I guess it’s a Marvel/DC week.
Final Crisis HC (dcbs)– I’m looking forward to getting this and rereading the series. In hindsight, I think it succeeded as much as it failed. The story that Morrison told was the epic end-times tale that he always tells (see the end of his JLA run, the end of Invisibles and New X-Men: For Tomorrow) but this may not have been the right vehicle for his story. For a major event, Final Crisis oddly has had little influence on any of DC’s comics but Morrison’s attempt at bombastic storytelling is actually a decent story once you separate it from any expectations of what it should have done and read it as a self-contained series.- Flash Rebirth #3 (dcbs)– I’ve got issues with how this story is being told but oddly enough, Johns is giving me what I want in superheroes right now. It’s all sturm und dang which somehow works for me. At least his work stands out from a lot of the dull and generic comics that line the Marvel and DC racks.
- Green Lantern Corps Vol 2 #37 (lcs)– Blackest Night is next month, right? It’s about time.
- JSA VS Kobra:Engines of Faith #1 (lcs)– I dropped the main JSA title because the new writers do absolutely nothing for me but I want to see what Eric Trautmann can do on this series. I liked the Checkmate issues that he co-wrote with Greg Rucka and want to see what Trauttmann does with Kobra. And hopefully, if this series does well enough, we’ll finally get a collection of the last Rucka/Trautmann Checkmate story.
- X-Men Forever Vol 2 #1 (lcs maybe)– This is actually hitting my last strong sweet-spot of X-Men history, where I probably last really cared about the characters. Sure, there’s been Morrison, Whedon, Ellis and Fraction since Claremont quit/was booted from the book but those stories have always had a twinge of nostalgia for me while my interest was really driven by the creators. But it’s sometime after Claremont left for the first time where I think I grew up beyond these characters so I can’t tell if I’m genuinely interested in what Claremont & Grummett can do here or if I’m feeling another twinge of nostalgia, wanting to revisit a time period that I liked.