DC Reveals Cover for Superman: Earth One Sequel
DC Comics has revealed the cover art for the sequel to J. Michael Straczynski and Shand Davis’ SUPERMAN: EARTH ONE.
DC Comics has revealed the cover art for the sequel to J. Michael Straczynski and Shand Davis’ SUPERMAN: EARTH ONE.
Batman books of the New 52 have been incredibly solid. Batman and Robin #1 was a good introduction to the relationship Damien and Bruce share and the dynamic of their adventures. The action was solid, and the pace was consistent. Unfortunately, issue #2 slumps a little in all departments, though that isn’t to say it wasn’t a good read.
In terms of entertainment, no two mediums are as similar as cartoons and comics. Put some motion into a comic and you have yourself a cartoon. Pause a cartoon on TV and write in marker above the character’s head what they’re saying and you have a comic. Don’t do that though. However, not all comics have become cartoons. Yeah, a lot definitely should stay on the page, though there are those that would make for great translations. Here are just a few of them.
New York Comic Con has offered up some pretty cool revelations. Although Storm has suggested differently in recent comics, Marvel has confirmed that she will be joining Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. The first issue introducing Storm as a member of the team will be released in January of 2012 in Avenger #19 written by Brian Michael Bendis and art by Daniel Acuña.
This issue of Suicide Squad shows just how inadequate and unnecessary the first issue was by being even more action-packed, having the storyline pick up its pace and showing just how much fun the characters are to watch. This is one of the best second issues I have read so far and shows how much potential this team of fierce villains previously on death row has, with only a few minor drawbacks.
Super-villains Deadshot, King Shark, Voltaic, El Diablo, Harley Quinn and Black Spider were recruited onto the Suicide Squad. All have bombs implanted in them, forcing them to listen to whatever their leader, Amanda Waller says, and she says they have to find a woman in a stadium full of zombies. The team risks life and limb to get to the woman before their time runs out.
The Red Lantern Corps is hilarious to me. Honestly, if I did not know otherwise, I would think that they were some sort of parody of the Green Lanterns. Maybe they are. This is a group whose primary characteristics are being constantly pissed off and spewing blood. You don’t need a pussy cat or an oversexed alien chick (surprisingly not Starfire) on the team to get that idea. Still, they and their ever so subtly named leader, Atrocitus, have their own book now, and it just happens to be written by Peter Milligan, who also wrote Justice League Dark #1, which I loved. That being the case, let’s take a look.
Aside from an incredible couple of opening pages featuring Dex-Starr, the most bloodthirsty Red Lantern and most genius running joke in DC, Red Lanterns #2 has a lot more going on than the exposition-heavy introductory issue. Basically, Atrocitus, leader of the rage-fueled Red Lanterns and only member capable of some rational thought, is having a dilemma. See, he used to be really super-duper pissed off, but, ever since Hal Jordan killed the guy responsible for all Atrocitus’s anger, the big angry red guy is just going through the motions. In an effort to boost his emotional state from moderately-pissed back to the ravenous psychosis of yesterday, he’s started bombing around the galaxy, honing in on the rage of others. He ends up looking like a cross between the Silver Surfer and the Spectre. Atrocitus flies around the galaxy looking for epic wrongs to right and then violently murders those wrongs in the name of justice.
So the second issues of the relaunch keep rolling in, and they haven’t disappointed yet. Hal may have started this new series without his powers, but I think it’s safe to say most readers didn’t expect that to be the case for long. Green Lantern #1 ended with Sinestro talking to Hal about getting his power ring back. Issue #2 starts with Hal understandably feeling very uneasy about the “former” villain offering “help”. After a short but heated discussion between the two, Sinestro gives Hal a Green ring of his own making.
