Batwoman #15: A completely nothing issue involving a
vaguely Christmassy church scene about gun-toting vigilantes
worshipping the Mother of All Children. Told as though Batwoman is
watching it in a scrying glass, which probably is as much as you need to
know.
Birds of Prey #15: Bye bye Katana. As a
way of writing someone out of a book, it's 20 pages too long. As a
readable comic it's 21 pages too long. The bomb, which the bloke who
left never to return in the last issue having betrayed everyone and
knocked out Dinah, rescues a bomb from a sewer and doesn't blow anyone
up with it because Katana cuts it in half. Because everyone thinks that
will make it blow up. Then the bad guys all just give up, and so the
good guys let them all go off-panel. Terrible stuff, all told.
Blue Beetle #15:
After the ENTIRELY UNCONNECTED COVER (which may well be meant for the
next issue instead but ended up here by accident) we get some crappy
Star Wars pastiche and some "Mexico is the worst/best place in the
world" bollocks. As ever. Then the Mayan bloke turns up but is blown out
of the bar by Galactic Talent Agents looking for BB to be be on the
next series of Big Brother. The end can't come soon enough.
Catwoman #15:
Catwoman's part in the current ONGOING Bat-crossover (which, let's not
forget, the last issue was part of) is dispatched in a single line in
the hurry to get to a different giant crossover. The rest is just some
straight bullshit as Catwoam does 10 pages of just regular robbery shite
then 10 pages of OOOH MYSTIC SHE MIGHT BE TOUCHED BY ECLIPSO OOOH stuff
which involves her wearing a false nose and pretending to be a SEXEY
scientist. In the end she cuddles up with a demon and the severed arm of
a black Irishman. Not the best thing I've read.
DCU Presents #15:
The final page says "to be concluded". Which is the best thing about
this pile of Blue Devil getting-wrong crap. Seriously? Nebiros was
ruined by Etrigan which means his favourite thing is to see Dan naked?
Ugh.
Green Lantern #15: The Third Army is now a
swarm the size of a planet. Baz thinks it was all just some kind of
coincidence that the van he stole was FULL OF BOMBS and goes to
apologise to the guy who it belonged to but stumbled into a plot that
the likes of Baz from Four Lions would come up with. Sinestro and Hal
walk about in black and white being the most awesomest Lanterns ever
EVARR. It ends with the First Lantern, who it still isn't clear whether
he's on the Guardians' side despite him being in a cell of their making.
His name is Volthoom, which is the Johnsiest thing I can imagine this
close to Christmas.
Green Lantern New Guardians #15:
Continuity busted! Issue 1 took place two years before the rest of the
DCU (except for the things that took place 5 years beforehand like
Justice League and Action) which explains... nothing as it happens.
Anyway, Kyle and the Third Army are both racing to see Larfleeze as he
(apparently) is the URGENT AND MOST IMPORTANT key to all things Lantern.
Presumably also making him the most important and the best. At the end,
because Kyle is the best Lantern ever (who isn't Hal, or indeed
Larfleeze) he is so much better than the Third Army that only a Guardian
can bring him in. I can't remember where we are in power escalation
storylines, but that just doesn't feel right.
LoSH #15: A dinosaur in future Barcelona. That's about it.
Nightwing #15:
The Joker kills some of Dick's mates from the circus he does/doesn't
own/perform in in some quite boring ways. Dull, more than anything else.
Red Hood #15:
Jason kills a whole pile fo policemen to prove he's not a murderer. Roy
and Starfire nearly have sex then turn up to save the day. Bleh.
Supergirl #15:
MAKE IT STOP. The H'El on Earth crossover is interminable. Kara gets
sent into the bottle city of Kandor to bring back a crystal that the
H'El within Kandor has. Which does make you wonder if he had the power
to send her in and out why he just didn't take himself out. Dreadful
stuff.
Sword of Sorcery #3: "Death is the only
fate I seek!" Death is preferable to the Amethyst part of this book. In
the Boewulf backup Marilyn Manson explains how we got from the one state
of affairs to the other state of affairs, or how Boewulf came to be.
Then she blows shit up, just because. It's the most readable pages thus
far this week, and still isn't very good.
Wonder Woman #15:
ORION ORION ORION ORION ORION (the WW stuff is a bit Byrne-y) ORION
ORION ORION ORION ORION. Then Abominable Snowmen. YAY. SOMETHING WORTH
READING.
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