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Kk... so today was a super greats day in comics :] At least for me. >_> Lots of good books came out, or at least books that continued storylines I was anxious to read about :D
Kk so this is what I got today :D
Booster Gold - #5
Green Lantern - #25
Green Lantern Corps - #19
JLA Classified - #48
Nightwing - #139
Salvation Run - #2 (of 7)
Tales of the Green Lantern Corps - #1 (One Shot)
Wonder Woman - #15
Yay :D So so so... let's get down to it! >:D
Booster Gold - #5 - I was actually sorta let down by this issue. :( I think we ALL knew what was gonna happen after the last part and I was sorta hoping that they'd try something smarter or different than the "you can't fight fate" thing b/c it's illogical and purely writer's fiat to get around time travel issues. xD However, Booster is again proving himself to be a true and brave hero and I rly liked his attitude and stuff. :] Also various other plotlines were advanced in intriguing ways :) It'd be a 2 out of 5 by how I felt at the end (due to the dissapointment part) but I think ultimately it deserves a 3/5
Green Lantern - #25 - :OOOOOOO This was so amazingly excellent :D There were mark out moments, scary moments, neat moments, big moments, small moments, upsetting moments, corny moments, and tons of fun moments :D This story had EvERYTHING, plus it touched upon elements that will lead into future events, including an idea I've been chattering on about for a while (and had included in Cinder Cat's story) xDDD I'm a little suspicious of this super big mega crossover planned for 2009 tho :\ I just wish the events would stop and now they're just being planned for the future too. >:| NEWAYS that's not the fault of this story tho which is an exciting climax AND conclusion of the story and rly doesn't let down. :] Everything is super awesome and no matter who your favourite char's are they each have great moments (even if you like Superboy Prime xD) 4.5/5
Green Lantern Corps - #19 - I luffed this issue totally and supremely. :) This was the perfect "epilogue" issue for the whole war and it's great to see some light come in after all the darkness and death we've been thru. We get to see what many of the Lanterns do after such an awful awful war, and it's rly rly great :) There's ONE scene that particularly stands out to me as being very true and honest :) And it sums up everything about it perfectly. 5/5
JLA Classified - #48 - You'd THINK I would be annoyed at the way Wonder Woman's portrayed here, but I'm not. xD Tho I do wonder what she was talking about. Is that a Silver Age thing that I dunno about? :o I admit to not knowing much of the Silver Age Diana. xD But everything about this story was very "old school" hero thing, complete with some "old school" female tropes xDDD But oddly, this didn't rly bother me b/c a) it was obv meant to be a throwback story that I'm not even sure is in continuity b) it was fun and amused me. xD It's esp great to see the JLA kick butt even without weapons >:D 4/5
Nightwing - #139 - Blah. This Ra's Al Ghul story arc has rly taken a down turn lately :( This is the 2nd book in a row that didn't rly accomplish much and made me wonder why this issue and the last (Robin) issue couldn't have just been combined into 1. :\ The ending was obvious, and the writer chose to take absolutely the most generic way to that generic ending he could. :( And I didn't rly "feel" what was supposed to be a strong emotional resolution to the conflict. :( HOWEVER, there's one scene with Talia that's ABSOLUTELY awesome :D I wish the issue was more about her now. xD 2/5
Salvation Run - #2 (of 7) - What, alrdy? :o I hope that the ending is a bit of a fake out given that we're still 5 issues away from the end of the series, but it seems a bit early for them to start heading in the direction we all knew they'd eventually be heading in. :\ I kinda was hoping we'd see some settling down first. :o However, I WAS greatly amused by how all the villains are acting, trying to work with each other and stuffs. xD Esp when one of them proposes his grand idea for a perfect society xDDD The idea may be limited b/c of editorial dictum, but all the character interplay rly is very entertaining :) 4/5
Tales of the Green Lantern Corps - #1 (One Shot) - I found this issue boring. :\ I found the art boring as well. -_-;; It seems to exist to make Sodom Yat look good as the next Ion, but mostly it just kinda went BLAH to me. :\ Esp after the Green Lantern Corps was such a great follow up to the Sinestro War, we didn't rly need another one. xD 1.5/5
Wonder Woman - #15 - :\ This issue was a mixed bag for me. I guess I just dun rly like this run of WW xD I dunno why exactly, I just dun xD I find the exploration of the Amazons' past to be neat, but the way some of the attitudes is portrayed, I guess.. I just never rly saw them that way :\ The stuff with Diana and Captain Nazi was rly good tho and I thought it was very moving and a strong moment. :] It wasn't a bad story, it just kinda fell flat for me. xD Hippolyta is totally bad ass tho! >:D 2/5
Kk, so that's it for me :D I'll hopefully have reviews up about GL and GLC soon and some scans too :D
Take cares!
<3 Tired Ami
Edit: As a special "end of the Sinestro Corps War" bonus, I'm going to give you my 3 favourite scenes of GL/GLC :)
There were tons that I rly rly rly liked (so just cuz I didn't choose other scenes doesn't mean I didn't like them) but these are just 3 that made me smile :) (or in one case a sad smile :( )
3. The death of Cyborg Superman (sably what follows for him after is rly awful :( )
2. Kilowog with his family :D (I rly like that his wife defies the typical "alien/monster women are reminiscent of human women" thing :D Also his kids are adorable xD
1. Isamot is awesome :D I luff chars and reactions like this :D Yay! :D
21 comments:
To be fair about "Blackest Night", that's been planned for awhile. While I'm not a huge fan of events, I think Johns showed that when they're properly plotted and planned for, they can be downright awesome - I can't wait.
I liked GLC a lot too - lots of great character scenes. Kilowog's "picnic" with his family was both beautiful and very sad at the same time
I know it's been planned for a while. xD But was it always supposed to be attack of teh zombie lanterns? :o
See, that's the thing. The Black Lantern Corps might include (entirely or not) zombies, but it's not really *about* zombies. What I mean is this; the Black Lanterns represent/are death itself - the absence of life, and therefore any emotion, so it really is the logical extension of a war of corps.
Plus, if done correctly, it can still be pretty cool. Lady Styx' ability to turn people into "Believe in her" zombies can be creepy when done correctly, for example.
I agree with you about what they represent. I didn't write about it b/c this is a non spoiler review, it'll be in my main review. :)
you know, while I'm working on my thoughts about Booster Gold #5, I think it's fitting that I'm nearly as conflicted about THE ISSUE WHERE BOOSTER TRIES TO STOP THE KILLING JOKE AND FAILS as I am about The Killing Joke...
(And I say this as somebody who would, upon realizing nothing was going to stop it, have shown up and tried to make sure the Joker had a snake to wrap around Babs... Yes, I'm still on about that :p )
I would give Joker tape :D
That'll do. But I like the snake for babs because of the whole dark carnival theme he supposedly put so much effort into.
And that's my whole cause, really. BETTER FREAKY BONDAGE IN COMICS. ;)
"You've covered me in filth."
"You did that yourself, when you put on that costume."
I swear, those were the best lines I've read in any comic for months.
As for Booster -- I don't really understand the disappointment. She's such a great character, exactly as she is, that I don't see why anyone would want to see her as Batgirl again. Add in the idea that it would be toppling decades of continuity, and this character-redefining moment wouldn't even be happening in her own series, and I can't see it turning out any other way.
Add in the fact that, despite knowing the outcome, I was genuinely surprised by the story--I had no idea that Rip was intentionally lying, and hadn't seen it floated as a possibility on the web, either--and it's really one of my favorite issues of BG to date.
That's not the reason I was dissapointed Rob. xD I never thought it would be better to "unparalyze" Batgirl, or nething. I DIDN'T want to change the past.
But I'm dissapointed that they used the "illogical hand of fate" trope that I see used SO many times in sci fi to get around why you can't change the past. :( Basically, the idea being that illogical things will happen JUST to prevent you from changing the past, and to me that's rly silly. >:\ Like if you went back in time and took a perfect shot at Hitler, it'd ALWAYS miss no matter what, or he'd suddenly develop bullet proof skin just for those 5 seconds. >.>
What if Booster went back in time with a bomb and detonated himself next to Joker? Or showed up with a high powered sniper rifle and shot Joker in the head from afar? Would he just magically survive or would the stuff just glitch? It's illogical and a major cheat just to avoid the problems of time travel. :\ I would prefer a more creative solution for once. Mebbe that Booster learns that it's NOT good to change history just for what HE wants and essentially play God (since he's manipulating the entire timestream for what he believes is a better outcome). :)
I just rly am tired of the "you can't change the past b/c fate will figure out some way to screw you up" trope (the modern Time Machine remake used it in an unintentionally hilarious scene too).
It also opens up a giant can of worms. Why are some events protected and some aren't? If these major events are protected why can the villains still go back in time to affect the past? If it's b/c they're not directly effecting certain events, why can't Booster do the same, by affecting things subtly. Or even, more directly, but not so blunt. What if you want back in time and killed the Joker? Would Barbara trip and fall down the stairs that same day?
It just raises a trillion questions just to solve one plot point (why can't good guys change the past?)
A better answer to me would be b/c you can't play God, b/c it's impossible to know EVERYTHING your actions will affect (kinda like the Butterfly Effect I guess >.> or Homer in the past in that Halloween Special xD) and that Booster can go back a hundred or a thousand times, and he'll never get a future he's happy with, b/c he has NO idea what ripple effects any of his actions will have. :\ And every death and/or tragedy that happens b/c of his actions REGARDLESS of what else happens will weight on his conscience.
Like, if he saved the Blue Beetle and things were great except that by saving him, Sasha never acted to help Bruce, and Bruce found out about the OMACs too late. Or even if, saving Blue Beetle was great, except that things changed slightly and some civilians died later that weren't supposed to, and others lived.
Would Booster be able to live with the idea that he chose some ppl to live while others died? That's the thing :\ He can't save everybody with a perfect future by changing the past, so whatever he does, he choosed who lives and who dies, who has a good life b/c he likes them, and who doesn't b/c he doesn't care about them and/or doesn't know them. And nobody can handle that. It's asking somebody to be God, and a good guy definitely, wouldn't be able to do it, b/c how do you decide what's a "better" outcome for the future when you consider the lives of everybody? :\
It's not changing the future to save Batgirl I wanted, I just wanted another way for Rip to "teach" Booster not to play God rather than "fate will stop you".
Oh, I see your point now.
I actually think the opposite idea -- it's morally wrong to play God and change the timestream, and it will likely lead to an even worse future -- is pretty played out as well. Although I have the feeling we'll be visiting that idea in the next issue, as Booster tries to save Ted (and possibly the next arc, if he succeeds). In which case, I'm glad they're not playing the same card twice.
And even though I'd seen the "can't change fate" idea before, i thought the way it was presented was well-executed and engaging. So overall, I was just totally cool with the book.
Altho the "playing God" idea is used a lot too, it's more logical and I dun see the problem of it being used again. :\
I felt rly bad for Booster constantly trying to save Barbara, and I thought it was presented very heroically, but the whole idea of illogical things happening that would defy things like the laws of physics just to stop you is too illogical for me to swallow. :(
It completely breaks immersion for me and makes me go "that makes ZERO sense". :(
I'm not saying it's bad you enjoyed it Rob or that you shouldn't :) But for me, it just makes no sense and it takes me out of the plot. :(
Also I dun think it's "played out" b/c it IS a good reason not to mess with time. :)
If they're planning to eventually use it, then they could use another lesson for this book, but once they introduce the "invisible hand of Didio" that literally STOPS you from changing certain events, it's a HUGE can of worms. Why can villains change time then? Why can't Booster save Barbara another way? If you killed Barbara in the past, would she miraculously ressurect to be paralyzed b/c this event HAS to happen? Or would that be okay b/c only "bad changes" are allowed to happen? Would the hand of fate just be happy as long as Barbara (or any other hero who had bad things happen to them) suffer or die in some way so they'd allow killing Barbara in the past?
What if Booster went further back and scooped Barbara away and put her in Hong Kong, would she get shot by some random mugger there too? Or would Joker just happen to show up in Hong Kong too?
It just is too illogical :\ It's like saying heroes don't kill not b/c it's wrong, but b/c God will show up and change the direction of their strikes/bullets/etc to prevent it.
Heroes don't kill b/c it's wrong and they'd be responsible for deaths that could have been prevented. Heroes don't alter the time stream for their benefit b/c it's wrong and they'd be responsible for all consequences resulting from it, including who lives and who dies.
I think the story has explained how the villains are able to change time. IIRC, it's because of they're taking place in certain preexisting abnormalities in the timestream (possibly a result of the splintering of reality into 52 parts, though I'm not sure about that). Barbara's paralyzation wasn't in one of those abnormalities, so it's not subject to change.
But I never try to think to hard about time travel stories. There's not one that completely hangs together if taken to its ultimate conclusion. I just enjoy 'em and accept whatever rules they give me without worrying about the implications.
But Rip could be mistaken or lying to Booster again, about not being able to change solidified time -- that's certainly what the Beetles at the end are implying. They're planning to change solidified time, and I'm betting that Booster learns that he *can* do it, and that he *shouldn't.* In which case this story is either a crescendo to heighten the stakes or a completely unnecessary detour, depending on your enjoyment.
I hope that's where they take it. :D But it still doesn't explain why illogical things would happen to prevent Booster from changing the past. :\ Time travel in general tends not to make a lot of sense, but there's a degree that I can suspend my disbelief for. xD I think I just can't accept the "invisible hand of God" showing up as a literal Deus Ex Machina to achieve what the writer wants. :\
It reminds me of the story during the "Funeral for a Friend" where Waverider goes back in time to save Superman from dying to Doomsday, only to realize that if he were to do that, then he'd have to save Superman every time he'd be about to die, and he'd be giving Superman immortality, and then why shouldn't he do that with other great people who died like Gandhi? :\
There was nothing stopping Waverider from changing the past except for himself. :)
Regardless of what happens later, it still makes 0 sense, even in the context of time travel for there to be something conscious that exists that can control the participants and all the forces in the universe, specifically to thwart the actions of one person. :\ Unless they explain this as some sort of ebil villain behind Final Crisis! (which would be super cool :D)
I have no problem that you liked it, but it's just too much of a cheat for me to enjoy. :(
As for "anomalies" that allow ppl to alter those events (which then can ripple into the future to affect bigger events), Booster could just use THAT to save Beetle and Batgirl then. Go back in time to one of the "fluid" points, and calculate (as the villains have) what to change that will like, wipe out the Joker, and then do it. >.>;;
I'm not saying that you can't have enjoyed it tho, or that your enjoyment is somehow inferior to mine or nething! :D
I totally can see where you're coming from. I can turn my brain off and enjoy a lot of stuff too :)
It's just that for me, "act of God" stories always make me go "wtfno" cuz to me ppl do good things and the right things cuz they want to and realize why they are good and right, not b/c they are forced to be good, and if they had a choice they'd play God all the time. :\
As you said, this could very well be the ultimate lesson, and I hope Rip reveals that rly he's been manipulating time to stop Booster (or that some greater power is), but right now, I just can't buy the "invisible force that will make illogical events happen simply to stop you" thing :(
It's certainly not nething about you. xD I'm sure there's a lot of ppl that agree with you, and a lot that agree with me. :] There's lots of "cheats" and "plot devices" that prolly take you out of your enjoyment of some stories too xD Everybody's different :)
But I'm just explaining why this is a huge can of worms that makes even less sense to me than the regular issues with "time travel" (like I'm not rly bothered that killing Rex Hunter should technically undo EVERYTHING he's ever done, not just remove him from 1 particular moment). :)
Yeah, he could. Which is why I don't look deep into this stuff. There's no upside to it -- the harder I look at it, the less I'll enjoy it.
Anyway, I wish I could talk GL with you, since I'm sure I would have enjoyed it, but I'm tradewaiting it.
As for Wonder Woman -- there's no Circe! That should add an extra point right there. (It was probably my favorite book in a really good week. Wonderful art, I loved the royal guard, WW's verbal smackdown of Captain Nazi that I mentioned above, and what might be my favorite thing, the Amazon code: "Punishment for the adult, empathy for the child." I'm flabbergasted with how much I'm enjoying this.
I guess the thing with me Rob, is that looking deeper into something for me is like the paradox involving getting rid of Rex Hunter xD But the Booster thing wasn't me overthinking or even thinking at all, it was like if Batman was purple for a whole issue, I'd be like WTF!? o_O I think it's all the Sci Fi watching I've done all my life xD But something like that just makes me go "that makes no sense!" immediately :(
I didn't even think of it, it just stood out like as I said, if Batman had been coloured purple xD
I liked part of WW, but I didn't like other parts. :\ I dun wanna fight about it so I wun tell you why I didn't like it, but I DID like the "empathy for the child" part and I thought the Captain Nazi bit was brilliant :)
YOU SHOULD READ GREEN LANTERN B/C IT'S BRILLIANT AND SUPER FUN! Now that's one where the usage of tropes and cheese is outweighed by the amount of fun involved for me :)
Oh, I'll certainly read Green Lantern -- it'll just be sometime next year. I was so disappointed with Countdown, and had no real idea whether Sinestro Corps would cross over with it, that I decided I would just wait for the trades. I should really do it with more books, but I like talking about them online so much that I usually can't bring myself to wait.
Hey Ami -- it looks like the Blue Beetle storyline is going where you'd hoped the Batgirl story would. Here's the solicit info for Booster #7:
BOOSTER GOLD #7
Written by Geoff Johns & Jeff Katz
Art and cover by Dan Jurgens & Norm Rapmund
“Blue and Gold” Part 2! It’s back to the present for Booster Gold! But history has changed, and not for the better. The new man in charge is Maxwell Lord, and his army of O.M.A.C.s won’t stop until Booster is dead. Plus, the return of Supernova!
On sale March 12 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US
Pretty much exactly what we were discussing!
I'm so smart xD SMRT! :D
I hope that he tries other attempts to change the past and DOES get futures where Ted is still alive AND things are mostly the same, except mebbe an extra minor hero died, or a couple more ppl died, etc...
It's not necessarily that saving Ted will result in HORRIBLE THINGS HAPPENING™ but that even if 1 extra person died, Booster would have to deal with that, and why is Ted more important than that person? And he'd realize that he couldn't live with the idea that it's up to him to judge who is more worthy to live and who isn't :)
Joel: If you could have one superpower, what would it be.
Crow: I want to decide who lives and who dies.
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