The week is large my friends...large. Two "Countdown" miniseries. Hal Jordan returns to Green Lantern. Rogue War blazes on. The Titans and Outsiders continue getting their ass kicked...while their old teammate Donna Troy is not as dead as they thought she was.

Huge week. So review something!

And Batman!!! Can't forget about Batman!

Who?

I think he meant Catman but Villains United doesn't come out this week.

Gah! I try so hard but to no avail....

Don't worry, I'm sure that Batguy character will catch on one of these days. He just doesn't have the exposure yet.

Ohhh, that must be it. You think they need to put him in more books? Or how about having a few more spinoffs? That's the ticket.

I heard Liam Neeson is playing him in this movie about new military tanks.

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Just Plain Bad
Craptacular

This week in alphabetical order.

Batman #640- So far the whole Jason Todd returns thing has whipped me pretty good. The arc as a whole as been very average (with the exception of Jason's encounter with Joker) and I really don't dig Mahnke's art. Even the Wagner covers which I normally love have seemed very middle of the road. Hopefully once we learn what the character formerly know as Robin's intentions are the arc can jump back up and we can actually see Batman do something other than mope around all confused like.

Day of Vengence #2- Still going strong. The scenes with Ragman and Enchantress are great and the way the whole "team" interacts brings a bit of humor to the book. Of course the highlight is still Detective Chimp, not since Every Which Way But Loose has a primate stolen the spotlight in such a manner. I can't wait to see how the team's plan fails, and you know it will.

DC Special: The Return of Donna Troy- This was pretty much a typical set-up issue and while it felt like it most of the time there were points where it felt as though we were in issue #100 and something of an ongoing and all the back story was already well in place. I really liked the art but that was to be expected. I wasn't really sure how much I was going to like this since I'm not a huge fan of Donna but I really enjoyed it.

Flash #222- Now this was a kick ass issue. Rogue War carries on as more villains join the fight and Top works some anti-mojo on the reformed rogues. I was so anticipating the big reveal and even though it never came I was in now way disappointed. Can't wait until next issue even if it means we're one step close to Johns being gone.

Green Lantern #1- Of course this gets a purple ranking but not just because it officially marks Hal's return. I though the whole thing was done extremely well. The art was top notch and the writing was brilliant. Seeing Hal and Jon together again is great and the internal monolgue was wonderfully written. This is by far my book of the week.

JLA #114- So the last issue of the arc actually gets a little better, too bad. This issue was better than any of the others from Busiek's arc but it still wasn't great. I liked the semi-trickery on the part of the League and the dirty mess they left for the CSA. I can't wait until we see how all of this works out in the other universe even though I'm sure that it will be a while and then just in recap flashbacks.

OMAC Project #2- I just knew this would get better. Still not enough Booster or actual involvement of the three heroes but this issue was great and the set up for next issue could vault this in to my top slot among the four minis. I really can't wait to see what Booster does when he gets to join the action.

Outsiders #24- Again this book slips down my pull list and teeters ever so close to droppage. First of all the art was horrible. Eye bleeding, brain exploding, Pat Lee horrible. On top of the you have a weak half assed story that gets blown away in terms of quality by it crossover counter part. I think Winick may be heading down the Bendis road of over extending and it's hurting this book and Green Arrow. Other than the last few pages there wasn't much of anything likable about this issue.

I still have to read Legion, Ultimates and X-Men so I'll get those up later. Judging from the cover of X-Men I think I'll have some more ranting to do.

Not quite ready to do my reviews yet, but I just wanted to mention how annoyed I was at the fold-out posters for The Longest Yard. What a bunch of crap.

The Sky Captain CDs and the Heroscape inserts were bad enough, but at least those were things that a fan of comic book fans would generally be into. But...The Longest Yard?! WTF?

Not to mention the fact that these inserts increase the weight of the books and the retailers have to pay the difference in shipping. Pretty shitty deal for the fans AND the LCBS, I think.

Ditto the rant.

Yeah, those things were damned obnoxious. Of the whole idiotic insert thing, I think I liked the CDs the best... they could be tossed out very easily. And of course, they make good coasters.

The Trivial Pursuit: Lord of the Rings cards were all right... it was easy enough to pull them out of the comics.

Heroscape pisses me off... in the middle of my comic, there's additional pages... that look just like a comic! ARGH! Skipping over it and trying to find my place is a definite break in the mental process.

This latest nonsense has much the same problem, though at least it's easy to tell where it ends. But it's just insanely stupid... this movie is going to be incredibly crappy. It had a stupid premise the first time around. Now it's saddled with no-talents and has-beens? Why the hell would I want to hear anything more about it?

I think the quality of the movie is fairly insignificant in this case. The problem I have with it is that it isn't even comics-related. All the other promotions and inserts were things that most people buying the books would probably be into. It was targeted advertising. This latest ad is just random nonsense. Hell, why not put a big fat Batman Begins poster in there instead? That would have made a LOT more sense, and would not have pissed me off so much. The inserts are still annoying as hell, but if we have to have them, I'd prefer they be advertising something I might actually be interested in as a comics fan.

All right, so how about some actual reviews...



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Secret War: From the Files of Nick Fury
W: Mike Raicht

This made it into my buys by virtue of the store putting it in my pull box. In a way, this annoys me. Whenever a series I'm reading has a Secret Files released, I have to make sure to get that separately. Superman/Batman Secret Files 2004? Never got it; even though S/B was on my pull list. This thing makes it into my pull list by virtue of Secret War, even though I didn't actually want it. Annoying. And it's a waste of time. Little filler bits that don't add anything to what we've already seen, and are mostly just exactly what we have already seen. What's new isn't interesting; I don't care if Nick Fury decided not to use Kitty Pryde in the Secret War because he thought Wolverine would object. The pictures are just cut-and-pasted from Secret War -- or from New Avengers, or occasionally other series. Big WASTE of money.

Rank:



JLA #114
W: Kurt Busiek; P: Ron Garney; I: Dan Green; C: David Baron

Well, it was better than the rest of it, but it was still kind of stupid. No, scratch that, it was still very stupid. The ruses... not even remotely believable. About the only things good to come out of this were removing the stupid "Good has to win in the postive matter universe" rule from Morrison's "Earth-2" mini, and the revival of the good super-teams in the Qwardian Earth. That could at least make it interesting to visit back there some day. But eh... on the whole, Busiek fumbled this ball. Garney's art... is what it is. Nothing really to comment on there.

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Adventures of Superman #640
W: Greg Rucka; P & I: Karl Kerschl; C: Tanya & Richard Horie

I haven't really been reading this arc, but I'm going to start picking up all the Super titles for a while at least, so I grabbed this one. It was surprisingly easy to follow. Now I just have to say that the identity of Ruin seems like a rather bad move to me. But we'll see, I guess. Kerschl wins some kudos for being an artist who actually can ink himself.

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Outsiders #24
W: Judd Winick; P & I: Carlos D'anda; C: Guy Major

AUUUGHHH!! My eyes! Make the bleeding stop!

The art in this is horrible. There is simply no other way to describe it than gut-wrenching, head-pounding, eye-bleedingly bad. And then to make matters worse, the colorist does a terrible job as well.

Winick's writing is not at its finest here either... the villain's dialogue is very cliche-ridden. Honestly, you could have swapped just about any villain from the early Silver Age -- or from a Bond movie -- and the dialogue would have sounded right. But it wasn't awful. Just not very good, either.

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Legion of Super-Heroes #6
W: Mark Waid; P: Barry Kitson & Scott Iwahashi; I: Art Thibert & Scott Iwahashi; C: Chris Blythe & Dave McCaig

The primary story was excellent. The back-up story was quite good as well, and I'm glad to see it connect to the primary story, though the art suffered a bit by comparison. Loved the letters column.

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Flash #222
W: Geoff Johns; P: Howard Porter; I: Livesay; C: James Sinclair

Holy shit.

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Green Lantern #1
W: Geoff Johns; P: Carlos Pacheco & Ethan Van Scriver; I: Jesus Merino; C: Moose Baumann

Excellent start here... gives a good grounding on who the principle characters are (not that we need it with Hal, but with the supporting cast it helps), where they are, and what's going on. Just enough intrigue with the Manhunters to leave us wondering what's going to happen. The art is, as expected, fantastic.

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The Return of Donna Troy #1
W: Phil Jimenez; P: Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez; I: George Perez; C: Martin Breccia, Nestor Pereyra & Lee Loughridge

Good introductory issue. Gives a quick sum up of her origin for those who are confused by it (and not without good reason, of course.) Also explains who the Titans of Myth are and what Donna's doing with them, as well as setting up the basic conflict of the story. A good start.

The art, of course, is fantastic, and one can see both the influence of Garcia-Lopez and Perez in it. Their styles blend very well in the pencil/inks combnation. My only compaint is with the coloring team, who have their flesh tones a bit too yellow/orange on some pages. Hopefully that'll be corrected in the next issue.

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The OMAC Project #2
W: Gregg Rucka; P & I: Jesus Saiz; C: Hi Fi Design

Excellent issue here. Loved, absolutely loved, Booster's reaction to Batman. The artist is also putting in an above-average performance here.

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Day of Vengeance #2
W: Bill Willingham; P: Justiniano; I: Walden Wong & Livesay; C: Chris Chuckry

I'm glad this showed what happened before, how Eclipso approached the Spectre, and how the "big guns" fell (or at least, some general examples to that effect and an explanation of how they could fall and not be gone for good.) But where this is really shining right now is the characterization here; this is how more team books should be written; each member is, or is on their way to becoming, a fully realized personality that interacts with the others. Excellent writing. Throw in some fantastic art, and you've got another 5-pointer for the week.

Rank:

Saiz is missed on Manhunter right now. I think he's work suffered under the weight of some very heavy inks last issue... it wasn't so bad this time around.

JLA #114
A messy and confusing end to a messy and confusing arc. Expectations were high for a Busiek-written story and he failed to meet them on all counts. At no point did I feel any measure of suspense. At no point did I say "whoa, cool moment." And the art was crappy.

Outsiders #24
While I certainly won't go to any great lengths to defend the art, I do not think it is "eye-bleedingly" bad as both Flan and CO have said. It's certainly better than what Fowler is doing in Green Arrow. Hell, I think the female faces are better in this than some previous Outsiders artists have done. I'd prefer to dwell on Winick's inability to create any consistency with this title, to develop any of the characters he introduced, and that being compared to Titans in this crossover is only showing just how far apart the titles are after two years.

Batman #640
It should be pointed out that Paul Lee was doing the pencilling this issue, not Mahnke. Regardless, this was just another fairly lifeless issue in an arc that has been poorly handled from the start. Oddly enough, Black Mask is the only character I've liked in this story, and he's tragically absent here.

Adventures of Superman #640
Disappointment of the week. We find out who Ruin is...and it's just who most of us suspected. No more twists, no more turns, no more misdirection. All Rucka can muster is a different point of view that only serves to delay the revelation. Lois' "insights" on her husband are all things we've read before about Superman...you can't hurt him, but you can hurt his heart. Very pedestrian stuff, and I think a real opportunity was missed here.

Incredible Hulk #81
A so-so end to Peter David's return arc. Beings that this is the first Hulk story I've ever read, I'm willing to concede there are aspects to this that I've failed to pick up on, but as a long-time fan of David's writing in both novels and comics, I'm well-aware he can do better.

Hellions #1
I think I became interested in this for no better reason than to see Clayton Henry's pencils again. But the story was interesting enough that I'll be picking up the rest of the miniseries...barring something truly idiotic in #2.

Green Lantern #1
Color me underwhelmed. Beyond some good character moments with Hal, this seems like the start of a fairly pedestrian Manhunter story. I'm hoping Johns proves me wrong.

Return of Donna Troy #1
I thought it was good. Mostly set-up, but good. And I'll agree with CO's sentiments on the art...the coloring is pretty flat and overall odd-looking.

Flash #222
I have some reservations about this issue, but they are fairly spoilerific and also don't really ruin the issue for me. Geoff Johns is certainly going out with a bang here.

OMAC Project #2
A vast improvement over the recap that was #1. Confrontations and revelations all over the place.

Day of Vengeance #2
Still my favorite of the Countdown Minis. Hard to beat the dialogue and character moments here...and Detective Chimp does indeed rock.

Legion of Super-Heroes #6
Waid is just knocking these babies out of the park every damn month. It's hard to believe that I'm this taken with a supergroup that I didn't even read before the reboot, but that's just how good it's been. And while the art in the second part of this isssue wasn't as strong, I thought it served the "dream-like" aspect very well. The addition of the letters column at the end just makes this title ridiculously wonderful.

Another week without a car, another week without comics. I've decided that George Orwell is wrong, being carless is the worst thing in the world...(ten points to anyone who gets that refrence...)

My apologies. I believe I incorrectly stated it was Mahnke at some point. In my defense, I'll point out that I got the info from DC's website someplace, but I may have looked at the wrong issue or something.

Meanwhile, the art wasn't this issue's undoing, the mediocre story was



Kudos, Slov, for an unbiased review. Frankly, there are times on this board when I think anything GL related gets a free pass. That said, I thought the issue was good (Although unspectacular) And Pacheco's art continues to rule. As CO astutely pointed out, this will soon be a "Fogs vs. Everybody" situation once Van Schiver takes on the art.



I'll agree with the stellar review here, but for the first time, Kitson's art underhwelms. Seemed to be not as high quality for whatever reason.

Also of note this week is Ultimates #6, which introduced the Ultimate Defenders in a way most craptacular. K2 and I had a little joust over the "Most Anticipated Marvel Read" in the shipping column this week, and my title absolutely whiffed at the plate. Couple of moments here and there, several "Ultimate Universe" introductions, a good portrait of Hank Pym, but overall a disappointment. Not that Cap America was that good either, but this book struck out looking in comparison to last issue.

I thought Donna Troy #1 was a snore. Bo-ring.

Outsiders, as stated by others, sucked.

The crossover has some potential still though. Mainly from the titans side. But with both teams having a "Defector" now, and the two major bad asses behind it all, at least we may wind up with some major fireworks still, even if the lead in is convoluted.

Omac Project did in fact, improve. I dropped Day of Vengence though. I just don't think it was for me.

I also dropped Beta Ray Bill. Maybe you need to be a fan of this charcter to really get into this now, but I guess I'm not. I'll contrast this with Adam Strange (another mini revolving around a character I had no familiarity with). Strange rocked. This did not.

Ultimate Iron Man is just DUMB.

Heh. Clearly you don't remember Slov's rants on Raab's run.

Yeah, I'm not giving GL a free pass on anything.

If I had thought Rebirth sucked or was even sub-par, I would have been the first one to rip it to shreds. But aside from the rushed ending, Johns nailed it.

After Rebirth, GL #1 seemed like a step back. Doing exactly what I hoped wouldn't happen, a business-as-usual story. I wanted to see Hal having to cope with what he's been for the last decade, to have to regain the trust of his former friends, to have Batman breathing down his neck...but it seems his biggest concern right now is getting back in the pilot's seat.

What struck me as particularly idiotic was the comment by the female test pilot: "I thought you were dead." There's only been three Green Lanterns operating on Earth for the last 10 years, why the hell would she think that?

Heh, the more I think about it, the more I think I should've rated it "yellow." For the first issue of Hal's return, it was way too unremarkable.

I couldn't agree more.

Your last post does a great job of summing up all the reasons why.

Yeah, the more its discussed, here.... it was a bit too much of a setup issue to be great for those of us who read Rebirth. Not much really happened.

As for Bats lurking over his shoulder... my guess is that Johns doesn't want to retread that ground too much at once, and since it will almost certainly be covered during his JLA arc (I don't think for a minute Bats won't bring it up during the IC fallout), if it were going on in GL as well right after Rebirth... it'd just look like the same thing all over the place.

Wow, I found myself mostly agreeing with an entire Fogs post!

Until this.

Wow, I thought this was a GREAT read. A very different take on Tony Stark, very imaginative. Finally an Ultimate origin that isn't just a rehash of the regular universe, making one or the other redundant. Interesting characters, some pretty stunning violence... one of the best reads of the week.

As for GL.... I thought it was a solid first issue. Johns is resetting a lot of Hal's world, and I appreciate the time taken to get the casual GL fan (like me) up to speed. Not the best book of the week, but not bad either.

I have one more book to read, so I'll have my reviews up tomorrow.

Cmon man. I'm allllllll for originality, but this ABSOULTELY REDIFINES the term "High Concept".

In fact, it transcends it... right into Dumbness.

Anybody else read the saga of the little blue baby?

I thought it was just darlin.' Orson Scott Card can justly be acussed of goin' all "high concept." The Ender-themed sequels to Ender's Game drift that way, but the Bean-themed sequels not so much. I think Ultimate Iron Man is just right, though.

Yeah, Sorry I cant support you on this one. I thought it was imaginaitive, smart, and over all that: totally cool. I really like the character of the Father, and the bad guys are nefarious. One of the top books of the week.

Worst books of the week:
Hellions #1 : *Picture the Hindenburg crash* GAH! Oh the STUPIDITY! The Stupidity! Man is this book all around bad. Yeah Really really awful.

And as bad as that is, even worse is X-Men #170. How bad is this? Every fact they have about NASA: WRONG! First page, First panel "NASA HQ, Houston" - OK, a simple Google search will tell you that NASA HQ is in Washington DC, Not Houston Texas, where the name of the NASA Facility is the Johnson Space center or JSC for short. All of this, by the way, can be found out by simply plugging NASA.Gov into your web browser. What else you ask? Milligan seems so have converted our civilian space agency into a military one. No one at NASA is active military, and no one except current astronauts wear any kind of uniform... THEY AREN'T ALLOWED TO.

Page 2: Leaving aside the fact that the Space Station they've drawn here bears a stronger relationship to Mir than to the ISS, there the very strange fact that it is missing the Soviet lifeboat Soyuz. Conspicuous by it's absence.

And then, Page three, where we somehow have developed artificial gravity which requires no centrifugal force… No spinning toruses. Great open windows which do not leak air like a sieve Wonderful advances which, I’m guessing, can only be credited to re-engineered Shi’Ar technology and yet, they seem not to have any radiation shielding.

I’ll stop now. Suffice to say that every space fact they presented was as wrong as it could be, and none of it was particularly hard to fact check. I have no problem with a little suspension of disbelief, but C’MON!!!!

* Sheesh *


I liked OMAC # 2, The Return of Donna Troy, Ultimates #6, Girls #1, Amazing Spider-Man # 520, TT # 24, Runaways #4, LSH #6, and I haven’t gotten to some of the others yet.

Alright, Martian. Apparently you win this round. But we'll meet again. We'll meet again.

Oh, and on another note we were discussing in the shipping thread - Other World's story is much too complex for me to be enjoying right now. I just don't want to work that hard on reading a comic. However! In a rare development, I will complete this mini just because of the art. Its that good. There were some really freaking cool panels in there. Very imaginative.

Yep X-Men sucked and I'm pretty down on Ultimates too. I thought the whole issue was pretty crappy with the exception of Ultron and Vision being mentioned. X-Men on the other hand had no redeeming qualities and I'm really considering not picking this up anymore which would put me at only one real universe X-book in AXM. I'm not sure where Marvel went wrong but they did. If I find the guy who decided that Iceman should become an asshole who just whines and bitches all the time I'm going to kick him square in the freakin balls. I really wish Whedon would have taken him when they had the big X-Draft. Even if they forced him to keep Bobby characterized the same way he'd at least be well written.

Flash #222
STORY: 8/10
ART: 7/10

First off, this may be the single best Howard Porter issue ever. It's been fun watching him get more and more comfortable with this title, which must be hard to do with the sheer number of obscure characters Geoff Johns likes to throw in there.

Geoff Johns is going out with a bang; two issues in and already this is the best Flash story arc since Blitz. The murder in here emphesizes two things: the Rogues are dangerous and that no one is safe. Some of the best action sequences of any comic book in a long time -- much better than the ballyhoo'd Thor action of Ultimates 2 #5 last month.

The OMAC Project #2
STORY: 7/10
ART: 8/10

Saiz's inker decides to step back a bit and the artwork is the better for it. The storyline advances at a pretty good clip here. Batman is beginning to have a lot to answer for (see JLA #114).

Ultimate Iron Man #2
STORY: 8/10
ART: 7/10

I wasn't too sure about this after the first issue, but Card blows me away here. He manages to catch me completely off guard with how the elder Stark takes control here -- issue #1 left him seemingly as a broken man who manages to lose his wife and his company in a single day. The fact that he's able to turn the tables the way he did shows a lot of resolve and makes him as a character. Card does a similar switcharoo with the bad guy, taking someone who at first comes across as just a slimy car salesman type and makes him really, really evil.

Day Of Vengence #2
STORY: 7/10
ART: 7/10

Excellent. Maybe not the "best" of the four Crisis minis, but so far the most fun.

Legion Of Super-Heroes #6
STORY: 7/10
ART: 7/10

Captain America #6
STORY: 6/10
ART: 7/10

Steve Epting is still in fine form. This story would be a 7/10 if it were the middle of an arc, but with it being the supposed end of an arc, there are just too many things left up in the air. Still, this is personally the Marvel book I am most anticipating. Kudos to Brubaker for making a book which has been ignored for over 2 years into one that everyone seems to be talking about -- and doing it better than the similar event going on in Batman.

Green Lantern #1
STORY: 6/10
ART: 7/10

DC Special: The Return Of Donna Troy #1
STORY: 5/10
ART: 8/10

You can just feel the love that this creative team has for this character. You can see that they know exactly where they want to go with this. Unfortunately... it's just not that interesting to me. I think it may be when either more Rann/Thanagar or Teen Titans enter the picture, but right now I just don't have a vested interest in the New Chronos Titans. But I love to look at the pretty pictures.

Ultimates 2 #6
STORY: 6/10
ART: 6/10

For the first time ever, I think I was a little disappointed in Hitch's pencilling. Nothing horrible here of course, just not up to his usual high standards. I actually enjoyed the story here more than last issue, which was a disappointing "resolution" to some very nice build-up. This issue also gets line of the week:

NIGHTHAWK: What do those guys do that we don't? How do you become a superhero?
HENRY PYM: Do something heroic?
NIGHTHAWK: Giant-Man is right, it's all about marketing.

Otherworld #3
STORY: 4/10
ART: 8/10

Absolutely beautiful. Plus, we finally find out what's going on (sort of), so that's a good thing. Issue #4 will end up in my to-buy pile.

Stormbreaker: The Saga Of Beta Ray Bill #5
STORY: 5/10
ART: 6/10

Adventures Of Superman #640
STORY: 5/10
ART: 6/10

I've enjoyed the Ruin arc up to this point (despite too many interruptions having to deal with Identity Crisis, Eclipso, and Mr. Myxlplx), but I was hoping for a bit of a twist here, rather than the obvious. Hopefully there's more of this story to tell.

JLA #114
STORY: 4/10
ART: 4/10

Feh. A contrived ending to this interminably long 6-issue arc. The only thing compelling is the idea of [SPOILER]Batman essentially killing millions of innocent people on anti-matter Earth in order to save Earth-1 from the Void Hound. Hopefully this will be addressed, but the stories in JLA have seemed to exist in a whole other universe than the rest of the DCU[/SPOILER].

Batman #640
STORY: 4/10
ART: 4/10

Double feh. The Red Hood is a thief. A villain. Now he's the Punisher? And an unconvincing one at that? I'm considering dropping this... again.

Outsiders #24
STORY: 4/10
ART: 3/10

Triple feh.

Well, I'm back. And this time I actually have a budget that allows for comic purchasing. GL Rebirth brought me back and Crisis will probably keep me here for a while.

As far as this week goes all I can say is "Am I the only one who thought OMEC 2 was bad?"

The showdown between lord and the rest of the checkmate hierarchy was badly written, badly carried out and poorly drawn. The demise of "name left out until I figure out spoiler toggle" was too public and too predictable. (first beetle then his nemesis). The ending with bats and the girl wasn't special either. The only good part was booster and bats at the beginning. If it wasn't for this being part of crisis and that the OMEC concept itself has some kick a$$ potential I would drop this. It ranks well below Villains United and Rann-Than War.

Day of Vengeance was good and I can heartily concur with the above reviews. the Chimp has me hooked.

GL was a good set-up and I agree, it could have been better. However, since I have been waiting 10 years for Jordan to return (and about 15 for Jordan to have a spine), I am happy.

Welcome back, Guarg! It's good to see you.

The spoiler button works like this, incidentally; there are two variations:

[spoiler]Text goes here[/spoiler]
[spoilerof=Testing]Text goes here[/spoilerof]

Thanks Chaomaster.

The following is an eleboration of why OMEC 2 was a disapointment to me, especially with as good as #1 was:

The white king and queen plus the black queen of checkmate bring 1 night between the three of them to off what they should have known was a superbeing type. They even went into the meeting as if to off him. The whole meeting was terribly written and, quite frankly, left me disappointed. To make things worse, The whole plot of OMEC #1, Crisis #1, and the first half of #2 was trying to keep the presence of OMEC secret from the Justice League. So the next thing Lord did was make a very public execution of overthrow. All lord saw was a lot of speculation from the JL and he immediately confirms their suspicions in front of dozens, if not hundreds, of witnesses in Moscow. At least the attempt on BAtman was in a more secluded setting.

Fire away if you want. Afterall, I'm just a rookie when it comes to collecting and I couldn't tell you the name of one inker, writer, of penciller. I just know a good story when I see one and this was full of more holes than some of my old college underwear.

*edit* sorry but I had to fix some spellings.

CO will do. Or Chaomancer. Or Omega. But, please, not "Chaomaster". This link will explain why.

Anyway, now that you mention it, those flaws in OMAC are valid points. While the connection between the OMAC soldiers and Brother Eye does not seem to be known by the Leaguers yet, it does seem like something they'd be able to deduce reasonably quickly. But then, they haven't so far, in the tie-ins. The meeting scene, yes, had a few holes in it.

I am seeing the confusion with the name. My mind was on other things last night. Keep in mind, I am the guy who could never get Blue Beetle and Tick right.

That's all right. I'm used to most people misspelling my login-handle. I generally don't care much, I just steer them away from some of the less desired variations.

Well, keep hanging here and that'll change pretty quick.