Friday, July 22, 2011

Ratings and Rantings


War of the Green Lantern Aftermath #1 of 2



Power Girl #26



Batman: Gates of Gotham #3



Titans # 37






Next Time on Ratings and Rantings



  1. I think I'm the only person who has voted on the new poll. xD

  2. Pfft, 8 new books for next week... I do TWICE that number EVERY week! :P

    Let's see here... I skipped the GL: Aftermath stuff due to my well chronicled hatred of most things GL, I skipped the Power Girl review after I saw the score, since I literally had that issue in my hands and was going to buy it on Wednesday, but decided to wait and see what you gave it, and my shop didn't have Titans. So yeah. I will say that I was a bit uplifted to see that Titans and PG received pretty decent scores. That's something to look forward to. I DID read Gates, and liked it a bit less than you did. There were a few things here that seem a bit too obvious in this one, especially after seeing the driver's license(I don't want to spoil anything unnecessarily!), plus I just never really got in to the story for whatever reason...

    I also couldn't help but notice that you have Supes/Bats listed in the labels but you didn't review it. Was it so bad that you chose not to bother with a review, did you simply not get it, or did you just not feel like doing a review for it? I'm kind of curious because I've yet to read it so I'd like to know how far I should bury it in my comic pile! :P

    As for the poll, since I'm only picking up two of the four books listed, you'd think my choice was easy... But it wasn't! Teen Titans and Justice League Dark both have some major pluses going for it, but after a good minute or so of deliberations, I went with JLD, since I'm still a bit dubious of Scott Lobdell after that interview you posted from him a few weeks back... But for me, either one of those books could have been my pick... Hell, if I could vote twice, I would have, but that would be cheating, and we BOTH know I don't do things like THAT! :D

  3. Lol @ X's comment. Always being flashy of his accomplishments :-P

    But once again we get another awesome R & R from the lovely JT. And Seeing as the only comic I'll be reading from this weeks R & R is Peej, I'll ramble on about that, lol.

    Seeing that you gave this an 8 with someone outside of Judd writing gives me a little comfort that it's definitely worth a read. So I'm sure when I get to this, I'll be telling you my thoughts on the phone lol.

  4. Thanks for the comments everyone!

    Caz - Looks like we've got four votes now haha, which is weird since my starts show I get hundreds of readers here each day.

    X - Lol well some of us have to spend money on other things, like food and gas to go places and not just the comic shop :P Suckaaaaa!

    Gates is weird to me because it's good but the flashback scenes confuse me from time to time, what with the weird cursive font and whatnot. Dude... email me about the license thing, cause all I saw was that he's from Anyown. And as for Supes/Bats, I was supposed to review it this week but after flipping through it in the store I just decided not to grab it. I guess It was habit when I listed it.

    Looks like you're the sole vote for JLD buddy, as JLI is running way with the vote. Kinda shocked Teen Titans and JLA haven't been picked yet.

    Lisha - You know X, tooting his own horn cause no one else will! Lol :P

    Why thank you, and thanks for commenting. I look forward to what you think about reading this issue of Peej, it was pretty good actually.

  5. Food, gas and comics. What else is there?

    Eh, just take a gander at my review for Gates, I basically say what I'm thinking about the whole license thing there. All I'm gonna say is look at the guy's pic on the card and then think about the story and see if you catch what I'm thinking.

    I was actually expecting to be the lone voice for JLD... It's a weird, quirky comic that probably isn't going to appeal to a wide range of fans. It has no real big name character on it, so yeah.

    Well SOMEBODY should be tooting my horn! And if nobody else will do it I'll do it myself! You know, everything about that sounds wrong...

  6. Um.... Games and women I guess? :P

    Oh the fact that he looks exactly like one of the Gates? Weird I didn't pay that any attention because I was rushing through the comic... :P

    Yeah, the two biggest would be Constantine and Zee right?

    Lmao, that's one of my favorite quotes by you know, just for sheer awkwardness.

  7. Pfft. You have your games and women, I'll take the food, gas and comics!

    Ding, ding, ding!! Yup, that's the first thing I noticed when I saw the driver's license. That dude looks exactly like the Gates Bro who survived. It's aight, JT. We ALL can't have the amazing discerning eye of the X-Man. :P

    Yeah, I mean I'd say Z is the biggest name on the team. I guess Constantine had that movie, so maybe a few more people may know about him, but yeah, they'd be it... Not exactly what you'd call a star-studded roster. But then again, that may work in that series favor storywise, since nobody will probably pay much attention to it, allowing Peter Milligan some creative freedom on it.

    Everything about that line was horrible... Ugh.

  8. Lol I'll take all five, thank ya very much!

    Some of us are too busy being awesome to have time to memorize faces on driver's licenses :P

    That is a good point... kinda makes me wanna read Lisha's copy since you told me John and Zee have a sexual past as well.

    And you said it... for shame.