It's a new week of freshly printed comics and I picked up a few Marvel comics this week as well as my regular DC bunch. I haven't bought any Marvel since Spider-woman #16 last year. They just seem to be a little less with it than DC right now. The stories are all over the place & a little 90's trope-y and just not grabbing my interest. That's for another time though. Let's look at what I got in the haul.
The World of Krypton #2, Justice League Incarnate #3, Crush and Lobo #8, One-Star Squadron #2, Marjorie Finnegan, Temporal Criminal #8, Superman: Son of Kal-El #6, Dark Knights of Steel #3, Elektra #1, and Black Widow #13.
Whew! So, I am actively reading World of Krypton, Superman, One-Star Squad, & Dark Knights of Steel. The other DC comics I am saving up to read in a binge. I'll review them when I do that. Marjorie Finnegan is my wife's pick. I haven't read those, not sure if I will. I do usually like Garth Ennis though. Well, I liked his Ghost Rider run. Honestly, that's all I've read by him. Wasn't in on the Preacher stuff he wrote. I hear it's good. I did read both Marvel titles already. Let's start with those today.
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Elektra: Balck, White & Blood #1. Elektra was someone I met in comics at a very young age through my interest in Daredevil. Daredevil was something I picked up at garage sales, thrift or antique stores, etc. I think she was in some of my Wolverines as well. I liked her. She was a bad ass assassin with a tortured past. I was excited to see them give her a new run. I was excited until I opened the book.
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Rape is sort of frowned on in mainstream DC and Marvel comics nowadays. (Thank the gods) However, there are writers and artists that find ways to get as close as possible sometimes. This felt like that. That image is page one. I kid you not. So, what I thought was a comic about my bad ass assassin lady, turned out to be a very gory, unnecessary, juvenile pile of garbage. Hey, I get it. It's a comic with BLOOD in the title. She's an assassin. And not necessarily a "good" person, but this...this was just...crap. It didn't add anything to her character at all. The book was broken into three stories and not a single one of them even slightly interesting. Spoilers here. In the first story she dies by being burned to death. In the second story she kills an "innocent" kid and in the last story, they basically kill her to death with swords, knives, anything you can use to stab or poke or penetrate. If I didn't know better, I'd think this team really hates women. I will definitely not be picking up issue 2. Gross.
Now, that said, Black Widow #13 sort of rocked. It was quite the opposite. Black Widow I met the same way. Through Daredevil comics. I loved her instantly. I never really felt like the MCU movies did her justice, although the Black Widow stand alone movie did an alright job. ScarJo would never be my casting choice, but she didn't do a bad job with it. I was entertained.
© Marvel Comics (Adam Hughes cover)
Kelly Thompson wrote issue #13 and I think she's written the 12 previous ones. It was solid and very Black Widow. Luckily it was also the transition issue from the last arc to the new arc. One thing Marvel does well is the page one recap. If you haven't kept up, they give you a great little synopsis on page one so you know what the hell is going on and you can jump right in. I wish DC would adopt that. It helps a ton. We meet a character that apparently is going to be the main villain for Nat in the upcoming arc. We meet him in her past. I absolutely loved the art in this book. It made it feel old, like a flashback, but still felt fresh. Nat was in the old gray popped collar suit and it was just some solid writing, lots of action and great art. There was lots of gore in this one, too, but it made sense & didn't seem overly gratuitous. I will be looking for the trade paperback of 1-12 of the run and will probably pick up #14. Bonus score of the Adam Hughes cover.
Well, that's all I've read so far. I'll review as I go. Probably drop the One-Star Squadron, World of Krypton, Superman and Dark Knights of Steel review this weekend.
What did you pick up this week? Anything that you think is a must read? Thoughts on Elektra? Leave me a comment! Thanks.
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