Nightwing #18 Requiem

Nightwing #18 Requiem was good as far as the Death of Robin stories go.  Nightwing mourns the death of his friend and sort of bonds a bit with Batman.  Nightwing then using information from Batman, Nightwing goes after a villain the Dealer who is a guy whom sells items associated with supers.  The Dealer is selling a costume that was once worn by Dick Grayson’s father and used by the Joker in the Death of the Family story.  There is a short fight and we move on to the other story that could be interested.  The guy who killed Grayson’s parents is still alive! Either that or someone is going to be sorry for picking that old alias as a cover once Nightwing gets to him.

Red Hood and the Outlaws #18 Requiem

Red Hood and the Outlaws #18 Requiem actually has nothing to do with the Death of Robin.  Robin is not mentioned or his passing is not noticeably mentioned.    This is Jason Todd recovering from the acid attack left by the Joker for after the Joker was “defeated”.   Basically this is a post Death of the Family story and not actually a Requiem story.  The Red Hood has a bad dream telling a version of a re-birth story or possibly an introduction for those people whom had avoided this comic book until feeling forced to buy copies because of the Death of the Family mega story.  It feels as if the creative team is hoping that with a cool re-birth story readers will forgive them for the terribly sexists treatment of Starfire.  Unfortunately the only time we see Starfire she is dead and still nearly naked so no I’m not really interested in buying more of these comics.  Frankly this fake Requiem tie in makes it even less likely that I would ever buy a comic book in this series ever again (so lucky for the DC comics I might have bought the next issue because I am still a few weeks behind reading comic books as they come out). 

JSA Liberty Files #4 !!!!

JSA Liberty Files the Whistling Skull #4 was alright and kept the story going.  But we have flashbacks or possibly flash forwards and a break to go see what the Skull’s girlfriend is doing right now.  The story feels lost at this point and I am losing interest quickly.

Age of Ultron #2 !!!

Age of Ultron #2 was just a long and uninformative monolog by Spider-Man.  We got to see the Black Widow and Moon Knight in the ruins of San Francisco but that was just more set up of the main story.  We do get to see Moon Knight kill a guy that looks a lot like Paul Giamatti before the guy could steal from the Black Widow.   This issue seemed to just be a holding spot and stalling until Captain America finally says something.  The cover art is completely and totally false and misleading.

Fantastic Four #5

Fantastic Four #5 was kind of weird.  I say the issue was weird because this time the Fantastic Four Family head to ancient Rome to ask Jullius Caesar a question.  The kids and Johnny Storm (Human Torch) want to know if Caesar really did live with pirates and over pay his own ransom.  It turns out that Caesar was actually a time traveling alien and hilarity ensues.  Reid and Sue have some alone time to discuss Reid’s illness.  All ends well and the timeline is only a little changed.  We flash to what we are told is “Last November” and get to see Caesar has survived.  While I did call this issue weird I have to say it was a vast improvement in story telling reaching all the way to entertaining.

Thor God of Thunder #6

Thor God of Thunder #6 is a wait what? Kind of comic.  We went from an entertaining adventure comic with three Thor stories from different times in history.  Two of the Thors finally meet and that seemed to be a set up for a great bit of story and action.  Instead we get a long whiny origin story of Gorr the God Killer.  Turns out the God Killer is just another whiny bitchy God – oh and he has a son.  Very disappointing.

Thunderbolts #6!

Thunderbolts #6 started out slow but became more and more interesting as the pages passed.  It turns out that the Leaders brother is trying to learn all the Leaders secrets.  At some point the Leader had uploaded his knowledge to the internet and the brother was trying to find and download that data.  There is a lot of talking things over in this comic and very few people die visibly in this issue.  It looks as if the team is heading off on a chase in a submarine. At some point I am going to have to read up on when Red Hulk became the new trend over green.  We have in the Marvel Universe Red Hulks, Red She-Hulks and now the Red Leader.  It leaves me a bit confused.  Otherwise I found this comic very interesting.