Green Lantern Corps #38

This issue got me think­ing about how much Count­down failed Kyle Rayner as a char­ac­ter. In Count­down he was lit­tle more than trans­port for the other char­ac­ters. Using the most pow­er­ful weapon in the uni­verse as directed through his artist’s mind to cre­ate bub­bles and flat boards for them to ride on.

The Kyle we see in this issue is con­fi­dent and most impor­tantly proac­tive. The back half of this book has a great con­fronta­tion between Kyle, Guy Gard­ner the Alpha Lanterns. Peter Tomasi should be really proud of how well he’s fleshed Kyle out. This isn’t the same char­ac­ter from the ION series (that I dropped halfway through due to over­whelm­ing meh-ness). In link­ing him to Guy and Sorinik Natu Tomasi has given Kyle both pur­pose and passion.

Art by Patrick Glea­son is good. Very good in fact. It must take a lot of work to draw this book. What with 99% being aliens of dif­fer­ent shapes and sizes. Then hav­ing those aliens appears con­sis­tently across every page. It’s really impres­sive work. I don’t know why Glea­son isn’t doing more in the indus­try. He’s def­i­nitely one to follow.

Uncanny X-Men #513

I’m still not 100% sold on this book.

I get what they’re try­ing to say with the sto­ry­line. Propo­si­tion X is a par­tial alle­gory of California’s Propo­si­tion 8. And if the story was a med­i­ta­tion on how Propo­si­tion X (pro­posed ster­il­i­sa­tion of all mutants) it could’ve been incred­i­bly inter­est­ing. But this is a Mar­vel Uni­verse under Nor­man Osbourne’s Dark Reign. So he has to pop up to reit­er­ate what a giant ass­hole he is. Again.

And there’s the lit­tle things that didn’t need an extra layer of comic book­i­ness added. Like Simon Trask, the man repon­si­ble for organ­is­ing the march that starts this whole thing, being revealed as some sort of cyborg or Sen­tinel of some kind. Wasn’t it enough that he was this hor­ri­bly blink­ered bigot? Did he really have to have the electro/mind con­trol thing going on too?

Now that I’ve reread that, it seems weird to be com­plain­ing that a comic book is too much of a comic book. But there you go.

On the plus side the character’s voices are spot on.VBut then Frac­tion was always good at that.

The art work by Terry Dod­son is top notch as always. Some won’t like the thick out­line around each char­ac­ter, but I’m a fan.

Com­plete List

Buffy the Vam­pire Slayer #26
Witchfinder In The Ser­vice Of Angels #1 (of 5)
Bat­man and Robin #2
Green Lantern Corps #38
Secret Six #11
Agents of Atlas #7
Uncanny X-Men #513
Angel #23

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