There's nothing quite like sitting down with your Pull-List and being impressed and thoroughly entertained by each book. Great week this week:
Third Place:
Superboy #7
Scott Lobdell gets a writing assist from Tom Defalco this week, and artist R.B. Silva gets help from Iban Coello. Both work out very well. Normally when there are more names on the credits page you're in for something less than stellar. This time it all worked out.
Defalco helps script Lobdell's story of Superboy storming back into N.O.W.H.E.R.E. to get answers, and its a smooth read. This issue doesn't miss a beat from the previous six. Superboy manages to break into the facility and get his ass handed to him by Rose Wilson, who is super sexy.
The trick comes on Iban Coello's pages which are pretty cool. Not only can he draw a sexy Caitlin Fairchild in a tank top, but the rest of the work is solid as well. I've been a fan of R.B. Silva from the start, but if Coello will eventually pick up more of his pages, well, there have been waaaaay worse fill-ins.
Batman and Robin #7
The Nobody arc looks to have wrapped up. Though this issue was nonstop fighting and Bruce and Morgan telling each other how fucked up each other is, but it was a fine issue. The devil is in the details and what really made this issue sing were the quiet moments, though there weren't many.
Peter Tomasi and Pat Gleason keep this book running like a well oiled machine. The art and story blend together to create a great comic and that's the way it should be.
Tomasi makes me love Damian much like the way I loved Jon Bernthal's Shane on The Walking Dead. He's kind of crazy, but that doesn't really make him wrong.
If you're not reading Tomasi and Gleason's Batman & Robin, you should be. Its a great book.
Green Lantern #7
Fuck yes. This was a fantastic issue. Easily the best issue of Green Lantern since The New 52. For the first time it feels like we're really back in the Green Lantern Universe that Geoff Johns created in Rebirth. Between the Hal from Justice League and the ring junkie we saw in issues 1 through 6, the book and mythos felt off-kilter and somewhat distanced from everything that's come before. This issue (hopefully) gets everything back on track.
Maybe it was the inclusion of Black Hand and the rest of the Indigo Tribe, or some classic Hal, Carol, Sinestro drama, but it worked. Sinestro stumbled across a plot by the Guardians to replace the Green Lanterns with something else. Somehow, the Indigo Tribe knows about this too and gets involved by capturing Hal and Sinestro. Carol, donning a Sapphire ring she doesn't want, goes off to save them (I think).
Not to be forgotten is the work of the entire art team of who there are too many inkers to name individually. Doug Mahnke's pencils were top notch. Maybe the most consistent entire issue he's done on the book. At least of the New 52. Every panel is dead on.
Fuck. This is what comics are about folks. I might read it again.
Panel(s) of the Week:
I loved these two pages so much that I had to include them both. Please feel free to click on both to see them in their glory.
-Gint
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