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Be Afraid. Be Kind of Afraid
Telos is kind of a hard sell and after reading the first three issues of this book....... well, it's not getting any easier. We've got our boy from Convergence going on a crazy mission for Brainiac in order to get information about where his family is and along the way he's made friends with Techne: the leader of the resistance against Computo, K-Rot and Stealth from Threshold and Captain Comet doing all he can with his telepathy and wouldn't you know it........ they all want Telos' help before they'll help him with his own mission........ Well, not K-Rot and Stealth, they just seem to be along for the ride and like shooting at things. So yeah, we got a big story, involving a lot of characters and a big evil computer man and as for Brainiac...... well, we don't know what the hell Brainiac is up to, but maybe we'll find out here. Let's jump into this issue and see what happens now that Telos is confronting both Computo and Brainiac and the rest of the crew are facing off against a back from the dead, upgraded Validus. Let's check it out.
It's been kind of hard recognizing Superman these days. I'm not talking about the Truth t-shirt or the waning (or is it fluctuating?) powers, either. I'm talking about the man under the tights and what I see is a man that is far from super. I'd love to say that Kal-El has become something else, but the way the Truth story has gone, this self-centered prick that we are getting seems to have been underneath the curl and the smile all along, he just didn't show it when he was on top of the world. Now that his friends won't let him play and people aren't cheering his name, he has become more concerned with getting back his powers than saving anyone and has even become suicidal at points. While Dan Didio has promised this will all change in April, I'm afraid the damage is done and one of the greatest superheroes of all-time has been tarnished more than anyone can imagine. Maybe, just maybe, it's not too late. Maybe this issue of Action Comics can begin the healing by giving us a Superman we can get behind and begin to love again. Maybe it won't and I'll be the only Superman fan left on Earth. Well, which is it? Let's find out...
October is a time when you break out the horror flicks and have yourself a scare or it's a time for ghosts and ghouls to come out of the shadows and terrorize young children or if your cousin Ricky is spending the night, for you to pretend to be said ghost or ghoul and crawl underneath the bed like a goddamn alligator and start pulling his sheets down slowly.......... ah, good times. Anyway, as we saw last October it was time for Green Arrow to take on a bunch of infected people who had become werewolves and even though it wasn't that great of a story....... fuck it, it was October and it was an Annual so let the monsters play........ Well, like any classic monster, it looks like it's returned from the grave and Oliver Queen has to continue his transformation from that story where we saw the leader of a werewolf biker gang bite him. This isn't a story that I'm looking forward to, but I'll try to keep an open mind while I wait for Green Arrow to........ well, be a little more Green Arrow again and quit hanging out in the horror section of the comic shop. Let's jump into this issue and check out werewolf Ollie.
We're back on Earth and after seeing Hal Jordan get a hair cut in the previous issue, I think it's safe to say that we can move past that whole Renegade thing because while it didn't seem to go anywhere before, we all know that you can't be a bad ass Renegade with short hair........ You just can't. So yeah, Hal's back on Earth and after spending a day with his brother and his family, tragedy struck when a group of Modoran radicals targeted the Coast City Amusement Park and Hal's nephew Howard was injured in the attack. If that wasn't enough emotion for you, then we also had Parallax from Zero Hour show up in this Universe and he wasn't too happy to find out that Sinestro has a Corps all his own. While I wasn't a huge fan of Convergence, I have to say that it's posthumously making our current stories pretty interesting. Let's jump into this issue of Green Lantern and see if Hal Jordan can keep his cool while going after Sonar and his radical army and what Parallax is going to do in a whole new, whole different Universe than his own. Let's check it out.
Okay, we've taken care of Brother Eye and now it's time to get the world back on track in order for the future to be the bright place we all think it's supposed to be. Yeah, it's going to be a long hard road, but what did you expect when Neo Gotham was the only city left really standing in the world?.......... I think I'm really just trying to convince myself here because what I want more than anything is the simplicity of seeing Batman punch a supervillain in the mouth for just being a jive "schway" talking turkey. It is what it is though and for the most part I've dug what we've gotten so far and at least with Brother Eye put down, we know that for the most part that we can put Futures End behind us....... and that's a good thing........ and yeah, I just said the most part. Let's jump into this issue and see what's up with Matt McGinnis' journey to Metropolis and what Batman will do when he finds out that he has to let people suffer. Let's check it out.
I'll start this out by telling you to read Superman/Wonder Woman #24 before getting into this if you're really looking to get the full depowered Superman story...... You know, on the off chance that you're a masochist like that. While we've been dealing with the wild world of Mythbrawl lately, we're out of that territory now....... thankfully and it's time to get to the meat and cheese of the story and what Vandal Savage has planned with his little family business he's got going on......... but first, why not a backstory about what made Vandal Savage the go-getter he is today? That's right, we've got all the writers from the Superman titles adding their two cents into this one as we see Vandal's backstory and what Superman's up to after all his crazy adventures with Wrath, Vandal, Mr. Bend and Hordr_Root. Let's jump into this Annual and see where the next leg of this story will take us. Let's check it out.
Written by: Sholly Fisch, K. Perkins, Keith Champagne and Peter J. Tomasi
Grayson, Red Hood, Red Robin and Harper Row have uncovered the full scope of Mother’s dangerous operation, and they’re ready to spring their trap! But there’s one problem: Cassandra Cain has gone rogue, and they may not be able to pull her back from the edge! There’s no time to lose, either, because for every mystery they solve about Mother, there are more waiting to be discovered, including Mother’s next target, a place that couldn’t be more personal to Dick Grayson!
No good deed goes unpunished! Freeing the world from Brother Eye was only the beginning—with Neo-Gotham now standing as the only stable society in the known world, thousands of refugees have fled their war-torn cities to come knocking at the gates. But when the mayor of Neo-Gotham claims his city can’t support the whole world, the fate of these people will rest on Batman’s shoulders.
Written By: Ben Percy
