This Week's Comics
Aug. 4th, 2023 01:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
goobergunchAmazing Spider-Man Annual #45: This was a follow-up to Dark Web. It didn't really advance much beyond confirming that the status was still quo. The backup was a follow-up to whatever happened in the Hellfire Gala (I dunno, I don't read the X-books) that apparently caused MJ's Aunt Anna's meds to make her go violently insane. That plot might actually go somewhere?
Fantastic Four #703 (“The Long Way Home”): Done-in-one: the FF have to save a stalled-out alien ship that's experiencing space and time differently. It's simple from their perspective, but we first get the aliens' perspective, in which our heroes are a frightening and unexplainable phenomenon that they cannot communicate with.
Justice Society of America (vol. 4) #5 (“The New Golden Age, Chapter Five: Past and Present”): End of first arc, and we're at the point where I'm pretty sure I need to actually read the Lost Children mini before the next issue comes out. Whenever that happens. And I was right about the Bad Future that Huntress comes from being ultimately negated. Some questions this issue did raise, however:
Fantastic Four #703 (“The Long Way Home”): Done-in-one: the FF have to save a stalled-out alien ship that's experiencing space and time differently. It's simple from their perspective, but we first get the aliens' perspective, in which our heroes are a frightening and unexplainable phenomenon that they cannot communicate with.
Justice Society of America (vol. 4) #5 (“The New Golden Age, Chapter Five: Past and Present”): End of first arc, and we're at the point where I'm pretty sure I need to actually read the Lost Children mini before the next issue comes out. Whenever that happens. And I was right about the Bad Future that Huntress comes from being ultimately negated. Some questions this issue did raise, however:
- We see the Matthew Tyler Hourman at the end of this issue. Has Johns been reading The Flash or are we about to have some weird contradiction?
- There is one "future" panel that depicts the Legion of Super-Heroes. Notably, this is clearly the Retroboot Legion from the character designs (most obviously Cosmic Boy's costume) and seemingly before the New 52 series got pointlessly edgy (given that Sun Boy is present and not eaten by cannibals). I have no idea what is going on with Legion continuity anymore but I would like DC to figure it out in a way that doesn't suck.
