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Take it Or Leave It – June 4, 2014
Welcome to Take It Or Leave It, where each week I pick out new comics and tell you if they’re worth the price and you should take them, or if you should just leave them on the shelf.
This week I review Action Comics #32, Tiny Titans: Return to the Treehouse #1, Chaos #2, and Original Sin #3. While you can kinda skip on Doomed, after this issue, you really need to be reading Original Sin. It’s flat out crazy!
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Action Comics #32Doomed keeps on trucking this week, and it’s an improvement over the previous few weeks, but I still wouldn’t call it all that good. For a Superman book, he’s only on about every third page, which is far too little. Everyone is always talking about Superman, but we never get to see him do anything. And the story is more than a little cliche this week. It’s like no one ever saw Godzilla. While *spoilers* it’s totally cool you woke up Metallo to be a living weapon and blow him up right in Superman’s face, no one thought that could backfire? Really, no one? Well it does, and now Superman has lost his last bit of control and is a mindless Doomsday. Maybe that means it’s time for some more action, yes? One can only hope. The Metallo explosion is pretty cool, but the rest is kinda ehhh, so your milage may vary on this one. Verdict: Maybe Take It |
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Tiny Titans: Return To The Treehouse #1I’ll make this one short and sweet. If you don’t read any book with art and words by Art Baltazar, you are doing yourself an immense disservice. His Tiny Titans are some of the best written, most compelling and funny books I’ve ever read, and his run on Superman Family Adventures is quite possibly one of the best Superman stories ever. Ok, it’s no All Star Superman, but it’s right up there. If you’ve read other Tiny Titans books in the past, this may be funnier, as it has a lot of throwbacks, but this is the type of book you can just pick up and enjoy in a run romp. Sure, it’s aimed at children, but you’ll love it too. You should give it a shot, you’ll like it, I swear! Verdict: Definitely Take It |
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Chaos #2Well, I certainly liked that a lot better than the first issue. Since I didn’t read much Chaos the first time around, I don’t know much of the character’s backstories, especially the human Outsiders. My suspicions from last time were correct. Once the table setting is done, this will get much better. There’s still some lifting left to do, but this issue had a pretty good sensual confrontation between Chastity and Purgatori, so that’s a plus, if you’re into that type of thing. It’s good as it is, but I think it really needs one more issue under its wings before it’s a definite pick up. Verdict: Probably Take It |
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Original Sin #3Holy Shit. That is definitely not what I expected. So apparently every Marvel Crossover needs a “No More” tagline. We had “No More Mutants” in House of M, AvX had “No More Phoenix”, and now it looks like we’re getting “No More Secrets” in Original Sin. How we arrive at that though is the fun part. So that bomb literally exploded some truth onto people last issue. What exactly those truths are aren’t really spelled out, at least to me, in a combination of vague dialog, and characters I just don’t recognize (I know that’s Daredevil learning how his mom died, but who are the other two in frame? Jessica Jones and Nico Minoru?). Really, it’s to get you to buy the tie ins, and I’m certainly intrigued enough I just may do it. Someone must have been a fan of FlashForward, as you can clearly see the issue’s twist coming (see what I did there, because, eyeball) when Fury lets slip that the bomb didn’t reveal any secrets to him. As to how that twist comes about, and to totality of the twist. Yeah, I won’t spoil that, you need to pick this up and read it yourself. By far the best Marvel summer crossover since probably Civil War or House of M. Verdict: Take it |
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 JohnScott is the proud owner of a life size replica Captain Kirk Chair. He is a hoarder of Comic Books, Transformers, and Star Trek action figures. He attended Space Camp as an adult. He has taken vacations to the closing of the Star Trek Experience and the final night Shuttle launch. He has been known to yell at his television when the kids can't put together the damn statue in the Shrine of the Silver Monkey. When not writing for InsufficientScotty, he is a Software Engineer for a major healthcare communications company.
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