My Week In Comics 3-31-10

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Okay, now that that's out of the way... ;-)

Blackest Night 8 (of 8): It's over! But as the series went on, the tone really shifted. At the start it focused so much on the dead heroes and villains returning (the pseudo-zombie stage) and then, as the explanation for who was behind it and why came around, it became a musing on a grand scale of Life and Death and their meaning and purpose. And, of course, lots of action and some humor. The series on a whole, and all of its tie-ins, was quite entertaining. Plus, as a result, some dead heroes and a few villains are alive again -- actually living and breathing, and not just pseudo-zombies because of black power rings -- and, naturally, that development sets up a new series: "Brightest Day."

Adventure Comics 9: Meanwhile, there's another little event, the "Last Stand of New Krypton." If Brainiac's successful in the present, the future will cease to exist. The main focus in this book is the Legion of Super-Heroes, including those who have time-traveled to the present day and those back in the 31st century.

Detective Comics 863: The third and final part of the "Cutter" storyline, still switching back and forth between Batman vs. Cutter in the past and Batwoman vs. Cutter in the present. Nicely played out, with a little twist at the end...except it seems that the next few issues won't feature Batwoman, so I won't be buying them.

Gotham City Sirens 10: This finishes a two-part story that, again, wasn't as sharply funny or light-hearted the way the series started out. Well, as light-hearted as a series can be when it stars criminals...

Teen Titans 81: I hate when a scene depicted on the cover doesn't occur at all in the book, and especially when the character involved doesn't even appear until the last two pages. I was interested in this because of the Static storyline, but it hasn't held up.