The third week of September makes the most out of DC's Futures End month... only two books on the old Pull-List!
Futures End #20
Man, doing a review of a weekly comic book is exhausting. I'm running out of shit to say about each issue. Aaron Lopresti's art is good and so its the story. There. Done.
This issue takes a couple turns that I didn't expect. Once is the name drop of Bruce Wayne. He and Wonder Woman's whereabouts have been kept a secret through this first twenty issues. We just found out where Superman has been, its time to get the other Big 2 on the board. Five years in the future, who knows what Bruce is up to, but THIRTY-five years in the future, Brother Eye has captured him and ripped his brain open. Not very Batman-like.
I wouldn't say Futures End is a mystery wrapped in a riddle folded in a quandary, but there are a lot of moving parts that have well... thirty-two more issues to iron out and make satisfying. Lots of time, boys. Do it up right!
Nova #21
Plenty of action, and plenty of quiet character moments... my kind of comic. My biggest complaint is the cover. For as great an artist as J.G. Jones is, he apparently can't draw a high schooler because Sam Alexander looks to be about 30 years old.
FINALLY Original Sin is over and Gerry Duggan and David Baldeon can get on with just telling the story they want to tell, which is Sam going after his father. Sam finally tracks him down and what he finds is that his father and all the other prisoners escaped. While this is Sam's story, it feels like the prison escape was glossed over a little too quickly.
Still one of my favorite books, Duggan really knows what's important in this book. He's got a plan and is really taking the right amount of time to execute each part of it.
Panel of the Week:
The Key and Coil from Futures End by Aaron Lopresti. Two D-list characters that I've grown unusually fond of.
-Gint
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