$oss' Pull-List Reviews 2-29-12

Voodoo #6

I'm seriously going to have to stop torturing myself with this. There's not really anything new to say about Voodoo, great pencils and a generic plot. For the sake of my adoring fans this will be my final review of this book. It simply isn't worth the effort of reading or reporting on. 

Rachel Rising #1

The dramatic turn from Strangers in Paradise creator Terry Moore is more hype then substance. I appreciate dramatic pacing but most the book is panels of Rachel digging herself out of her shallow grave and walking home through the woods. I also understand that there is a certain amount of mystery Moore wants to build in this suspense thriller but by the end of the first issue I know zero about the main character. Shouldn't the reader have some kind of emotional attachment after the first book?

It's a shame that Moore's storytelling always falls flat for me because I enjoy his pencils. I wish this book was in color, but even so it's a solid black and white book. I know as soon as Gint would see the lack of color he would vomit a little in his mouth and throw this directly in the flaming trashcan. 

I'm interested to see why Rachel was buried alive and who was behind this but in the words of the immortal Busta Rhymes, Terry Moore is gonna have to "give me some more".

Wolverine and The X-Men #6

Intergalactic gambling. Microscopic Brood swimming in Kitty Pryde's belly. It's this kind of off the wall quirkiness that I dig about this series. I love the melodrama normally associated with the X-Men as much as the next nerd but there is something refreshing about Jason Aaron's version. 

Nick Bradshaw once again shows that he is the perfect fit for the mix of this mutants, robots and aliens. This book reminds me of all the great things the Morrison-Quietly run had to offer. 

Justice League Dark #6

Our heroes are still unconvinced that becoming a team is the right thing to do. To show the group that it would be in everyones best interests to team up Madame Xanadu projects a nightmarish alternate future into each of their dreams. Unfortunately these dreams are TOO authentic as they follow our heroes into the real world.

When you look at Justice League Dark you see the template of how to write a story about a team forming. I wish Geoff Johns would have taken some queues from this style of storytelling when assembling the new Justice League. In the same amount of issues with a similar threat I have a much clearer sense of the characters in this book then in the Johns and Lee team title. I have to give Peter Milligan all the credit in the world to make me care about a dope name Shade The Changing Man. Once again Mikel Janin provides the creepiest Deadman and most beautiful brunettes in the DCU.-$

Panel of the Week: Happy campers rejecting the idea of teamwork.