Bouquets & Brickbats

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't post about current comics that much. I don't buy enough to drive the 20 miles to the store every week, but I do have opinions. even though they are late:

Bouquets:

• Seeing the awning copy owned by J. Lopez (AKA Jose Luis Garcia Lopez) in Bat Lash #3
• Booster Gold actually TALKING Sinestro out of a evil plan in Booster Gold #2 (I'm trying to play catch-up here folks. Cut me an ever-lovin' break. How can I keep up on the great comics of today when I'm trying to locate every appearance of SCALPHUNTER?!?!?!?!)
• I LOVE the changing narrative tone in Jonah Hex. One issue has a straight-forward narrative, the next has none, the next is told from the pov of a character, another is written like a dime-novel. This is a fantastic book.

Brickbats:

• I'm not sure I like the two-tale format of Justice League of America. There are just too few pages in the book to be able to do that without me feeling cheated on the main story.
• They killed Cliff Carmichael in Suicide Squad after finding the best use for him in the DCU. I was hoping he would become the Anti-Oracle.
• I think I know why I'm not enjoying the Justice League of America. In a team book, we get to learn all about the various team members and their supporting cast. However, in JLA, all we ever get of Supes, Bats, & Wondy is the typical iconic superness of them. There is no background, no emotion, no support at all. Of course this is because all of that is stuffed into their own books. What does that leave us? Red Tornado, Vixen, and Black Lightning. uhhhhhhhhh, not so much, at least for me. This will probably be on my drop list.

Bouquets and Brickbats #1

Just got my books for this month. Here are the bouquets and brickbats

Bouquet - Jonah Hex in New York City
Brickbat - Jonah Hex in New York City 'one week after the war finished', meaning the first week of April 1865, when we know that he didn't surrender to the Union forces until a week later (Jonah Hex #30).
Major Brickbat - Jonah in New York City in 1865 with his face being scarred (which happened in 1866, Jonah Hex #8)

Bouquet - Shaggy Man slowly taking over the Suicide Squad with the help of Cliff Carmichael.
Brickbat - The Suicide Squad trying to take out evil energy corporation Haake-Bruton. hmmmm
Hakke-Bruton lets move some letters around and replace a few...
Halle-Burton how would I spell that so it is easier to read?
Haliburton Ooooooooh so THEY'RE the evil company. hee hee [BARF]

I thought John Ostrander was a better writer than that.

Bouquet - Blackhawk, Boy Commandos, Metal Men, Robby Reed, Hawkman, and Atom all in one book.
Bigger Bouquet - Interlac on the Hero Dial
Even Bigger Bouquet - Andre having to translate for Andre.
A whole room of bouquets - The Metal Men all yelling at Mercury; the billboard citing Roberts, Ross, & Michaels

Bouquet - Bat Lash's little brother threatening the bad guys.
Brickbat - Brubaker not suffering more from getting a railroad spike in the shoulder.

Bouquet - Villians seeking sanctuary.
Brickbat - I have no idea what the cover of JLA had to do with the story.