Category: News

Justice League United We Fall

Justice League United 00Read news today that Justice League United is finishing in December and I find that I’m not too disappointed with that.

Jeff Lemire and Mike McKone’s first few issues were good and even after McKone left, Lemire’s writing was enough to keep me on board, but post-Convergence, I’ve struggled with the title to be honest.

Jeff Parker’s Aquaman writing is good but on JLU he seems to be struggling. The new set-up has Adam Strange trapped in a Zeta Beam, communicating to his team mates about anomalies across the world and who they need to recruit to deal with them. The revolving membership of the team and being sent on missions instantly put me in mind of Justice League Task Force which started out with a similar brief and we all know that didn’t end well.

This will bring my DC ongoing titles down to seven which is the lowest it’s been for a good few years. And, unless something outstanding appears in the December solicitations, I’m not sure that number’s going to increase.

Flash! Preacher!

It’s a good time to get back to blogging, I think. There’s been a bunch of things over the last year or so that I’ve wanted to talk about but simply haven’t had the time but with the new site, now’s as good a time as any.

I watched most of the first season of Arrow and, I’m afraid, didn’t really like it. It wasn’t bad – it was just not engaging enough; I’m not really a fan of the grim ‘n’ gritty approach so I ended up falling away. The first season of Flash, however, I absolutely adored. Sure, early episodes were the by now standard monster of the week style, but all of the characters were played so well and there was a freshness and joy to the series – even amongst the darker episodes – that it quickly became a favourite in our house.

And now the trailer for the second season:

Jay Garrick! Yes, there was the tease of his winged helmet in the final episode of season one, but he’s here! Alternate worlds! Yay!

PreacherAnd something else that I’m cautiously optimistic about is Preacher finally getting off the ground and being granted a full series.

Sure, Seth Rogen’s name doesn’t fill me with wonder as about the only thing I really know by him was the woefully inadequate Green Hornet, but I’m willing to give this a go.

I’m just waiting for the American fundamentalist Christians to start shrieking either at the poster on the left or once they get wind of the content of the series.