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DC SUPERHERO GIRLS: HERO OF THE YEAR (Feature Film,2016)
LAKE OF FIRE #1
ATOMIC ROBO: THE TEMPLE OF OD #1
Opinions Are Like @$$Holes: DC REBIRTH Reflections
DC SUPERHERO GIRLS: HERO OF THE YEAR (Feature Film, 2016)
Director: Cecilia AranovichWriter: Shea Fontana
Studio: Warner Bros Animation
Reviewer: Masked Man
In the vein of THE BATMAN VS DRACULA, TINY TOONS: HOW I SPENT MY SUMMER VACATION and TEEN TITAN: TROUBLE IN TOKYO comes another popular WB animated series (although web here) turned into a dvd movie, DC SUPERHERO GIRLS: HERO OF THE YEAR! If you haven’t been paying attention, in a response to everyone asking where are all the female superheroes and female superhero merchandise, Warner Bros has lumped all their superheroes together in a Harry Potterquise / Disney show like concept. As all the characters are in high school, growing up and learning to be superheroes. If that’s weird to you, Amanda (not so much a Wall) Waller is the principal!
Now obviously if you’re only into rated PG-13 or R superheroes, this isn’t for you, but some little ones you know might dig this. As I mentioned, this is done in the vein of a Disney live action show (you know the ones). Fortunately, for everyone over eight years old, it isn’t as painfully over acted and laugh tracked like those Disney shows. Though the bulk of the jokes and character interaction skews young.
For you nerds out there (myself included) who do you get to see in this video? Tons of characters. Much like JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED, it fun to just spot all the characters in the movie. The main characters are Wonder Woman, Batgirl, Supergirl and Bumble Bee (Mind you, I’m not crazy about the ‘Wasp-ification of Bumble Bee, who didn’t shrink and shoot lasers from her wrist bands in the comics, but that seems to be the new angle DC wants as well). In the next tier we have Hawkgirl, Beast Boy, Katanna, Big Barda, Lady Shiva, Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy. Then there’s Flash, Green Lantern, Cyborg, Starfire, Frost (why they didn’t go with Ice I’ll never know) and more. In the background you can spot characters like Hawk and Dove. So challenge your viewing partner to see who can spot most characters. Oddly enough, the characters missing are Superman and Batman. This could be due to licensing issues. Hopefully it’s not because they were afraid they would over shadow the girls. That would be lame as the girls are great and every DC fan is left wondering where they are (much like, where is the Human Torch and who the hell is H.E.R.B.I.E.?).
Ok, how about spoilers? One thing this movie does well is juggle several plotlines, as we get to see a bit of Wonder Woman’s family, Supergirl’s family, the ‘education’ of Beast Boy, new student Big Barda, the Hero of the Year contest and the mandatory super villian story arc. While all these plotlines play into each other, they also have room to breath on their own. So it’s not like we have to do this, to do this, to do this, to do this. Which is nice, as they add interest to the overall story, without it being dull, typical, big story pacing. For us hardcore DC fans, the villains give us the most fun, as it takes us to Gemworld, as in AMETHYST, PRINCESS OF GEMWORLD. Princess Amethyst’s arch-villain Dark Opal is the main bad guy here, with his partner. A partner (who I won’t name) is an update of a Silver Age villain. Said update happened in comic books after the IDENTITY CRISIS (can you guess it?). As with the heroes themselves, all DC lore is reimagined in this DC Superhero Girl world, so don’t think too hard and think of it as Earth-234 or something. Now while the heroes go about their day, getting ready for the Hero of the Year announcement (I love how Queen Hippolyta just assumes Wonder Woman has already won, much to Wonder Woman’s cringe), the Dark Opal is on the “super-villain scavenger hunt to create a weapon of ultimate power”. Of course, he needs a few of the superheroes personal items. When the action heats up, there is a bit of an odd scene, as the heroes are placed in a force field bubble and a bomb is placed in another force field bubble. I suppose a bomb can be big enough to knock down two force fields, as the explosion has to first break it’s force field and then break the force field around the girls and then still have enough power to kill the likes of Supergirl and Wonder Woman. Although, when it does go off, it does look like it. Another odd moment was when everyone gets upset that a villain, Big Barda, was allow to join the school (uh, I know this is Earth-234, but there already are a bunch of villains going to the school: Cheetah, Grodd, Harley, (Killer) Frost, etc). Of course there is no honor among thieves as we reach the climax, and the winner of the Hero of the Year contest is pretty obvious, in a ‘One to Grow On’ way.
So for the adults, you could do a lot worst than this. While Fontana (who has written for clever shows like SUSHI PACK and THE 7D) tries to make good kid fare, it’s still pretty much kid fare. Director Cecilia Aranovich Hamilton (a storyboard artist on BOB’S BURGERS) does a good job of keeping the story tight, and making sure it isn’t a complete ‘chick flick’. Meaning, the girls kick butt here and don’t spend all their free time talking about their hair and boys. So while you might think this is some kind of Disney Princess knock-off, the action and adventure are more in line with typical superheroes shows than princesses.
Warner Bros. actually hired five different animation studios to get this film made. Most of them phone it in, as the bulk of the animation is not much better then the original series of shorts. One of them does go the extra mile, as the last act has more fluid animation, as not only the action, but even the talking heads have more life to them. And while hardcore DC fan in me isn’t crazy about all the new costume designs, but overall designs of the characters are nice.
Again, I think any young kid will enjoy this, even some boys. Siblings can easily watch this together. Though one could argue the main male character, Beast Boy is just comic relief. So in mirror image of the SUPERFRIENDS, there’s no ‘Wonder Woman’ for the girls (did that make sense?). The humor is hit and miss with adults (I did laugh at a few of them, “Yes, mama.” “Don’t call me Mama.” “Yes, non-Mama”), but they should be all hits with kids. As for the action, there is plenty of it, though not as hard as it was in JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED. On the Masked Man scale of Crap, Poor, Decent, Good, and Great, (viewing with kid eyes), DC SUPERHERO GIRLS: HERO OF THE YEAR scores a GOOD.
LAKE OF FIRE #1
Writer: Nathan FairbairnArtist: Matt Smith
Publisher: Image Comics
Reviewer: Masked Man
Remember that movie OUTLANDER from 2008 (not the current TV show and not the sci-fi Sean Connery movie)? Well Nathan Fairbairn and Matt Smith sure do, as they borrow the plot of monster aliens landing on Earth in the Middle Ages. This is Fairbairn first turn as a writer, as the bulk of his career in comics has been coloring. He did lot’s stuff for DC and Marvel, plus a ‘little known indy book’ called SCOTT PILGRIM. Matt Smith, not the Doctor or the British comicbook editor (whom I first thought), is the guy who put together the 176 page graphic novel BARBARIAN LORD. So he knows something about sword swinging adventures. He’s mostly known in the business as an editor, for the likes of 2000AD and JUDGE DREDD. So good luck to both of them.
So here’s the short blast. LAKE OF FIRE #1 is a double size issue, 44 pages, introducing us to the main characters, and kicking off the plot. There is a young naïve knight, an old world wary knight, and a zealot Black Friar. While off in the later stages of the Crusades, they get send on a fool’s errant, and end up as cannon fodder for some alien beasties.
You want more spoilers? Well, the main character is Theobald, a young knight who has joined the Crusades without his Queen mother’s permission. He is joined by his squire, Hugh and his stepfather Henry (who can’t get him to come home, so must watch over him). Under the command of Lord Montfort, who wants nothing to do with them, nor Raymond, your typical grizzled war vet. Not to mention Black Friar and his goons, who see heresy in everything. To get them all out of his hair, Lord Montfort sends them on a pointless mission in the middle of nowhere. Little does he realize it’s a small town being over run by alien monsters that just crash landed. Along the way they meet a young woman, Goodwoman Bernadette, a heretical who Black Friar wants to kill. As you can tell, none of these characters get along with each other. But when the action heats up, they will probably have to make friends fast. While Fairbairn does a fine job of story telling, the story really doesn’t get interesting until the action starts. Which takes over 30 pages to get to. So the double sized issue was a good idea. The world and character building, is all well done- if a little too a typical. Luckily, Fairbairn does a good job heating things up when the action starts.
Smith’s art is a bit cartoony and simplistic, but well done. He’s a bit like Evan ‘Doc’ Shaner. Fairbairn loves to jam pages up with lots of panels, but Smith makes it all come together nicely. So, a bit slow to start, but the pay off of aliens vs knights is well done. If you’re into that kind of thing, you should check this out.
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ATOMIC ROBO: THE TEMPLE OF OD #1
Writer: Brian ClevingerArtist: Scott Wegener
Publisher: IDW Publishing
Reviewer: Masked Man
Atomic Robo is one of those comic books I’ve been meaning to read, but never got to. Last week, everything seemed to have lined up for me, as I finally did. Checking out his second adventure- chronologically that is. You see, this is actually the 11thAtomic Robo mini-series, but the second in his character’s history (so far I guess).
Clevinger and Wegener’s creation is a little like Hellboy, in that like Mike Mignola, they have combined many different story genres into one adventure hero. Atomic Robo is part campy sci-fi, part Indiana Jones, part mythology romp, and part general comic book silliness. Clevinger and Wegener also managed a Eisner nomination back in 2008 with the first mini-series. Robo, himself, was ‘created’ by Nikola Tesla and powered by an atomic heart, which will theatrically live forever (ok, kinda). Since being created (and slapping around Thomas Edison- you know, the whole Edison vs Tesla bit), Robo has become a “weirdness magnet” (to steal a Blue Devil term). There’s no telling where, when or what he will be doing next.
Getting to the spoilers of this issue, Robo is in Japanese occupied China, 1938. The US State department has become aware that the Japanese may have gotten their hands on a Chinese scientist, Lu Huang. Lu’s work in zero-point energy could make the atomic bomb look like a water pistol, as they say. So Robo, teaming up with the Chinese resistance, is on the hunt for Lu and his research. Along the way, he also teams up with an old friend, Helen (from the Tesla days) and gets captured by a super powered Japanese soldier, Lt. Matsuda Ichiro a.k.a. “I swear he’s not Marvel’s Radioactive Man”.
The action and dialogue is light and breezy, as you might expect. Robo is constantly being treated as someone out of his depth on a spy mission, as he is too honest and naïve. This, of course is always the mistake of people who think they are so smart. Clevinger does a good job balancing the humor with the adventure. But for someone like myself, who is well versed in anime humorist adventures, I found this issue lacking. Not that ATOMIC ROBO is trying to be anime, but for silly action / adventure, Anime always seems to do it best (from mild to bug nuts crazy).
Wegener’s art is equally fun, matching well with Clevinger’s script. And it, is a bit anime inspired. Character expressions and some poses are very anime. Still he makes it all his own. Like Clevinger, he tries to walk the line between silly and adventure. And I’d say he succeeds, for the most part. While I’m not totally blown away, ATOMIC ROBO: THE TEMPLE OF OD #1 is a fun issue. I would assume A.R. fans will be pleased with this, but perhaps newbies should start with well-received trade first.
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DC REBIRTH Reflections
By Humphrey Lee
Everybody remembers his or her first Reboot/Relaunch, right? They’re such an innocent time where one doesn’t quite no what is going on or what to expect and proceeds with timidity into a life changing new experience where you come out the other side seeing the world with new eyes. And then, from that point on, it’s never quite the same. Every reboot from then on seems like it’s maybe trying something new to tickle your fancy, but they’re just trying to duplicate the same sensation as the first and leave you with a building notion that you’re just being used and pandered to and instead of a riveting climax, you’re just left feeling been there and bored. Next time, you think, maybe there will be something fetishy to really get you going; and I’m not even dragging out this sexual metaphor anymore, I’m just remembering Speedball becoming Penance at the end of the first CIVIL WAR…Okay, I know that CIVIL WAR wasn’t actually a “reboot,” but it was a big turning point event that set the framework and tone of an entire comic book universe for near on a decade, for (some occasional) better and for (typically a shit ton) of worse. Now that we are a solid three months into DC’s latest attempt at gaining back market share streamlining its universe, Rebirth, actually feels less like a big restart and more like some heads in editorial finally got together and said “hey, you know how fans like their characters to just have stories told about them without too much tertiary bullshit going on, how about we go back to that?” DC UNIVERSE REBIRTH did hit and bring some hype with it, of course, and insinuated some bigger machinations primarily around the reemergence of the pre-New 52 Wally West and a certain Godlike blue man who loves to let his dong hang out from one of comics’ most cornerstone works, but since then mostly everything REBIRTH has decided to stand on its own and just tell its own story. And that, for anyone wondering why this piece is existing here right now in the midst of our weekly REVIEW column, is what I kind of wanted to go over for a thousand-plus words because, jaded as I am when it comes to a big, company-wide “do-over” such as this, find myself back to buying a good eight to ten DC titles a month again and, get this, enjoying them all quite a bit for a variety of reasons.
Here’s where we get to the review bits of this because, given the bi-weekly nature of the focal character books in DC’s stable, I had five Rebirthed books alone show up this past national comic shop day we celebrate every Wednesday and I feel they are all worth talking about to their own degrees. And also, because of the quick shipping nature of these titles, I feel like we already have a good-sized sample pool of material to judge what the not-really-a-reboot reboot is going for. Like, Greg Rucka’s WONDER WOMAN who shifted back to its current day story arc with artist Liam Sharp from its Origin retelling one with Nicola Scott. What is impressing me about this book – and that I feel Rebirth as a whole is succeeding pretty well on right now – is how it is very back to basics in that it is making a lot of effort to emphasize how much the character of Diana is supposed to be that icon of Grace and Decorum but that is not to ever be trifled with. This is juxtaposed with the Origin issues with Nicola Scott that show us a very innocent eyed and naïve Diana who is enamored by the world of men (and one lucky man in particular, Steve Trevor) and I assume the point will be to collide these tales together at some juncture as the months and plots progress.
Now, as much as the tone and characterization of this run have started off pretty much perfectly, the alternating nature of the stories, I feel, leaves each issue feeling a little “spacey.” What I mean by that is that while these alternating storylines are not completely playing off each other plot wise (yet at least) they do seem to be feeding into each other’s tones as they explore the Diana/Steve relationship in their own ways given where they are in the time period and thereby the overall plotting has been kind of decompressed. We’re now three issues into this present day arc, “The Lies,” and essentially what has happened is Trevor and his squad has been caught by some jungle-dwelling megalomaniac with aims at godhood and Wonder Woman went hunting for her friend-turned-nemesis, Cheetah, looking for help finding Themyscira and it coincidentally put her back with Steve. There was a step up in intrigue this latest issue with some more characters (namely Rucka creation and black ops go to character, Sasha Bordeaux) entering the fold and implying some mysterious plans to lure Wonder Woman into some cabal dealings. Meanwhile, two issues into the Origins side of the things, basically it’s been a couple issues of young, naïve Diana starting to come into her own as a woman and a warrior as she grows into adulthood and then her already burgeoning curiosity explodes as men crash land on Themyscira. It’s a story we’ve seen time and time again, but handled with that touch of grace and feministic power that Rucka handles so well on these books, aided by how well Nicola Scott brings those ideals to life on that book with her pencil work. Likewise, Liam Sharp is bringing a very graceful and powerful rendition of the Princess to life in the current day setting as these two story arcs (hopefully) bridge toward one another.
Meanwhile, while WONDER WOMAN is feeling just a little spaced as each issue bounces back and forth, the latest FLASH volume really is just burning through material. Primary creative tandem Joshua Williamson with artist Carmine Di Giandomenico (and in this issue, fill-in artist Felipe Watanabe) have just been throwing everything at the Scarlet Speedster for six issues now and I actually wish it would kind of rein things in and take the more methodical pace that Rucka and company are doing with WONDER WOMAN. In the space of six issues this team has touched on the Wally West reemergence, is diving into the heart of Barry Allen’s personal life, particularly his relationship with his speedster sidekicks, introduced some new antagonists in the form science terrorist cell “Black Hole” and evil speedster Godspeed, and created dozens of new speedsters via a “Speed Force storm” where the lightning that gave Barry his powers struck many Central City civilians to give them powers, including Barry’s (literal) partner in crime-solving August Heart and scientist and now (solidified in this latest, fifth issue) already Flash love interest, Meena Dhawan.Seriously, look at all that shit. That is only three months worth of material. Even shipping bi-weekly all that could have been a dozen issue’s worth of storylines and it would have benefitted greatly from the extra breathing room. Because, don’t get me wrong, Williamson and Di Giandomenico are really doing well by the characters and brainy super-heroing nature of this book. Barry’s inability to sit still, literally and figuratively, are on display here as he jumps from personal interaction to interaction between trying to spend time with now just plutonic friend Iris West, new brain-pleasingly romantic interest Meena, and becoming more of a mentor to partner August March. Godspeed also does strike a pose as a menacing speedster villain even though he’s really just shown up briefly twice to fuck with all the trainee speedsters granted powers in the big Force storm. But that’s a ton of plot to throw in there at once, especially when they are all have their own merits to explore and tie back into the hectic life of Barry and the metaphysical nature of his super powers and heroic feats. I just wish this crew would take a little step back in thinking that in order to emphasize the fast-paced nature of Barry’s life they need to make the book equally manic because on a pure concept meets character level, this book has teased being the cream of the Rebirth crop so far. Or at least it did until a certain blue and orange badass kicked up their own Rebirth title in the past month…
I don’t want to say much more about DEATHSTROKE in this space than I already did in this space a week ago, but my god is this book already so perfect. The Carlo Pagulayan art is perfect, the Christopher Priest scripting of making Slade Wilson - perfect assassination machine - a sardonic, emotionally distant, will get the job done no matter how far he has to go force of nature is perfect. The political overtones, at least in these first two issues, are brutally honest and add a nice level of complexity to the storytelling and lead back to the chess-like gamesmanship level that Slade’s brain plays on when he’s just not straight dismembering fools for results. And there’s so much room left for some very messy yet heartfelt familial storytelling to go on from here as Priest has spared no inclination to flashback into the past of Slade and his ultimately tragic relationship with his sons and his kind of depraved relationship with their mother, let alone complicated one he has with “friend” and handler, Wintergreen. If these first two issues are an indication of what this creative team are capable of and planning on doing with possibly one of the best villains turned sometimes anti-hero in comics ever, then Rebirth might be a success just for giving us this book and creative that ironically stands alone from the whole ordeal.
Lastly, to talk about a book that seems to be the most entwined with what REBIRTH kind-of-sort-of promised, and that’s Dan Abnett and Brett Booth’s TITANS. Three months ago the biggest push I got out of the DCU REBIRTH issue was that it more or less stated that Legacy with these iconic characters mattered, and they were not using that as an excuse to throw some new characters out of the way for old and vice versa. Wally West of the fiery redhead (and thereby soulless) variety got ripped from continuity hell and pulled back into the proper universe, and not to just get rid of the newer, diversified model of his that debuted in the NEW 52, but to acknowledge that throwing out thirty some odd years of that characters history while in the midst of slapping new number ones on all their titles was a mistake. Dragging him back into the universe, though, seems to be rife with mystery and ramifications, those of which fall to his best friends and former Teen Titans teammates to deal with given what we’ve seen so far in this TITANS title.Abnett and Booth have very much made Wally’s man-out-of-sync story the focal point for this book, and it works great because the Titans have always been a heart-and-soul comic book team. All the growing up together as sidekicks, the love and loss driven storylines they’ve gone through over the decades, and then all their coming into their own as stand alone superheroes kind of culminates here as the group finds themselves remembering and working alongside a friend they had completely forgotten. Funnily enough, I’ve commented twice between talking about WONDER WOMAN and THE FLASH that their bimonthly shipping statuses have maybe had adverse pacing effects on how those teams are presenting their stories, meanwhile I think there is so much storytelling potential here in TITANS between reintegrating Wally West, syncing the relationships and histories of these characters back together, and having this book potentially become the cornerstone of whatever bigger storyline the writing and editorial bullpens of DC might have in store for the overall line that TITANS should also probably be a bimonthly book to get through all the material. As is though, Abnett and Booth are throwing out some good old relationship heavy, classic super heroics. These characters are friends first and do-gooders first-and-a-half and this issue in particular emphasizes where these characters have grown from by having them engage in a fun-if-tropeish battle against recreations of their former selves made by Flash villain Abracadabra. It’s breezy fun backed up by some emotional resonance but that I think could lead to some big stakes if indeed Wally’s return is the herald of something bigger in the DC universal scheme of things.
If anything really does come to the forefront of this Rebirth stunt, reboot, relaunch whatever you want to call it, it does seem like a dedicated effort has been made to either get back to the essence of DC’s primary characters (at least for the titles I’ve tried) or their relationships, or both. I talked about these four books because, well, it’s a review column and these are what came out in the past week, but in addition to them you have a BATMAN title under Tom King and David Finch that has spent its time exploring what that character means to his city of Gotham and its citizens and vice versa, a SUPERMAN book under Pete Tomasi and Patrick Gleason exploring the familial aspect of raising a super kid to be a symbol of hope, and a GREEN ARROW title done by Ben Percy and Otto Schmidt that has taken the character back to his bleeding heart, social justice warrior roots. As far as gimmicks are concerned when it comes to such large relaunches for a comic book line, I can think of worse ones.The only real issue that I think Rebirth overall suffers right now is that while it is nice that the titles are more or less standing on their own, no one has bothered to at least somewhat kind of define where the universe stands as of now. When the idea of New 52 was presented as a sort of “streamlining” of the universe and making it more “accessible” to a wave of new readers we weren’t sure existed (and, hey, sales numbers seem to be showing they do overall) they didn’t give any clue in the slightest what was really carrying over. Superman died fighting Doomsday and apparently Batman did have his back broken fighting Bane, or did he? And all of Johns’ Green Lantern epics counted but Hal has only been around for like five or six years and now there’s no Wally and Green Arrow is a peppy 20-something not his kind of lothario 40-something he’s been for decades and urgh. I’m glad that Rebirth is letting the creative teams breathe a bit but given it’s not a full-scale reboot like New 52 was, nor does it seem to be writing out that past five years of history for the publishing line, I wonder if that could lead to some sort of master-plotting confusion in the long run if indeed things like the Wally West reintegration into the universe and a certain group we supposedly Watches things gets involved in the grand scheme. Or does that latter plot point even matter now or was it just a “cool” thing Geoff Johns thought he could get away with before he sailed off into the sunset of Warner Brothers land?
Who knows the answers to that (well, I would like to assume editorial would have some idea) but what I know is that, right now, if you are a reader who likes your iconic characters to be icons and you like your comics to just be comics, DC has actually gotten their heads out of their asses and is putting product out there that does what comic books should do and put their characters forward. Your mileage may vary given what you want from scale of storytelling or how you like you material paced or if you prefer a certain emphasis on traits and style for these characters, but I’m not seeing much of anything in this wave of relaunches that rivals the last one in lack of direction for the titles if “what the hell, let’s try it and see what sticks” attitude toward putting them out for consumption. I’ve been through enough of these that the thrill and mystique of them has diminished, but I’m a few dozen issues and nearing a couple hundred dollars of investment into this kinky new number and it is tickling a lot of the right erogenous zones, because why not bring these couple thousand words of dissection back to a bad sensual metaphor? Wrapping this up rather bluntly, I get that all of these events and stunts should be met with a healthy bit of skepticism because all it takes is some over-zealousness or lackadaisicalness on the part of these creative teams and (mainly) editorial for it all to go boom and wipe the board clean again. But at some point you have to just judge the product on the merits of what is coming out issue-to-issue, and right now, frankly, the product is mostly solid to outright good. Hopefully it stays that way, lest I’m writing another one of these in five year’s time, and that probably sounds even less welcome than another reboot at this rate, though I thank you for reading all this if you survived. Cheers…You can pick up issues of DC REBIRTH at TFAW by clicking each image in this feature!
Humphrey Lee has been an avid comic book reader going on fifteen years now and a contributor to Ain't It Cool comics for quite a few as well. In fact, reading comics is about all he does in his free time and where all the money from his day job wages goes to - funding his comic book habit so he can talk about them to you, our loyal readers (lucky you). He's a bit of a social networking whore, so you can find him all over the Interwebs on sites like Twitter, The MySpaces, Facebookand a blog where he also mostly talks about comics with his free time because he hasn't the slightest semblance of a life. Sad but true, and he gladly encourages you to add, read, and comment as you will.
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