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LWIC: The Ultimate Alien Death Machine!

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Adventure Comics #2

I like Superboy and I was sad to see him die during Infinite Crisis, and I am happy that he was brought back to life before the whole Blackest Night story – a zombie Superboy would not have settled well with me. With last issue’s soul searching and wanting to live the life as Superman did at his age, it was nice to see a larger plot forming.

LWIC Superboy is still trying to make sure that the half of him that was cloned from Superman prevails over the half of his DNA that was cloned from Lex Luthor. With all of the Superman vs Lex Luthor stuff in the last issue, I should have seen that Luthor would be involved in this series, but I totally forgot that Luthor was freed from jail by General Lane to dissect and reverse engineer the captured Braniac and his technology. So it seems that Luthor was just as sad as Superman when Superboy passed away so that he decided to try to clone another “son.” I am looking forward to seeing Lex vs Conner since his conscious is already having a hard time with the internal Lex Luthor conflict.

Amazing Spider-Man #604

I usually complain about the crappy life and the complaining that Peter Parker fills his comic with, but writer Fred Van Lente pulls it all together. For some reason the Chameleon is after Mayor J. Johna Jamieson and stole the identity of the mayor’s photographer Peter Parker. While disguised as Peter the Chameleon gets Peter involved with his roommate (A female you sickos!) and gets him and MJ back on speaking terms.

LWIC Pete escapes the Chameleon’s clutches and returns to his “normal” life. Unfortunately, all the the “fixing” the Chameleon did, Pete finds himself in a Fix. I have to admit that not much happened but seeing Peter deal with his new girlfriend and her crazy demands, seeing Harry Osborn staying at May’s house, and the reminder that both he and MJ remember what happened before “One More Day” was a fun read… I’m almost sad that next week’s issue seems to be full of action again with the return of Kraven The Hunter’s wife and daughter.

Blackest Night: Batman #2

The Batman family is the perfect crew to battle super-powered zombies… think about it – the prerequisite to be in the club is that your parents have to be dead, AND their death needs to feed your need to dress up and hide in the shadows to take revenge on all who break the law.

LWIC Tim Drake, aka Red Robin, returns to the family to fight his parents who have teamed up with the resurrected Flying Graysons. As campy as this could have been, the characterization was dead on – pun intended. I mean Damian is all about violence and killing, Dick is all about thinking about a solution, and Tim is looking into the “why?” I have to say seeing Damien (Robin) lecture Dick (Batman) about using guns only to hear him remind his sidekick that they aren’t killing anyone since they are already dead.

Oh, I didn’t think the Black Lanterns could create light constructs, but it seems as if the Ventriloquist has make several light constructs of Scarface… so can Black Lanterns create light constructs, or was it a writer error?

Blackest Night: Green Lantern Corps #40

While the BatFamily is reminding us how many of Earth’s dead have become Black Lanterns the Green Lantern Corps are at the center of the battle. Most of the Blackest Night books are showing the impact these Zombie Black Lanterns are having on Earth’s heroes, the real battle began and is taking place in space.

LWIC the Green Lantern Corps reassess the situation, looks into the death/capture of the Guardians of the Universe, and regrouping to fight as a unified front. I may not have much to say about this issue, but there is a lot going on… you get a feeling while reading this issue that something in the Corps started “clicking” and a retaliation/huge battle will soon come.

Red Robin #4

I have always wondered if the super-heroes of the DCU existed in the real world, why didn’t they do anything about the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? Well in LWIC Red Robin answers that question:

I have said it before Tim Drake, as Robin, was acting more like Batman than even Bruce Wayne was before his death. Now Tim takes the “Detective” role and finds that Bruce didn’t necessarily die during the Final Crisis, only to die… good thing he was working with a guy who can raise the dead -Ra’s Al Gul.

Superman: New World of Krypton #7

The whole Earth vs Kryptonians thing was getting old, especially since a General on Earth had a personal vendetta against Superman and creates an intricate plot to start a war with the Kryptonians was good the first time during the “Incredible Hulk” movie.

LWIC I was just starting to get into the story again since it seems as though General Zod may be just as much of a major player as General Lane in the upcoming war. After the assassination attempt on Zod, he passes control of the Kryptonian Army to Kal-El… almost as he wants Earth’s hero to lead the Kryptonian army against his adopted home world. As soon as that happened and I was looking forward to the personal struggle that Supes would have to deal with a bunch of Thangarians show up… and now the Kryptonian Army is at war with a bunch of Hawk people. WTF?

Booster Gold #24
w/ Blue Beetle Second Feature

Booster Gold travels through time fixing errors that he originally made.

LWIC Booster fixes the problem that has been lingering for the last couple issues only to find that his solution ended up helping the main villain of the book – the Black Beetle. Speaking of the Black Beetle:

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THE BEST COMIC OF LAST WEEK
BLUE BEETLE

This has got to be the best book ever… I have no write up for it, but when you have the ultimate alien death machine tapped into your spine and you are a good hearted teenager you are bound to have some great adventures. Yeah, I called it the “ultimate alien death machine,” because it is. The scarab that give Jaime his power is an alien artifact made for war… and it has a mind of it’s own and all it thinks about is killing.

LWIC the Black Beetle attacks Jaime and his family causing Jaime to finally give in to the alien technology and he turns from the Blue Beetle to one of the Alien Warriors that once tried to violently take over the Earth.

This is the second month that I have labeled this “back-up story” the best “comic” of last week, shouldn’t that be enough for DC to give the Blue Beetle his own book again?

Posted by Fred on September 14, 2009 @ 10:26 PM Under: Friday Night Fights
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4 Responses to “LWIC: The Ultimate Alien Death Machine!”

  1. Mike P Says:
    September 15th, 2009 at 4:46 am

    According to Wikipedia, the Black Lanterns CAN create energy constructs. I think most of the characters just haven’t had the need or reason to. Since the Ventriloquist’s evil side is manifested as Scarface, though, it would only make sense for him to use the ring to create a new Scarface.

  2. Fred Says:
    September 15th, 2009 at 4:10 pm

    Yeah it does make sense… but I liked the idea that their (Black Lantern) rings were just giving life to the dead and not a weapon also.

  3. Mike P Says:
    September 15th, 2009 at 11:22 pm

    I liked that idea, too, but come on… it’s a Scarface energy construct! I’m more than willing to bend the rules a bit to let that happen.

  4. Fred Says:
    September 16th, 2009 at 11:02 pm

    Mike, again I have to agree with you. Scarface almost always gets a free pass from me since his origin story arc by Grant and Breyfogle was my first Detective purchase of my young collecting career.

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