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Fear not for this LJ will not be home to misery or  even idle discussion of anything rubbish in my life. If your looking for misery and recrimination then keep on browsing, don't worry theres someone going through something depressing on every other page here it seems! 
Therefore this LJ will be a place of random thoughts, topical discussion, news and reviews which admittedly probably isn't as exciting as reading about someone finding out their boyfriend is actually sleeping with their parents and best friend but  hey ho what ya gonna do? If your answer is not read then I guess you win..... 

As I'm at work currently and haven't seen todays headlines I'll use the old fall back and do a short review/recommendation a couple of comic series I've been reading recently starting with:

Welcome to Tranquility #1-#5:- After reading issue 5 which marks the beginning of the end for the first arc I have to say I'm really enjoying this series. Judging by the sales figures (gained from Marc Olivers helpful info for DC comics sales here ) it does indeed look like I'm one of the few however. The series revolves around a town filled with retired wartime superheroes and follows the investigation into the murder of one of their number. The use of "aged" comic pages that show the heroes in their prime are a novel idea and one that really helps keep the tone light and bouncy even against the darker elements contained within it.  I have to say that Issue 5 really caught me out, subtle things I hadn't noticed in previous issues suddenly become glaringly obvious and I'm really intrigued as to where issue 6 will take us.  

Marvel Zombies Vs Army of Darkness #1-#2:-  Spinning off from the Mavel Zombies series in which everyones favourite heroes (maybe not everyones but you get the point) have become zombies and spend their time eating various other characters in the Marvel Universe (Magneto, Silver Surfer and Galactus being notable mentions) comes possibly the greatest cross over possible given the subject matter by introducing the chintastic Ash to the mix. While not 100% perfect the characterisation of Ash is extremely good and to watch him make his way through the world of spandex clad vigilantes is class. I'm also extremely impressed that the cause of the zombie outbreak is a the necronomicon causing superpowered deadites. It's only up to issue 2 at the moment but following a fateful encounter with a zombiefied Howard the Duck things are looking pretty grim for the boomstick wielding time traveller! 

The Midnighter #1-#6:- Oh dear....... I'll say it now I was a massive fan of the Wildstorm Universe. Stormwatch, The Authority, Wildcats were amongst my favoutie series and I was genuinely looking forward to the reboot of the universe. I loved the set up and the fact that Captain Atom from regular DCU was used to bring it about (Captain Atom: Armageddon for those that missed it) however they have really dropped the ball alround. The Authority hasn't made it past issue 2, Wildcats is stalled at issue 1 and this solo series from Garth Ennis has really dissapointed me. In a 6 issue arc 5 issues dealt with the Midnighter being forced to go back in time to kill Hitler, meeting some ill defined time police in the process and eventually kicking someones head off and issue 6 was a stand alone story that relocated the Midnighter and Apollo to ancient Japan. Admittedly this is a brief description that misses some of the finer nuiances but in my opinion it's about all it deserves. By all means check it out just don't go in expecting too much, the characterisation is weak, the plot has huge holes in it and the aforementioned time police are poor existing only to facilitate the Midnighters time travel get out clause and provide a couple of cheap laughs along the way. 


And thats that, I'll be more lucid and intresting with the next post honest!

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