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Last Week In Comics: The Short “Long Weekend” Version

Because of the long weekend here goes a shortened holiday version of…

SpaceBooger’s weekly review of last weeks comics is back giving a fresh take on 5-day-old comics:

say it aint so
Only 3 more issues… and they wasted the last couple on that damn prison planet!

Amazing Spider-Man #560

Amazing Spider-Man #560: Ok about what I said last week… I was wrong. I like the character twist having Peter being one of the paparazzi. This is definitely a character piece, and because of the emphasis on characters the “flat Stanley” emo stalker chick works. Oh, and the big reviel at the end… not so big for me… lets keep moving on with the current story… it may not be wise to bring back the read-head and bring back remembered hatred along with her.

Batman and the Outsiders #7

Batman and the Outsiders #7 was horribly slow… It reminds me of a poorly written story by one of my middle school students. You know that story where there are three pages of a monster chasing the main characters through a haunted house only to end when the teenage writer gets bored and has the characters jump out of the window and run home… This issue is exactly the same but replace monster with space zombies, have Metamorpho as the main character, and instead of a haunted house it is a space station.

Catwoman #79

Catwoman #79 brings Selina back to the real world into a really good story. Since One Year Later and up until that Salvation Run crap Catwoman has been highly entertaining. Now that Catwoman is on Earth again and the story picks up it sucks that the series is rumored to be canceled.

Justice League of America #21

Justice League of America #21 was a real short story but filled the whole book. Here is what happened:

  1. The big three have a secret room in the Hall of Justice and discuss that keeping secrets is a bad idea.
  2. A third rate villain is reintroduced with a great summary of his back story and hatred for costume do-gooders.
  3. Lastly, Libra rescues him and convinces a bunch of villains that they should try the “team-up” thing again… but this time it will work.

The best part of this issue was even though only three things happened, they were detailed enough to satisfy me as a reader.

Robin #174

Robin #174 was anticlimactic… Spoiler’s true identity was finally reveled and didn’t even have a “Super-Punch,” multiple Earth, or even Lazaurs Pit explanation… just a plain old “I faked my own death” that was met with a “Meh, I suspected so” by the worlds greatest detective. What a letdown.

Superman Batman #48

Yeah on this Memorial Day weekend I read how Amanda Waller make a Kryptonite/Human/Doomsday hybrid out of a young solider in Superman and Batman #48. Yes, not only did the U.S.A. fund a bunker full of Kryptonite weapons to kill Superman, you know “Truth, Justice, and the American Way” dude, they also played God with their own soldier’s humanity to accomplish it… Happy Memorial Day folks!

and…

THE BEST COMIC OF LAST WEEK:
BIRDS OF PREY #118

Birds of Prey 118

I know that if I see the “Sightings” banner at the top of a DC Comic then it relates to Final Crisis… but I did not know what to expect when I saw a “The Dark Side Culb” banner at the top of this comic.

After reading the comic, I get the reference but I don’t get why it gets its own banner. This issue revolves around a teenage Fight Club and a “big reveal” at the end, both of which do not dissapoint. The fight club and gambling ring is headed up by a large bald man with no pupils know as “Boss Dark Side.” All of the fighters in this club have been drugged and brainwashed into fighting by a large “gangsta” woman named “Granny.” In fact every worker at the Dark Side Club shares a name with characters from Apokolips.

The novelty of the Dark Side Club was not the only reason that this was the best comic of last week. The characters of Misfit and Black Alice make a great love/hate relationship which works well in this series… espeicaly since I was wondering why Misfit was ever introduced into BOP… but needless to say the dynamic gets even better with the big reveal at the end making this THE BEST COMIC OF LAST WEEK.

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