All Star Western Featuring Jonah Hex #21

All Star Western Featuring Jonah Hex #21 started out strong with Booster Gold getting himself and Hex sent through time.  I really wish Hex had the time to actually kill Booster since he has been nothing but an unfunny pain the entire time he has been in the comic.  But instead Hex gets dropped into the future at some point and ends up fighting Batwing.  Even though this is the “future” and people (especially) the heroes should know of Hex no one does.  Hex ends up in Arkham Asylum despite his skills and abilities, basically he was railroaded by the story and in typical lame comic book creators desire to not work hard while getting paid end up with this lame cliffhanger of Hex being helpless.  But I’m sure in the first pane of next month’s comic he will again be in control of the situation.  Lame.  The Stormwatch backup story was entertaining, but as I predicted (I think) suffers from being a story cut in two that was too short to fill the space.  This story would have been much more entertaining if shown in full and not broken up.  Anyway, Doctor 13 had a little too much garlic in his system and that killed the vampire queen.  Despite my complaints this was an entertaining story – good stuff.

Batman Superman #1!

Batman Superman #1 was terrible; the writing was sloppy and inconsistent.  Having the two big guys of the DC universe team up in their own book should have had a better less stupid story.   At this point I’m just going to move on and not waste my time trying to point out the bad.  The good is we see Superman and Batman and apparently how they first met in the DC New 52 universe.  The writer seems to be trying to teach the reader something about bullies in an allegory.   But that does not really work when the fight setup is a fake.

Batman the Dark Knight #21

Batman the Dark Knight #21 is finally the end of the way to long Mad Hatter storyline.  Batman’s girlfriend died in the previous issue.   So for some reason Batman wants vengeance for her death and believes that Mad Hatter had something to do with the death.  So we see Batman “go crazy” he hunts down and beats up the Mad Hatter. Unfortunately this is not Frank Miller’s Dark Knight.  I have to say that nothing in this story needed to be covered over so many issues of the comic.  Not only was the story not original but it ended up as not mattering since the comic re-set in the last pane of the comic.  Anyway I hope no one else wasted their money on this comic the last few issues.

Detective Comics #22

Batman Detective Comics #22 seems to want to be the next Iron Man comic.  We have a mysterious high tech villain who is killing members of the Gotham Police Force.  The villain is foreshadowed by a meeting between Bruce Wayne and a new business man in town Caldwell who apparently has enough cash to just buy Wayne Tech.  But even before that we flash back to a previous story where the police thought that Batman was killing Police Officers and in fact this one police officer still thinks Batman did it despite evidence to the contrary.  Frankly at this point making the Gotham PD even more stupid is rather disappointing at this point in the history of Batman.  Anyway the backup story with the Man-Bat continues to be interesting and maybe it will actually go somewhere.  This story really should have had its own comic even if it was a one shot.

Dial H #14

Dial H #14 was very confusing.  The story makes no sense that suddenly the good guys are going from disaster world to disaster world fighting people convinced the main characters are vampires and destroyers of worlds.  I just think the creative team is just trying too hard.  After the chalk world story I was hoping the good weirdness of this comic would return and the comic would become good again.  I guess I was overly optimistic.

Earth 2 #14

Earth 2 #14 – I really enjoyed reading this comic.  The war with Steppenwolf and the country he seized.  Green Lantern, Doctor Fate and the Flash attacked first followed by a standoff with a “stealth force” of other super powered people.  They agree to work together when they are attacked by Steppenwolf’s hounds.  There was a very interesting conversation between Khan and General Foster.  Their talking was a bit of catch up as the Earth 2 storyline jumps ahead and character development for action.  So far this story continues to entertain.

Trinity of Sin: Pandora #1 A Prequel to Trinity War

Trinity of Sin: Pandora #1 A Prequel to Trinity War.  I bought this comic before I realized just how silly and out of control this upcoming “cross-over event” was going to become.  But seriously Pandora – especially this Pandora – being punished for picking up a skull is just seriously the lamest plot device ever.  Unfortunately this was the high point of the comic.  The rest of the comic is Pandora going through time failing to be able to fix the world – until now.  Oh well at least I did not pick up the rest of this series unless it happened to cross over into one of my regular comics.

A + X #9

A+X #9 staring Wolverine and Captain America in a story where they kill a giant snake and some giant ants, they then fight a “chimp” with the Shaman’s staff.   They end up rescuing Doctor Strange and commiserate about the bad things humans do to animals.  This was a disappointing story, we learn nothing new about the characters and the dialog is rather mundane for these characters.  The second story followed Quentin Quire and Pixie and Eye-Boy as they try to steal from Doctor Strange as part of a bet.  This story was at least entertaining and the X-kids manage to save Doctor Strange (well sped up his release) from the demon D’Spayre.  The second story was good.

Age of Ultron #10

Age of Ultron Book 10 was very interesting.  The time travel, the secret messages and the fight with Ultron was well done.  But after 10 issues of the main book, a number of “tie-in” stories that actually had nothing to do with fighting Ultron or the main story at all.  After literally shaking up the Marvel Universe and making massive changes by killing off major characters.  All we end up with is teasers for new comic books.  I find this very disappointing.  Ultron is a cool comic book villain yet in the end nothing changes.  Not only does nothing actually change in the Marvel Universe but the last few pages are splash page advertisements for other comic books.  This is the kind of crap that makes me grumpy.

Cable and X-Force #10!!!

Cable and X-Force #10 – where there is a lot of talking and a quick fight.  I just have not been keeping up with this comic I guess I just keep missing issues and now I’m really confused.  I like the sub story with hope meeting Blaquesmith the little alien whom owns a convenience store.  Though it appears Hope instead of learning something useful got blasted into a time portal.  The rest of the team sits around talking until some Avengers faction appears and they fight, Cable gets caught again or so it seems

Captain Marvel #13

Captain Marvel #13 was entertaining, but misses a key point in suspenseful storytelling.  If the bad guy is supposed to be secret do not give away who the bad guy is on the first page.  I realize this issue is in the middle of some overarching story ark that I did not know about at the time and I missed picking up those other cross over issues.  Anyway this comic has a lot of cameo appearances from famous people and it is all in good fun.  With luck in the end Captain Marvel will be able to fly again at the end of this story and that stupid part of the story will be over.

Indestructible Hulk #9!!

Indestructible Hulk #9 continues being very entertaining.  Apparently as part of his agreement with S.H.I.E.L.D. Bruce Banner must make a phone call once a week to ensure S.H.I.E.L.D. has not do something bad to Banner or the Hulk.  It turns out this special person is Daredevil and his lawyer alter ego.  I think Banner is starting to get on his handlers nerves because in this adventure they drop him while still Banner at a ship they are attacking.  The ship was being used by smugglers carrying super level weapons.  One of the bad guys gets away and this leads to an interesting Daredevil and Hulk team up entrance.  In the end the bad guy gets away and meets Baron Zemo.  This could be interesting.

Morbius the Living Vampire #6

Morbius the Living Vampire #6 was disappointing.  Having Spider-Man show up should be great as him and Morbius have history.  Unfortunately we get the lame assed girlfriend beating bystander murdering Superior Spider-Man.  So when the new villain shows up she / he kicks Spder-Man’s rear.  We expect Morbius to get beat up as that is how this comic has been going.  But as for the Superior Spider-Man?  Let us just say he was lacking in the Superior aspect of his name.  It all winds up with a meeting between the super science villain and the Rose.  Why people would be surprised they had something bigger planned is beyond me.