Gint's 2-13-13 Pull-List Review

Valentine's week oddly brings no books about love.

Third Place:
Batman and Robin #17

Well this was a silly one. An entire dream issue showing us what kinds of nightmares Damian, Bruce and Alfred have.

Expertly drawn by Pat Gleason, this was a one and done issue tied to nothing else. Being that 98% of comics these days are tied into serial storytelling, it was a nice break to read something that doesn't have a higher calling than just entertaining you.

Peter Tomasi does a nice job of giving us a little Bat-family psycho-analysis in a wacky-ass entertaining format.   

Second Place:
Batman #17

Death of the Family wraps up this issue and I'm a little underwhelmed. I think I've been underwhelmed the entire arc, while wanting it to be better than it was.

While definitely entertaining, I think this arc might (hopefully) read better in one sitting. Everything seemed to happen very fast. So fast I feel like I missed something, even though I know I didn't. My chief concern is that Scott Snyder's Joker talks too damn much. Granted, the definitive Joker, Mark Hamill's, wasn't the silent type, but Snyder's joker just yaps and yaps. It makes him less scary.

Greg Capullo's art is fantastic as usual. Great style, great storytelling. The entire art team has proven themselves at being very capable of drawing some fucked up shit.

Death of the Family isn't a bad arc, but my own hype and excitement may have hurt this story.   

First Place:
Star Wars #2

My Star Wars experiment with Dark Horse continues with issue #2. Overall, a pretty good issue.

Being a Star Wars purist, I have a hard time accepting things that aren't from the Original Trilogy. This issue, when Han's time as an Imperial cadet is mentioned, I scoffed. But other than that, this issue felt a lot more in-line with the characters I grew up loving than issue #1 did.

It was much easier hearing Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill's voices in Leia and Luke's word balloons this time around. Maybe writer Brian Wood is still working out the kinks of who these characters are. Han, like issue #1, was pretty spot on.

My contemporaries have taken exception with Carlos D'Anda's artwork. I think its pretty good. If I wasn't impressed with his work in the first issue, this one sold me. His likenesses are still off, but its a minor gripe. This is an enjoyable book.

Panel of the Week:

Nothing in particular stood out this week, so I offer you Carlos D'Anda's with great colors by Gabe Eltaeb.

-Gint