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This Week's Comics
Action Comics #1056 (“Ex Machina”): Man, Cyborg Superman is a real dick. I enjoyed this first arc a lot and am fully into seeing where this goes. (I'm pulling the Knight Terrors issues but I have feeling they won't be particularly integral to PKJ's story, so that probably has to wait until September.)
There was an editor's note mentioning United Planets stuff in Superman and Steelworks and I may have to check that crossreference even if I think having a 21st century United Planets is very weird.
The Amazing Spider-Man #922: This was ultimately a Doc Ock versus Norman Osborn issue and it was actually pretty fun! A particular comedy highlight was J. Jonah Jameson's attachment to the old Octopus legs. I wish the current ASM run was, frankly, more like this and less trying to be super serious.
Detective Comics #1073 (“Gotham Nocturne: Act II: Condemned”): The Orgham plan to rid Gotham of Batman is in full swing—the populace has been mesmerized against him, and he's been infected with a demon. To be continued in September, I guess.
Tim Drake: Robin #10: Final issue. Look, this run had its problems—between the, let's just say, stylized art for the first six issues and the writer's, ah, questionable choices in Dark Crisis: Young Justice, it was probably doomed from the start, and opening with a six-issue one-villain arc is never a move I'm going to support. But it did pick up quite a bit afterwards (issue #7, from Bernard's POV, was probably the highlight) even if this issue did hit the “found family” buttons a bit too hard for my taste. Nice to see Tim thinking of Jack Drake, though.
Hopefully Tim won't just end up as a background character in the main Batbooks and actually get to still have some character progression going forward. (The first issue teased a new costume which we'll probably never get now.) He's costarring with Jason in a Knight Terrors mini the next couple months but he wasn't even mentioned in the latest set of solicitations, so. And hopefully the next set of writers don't just decide that Tim/Steph needs to be a thing again because that would frankly be the most regressive option for both characters.
Tim's first ongoing ran for 185 regular issues and seven annuals. His second ongoing, relaunched after Battle for the Cowl, ran for 26 issues until it was cancelled by the New 52, which mutilated his character. It's hard watching a favorite character fall out of favor.
There was an editor's note mentioning United Planets stuff in Superman and Steelworks and I may have to check that crossreference even if I think having a 21st century United Planets is very weird.
The Amazing Spider-Man #922: This was ultimately a Doc Ock versus Norman Osborn issue and it was actually pretty fun! A particular comedy highlight was J. Jonah Jameson's attachment to the old Octopus legs. I wish the current ASM run was, frankly, more like this and less trying to be super serious.
Detective Comics #1073 (“Gotham Nocturne: Act II: Condemned”): The Orgham plan to rid Gotham of Batman is in full swing—the populace has been mesmerized against him, and he's been infected with a demon. To be continued in September, I guess.
Tim Drake: Robin #10: Final issue. Look, this run had its problems—between the, let's just say, stylized art for the first six issues and the writer's, ah, questionable choices in Dark Crisis: Young Justice, it was probably doomed from the start, and opening with a six-issue one-villain arc is never a move I'm going to support. But it did pick up quite a bit afterwards (issue #7, from Bernard's POV, was probably the highlight) even if this issue did hit the “found family” buttons a bit too hard for my taste. Nice to see Tim thinking of Jack Drake, though.
Hopefully Tim won't just end up as a background character in the main Batbooks and actually get to still have some character progression going forward. (The first issue teased a new costume which we'll probably never get now.) He's costarring with Jason in a Knight Terrors mini the next couple months but he wasn't even mentioned in the latest set of solicitations, so. And hopefully the next set of writers don't just decide that Tim/Steph needs to be a thing again because that would frankly be the most regressive option for both characters.
Tim's first ongoing ran for 185 regular issues and seven annuals. His second ongoing, relaunched after Battle for the Cowl, ran for 26 issues until it was cancelled by the New 52, which mutilated his character. It's hard watching a favorite character fall out of favor.