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And another month has come and gone.
Green Lantern #46 - "Blackest Night" continues, as Hal and Indigo-1 go about gathering representatives of the various light groups, picking up Carol and Sinestro in this issue. Based on the tag for next issue, they're going after Atrocitus next (love to see how that works). The issue of Monguls' rivalry with Sinestro over the Corps is finally settled here, though I can't imagine how this plot would play to someone who wasn't reading Green Lantern Corps or hadn't kept track of developments there online, because Johns only made the briefest of mentions of this previously. So far he's done a good job of tying this book together with the main title without making it seem like too much has been lost, but I'll be interested to see how the next BN issue picks up on this one. Doug Mahnke continues to be a great fit for this title.
Thor #603 - wow, this book was verging on itself becoming a myth. Anyway, JMS's story closes in on its climax, as perhaps, finally, the plot requirements will permit Balder to not be a moron (if Bill ends up dying, Asgardians should erect a statue of him with the motto "I died for your stupidity"). There's very little Thor in this one; a single page, plus another of Donald, in a bit of the 'ol secret ID wacky hijinxs that I normally find annoying but JMS manages to make them palatable (Sif looks cute in her disguise, anyway). Doom and Loki are up to their usual eeevil shenanigans, and Bill stumbles across the truth (for whatever reason, Kelda feels compelled to stay behind looking wistful rather than actually accompany him). Fantastic art from Marko Djurdjevic.
Wonder Woman #36 - also feels like a while since we had one of these, but then, this is a five-week month. After the detour to Japan with Black Canary, we return to the series' ongoing plot arc, as Achilles sets up a state-marriage with Alkyone and goes about his job of ending war. Diana spends most of the issue talking with Giganta, of all people, and then getting sent by her new boss, Pele, to intercept Achilles. Based on Pele's behaviour here, I'm assuming she made Diana promise to kill Achilles and retrieve her father's heart, or else procure Zeus's (I can't see how she'd manage that, but then, she apparently thinks she killed Ares with an axe to the head). I'll be glad to see the back of the whole Diana/Tom thing, if this really is the end; for all Simone's work, she could never make me forget how this whole thing began (and it's terrible nadir).
X-Force #19 - in which the real spotlight is unexpectedly ceded to Agent Morales, the SHIELD/now-HAMMER agent who's been following the X-23 case since, like, the first issue of this series. Now that X-23 has finally been caught, only to be delivered to the Facility, her old bosses, by moles inside HAMMER, Morales turns down their offer-you-can't-refuse and helps X-23 escape her tormentor, Kimura. Kimura cut off Laura's arm last issue, and so Laura spends the whole issue carrying it around; if this was a different kind of series, I could see a lot more black comedy being milked from this. Elsewhere, Selene's plot continues, and damn I wish Choi and Oback were handling the art on "Necrosha", because they are so much better than Crain it's not even funny. On another note, this whole Rahne/Hrimhari thing really, really needs to start going somewhere.
Green Lantern #46 - "Blackest Night" continues, as Hal and Indigo-1 go about gathering representatives of the various light groups, picking up Carol and Sinestro in this issue. Based on the tag for next issue, they're going after Atrocitus next (love to see how that works). The issue of Monguls' rivalry with Sinestro over the Corps is finally settled here, though I can't imagine how this plot would play to someone who wasn't reading Green Lantern Corps or hadn't kept track of developments there online, because Johns only made the briefest of mentions of this previously. So far he's done a good job of tying this book together with the main title without making it seem like too much has been lost, but I'll be interested to see how the next BN issue picks up on this one. Doug Mahnke continues to be a great fit for this title.
Thor #603 - wow, this book was verging on itself becoming a myth. Anyway, JMS's story closes in on its climax, as perhaps, finally, the plot requirements will permit Balder to not be a moron (if Bill ends up dying, Asgardians should erect a statue of him with the motto "I died for your stupidity"). There's very little Thor in this one; a single page, plus another of Donald, in a bit of the 'ol secret ID wacky hijinxs that I normally find annoying but JMS manages to make them palatable (Sif looks cute in her disguise, anyway). Doom and Loki are up to their usual eeevil shenanigans, and Bill stumbles across the truth (for whatever reason, Kelda feels compelled to stay behind looking wistful rather than actually accompany him). Fantastic art from Marko Djurdjevic.
Wonder Woman #36 - also feels like a while since we had one of these, but then, this is a five-week month. After the detour to Japan with Black Canary, we return to the series' ongoing plot arc, as Achilles sets up a state-marriage with Alkyone and goes about his job of ending war. Diana spends most of the issue talking with Giganta, of all people, and then getting sent by her new boss, Pele, to intercept Achilles. Based on Pele's behaviour here, I'm assuming she made Diana promise to kill Achilles and retrieve her father's heart, or else procure Zeus's (I can't see how she'd manage that, but then, she apparently thinks she killed Ares with an axe to the head). I'll be glad to see the back of the whole Diana/Tom thing, if this really is the end; for all Simone's work, she could never make me forget how this whole thing began (and it's terrible nadir).
X-Force #19 - in which the real spotlight is unexpectedly ceded to Agent Morales, the SHIELD/now-HAMMER agent who's been following the X-23 case since, like, the first issue of this series. Now that X-23 has finally been caught, only to be delivered to the Facility, her old bosses, by moles inside HAMMER, Morales turns down their offer-you-can't-refuse and helps X-23 escape her tormentor, Kimura. Kimura cut off Laura's arm last issue, and so Laura spends the whole issue carrying it around; if this was a different kind of series, I could see a lot more black comedy being milked from this. Elsewhere, Selene's plot continues, and damn I wish Choi and Oback were handling the art on "Necrosha", because they are so much better than Crain it's not even funny. On another note, this whole Rahne/Hrimhari thing really, really needs to start going somewhere.
Other than that and the fact that these issues are now coming so few and far between that it's literally impossible for any one of them to provide an even remotely satisfying read, this was a decent issue.
