Colin Catchings Comic Reviews

Pick up this comic if you like Batman Beyond, big kicks, sleek designs, or super hero comics with diversity.

Buy this issue if you like bronze-age story telling, striking shadow contrasts, or great comic books.

Buy this comic if ….. just go ahead and buy this comic.

Pick up this one if you like domestic drama, Blue Beetle tech, and super heroes fighting Middle Eastern terrorists.

Pick up this comic if you like (almost) non-stop action, cross-hatching, or Harley Quinn hitting people with a giant hammer.

VerdictI hated this issue and it killed my interested in the series. Well, I guess it's a relief that I don't feel the need to hunt up any back issues to see what I missed.Buy this comic if you like dependent women, cliche super hero-first-fight-then-team-up storytelling, or hastily wrapped up endings.

Pick this one up if you like purple prose, a fresh take on an old toy commercial, or *shudder* pants on He-Man.

Buy this issue if you like nostalgia, great colors, and big, epic hits.

Buy this comic if you like slit throats, Tri-Klops, or dull surprises.

Buy this comic if you like alien worlds with cool art, familiar characters free of the bonds of continuity, or overly expository scripts.

Buy this comic if you like dull comics, lame cliff hangers, or Howard Porter art.

Pick this one up if you like dudes overestimating their own abilities, attacks on Russia, or terrible costumes.

Pick up this one if you like people getting shot, mercenaries following the money, everything going wrong immediately.

Pick this one up if you like old masculine action movies, mysterious space ships with distress signals, or swamp shacks surrounded by gators.

Buy this comic if you like cartoony-art, Starfire blowing people up, dangling, unaddressed plot threads from the previous issue.

Despite what I said in my review for Lobdell's return issue about now wanting to see this comic have a plot, Lobdell is doing enough actually good work with Starfire and her storyline here that I'm actually enjoying it. The issue ends in an interesting place with Red Hood and Arsenal potentially wanted for murder and Starfire feeling betrayed by the closest thing she has to a family and having taken some sort of drastic but as of yet unclear step, and I'm eager to see what's going to happen next to this group that is surprisingly becoming my favorite DC characters.

Buy this comic if you like ultimate destruction, guest stars, and sweet spaceships.

Pick up this comic if you like wicked goatees on characters who don't traditionally have them, ink heavy art, or all for one and one for all.

Buy this issue if you like two men commiserating about their failed love lives, high collars, or you've just got to have one more comic book with John Stewart and Guy Gardner.

Buy this comic if you like lots of characters dying, anime, comics in service of line wide gimmick events.