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Obligatory Comic Reviews 6/23 Edition

Each week there are a ton of comics released and frankly not all of them are worth of long winded reviews. Not all of them stand out and say, “Tell the people about me!” But some of them should be highlighted as good or bad all the same. So here’s this week’s Obligatory Reviews!

Brightest Day #4

It finally happened! The story moved forward! But it might be too little too late. Hawkman and Hawkgirl stand in front of the pink portal for an hour talking. Hawkman’s hand really wants to go in (make your own joke here) and so they bravely walk through the portal. The rest of the book is spent with Dove, Hawk and Deadman in Dove’s bedroom. The “white light” continues to be a practical joker as it teleports Deadman into her room. Dove changes into her costume which alerts Hawk, sending him into a drunken rage. Not only does the pacing for the book change but now the series is ten issues long! I guess the editors figured the story wasn’t quite fleshed out or the read base dropped significantly and they need to make up the cost with two more issues.

Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard #2 – Review

Tales, tales, and more tales, is what you will get with the second chapter of Legend of the Guard. In this issue, we are given three new stories by new creators for each story. The list of creators includes: Alex Kain, Sean Rubin, Terry Moore, Gene Ha and Lowell Francis.

The first to spin a weave is Fenton and he has a story about a mouse that was a member of the guard that lived in a small city called Barkhamsted. The brave mouse that is a member of the guard takes it upon himself to protect his city until recruitment from the guard comes. The mouse feels that every young mouse in every city has potential to someday be part of the guard. He is so brave, that mouse tackles a bear that has been a threat to the city.

Incorruptible #7 – Review

If there’s one thing about this title, it never stops pushing the story forward. Each page just blazes on until reaching the end. It very successfully captures the panic and craziness of the world. Although it’s clear that this book is tied to “Irredeemable”, it still hasn’t gotten to that point in the story that it doesn’t need to remind you of it. The diamond gang is a group of white males that have begun worshiping the Plutonian and misinterpreting his actions. They believe that he’s only killing minorities and so they’ve taken it upon themselves to do the same. They wear the Plutonian’s symbol on their jackets and are terrorizing the city that Max has sworn to protect.

First Wave – The Spirit #3

Issue three wraps up the “Angel Smerti” storyline for the Spirit. In the second issue, the Spirit was badly beaten by Smerti forcing him to crawl to Ellen’s house to be patched up. In his weakened state, he failed to realize that he might be leading her straight to Ellen. Fortunately for the Spirit, Smerti has taken to him. She finds him interesting enough to keep him around a little longer before delivering him to the Octopus.

The issue is basically one long fight scene between Smerti and the Spirit. All the while she’s trying to figure the Spirit out. Then, she stops playing with the Spirit and is forced to deliver him to the Octopus. But somewhere during their fights and conversations the Spirit figures her out and gets underneath her skin.

Fraggle Rock v1 #3 – Review

Archaia Press’ adaptation of the popular children’s show comes to a close. The series in general has been very good at capturing the look and feel of the TV show, but also progressing the series forward. Issue three continues to appeal to reader’s nostalgic side while giving younger readers something to latch onto. This issue follows the same setup as the first two by having one main story and two shorter stories to accompany it.

The first story is entitled, “Where have all the Dozers gone?” After becoming very hungry, the Fraggles go looking for Dozer sticks to munch on. Lo and behold, there are none to be found. In fact there’s not even a Dozer to be found. The Fraggles split up and search Fraggle Rock from head to toe with no signs of the Dozers or their delicious sticks. They decide to ask the Great Trash Heap if she’s seen the Dozers. Upon exiting the cave, they find the Dozers all on their own.

P.A.C. Weekly News

Welcome once again to Player Affinity Comics News or P.A.C. News as we like to call it. We already brought you several stories this week. Most notable was Dark Horse Comics teaming up with USA Today and Toshiba to create DH:HD. Basically Dark Horse will be creating and adapting it’s content into a new format and brought to your HD televsion. To read the full release you can read PAC’s coverage here.

In movie news we have a picture of the Green Lantern Movie banner coming to us from Bleeding Cool. One of their readers snapped a shot of the banner on a tour of Warner Bros. The movie is filming in New Orleans so don’t take this as picture of the actual costume… just a real bad photoshop of what it might end up being. It’s ugly and soul crushing to look at but here’s hoping Deadpool… I mean Ryan “I play the same character in everything” Reynolds can pull it off. Also this week is was revealed that the bad guy from Sherlock Holmes would be playing Sinestro. 

Critter #1

Big Dog Ink’s newest title Critter is a super hero book. You think that with a title like Critter the book would be about cute little animals running around the woods, but it is not at all. The story takes places in Greenville, Michigan and we are introduced to our heroine Cassia Crawford. Cass is a simple girl who lives in the country with her grandmother due to the fact that her mother died. She makes an honest living as a waitress and a super hero, but her grandmother doesn’t know that part.

Cass battles within herself as to why she has she been given these powers and really if she’s ready to be a hero. Lucky for her a man drives by with a kidnapped little girl, immediately answering her questions. Cass quickly goes into action and stops the kidnapper and rescuing the little girl.