Chili Pepper Chris’s Comic Cave: Reviews for June 25, 2008
DC Comics: Green Lantern #32
Writer Geoff Johns and artist Ivan (this mofo can draw!!) Reis continue their retelling of Green Lantern Hal Jordan’s origin in part 4 of this tale.
When this started 3 issues back I thought, WTF!? Why are you retelling the origin? Well, it’s cool to see how they are working the whole Blackest Night prophecy into his origin and the other thing is having Ivan Reis pencil it. This guy is one of the best artist DC Comics’ has on the payroll! There’s some cool action in this and overall it’s an enjoyable read. Grade: B+
DC Comics: Final Crisis #2 ( of 7 )
I’m really on the fence with this one. First off, the art by J.G. Jones is freakin’ awesome. And we get to see him draw all of the big shots of DC in a funeral scene. But you also have to deal with these weird ass Japanese superheroes at the beginning of the tale that just seem to be a reason for writer Grant Morrison to do his weird fucking shit that he seems to do from time to time. I fucking hate it!! It’s like the guy wants to put weird shit in his mainstream superhero books just to generate buzz. Don’t believe me then take a look at what he did in “New X-Men” over 5 years ago. I hated that title why he was on it but a lot of newbies to comic reading thought it was the best thing ever. FUCK THAT!! Just give me a good tale that’s action packed and character driven but don’t do weird shit like put hairy ass Wolverine in a leather jumpsuit with his barechest hanging out like some kind of sado-masochistic gay dream. Okay, I got a little off subject there. Thankfully, he’s not doing anything weird with the main DC characters and there actually is some cool stuff going down in this issue but I’m still not blown away yet. I’m hanging in there but just by a few fingers. Grade: C+
Dark Horse Comics: Conan the Cimmerian #0
I’ll make this easy….buy this!! It’s only 99 cents and is masterfully done by the creative team. If you’ve never read Conan before (WTF, why haven’t you…it’s awesome!!!) now is the time to get on board. And this issue is barbarically beautiful!!! Grade: A+
Until next time—Peace…
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