Batman: Eternal #46 Review

Written by: Tim Seeley
Art by: Alessandro Vitti, Christian Duce and Ronan Cliquet
Cover Price: $2.99
Release Date: February 18, 2015

Running to Stand Still

I don't like being tricked.  I already know I'm a big dummy so when I get it shoved in my face over and over, it just makes me feel sad.  Batman: Eternal makes me sad.  If you have been reading this book then you will know what I mean.  We have six issues left and we still don't know who is behind all the trouble.   That's bad enough, but I'm starting to think that the writers are having fun at our expense.  I can picture Scott Snyder on the phone with Ray Fawkes last week laughing, "Great job, now they think it's Ra's al Ghul.  Ha, ha, ha!"  Why must you kill me like this?  Why?!?  I don't think I will get that answered either, so let's get on with the review.

Wonder Woman #39 Review

Written by: Meredith Finch
Art by: David Finch
Cover Price: $2.99
Release Date: February 18, 2015

Clash of the...You Know the Rest

The Finch's run on Wonder Woman has had great art from the start, but a story that has struggled to find it's own identity.  It's stuck between bringing Wonder Woman back into the greater DCU and trying to honor the Azzarello run that came before it.  While I loved Azzarello's run, I really want Meredith Finch to make this book her own.  Last issue wasn't perfect, it made steps to reach that goal. This issue continues the baby steps and while it's a whole bunch of setup, It's still enjoyable enough. Is that enough to recommend it?  Let's find out.

Red Hood and The Outlaws #39 Review and *SPOILERS*

Written By: Scott Lobdell
Art By: Tom Derenick, Sean Parsons, Wayne Faucher, The Horries
Cover Price: $2.99
Release Date: February 18, 2015

Red Hood Ravaged

*Non Spoilers and Score At The Bottom*

Last month in Red Hood some wacky shit went down in the search for Starfire.  First the big bad Crux went and got himself rehabilitated and with him not being crazy anymore, he joined up with Red Hood and Arsenal to track down their Tamaranean Princess and then DC Comic's news of the new books coming out in June dashed my dreams of Crux becoming one of the Outlaws when it was revealed that this title will become Red Hood/Aresenal......... I really thought Crux would add a really cool dynamic for the team......... Maybe they still will but it looks doubtful at this point.  Let's jump into this issue and see if our heroes can find Starfire and see if they can all get off of this drug kick and find some clarity for their final issue next month.  Let's check it out.

Green Lantern: New Guardians #39 Review and *SPOILERS*

Written By: Justin Jordan
Art By: Diogenes Neves, Marc Deering, Wil Quintana
Cover Price: $2.99
Release Date: February 18, 2015

Fighting The Future

*Non Spoilers and Score At The Bottom*

When last we flew through the universe with Kyle Rayner, we saw that after the events of GODHEAD that Carol Ferris and him were taking some time off to try and sort through their romantic debacle.......... Oh what, you don't remember?  Well Kyle went and accidentally used the Life Equation to turn Carol into his long dead girlfriend Alex....... and I'm sure you can guess that she wasn't too happy about it.  Add that to Carol not sure if she loves Kyle because she actually loves him or that she needs to love someone to continue using her powers and you have yourself an expensive couples therapy bill.  While our pair were trying to work out their problems, they were interrupted by a giant fireball crashing down on the planet which led our couple to it's origin point and there they found the dark reflection of Kyle known as Oblivion, that he accidentally created using the Life Equation.  Let's see if Kyle can overcome his dark side and survive his penultimate issue.

Batgirl #39 Review and *SPOILERS*

Written By: Cameron Stewart, Brenden Fletcher
Art By: Babs Tarr, Maris Wicks
Cover Price: $2.99
Release Date: February 18, 2015

Will The Real Batgirl Please Press Ctrl Alt Delete

Non Spoilers and Score At The Bottom*

In the last issue of Batgirl we saw our Burnside Brat going full throttle into the point of no return..... The point of no return being how much I can handle from this title completely destroying the good name of Barbara Gordon and her heroic persona of Batgirl.  She's trending on social media, taking selfies, destroying her friendship with Black Canary and deciding to take out a drunk driving reality TV star....... after having a couple of drinks herself and all she ultimately does is come off as a fool when she raced recklessly through Burnside......... trying to stop a drunk driver and ultimately making him crash into a local coffee shop.  Yeah, Batgirl's just terrible now, but maybe there's a glimmer of hope with Barbara being tormented by someone claiming to be the "real" Batgirl.  Will Barbara straighten up and become the hero we all knew and loved or will this other Batgirl take her out and we all just go with it because at least we'd be done with the Burnside nonsense?  Let's check it out.

Supergirl #39 Review

Written by: K. Perkins and Mike Johnson
Art by: Emanuela Lupacchino
Cover Price: $2.99
Release Date: February 18, 2015

Clone High

I have really enjoyed Supergirl since Perkins, Johnson and Lupacchino took over.  That's why I was so sad to find out that the book had been canceled to make way for the new titles in June.  It's a damn shame too because this Crucible story has been so much fun and will end with so much unfulfilled potential.  While I'm sure that we will see Supergirl in the future (probably coinciding with the TV Show), I want this Supergirl with this creative team.  I don't think that's in the cards so I'll just have to live with what DC is giving us...two more issues.  How will the team wrap up the Crucible story and is it any good?  Let's find out.

The Multiversity: Mastermen #1 Review and *SPOILERS*

Written By: Grant Morrison
Art By: Jim Lee, Scott Williams, Sandra hope, Mark Irwin, Jonathan Glapion, Alex Sinclair, Jeremy Cox
Cover Price: $4.99
Release Date: February 18, 2015

Hitler Shmitler

*Non Spoilers and Score At The Bottom*

Welcome to Earth-10 or Earth-X for all the others Gen Xers out there that added X to everything because we had to be EXTREME!  Okay, enough of that.  Here we'll look at a world where Kal-El fell to Earth in Nazi Germany and the world would forever feel the power of The Overman.  If you're looking for some kind of continuation of The Multiversity Guidebook, I'm sorry but you won't find it here as we head into more of a straight forward story, which is really odd since it comes from Grant Morrison.  Alright, let's check out this issue and see if Mastermen can stand tall with the rest of The Multiversity lineup.  Let's check it out.

Superman/Wonder Woman #16 Review

Written by: Peter J. Tomasi
Art by: Doug Mahnke and Ed Benes
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date: February 18, 2015

Get Over It

Superman/Wonder Woman was one of my favorite books when it first came out.  I loved seeing DC's power couple dealing with global threats while trying to also deal with a blossoming relationship. Charles Soule did such a great job giving fans a unique story while never ignoring what was going on in either of the heroes solo books.  Then things started going downhill.  I know what you're thinking..."Jim's going to pile on about how Peter J. Tomasi ruined everything", but that's not the case.  The book was showing cracks way before Tomasi even began ruining Wonder Woman.  No, I actually blame the Doomed event for starting the demise.  The crossover heavy story derailed this book and knocked it down a few pegs on my best of list.  Then Tomasi showed up...yea, I'm about to pile on.  If his goal was to make Wonder Woman a blood thirsty jerk then mission accomplished.  To add insult to injury, the first arc has one of the lamest villains in DC history...Magog.  Magog?!?! The last couple of issues have really hit rock bottom, but I'm here to tell you that this issue is better.  How much better?  Let's take a long walk and talk about it, shall we?

The Flash Season 1 Episode 14 "Fallout" Review

Accept It

Last week's episode was an explosive climax to the Firestorm rises story arc set in motion the moment Ronnie Raymond was introduced. Now like all great nukes, there tends to be quite a lot of fallout. The Nuclear Man definitely has left quite a bit of it, and not the kind you would expect. Now not only do we have Ronnie and Caitlin back together(dashing hopes to all the Snowbarry fans) and Stein with his wife, but we now have one very ambitious general looking for America's next great weapon. Thats right, General Wade Eiling returns to "help America" once again. This time by trying to learn the secret behind the Nuclear Man. But how can he learn the secret if the man has been split into men? Lets find out!

Batman and Robin #39 Review and *SPOILERS*

Written By: Peter J. Tomasi
Art By: Patrick Gleason, Mick Gray, John Kalisz
Cover By: $2.99
Release Date: February 18, 2015

Going With Dad To The Office

*Non Spoilers and Score At The Bottom*

When we last went to Wayne Manor and checked in on our Dynamic Duo, we saw that Bruce had his hands full with his recently resurrected son and his newly acquired superpowers.  That's right folks, Damian is all superhumaned up and is running Batman ragged as our Dark Knight tried to rope his son in and get him to go easy on all the brutality that's coming from Damian not knowing his own strength....... not that it ever stopped him before the powers.  Well the issue got weird after that and we then saw Damian swimming down to Atlantis and taking possession of all his clones that turned out wrong and then releasing them on what I hope was a uninhabited island.  Good issue overall, but man did it get weird.  Let's see if this issue continues the weird trend or if it goes back to the Batman and Robin basics............. you know, just with superpowers.

Justice League #39 Review and *SPOILERS*

Written By: Geoff Johns
Art By: Jason Fabok, Brad Anderson
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date: February 18, 2015

A Cool Finale

*Non Spoilers and Score At The Bottom*

In the last thrilling installment of Justice League we saw our heroes desperately fighting to find a cure to the Amazo Virus as it began to spread all over the country.  After a big battle with Patient Zero and Batman getting......... Bat powers, our heroes discover that Patient Zero doesn't hold the cure that they were hoping for and that their only resort left was to get a sample of Superman's blood...... because Luthor is a heel and actually exposed Superman to the virus years ago but it had no affect.  So after Superman almost took his frustrations out on Luthor, our issue closed with all our heroes who were infected rising up under a single consciousness and looking like they wanted to put the hurt on our currently virus free heroes.  Let's see if what remains of the Justice League can find a cure to the Amazo Virus and stop this sentience before it takes over the world.

Batman/Superman #19 Review

Written by: Greg Pak
Written by: Ardian Syaf
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date: February 18, 2015

Unusual Suspect

I have to admit, while the "Superman's Joker" story intrigued me at first, the reality of it has been a bit underwhelming.  That changed for the better last issue when it was revealed that the bullets being used to target people around the world were actually warriors from the bottled city of  Kandor.  How cool (and crazy) was that?!?  The issue ended with Batman, Superman and Supergirl (with the help of awesome Ray Palmer) finding Kandor in Iceland and a glimpse of some pretty pissed off warriors.  The way the issue ended (and the fact that we only have two more issues left in the arc) made it feel like we were just about to find out who the villain behind it all was.  Do we find out and is he or she worthy?  Let's find out.

Earth 2: World's End #20 Review and *SPOILERS*

Written By: Daniel H. Wilson, Marguerite Bennett, Mike Johnson, Cullen Bunn
Art By: Tyler Kirkham, RB Silva, Walden Wong, Jorge Jimenez, Robson Rocha, Guillermo Ortego, Andrew Dalhouse
Cover Price: $2.99
Release Date: February 18, 2015

Enter Captain Planet

*Non Spoilers and Score At The Bottom*

In our last issue of World's End, our heroes really just stood around and talked about what they had to do and really didn't do much other than that.  That is except Mister Miracle, Mister Terrific, Fury and Sandman who rocketed off to commandeer Terry Sloan's huge ass ship that could ferry the survivors of Earth-2 to some other safer location.  Wouldn't you know it though, it's never as easy as you think it'll be and the ship's defenses blew up our hero's rocket and for whatever reason Mister Terrific and Sandman survived out in space............. after they survived an exploding rocket......... cough cough bullshit cough.  Yeah, I wasn't too happy about that but really, I wasn't too happy with the whole issue, yet I stay optimist that this series will finish strong and make us forget about how bad it's middle was............. Man I hope that's the case.  Let's check it out.

The New 52: Futures End #42 Review and *SPOILERS*

Written By: Brian Azzarello, Jeff Lemire, Dan Jurgens, Keith Giffen
Art By: Scot Eaton, Scott Hanna, Hi-Fi
Cover Price: $2.99
Release Date: February 18, 2015

Eye See Brainiac Pulling A Godzilla

*Non Spoilers and Score At The Bottom*

In the last issue of Futures End, our heroes got their asses handed to them pretty bad as they tried to take on Brainiac who was on Earth forming a dome around Manhattan and Engineer who created a skull Brainiac ship that somehow contains the old continuity of DC Comics........... Yeah, just a straight up ass whooping, except for Mister Terrific who was listening to what seemed to be Brother Eye when the series started but came across sounding a lot like Brainiac last issue and our hero really seemed to get off on the fact that Brainiac was on Earth and seemed elated to see Batman when our Caped Crusader finally made it to Terrific.  Let's see what goes down here and see if our heroes can go an issue without getting their asses kicked.

Supergirl #39 Preview

Written by: Mike Johnson, K. Perkins
Art by: Emanuela Lupacchino
Cover Price: $2.99
Release Date: February 18, 2015


All-out war breaks out on Crucible over the fate of Superboy, as Kara faces new and old enemies.

Superman/Wonder Woman #16 Preview

Written by: Peter J. Tomasi
Art by: Jaime Mendoza, Doug Mahnke, Ed Benes
Cover Price: $2.99
Release Date: February 18, 2015


Superman and Wonder Woman come face-to-face with the newest arrival to The New 52: MAGOG!

Wonder Woman #39 Preview

Written by: Meredeth Finch
Art by: David Finch
Cover Price: $2.99
Release Date: February 18, 2015

Preview via CBR

Wonder Woman returns to Paradise Island, and she’s in for a surprise: The Amazons have chosen a new queen to lead them! The identity of this new queen will send shock waves through the entire DC Universe! Guest-starring the Justice League and featuring the introduction of Diana’s craziest new cast member in, well, ever!

The New 52: Futures End #42 Preview

Written by: Keith Giffen, Dan Jurgens, Jeff Lemire, Brian Azzarello
Art by: Dan Green, Jesús Merino
Cover Price: $2.99
Release Date: February 18, 2015

Preview via Comic Book

Will Brainiac’s arrival be the catalyst that dooms the DCU to the future seen in issue #0? Brother Eye makes his move, and humanity may become collateral damage. 

Batman/Superman #19 Preview

Written by: GREG PAK
Art by: ARDIAN SYAF and SANDRA HOPE
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date: February 18, 2015

Superman and Batman have learned the devastating truth behind the identity of the unseen terrorists they’ve been pursuing. But will they recover in time to stop them from killing more innocents?

Injustice: Year Three #21 Review

Written by: Brian Buccellato
Art by: Bruno Redondo and Juan Albarran
Cover Price: $0.99
Release Date: February 17, 2015

Choked Up

I got a little flack last for my Injustice review last week.  I know that on the surface, complaining that a comic book based on a fighting game has too much fighting sounds pretty ridiculous, but let me explain.  It's not the fighting itself I'm against, but the lack of tension surrounding it.  Most readers know who is going to live so if they are in a fight...no tension.  When you get a whole issue of that, I'm going to get upset.  Last week, I was upset.  Guess what?  This issue has a whole bunch of fighting in it and I was not upset.  What gives?  Let's discuss, shall we?

Earth 2: World's End #20 Preview

Written By: Daniel H. Wilson, Marguerite Bennett, Mike Johnson, Cullen Bunn
Art By; Jack Herbert, Robson Rocha, Eduardo Pansica, Jorge Jimenez
Cover Price: $2.99
Release Date: February 18, 2015




Apokolips’s plans for Earth-2 are finally revealed, leaving the heroes in shock!

Now if this whole plan is somehow something other than terraforming Earth-2 into the new Apokolips then this solicit would make sense, but as of right now I'm pretty sure we've known Apokolips's plans for a long time.  I just really hope that this is good.  We deserve a good Earth-2 comic............ Hell, I'll even get down on my knees and pray to my Army of Darkness poster for this to be a good issue.......... Is that what you want DC, is it?

Green Lantern: New Guardians #39 Preview

Written By: Justin Jordan
Art By: Diogenes Neves, Marc Deering
Cover Price: $2.99
Release Date: February 18, 2015




With the Templar Guardians still on Oa, Kyle faces the very real prospect that his life may soon come to an end. The love of Carol Ferris alone can’t save him, and the foundation of the cosmos hangs in the balance.


All I can really say about this is, New Guardians was one of my favorite titles when the New 52 started and I really hope that the solicit is just trying to get an emotional response from me by saying that Kyle might not survive his bout with Oblivion, but with the title being cancelled next month and all of DC getting revamped after Convergence........... I guess anything could happen.  

Arrow Season 2.5 #11 Review and *SPOILERS*

Written By: Marc Guggenheim, Keto Shimizu
Art By: Szymon Kudranski, Jim Charalampidis
Digital Price: $0.99
Release Date: January 19, 2015

Suicide Mission

*Non Spoilers and Score At The Bottom*

For this issue of Arrow Season 2.5, we take a break from the norm as the focus shifts from Arrow trying to take out the new Brother Blood to Diggle leading the Suicide Squad on a mission to take out a radical terrorist group in Kahndaq, who as we've see in the backups to this series have taken a class of young students hostage and want all of Kahndaq to go back to their roots and begin worshipping the gods of old............. Amanda Waller don't have time for that though and Diggle volunteered to lead this team of miscreants to keep his pregnant ex wife out of all the danger that comes with covert missions and murderer team ups.  So let's check out this issue and see what's going down in Kahndaq.

Weird Science DC Comics Podcast Episode 6: Sunday the 15th

Due to technical difficulties beyond our control (not really) we had to record this episode on Sunday afternoon.  While that threw Eric off his game, we get around to talking Friday the 13th, Valentine's Day and yes, Comic Books.  Jody joins in to give his spin on Gotham, Flash and Arrow and Eric cries over Constantine.  Enjoy.

Justice League #39 Preview

Written By: Geoff Johns
Art By: Jason Fabok
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date: February 18, 2015




“The Amazo Virus” concludes with haunting consequences!


Oh man........ That's gotta be one of the worst solicits I've ever seen.  Oh man............ That's so bad.  Seeing what the interweb says about this story arc it seems like I'm one of the few that really isn't into this........... but I have to say haunting consequences has me intrigued.............. stupid solicit.

Trinity of Sin #5 Preview

Written By: J.M. DeMatteis
Art By: Yvel Guichet, Jason Gorder
Cover Price: $2.99
Release Date: February 18, 2015




Trapped within the Box of Redemption – and on the world contained within – the Trinity makes a desperate attempt to escape before the evil Nimraa unleashes a power that will bring all reality to an end!


As much as I love all the characters of the Trinity of Sin, I can't say that I've really liked anything that's come out of this series so far and with only two issues left, I don't think that I will.  Only thing that could really change my mind though is having some definitive background on The Question because really, that's the main reason I was interested in this book when it was announced.

New Suicide Squad #7 Review

Written by: Sean Ryan
Art by: Tom Derenick, Rob Hunter and Vicente Cifuentes
Cover Price: $2.99
Release Date: February 11, 2015

Lost in the Supermarket

I had been a supporter of Sean Ryan's New Suicide Squad...at first.  It has definitely been a work in progress with a rotating squad that is going to change again in June. Rotating characters aren't the problem, however.  I actually like the idea of new villains jumping in when things get a little stale...it got rid of Joker's Daughter, right?  No, the problem with the New Suicide Squad has been a story that doesn't seem to have any weight to it and is content to just tread water.  Does that trend continue this month?  Let's take a look.

Batwoman #39 Preview

Written by: Marc Andreyko
Art by: Georges Jeanty
Cover Price: $2.99
Release date: February 18, 2015

Preview via Comicosity

The mystery of Red Alice! Is Batwoman’s sister truly reformed?

Teen Titans #7 Preview

Written by: Will Pfeifer
Art by: Kenneth Rocafort
Cover Price: $2.99
Release Date: February 18, 2015


Preview via Comicvine


There's a monstrous evil lurking in the bowels of S.T.A.R. Labs! Can the Titans save the day before they become another experiment?