Hawkman #8 (DC): Robert Vendetti (w) Bryan Hitch (a)
At last I'm able to go back to a normal routine of picking up new comics on a Thursday so since I'm now retired and have to budget my comic addiction much more than in the past my weekly fix is smaller and should be possible to do a review of the latest "floppies", any Trades or Hardbacks will have to wait as do back issues as I buy the odd one. Hopefully this slot will be a regular weekly feature on Howie's World of Comics.
Kicking off this week is Hawkman #8 which see's Carter Hall arrive on the Planet Krypton to have a word with himself just before the planet blows up. Hawkman has discovered his "true" origin in the last issue and has found out he was one of the Deathbringers who seek to restore their god to life with the genocide of whole worlds.
His Kryptonian counterpart has built a weapon that can stop them, But is he too late?
I have read so many "origins" of Hawkman I'm not the only one confused I would imagine. When I first read a Hawkman comic he was a policeman from the Planet Thanagar. Still things were simpler in the sixties when he was fighting villains like the Shadow Thief!
Rating: 5 Stars.
Fantastic Four #6 (Marvel): Dan Slot (w) Aaron Kuder (a)
The wedding of Ben and Alicia finally took place after all these decades in the last issue and they both look as young if not better than they did in the sixties. Time runs slower in the Marvel Universe they once told us. Yeah right! Ben Grimm fought with Nick Fury in World War Two. They both should be pensioners by now!
Still the nuptials will have to wait as Ben Grimm joins Reed, Sue and Johnny on a mission to Latveria where Galactus has returned for a repaste. His meal being life on Earth. Doctor Doom has decreed he will save the Earth on his own and closed his border to all-comers that includes our heroes not that would ever listen to the nefarious Doom.
And lo, is that a new Herald that approaches with the power cosmic?
I'm glad the Fantastic Four are back to Marvel Comics and reunited for new adventures. It's my all-time Marvel Favourite!
Rating: 5 Stars
Conan The Barbarian #2 (Marvel): Jason Aaron (w) Mahmud Asrar (a)
The second issue of the new series of Conan has hit stores just two weeks after the first issue and it's a jolt to the senses as it does not directly continue from the first which saw our hero helpless but in the past hunting Picts on the borders.
As he hunts and kills Picts in revenge for the death of seventeen of his men and a dog Conan finds himself in mortal combat with a giant snake which he wins and then passes out. On waking he finds himself being tended to by a Pict, the very enemies he had been killing. It seems the tribes witch-doctor had plans for our Cimmerian warrior.
All around him the Pict's view him with disdain and hatred as he is told why he has been allowed to live. Conan is to lead the tribe in battle against not one, but a whole nest of giant snakes and their queen. Conan is the one the prophesy spoke of.
A good story with great art.
Rating 4.5 Stars.
Battlestar Galactica #3 (Dynamite Entertainment): John Jackson Miller (w) Daniel Hdr & Marcio Fioriti (a)
The third instalment of the latest mini-series of Classic Battlestar Galactica continues. Still fleeing from the Cylons the fleet has allied itself with other fugitives, the alien Okaatti. The human ships are to be fitted with boosters to speed up their joint escape. Meanwhile Starbuck is prisoner of the Comitat, the enemies of his new friends and is being taken to their leader....
Actually when the inevitable happens you know you guessed right from the beginning. A bit predictable but there's still room for a twist. Two issues to go.
The third of a five part mini-series so unless your store has the previous two issues you will have to wait for the trade paperback. In the mean time here's a preview.
Rating: 3.5 Stars
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