Nov022008November 2, 2008November 2, 2008NoCommentby Fin Fang Doom

Meaningless Awards of the Week-
10/29/08

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Dropped! Avengers: The Initiative

I am sick and tired of Skrulls. How long has this invasion been going on for anyway? Aside from mutants and Spider-Man, the Marvel Universe has been completely dominated by Skrulls this year, and I can’t stand it anymore. Here’s my new rule: if a Skrull is in a book, and it’s not a Skrull that’s normally part of the cast, then I’m not going to buy the book. So She-Hulk and Runaways are safe, but A:TI is not.

Of course, this particular book was already on thin ice. I buy the thing mostly because Dan Slott writes it, and Slott is leaving the title in a couple of months to write Mighty Avengers. Plus, the art lately has been all over the place. I’m not sure when the last time A:TI had a regular artist was, but it seems like it’s been a while.

Most Splash Pages- The Astounding Wolf-Man # 9

In its scant 20-page story, Astounding Wolf-Man had four splash pages, included one double splash page at the beginning. I bring this up solely because the other Doomers were giving me a hard time at 24-Hour Comics for putting five splash pages into my 24-page comic. That’s practically the same ratio as this bona fide professional comic book. So nyah!

Worst Finale- DC Universe: Decisions #4

So the good guys catch Jericho, who was revealed in the last issue as the assassin. Then Superman gets preachy about how superheroes shouldn’t endorse candidates. Yawn.

So I guess my biggest beef with this mini-series isn’t the crappy final issue, but the crappy entire mini-series. DC sort of tricked me into buying a lame story by saying it was going to be a mini-series about how politics work in a world with superheroes. That sounded interesting. This was not.

And hey, isn’t Jericho supposed to be mute? So why was he talking in this issue?

Best Issue- Final Crisis: Rage of the Red Lanterns

This issue has four things going for it:

1) It had absolutely nothing to do with Final Crisis. Aside from this taking place specifically between issues #1 and #2 of Final Crisis and an off-hand remark about deicide, Final Crisis isn’t mentioned or involved in the story in any way.

2) Geoff Johns wrote it. Geoff Johns is awesome.

3) It’s part of the Darkest Night storyline. The Darkest Night storyline is awesome.

4) Blue Lantern!

The only bad thing is this should have just been the next issue of Green Lantern. I would have paid the same if it had just been Green Lantern though, so I guess that’s not much of a drawback.