Sinestro Corps Wars and Uncanny X-Men Update

It had been a few weeks since I picked up books, so when I went in I discovered that another issue of Uncanny X-men had come out. It was actually pretty interesting, except for a scene with Johnny Storm and War Path. Xavier abused his powers more to Nightcrawler's amazement, but we did get to see Magneto paying his respects to one of his dead henchmen. There's a show down between the X-Men and the O.N.E., and the cliffhanger to the book is that one of the Morlock's is actually a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, undercover. Storm has some more pathetic dialog that fit the new persona Marvel's chosen for her. It's sad that Marvel had this great idea of putting her and Black Panther on the Fantastic Four, and not a single writer has done anything interesting with it. Not in X-Men, not in the FF book and definitely not in Black Panther! Reed and Sue were gone for like 4 issues and already they're on their way back, so it was a total waste of a great idea. Check out that cover though! Larroca is just gotten better and better, you can totally tell that he took a break and came back with a fresh prospective and really had taken his art to the next level. Still haven't read the Endangered Species storyline but Bangley's art stinks, hopefully he doesn't take over an X-Book.

Sinestro Corps after the break!

The War continues on in Lantern 22, and boy howdy was it exciting. One of the Lost Lantern's get's smoked, sadly he was pretty cool but that's Geoff Johns style, kill them while their cool! Superboy Prime hangs out for another issue and so does the Anti-Monitor and Cyborg Superman. AM promises CS that he'll kill him once they fulfill his real motives (Which were not revealed). Can I just say for a moment how bad ass Hal Jordan is? Oh I can? Hal Jordan is a bad ass! Not only does he still not take any crap from the Lost Lantern's, but he pretty much tells the entire Sinestro Corps Army to suck it. Going back to Superboy Prime, he's already eying the Earth which was cool, but he's got Superman's powers and a Sinestro ring... if he's not kicking and killing a lot of people by the next part I'm going to call Bullshit on him being in the book. Parallax is the bomb as well, he cuts down so many of the Lost Lantern's with just his words and playing on their one deep fear. The best is when he's saying it's as easy as the first time he and Jordan took down the LL's, and asking Jordan if he remembers screaming on the inside unable do doing anything about it. Great stuff. I can see what Johns' is going to do next though, he's going to go into the fear tanks and over come his one great fear so that Parallax and Sinestro have nothing over him and then beat more ass then ever before. Which will be cool, but I see it coming.

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All Flash - DC kills one Flash to bring back another

I feel the need to mention first that there were two covers to this special... click here to see how bad the other cover was. The special marks Mark Waid's return to the Flash, and I'm sure a lot of Fanboy's are excited by this. Even though in his 5 years of writing Flash before, he couldn't get the book to be a top seller. In fact not even Superstar Geoff Johns was able to, although it was before he became known as a Superstar. Waid's hot off of 52, which I'm not going to explain what 52 is you can google it, so maybe he'll be able to re-new interest in the Flash. The story was pretty good I must say, wrapping up the crap-tacular ending of Bart Allen's run as the Flash. Bart died by the way. I recently read all 13 issues of the Flash and was actually enjoying it up until they killed him, but as I read All Flash, I couldn't help but wonder if this was really DC's plan all along? I just wonder if they had handled the re-launching of the Flash, or maybe had chosen a new person to be the Flash, if things wouldn't have turned out differently. Frankly I think some one lost their editor's position after messing this one up. We'll see what happens with the next issue of the Flash which returns to the original numbering of the last volume. The future images they showed for the Flash at the end of the special looked stupid by the way, he and his much older kids, are like a superhero family or some crap. If you're not into the Flash, this book won't get you hooked. If you were a fan of Wally West, you'll love his return, and if you weren't you secretly wish that Batman's choice for which Flash to return, had come true. Lastly if you were a fan of Bart Allen, just be glad to know that his death meant nothing and did nothing other than get him out of the way for DC to return to the run of the mill Flash everyone's use to.

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