Nov 17 2008
Greetings – once again – from your friendly neighborhood Searnold [Shár- Nŭhld]. Today is Monday, November 17th, 2008. Welcome to my daily comic book review blog – thanks for tuning in! Are you interested in a comic book but not sure you want to shell out the cash? Let me know and I’ll review it for you – letting you know if it’s worth your hard earned money!
Today’s Issue:
Final Crisis – Resist, published by DC in October, 2008 – written by Greg Rucka (Final Crisis: Revelations, Detective Comics) with pencils by Eric Trautman (Checkmate). This is another one-shot that has a direct tie-in to Final Crisis.
Premise:
Anti-Life has spread everywhere. But the members of Checkmate are trying to survive in this post-apocalyptic world, and maybe even fight back.
Awesome Parts:
I was far more okay with Resists’ tie-in than with Submit’s. Resist shows a few characters and how they are reacting to the spreading of Anti-Life. If you want to see how Checkmate is handling the Crisis, you read this issue. If you don’t care, you can skip it. That’s what tie-ins are supposed to be. But you know what… now that I think about the ending, and the fact that it went so far as to specifically say “To be Continued in Final Crisis,” I have to imagine that issue 5 or 6 of Final Crisis will require you to have read this book. So we’ll see. Overall though I enjoyed seeing this collection of characters’ resistance more than I enjoyed watching Black Lightning and The Tattooed Man argue at each other. The greatest part about this issue is that despite not knowing who a single one of these characters are, I had no difficulty understanding what was going on.
Un-Awesome Parts:
I’m still having trouble understanding what the Hell happened when Darkseid released Anti-Life. From what I can tell, it just makes everyone wear a mind control helmet. And it also appears that the helmet has to be put on you - as we have directly seen this happen to many people. So how did it spread so fast? And why were there some nurses in this issue who had the mind control helmets on but were taking care of babies? Darkseid doesn’t seem to want normal life to continue. And how did those without the helmets defend themselves from it? That’s that whole giant part of this story that they just decided for some unknown reason not to show us. Also, this story doesn’t REALLY have an ending. That’s the part that I’m worried is going to happen in Final Crisis, and you’ll HAVE to have read Resist for it to make sense.
My Recommendation:
I would actually recommend picking this up. It’s kind of like a zombie story - but with super powers. This group of people are trying to survive in a post-apocalyptic world where they can’t get caught being alive because the “zombies” will get them. And the Checkmate organization looks pretty bad-ass. You don’t even need to understand the larger context of Final Crisis for this to be a cool post-apocalyptic story.
Alright - that’s all my rambling for today. As always - thanks for reading - see you tomorrow for Final Crisis - Rage of the Red Lanterns. And don’t forget to let me know if there are any comic books you’d like me to review for you – I take requests!
-Searnold, SuperSearnold@yahoo.com www.myspace.com/SuperSearnold
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