I flipped through Uncanny Avengers #1. Opening and closing an issue with a brain-exposed lobotomy isn't the best way to draw me into a book, I have to say. A bit too gory for my tastes. Felt like a Geoff Johns book, especially with Scarlet Witch getting impaled to add to the bloody proceedings.
Whose brain was it?
Scott Lang actually returned a while back, during the "Young Avengers: Children's Crusade" storyline. The Young Avengers had traveled back in time to escape a battle as well as to try and undo all the damage Scarlet Witch had done in the first place. They managed to save Scott before Jack of Hearts exploded and brought him back to the present.
Where is O6 when we need him? Somebody has to say it. Somebody, please, say it.
Also that Captain America cover (which is also used as the cover of the preview book itself) looks like all kinds of ass.
It looks very 90s.....
Team 7:
This issue shows the team kicking off their first mission. The narration is framed as Lynch's thoughts about each member of the team. In typical fashion, Lynch's thoughts about individual members share page space with the individual member in question getting a moment to shine on a recovery mission. It is a basic, but effective, way to give quick explication. A few of the members have "dead" stamped across their faces. Hopefully, this wll play out less predicatably than I anticipate. The mission for the first issue, and likely the next few issues, is investigating and recovering a floating prison for meta-humans that makes SHIELD's helicarrier look like a prop-plane. The team runs afoul of an Eclipso investigation. Aside: Amada Waller seems to be drawn a bit "meatier" in this issue. Part of me expects her to slowly gain her familiar weight over the course of the series.
Grade: B
Superman #0 and Supergirl #0:
One thing that has carried over from before "Flashpoint" is the Supergirl being presented in a mildly disturbing light. Putting aside the fact that "comics as fap-fodder" is a hard concept to grasp, it is questionable to see a character that is written as a minor presented so lewdly. Supergirl's new costume is not quite as bad as Power Girl's old "boob window" costume. But, there is one panel that could not have been drawn without lewd intent, or at least the awareness that lewd intention would be assumed. (Disturbingly, Supergirl actually looks younger in this panel than in the rest of the book....and she is drawn in "anime slut" style.) It is not quite the Turner era Supergirl, and she has yet to crawl around on all fours whimpering about how she is "such a bad girl". But, the new series is definitely aiming for that rather creepy mark.
Continuity wise, the current take on Krypton borrows from Byrne's Krypton and various others. The logic of "this one guy managed to build a spaceworthy baby carriage in his garage" is a difficult to make work in a non-Silver Age comic. In this case, a combination of Krypton's high gravity and a broken society explain why so few people in a technologically advanced society were able to escape an obvious threat. The Supergirl origin strongly implies that the "New Krypton" arc either still counts, or is going to be revisited, in the New 52.
Dom
-"Supergirl, a comic for the creepy ones...."
