Comic Book Thread

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Anyway, I almost exclusively do Batman comics, so its pretty easy to guess what my pull list is from week to week.

- Red Robin was pretty fantastic. This book started out slow a year ago, but has really jumped in quality. One of my favorites right now.

- Red Hood The Lost Days was pretty meh. I was never a fan of Jason Todd coming back, but it is constantly difficult to ignore him. I was hoping this mini would give adequate reason for his return, but so far it hasn't.

- Joker's Asylum: The Riddler was also meh. The Joker's narraration didn't feel right. I've also never been a huge Riddler fan (I've been liking him more as a greedy detective recently than outright villain), but it was alright...

- I really liked the Superman/Batman annual. I only bought it for the Batman Beyond story (I don't collect the regular book) and it didn't disappoint. Batman himself (i.e. Terry) looked a little odd (too much muscle and the face seemed to detailed), but everything else seemed pretty closely related to the animated series. I also like how it seems to more or less follow the actual cartoon continuity as opposed to completely butchering the original concept (they did seem to change the origin around in a flashback, but it felt more like it was for brevity's sake than a real change).

- I also picked up the Final Crisis TPB and read it finally. As you may have guessed, I really was only interested in how it relates to the current Batman status quo. In that, I was a little disappointed. There wasn't really anything in there that I didn't already know from reading spoilers. On its own it was a little odd. I may be able to enjoy it more as I digest it... Its a really full story. "I'll plug the hole in forever!" Heh.