Random DC Comic Reviews

 John Stewart: The Emerald Knight #1.....1.5 Stars There are certain writers at DC that are making me re-learn the hard lesson of pocket book pain when it comes to comic books. In short, comic books in Canada cost around $7.00 to $8.00 dollars or more, which is a far cry from when I was little and was able to buy a comic for under a dollar. Back then, there was no such thing as pocket book pain in relation to comics, because if I bought 10 comics with my monthly allowance, I could live with a few stinkers, because I could be assured that the bulk of them would be of good quality, unfortunately that is not the case today.  Now I am still reeling from the absolutely horrible Grifter Christmas special, plus Zdarky's screw up, (who I generally hold in high regard) so I will make this review very brief, in general the comic was unreadable. The concept of John Stewart becoming an angelic being was quite interesting, but unfortunately it was executed very poorly. The story could have took

  Batman #130 As a self professed Chip Zdarsky fanboy, I have been looking to postpone the painful review of this issue that has been rightfully critisized by comic book fans on forums and you tube. That being said, I'm not going to give it one star, it is very readable, it's just not very realistically written when you take into account the probablity of what Batman realistically can and cannot do.  Realistacally, Batman could fight an epic super villain in space and survive, though the probabilty would be rather low, but what he probably couldn't do is float for hours in space, while guiding a piece of scrap metal debris towards the earth, survive not burning up in the atmosphere with only the fabric of his specialized suit protecting him, and then someohow survive a fall from space to the earth by guiding himself to the fortress of solitude with his cape! Absurd!!!  When reading this, one cannot help but think that your watching a Pierce Brosnen James Bond movie like Die

DC's Grifter Got Run Over By a Reindeer   I don't usually hand out 1 star's, but if your looking to add a little bit of grinch into your festive holiday cheer than buy this, because you will wish that you could return it and get your money back.  There are some interesting characters in here for sure, but one of my guages for determining if a comic is really bad, is if I find it unreadable with some of my favourite characters in it, let alone characters that don't really resonate with me, and this is the case with this comic. I was looking forward to a fun Christmas story arch with Black Canary & Constantine, but what I got instead, was an absurd storyline of the pair in a super hero indie rock band, apparently defeating Granny Goodness by singing and playing instruments. One could see the logic in this story arch, Canary has her cry, and Constantine has his magic, but it was executed so poorly, and was generally (as with the rest of this comic) humourless. Unfortun