CBF Quick Picks #5 – Manhunter
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And we’re back and hopefully with better sound quality. Just in case you’re wondering, no, I did not die a slow death last week in those last couple of minutes of last week’s podcast.
I take things back to a book I talked about with Mike many podcasts go. This is the last volume in the series of stories on defense attorney Kate Spencer, which is a shame because it ended here on such a high note. Manhunter would go on to co-star in other series such as Birds of Prey, but this book will go down as one of the highlights in her very short career.
Plus it has a robotic dog – do I really need to convince you any more to get this book now?
Comic Book Fury 4: Blackest Night Preview
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Tim and I tease a little bit about X-Men Origins: Wolverine
We discuss Free Comic Book Day, when I picked up Blackest Night Zero. It’s a fantastic primer for what’s happening in the Lantern Corps and the coming Blackest Night story arch which we think will be THE story of the summer. Tim gives us a little history on the Anti Monitor, because he’s very important to the Blackest Night story. See if your local comic shop still has some copies of it.
Everything begins this July with Green Lantern 43 and Blackest Night 1.
And you must get this T Shirt right now:
Black Lantern
We finish up the Neil Gaiman Batman story. It was an odd ending and we don’t get where this fits into the rest of the Batman stories, especially with what happened in Final Crisis. One of the problems with getting a guest writer like Neil Gaiman is you expect a lot, maybe too much. Plus, his style is very different than what Batman readers are used to. It’s still a good story, but we’ll wait to see what happens before we place
Tim reviews the latest Green Lantern, how mixing blue and green is pretty dang powerful, and his battle against the Orange Lantern. I might be done with Ghost Rider already. It’s a little too campy for me right now. I will check out Jason Aaron’s other book Wolverine Weapon X though.
Tim has found a great comic, which unfortunately has been pulled from production, called Manhunter. Think Law & Order with super villains and a lawyer that turns vigilante when the system breaks down, but not like DareDevil.
We end the show with a little talk about Fables, which we’ll really get into in a few weeks.