Viz Comics June 2020 Review

Boys and girls i'm going try something that i've honestly been wanting to do for the past few months but have been putting it of and that is a monthly review of the Viz Comic strips. I'm not going to lie this could be the only one that gets done but if it gets enough support then it very well could become a monthly thing on top of the yearly Viz Annuals reviews as well and since this is a new thing i'm also going to come up with a new format which which you will see during the review and so here is my review of the June 2020 issue from Viz.

CHARACTERS FEATURED INCLUDE

8ACE

In this issue 8ace and his wife go to the shops and his wife has to stop him spending all of there money on cans of beer. I'll be honest i've never been a fan of this character to me he's just not funny in anyway and this issue does nothing to shift my opinion of him I honestly don't see why the character is still appearing in these strips since from what I can gather all of his stories are the exact same or at least in my opinion they are anyways.

THE FAT SL*GS

The story fo these two in this issue is that after having thirty six pizzas in the space of a week they decide to grow some vegetables. It's a really simple story which I think works well for these characters but it did leave me wondering how in the hell they could afford over thirty pizzas in the space of a week when they have no jobs but overall it was a very enjoyable story and one that made great use of the characters.

THE MAIL ONLINE

I love this strip and the story for this issue I thought was pretty funny with the story being that the wife character wants to go out but the husband following the strict UK lockdown guidelines refuses to leave the house and so we see what happens to him after a month of not leaving the houses even refusing to go into his own garden. This was actually a pretty funny story simply because it's something that rings true for a lot of people right now and the fact that it didn't demonise people who are like that to me made the story feel more sweet.

NEWSPARER ARTICLES

As is tradition with these Viz issues there are some spoof newspaper articles which I personally didn't mind that much this time around. Sadly tho they weren't as funny as perhaps they could have been especially given what's been going on in the world over the past month there's a lot of stuff that they could have lampooned but sadly they don't do it which is a shame but hey it means that they will have stuff ready for next month's issue at least.

There are also a bunch of spoof comments from the general public as well some of which I thought were pretty funny. With perhaps the best example being someone asking why elephants have this reputation for remembering everything when they don't have have a go at him for something he did fifteen years ago which while it's not laugh out loud funny it is still a pretty funny joke and one which I liked.

ONE OFF STRIPS

A STEPTOE AND SON ONE OFF SPOOF

Now i'm not going to mention anything about the art just because if this is going to be a monthly thing then it's something that I don't want to bring up and repeat myself with every single month. What I wasn't expecting was a Steptoe And Son spoof which for you Americans is the show that spawned Sanford And Son , I honestly wasn't expecting this since no one talks about Steptoe And Son and really hasn't done for decades and so to see the characters spoofed here was a real joy for me personally and I hope that they spoof more classic British comedies in future issues.

A KING KONG SPOOF

Yes ladies and gents you read that right there's a King Kong spoof in this months issue which I have to admit was fairly funny. To put it simply the spoof follows the plot of the original Kong except it replaces the characters with British TV stars even Kong himself is here portrayed by a British TV star i'm trying not to spoil anything just because if you can find away to read this issue then I highly recommend it just for this strip alone because it really is that funny in my opinion.

Overall while alot of this issue isn't that funny there are still alot of funny stories in this issue that make it worth reading in my opinion. There you go guys that was my pilot review for the Viz Comics series with any luck this series will continue every month with a review of the latest issue and i'll review the yearly annuals as and when I possibly can , sorry for the lack of HD images but if you know Viz then you know the type of content that they include hence why i've edited one of the names and not included that many HD images as for this issue tho it gets a 7 out of 10 from me and well i'll see you all in July with the nest issue.

  

Looney Tunes Cartoons First Batch Of Episodes Review

Looney Tunes fans the Looney Tunes brand has seen it's highs and it's lows over recent years and well the Bugs and the gang are back with a new series of shorts. Which like the rest of you I was really looking forward to seeing I watched alot of the previews that were released on line in the days leading up the series release and since there's a lot of episodes being released i'm doing this review in huge batches and so here is my review of the first batch of episode for "Looney Tunes Cartoon" enjoy.

Now as you'll all no doubt know this show doesn't have a plot line since its a series of shorts and as such each short will have a different plot so for example one short see's Porky and Daffy as firefighters while another would see Bugs Bunny trying to watch a baseball game. I'll admit that the set ups for each cartoon can indeed be funny but more often then not the shorts don't go all the way with the ideas behind the setups which is a shame.

Starring in the series is Eric Bauza as Bugs Bunny , Daffy Duck,  Tweety , Pepé Le Pew and Marvin The Martian and Bob Bergen as Porky Pig. Also starring in the series is Jeff Bergman as Sylvester , Elmer Fudd , Foghorn Leghorn and Ralph Wolf , Fred Tatasciore as Yosemite Sam , Taz , Sam Sheepdog and Gossamer , Candi Milo as Granny and via archive audio the late Paul Julian as Road Runner.

For me the voices in this series are a very mixed bag because while alot of the voices are indeed good there are others that just don't work as well. Take for example Eric Bauza as Bugs Bunny while his performance in the show is indeed good the voice just doesn't work for me since it doesn't sound like Bugs and the same goes for Candi Milo as Granny she puts in a good performance the voice just isn't there yet and there are plenty of others that are like that which is a shame because performance wise the acting is spot on in my opinion.

Now what makes this show stand out is that there's a bunch of different animation studios working on each short film. Which for me is a good thing because it allows each studio to leave there mark on the franchise as well as show us what they can do as a studio , that being said the animation in the shorts is honestly really good heck i'd dare say that it's feature film quality that's how good the animation is in my opinion.

The animation in these shorts also gives the shorts some of that classic Looney Tunes feel in my opinion. Which while it won't be noticeable in the character animation you can defiantly notice it in the backgrounds and indeed in some of the character designs , I honestly feel that this is a good thing because it helps recapture the spirit of the original shorts something which alot of recent Looney Tunes products haven't done.

As alot of you will know this show is airing on HBO Max which is a new streaming service from Warner Bros. From what I can gather there taking the same approach that Boomerang took when they aired Wabbit / New Looney Tunes where they release a whole bunch of episodes at once which for a show that's meant to have eighty episodes makes a lot of sense instead of releasing it either all at once or in weekly instalments which would just not work for this show.

Each episode is around eleven minuets long and is made up of usually three shorts with the middle short being around thirty seconds at most and the other two being around for or six minuets each. I honestly think is the right think to do for this show since the stories that they tell but at the same time I do wish that some of the shorts where a bit longer just due to how much fun I was having watching them.

Now even tho i'm a bit of a Bugs Bunny fan I have to admit that there are far to many shorts featuring the character in this first batch of released episodes. Over half of the shorts feature Bugs and that for me is far to many since it doesn't give enough time to show us the other Looney Tunes characters , I get why there showing us a lot of Bugs Bunny cartoons because he is the mascot for the Looney Tunes franchise but there's only so many times you can see him up against Elmer Fudd before you get bored watching it.

Another thing that I didn't like is that they had screwy Daffy in almost all of his shorts and to me at least that version of Daffy just isn't that funny. I personally find the Daffy that we see when ever he goes up against Bugs to be more funny but for some reason Warner Bros really like screwy Daffy since this is the version of the character that got in Wabbit / New Looney Tunes as well so weather or not they find this version of the character easier to market to young kids I don't know but that's just what I think.

Another thing that I didn't quite like that much is the fact that for alot of his shorts they had Daffy paired up with Porky Pig for some reason which I wouldn't mind that much except those are the only shorts in which Porky appears as well. Hell in this first batch of episodes there's only one short in which Daffy appears with someone else and that's in the short "Plumber's Quack" where he appears with Elmer Fudd and once again is his screwy self and there's one where Daffy appears on his own called "Bubble Dum" which rather rightfully uses his screwy persona.

As you guys will now this is a comedy series and that means that we have to talk about the comedy in this first batch of episodes. For me the comedy was very hit and miss which isn't necessarily a bad thing since all comedy is subjective , however I will say that when a joke does indeed work it works really freaking well it's just a shame that all of the comedy is slapstick and none of the classic Looney Tunes wordplay is anywhere to be found in this batch of episodes which is a shame in my own humble opinion.

  

Overall this was a solid first batch of episodes they did a really good job of trying to capture the magic of the original shorts which while the animation succeeded in doing so the humour and the writing didn't So yeah it's a very mixed bad I can say for sure that it's better then Wabbit / New Looney Tunes ever was and when this show is good it's really freaking good as such this batch of episodes gets a 7 out of 10 from me and yes I will be reviewing each batch of episodes whenever they release on HBO Max.

  

Game Of Thrones "You Win Or You Die" Review

Game Of Thrones fans I had such a good time talking about the final ever episode of the show and so I thought that i'd talk to you again. Only this time instead of choosing an episode from the pretty bad final season I thought that i'd go all the way back to the very beginning and take a look at the episode from the very first season of the show and I have to admit I chose a very good episode but honestly I only chose this episode because of one quote which i'll get into later and so here is my review of "You Win Or You Die" enjoy.

The plot of the episode is Ned confronts Queen Cersei about some secrets , while King Robert is gravely injured and Daenerys has a brush with death. I know that that summery is very bare bones but trust me when I say that it's the best that I could do , that being said the stories that are told in this episode I found to be really engaging with all the stories presented being well told as well as being well written.

Starring in this episode is Sean Bean as Eddard Stark , Mark Addy as Robert Baratheon and Jason Momoa as Drogo. Also starring in the episode is Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Jaime Lannister , Lena Headey as Cersei Lannister , Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen , Iain Glen as Jorah Mormont , Aidan Gillen as Petyr Baelish , Kit Harington as Jon Snow , Alfie Allen as Theon Greyjoy and making his debut for the series is the legend that is Charles Dance as Tywin Lannister.

I know that this is going to sound odd but I actually can't believe how much who we think are the main cast of this don't appear in this episode there's no Maisie Williams , no Sohpie Tunrer and no awesomeness that is Peter Dinklage it's honestly weird watching an episode of the show and not seeing them in it. As for what I thought about the acting in the episode it was honestly really good it's up the show's high standard of acting and that's honestly the best thing that I can say about the acting in this episode.

This episode is in my opinion a good episode to show of how everyone in the red keep is lier and is willing to sell anyone out since we see Little finger lie to Ned and Cersei lie to everyone in the throne room. I honestly love the fact that the Red Keep is full of liars because it means that you have to work out who's telling the truth and how isn't and this episode is a good example of that because both of the characters that I listed are known liars in this world and soy your always wondering if there telling the truth or not. 

I will full on admit that there was only one reason why I wanted to review this episode and that's the fact that what I think is the best quite in the entire show is in this episode "When You Play The Game Of Thrones You Win Or You Die There Is No Middle Ground that quote right there just sums up the entire show perfectly for me. Also given who's saying the quote and who she's saying it to it's now really ironic since both characters played the game of thrones and lost.

What also makes this quote stand out to me is the fact that it's the most accurate way to describe the show in my opinion. There's only two ways out for people who play the game of thrones either you claim the throne or you die there's no middle ground and that is true for every one who played the game and the only one who really didn't play the game Bran is the one who ended up winning the throne in the end and no Sansa doesn't count since she did technically win a throne just not the iron throne so she doesn't really count as a player in my opinion.

This is the episode that sees the death of King Robert and I have to say compared to other deaths even in this very episode his death is honestly not as over the top with gore as other deaths are. His death is honestly really well done it serves as setting up basically the rest of the show with all these families fighting for the throne as well as being a scene that is in my humble opinion really well acted as well as well written.

For those that don't know this is the episode that saw the debut of Charles Dance as Tywin Lannister and I have to say even tho he's in one scene he is so terrifying in that one scene. Even tho i've seen this episode a dozen times I was still pretty scared by him so I can only imagine how Nikolaj Coster-Waldau felt being in that scene with him for god knows how many hours and it's honestly a great introduction scene in my opinion.

There are a few issues that I personally had with the episode the first of which being that the finale with the big twist really did come out of nowhere. By that I mean there was no real build up to it happening it just came out of nowhere  to me the big reveal would have worked better if there was some sort of build up in the episode but sadly we don't get any but it is still a good reveal in my own humble opinion.

Overall out of the season one episode i'd say that this is one of the best episodes simply because it does a good job of setting up the rest of the show. That being said there are some issues that I personally had with the episode with one of them being the episode felt a lot longer then it actually was which is a shame because the episode was in my opinion really enjoyable as such it gets an 8.5 out of 10 from this Game Of Thrones fan.

 

My First Impressions Of The Stargirl TV Series

Ladies and gents DC is back with a new live action TV show which depending on how your going to watch the show will either have just been released or is about to air. Well this is a show that I was honestly intrigued about since I knew nothing of the characters as such I was honestly interested in seeing the show since it's also the last new DC live action show that we might be getting this year I thought that it was at least worth taking a look at and so here are my first impressions of "Stargirl" not to be confused with the Disney+ movie of the exact same name.

The plot of the episode is teenager Courtney Whitmore and her mother move from California to Nebraska with her step dad and brother and when they get there Courtney discovers something that will change her life forever. Yeah this is your basic superhero origin story with nothing new really thrown in but I do have to say that it does work for this show mostly because from what I can tell the origin is being done over two episodes instead of just one which means we'll get more time to fully develop Courtney as a character.

Starring in this episode and thus the rest of the series is Brec Bassinger as Courtney Whitmore and Yvette Monrealas Yolanda as Montez/Wildcat. Also in this episode and the rest of the series is Anjelika Washington as Beth Chapel , Cameron Gellman as Rick Tyler , Trae Romano as Mike Dugan , Jake Austin Walker as Henry King Jr. , Hunter Sansone as Cameron Mahkent , Christopher James Baker as Dr. Henry King Sr. , Amy Smart as Barbara Whitmore , Joel McHale as Sylvester Pemberton and Luke Wilson as Pat Dugan.

In terms of what I thought about the acting in this episode for a pilot episode the acting was about on par as what I was expecting it to be. In that it's not that good but it's not that bad either all of the actors are still trying to find there characters but you honestly expect fairly average acting in a pilot anyways so no one should hold that against this episode since most pilot episodes have bad acting in them anyways.

I will say that if your expecting Courtney to be wearing the costume at the end of this episode then get ready to be disappointed. Since she doesn't wear it at all in this episode hell they don't even show her making a costume which is honestly really refreshing since it would have been super easy to have her appear in a few sexy alternative costumes before settling on the one she wears but the most we get is her wearing a hoodie and bandanna and that's it.

They do actually kind of set up a mystery which I hope lasts the whole season because if it does it will make things really interesting. If you can't tell i'm trying to keep things as spoiler free as possible since alot of people will be watching this show when it airs on The CW and so it's not fair to them if I spoil the episode , if the mystery goes they way that I think it's going then it's going to make things really interesting in later episodes of the show should it go that way of course but I could be wrong but I hope that i'm not tho.

Now how this show is being released is to me really interesting because it's airing on both the DC Universe streaming service and The CW but on different days. Why they couldn't just stick to on platform to release this show on is beyond me but I guess it gives people more reasons to subscribe to DC Universe since there's new content on there now but if that's the case then why have it air the next day on The CW and why when the series has finished airing are hey going to have all the episodes available on The CW website for all to stream it really makes no sense to me whatsoever but that's just my opinion on the matter tho.

I admit I got a little bit worried that this show would go super woke on us with it's first episode like what Batwoman did. and i'm pleased to say that that honest'y isn't the case at least with this episode. That to me is a very good thing since hitting you over the head with being woke at the expense of telling a good story is never a good thing but here it looks like there telling a good story first and and having a female superhero be second which is a good thing because it makes Courtney seem more like an interesting character.

I will say that this episode really did fly by for me this episode is nearly an hour long and it really didn't feel like it at all. Which is honestly a pretty rare thing for me to say since most shows that are exactly an hour long very often feel like there an hour long where as this one felt more like it was forty to forty five minuets long and alot of that time is spent developing the characters so we actually get a chance to care about them which is something that most shows don't do which to be fair isn't a bad thing since you have an entire series to develop them and care for them but it's nice to see the pilot episode take it's time to develop the characters.

I'm just going to come right out and say it this show looks like a freaking movie it's that stunning to look at. Hell there were several times where I thought that this could very easily be turned into a movie because it looked that beautiful even the effects which i'm not really going to comment on since there's not that many of them in this episode looked like the kind of effects that you'd expect to see in a movie and not a TV show.

Overall I honestly really did enjoy this episode and I can honestly see myself enjoying the over twelve episodes of this show. There is a reason why i've not mentioned the action sadly it's kind of a spoiler but if you've seen the episode you'll know why but let's just say for a superhero action show it's a bad thing but I will say that so far this show is of to good start it has interesting and likeable characters and it gives you a hint as to where the story could be going as such this episode even tho it's not perfect gets an 8 out of 10 from me and only time will tell if I watch this on a weekly basis or not but so far so freaking good.

Popeye Cartoon Review "Popeye The Sailor" , "I Yam What I Yam" And "Blow Me Down" Review

Now then boys and girls since my review of the first Superman cartoons went down really well I thought to myself what other older cartoon shorts could I take I look at and then it hit Popeye. So as with the Superman cartoon reviews I watched the first few cartoons only this time instead of just watching the first two I watched the first three cartoons mostly because I was having such a good time watching and so here is my review of the first three Popeye cartoons.

The plot of the first cartoon called "Popeye The Sailor" is that Popeye is on shore leave and so takes Olive to the carnival and while there they run into Popeye's enemy Bluto , meanwhile the plot of the second short is that Popeye , Olive and J. Wellington Wimpy find themselves trapped on an island meanwhile in the third film Popeye must fight Bluto after he threatens Olive. Yeah all three stories are really simple which I guess works for the six or seven minuet time frame these cartoons have but at the same time they don't really leave alot of room to tell a good story.

Starring in the three shorts are William "Billy" Costello as Popeye, Bonnie Poe as Olive Oyl and Charles Lawrence as Wimpy. Also starring in the shorts are Bonnie Poe as Betty Boop and William Pennell as Bluto. You guys haven't mis read anything Betty Boop does appear in the first Popeye cartoon for reasons that i'll explain later on in the review but it is pretty cool seeing these two crossover even if it's just in one short.

In terms of what I thought about the acting in the shorts from what little dialog there is it was pretty good at best. Which for a series that started in the early 1930's is the best thing that I can say about the acting since like I said in these early shorts there's very little dialog and so its hard to fully get a grip on the quality of the acting but from what I could tell the quality of the acting is pretty good which was honestly what I was expecting to be honest.

As with the Superman cartoon shorts doing the animation for these early shorts is Fleischer Studios and like with the Superman shorts they did alot of these early Popeye cartoons before getting there name changed to Famous Studios. The one bad thing I can say about these early cartoons is that the characters are far two bouncy for my liking but the overall quality of the animation I felt to be of a very high quality heck i'd go as far to say that it rivals that of Disney especially when you factor in the Superman cartoons.

Now there 's a reason why I posted a picture of Betty Boop and that's because the very first Popeye short is actually a Betty Boop cartoon. This cartoon would also mark the only time that the two would appear on screen together and I have to say that having them appear in the same cartoon makes sense since at that time Betty Boop was a huge star and so in a way it's sort of a passing of the torch time of moment sadly tho I cannot post a picture of the two together since she technically appears topless in there one and only scene together.

Now for those that don't know Popeye and the rest of the and actually started life as comic strip characters appearing in Thimble Theatre on January 17th 1929. The character very quickly became the main start if the strip and so turning him into a cartoon series makes sense hell from this we can pretty much gather that Popeye actually made cartoon history by being the first comic book character to get turned in a cartoon since the first Popeye cartoon debuted in 1933 and lasted for decades.

Each of these cartoons runs for at least six or seven minuets and in my opinion it really feels like they should have been at least ten minuets each. Mostly because the cartoons fly by so fast that you don't have the time to take anything in and so by the time the cartoons reach there end while you are left with a smile on your face your also left wondering what you even watched in the first place which is not a good thing in my opinion.

As you can all no doubt work out all three of these cartoons are in black and white and so I will fully understand if people chose not to watch them. I will also fully understand if people chose not to watch I Yam What I Yam because it does have some shall we say questionable content with how the Indians are depicted but to that I say that that cartoon was made in a different time and so I ask that you judge that cartoon by the standards of the day it was made in and not by the standards that we have in today's society.

Now then boys and girls since these are all comedy cartoons that does mean that we have to talk about the jokes in the shorts. Which I honestly feel were really good granted alot of the jokes haven't aged well at all but that's bound to happen with a cartoon made in the 1930's but alot of the psychical stuff is still funny and alot of the jokes that they have in the action scenes are really funny and the action itself is really good.

Overall these shorts are really funny and they like all good cartoons from back in the day they hold up really well. There are only a few issues which i've mentioned in this review but most of them are very understandable as such "Popeye The Sailor" which I think is the best of the three gets an 8 out of 10 from me where as "I Yam What I Yam" gets a 7.5 out of 10 from and "Blow Me Down" gets a 7.5 out of 10 from me as well. 

If this series does continue I think it'll just be one review for every one cartoon just because I think that I can get a full review just one of them. The same thing will also go for the Superman cartoons as well for the exact same reason in terms of when they'll release i'm working that out right now but i'm thinking maybe once a week or something like that just because that way I don't get sick of doing them but we'll see.

 

  

Superman 1940 Reviews "Superman" And "The Mechanical Monsters" Review

The character of Superman has been had so many cartoon shows and animated movies it's hard to really keep track of them all. So I thought that i'd do something that's a little bit different ans talk about some of the very first Superman cartoons since i've honestly not seen people talking about these cartoons which for the life of me I don't know why since these cartoons are still stunning to look at the first two cartoons "Superman" and "The Mechanical Monsters" enjoy.

The plot of the first cartoon "Superman" is a mad scientist is going to use a deadly laser beam at midnight and it's up to Superman to stop him , where as in the second cartoon "The Mechanical Monsters" the plot is someone is using robots to steal millions of dollars in jewels and it's up to Superman to put a stop to it once and for all. Plot wise these cartoons are freaking great even tho they have a basic plot line they make it work and due to that both plots become engaging and exciting to see play out.

Starring in these two cartoons are Bud Collyer as Clark Kent / Superman and Joan Alexander as Lois Lane. Also starring in these two cartoons are Julian Noa as Perry White , Jack Mercer as the Mad Scientist and Jackson Beck as the Narrator, Radio Newscaster and in the case of the second short Bud Collyer as The Inventor. Now I know he's i've listed Julian as being in both cartoons but he's only in the first one but he does get a mention in the second one.

In terms of what I thought about the acting in both the shorts it was honestly really freaking good in my opinion. WE don't get alot of dialog in both shorts since they rather understandably have to move the story along but what lines of dialog we do have are well delivered and it's clear to anyone who watches even a few minuets of these cartoons that all of the actors are clearly doing the best that they can and it really does show in my opinion.

Doing the animation for the first nine of these shorts and thus these first two shorts was Fleischer Studios. To put it simply the animation in these shorts look like they were made in the either the eighties or the nineties and not the early forties that's how good it is. In my opinion the animation looks like it belongs in a feature length film I honestly implore any animation fan or even any fan of Batman: The Animated Series to check these cartoons any of them it doesn't matter because they all have great freaking animation in them.

What you guys might not know is that the first short "Superman" is actually a historical cartoon in the world of Superman since it's the first time that the character had the ability to fly. In the early comic books he had the power to leap tall building in a single bound which does look good in comic book and in radio form but not so much in animation and so Superman was instead given the power to fly and it's been with the character ever since.

Not all is good with these cartoons tho since for obvious reasons we don't get to find out much about the villains. Which I fully understand why since each short is only around ten minuets but a key part of story telling is getting across all points of view and that does mean getting the villains point across as well but due to the tight running time we only spend a few minuets in these first two shorts with the villains and so we don't really get to find out what there end goal is or why there even evil in the first place.

I will say that the pacing for both of the cartoons is honestly really good with both cartoons not feeling to fast nor to slow. They only spend a few minuets at the start of both cartoons setting up the story with the remaining several minuets being filled with exciting action and stunning visuals as such there's no room to think about things such as story or character because your so sucked into what's happening that those things become secondary in my opinion.

Since these are action cartoons that does mean that we have to talk about the action that's in both cartoons. In my opinion the action in both cartoons was extremely exciting to see and it's during these action sequences which also take most of the cartoons running time where the animation really stands out since we get to see things which would have been difficult to do back in the forties like buildings almost falling over or cars crashing for example and it all looks so freaking good.

Overall I cannot give these cartoons enough praise since even all of these years later they are still so freaking good. Like I said in the review there is one thing that I personally didn't like even tho the reasons behind it are very understandable it still have to be taken into account as such I give the first cartoon short "Superman" an 8.5 out of 10 and the second animated short "The Mechanical Monsters" a 7.5 out of 10 and the entire collection of cartoons is up on Youtube so go and watch them all right freaking now and there in the public domain as well.

 

Wonder Woman Earth One Volume Two Review

Well then comic book fans I can't even remember the last time I reviewed a comic book it was that long ago but I thought to myself that since we have all this time of I might as well do one now. As luck would have it I also forgot about the sequel to Wonder Woman Earth One Volume One being out and so after being reminded of it I thought that this would make a good book to review and so here is my review of Wonder Woman Earth One Volume Two" enjoy.

The plot of the book is Diana gets I guess you could say brainwashed by someone all the meanwhile there is a threat coming not only for Paradise Island aka Themyscira but also from on the island itself. The first thing you should all know about this book is it's part 1 of a two part story and so nothing gets resolved in this book as for what I thought about the story tho it was honestly really good and that's the best thing that I can say about story.

The writer of the book is comic book legend Grant Morrison who's written a ton of books for DC as well as a Doctor Who comic book. I honestly didn't like the writing in this one to me it felt very child like like he was just putting Diana in situations that only a child would come up with and it just didn't work with the more adult tone of this series but when Grant does write something in the book that goes with the tone it works oddly well.

Returning from the previous book to do the artwork is Yanick Paquette who's mostly worked on books for DC but has also done a few X-Men books as well as other books for Marvel. I'll admit the only book i've seen from this artist is Wonder Woman Earth One Volume One and so I can't really say if his work is any good or not but I do feel that this book is a slight step down in quality in my opinion the artwork isn't bad by any means but it's also not as good as it perhaps could have been.

Yeah this book is pretty violent like way more violent then I was honestly expecting it to be but given the books more mature tone it's to be expected. The violence in my opinion works really well since it's used to tell a story or used to advance the story instead of being in there to shock you which is in my opinion a very good thing however the horror fan inside of me wanted to see more violence since what little we got was pretty freaking awesome.

There is one idea that I really liked in the book and that's a I guess you could say robotic version of Areas. That to me is just such a cool idea it's just a shame that we don't get to see it getting used in this book so i;m hoping that it gets used whenever volume three comes out. I also thought it was a good way to bring in one of Wonder Woman's classic foes since it would have been so easy just to have him show up but nope this way is actually pretty creative.

Now for the life of me I really couldn't tell you who the main villain of this book is since there's three villains and even then one of them becomes a good guy at the end of the book those being Maxwell Lord , Leon Zeiko (there's a reason why i'm not giving out his super villain name) and the sexy as hell Paula Von Gunther. All three of characters are villains in this story and all three of them are weak as hell since we don't get to find out anything about the characters nor do we get to see what there end goals are they are evil just for the sake of being evil and that makes them and thus Diana less interesting.

Now if you're like me and you've read the first volume then you'll know that this I guess you could say either series or mini-series gives a more sexy take on the character and by that I mean they show of more sexy images and she the character in more sexy angles. Well the same is true here heck I couldn't even show you one of the more sexier images since there was some nudity in there but all I can say is damn because they really like showing of Diana in this volume and I loved it not going to lie.

Now then this is an action book and so that means that we have to talk about the action that's in the comic book itself. There honestly isn't that much action in the book which I guess makes sense since this is the first part of a two part story and so it makes sense that alot of the action would be held of until the final book but what little action that there is in this book is honestly really well done in my opinion it's cool and exciting both of which you want in an action sequence I just wish that there was more of it.

Overall while I think that the first book is alot more enjoyable to read and is so far the best one in this series of volumes. That doesn't however mean that I don't like this book because far from it in fact there was a lot that I liked about the book alot of which i've mentioned in this very review it's just that there's alot more that I didn't like about the book which i've also covered in this review and so this volume gets a 5.5 out of 10 from me.