Action Comics #828
Writer: Gail Simone
Art: John Byrne and Nelson

Antoher strong outing by Simone and her art team. Like I meantioned last time, Byrnes pencils with Nelson's finishing touches is some of the best art I've seen come from Byrne and a colaborator in quite some time. This is the second part of Superman dealing with Dr. Polaris and his split personality. Just when he thinks he has things in hand, Black Adam and Zoom show up to "rescue" Polaris, bringing the foreshadowing of a conflict to come.

Batman: Dark Detective #3
Writer: Steve Englehart
Art: Marshall Rogers and Terry Austin

It turns out that there is more to Two Face than we had originally thought, that more, a clone with one specific difference, no disfiguremnet. And it appears that this clone does not suffer from the dual personality that Harvey Dent does. Meanwhile the Joker soldiers on with his mayoral campaign, and it seems that the Harveys may be in the way.

 

Breech #6
Writer: Bob Harras
Art by Marcos Martin and Alvaro Lopez

This book has really suprised me, I originally picked it up to give the first issue a try, and it turns out that each month it gets better and better, after running into the JLA in issue 4 and now coming up against what seems like three tribesmen and their human like ally, Breech's world becomes more interesting. If you are looking for a solid story and artwork each month I recommend this book.

 

Mary Jane: Homecoming #4
Writer: Sean McKeever
Art:: Takeshi Miyazawa

The final issue of this mini-series, freindships are broken and healed while new relationships begin, ahhh teen melodrama. Granted this isn't the O.C. (I'm making a reference to a show I've never watched- yikes), but it is still a good book. I hope Marvel continues to produce books like this for the youngins.

 

 

Rann Thangar War #2
Writer: Dave Gibbons
Art: Ivan Reis and Marc Campos

Since I'm not sure what is going on in this book (I missed the first issue), I'm going to hold my comments until I have a chance to read them together, just to be fair but from what I read this is my rating for now, I reserve the right to adjust it up or down after I get my hands on the next issue.

 

 

Since I have a little extra space I thought I would vent a little, as a kind of follow up to my grumbling up in the Ult. Fantastic Four review. Lately a lot of companies have been producing more and more variant covers. I can almost see it when it comes to a second printing of a book, or a book that celebrates an anniversary,, but lately there just seems to be more and more announcements of extra special, limited edition, why the heck are we doing this, variant covers. I'm curious to see what you think about this latest trend, personally it worries me a bit, I hope the lessons of the 90s haven't been lost. Plus I don't think it's fair to the smaller retailers since they have a smaller resource pool so they may not have the chance to get their hands on these books to offer them to their customers. The big are rewarded while the small are disgruntled. Seriously, what do you think, talk about it in the forums.