Mr. Soot tied an issue of
Batman to a string and pulled it down the hallway leading out of my cell. Like an idiot of course I chased it down. Next thing I know a net falls on my head and he’s laughing his ass off. “
This is getting too easy…” he said as he threw another pile of
DC 52’s at me to review.
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| Justice League Dark |
If you take anything away from this issue its that
Shade The Changing Man is one of the coolest characters that you may never of heard of! The story starts off with this young girl wandering around not knowing where she is and mumbling to herself. She walks into a place and she looks on the TV and there is a freeway full of “hers” being hit by cars and dying.
Superman,
Wonder Woman, and
Cyborg head to a place where magic is happening and get wrecked by teeth. Flying teeth.
Batman decides that he and
Zatanna should help out and she binds him with parts of the
Batcave.
Shade makes an appearance and if you don’t know his history (which many don’t) the scene he has with his girlfriend is damn near heartbreaking. In London
Constantine is being messed with magically.
Madam Xanadu is seeing a future where everyone is lying in a pile of dead bodies. Aah! Aah! Aah!
This was a very cool issue and I would love to see where it goes. Bringing these characters,
Deadman will make an appearance, together is a very great idea.
Justice League Dark had great art and a cool story. Did I mention they brought Shade The Changing Man?! You all have no idea how much I like this guy. Do some research on him.
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| Voodoo |
I know the character
Voodoo aka
Priscilla Kitaen from old
Image Comics WildCATS which is known for having one of the worst cartoon theme songs ever written. Seriously. Look it up. Your eyes and ears will poop. I remember this splash page from the 90’s of her and it was one of the hottest drawings ever. What did Voodoo do? I have no clue. She was just some hot mixed chick that barely wore anything. Except on the friggin’ cartoon where they put her in a bodysuit! Okay. I need to settle down.
Voodoo is stripping at a club and the first image we get of her is on all fours as guys are “making it rain” around her. Look it up. Two undercover agents are watching her, the guy more than the other, and requests a private dance from her. His partner goes outside and whips some guys asses for trying to teach her some respect. The agent that is getting the lap dance (
no sex in the champagne room) and lets Voodoo know that he knows that she may be an alien and that if she doesn’t turn herself in she will be dissected. She then turns into a monster and rips him open. Moments later she quits her job and the guy walks out okay.
I guess this is cool if you wanna look at a hot drawing and don’t know that
Jessica Rabbit exists. It wasn’t bad or anything but there was nothing that made me want to pick this up ever again and feel like I really missed out on anything. It didn’t even feel like it was part of the
DC Universe.
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| Savage Hawkman |
I know nothing about
Hawkman except his costume reminds me of something from an old
Hanna Barbara cartoon. This issue starts with him burning his costume in a forest. It explodes and he wakes up back home and burned. A team finds some alien wreckage and brings it for examination. Bored yet? He heads to check out the ship and suddenly an alien inside of it comes to life and starts wreaking havoc. Hawkman all of a sudden transforms as if his costume is now in his body instead of him putting it on. I love how the costume is like “
Eff you for trying to destroy me!” He fights the main alien and it absorbs his
Nth metal armor.
Not a very good issue. The art was fine but the story was super rushed and felt like an action film where a lot happened but made me feel as if I had no emotional investment in it. Who cares about hawk man after reading this? Its like they did it to please people who thought his costume was silly and decided to make it appear rather than put it on.
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