BoP 56 was pretty good story-wise. Hadn't been liking the last couple of arcs much. I like the style of the art in general, but my main complaint is I'd like them to get away from the "teeny bopper" characterization of Dina Lance. For God's sake, she's a WOMAN, not a KID! It's kind of disconcerting because her actions seem to say "adult" but the pictures say "kid". Give me a mature representation of Dinah, and I'll even forgive the silly fishnets (bleh!!). And keep the jacket on.
Trinity #1 - skimmed it, but haven't given it a full read yet. What I saw from the first pass looked/sounded good.
JLA-Working Week -- This looked really strange and sounded really goofy from the description on the back of the book, so naturally I just had to pick it up. And it was really a lot of fun! Things which I thought were just plain unexplainable at some points in the beginning, actually worked out logically in the end.
Robin 115 - The good news is that this story arc is over. Pray to God that the next one makes sense, or this book is getting dropped.
Outsiders 1 - Let's all say this together ..... Graduation Day existed only as an "event" to launch the two new books. Now that we've admitted this, we can ignore that whole mess and try to give a fair evaluation of this on it's own. On the whole, I thought it was fair-to-good. The art was good (although I don't understand why Indigo is blue some places and aqua in others). I thought the characterizations of Dick and Roy were dead-on. I LOVE what I've seen of Grace, in just one book. She's not going to take crap from anyone, and is going to be a voice of "reality" for the team (although maybe sarcastic about it at times). Thunder was kind of ..."Yeah, So?" to me. Not really impressed with her, but it was only the first issue. Maybe she'll grow on me. Metamorpho....please go away. Please!! And take Indigo with you! Sorry, but I just can't get into robots that have been done as poorly as this thing was in 3 issues of GD and now here. Reprogramed? Give me a break. It's from the future. Do we really think that even S.T.A.R. Labs could really have figured out the technology and reprogrammed it in this short of a time. And would we really trust that we've reprogrammed it correcly, so that it won't go haywire again? I mean, c'mon. We have no reason why it went bad in the first place, so would the government (remember them ... the paranoid "big brother" types) really let it loose??? I have no patience for this Data-clone. Nitpicking department: I can tolerate Roy with a buzz, but I'd rather see long hair, and get rid of that stupid patch of chin-hair. One really big complaint department: I really, really, REALLY loathe the stupid Gorilla Grodd shit! This alone is enough to make me doubt the long term viability of this book. I want real villains and storylines, not left-over B-story crap. From the previews, we've got two issues of stupid "ape story", so there's no way I see the book getting any better until at least issue 4.
Gotham Knights 42 - Acckkk! It didn't get pulled and I didn't notice it until now. Quick, run back to the store tomorrow!
