Mike Kennedy (1)

Only okay
8:42 pm 21 November 2016
Alien vs. Predator: Thrill of the Hunt (Aliens Vs. Predator) - Mike Kennedy, Roger Robinson, Dustin Weaver, James Pascoe
Humanity lost all its technology, then regained it - minus knowledge of aliens or predators. When a group of businessmen and underlings and government liaisons land on a planet they wish to colonize, this gap in their knowledge turns out to be far more important than they could have realized.

The problem is that predators and aliens killing meatbags - while satisfying to read about - doesn't make a storyline, even with the hunter becomes the hunted storyline going on. All the trappings - the socio-political arguments, etc - never seemed fleshed out enough to make a solid plotline. There was that, there was a love story, and neither felt like it was enough to really make me care about the characters, so I didn't care if or when they died.

The ending was creepy, and one of the better open ended finales I've read in a while. Even that wasn't enough to save me not really caring about what happened to the characters next. If I had, it would have been far more effective.

Not bad, just not really engaging enough for me to want to read more. That being said, it hit the media tie-in for my general comic bingo card. And I got it in a Humble Bundle and it was less than a hundred pages, so I was going to try it at some point. Now seemed as good a time as any.
Graphic Novel media tie-in IDW Humble Bundle read in 2016… (mer)

This is a Ghost/Batgirl team up. The Batgirl in question is Cassandra Cain. And Ghost is a woman, Cameron, who can-- well-- become a ghost, something about her mass or whatever. She can get through people, things. She's based in Arcadia, and the case that brings her into contact with Batgirl and Oracle is a missing girl that no one else cares too much about finding.

In Gotham City Batgirl and Oracle are trying to find a young woman who goes missing after Two Face blows up the Diamond Exchange.

There's also a Doctor Greymatter as well as the 'Engine' from the title.

I didn't totally love the team up, but I liked the art, and the story wasn't too bad either. I probably would have liked it more if I had read any stories with Ghost in them before.… (mer)

I've read Superman in JLA but I'm pretty sure that I never read a standalone Superman comic. I just don't find him very exciting. He's too "all american". The art on this really sucked me in. Carlos Meglia is amazing. I LOVE his style. It's kind Roger Rabbitesque but add in a bunch of sci-fi elements, really cool weapons, robots and cool clothing. So I'll be looking for more of his stuff. It's just so cool that it seems it wouldn't be bad even if the story sucked.

As far as story goes this was fun and it added to the Superman legend. It got me wondering who makes those kinds of decisions? Who gets to change things up? Is this now part of the Superman canon or is it just a one shot/what if kinda thing?

Anyway it was good and it's beautiful so I'm really glad I bought it (since I don't buy many graphic novels).… (mer)