Rapid Reviews - 30 March 2005 - Part I

Wow, I'm on last week's books! I'm almost caught up! Maybe I can get caught up on my blog reading, too, soon. I keep getting e-mails about contests and such, and I keep meaning to do a link post, but I've been so busy with training and fundraising that I haven't had time to do a good blog recently. Some millionaire comic book fan needs to donate a couple of thousand dollars to the cause so I can stop worrying about fundraising and get back to normal blogging...

DC Countdown #1: "Countdown to Infinite Crisis": Well, who woulda thunk it? Ok, ok... so I saw lots of speculation about who Batman was holding, and many people turned out to be right. But it was still quite a story to get there. The villain was not at all who I was expecting. And there are those leftover bits of Identity Crisis that are now rearing up and biting the DCU. Interesting. You can't beat the price on this one, and it turned out to not be a half-bad story too. I'm actually quite curious to see where this storyline goes from here. Of course it helps a little that I've been told the whole Sub-Diego thing in Aquaman ties into the Infinite Crisis.

The Flash #220: "Rogue War Chapter 1": The Flash has always had a decent crowd of bad guys to fight, and it looks like this is bringing them all together to battle each other. I was afraid that the events in Wonder Woman would be completely forgotten, but there seems to be some links to that, and maybe to DC Countdown as well. Overall not a great issue, but about standard for the Flash.

Outsiders #22: "Deep Throat": I figured Roy couldn't survive this particular battle, so I was interested to see how Winick could pull off a "save the day" without it looking silly. He managed it, I think. Not the best way, but certainly a logical way for that particular battle to have ended. And the rest of the book isn't bad, either.