Gint's 4-9-14 Pull-List Review

The excellence of Superman Wonder Woman is threatened by a Doomsday crossover and the other books were okay.

First Place:

Green Lantern Corps #30

Remember when Bernard Chang drew this book? Yeah, those were good times. And too few and far between. Scott Kolins and Chris Batista split this issue (Kolins doing flashbacks) aaaaaand... yeah its not very good.

This issue we get a little Durlan history lesson from Von Daggle, the Durlan Green Lantern. I know the Durlans are supposed to be super threatening and creepy, but they're not. As far as Green Lantern threats go, something's being lost in translation. This arc is more tired than anything else and I hate saying it, but I'm eager for it to be over.

The whole Green Lantern line of books has been put on notice for potential drops from the Pull-List. Fucking around with fill-in artists and boring stories isn't going to strengthen their case. 

Second Place:

Star Wars #16

Talk about an up and down run. Well, its been mostly down, but this issue gave me more of what I was looking for from the start of this series than most of the first fifteen issues did. This issue, unlike most of the others, felt like I was reading the characters from the movies.

Stéphane Créty is back on art, and other than poor likenesses of our main cast, draws a good book. Secondary characters look good, the ships look good and his overall story layout is smooth and easy to read. Get this guy to quit drawing Princess Leia different in each panel and he'd be in good shape.

From the start, this book hasn't been what I'd hoped. But with only a few issues left before Dark Horse loses the license to Marvel I'm going to finish this one out. Brian Wood has the chance to put some polish on this turd.

First Place:
Superman Wonder Woman #7

And with that, Charles Soule's excellent run on Superman Wonder Woman comes to a close. Why? Because next month it jumps into the Superman: Doomed crossover. And I really couldn't be any less interested in that.

But this issue was good. In particular the art of Paulo Siqueira on the first eight pages. The rest of the book's art is split between Eddie Barrows and Barry Kitson, and its pretty standard, but Siqueira's pages are fantastic. He's the kind of talent that should be doing a tentpole book like this.

Maybe Charles Soule and Greg Pak's Doomed crossover will fix all the problems I had with the original Death of Superman story from the 90s. Scott Lobdell is involved, so I doubt it. But it may pique my curiosity enough to buy the first issue.

Panel of the Week:

Paulo Siquiera. Get this guy on a regular book.

-Gint