Deathstroke #9 (DC)

Rob Liefeld sucks! Why dont editors see that?! He is a lazy, unskilled artist and his writing is not much better. Just like his old Image buddy, Todd McFarlane, Liefeld gravitates toward characters that wear full masks because they cant draw faces or expressions. So Liefeld gets Deathstroke. Lets break it down. The Cover: Classic Rob pose. No background. Belts and pouches. Page #1: A building with no windows. A room full of smoke? Shapes that are supposed to be people. Faces with no expressions. Page #2: Weak cemetery. Faces with no expressions. Page #3: The one expression he can draw, angry growl. Page #4: Angry growls. It seems Deathstroke can magically put on his mask? Page #5: No faces. Trees for background. Page #6: Deathstroke looses right bicep band. Gloves change cut design and placement. No faces. Page #7: Faces with no expression. Deathstroke gets right bicep armband back. Purple guys have new face masks? Page #8: No faces. Page #9: The "cat" guy had whitish pants now they are red. Deathstroke has two magical shoulder pads appear and his glove turns blue. Page #10: Guy with glasses looses his backpack. Deathstroke looses his shoulder pads. Page #11: 'Peobody' magically appears with shoulder armor for Deathstroke. Page #12: Large tiles. Deathstroke looses sword. Page #13: Deathstroke finds sword. Large tiles. Page #14: No expression faces. Large tiles. Page #15: Zealot has the exact same hair as Deathstroke on page #2! Page #20: Lobo gets magical new outfit and has no blood on his body or face even though he just tore apart all those weak guards. Page #21 and #22:OOOPS! no page #21 or #22. So now we just paid $2.99 for 20 pages of crap instead of 22 ( I guess i should be glad). If DC had such a sales machine in Rob Liefeld why did he not sell enough to keep 'Hawk and Dove' alive? And dont tell me they planned on canceling it anyway because we all know that if it sold well they would not have chopped it. Money talks. Deathstroke deserves better. I have a headache now.

DC New 52 (The Bad): Animal Man #1

This has always been one of the stranger titles at DC, nothing has changed. This book is right on the edge of too strange and not easy to follow. Travel Foreman has some odd line work to his art and I guess it fits this title but

it is a personal choice, either you like it or you dont, I dont. Same old 'Animal Man' here. File: #1 and Done

Ultimate Comics: The Ultimates -First Ten Issues

This is a real good book. From the first issue, Jonathan Hickman has brought a story that fits the Ultimates like a glove. It is global, epic, and making Reed Richards the villain was genius!I was also very surprised by Esad Ribic's artwork. I was a fan of his painted work but the interiors are just as good (Luke Ross has also done a good job on art for issues #9 and #10. He reminds me of Steve McNiven). It also helps to have a nice cover by Kaare Andrews every month. This is a dont miss title! File:Buy it, Read it, Bag it.

DC New 52: Swamp Thing #1

Beautiful cover by Yanick Paquette! The story was very confusing. I guess you had to be a fan of Swamp Thing to follow what is going on. It feels like they threw in some random cameos from Justice League members with a guest star by Superman. This Superman also looks of age and not the younger looking version that is in all the other books. The best thing about this book is the nice artwork by Paquette. Lets use his talent on another title. File: #1 and done

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (film)

I told you about the book, now I saw the film. Wow!, they just butchered the book. (Spoiler Warning!) I knew things where not going to be the same from the start when they threw out the entire part of the author getting the journals. They also skipped 90% of Lincoln's early years, keeping only the death of his mother as the reason for his hate of vampires. The biggest change was a stupid rule they made up of not allowing vampires to kill other vampires. If you read the book you know that Lincoln had vampires as bodyguards against other vampires, so all that was taken out. A very cool part of the novel was the ending with the assassination of President Lincoln and having him turned into a vampire himself...all out of the film! Once again this film falls under the old saying " the book was so much better". Read it, dont see it !