Rapid Reviews - 25 August 2004 - Part IV

Usagi Yojimbo #78: Another day-in-the-life story of Usagi, with a fun little character introduced. Poor Usagi. As usual, the story and the art is top-notch. Sakai's only danger is in producing so much good stuff that people start to expect something more than sinple excellence from him.

Weird Secret Origins: Ah, a fun bunch of little tales. Some of them definitely didn't date all that well... "Dad - Dad! Oh, my golly -- He's sick!" "He is dead!" ohh-kay. And who knew that Nabu was originally an alien from the planet Cilia? In contrast, the Spectre's origin held up pretty well. I really enjoyed the Enchantress story, although it was definitely a product of its times, and the Animal Man story appeared to be a one-off. I don't think I'd ever heard of El Diablo, but it was a stylish story, and the other tales were fun to read. A really good read. I wish DC would do more books like this.

Amazing Spider-Man #70/511: So the plot flaws people saw in the last issue were addressed in this one. For instance, on the second page as Peter thinks through the problem, he realizes that the pair are too old to be who he thinks they are. And then later he admits to MJ that (spoilers)they couldn't possibly be his kids(end spoilers). And the cliff-hanger makes me much more curious. Just what is going to happen next? Another strong story.

That's all for this week... next week's comics due in: Birds of Prey, Swamp Thing, Justice League Unlimited, and Noble Causes (I hope, it didn't show in our shop last week, so I hope it arrives this week).