Aaaaaand We're Back!

Well it was a crazy month. Graduated, got married, went on a honeymoon. Graduation was a waste of time. The actual ceremony that is, not the whole college thing. Although I have plenty of complaints about the amount of wasted time there too. But I'll be here all night if i get into it. The wedding was great, as was the honeymoon. We went to an all inclusive resort in Jamaica for five days. It was fun, but I probably wouldn't go back. There's only so much laying around on the beach doing nothing that I can handle before I get bored. I need sights to see and stuff to do. Although all the free drinks I could handle was nice. The rum there has something like 65% alcohol, so that took some getting used to. And thank God for SPF 100 sunblock. I don't tan. I'm either white as a ghost or pink as a panther, so I prefer the white look.

ANYWAY... I'm somewhat behind on my books for the last month. So far, nothing's really jumped out at me as something that I really missed. Nothing internet shattering anyway. Dick and Damian are Batman & Robin? BLINDSIDE! I'm not complaining, that's what we all wanted, but that whole miniseries was kind of a waste of time since we all saw it coming. "Battle for the Cowl" - No. But "Batman & Robin" - Yes!

What else...? Green Lantern was a bit "meh." The last scene was a bit confusing but I believe Hal lost a hand. Him having a glowing green replacement hand would be kinda cool. Oh, and remember when Hal as the Spectre demolished Black Hand's, er, hand way back in Rebirth? Yeah, karma's a bitch, Jordan. Although I still think Agent Orange is kind of lame, as was the "controversial" deal the Guardians made with him. Seemed reasonable to me. I'm just waiting for Hector Hammond to take the Orange Lantern. Come on! Do it already! That reminds me, I really want to do a "re-reading GL" segment sometime, seeing if i can glean anything from the earlier pages as we lead up to Blackest Night. Maybe next month. (More on that later.)

And I can't really think of any other books worth mentioning, sadly. Captain America has been shamelessly spinning its wheels until we get to #600. (Well, for the last issue or two... Alright, "shamelessly" was too harsh. But I'm not backspacing.) Spider-Man has really sucked lately, although American Son has me moderately interested. Supes and all related titles have stayed the course, no other Batman books, and I've dropped all the X-Men books. So that's all I can think of off the top of my head without my stack in front of me.

But since I'm back and have some free time now, we'll be hitting up the Character of the Month once again. June's winner is Daredevil. I have no real reason for picking him other than I just picked up the Brubaker Omnibus and I have a ton of DD books: Frank Miller's Omnibus & Companion, Bendis's Omnibus, Smith's Guardian Devil, Loeb's Yellow, and The Man Without Fear and Born Again by Miller. I'll be reading some of those for the first time and rereading others, so it should be a fun month. (I'm thinking Green Lantern will be July's since Blackest Night kicks off then.)

Plus it's a big week for me, issues and collections alike:

Issues:

Action Comics #878

Batman #687

Flash: Rebirth #3

Green Lantern Corps #37

Red Robin #1

Amazing Spider-Man #597

X-Men Forever #1

Collections:

Final Crisis

X-Men: Phoenix Rising MPC

X-Men Noir

Ultimates Omnibus

Phew... good thing I got all that cash for wedding gifts...