Reviews of January Books

My new shipment came in Friday, so here are some more reviews.

Son of M #2 - Well, I ordered Son of M #2 before I read and disliked #1, so I went ahead and read it this weekend.  Better than #1 but still not great.  Basically Pietro’s fall from the top of the building was not fatal, but very bad.  Luckily his wife, Crystal of the Inhumans, shows up and wisks him away to the moon to be healed by an Inhuman healer.  While there, he decides to transform himself with the Terrigen Mists.  Suddenly after transforming himself, he meets a 2nd Pietro in his room holding the gift that his daughter, Luna had given him.  It has me interested in #3, but it is moving a little slow.

Jonah Hex 1-3 – I can’t say that I am a huge Jonah Hex fan, but I have enjoyed his stories in the past.  I really want to know what happened to his face.  I picked up the Showcase reprint volume and I have been enjoying it a lot.  I found my first Jonah Hex story in there (Weird Western Tales #24).  Great 12 pagers setting up the story and bringing it to a satisfactory conclusion.  
The new series is following the same formula, just stretching it out to 22 pages.  But not necessarily giving more story.  The art is great, but Jonah is looking a little too much like Clint Eastwood.  Issue #3 has a nice twist of introducing Bat Lash to get Jonah out of a jam.  And again, the bad guy got his due.  A nice series so far with each story being don in one.

Infinite Crisis #4 – Sweet.  A fanboy’s dream.  Recapped how Alexander Luthor was responsible for all everything related to OMAC, Rann-Thanager War and Days of Vengeance.  All recapped in one page!  I have a couple of questions that maybe someone can answer.  Were the Titans who were killed real Titans or just nameless figures?  I didn’t recognize any of them.  And is this really the end of the DC Speedsters?  I do not want to give anything away.  Pick it up now.  I really hope that the quality continues.

On a side note, I remember reading a preview of one of the One Year Later titles as being Super-Girl and Power Girl in the bottle city of Kandor as Nightwing and Flamebird.  I didn’t think much about it.  In my shipment came DC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore.  I will say more when I finish it, but the first story is from Superman Annual #11 from 1985.  In it Mongul has tricked Superman to opening a birthday present that is really a plant that attaches itself to the wearer and reads their mind and gives them their hearts desire.  Supes desire is a normal life on Krypton with a wife and son.  Where I am getting at is that on the TV is the show “Nightwing and Flamebird”.  It will be nice if this is a tribute to Moore.  Or did Moore tale it from something earlier?  

Legion of Super-Heroes #13 – Finale to the first story arc.  Well done.  The kids beat the bad guys and Brainiac-5 kidnaps the head bad guy to save his recently deceased girlfriend.  Definitely a series that I will continue to get.

X-Men 181 – Waste of money and time.  Written by Milligan and Doop is on the cover.  I loved X-Factor/X-Statix.  This issue was a complete waste of time.  Granted I had not read any of the previous issues, but I had absolutely no idea what was going on.  Polaris and Havok are arguing about something and run into Doop.  Doop keeps doing something to Havok, but Polaris thinks her powers are coming back.  And she can understand Doop?  Mystique brings somebody to the X-Mansion, but they never explain who he is, but Rogue and Gambit are upset.  A character named the Leper Queen is introduced and she is hunting mutants because her daughter was one and she burned up and burned the Queen.  In the end, Havok blows up Doop and Polaris and the Leper Quenn start flying away.  Oh yeah, I forgot.  Apocalypse woke up.

X-Men: Deadly Genesis #3 – Banshee is dead and someone is tormenting the X-Men.  We are now halfway through the series and we still do not know who the bad guy is.  He seems to know everyone from the early X-Men/Giant Size X-Men.  I really hope that they did not decide to bring back Thunderbird with some amped up powers.  I am sure that the brief video clip of Moira MacTaggart with conveniently missing dialog is a red herring.

That all for now.