Review: Justice League (2011-) #47

Justice League (2011-) #47 by Geoff Johns
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

The last two issues have been kind of disappointing. Darkseid War had been quickly becoming one of my favorite things ever in comics. However, the last two issues have fallen a bit flat for me. The art is still great, and there's still a lot of intrigue. But it also feels liek Johns is making things happen for no reason, and rehashing too much from the last arc. It was still enjoyable and I'll keep reading, but I was definitely let down.

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Review: Injustice: Gods Among Us, Vol. 1

Injustice: Gods Among Us, Vol. 1 by Tom Taylor
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This was astoundingly good. Much better paced and structured than within the game. It's tense, full of great character moments, and extremely interesting to see what's basically a brewing war between superheroes. However, through the game, I've seen the setup before, and it's not the most original premise, especially for DC. But it's among the highest quality iterations of said premise. The art is hit and miss, but hits hard when it hits, and some, like Hal, I can't see "turning" so quickly.

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Review: Essential Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 9

Essential Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 9 by Marv Wolfman
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Marv Wolfman's run in the first 2/3 or so is really good with many of the bst issues I've read, while it slowly corrected many character mistakes that Peter and his friends often exhibited. It still had its issues, but it was really great and intriguing overall. Unfortunately, like most writers, he didn't stay on forever, and unfortunately not that long, leaving way for an immediate plummet in writing quality, including nonsensical stories that set up boring confrontations and not much else. That brings the overall rating for this collection down a bit. I'd say the last third is also unnecessary reading, so feel free to put it down after page 400 or so.

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Review: Essential Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 8

Essential Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 8 by Len Wein
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Seriously. EVERYONE blames Spider-Man for everything. Gwen died, its his fault. Her dad died, it's his fault. He's fighting robbers, he's robbing them. Literally every other appearance Punisher or Human Torch are either fighting him or helping him. Now Nova? A super-powered galactic warrior is yelling at Spider-Man for killing his uncle. I don't like Peter and MJ always hating each other for no reason, but this is just obnoxious.

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Review: Essential Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 7

Essential Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 7 by Gerry Conway
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

This is pretty weak, honestly. A lot of MJ getting pissed for no reason or completely over-reacting to understandable struggles Peter has, Gwen trying to cope with her return is interesting, but it's very rarely touched upon. The clones are stupid, the re-animations and ghosts are stupid, and most of the situations are stupid, and people keep flip flopping on Spidey being the greatest thing ever and the world's greatest criminal, and even the Punisher and Strange appearances are dull.

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Review: Essential Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 6

Essential Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 6 by Gerry Conway
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Definitely an improvement over the first almost 100 issues. Spidey isn't as mopey, his relationships are better fleshed out, and at one point, he briefly gives p on being Supider-man, which I would've done a while ago. It' still obnoxious and unrealistic just HOW much people loathe Spider-man and are quick to assume every wrong-doing is his fault, no matter how much they praise him before or after. It wqas still kinda boring throughout, however, and for fairly obvious reasons, it's hard to get super-attached to pete and Gwen as a thing, besides the fact that they don't do much besides say "I love you" a bunch, I honestly think Pete and MJ have more immediate chemistry, an they barely talk. Gil Kane's art is very underrated. Also, i do not look forward to finishing these and having to seek out individual issues cuz marvel just stopped.

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Review: Justice League, Vol. 7: Darkseid War, Book 1

Justice League, Vol. 7: Darkseid War, Book 1 by Geoff Johns
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I love the Darkseid War so far, and since all the issues here have been released and read by me, I can rate this, assuming I have no future reason to hate this collection specifically. The art is absolutely sublime and Geoff Johns is at the top of his writing game. The only disappointment is not getting to see more of the clash of gods.

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Review: Essential Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 4

Essential Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 4 by Stan Lee
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Most of these issues are just bad. Peter goes out of his way to reveal his identity, and how does he go about it, out of the uniform he just walks in and is like "hey, I'm Spider-Man!" like anyone would believe that. Gwen and Peter's relationship woes are dragged out horribly and everyone is either stupid or an asshole. I did like Peter getting sick of Jonah, but the way that played out felt like a horrible cop-out.

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Review: Essential Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 3

Essential Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 3 by Stan Lee
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This set starts off with a bang with spme great villian-centric issues in a row, then there's a lot of Peter still being kinda a douche but people being okay with it now, and then a pretty sweet old school monster movie type issue at the end. These are still historical significance reads with a few exceptions.

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Review: Essential Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 2

Essential Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 2 by Stan Lee
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This collection is more consistently solid than before. It delves more into Peter's personal life, and has some interesting stories such as JJ trying to catch Spidey and #33, 334 and #39 are three of the best issues of this era. It doesn't have the historical impact and the debuts the last one had, which gave it an extra star and it's still not great, but it's better, and it's longer so you get more out of it.

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Review: Essential Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 1

Essential Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 1 by Stan Lee
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Honestly, like most of its era, the original Spidey comics really don't hold up at all, visually or story-wise. What is here has its moments however, introducing some of one of the best rogues galleries in comics, some solid character moments for Peter, the obvious historical significance. It's worth a read, or at least a skim, if you really want the knowledge, and it's better than most of its time, but it's still not that great anymore.

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Review: Avatar: The Last Airbender - Smoke and Shadow Part One

Avatar: The Last Airbender - Smoke and Shadow Part One by Gene Luen Yang
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This is another great comic. A lot of great character moments between characters, especially Iroh being amazing. I like that they address the idea of a child struggling with their parent changing physically. The action is gorgeous, and the story is mostly engaging. However, I'm still not a big fan of the over-arcing plot, the Ozai Society still feels too one-note to be interesting beyond the conceptual phase, and the whole conflict seemed to end too abruptly and effortlessly. It was still an engaging and entertaining read, however, and I'll hopefully read the next part in a day or two.

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Review: Godzilla: Awakening

Godzilla: Awakening by Max Borenstein
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

It looks nice, so there's that. The human reactions to the monsters are surprisingly genuine and they both look great. However, the fight scenes are brief and the humans don't get enough time to have any real character, It's a decent comic that suffers from not having enough time to do anything significant, at least not with its overly long setup. At least it curbstomps that garbage movie

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Review: X-Men: Inferno

X-Men: Inferno by Chris Claremont
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Mostly dumb story, a mix of cool and dumb designs, some great and terrible artwork, and some horribly plodding segments. Some great character moments, great bouts of teamwork, some complete idiocy, you get my point. I loathed soem of it, loved other parts, but the last third or so was really enjoyable and that kept it slightly above average for me. Definitely the weakest major X-Men event I've witnessed in my attempt to read through all the X-books.

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Review: Justice League (2011-) #46

Justice League (2011-) #46 by Geoff Johns
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

It was ok, but it spent too much time setting up future events an not enough making what's currently going on interesting. But the next issue is sure to kick ass.

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Review: Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2015-) #1

Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2015-) #1 by James Tynion IV
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

It started kinda boring, and I'm not big on the art style, but once the turtles started reacting to new stuff like the turtles, it was pretty entertaining, and it had a pretty sweet ending. It was nothing special, but good enough of a setup issue to be worth reading #2 when it comes out.

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Review: Mass Effect: Blasto: Eternity is Forever

Mass Effect: Blasto: Eternity is Forever by Mac Walters
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

This was disappointing. It completely relies on the idea of a Hanar with guns and quips being funny, but that loses its edge shortly if nothing else entertaining happens. To write comedy, one must first be humorous.

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Review: Justice League: Darkseid War: Shazam (2015) #1 (Justice League: Darkseid War

Justice League: Darkseid War: Shazam (2015) #1 (Justice League: Darkseid War by Steve Orlando
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Great art, totally uninteresting and boring plot.

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Review: Justice League: Darkseid War: Green Lantern (2015) #1 (Justice League: Darkseid War

Justice League: Darkseid War: Green Lantern (2015) #1 (Justice League: Darkseid War by Tom King
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

A pretty good character study on Green Lantern, with some nice older school art from his heyday, and while the ending is disappointing from an intrigue perspective, it makes sense for Hal as a character. It's mostly kinda boring, but it has its moments, and Hal's new hair looks dumb.

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Review: Justice League: Darkseid War: Flash (2015-) #1 (Justice League: Darkseid War

Justice League: Darkseid War: Flash (2015-) #1 (Justice League: Darkseid War by Rob Williams
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Cool premise, some inspiring dialog, and Barry being awesome as always. However, it rushed to a conclusion and felt hollow. But it was a joy to look at.

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Review: Justice League: Darkseid War: Batman (2015-) #1 (Justice League: Darkseid War

Justice League: Darkseid War: Batman (2015-) #1 (Justice League: Darkseid War by Peter J. Tomasi
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This was absolutely glorious. Only Batman would take a Godly force using him and find a way to use it for himself instead. The things he does, the measures he takes, are all interesting and extreme, yet totally in character. Including one of the greatest confrontations I've ever seen in a comic

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