Since I may take a day trip to either Wildwood or Atlantic City tomorrow, so I can have a walk along a boardwalk before the summer ends, I need to crank this out.
Action Comics 892: Part 3 of "The Black Ring," in which Lex Luthor finds a piece of an energy source for the Black Lantern rings -- in Antarctica -- but the energy has strange effects on anyone who gets near it. While this Superman-less Luthor tale is intriguing, of more interest to me is a few pages at the end: a preview of the new ongoing Superboy series (to debut in November), which looks to be really fun and weird.
Superman: Secret Origin 6 (of 6): This miniseries was beset by delays, so it's been some time since the last one. It finishes on a good note, and it will probably be more enjoyable to sit and read the entire thing from start to finish, even if in a few years they make yet more adjustments to Superman's origin story.
Superman/Batman 75: It's a milestone issue, they've decided. Not issue 100 or 500 or (in the case of Action Comics in 8 months or so) 900, but important enough to add extra pages. The main story, I think, just might tie into the most recent storyline, and guest-stars the Legion of Super-Heroes. The rest of it consists of nine two-page spreads, paying homage in various ways to the World's Finest heroes. One that's really clever features
a Calvin and Hobbes-styled Luthor and the Joker.
Time Masters: Vanishing Point 2 (of 6): I've lost interest in this "Return of Bruce Wayne" companion miniseries. Here's where I jump off and save a bit of cash. This is one that I'll resist my usual trend of buying until the series is complete.
Gotham City Sirens 15: So, an alien plant thing that sort of looks like a man, and has leaves for hair, has Poison Ivy under his spell the way she usually has men under hers. And it's up to Catwoman and Harley Quinn to stop them from spreading alien plants across Gotham, and then the world. This might be next on my chopping block. This isn't the banter-filled fun book it used to be.
Batman 701, 702: These two were unexpected purchases. After browsing 702 (701 was out last month, and I had looked through it a bit then) I decided to get them both. Short story goes, there was the big story line that ran in this book called "Batman: R.I.P." in which the speculation was that Batman would die at the end. At the end of the storyline, he just disappeared after the helicopter he was on (that of the escaping villain of the story) crashed. The actual "final" fate of Batman (because we now know he wasn't dead, but merely sent back through time) was revealed in "Final Crisis." A lot of people felt cheated by that. Anyhoo, the two-part story here fills that gap in a surprisingly effective way.
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