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Batman: Gotham by Gaslight (Elseworlds)

Brian Augustyn

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Total reviews: 11 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Batman of the past 3 out of 5 stars.
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An interesting take on Batman for sure, this story sets Bruce Wayne and his collegues in the Victorian era Gotham. It was cool to see what the city looked like 100 years ago and how the people of that time would have reacted to the dark knight.

There are two seperate stories in here, both written by Brian Augustyn. The first finds Bruce returning home from London after his travels and resuming the role of Batman. It is at this time that a serial killer known as Jack the Ripper appears in Gotham and is continuing to murder women in the same fashion as the murders in London. It is assumed by the commishioner that Batman is the man behind this. Wayne is framed for the killings and has no alibi, since by revealing how he really spends his nights would most likely further incriminate him. It is a pretty interesting story, however I caught the killer long before the trained detective which always dissapoints me. Batman should always have it figured it out before the reader in my opinion otherwise it ruins the suspense.

The second story surprised me because I doubt I would have picked this up seperately if they weren't collected together in this edition, but it turned out to be better than the first. The villain is more interesting and the whole story and villain could have easily been an adventure of Zorro. In the first story after Bruce has found the man responsible for his parents murder he quits his crusade. This seems very out of character for him. The newly appointed Commishioner Gordan knows there is a need for Batman still and when a new villain pops up to terroize the city, Bats answers the call. Julie Madison also makes an apperance as Bruce's love interest.

After reading the second story "Master of the Future", I wouldn't be opposed to picking another copy of this version of Batman. Although this Batman of the past won't ever top the Batman of the future for me, it's still a worthy attempt and a good spin on the character.

Empowered

Adam Warren

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Total reviews: 15 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

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Not only is costumed crimefighter "Empowered" saddled with a less-than-ideal superhero name, but she wears a skintight and cruelly revealing "supersuit" that only magnifies her body-image insecurities. Worse yet, the suit's unreliable powers are prone to failure, repeatedly leaving her in appallingly distressing situations... and giving her a shameful reputation as the lamest "cape" in the masks-and-tights business. Nonetheless, she pluckily braves the ordeals of her bottom-rung superheroic life with the help of her "thugalicious" boyfriend (and former Witless Minion) and her hard-drinking ninja girlfriend, not to mention the supervillainous advice from the caged alien demonlord watching DVDs from atop her coffee table... From Adam Warren - writer/artist of the English-language Dirty Pair comics (the original "Original English-Language Manga" before OEL was cool), and writer of Livewires, Gen13 and Iron Man: Hypervelocity - comes Empowered, a butt-kicking, bootylicious superhero lampoon that raises the bar for long-john lust and low-brow laughs. Remove all previous notions of superhero entertainment from your puny mind... and prepare to be Empowered!

Green Lantern: Tales of the Sinestro Corps

Ron Marz, Geoff Johns, Sterling Gates, Alan Burnett

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Fleshing out the Sinestro Corps War 5 out of 5 stars.
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A hardcover collection that compiles various side-stories and one-shots, Tales of the Sinestro Corps fleshes out the events of the epic interstellar saga The Sinestro Corps War, and many of the major players and the impacts they make as well. Featured here are backstories pertaining to various members of the Sinestro Corps, most notably being Sinestro himself, the sentient virus known as Despotellis, the insane and murderous Superman-Prime, and Hank Henshaw, AKA the Cyborg-Superman. Also featured here are tales dealing with the aftermath of the war, including Kyle Rayner's struggle against Parallax, as well as his new role as a Green Lantern, and his training of the newly christened torchbearer of the Lanterns, Sodom-Yat. What really makes this hardcover collection worth picking up however is the Secret Files & Origins one-shot featured here, which collects a horde of information detailing the mythos of the Green Lantern corps and the Sinestro corps, as well as a hint of the Black Lanterns and what is to come with Blackest Night. A more than worthwhile companion for The Sinestro Corps War, Tales of the Sinestro Corps is a must-own collection for anyone the least bit interested the epic crossover event.

Will Eisner's The Spirit, Vol. 2

Darwyn Cooke

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What's the opposite of spinning in your grave? 5 out of 5 stars.
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Just absolutely brilliant. I loved the first volume for the way Cooke effortlessly channeled Will Eisner for a new era, and he only got better as he went. Someone described this as like a season of Buffy, where all of the threads come together at the end and the whole thing just batters your brain with its awesomeness. And that seems about right to me. Cooke (and Bone and Stewart) turn in one of the breeziest and most effective superhero comics I've seen in a very long time. The wryness and humanity of Cooke's writing are the sorts of things I have to believe would have made Eisner both proud and unafraid for the future of the medium.

A special note on issue #12: This is one of the flat-out best single issues of a comic book I have ever seen. I think comparing it to Eisner is wrong and does a disservice to what Cooke has created, but it's clear that he was freely riffing on everything Eisner did. Is it blasphemous to say Darwyn Cooke may have actually upped the ante on the master?

Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?

Neil Gaiman

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The Invisibles Vol. 1: Say You Want a Revolution

Grant Morrison

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Total reviews: 35 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Not my cup of reality-warping hallucinogenic tea. 2 out of 5 stars.
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Long ago, a friend who raved about "The Invisibles" loaned me this first book. I don't have very clear memories of it, but I remembered it as being very hard to read, and I remember not getting very far in it before I lost interest.

Recently, due specifically to the influence of Warren Ellis's awesome series "Planetary", I've gotten interested in comics again, and decided to give "The Invisibles" a second try. I got a little further this time, but still didn't even make it past the first volume.

The story seems promising; "Big Brother is Watching, So Make Yourself Invisible". The eponymous team are a gang of reality-bending Crowley-style sorcerors, fighting the mundane system of everyday life, and the sinister otherworldly monsters who control the mundane system of everyday life. The execution, however, is less than ideal. MOST of the pages are very jarringly non-sequential; on one page, the characters will be in a park, listening in on a conversation, and then on the next page, where you expect to find a continuation of the conversation they were listening to, they'll suddenly be walking along a riverbank, in the middle of their own completely different and unrelated conversation. On almost every single page I had to turn back, and check the page numbering to make sure I hadn't accidentally skipped something or pages hadn't fallen out of the book; if it weren't for the sequential page numbering, I would have assumed I was reading a bad printing. This could be a clever technique if used sparingly; in a comic book about "hacking reality", throwing in a sudden and unexpected "jump cut" between two pages can contribute greatly to the reader's immersion in the "reality hacking", but when it's done on every other page it loses that hook and just feels sloppy, like the author and artist didn't know how to structure a comic.

One of the "page cuts" jumps from the beginnings of a fairly realistic fight scene to a super-bright, psychedelic scene in which a character is tripping out and talking to the ghost of John Lennon, which looks like a completely different comic, has completely different pacing and artwork, and is FILLED with meaningless text, which brings us to my next problem with "The Invisibles": there's WAY too much meaningless text. If you want to present a radical, reality-altering concept in your comic, that's great; try to do it with action as much as possible and with as few words as possible -- this is a visual medium, after all. If you need to throw in a few wordy bits, that's OK too ("Planetary", again, does a perfect job of this). If, however, you are filling ENTIRE PAGES with text so small that you have to go below standard comic font size and it becomes illegible, then you might want to re-think your medium and perhaps just write a book, or a really wordy animation, instead. It was after the third ENTIRE page of nothing but hard-to-read, handwritten, meaningless text that I gave up on "The Invisibles". And by "meaningless" I don't mean "fluff dialogue that pertains to the action" or "cryptic dialogue that might make sense later", I mean actually meaningless, gigantic word-bubbles of insane characters singing entire songs and babbling incoherently about things that have nothing to do with the plot, or meaningless stream of consciousness droning from characters who are tripping. All of this text feels like nothing but filler, and coupled with the jarring transitions between pages it makes "The Invisibles" look like VERY amateur work.

One last niggling detail is that I couldn't really identify with any of the characters. The main character, a teenage boy named "Dane", is basically a carbon-copy of Alex from "A Clockwork Orange", but without the interest in Beethoven. He wanders around London with his monosyllable-named "droogs", indiscriminately stealing cars, smashing windows, beating people up, and blowing up buildings. It's suggested that he's very smart, but this doesn't make him any more likeable. The "hook" is that he "sees dead people", which might've been clever when this series was first printed, but after "The 6th Sense", "Bleach", and a dozen other stories with "I see dead people" protagonists, it just seems clichéd.

I really wanted to get the same sort of "reality warping" experience out of "The Invisibles" that some of my friends have, but I've seen it done better a dozen times before, and the whole execution just seems amateur. When I stopped reading it, I was hungry for some REAL reality warping, so I sat down and read some stories out of the collected fictions of Jorge Luis Borges and felt MUCH better. I suggest you skip "The Invisibles" and do the same.

Addendum: The friend who last loaned it to me told me that the first two story arcs were, indeed, horrible, but that it got significantly better after them. I tried reading it again, skipping over those first two story arcs and starting from the third, and it was indeed a much better read, and nothing was lost in having not read that first part. So, I'm upgrading my review to "a fun read overall, but not something I'd be interested in owning".

Top Ten (Book 2)

Alan Moore, Zander Cannon, Gene Ha

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A good Read 4 out of 5 stars.
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BOOK ONE Review :

It took me a while to get into this book. For the first two chapters I was less than impressed by what seemed a genereric superhero story but from chapter 3 onwards the interesting story lines and subplots really began to grab my attention. The characters are pretty strange but Moore develops them nicely as the book goes on and this really is a satisfying read.
The artwork within the book is good although the quality of the paper could be better. There is a lot of things going on in the frames and it is worth a second read to pick out some of the funny things going on in the background.
This book is definitely recommended for Moore fans. A lighter read than "The Watchmen" but none the worse for that.

BOOK TWO Review:

I really enjoyed book one and this book contined to impress. Moore does an excellent job of developing the characters from the first book and adds a few new ones to the mix. The most enjoyable of the new characters is officer Joe PI who is a robot with a sense of humor. Joe PI integrates very nicely with the old team and generates some good story lines and one liners. The plots in book two are as good if not better than the first collection.
There are tons of things going on on every page (many of them you will miss on the first read) but the book never becomes a chore to read. Highly recommended but you must read book one first.

Immortal Iron Fist, Vol. 3: The Book of the Iron Fist (v. 3)

Ed Brubaker, Matt Fraction, Roy Thomas, Travel Foreman, Leandro Fernandez, Khari Evans, Nick Dragotta, Russ Heath, Lewis Larosa, Mitch Breitweiser, Gil Kane

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More tales of the Iron Fist. Can I get a "Kii-yaahhh!!"? 4 out of 5 stars.
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I've been an Iron Fist guy since the days of POWER MAN AND IRON FIST back in the '80s. In the decades following, dude's popped up now and again, but, disappointingly, Danny Rand barely registered a murmur on the comic book radar, not nearly enough noise to merit another shot at an ongoing series. Until a few years ago, when Ed Brubaker, Matt Fraction, and David Aja came along and revitalized Iron Fist, making his new comic book like unto a thing of awesomeness. It's definitely not a good thing that this creative team is leaving the title.

This is Volume 3 of the trades collecting THE IMMORTAL IRON FIST series, and mostly it takes a break from Danny Rand. Instead, this one sweeps up the leftover issues which didn't immediately tie into Danny's current exploits. As such, it's more of an anthology, and appropriately titled THE BOOK OF THE IRON FIST. Readers of the ongoing monthly know that there exists a treasured tome, the Book of the Iron Fist, which not only contains the martial arts secrets of the fabled city K'un-Lun but also recounts the lives and times of past Iron Fists. This book is currently in the hands of Daniel Rand, the present Iron Fist.

THE IMMORTAL IRON FIST, Vol. 3 - THE BOOK OF THE IRON FIST collects issues #7 & #15-16 of the monthly series, IMMORTAL IRON FIST: ORSON RANDALL AND THE GREEN MIST OF DEATH, and IMMORTAL IRON FIST: THE ORIGIN OF DANNY RAND (this last one actually reprints MARVEL PREMIERE #15 & 16).

Down the long tumultuous centuries, there have been sixty-six Iron Fists, four of whom are featured in this collection. It kicks off with two stand-alone issues. Issue #7 tells the tale of the fantastic Wu Ao-Shi, the only woman to ever assume the mantle of the Iron Fist, and how pursuit of love and craft eventually makes her a pirate queen.

Issue #15 takes us back to the year 1860 and acquaints us with the cerebral Bai Bang-Wen, often the smartest person in the room. Bai Bang-Wen had planned out his own perfect and glorious demise, but is stymied when he is captured and enslaved after losing the Second Opium War. His Iron Fist abilities cut off, Bai Bang-Wen languishes as a slave. Then one day a man befriends him, who turns out to be his mystical counterpart from India. And now Bai Bang-Wen has a new quest and a new opportunity to achieve a perfect death...

Next up is the one-shot special IMMORTAL IRON FIST: ORSON RANDALL AND THE GREEN MIST OF DEATH. The cool pulp noir feel of the new Iron Fist series is keyed in large part by the presence of the dashing Orson Randall, Danny Rand's short-time mentor and Iron Fist predecessor. Randall is considered to be the Golden Age Iron Fist. This special delves more into his past, his time with his sidekicks-in-adventure, the Confederates of the Curious, and specifically, his many skirmishes with the relentless Prince of Orphans, who had sworn to hunt him down and kill him.

Issue #16 picks up Danny Rand's storyline. Fresh from his time in K'un-Lun (check out Immortal Iron Fist Vol. 2: The Seven Capital Cities of Heaven (New Avengers)) and from participating in a holy kung fu tournament and then in a revolution, Danny returns to New York, accompanied by five Immortal Weapons, each a champion of one of the Seven Cities of Heaven (for those new to Iron Fist, Danny himself is an Immortal Weapon and is the champion of the mystical city of K'un-Lun). A new arc is introduced as Danny and the other Immortal Weapons investigate the rumor of an eight mystical city, although it's suspected that the gregarious Fat Cobra also wants to have mad fun in the Big Apple.

Danny's experiences in K'un-Lun and the discovery that his corporate empire was dependent on exploiting the seven mystical cities have soured him on his wealth, and the story details what Danny does to make amends. There's also a bit of the touchy-feely as Danny questions his relationship with Misty Knight. This issue ends on a tense note, as Danny, on his 33rd birthday, learns a horrifying truth from the Book of the Iron Fist. This sets things up nicely for the series's new creative team. But, man, do they have their work cut out for them.

Way back in the mid-'70s, writer Roy Thomas and artist Gil Kane created Iron Fist in the pages of MARVEL PREMIERE. Issues #15 & 16 of that old school title first introduced the origin of Danny Rand and the Iron Fist, and they're reprinted here.

Don't turn up your nose at this volume just because Danny Rand is only here for a bit. The other three Iron Fists are interesting enough that these issues make for good reading. I really enjoyed the story of the female Iron Fist, with its rousing, near fairy tale-like elements. And Orson Randall will always rock, never mind that he died a bunch of issues ago. Randall utterly belongs in the pulp age of Doc Savage, the Shadow, and the Spider. Where else other than in his era can an Iron Fist find himself contending against the buxom Cowgirls from Hell and a certain mad scientist and his monster?

Issue #16 is writer Matt Fraction's swan song, and he ends on a high note. His stuff in IRON FIST has just about got me convinced to check out his other works. Fraction is a solid storyteller, comfy with down-to-earth dialogue and mystical mumbo-jumbo speak. There's enough martial arts mayhem, but also there's good character development. I like that in telling the legends of Wu Ao-Shi and Bai Bang-Wen, Fraction, with some assist from Ed Brubaker, handles the narration in a conversational, tongue-in-cheek manner. Meanwhile, the artwork is taken on by a posse of competent artists. No complaints about any of them, as the various illustrating styles seem to fit the respective storylines. But David Aja remains my preferred artist for this kung-fu billionaire. Except that Aja has already moved on.

Fraction, Brubaker, and Aja have been so tremendous and have had me so invested in Danny Rand and in the Iron Fist mythos that, even with their departure, I'm still very much stoked for whatever's in store. Stoked, but, admittedly, a little nervous. With this series having been so outstanding, I worry that it can only spiral downwards.

I don't mind, every now and then, if the series explores the adventures of the preceding Iron Fists. The exotic, swashbuckling feel of those other eras complements the modern "realism" of the present-day Iron Fist. Marvel Comics doesn't boast as many legacy heroes as DC. But, in terms of range and potential, Iron Fist may just be the best legacy hero out there.

Editorial Review:

Her name was Wu Ao-Shi, and she was known as the Pirate Queen of Pinghai Bay...and that all came after she left K'un-Lun and took the power of the Iron Fist with her. Kicking her way out of the pages of The Immortal Iron Fist #2, this stand-alone issue tells the story of Wu Ao-Shi, from the moment she became the first woman to touch the heart of Shou-Lao the Undying, to her mysterious, controversial, and epic ending. Collects Immortal Iron Fist #7, #15-16 and Special #1, and Marvel Premiere #15.

Ultimate Iron Man, Vol. 2 (v. 2)

Orson Scott Card

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Been waiting a long time for this 5 out of 5 stars.
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I have been waiting alon time for this and Orson Scott Card did not dissapoint me.

The conspiracy against howard stark takes an international and deadly turn after Stark Enterprises robot stops a terrorist from blowing up stark towers.

Lots of action well writ characters and twists and turns.

Obadiah Stane is realy annoying, Tony is fool hardy and heroic, James rhodes is just as gung ho and heroic as tony...

Great book

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The untold origin of Iron Man continues! When last we saw him, young Tony Stark was nearly blown to bits. How much of him survived his initial Iron Man trial run - and where does the young genius go from here? Plus: How does James Rhodes fit into Tony's plans for the perfect fighting machine? Four-time Hugo Award-winner, two-time Nebula Award-winner, and World Fantasy Award-winner Orson Scott Card (author of Ender's Game) returns to the Ultimate Universe, now joined by Ultimate Fantastic Four's Pasqual Ferry! Collects Ultimate Iron Man II #1-4.

Omega: The Unknown

Jonathan Lethem

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Total reviews: 45 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Interesting artwork, under developed story 3 out of 5 stars.
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Let me first admit that I was intrigued by this collection because I like Jonathan Lethem's work. I'm unfamiliar with the Omega comic and had never heard of this work before.

What I liked: I like the dark, almost sinister aspects of the stories. I can't resist a story about an awkward teen who discovers something special about himself that will help mankind (insert inspiring music here). The artwork is interesting. This isn't the slick look of some of the more modern graphic novels in which everything looks like it jumped off the big screen. This art goes back to the old school style, and I really like it. I also like that our intrepid hero, Titus Alexander Island, is so unemotional and robotic himself and yet manages to form solid relationships with people who truly care about him.

What I didn't like so much: The Minx? Yeah, I found him more annoying than humorous. That might be the point since the Minx is such a media-hound and puts his "good" works on display for ego strokes. Omega is under-developed, in my opinion. I would have liked a bit more info about him, his origins, why he's here, etc. Instead, he just appears, eats a few birds, beats up some bad guys, and...that's it.

So, while there were quite a few things I liked about the collection, overall I was left with a "what the heck did I just read?" feeling.

Physically, this is a nice book. If you are looking for something to give to the comic book/graphic novel lover in your life, this is an attractive book with a nice dust jacket and eye-catching end papers. The panels pop with vibrant colors (while still maintaining a dreary, dark feel for the story). I also like the comments from Lethem and Karl Rusnak at the end of the book - it is obvious that this is a labor of love for them.

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The story of a mute, reluctant super hero from another planet, and the earthly teenager with whom he shares a strange destiny - and the legion of robots and nanoviruses that have been sent from afar to hunt the two of them down! Created in 1975 by Steve Gerber and Mary Skrenes, the original Omega the Unknown lasted only ten issues, but was a legend to those who recall it - an ahead-of-its-time tale of an anti-hero, inflected with brilliant ambiguity. One of Omega's teenage fans was award-winning novelist Jonathan Lethem, who has used the original as a springboard for a superbly strange, funny, and moving graphic novel in ten chapters. Collects Omega: The Unknown #1-10.