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Earth 2 #4 Review

Green Lantern, The Flash and Hawkgirl team up to battle Solomon Grundy, in hopes of preventing the death of every living thing on Earth, in Earth Two #4.

Earth 2 #3 Review

Alan Scott is chosen as Earth’s new protector, by the Earth itself, no less, in Earth 2 #3.

Earth 2 #2 Review

The lives of Jay Garrick and Alan Scott take dramatic turns in Earth 2 #2

Earth 2 #1 Review

 As Darkseid’s forces invade the new Earth-2, old heroes fall and new heroes rise in the first issue of James Robinson’s EARTH 2.

DC’s “Second Wave” Washes Up 6 New Titles

DC Comics recently announced their “second wave” of titles as a continued edition to their New 52 initiative, which of course means that six titles have to be replaced. The new series will start in May and the replaced series will end in April with their eighth issue.

Speculation of this move has existed since the the titles first started to be announced and it was obvious that some could probably not carry an ongoing series.

Speculate no more.

Unless you want to speculate the “Third Wave.” Then speculate away.

That’s four “speculate(s)” in four sentences.

Final New 52 Comic-Con Panel Drops Some Knowledge

Some announcements made at what was probably the final New 52 comic-con panel before DC officially relaunches on August 31st will make the “relaunch week” even more interesting.

Who Is… The Huntress?

3 Drops & Thoughts on Present DC

I’ve been a comic fan for a few decades now. Yes, decades. During most of my interest in comics, I’ve argued that DC was better than Marvel. Among the reasons I said this was that DC seemed to actually be willing to make changes that stuck, whereas Marvel went in circles.

Smallville Absolute Justice Review

Wow, Geoff Johns strikes again.  That was a very entertaining episode that went a long way towards proving that you can get away with having costumed heroes on television, capes and all, without it looking cheesy or childish.

But even with that, I don’t think the episode was perfect.  Now, I think we all know what the episode’s good points were, so I’m going to play Devil’s Advocate for a moment and go over all the stuff I didn’t like first, before moving on to the stuff I did.

Terra Miniseries, A Look Back

Fairly recently, DC ran a four issue limited series about Terra. Technically, this is Terra III, but that’s actually part of the series- straightening out the rather convoluted history of this name. The series is by Justin Gray, Jimmy Palmotti (writers), and Amanda Conner (pencils). Conner has gone on to provide the art for the currently running Power Girl series, and I rather like her nice clean lines and very clear art.

Figures: History of the DC Universe, Wave 2

Black Lightning Figure

The second wave of History of the DC Universe figures has come out, and these are every bit as great as the first ones. This assortment was Flash (classic Barry Allen), Aquaman (classic version), the Creeper, and Black Lightning. Now, I will say I did not get the Flash and Aquaman figures (let me get my one complaint out of the way, once again, how many versions of the same heroes do we need?), but the detail and faithfulness to the classic versions was fantastic.

Want More DC Chronicles Series?

I am a huge fan of the Batman and Superman Chronicles. These books reprint old and impossible to afford DC Comics that many of us have never seen nor ever would have without their release. They are in an easy to read format with a nice cover design and are lovingly reprinted in colour, unlike the Showcase Present Series (I do not buy them because of the black and white format). Not only that, the books are cheap enough for anyone to buy and hopefully will be in print for a long time.