Spider-men #5 (of 5)
Now that “Spider-men” is over, I’m not sure what to say about it. It’s one of those situations where you liked something, but it didn’t fulfill any promise it made. “Spider-men” promised us that it would be the Second Coming, but what we got was “Weekend at Bernie’s.” I didn’t really dislike the comic, but nothing happened that warranted my caring beyond the quality of the work. The writing was fairly high grade with plenty of witty banter even though the dialogue almost drowns in quips. The art is superb and makes me wonder why we can’t get this in the main Spider-man comic. This fifth issue ends on a fairly touching note, but can’t escape the feeling of just being a crossover to sell five extra comics. There is even a slight cliffhanger at the end to make me believe we have even more extra comics coming our way. I actually kind of hate to keep saying I liked it because I partially hate what this comic did, which is nothing. There was no startling revelation or mystery solved. No one died or even came close to dying. It’s a nice little book, but if you haven’t picked it up yet, you can wait for a cheap paperback.
Justice League #0
I like it how DC keeps thinking we somehow forgot their characters’ origin stories. Things like Bruce Wayne’s parents getting shot and Superman being the last son of Krypton are just not important enough to keep stored in my brain somewhere. That is why “Justice League #0” was created, to tell us once again how Captain Marvel came to be. Years ago a company named Fawcett Comics created a competing character for Superman named Captain Marvel. DC didn’t like this because he was out selling Superman, so they engaged in a decade’s long lawsuit. After Fawcett went belly up… oh wait, that isn’t the origin story DC wants you to know. Instead they are telling us the story of how a kid named Billy Batson got magic powers and can turn into a super powered adult by saying “Shazam!”
Even though it easily sounds like “Kazaam,” this comic turned out much better than the Shaquille O’Neal flick. Strong fast paced writing really moves the comic along and sums the story up rather nicely. The best part is how the comic relates the fact that Billy is still a kid regardless of his new found power. That is easily realized when Captain Marvel thinks twenty bucks is a lot of money. I was actually surprised that writer Geoff Johns was able to fit this much character depth into one comic. This was obviously a prequel story to set up a much larger Justice League plotline, so we’ll be hearing the word “Shazam!” a great deal more in the near future.
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