Ratings and Rantings

Hey everyone, welcome back to my Red Hood. (Yeah, it's a regular thing now, get used to it.) So I'm back with more ratings, more rantings and more jokes littered between them. This week was a very low pull as I've mentioned, picking up only Blackest Night: Director's Cut, Green Lantern #53 and I was pleasantly surprised to see Streets Of Gotham #11 which I didn't even know came out this week. So I'll jump into these and tell you guys and gal(s) what I thought, so let's do it.

Blackest Night: Director's Cut

Okay, so I picked this up, for a grand total of six bucks and I feel like I over paid by five, I was pretty disappointed because I expected some new info, and some hints for Brightest Day and you know, special stuff. Instead we get running commentary from Geoff, Ivan and a few other people. And maybe four of five tidbits worth mentioning. If you don't want to know what they are, I'd suggest moving on to the next topic in the review. If you do want to know so you can save your money or put it towards something else, please continue to read on. I was disappointed because the ONLY thing we learned from this was the following. Kilowog was going to be one of the Black Lanterns who had died before, ala Superman and Green Arrow, so I guess he would have subsequently become a White Lantern with the rest. Another tidbit is they didn't know who would be the honorary Green Lantern until someone suggested Ganthet, I still think it should have been Dick Grayson because he has a lot of Will plus it would've been epic to finally see Batman use a Green Lantern ring. They also almost gave a ring to The Joker but decided to give Scarecrow the spotlight instead. Also before they were killed by Sue and Ralph Dibny, Hawkman and Hawkgirl were originally going to be killed by their past bodies as Black Lanterns which would've been pretty cool to see. Also the only time in the entire series that Flash isn't moving so fast he's blurry is in issue one when he finds out how many people have died and he sits down to take it all in. That's it. Also we see some art work, covers, Blackest Night action figures or statues or whatever, and bios on everyone included during Blackest Night. All cool stuff to see but nothing inspiring to drop five bucks on. So, instead of rating I'll just say, "Save your Money."

Streets of Gotham #11

Streets of Gotham snuck up on me, and I'd been eagerly waiting to check this issue out and see what would happen with Damian and Abuse. This issue was pretty damn good in my opinion. I loved the way this guy has been used so far and he's quickly becoming one of my favorite new characters. His sense of right and wrong and child like innocence is one of his greatest assets in my opinion and I hope to see more of him in the future. While I'm not a big Damian Wayne fan even he was likable this time around. I love how Zsasz was reinvented and I'd love to see more of Zsasz, I don't know in what capacity but the ending was great too. I could even see him and Damian becoming enemies, much like Dick and Two-Face. Here's hoping Abuse is featured even more, and gets the Batman and Robin team up he's been hoping for. Even thought Batman didn't do anything, the kids took over in this issue and made a huge impact and stole the show. Solid 10/10, I hope the next arc continues the trend.

Zsasz (on Abuse): The best kill of my career. Five hatch marks for him alone.

Green Lantern #53

Our post Blackest Night, um.. I guess current Brightest Day story starts with Hector Hammond having an intergalactic brain conversation with a mystery man that claims to have invented the Green Lantern Corps oath and much more, and from the look of things, plans to capture every entity of every Corp, and has already done so with Parallax. Anyway, Sinestro made me laugh extremely hard when he showed up, and that's always awesome, it's great to see him get some good lines and have more dimensions to him than just hating the Guardians and spreading fear. I loved the interactions with Lex and Larfleeze, as well as Lex continuing to want things, most notably a BL ring. And lastly, this was more of a filler between storylines but it really jump-started things, I mean it pushed me into wanting three issues with just one page so that's gotta be a new record. While not much happened and not alot was answered, for what it was I really liked this comic and I'm still very eager to see what comes of Brightest Day. I'll give this issue a 8.5/10.


Guy Gardner: You know as well as I do Ganthet, If we go through with this-- Jordan and I are done bein' friends. For Good.


So, three reviews, that was fast. Nice pull, maybe if I get less issues that's less disappointment. Well, that's all for this review, but I'll have Spider-Man Noir up this weekend, along with a new poll. What that is, I have no idea what it'll be on though, so if anyone has one please let me know. Next week's Ratings and Rantings will feature my thoughts on Detective Comics #864, Gotham City Sirens #11, Green Lantern Corps #47, Rise and Fall of Arsenal #2, and Teen Titans #82. Lastly I wanna ask everyone to check out Falisha's newest post at her blog, it's a review on Wonder Woman: God's of Gotham #1 of 4. You can check that out by clicking this ---> Wonder Woman: Gods of Gotham #1.
Thanks for that, until next time, You've been Gobsmacked!

- Jason Todd