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Wednesday Comics
I'll skip all comments about the format, everybody is pretty much in agreement that it was an interesting one. Let's get to the stories. There are 15 stories in this 12 issue series, and to me they are pretty evenly distributed in terms of quality. The good, the bad and the meh. I first started to read each issue every week, then stopped at [...]
Adventure Comics 1-6
This is where some of the stories in Legion of 3 Worlds are continued, and it looked like Johns was going to put any other plot thread not related to Flash or Green Lantern in this book. There are a few different stories in this series, the main one is about Conner. He's trying to find his identity after his resurrection, since his DNA is half [...]
Legion of 3 Worlds
This is really a continuation of many Geoff Johns storyline in the past few years. The main one is the Legion story in Action Comics. But he also revisits Superboy from Infinite Crisis and Sinestro Corps War, as well as the JLA/JSA crossover. I am not familiar with the convoluted Legion history, but all I had to know was that there are 3 [...]
Flash v2 #142-162 by Waid/Augustyn/Pelletier
Waid and Augustyn return to Flash after a year off, and they are fully charged. It all starts with Wally and Linda's wedding, which was fun to read until Linda was inevitably taken away from Wally. I knew something would happen during the wedding, but I didn't know that her memory would be taken too. This is the start of a long story line that [...]
The Life Story of Flash + Other Stories
Before I delve into Mark Waid's last run on Flash, here are some one-shots and mini-series that may or may not be connected to the regular series. But the most important story here is without a doubt The Life Story of Flash, by Waid/Augustyn and Gil Kane. This is a mix of comics panels with prose, chronicling the story of all the flashes, but [...]
Flash v2 #130-141 by Grant Morrison and Mark Millar
Here's Grant Morrison and Mark Millar's run, while Waid and Augustyn take a year off to recharge their batteries. The change of writers is evident, but it's not jarring. The first story arc (130-132) stars the Suit who takes over bodies and their powers. Morrison's crazy ideas are already showing here with the time-travelling Wally does, and the [...]
Impulse 12-26
Since Impulse is also written by Mark Waid, I decided to read this series until Waid leaves. These are mainly stand alone stories, with some continuing sub-plots that eventually culminate in a great story. Some nice stand alone stories are 12, where Bart has a great time with XS, but unfortunately XS has to leave him and go back to the future. [...]
Flash v2 #119-129 by Waid, Augustyn and Paul Ryan
This short run felt very different from everything that happened before. I think Mark Waid got to do everything he wanted with the speed force and the other speedsters, culminating many times on big epic story lines. So here he's more interested in the character of Flash and his impact on Keystone City and everybody else in his life. Another [...]
Flash v2 #095-118, Impulse #1-11
A lot has happened to Wally so far, but this run is where things really culminate. There are many artists in this run, but they all seem to have a "latino" name. Some of the names will go on to be superstars. Ringo provides covers for the first few issues, which is ironic considering he never drew a cover during his own run (Alan Davis did that). [...]
Flash v2 #080-094 by Mark Waid and Mike Wieringo
Mark Waid continues to build Wally West as the best Flash possible, this time he's joined on art by Mike Wieringo on interior and Alan Davis on covers. This is where I started to read many years ago in the Italian translation of the series. We started with a 4 part story guest starring Nightwing and Kory against the Combine. The Combine are a [...]
Flash v2 #062-079 by Mark Waid & Greg LaRocque
I wrote about my first exposure to DC Comics with Superman and Batman, but my favorite DC character during that time was Flash. The Italian series started with the Mark Waid and Mike Wieringo run, but unfortunately it was canceled a few years later, so I never got to read the end of Waid's run or anything else after him. But I've always liked [...]
Green Lantern Corps #33-38: Emerald Eclipse
All hell breaks loose in this story. First Mongul conquers Daxam, a planet that hates all aliens, and instead of fighting they'd rather suicide. Luckily for them, Sodam and Arisia are there to help them defeat Mongul. Unfortunately Sodam can't get to the ION power, so the only solution for him is to fly into the red sun and converts it into a [...]
Green Lantern #39-42: Agent Orange
This is the story of Agent Orange (Larfleeze) which is a different ring bearer. The difference is that he's the only member of this particular color lantern, but he can create constructs in the shape of creatures he ate (hence avarice as the emotion). That's what forms the orange lanterns. It's a nice concept, certainly a nice change from the [...]
Brave and the Bold #1-16
This series is very good for introducing the many characters in the DC universe. Even though all issues are self contained and star different characters, there is a thread that goes through every issue, which culminates in the final story line in issue 12. So each issue is a great standalone story, but it also continues a subtle plot that is [...]
Trinity 52
It's finally over. As expected the cliffhanger from last issue is dealt with quickly, as a flashback. There isn't even any fight, since all heroes are next to the trinity to protect them. The CSA can only fled. Another part of the issue is dedicated to wrapping up all the various plots. I'll just mention them here for the record: - Enigma [...]
Trinity 51
This is the issue where most if not all the plots are wrapped up. Because of that, this issue feels like a melting pot instead of a coherent story. First we see many different scenes that somehow wrap up most characters arcs. Not only the heroes but also the "villains" of the series, like the Dreambounds. Then the evil Trinity completely [...]
Trinity 50
At the end of last issue I was afraid that the world would be repaired with just a “magic wand” gesture, and it’s basically what happens, but what lead to it was more interesting than I anticipated. Krona is finally in front of the Worldsoul and starts asking her all sorts of questions. But the Worldsoul doesn’t understand, she only [...]
Trinity 49
Since we're so close to the end, I thought this would be the conclusion of the storyline and we would get the last few issues as an epilogue. Instead there are more surprises to come! I really didn't anticipate that Krona would get free from the spell and "destroy" earth. I even thought that the Trinity would power down and go back to their normal [...]
Trinity 48
Last issue Batman came up with a plan to defeat the evil Trinity, which we see at work in this story. The Trinity share the plan in unison, as if they were one facet of one single being. Then they simultaniously fight the enemy and recruit people to help them with their plan. They're successful and nobody saw it coming, not Krona or Morgaine: they [...]
Green Arrow: Year One
Not being familiar with Green Arrow, I thought this was the perfect story for me to catch up on him. That's exactly what I get here. Not only I get his origin story, I understand where he's coming from and what makes him tick. The action is great, thanks to Jock's dynamic style. I must admit the creative team behind this story is the main [...]