Absolutley worth buying for the Kupperman comic alone, All Select also features a pretty neat Blonde Phantom story by Marc Guggenheim that is more like illustrated prose than a comic.
Kupperman does a hilarious short comic about Marvex the Super Robot, which is followed by a couple of Golden Age Marvex reprints (which are no less absurd than Kupperman's parody). Michael Kupperman does a comic for Marvel! He wrote and drew the back-up in the 70th Anniversary comic that revisits some of Marvel's Golden Age characters. Hey, the second trade collection of Super Friends came out this week too! Buy it for your kids! Then they go back in time to stop Chronos from turning the nation into the United States of Chronos. The Deadman page was really hot looking, too.ĭC Kids tries to cash in on the Obama comics craze with a cameo that never really calls the President by name, but you know it's him. This week I felt the strongest comics were Metamorpho, Supergirl, Hawkman, Batman and Kamandi. As much as I love those two hanging out, it was pretty unoriginal. This week it falls far behind thanks to an abrupt scene change to Superman and Batman engaging in one of their usual rooftop chats about Superman's humanity (or lack of). Last week I declared Superman to be the winner, more or less, of the first issue of Wednesday Comics. The whole thing made me want to grab all my Showcase Presents books and hug them. I will doubtlessly be buying and reading the entire series, but for now I am going to say that the beginning was way over-the-top and, for me, disappointing. But isn't there a better way of getting to it than zombie Ralph and Sue Dibny? I liked Identity Crisis and Final Crisis, and I am sure that from all the darkness in Blackest Night there will be great moments of heroic triumph in future issues.
I'm not against dark in my comics, or character death. I felt like it was aimed more at the barbed wire Superman symbol tattoo set, or those who might wear this t-shirt, or this one, than at those of us who love superheroes. And I know that it's silly to accuse a comic book of being sensationalist, as if they are supposed to be something else, but this just seemed like, y'know, Carnage or Spawn or Knightfall.
It was a lot of over-the-top, nineties-style dark sensationalism. I don't want to judge too harshly after one issue, but was very reminiscent of the kind of comics I don't like. I loved The Sinestro Corps War, I love Geoff Johns, I love Ivan Reis and I love Green Lantern comics. I have been looking forward to this since it was first announced, and that was like two years ago. SPOLIERZZZZZ!!! If you haven't read Blackest Night yet, and don't want to be spoiled, stop reading now. I love those characters, and you can tell that everyone writing or drawing the comics loves them too. Wednesday Comics fills me with love and happiness when I read it. Then I read Blackest Night and.maybe I didn't read these things in the correct order. Ok, so I finish reading this week's Wednesday Comics and I am all smiles about Kyle Baker's Hawkman (that thumbs up and smile?! Seriously!).
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