Secret Six

One of our Facebook member posted that Secret Six was rapidly becoming one of his favorite comics. After this latest issue, I am tending to agree with this. Issue 9, a tie-in to "Battle for the Cowl" features the three of the Secret Six thwarting a kidnapping in Gotham. Ragdoll dressed as Robin and trying to quip like the '60s TV version of same was simply priceless. At the same time, Bane and Catman striving to be more like Batman, in spite of their more lethal tendencies, shows that these "villians" are not the typical one-dimensional Gotham villain.

Catman's line "One saves a terrorist, one kills a terrorist. Who did more for the world in the end?" strikes a note that Mark and I have talked about before. Wouldn't Gotham be better off it the Joker was killed? But that crosses a line. In the DC Universe, maybe that is the line that separates the hero from the villian.

What Have You Read Lately?

This week, I only read the comics Mark gave me for the podcast. Well, not entirely true. Early this week, I caught up on Trinity. There are only three issues left, due in the next three weeks. I won’t be sad when this is over. I imagine it will be like most other limited series (even though it had 53 issues), and it will wrap everything up in the last five pages of issue 52. In a series this long, I think that the whole last issue should just be tying up loose ends -- resolution should have be done by issue 51. Just my opinion. What do you think of Trinity? Discuss on our Facebook page!

Lax, Lazy, Lethargic

I haven’t posted anything for a while. I was in the last two weeks of a class I was taking, along with working LOTS of days. Those are my excuses for only reading the comic books that Mark wanted to talk about for each week’s podcast. Not very good ones, since I have been reading a lot of other stuff!

Mark is really excited about the Blackest Night Green Lantern event coming up. Me, not so much. I find I am usually disappointed in the “event” comics. So it was quite a refreshing experience to see Geoff John’s column in the Free Comic Book Day GL that he didn’t think it would happen with this one. He will really try to make it stay on track, and not be late. One can only hope.

The following is a list from Wikipedia on all the titles in the event:

Prelude to Blackest Night

* Blackest Night #0 (June 2009)
* "Agent Orange" - Green Lantern vol. 4, #39-42 (May - July 2009)
* "Emerald Eclipse" - Green Lantern Corps vol. 2, #33-37 (April - August 2009)

Blackest Night

* Blackest Night #1-8 (September 2009 - April 2010)
* Green Lantern vol. 4, #43-47 (September - December 2009)
* Green Lantern Corps vol. 2, #38-41 (September - December 2009)
* The Titans vol. 2, #15 (September 2009)
* Blackest Night: Tales Of The Corps #1-3 (September 2009)
* Blackest Night: Batman #1-3 (October - December 2009)
* Blackest Night: Superman #1-3 (October - December 2009)
* Blackest Night: Titans #1-3 (October - December 2009)
* Blackest Night: Wonder Woman

I’m not sure how accurate this is, but with that many titles, I wonder if the writers will really be able to maintain the continuity. If I had my way, I would wait and read all of them at once, but Mark would NOT like that! I expect we’ll be talking about this AT LENGTH in the podcast.

On another note, I am really looking forward to the Wednesday Comics, as well as The Unwritten.

And finally, here’s another recommendation for getting your wife to read comics. I am rereading (yes, even though I still have new ones to read!) Y: The Last Man. The entire series was very good, but the first few story arcs were excellent. No superheros, no special powers. Just a world of women, and one man...