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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