Black­est Night #1

In this, the first issue of Black­est Night, Carol Fer­ris shoots a robot in the crotch with the power of love.

Ok, so a lot more hap­pens either side of that one scene. Some good, some bad. But over­all this is a pretty solid start to DC’s 2009 event.

Tales of the Corps #1

I under­stand what they’re try­ing to do with this 3 issue minis­eries. Using it to shine a light on lesser char­ac­ters that don’t get a whole lot of back­story in the reg­u­lar titles. But two out three of the sto­ries here just aren’t that inter­est­ing. First up is an ori­gin for Saint Walker, that doesn’t add that much more to his char­ac­ter. Yes he went through many, many hor­ri­ble events one after the other before finally real­is­ing his des­tiny, but so what. Name one saint that hadn’t endured a long shitty exis­tence before get­ting their halo?

The sec­ond story isn’t all that excit­ing either. It spins a tale of  Mongul’s child­hood dur­ing one mag­i­cal sum­mer where he was the ruler of some aliens who had crash landed on his plant. But who cares because that kid grows up into an ass­hole tyrant who uses a magic ring to con­trol his sev­ered arm and who also ripped another alien’s tongue out just so that alien wouldn’t talk back to him anymore.

Luck­ily, the third and final story shows some merit. Full points for hav­ing the nomadic Indigo Lanterns sound like char­ac­ters from The Gods Must Be Crazy.

Dark Avengers #7

I dis­cov­ered I enjoy read­ing Dark Avengers writ­ten by Matt Frac­tion a lot more than when it’s writ­ten by Brian Michael Bendis.

Com­plete List

Black­est Night #1 (of 8)
Black­est Night Tales of the Corps #1 (of 3)
Wednes­day Comics #2 (of 12)
Agents Of Atlas #8
Dark Avengers #7
Incog­nito #5
Mighty Avengers #27
X-Factor #46

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