The Weekly Rundown (Comics Week 17/05/2017)
Unlike with last Sunday, I have decided that I will be combining the DC and Marvel Weekly Rundowns, just for the reason that Marvel did not get much love this previous week, and DC did.
This weeks offering of Batman, written by Tom King, was most definitely a filler issue, to cleanse our pallets after the conclusion of the Button storyline from the last month or so. The story for this issue has a title that is an awful pun 'The Brave and the Mold', a spin on the classic 'Brave and the Bold' concept. It centres around the murder of the Swamp Thing's father. Batman and Swamp Thing go a search for the killer, which takes them to many different places, such as a Pawn Shop, where they find out the location of the killer. It turned out that Swamp Thing did not want to settle for just finding who killed his father, but also so that he could kill the person responsible, which Batman is not too pleased about.
As you will probably recall from this weeks Comic Book Preview, I was quite sceptical about this book when I wrote the post this past Wednesday. I loved this story. Giving Luke a new start in a new place was a decent move, and it removed him from the all too familiar backdrop of New York City, where the majority of the other characters are based. It starts off with Cage saving a young girl, who has been captured after her boyfriend did not pay some money. After she has been returned to her parents, Luke receives a call, inviting him to a funeral. The funeral is for a Dr. Noah Burstein, who is the man responsible for the creation of the man we now know as Luke Cage. He and a woman called Lenore Mornay, visit a man who's son had been cured by Burstein, and he is quite disrespectful towards Luke. When Cage and Mornay are driving away, they are hit by another vehicle, and a conflict insues. The man that Luke is fighting has a weapon that can penetrate Luke's impenetrable skin. The men are defeated by a figure in a trench coat and hat, a man called Mitchell Tanner, the first test subject of Noah Burstein.
DC - BATMAN #23
This weeks offering of Batman, written by Tom King, was most definitely a filler issue, to cleanse our pallets after the conclusion of the Button storyline from the last month or so. The story for this issue has a title that is an awful pun 'The Brave and the Mold', a spin on the classic 'Brave and the Bold' concept. It centres around the murder of the Swamp Thing's father. Batman and Swamp Thing go a search for the killer, which takes them to many different places, such as a Pawn Shop, where they find out the location of the killer. It turned out that Swamp Thing did not want to settle for just finding who killed his father, but also so that he could kill the person responsible, which Batman is not too pleased about.
Overall, I feel that this issue serves its purpose very well. However, I am not saying that it was my favourite Batman story ever. I did thing the art what quite good though, and would not mind seeing it in any future stories featuring the Caped Crusader.
MARVEL - LUKE CAGE #1
As you will probably recall from this weeks Comic Book Preview, I was quite sceptical about this book when I wrote the post this past Wednesday. I loved this story. Giving Luke a new start in a new place was a decent move, and it removed him from the all too familiar backdrop of New York City, where the majority of the other characters are based. It starts off with Cage saving a young girl, who has been captured after her boyfriend did not pay some money. After she has been returned to her parents, Luke receives a call, inviting him to a funeral. The funeral is for a Dr. Noah Burstein, who is the man responsible for the creation of the man we now know as Luke Cage. He and a woman called Lenore Mornay, visit a man who's son had been cured by Burstein, and he is quite disrespectful towards Luke. When Cage and Mornay are driving away, they are hit by another vehicle, and a conflict insues. The man that Luke is fighting has a weapon that can penetrate Luke's impenetrable skin. The men are defeated by a figure in a trench coat and hat, a man called Mitchell Tanner, the first test subject of Noah Burstein.
Like I said earlier, I really enjoyed this story and hope that it continues to be this good for the restof the run, however long that may be.
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