Misc Reviews

Justice League Unlimited: This Little Piggy: A fun little romp featuring lots of magic and a few characters we haven't seen before or recently. I enjoyed the Red Tornado cameo. Zatanna was a stage magician in the Batman series before, so it's interesting how she's changed for the more general DCU. I liked seeing Zatanna and Circe react to Batman's singing, too. A pretty cool story.

The Filth: A very appropriately titled book. It makes no pretensions of what it is or isn't. I don't know who recommended this to me, but whoever it was... you were wrong. I'm not completely sorry I read it, but if I'd known going into it what I was going to be reading I wouldn't have bothered. See, this is definitely an adult book, and it went over my personal comfort line repeatedly. I'm not sure, in fact, why I kept with it. Perhaps I realized that Morrison stories tend to have a payoff and I wanted to see what it was. And yes, there was a payoff, and yes, it was a nice convoluted Morrison payoff... but I don't think it was worth reading the rest of the book. At least not to me. The problem is, of course, that you can't have the payoff without the rest of the book. So it's a nice little catch-22: I didn't like many aspects of the book due to the subject matter, but the subject matter was integral to the story that was told. Anyway. I can't give this a high rating, since I didn't really like it. However, it was a solid book that accomplished exactly what it was trying to accomplish. So I'm going exactly neutral on this one.