Author: Geoffrey Luu

The Question: The Deaths of Vic Sage (2019-) #3 DC Comics Writer: Jeff Lemire Artists: Denys Cowan, Bill Sienkiewicz, Chris Sotomayor, Willie Schubert The Deaths of Vic Sage #3 catapults The Question into a violent, hard-boiled detective story for the penultimate chapter of the DC Black Label series. Book 3 of Jeff Lemire’s miniseries continues to build on its time and genre-hopping central conceit, as Vic Sage continues his journey through past lives to prepare for another confrontation with the supernatural Man with a Thousand Faces.  In this issue, we see the Vic Sage of the 1940s, the private investigator…

Batman: Curse of the White Knight #8 DC Comics Writer: Sean Gordon Murphy Artist: Sean Gordon Murphy & Matt Hollingsworth With Curse of the White Knight #8, Sean Murphy delivers an immensely satisfying conclusion to his Azrael saga, ending the series on an incredibly high note. The Wayne secrets are all on the table and from the first page, Murphy launches us into high-octane action. Believing that he has nothing left to lose, Bruce Wayne relentlessly pursues Azrael, intent on abandoning his ultimate rule and killing the villain. Bruce’s internal struggle either to claim revenge for the Gordon family or…

Comic Review: The Green Lantern Season Two #2 DC Comics Writer: Grant Morrison Artists: Liam Sharp with Steve Oliff The Green Lantern Season Two #2 takes a break from galactic threats to show a day in the life of Hal Jordan as his stakeout mission on Earth begins. In what could reasonably be called the equivalent of a TV filler episode, Hal confronts an aggressive race of bird-people attempting to raise an army to take control of Earth. To be frank, as a self-contained story, GL Season Two #2 feels inconsequential. The story is amusing and has a charmingly…

Batman: Curse of the White Knight #7 DC Comics Writer/Artist: Sean Murphy Batman: Curse of the White Knight #7 brings the second act of Sean Murphy’s White Knight saga closer to its lethal conclusion. As the Wayne family’s secret is revealed, the stakes rise ever higher for Batman and his allies in the GCPD.  Following CotWK #6’s revelation about Edmond Wayne and his one-time ally Bakkar, Bruce Wayne struggles to process the changes to his identity and to his and his family’s role as prominent figures in Gotham. Though Bruce makes progress in repairing his relationships with members of…

Wonder Woman Dead Earth #2 DC Comics Writer: Daniel Warren Johnson Artists: Daniel Warren Johnson and Mike Spicer Wonder Woman Dead Earth #2 continues Daniel Warren Johnson and Mike Spicer’s post-apocalyptic Wonder Woman story in bloody, terrifying fashion. This second installment sees Wonder Woman take charge of the surviving humans, after freeing them from despotic control in Book One, and leading them on an exodus to her home of Themyscira. Dead Earth Book Two’s story is quite good; with so few human survivors left following the nuclear crisis mentioned in Book One, the stakes feel high and are enhanced…

The Green Lantern Season Two #1 DC Comics Writer: Grant Morrison Artist: Liam Sharp Grant Morrison’s The Green Lantern returns with a new #1 issue following the chaotic three-part Green Lantern: Blackstars interlude. With the threat of the Blackstars and their leader, Controller Mu, safely behind them, Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps look to the future as new threats and cosmic developments arise. In this second season opener, Hal is tasked with recruiting a new generation of cosmic immortals to succeed the current Guardians of the Universe, as well as with testing potential new members to join the…

Comic Review: Iron Man 2020 (2020) #1 Marvel Comics Writer: Dan Slott and Christos Gage Artist: Pete Woods The future is now: giant impractical shoulder gears are finally in fashion as Marvel Comics and writers Dan Slott and Christos Gage relaunch the Iron Man of 2020. Following the December finale of Slott’s Tony Stark: Iron Man, Slott, and Gage waste no time introducing new threats and a new armored hero. As the title would suggest, this new Iron Man 2020 series follows the Earth-616 version of Arno Stark, who in this continuity is the biological son of Howard and…

Olympia #2 Image Comics Writers: Curt Pires & Tony Pires Artists: Alex Diotto & Dee Cunniffe Tony and Curt Pires’ Kirby homage continues with the next chapter of Image Comics’ Olympia. I stated in my review of the series’ debut issue essentially that its story and characters showed promise but that they needed to differentiate themselves more from their comic and film inspirations. Olympia #2 moves forward slightly in this direction but many of its designs and minor concepts feel lifted directly from Kirby’s Thor and Fourth World comics. This is a problem for a developing series trying to…

Comic Review: Batman: Last Knight on Earth #3 DC Comics Writer: Scott Snyder Artist: Greg Capullo In Last Knight on Earth #3, Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo’s eight-year Batman saga finally reaches its explosive conclusion. This final issue sees the new, younger Batman face off against the sinister Omega with the free will of all Earth’s survivors at stake. Snyder uses this final issue to tie up as many loose ends as possible from the preceding issues, resulting in an immensely satisfying (yet bittersweet) farewell to this version of the Dark Knight. Last Knight #3 is jam-packed with story,…

Dark Knight Returns: The Golden Child (2019-) #1 DC Comics Writer: Frank Miller Artist: Rafael Grampa Dark Knight Returns – The Golden Child, the latest addition to Frank Miller’s long-running canon of Batman stories, is a hard book to describe. Put simply, it feels like it’s telling several different stories at once but doesn’t have the page count to totally stick the landing on any of them. That’s not to say that Golden Child is a bad comic. There are certainly good ideas here, and thankfully none as outlandish as the Dick Grayson Joker from The Dark Knight Strikes Again…