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Since I don't see one started yet I thought I'd start my first Bought/Thought thread.
I haven't read The End League yet, but here's the rest. Spoilers follow this point:
Dark Avengers 3 - I think it's safe to say that Deodato is my favorate artist. He could draw a masterbating monkey and I'd hang it on my living room wall. Anyhow, this issue was good. I've liked a lot of the Avengers stuff since Disassembled but I'm aware Bendis can faulter at times and expected it with this book. I've been pleasantly surprised to find this not the case. The action here is wall to wall and we really see how frightening Morgan Le Fay is, though I'm not sure how she can keep dying and come to life.
Sentry got his moment to kill her last issue and Hawkeye/Bullseye gets his this time around. That fight was pretty good throughout, but the battle with Morgan Le Fay was a bit secondary for me in this issue. I actually liked the beginning and the end. The story starts with a previous story of Norman going to Sentry previous to the formation of the Dark Avengers and talking to him about the Void. No mention of what happened to the Void during/after Secret Invasion yet but the conversation was interesting, as Norman used his own mental problems as a way to help Sentry work toward overcoming his own. If it wasn't for the fact that you know he's doing this only for his own personal reasons, it'd almost be cool of him. And the last page with Lindy I think shows the frightening iimplications of what may come of the Norman/Sentry union.
The Morgan Le Fay storyline is okay, but I'm real curious how next issue turns out. After some coaxing, Doom finally grants Norman (as Iron Patriot) access to his armor so he can access the time cube Doom uses to time travel so that he can go back and stop Morgan from causing this grief. The last page is of Doom and the Iron Patriot ready to lay the smack down. I like this ending because Iron Patriot and Doom fighting together reminds me of the old Super-Villain Team-Up of yester year.
Good issue.
X-Force 13 - You know, I think I just get tired of hearing everyone whine. Everyone does it, I do it about Spider-Man BND/OMD, but there comes a time when it really has a point, and other times when people just run with it. Case in point... X-Force. When I complain about OMD/BND I don't call Straczynski or the other newer writers hacks, because they're all pretty good, they just did a story I wasn't much on. However, I don't see how people can still to this day call Kyle & Yost hacks when they release comics THIS GOOD every single month. Yes, they use death a lot, but I promise these stories are rewarding. They are good. I actually care about the characters who die and who live. Most writers who are 'good' or 'great' kill people and I just don't care. Kyle & Yost do it and they make me feel something. And even when you read between the deaths to the story that's right there, it's just beautiful. From Childhood's End through this issue of X-Force, Kyle & Yost have put out, in my opinion, the best X-Books in years, and I'll even say the best Marvel books as well. Yeah, get ticked when some characters die, but it makes me care and they still make me love the story. My opinion... they're some of the most talented writers Marvel has.
Okay, now that I got that off my chest, on to my review. Great issue! This is a prelude to Messiah War and part 2 of "Suicide Leper". Last issue had two minor mutants, Beautiful Dreamer of the Morlocks and Fever Pitch of Gene Nation, injected with the Legacy Virus by the Leper Queen (by order of Bastion) to the point of madness. They were then sent into large crowds of humans where their powers, now out of control, kill hundreds. This is done with the point of causing massive anti-mutant histeria.
This issue they have their new targets, 3 of Xavier's students. We see that the Leper Queen hates this and wants to kill Mutants, not humans, but has to do what Bastion says. He wont' allow her to kill herself and so she's hoping X-Force will do it for her while she kills them in the process. And so she kidnaps Hellion, Surge, and Tabitha Smith (Meltdown/Boom Boom/Boomer). Donald Pierce hints at this while under X-Men arrest to Dust and so the X-Force learn of this and go to save them. However, this seems to have been planned by Pierce and Leper Queen (and I'm assuming Bastion). Leper Queen sends Surge and Hellion out to be their bombs but keeps Tabitha with her where X-Force arrive and try to save her. However, Cyclops' main priority is the salvation of all mutants and when Beast uncovers Cable's location in time Cyclops pulls X-Force from the battle and shunts them forward in time (much to Wolverine's dismay). He claims that the X-Men will deal with Hellion and Surge, and I'm hoping we'll see that soon. Failing to save Tabitha and kill the Leper Queen, the Leper Queen is upset and says that they failed them both. She then blows Tabitha's brains out.... hey, at least Kyle & Yost are expanding their horrizons beyond the most recent students.
The issue was a bit of a nail biter but it was real good. While I prefer Choi, Crains art is beautiful. And while not there willingly, Vanisher is turning into a fun cast member for the book. They play off of him well and put some needed humor into an otherwise VERY dark book.
Honestly, I have to call this my favorate X-Book right now and probably my 3rd favorate Marvel book (behind Iron Fist and Nova, though it's a close race for 2nd). I just got caught up with Cable so now I'm really excited for Messiah War, and this add showing that Deadpool's going to be a part of it has me even more excited. Can't wait.
Young X-Men 12 - And the final issue hits. It was good, though I feel that the future scenes from this issue and the last were a complete waste of time. The current story felt like it read too quick and there was a lot more potential in this Death of Dust storyline that could have been explored. So being that the future story was pointless, I don't care to discuss it.
The main story, however, I found to be good. Of everyone in Guggenheim's book, I think it was Rockslide who benefitted the most. He really grew as a character. I liked him as the goofy jock in New X-Men, but now I really feel like he's a 3-Demensional character that I hope finds another home after this issue somewhere. He's seen all his friends die and suddenly here's Dust dead before him and Pierce is the cause, who is standing right in front of him. So he goes and beats the living crap out of him single handedly. The brainless jock takes out one of the X-Men's big baddies and does it very very well. And I feel that his reaction with Wolverine during that beating was very well done.
So Ink then takes center stage and tries to save Dust with his healing hand but fails. This then brings us to a scene later when the team is talking about breaking up, but then Ink, who has apparently become attached to them, storms in after Dust's body and tries a desparate measure. He feels that of all of them, Dust deserves to live, and he die. And so he then uses his Phoenix tat to imitate it's massive power. He succeeds and raises Dust from the dead, but the power was too much for him and he's left just shy of brain dead. Chances are we'll never see him again, but this sacrefice was a good way for him to go out and I kinda wish I would have died to make it more concrete in case no one else ever does pick him up.
The team rejoices as Dust's being alive and she briefly talks them into staying a team because they are still X-Men. And then they're called in to duty and they race off and fight off the long forgotten Neo from Cleremont's run and the book ends with them as a team, still fighting the threats of the world.
I was actually a little excited at this ending because I was one of 3 people who actually really liked the Neo. I was sad to know that we'd never see that battle beyond that point, but then I was looking at the image and realized that of the Neo shown (and they were all real Neo... awsome!) at least 3 of them died a long time ago. So now I can look at this as a nice final image for the team and not a Neo returns image, because it'd be a huge continuity error.
So in the end it was a good issue and if they would have gotten rid of the flash forward and filled it with more real story it would have been better.
As a series in whole it was decent. It had a rough start, though the first story was mostly relevent and important to the story. The second small arc was good and solitified the team, and Y-Men arc was really good. I have a feeling that Guggenheim was getting warmed up and if the book continued it would have become a very good team. Sadly, it has now gone and the future of its characters a mystery. The New Mutant members are getting their new book, but the students, whose to say. I really hope to see Rockslide, Anole, and Dust again soon. I'll think of Ink have died in a heroic sacrefice, but I thought Graymalkin was interesting and I hope he shows up again as well. Cipher, we never got to know, so I doubt she'll show up again. oh well.
A good series overall that never got beyond 'good'.
Uncanny X-Men 507 - The issue was okay but I remain bored. This is the end of the Colossus/mob storyline and I'm glad. I felt like it was drawn out and I didn't care for it from the beginning. This chapter of it was good, especially the final scene of him working toward overcoming Kitty's death. I think that's been the highlight of Brubaker/Faction's run thus far. Another thing of importance here is that Warren finally reveals his Archangel side to Beast in mid-battle and Beast isn't happy about his having kept this secret from him. I'm liking the continuity here with X-Force, as well as the continuity with Cable and Young X-Men. I'm starting to feel like the X-Books are finally starting to figure out how continuity works. If only Astonishing X-Men and the rest of the Marvel Universe could get that.
And the ending finally brings us back around to the Magneto storyline from issue 500. I can't really say what happens because I just don't care and don't remember and don't feel like finding the issue in the pile to look it up.
Honestly, if this wasn't the core X-Men book, and me a huge X-Men fan, this would have been dropped around the time of issue 504. Now here 3 issues later I still don't care. I'm hoping that now that this Colossus story is finished, it can move forward. Hopefully it'll tie-up the Madelyne Prior story, another I don't care about, and we can see what's going on with Magneto. I'm loving the drawn out multiple stories idea, I loved it back when Cleremont did it long ago, but I just don't care about these stories specifically. Faction and Brubaker are both better writers than this. I just wish they'd realize that.
Oh, and I'm not huge on Dodson's art. Never have been. I'm not as huge on Land's art like I was during Sojourn, but I prefer it to Dodson. My opinion... lose them both and bring Choi back as full time artist. Maybe then I'd like it more.
X-Men Legacy 222 - Getting bored of Xavier's solo adventures as well. This story with Danger has been pretty good but I'm ready for this book to get back to status quo soon. I saw something about some new X-Men coming and one of them who was everything to the X-Men, so I'm hoping that's Xavier and we can get over this solo stuff. It's been good, but it's worn thin.
This issue focuses on Xavier and Gambit, joined by a grouping of intergalactic nobodies (a Shi'ar, a Kree, and a Big... interesting if you've been reading Cosmic stuff of late), are hunting for Rogue in a place that Danger has converted to a huge danger room scenerio using Rogue's memories. All the while, Rogue is struggling with Mystique's mind in her own and goes through more personal issues regarding it. I'm not the biggest Rogue fan so I find myself not caring. It was nice to see various flashbacks to previous stories though, such as Gambit being left in the Antarctic in Uncanny X-Men 350. I wil say though, that the ending was pretty good. Apparently Danger has come to this place, not to avenge or kill, but to die. And the last image of the huge Danger crouched in a corner, almost cowering, was very good. Almost sad.
Wolverine 71 - Old Man Logan part 5 of 8 and still going strong. I don't much care for Wolverine's solo books and never buy them, but McNiven's art and a skim through part one promted me to give this story a shot and MAN I'm glad I did. It's been spectacular from the get go and while I don't usually care about otherworlds, I find this one fascinating and actually HOPE Millar does more with it eventually.
In this issue we find Logan and Hawkeye on the run from Venom (inhabiting a T-Rex) before Blackbolt shows up and screams the Symbiote to death (I've always wanted to see that). Logan and Hawkeye are then taken to a place where they find Emma Frost still alive, much to Logan's shock, and we sublty learned that she turned away from the hereos and married Doctor Doom for the benefit of Mutants themselves. Granted, it seems to have been for nothing because now there's aparently only about 20 muntants left. They later leave and cross Pym Cross, which is where Hank Pym, as Giant Man, apparently died and his skeleton lies for miles, his costume rotting away. And finally they make their way to their destination where Hawkeye and Logan take the mysterious box to a man resembling Hitler and his people. Turns out Hawkeye isn't carrying drugs but rather 99 vials of super-solider serums for the 99 memebers of the man's alliance. The idea is to create an army of Avengers to fight back against the villains. Hawkeye barters with the man and desires to get one of these vials to be an Avenger again and the man agrees. Hawkeye is extatic but then the man turns on them and his goods shoot up Wolverine. Turns out the man and his goons were part of a SHIELD sting for the Red Skull. He then puts a bullet through Hawkeye's head, killing him. The end for now!!!
So much happens per issue that I wish Millar could sit down with his buddy Bendis and teach him a few things. The art by McNiven is stunning as always and the banter between Logan and Hawkeye is top notch.
My opinion, this is the best Wolverine story I've read in years, maybe even ever. And Wolverine's been in a lot of stories.
X-Factor 41 - I dropped this book for quite a while but was convinced to buy it during the baby birth issue. I've since then bought all but one of the issues I was missing and have gotten caught up, and I am so glad I did. Yes, the issues I missed were crap, but everything since the baby birth has been gold.
Last issue Layla returned as an adult and this issue we see the fall out of it. The joyous reunion between her and Jamie really brought a smile to my face. And because I respect Peter David's wishes, I'll stop the spoilers there. I won't say there's any Oh My God moments, but it's definately the same quality as the past two issues. Peter David's turning this book into one of my favorates again and I love him for it. People, buy this book!
Keep on rockin' Mr. David!
And that's it for now. I still need to read The End League 7 and I'll post my review when I'm done, and I bought Justice Society 24 from a few weeks back but haven't read it either. I may be dropping that series but I'm at least giving it through the end of Johns' run. Oh, and I bought the first Invincible trade. I've already read it once but sold it due to financial issues. I'm glad to have it again and look forward to buying more later. I stopped reading the series around issue 25-30 and I really miss it. I can't wait to get caught up and refreshed and then enjoy all the "new" stuff that's come out since.
I haven't read The End League yet, but here's the rest. Spoilers follow this point:
Dark Avengers 3 - I think it's safe to say that Deodato is my favorate artist. He could draw a masterbating monkey and I'd hang it on my living room wall. Anyhow, this issue was good. I've liked a lot of the Avengers stuff since Disassembled but I'm aware Bendis can faulter at times and expected it with this book. I've been pleasantly surprised to find this not the case. The action here is wall to wall and we really see how frightening Morgan Le Fay is, though I'm not sure how she can keep dying and come to life.
Sentry got his moment to kill her last issue and Hawkeye/Bullseye gets his this time around. That fight was pretty good throughout, but the battle with Morgan Le Fay was a bit secondary for me in this issue. I actually liked the beginning and the end. The story starts with a previous story of Norman going to Sentry previous to the formation of the Dark Avengers and talking to him about the Void. No mention of what happened to the Void during/after Secret Invasion yet but the conversation was interesting, as Norman used his own mental problems as a way to help Sentry work toward overcoming his own. If it wasn't for the fact that you know he's doing this only for his own personal reasons, it'd almost be cool of him. And the last page with Lindy I think shows the frightening iimplications of what may come of the Norman/Sentry union.
The Morgan Le Fay storyline is okay, but I'm real curious how next issue turns out. After some coaxing, Doom finally grants Norman (as Iron Patriot) access to his armor so he can access the time cube Doom uses to time travel so that he can go back and stop Morgan from causing this grief. The last page is of Doom and the Iron Patriot ready to lay the smack down. I like this ending because Iron Patriot and Doom fighting together reminds me of the old Super-Villain Team-Up of yester year.
Good issue.
X-Force 13 - You know, I think I just get tired of hearing everyone whine. Everyone does it, I do it about Spider-Man BND/OMD, but there comes a time when it really has a point, and other times when people just run with it. Case in point... X-Force. When I complain about OMD/BND I don't call Straczynski or the other newer writers hacks, because they're all pretty good, they just did a story I wasn't much on. However, I don't see how people can still to this day call Kyle & Yost hacks when they release comics THIS GOOD every single month. Yes, they use death a lot, but I promise these stories are rewarding. They are good. I actually care about the characters who die and who live. Most writers who are 'good' or 'great' kill people and I just don't care. Kyle & Yost do it and they make me feel something. And even when you read between the deaths to the story that's right there, it's just beautiful. From Childhood's End through this issue of X-Force, Kyle & Yost have put out, in my opinion, the best X-Books in years, and I'll even say the best Marvel books as well. Yeah, get ticked when some characters die, but it makes me care and they still make me love the story. My opinion... they're some of the most talented writers Marvel has.
Okay, now that I got that off my chest, on to my review. Great issue! This is a prelude to Messiah War and part 2 of "Suicide Leper". Last issue had two minor mutants, Beautiful Dreamer of the Morlocks and Fever Pitch of Gene Nation, injected with the Legacy Virus by the Leper Queen (by order of Bastion) to the point of madness. They were then sent into large crowds of humans where their powers, now out of control, kill hundreds. This is done with the point of causing massive anti-mutant histeria.
This issue they have their new targets, 3 of Xavier's students. We see that the Leper Queen hates this and wants to kill Mutants, not humans, but has to do what Bastion says. He wont' allow her to kill herself and so she's hoping X-Force will do it for her while she kills them in the process. And so she kidnaps Hellion, Surge, and Tabitha Smith (Meltdown/Boom Boom/Boomer). Donald Pierce hints at this while under X-Men arrest to Dust and so the X-Force learn of this and go to save them. However, this seems to have been planned by Pierce and Leper Queen (and I'm assuming Bastion). Leper Queen sends Surge and Hellion out to be their bombs but keeps Tabitha with her where X-Force arrive and try to save her. However, Cyclops' main priority is the salvation of all mutants and when Beast uncovers Cable's location in time Cyclops pulls X-Force from the battle and shunts them forward in time (much to Wolverine's dismay). He claims that the X-Men will deal with Hellion and Surge, and I'm hoping we'll see that soon. Failing to save Tabitha and kill the Leper Queen, the Leper Queen is upset and says that they failed them both. She then blows Tabitha's brains out.... hey, at least Kyle & Yost are expanding their horrizons beyond the most recent students.
The issue was a bit of a nail biter but it was real good. While I prefer Choi, Crains art is beautiful. And while not there willingly, Vanisher is turning into a fun cast member for the book. They play off of him well and put some needed humor into an otherwise VERY dark book.
Honestly, I have to call this my favorate X-Book right now and probably my 3rd favorate Marvel book (behind Iron Fist and Nova, though it's a close race for 2nd). I just got caught up with Cable so now I'm really excited for Messiah War, and this add showing that Deadpool's going to be a part of it has me even more excited. Can't wait.
Young X-Men 12 - And the final issue hits. It was good, though I feel that the future scenes from this issue and the last were a complete waste of time. The current story felt like it read too quick and there was a lot more potential in this Death of Dust storyline that could have been explored. So being that the future story was pointless, I don't care to discuss it.
The main story, however, I found to be good. Of everyone in Guggenheim's book, I think it was Rockslide who benefitted the most. He really grew as a character. I liked him as the goofy jock in New X-Men, but now I really feel like he's a 3-Demensional character that I hope finds another home after this issue somewhere. He's seen all his friends die and suddenly here's Dust dead before him and Pierce is the cause, who is standing right in front of him. So he goes and beats the living crap out of him single handedly. The brainless jock takes out one of the X-Men's big baddies and does it very very well. And I feel that his reaction with Wolverine during that beating was very well done.
So Ink then takes center stage and tries to save Dust with his healing hand but fails. This then brings us to a scene later when the team is talking about breaking up, but then Ink, who has apparently become attached to them, storms in after Dust's body and tries a desparate measure. He feels that of all of them, Dust deserves to live, and he die. And so he then uses his Phoenix tat to imitate it's massive power. He succeeds and raises Dust from the dead, but the power was too much for him and he's left just shy of brain dead. Chances are we'll never see him again, but this sacrefice was a good way for him to go out and I kinda wish I would have died to make it more concrete in case no one else ever does pick him up.
The team rejoices as Dust's being alive and she briefly talks them into staying a team because they are still X-Men. And then they're called in to duty and they race off and fight off the long forgotten Neo from Cleremont's run and the book ends with them as a team, still fighting the threats of the world.
I was actually a little excited at this ending because I was one of 3 people who actually really liked the Neo. I was sad to know that we'd never see that battle beyond that point, but then I was looking at the image and realized that of the Neo shown (and they were all real Neo... awsome!) at least 3 of them died a long time ago. So now I can look at this as a nice final image for the team and not a Neo returns image, because it'd be a huge continuity error.
So in the end it was a good issue and if they would have gotten rid of the flash forward and filled it with more real story it would have been better.
As a series in whole it was decent. It had a rough start, though the first story was mostly relevent and important to the story. The second small arc was good and solitified the team, and Y-Men arc was really good. I have a feeling that Guggenheim was getting warmed up and if the book continued it would have become a very good team. Sadly, it has now gone and the future of its characters a mystery. The New Mutant members are getting their new book, but the students, whose to say. I really hope to see Rockslide, Anole, and Dust again soon. I'll think of Ink have died in a heroic sacrefice, but I thought Graymalkin was interesting and I hope he shows up again as well. Cipher, we never got to know, so I doubt she'll show up again. oh well.
A good series overall that never got beyond 'good'.
Uncanny X-Men 507 - The issue was okay but I remain bored. This is the end of the Colossus/mob storyline and I'm glad. I felt like it was drawn out and I didn't care for it from the beginning. This chapter of it was good, especially the final scene of him working toward overcoming Kitty's death. I think that's been the highlight of Brubaker/Faction's run thus far. Another thing of importance here is that Warren finally reveals his Archangel side to Beast in mid-battle and Beast isn't happy about his having kept this secret from him. I'm liking the continuity here with X-Force, as well as the continuity with Cable and Young X-Men. I'm starting to feel like the X-Books are finally starting to figure out how continuity works. If only Astonishing X-Men and the rest of the Marvel Universe could get that.
And the ending finally brings us back around to the Magneto storyline from issue 500. I can't really say what happens because I just don't care and don't remember and don't feel like finding the issue in the pile to look it up.
Honestly, if this wasn't the core X-Men book, and me a huge X-Men fan, this would have been dropped around the time of issue 504. Now here 3 issues later I still don't care. I'm hoping that now that this Colossus story is finished, it can move forward. Hopefully it'll tie-up the Madelyne Prior story, another I don't care about, and we can see what's going on with Magneto. I'm loving the drawn out multiple stories idea, I loved it back when Cleremont did it long ago, but I just don't care about these stories specifically. Faction and Brubaker are both better writers than this. I just wish they'd realize that.
Oh, and I'm not huge on Dodson's art. Never have been. I'm not as huge on Land's art like I was during Sojourn, but I prefer it to Dodson. My opinion... lose them both and bring Choi back as full time artist. Maybe then I'd like it more.
X-Men Legacy 222 - Getting bored of Xavier's solo adventures as well. This story with Danger has been pretty good but I'm ready for this book to get back to status quo soon. I saw something about some new X-Men coming and one of them who was everything to the X-Men, so I'm hoping that's Xavier and we can get over this solo stuff. It's been good, but it's worn thin.
This issue focuses on Xavier and Gambit, joined by a grouping of intergalactic nobodies (a Shi'ar, a Kree, and a Big... interesting if you've been reading Cosmic stuff of late), are hunting for Rogue in a place that Danger has converted to a huge danger room scenerio using Rogue's memories. All the while, Rogue is struggling with Mystique's mind in her own and goes through more personal issues regarding it. I'm not the biggest Rogue fan so I find myself not caring. It was nice to see various flashbacks to previous stories though, such as Gambit being left in the Antarctic in Uncanny X-Men 350. I wil say though, that the ending was pretty good. Apparently Danger has come to this place, not to avenge or kill, but to die. And the last image of the huge Danger crouched in a corner, almost cowering, was very good. Almost sad.
Wolverine 71 - Old Man Logan part 5 of 8 and still going strong. I don't much care for Wolverine's solo books and never buy them, but McNiven's art and a skim through part one promted me to give this story a shot and MAN I'm glad I did. It's been spectacular from the get go and while I don't usually care about otherworlds, I find this one fascinating and actually HOPE Millar does more with it eventually.
In this issue we find Logan and Hawkeye on the run from Venom (inhabiting a T-Rex) before Blackbolt shows up and screams the Symbiote to death (I've always wanted to see that). Logan and Hawkeye are then taken to a place where they find Emma Frost still alive, much to Logan's shock, and we sublty learned that she turned away from the hereos and married Doctor Doom for the benefit of Mutants themselves. Granted, it seems to have been for nothing because now there's aparently only about 20 muntants left. They later leave and cross Pym Cross, which is where Hank Pym, as Giant Man, apparently died and his skeleton lies for miles, his costume rotting away. And finally they make their way to their destination where Hawkeye and Logan take the mysterious box to a man resembling Hitler and his people. Turns out Hawkeye isn't carrying drugs but rather 99 vials of super-solider serums for the 99 memebers of the man's alliance. The idea is to create an army of Avengers to fight back against the villains. Hawkeye barters with the man and desires to get one of these vials to be an Avenger again and the man agrees. Hawkeye is extatic but then the man turns on them and his goods shoot up Wolverine. Turns out the man and his goons were part of a SHIELD sting for the Red Skull. He then puts a bullet through Hawkeye's head, killing him. The end for now!!!
So much happens per issue that I wish Millar could sit down with his buddy Bendis and teach him a few things. The art by McNiven is stunning as always and the banter between Logan and Hawkeye is top notch.
My opinion, this is the best Wolverine story I've read in years, maybe even ever. And Wolverine's been in a lot of stories.
X-Factor 41 - I dropped this book for quite a while but was convinced to buy it during the baby birth issue. I've since then bought all but one of the issues I was missing and have gotten caught up, and I am so glad I did. Yes, the issues I missed were crap, but everything since the baby birth has been gold.
Last issue Layla returned as an adult and this issue we see the fall out of it. The joyous reunion between her and Jamie really brought a smile to my face. And because I respect Peter David's wishes, I'll stop the spoilers there. I won't say there's any Oh My God moments, but it's definately the same quality as the past two issues. Peter David's turning this book into one of my favorates again and I love him for it. People, buy this book!
Keep on rockin' Mr. David!
And that's it for now. I still need to read The End League 7 and I'll post my review when I'm done, and I bought Justice Society 24 from a few weeks back but haven't read it either. I may be dropping that series but I'm at least giving it through the end of Johns' run. Oh, and I bought the first Invincible trade. I've already read it once but sold it due to financial issues. I'm glad to have it again and look forward to buying more later. I stopped reading the series around issue 25-30 and I really miss it. I can't wait to get caught up and refreshed and then enjoy all the "new" stuff that's come out since.
8/10
