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Do you have one of those friends or relatives that YOU KNOW is the last person you should be letting borrow money? You keep your distance for a few months and then you get a familiar phone call: “Hey what’s up, man?! You wanna hang out this weekend?”
With no recent disappointment burned into your memory, you figure it’s okay. So-and-so can’t possibly be trying to hit you up for money again, right? And it seems like everything is going well for most of the night. Then it gets to the end and it’s time to pay for the drinks: “Awww man I’m totally broke! Could you cover for me? It’ll get you next time.”
DAMN IT! They did it again! Well guess what? DC Comics just did that to me this Wednesday with Detective Comics #844. I reviewed Detective Comics #843 last month and the issue was awesome. When I didn’t get #844 sent to me for free with last weekend’s advanced comic books for my reviews, I decided to buy the issue.
How bad could it be? Last issue was a genius display of storytelling by Paul Dini. His Zatanna was incredible. She stole the show and I wanted more. Detective Comics #844 seemed like such a good bet that I didn’t even flip through the book in the store. I just tossed it into my short stack and took it up to the register.
And then I read it. SON OF A BITCH! Burned again by DC Comics! This happens almost every time I try out a new DCU book. It happened on Green Arrow by Judd Winick and Scott McDaniel. It happened on Wonder Woman when it relaunched.
Hell, it’s even happening now with Dwanye McDuffie on Justice League of America. His story arc started off great, and then it just got average. Then there were unexpected fill-ins. Then he was randomly gone for a month! Now he’s back, but I’m hesitant to believe that it’s going to get better…
You know it’s bad when DC Universe #0 only costs $0.50 and you still want your money back. I should have known better than to pick up Detective Comics #844, let alone a DC Comics set in the DCU. And you know what the worst part is? I’m going to do it again! In about a month, I’m going to forget how pissed I am right now and I’m going to pick up something and hate it. It’s a never-ending cycle of pain.
P.S. For the record, I am enjoying Green Arrow / Black Canary right now. If they @#$% that up I’m going to be really pissed.
Here’s an odd ComicShocker – I’m going to be talking about something old and something that hasn’t even come out yet. As for something that came out this past Wednesday, I’ll give the top prize to Last Defenders #2. The book was excellent. Here’s an interesting piece by co-writer Joe Casey on how the issue was put together (the creation process is rather unique).
As for the “something old,” I’m referring to Green Arrow / Black Canary #1 and #2. Yeah, yeah. I know this stuff came out a while back. IN fact, I think #7 just came out this past Wednesday. But thank Jeebus for the quarter bin (which, by the way, was sorely lacking an online definition so I took it upon myself to make a quarter bin page on Wikipedia). I picked up the first two issues of this series for $0.50 last Wednesday. I just finished them earlier today and the negative buzz I’ve heard about this series doesn’t seem to be true in my opinion. The issues had their highs and lows, but I have to say that I was genuinely surprised by the twists and turns the story took in only the first 44 pages of the series.
As for the “something that hasn’t even come out yet,” I’m referring to Avengers: The Initiative #11. It’s coming out this Wednesday (April 16, 2008) and it’s positively terrific. Much better than all the other issues of this Killed in Action story arc. Here’s my A:TI #11 review if you want to read more.
And that’s it! Catch you next week, super fans.
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