Oh wow. Active thread again.
So, since my last update, here is what I have read.
Superman: Red Son (got for Christmas from André and Kiki)
Superman: Earth One
Cowboys & Aliens
Starborn - Issue #1
The Traveler - Issue #1
Soldier Zero - Issue #1-3
Morning Glories - Issue #1
I've been really damn busy over the last week or so (and will continue to be until Friday probably, working my full-time job during the day and then freelancing at night) so I haven't had much time to get into all the new Batbooks I got. The 2 Superman books I got though were absolutely awesome (ESPECIALLY
Red Son... Holy shit. Such a brilliant premise and execution, and I adore how it ended. It did something that I tend to really really dig in fiction literature and it just totally grabbed me on the whole. I highly recommend it).
Earth One was also extremely entertaining and I can see why it's getting so much acclaim. The writing, pacing, and artwork were all top notch. I'd have to say I preferred Red Son on the whole, but Earth One is high up there as well.
Cowboy & Aliens... it just... sucked. It was really damn lame. The beginning of it seemed really promising. It seemed like it was going to be this cool and deep philosophical journey, but it jumped ship really damn fast and just became.. well.. stupid
Thankfully, at least based on the trailer, the movie doesn't SEEM to be following the same story as the comic, which makes me hopeful.
The single issue things I got were kind of impulse buys from the last time I went to Challengers. I had heard about the 3 new Stan Lee-helmed (but not written) series of
Starborn,
Soldier Zero, and
The Traveler, and was relatively curious so I checked em all out, along with a series that simply had a cool looking cover (
Morning Glories). Of all of them I'd say Starborn has the most interesting premise to me. The Traveler seems kinda... meh... I dunno... Probably needs a few issues to get me interested. Soldier Zero was pretty cool. A little gimmicky but, we'll see where that goes. Morning Glories seems like it'll either be really cool once it gets into the meat of the story, or be a mouthpiece for some annoying ass characters.