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Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum 1

I was intrigued by the art and interesting layouts, so I gave this a shot. Superman discovers four new shades of Kryptonite, and somehow thinks that using himself as a guinea pig is the best way to discover their effects on him.  Batman wisely thinks that this is a stupid idea, but Superman doesn’t listen.  Hijinks ensue.  I’m not sold on this, but I’ll flip through the next issue when I see it on the shelf.

Fantastic Four 2

I don’t quite buy how the FF get out of this predicament.  Both Reed’s solution and Sue’s ability to figure it out are too much of a stretch, so I’m ultimately disappointed at this resolution to what was an awesome setup.  I also didn’t expect this story to go a third issue.  I’m sure that Ryan North will turn it back around.  

Trinity: Daughter of Wonder Woman 3

Trinity’s perpetual failure and her two younger selves’ exasperated frustration had me LOLing at several points in the story.  Some good fun by Tom King and Belen Ortega, along with a nice little lesson about perseverance to boot.

Absolute Batman 11

Absolute Bane’s origin story is pretty close to mainline Bane, but Scott Snyder tells it well.  Unfortunately, it falls apart in the back half with an incomprehensible fight scene from Clay Mann.  (Who also does a really poor job with some super scratchy self-inks.)  I can’t tell what’s happened at the end; has Bruce really been Anakined into a limb-less Darth Vader/Mecha-Batman scenario?  So confused.

Wonder Woman 24

Ugh, I hate hate hate this “Mouse Man knows” speech bullshit.  It’s completely ruining what would otherwise be a fascinating story.

Detective Comics 1100

Anniversary anthology issue.  As I’ve said before, Tom Taylor is a master of writing the obvious-but-never-done-before stories.  Here, he teams up w/ Mikel Janin to tell a sweet, wordless story about locating a lost puppy.  Lots of feels.  The Mariko Tamaki story is a waste of pages.  The Greg Rucka story’s pretty good, and the Bill Sienkiewicz tale gets by on the art.  (The plot’s meh.)

Battle Beast 4

Too much talking, not enough fighting.  Why is Robert Kirkman swerving away from what works on this title?

Absolute Flash 6

I said a few more issues last month.  Giving it one more month; this Rogues Gallery origin didn’t do much for me. 

Krypto: Last Dog of Krypton 3

Such a waste of money.  Krypto saves a girl lost in the wilderness.  This issue took two minutes to read and even less time to forget.