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Welcome back traveller! Let me, Ade, treat you to this week’s unbelievably-late-but-still-ass-kicking reviews, brought to you only by Comicgasm.

Ok, Black Mask, let’s see some of that pimp hand you’re famous for.

Batman #692

This is Tony Daniel’s first Batman issue. I’m really not too keen on reading his run on Batman because I’ve been left utterly unimpressed by Battle Of The Cowl.

And really, I am disappointed with this issue. There are quite a few problems with this issue – Daniel crammed way too many story threads. Read the rest of this entry »

So I just finished watching Superman/Batman: Public Enemies and I totally wish I could say it rocked on every possible level. I mean, I’m the easiest-to-please comic book fan in the world. Just look at me loving the shit out of Final Crisis while the entire internet exploded in anger and demanded for Grant Morrison’s head on a silver platter. Well, fuck you all, I still love Final Crisis that I want to impregnate it and shit.

But yeah, again. Superman/Batman: Public Enemies disappointed me on so many levels I don’t even know where to start. So let me just rattle off whatever I liked and didn’t like. And be warned, there will be spoilers. Read the rest of this entry »

Well me and RJ just came home from discovering the secret tribe of hot Tibetan women. But when we told them that we were unwilling to impregnate them, they chased us out using poison-tipped spears. RJ is still traumatized so I guess it will be just me making a post for now.

Blackest Night: Superman looks like it will be a good series on its own! Even without it being too tied up with the Green Lantern story (for now), the concept of Kal-L and the rest of the dead cast of Superman & Co. stands out quite well.

Much to my disappointment (just a bit) they really didn’t kill anyone major this time around. As we have found out, the Black Lanterns of Earth 1 / Sector 2814 / just Earth if you are not a geek are forming their own Justice League – who are of course EVIIIL zombies with superpowers.

I am a bit iffy at the fact though that so far, Blackest Night is seeming to be redundant. Basic plot line is as follows: Somebody dead rises and that somebody dead makes living superheroes feel bad about themselves by saying over and over where they went wrong – and they punch each others’ faces out for no apparent reason.

This is why Superman became EMO in the issue:

Lest I spoil the comic too much, I won’t reveal anything else. Overall it is a good comic and a series that commands high potential and expectations. I just hope Blackest Night will go further than the plot lines that they have been using for now – such as revealing WHAT the Black Lanterns are after, WHY they see the living as a combination of emotions and WHAT is with their power levels?

One last thing though just to spoil you if you haven’t read it, but not only did Kal-L (Earth 2 Superman) become a Black Lantern, but so did Zor-El and Earth-2 Lois Lane. YIKES! That oughta teach you to read the comic before the review!

If you are following Blackest Night, needless to say a must-read. 4/5 stars.

Thursdays would be a torture if it were not for COMIC BOOKS BEING RELEASED ON THIS DAY!

Problem is, DC ain’t releasing any Green Lantern / Blackest Night related stuff until the second week! NOOOOOOO.

And thus, I just want to share my torture with you guys by putting the covers and release dates on this post.

Blackest Night #2 – August 12

Green Lantern Corps #39 – August 12

Blackest Night: Batman #1 – August 12

Blackest Night: Superman #1 – August 19

Blackest Night: Titans #1 – August 26

Green Lantern #45 – August 26

After nearly seven months of comic-fasting, I finally bought comics! Wooo! I only had enough moolah for two though, so I settled for Supes and Bats.

Superman/Batman #50:

Fifty issues of bizzare yet entertaining stories. Superman/Batman is a very underrated book; it’s either a hit or miss for fans. Some of my friends love it’s unusual plots, the rest think of it as DC’s shark-jumpers and refuses to accept their stories as canon. With their 50th issue, one would think that they really had jumped the shark.

Thomas Wayne meeting Jor-El before Bruce and Kal were born? Jor-El could have picked any other planet with a yellow sun, but he chose earth because of Thomas Wayne, who used Kryptonian technology to salvage his then dying company to a very very successful one? WUT? They’ve been pushing the ‘Supes and Bats are destined to be together’ thing for years, but this is going to far!

 

 

Still good for for a light read, even with the whole SUPES&BATS BFF thing. This isn’t a case of shark-jumping, it’s just another one of Michael Green’s lame attempts to be ‘notorious’ in the industry. Nice try.

 

Superman/Batman #51:

My reaction went from WUT to WHAT THE SHI~Oh wait, this is a Supes/Bats book. Yet another visit from an alternate universe yay! This time, from the ADORABLE UNIVERSE! When will they go back to the gender-reversal universe, huh? HUH?

Shock and horror!

Shotacon! Oh yes!

 

So we have a whole mini-me’s of the JLA in Gotham, Supes and Bats were like lolwut. D’awww moments galore. In the Adorable universe, everything is..well, adorable! Happier even!  It’s literally a G-rated version of the DCU. I just love the conversations between Supes/Bats and their mini-me counterparts. “Who are you?” “I’m Batman.” No. You’re not.” Yes, I am.” “I’m Batman.” “Please. make me laugh again.” “Excuse me?” I’m the Goshdarn batma–” ” Be quiet.” I see what you did there.

 

“MY PARENTS WERE BULLIIIEEEEED!” 

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Lolicon! With multiple partners too!

Of course, the culprit HAD to be Myxzptlk. It was oh so very obvious. Add the fact that only Supes/Bats writers remembers him, coz they have an excuse: “It’s Superman/Batman!” He needs to wreck havok in other books too, DC!

 

 

So yeah, that’s about it. The OH GOD WHAT’S HAPPENING moments is pretty much business as usual for a Supes/Bats book, here’s hoping that they return to gender-reversal earth! I wanna see girl Darkseid!

 

In other news; just when I decided to temporarily stop buying Marvel stuff, THIS happens:

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Hardcore!  Now I’ll *have* to get this one tomorrow! Sorry pals, I’ll be broke by tomorrow afternoon so no expensive social events this weekend mmmkay? Or, you guys can always treat me. :D