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goobergunch) wrote2023-05-17 08:10 pm
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This Week's Comics
Black Adam #11: Things come to a head, and Sargon makes his ultimate move.
Fantastic Four #700: It's been over a decade since we had a big milestone F4 issue—I bought #600 off the shelf back when I was still living in Iowa City. Unfortunately I don't have that #600 anymore, but I have recovered my Fantastic Four collection back to 133 issues (not counting annuals, specials, etc.), helped by a big dollar lot at an East Bay comic store that contained the first fifty issues of volume 3. I'm pretty close to completing that run up to where Mark Waid takes over writing duties.
Reminisces aside, this issue marked Doctor Doom's first proper appearance in North's run. He succeeds in outwitting the Fantastic Four—but his own perfectionism dooms him in the end.
The Flash #799: Does anything embody DC Comics quite as much as a giant gorilla? Fun moments aside, Jeremy Adams really does have a knack for resurrecting characters that I thought were at least semi-permanently off the board—Mister Terrific's unborn son has been dead for as long as I've been reading about him. I did think that the end of the issue felt a bit truncated, with the abrupt skip forward for Wally and company. We do know that this run was cut short....
Superboy: The Man of Tomorrow #2: I'm enjoying Kon's attitude towards himself here, as well as the book's willingness to test his no-kill rule with allies who frankly aren't unjustified in their willingness to do so.
Fantastic Four #700: It's been over a decade since we had a big milestone F4 issue—I bought #600 off the shelf back when I was still living in Iowa City. Unfortunately I don't have that #600 anymore, but I have recovered my Fantastic Four collection back to 133 issues (not counting annuals, specials, etc.), helped by a big dollar lot at an East Bay comic store that contained the first fifty issues of volume 3. I'm pretty close to completing that run up to where Mark Waid takes over writing duties.
Reminisces aside, this issue marked Doctor Doom's first proper appearance in North's run. He succeeds in outwitting the Fantastic Four—but his own perfectionism dooms him in the end.
The Flash #799: Does anything embody DC Comics quite as much as a giant gorilla? Fun moments aside, Jeremy Adams really does have a knack for resurrecting characters that I thought were at least semi-permanently off the board—Mister Terrific's unborn son has been dead for as long as I've been reading about him. I did think that the end of the issue felt a bit truncated, with the abrupt skip forward for Wally and company. We do know that this run was cut short....
Superboy: The Man of Tomorrow #2: I'm enjoying Kon's attitude towards himself here, as well as the book's willingness to test his no-kill rule with allies who frankly aren't unjustified in their willingness to do so.