Gint's 6-20-12 Pull-List Review

The theme for two of three books this week is "underwhelming."

Third Place:

Wonder Woman #10

Well, that was anticlimactic. All this set up about Hades essentially kidnapping Wonder Woman setting up for a knock down drag out to escape and well, it just wasn't.

Diana tells him she loves him (I guess in a familial kind of way) and with a lot of talking they just kind of leave. AND Cliff Chiang again isn't on art. Tony Akins and "Kano" are on pencils and I think I actually liked Kano's better.

So I guess the overall review of this issue is, "meh."

Second Place:

Supergirl #10

In what I thought was a substandard opening to the Silver Banshee portion of Michael Green and Mike Johnson's Supergirl story, they closed it out pretty well. Siobhan and her brother Tom will apparently become regulars in the world of Kara Zor-El. That's fine. They're way more palatable characters when drawn by the very talented Mahmud Asrar as opposed to the overrated George Pérez.

Green and Johnson seem to have a lot planned in the pipeline for Supergirl. I read an interview with them saying they'd be on the book for quite a while and that's great news.

Supergirl took off running and has been a hit. Not all books get off to a great start. But sometimes when you give the creative team time to work out some kinks it can become a great book. So, while this has nothing to do with Supergirl, I beg DC to please give the next creative team on Superman (Scott Lobdell and Kenneth Rocafort) a chance to make that book great. It deserves it.

First Place:

Green Lantern Corps #10

One of the most consistently well done and underrated qualities of Green Lantern Corps is the artwork of Fernando Pasarin. I read a lot of comics and few artists make me admire scale. Pasarin does scale like no other. The detail he puts into his work, a long with the way he sets up a shot not only makes you say, "shit, look how big this place is," but you can almost hear the echo and the way sound works in these great expanses.

So... on top of that Peter Tomasi continues to write a great story. John Stewart is sentenced to death by the Alpha Lanterns and Guy and the crew break him out... with consequences to come next issue.

Panel of the Week:

Aside from some muddy inks this month, Mahmud Asrar draws a creepy-ass Silver Banshee.

-Gint