Here's the rest of this week's reviews in the Weekly Crisis Quick Shot Reviews! This caps off a fairly strong week as I don't think there was a single book I picked up that I regretted and a lot of them I'd consider to be must read books. Enjoy the reviews and check back tomorrow for the Moments of the Week!
COUNTDOWN TO MYSTERY #4 (OF 8)Written by Steve Gerber and Matt Sturges
Art by Justiniano, Walden Wong and Stephen Segovia
I was really enjoying the Eclipso half of this book until this issue. We find out what happened after the Mary Marvel fight in this week's Countdown and it's not pretty. Apparently, the new female Eclipso look wasn't cutting it, so they've gone back to square one and stuck the Eclipso power in the old, male host body. The difference? Spectre has anticipated this through voodoo magic or something (beats me how he knew) and has turned the Eclipso power into something the host can control. I guess Eclipso is a good guy now? I don't really care at this point.
Thankfully, the Dr Fate half of this book is still rocking it. Still lacking a bit on the whole magic part, but the new Fate is a great character and I'm enjoying his coming to grips with his newfound abilities. Now, if only DC could split this book in half, make the Fate book an on-going and save me the extra couple dollars a month on the Eclipso story.
Verdict - Check It.
TEEN TITANS: YEAR ONEWritten by Amy Wolfram
Art by Karl Kerschl, Serge LaPointe & Steph Peru
This was an unique issue. On one hand, there's literally no story here and all but the most obscure hints at a future evil, possessed JLA, which the solicits for future issues do more to tell us about than this issue.
On the other hand, this issue was pure fun and brought a childlike grin to my face on more than one occasion. Scenes like Wally going insane waiting less than a minute for Robin to message him back on the computer or Donna going nuts when she runs into a boy for what appears to be the first time in her life. Even Aqualad's sorry excuse for a life was fun to see. On top of that, the art was beautiful and probably the best, or at least the most fitting for the story, I've seen in a long time.
So, I have to decide, is this book just preying on long time fans' nostolgia factor and the complete lack of a story should warrant demerits for the issue or is the pure bliss I got out of the various random scenes all that matters? I'm going to go with the latter, but if you've never read the old Teen Titans, I'm not sure if you'll get as much out of this as I did. Worth checking out by everyone at the least and a must buy for long time Titan fans.
Verdict - Must Read
ULTIMATE HUMAN #1Written by Warren Ellis
Art by Cary Nord
Just a quick update, much like every Ultimate cover, it is not indicative of what happens in the book. There is no Iron Man featured here. Hulk is only featured at the very end and there is nary a fight to be had between Iron Man, Hulk or anyone in particular.
That said, this was a decent enough start to this series. I'm not overly impressed with it, but not annoyed that I bought it, either. Bruce Banner comes to see Tony, asks for help curing his Hulk problem. He wants Stark's nano-technology to tell his Hulk-cells to turn off whenever he starts to change. Sounds like a plan to me. They go to one of Tony's facilities and run some tests. These tests cause Banner to Hulk out. Issue ends with him going crazy. Oh ya, apparently Pete Wisdom is an ex-British secret service with, literally, a big head and the Ultimate Leader. Wants Hulk-cells and nano-tech blood from both Banner and Stark. That's about all we're given.
Verdict - Check It.
UNCANNY X-MEN #494Written by Ed Brubaker
Art by Billy Tan
After the slow start, I was really getting into Messiah Complex, but this issue was complete filler. After the excellent cliffhanger betrayal by Bishop last issue, he can't pull the trigger on the baby and the Marauders come in and lay the beat down on him as they steal the baby. The rest of the issue is some light recap and whining about getting the baby back and Caliban's death. Also, there's a million pyschics in the room and none can tell that Bishop is outright lying to them? And can no one put a bullet in someone's head? No one died despite Bishop shooting Forge and Cable, as well as a couple Marauders and later himself as a roof is dropped on him. Don't manufacture shock value plot points if there's never going to be any follow through.
The only thing interesting this issue dealt with Madrox and Layla in the future and it was only a couple pages where their story's purpose finally becomes clear as they meet up with the future, but, technically his past, Bishop, who's a child in the mutant concentration camp. I guess we'll have to wait until the next X-Factor issue before we get any development on that. I'll give this a Check It only because it's a crossover and people might want to see the fallout of Bishop's betrayal, which is negligable at best.
Verdict - Check It.
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