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I’ve ended up skipping most of the post-Final Crisis spin-offs, although Run sounded quite tempting. However, I’d enjoyed the Super Young Team in Final Crisis a lot, so given that it was a quiet comics week for me, I ended up picking up the first issue of Dance.
And what a great first issue [...]

I’m not a huge Legion fan by any stretch of the imagination, but I’ve been largely buying the “3 worlds” series for 3 reasons:
1 – Final Crisis tag on the front. I’m a sucker for tie-ins.
2 – Its widely speculated that Bart Allen will be resurrected in this series.
3 – Geoff had promised a [...]

Ok, initial reactions here. I’ve read the issue quickly (or at least, as quickly as I could) over lunch.
As I mentioned last week, following Superman Beyond #2, I was really worried about the implications for Final Crisis. And in some regards, I think I was definitely right. Superman Beyond is required reading [...]

I’m really not sure what to make of Superman Beyond. Dealing with the Monitors and the subplot of Lois being near death, this 2-part series has basically filled in the gap of where Superman was while everything was going to Apokalyps in a handbasket back on Earth.
My immediate thought is that, as this [...]

This is it. This felt like the issue a lot of stuff had been building up to, with Batman’s last stand against Darkseid.
However, that only takes up a couple of pages in a packed book. The story focuses on the big fights as the survivors make their last stand against Darkseid, and while [...]

Well, sales-wise anyway.
Newsarama have put up Diamond’s end-of-year sales figures, which show that Marvel, and specifically Secret Invasion really handed out kickings all round, with 8 of the top ten sellers being the Secret Invasion issues.
I suppose this shouldn’t really be a surprise.  Secret Invasion was hugely popular, and despite sagging in the middle (IMO) [...]

“You have 24 hours to save the universe, Lantern Jordan.”
Although we’d previous seen it in the preview, it was great to have those scenes on Oa in my hands. Carlos Pacheco’s art really shines (I’m assuming its him drawing book, frankly I’ve lost track), and I must admit I’m taken a bit by surprise [...]

Newsarama have put up a preview of Final Crisis #5.   Its quite lengthy running at 7 pages, and lets us see Kraken/Granny Goodness’ attack on the Central Power Battery on Oa.
I’m quite surprised they’ve let us see that much of the issue, but I’m pretty happy with it. I was worried that events on [...]

Well, Final Crisis is back this week, with two issues in the tale. Final Crisis: Submit is solicited as a tie-in one-shot, but really you can read it alongside Final Crisis #4 as part of the main story. The fact that its also written by Morrison is probably key to this.
Its no secret [...]

Newsarama have a preview for the upcoming Rage of the Red Lanterns one shot up here.
I’m loving the Red Lanterns so far. Laira’s recruitment was pretty brutal, and we know from the Star Saphires that the rings on the far end of the spectrum will exert a lot more influence over their bearers, so [...]