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After being let down by Wonder Woman’s relaunch under the guidance of writer Allan Heinberg, I swore I’ll never pick up the series again. And then Gail Simone took a shot at the Amazon Princess. I ate my words.
The Circle is Simone’s first arc on WW, and I have to say, I love it. Two reasons:
1. White gorilla knights serving as Diana’s private primate army.
Hm. The first two Monthly Haul opening images contain Wolverine saying “Comics!” and I swear to God it wasn’t premeditated. Anyhoo, I kind of realized that since I’m doing this monthly comic book reviews thing, I might as well do it the last week of every month. If you noticed, I’m currently doing it the third week, which is sorta weird. So the third installment of Monthly Haul will come after the last Wednesday of January. I’m sure you don’t care, so let’s just go ahead and review some comics.
I tried this reviewing-comics-every-week gig, first with Weekly Haul, and then New Comics Yay!, but it just doesn’t stick with me. I know I’m passionate enough about reading comics, but blogging about it is an entirely different thing. With the real world usually foiling my plans of writing comic book reviews every week, I’ve decided to stop. But not completely. I’ll try doing this on a monthly basis. I still believe that by reviewing comics, I’ll somehow save the world. Hasn’t happened yet, but at least I’ve inspired people. I think. Anyhoo, let’s do this!
ITEM! “The Third Kryptonian” is coming! Kurt Busiek will introduce another Kryptonian to the DCU and it looks rather interesting. Technically, this new Kryptonian is the, what, 576th Kryptonian on Earth?
ITEM! The Rock: Captain Marvel or Black Adam? The Great One is currently in discussions to play a role in “Shazam”, and he wants the fans to decided which role he’ll play: the squeaky clean Captain Marvel or the hardcore Black Adam? If you smellllalalalaLOUWWW… what The Rock… is cookin’.
ITEM! The Voices of Marvel remastered! Doug Pratt remastered two Marvel Flexidiscs from the 1960’s. Gee wiz, I love how people talked back then!
I held off from buying Amazons Attack because it really was a hard sell for me. For each passing issue, the outcry grew louder. And when it was all over, this is basically the general consensus:
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