I've followed his work since the Flash and Kingdom Come in the 90s, and it seemed like his Boom titles would free him from the strict limits of his editorial overseers. Waid is a national treasure and a fine but underrated writer. I found my impression this time around was very much like the last time: the opening issues were awesome but the action did not hold up. Krazy Komics reviews! I'm reviewing the first two premier volumes (which collected the first four trade paperback volumes) as a unitary work. I'll stay for the end, but at this point I am thinking "you're stretching a 2 hour movie into a trilogy". Did I feel the writer managed to up the ante in the second volume? Not really. Also.wow, the Plutonium seems to have been screwed up since he was a kid. Even a 5 year old knows how that will play out. Dumb.Īnd letting super villains loose to stop the out of control ex-hero? Come on. Do we use that reasoning with cops? If one is bad, throw them all in jail because they are all the same? No. Because, if one is bad they could all go bad. Let's capture the heroes trying to stop the out of control hero. I'm not saying the US army isn't stupid enough to do those two things but it is laughable how stupid those two actions are. We see the army work hard to capture the remaining good heroes and also let loose a super villain alien onto the world in the hope it will stop Plutonium. We know the plot - Plutonium is out of control, so when we see him do some more out of control stuff, it isn't as novel.
Okay - so the premise has been established - where does the writer go from there? Can they keep up the interest? My verdict - it was good but not as thrilling as the first volume. The dumbass should have fessed up immediately & shown them the bullet, but given how both of those douchebags overreacted to the affair, I sort of understand her hesitation.īecause dead people! Billions of dead people!Īlso notable: The government calls in a mother-fucking demon! Of course, what Bette didn't do was the actual bad thing. Seriously, Gil? You're a thousand years old and you've never fucked up?Īnd of course, there was Plutionian's reaction to the affair, which was to build a shrine to Bette and then do rapey (or just plain weird!) stuff with other women while making them dress up as his teammate.Īfter all the buildup, I kind of thought there would be a bit more to the story. A one night stand while she and Gil were dating but not yet married. It sort of read like a white-bread husband's worst fear that had somehow been blown waaaaaaaay out of proportion by both the men.
This one basically deals with the whole Bette Did Something Bad plotline.īut to be quite honest, I can't say she did anything all that bad.
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