Wednesday Already

Man, I love Bart. And also this new writer, some character going by Marc Guggenheim.

Cop on the street: “Have we met? Something familiar about you…”
The Flash: “Dude, I’m the Flash.”

Reading a cape book set in Los Angeles almost feels unnatural. All the capes are supposed to be hanging out on the eastern seaboard, aren’t they? But it’s Bart, so he can be anywhere pretty fast anyways. Though according to this book, running around makes him hungry.

There’s a lot of secret identity shit this time around. Bart bitches out his girlfriend for gabbing about his (even though she didn’t), but it’s okay because his heart’s in the right place because he just doesn’t want her to go and get raped by Dr. Light. The conversation highlights DC’s need to keep their publishing schedule on track because if this book came out last week or if last week’s 52 had been delayed (lol 52 being delayed), it would’ve been a “hey Ralph Dibney’s dead oh oops spoilers above” situation.

Oh and hey, YET ANOTHER BOOK WITH THE NEW GODS. I don’t really care for them all that much, but having Steppenwolf around to say “Step away, stripling.” is worth it, I suppose. And having the friggin’ JLA show up to save the day is always fun. Too bad Ron Adrian can’t draw Hal right. He looked like Kyle in the wrong costume.

And yeah, if you haven’t read last week’s 52, spoilers above.

I like the JSA. I never really read anything before this new series launched and I couldn’t care less about the whole legacy thing, but the team has come together nicely. That said, some of the reviews I have read so far have been complaining about the bad guys in this first arc. The JSA are fighting some Nazis. What’s wrong with that?

The little two line prologue that intros each issue talks about how they’re a WWII-era team, so I say fighting Nazis makes perfect sense. Calling them the Fourth Reich seems a little obvious, but the Nazis were not known for sublety. Reichsmark’s power of turning anyone he touches into a metal statue is pretty bad-ass. The Nazis have kind of hokey dialogue, but you can’t make the Nazis seem cool, that’d come across bad. But I say as villains for the JSA, Nazis are awesome.

And you can quote me on that. “Nazis are awesome.”

Also, Starman being crazy is crazy awesome, especially when Sandman shows up and calls a meeting and Starman starts singing “Mr. Sandman”. And then whispering “52!”

I give this book fifty-two swastikas.

Yes, I know it’s Saturday. Shut up.

I am internet user Justin. Scott and I decided the internet needs another website. This one is about comic books. I have pretty much always loved comics. I think the first ones I read (beyond old Archie digests just lying around the house) was the Archie version of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. And the first “real” superhero book was probably this anti-drug Spidey book. But now I fucking hate Spider-man because he’s a loser and a whiny jerk. I like Batman instead. BECAUSE HE’S NOT WHINY OR A JERK AT ALL (lol yeah).

I read a lot of DC stuff and a handful of Marvel and an even smaller handful of others. I used to be into indie-er stuff but I can’t afford to be, since I wind up spending like $45 every week just on cape books. It’s pretty ridiculous, really.

The site’s not really entirely setup right yet. Comments will look ugly and stuff. But I’ll get around to doing that soon. If there’s anything technical to complain about, direct it at me, that stuff’s all my job. Scott is just riding on my sexy coattails.

Oh, and we’re both going to Comic-Con in San Diego this year. We will have REPORTS FROM THE FIELD. It’ll be awesome, we swear.

It will probably quickly become clear what our opinions are on things. The site will be mostly reviews of books and reviews of rumours. Stay tuned for more! Tell your friends! And people you don’t even like, I guess.