52 Or Shatner: Week 9
52 Or Shatner: Week 9
Jul 07Every week, I face a lonely, difficult decision: Do I write about the latest issue of 52? Or do I post a photo of William Shatner? Truly, it is akin to how Christ must have felt as he wept blood at Gethsemane.
Click to learn which side of my brain wore out–the tiny, writerly side or the gigantic lazy side–this week.
The tiny, writerly side.
I really enjoyed this week’s issue, even if most of it is a fight scene between John Irons and his niece Natasha. I think the length of the scene was necessary–it had a genuine emotional payoff to this particular portion of this particular storyline. Giving it that much space and even indulging in a partial splash page offered heft to the fractures in their relationship.
And I think ultimately, history will record the “History of the DCU” backup as one big fat boring wasted opportunity. It’s easy to understand only as a weekly devourer of pages; otherwise, it’s hard to see the point in an abbreviated review of the DCU’s history that has virtually no surprising changes, unless you bother to glare through your boredom and try to figure out the miniscule omissions that must count to somebody as “earth-shattering.”
