cuts to more and more action without really laying out the plot or anything else. And Bane just doesn’t impress, not like the Joker did in The Dark Knight.
But judge for yourself. What do you guys think of this new trailer?
The movie comes out on July 20. I think in the end, Christopher Nolan is going to look back on his trilogy and feel remorse for not including Robin.
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