Alan Rapp

Worlds’ Finest #14

Worlds' Finest #14I’ve been less than ecstatic with the increased role Apokolips and Desaad have played in this comic over the past few months. Although Worlds’ Finest #14 continues that trend, it refocuses the book better on our two heroines and their friendship (and less of Desaad’s weird experiments and shadowy plans) in a way that’s been lacking in some of these issues (and reminds me a little of what I miss from Gail Simone‘s original Birds of Prey series).

Robson Rocha seems firmly in place as the title’s new artist and he does a pretty good job here (although he gets a little too liberal in the Power Girl boobs shots even when she’s out of uniform in his issue, and the inking is a little sloppy in terms of definition of the characters’ eyes in a handful of panels).

The story finds the pair still under attack as Desaad’s warriors continue to burn down their safe houses and try to grab all of Karen Starr’s research on travel to parallel worlds. The ends in a very public attack on another Starr Industries headquarters as Huntress and Power Girl split up to deal with soldiers and Parademons out for their heads.

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Rookie Blue – The Kids Are Not Alright

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Rookie Blue - The Kids Are Not Alright

Just hours from their planned camping weekend with Epstein (Gregory Smith), Nick (Peter Mooney), and Diaz (Travis Milne), Andy (Missy Peregrym) and Peck (Charlotte Sullivan) run down a car that blows by a sobriety check point. They loose the driver but do find a traumatized young teenage lesbian living as a boy name Alex (Katy Grabstas) in the car’s trunk. Rounding up the driver puts the pair in the middle of family drama between the older brother who flipped out after finding his younger sister making out with Alex that afternoon. Feeling responsible for the trouble he caused, a suicidal Alex slips out of the hospital and disappears sending a panicked Andy and Gail after the teen.

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Franklin & Bash – By the Numbers

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Franklin & Bash - By the Numbers

Franklin (Breckin Meyer) and Bash (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) take the case of an actuary (Martin Starr) the pair recently beat in court who is accussed of murdering a young woman (Meg Cionni), a former lover whose life insurance he bought out and is now on the hook for after her terminal illness went into remission. Despite the ghoulish nature of what the actuary does for a living, Peter and Bash can’t help but notice his effect on women, including the smitten Carmen (Dana Davis).

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Detective Comics #22

Detective Comics #22The beginning of a new arc brings new enemies to Gotham for both Batman and Bruce Wayne. As Wayne staves off the aggression of billionaire weapons designer E.D. Caldwell who desperately wants to acquiring Wayne Enterprises technology to further his fortunes, Batman is presented with a new stable of deadly vigilantes operating in Gotham City under the command of Wrath (who, of course, is also Caldwell).

I’m not sure a late 2000’s Lex Luthor-style ripoff who also enjoys dressing up in tights and armor is a good foil for Batman. Batman dispatches Wrath’s first lieutenant without much effort (although he does have to deal with one cop who mistakes Batman for the vigilante and another intent on killing Scorn).

Although it opens up new possibilities and challenges for Batman, I’m not sold on this storyline (or either Caldwell or Wrath). The comic also offers another less than great Man-Bat back-up story that takes up way too many pages and reveals that Francine Langstrom (to no one’s surprise) is actually the Man-Bat attacking the streets at night. Anytime DC wants to dump this story would be fine with me. Hit-and-Miss.

[DC, $3.99]

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