Saturday, June 6, 2015

Convergence (Review)

Here we come, just after trying to solve problems with the TV show based on the adventures of our beloved Green Arrow, we're also dealing and reviewing with the biggest DC event in a very long time. Once Convergence is over, we're about to take a look over this story that is going to take us to the next level in DC and puts end to the controversials New52. Before starting, I got to make clear that we're only going to talk about the main Convergence story, as we forget about all of the tie-in.

First of all and most important: Convergence is a direct sequel of Earth-2 from the New52. This is not a new event with a new and different story that involves main characters from de DC universe. Yes, one the villains is new, but this is all about where the Earth-2 line let us hanged on. So this storyline could result (and problably will result) completely confusing for the new fans, the New52 Justice League fans and all of that peolpe who never read any of the DC's 'what if...' ever made.

Let's get to the story. This is all about Brainiac collecting cities from alternative lines which are already doomed. As you can guess, here appear Flashpoint, Kingdom Come, Red Son or Kingdom Come characters. Once these cities are trapped (or save?) on a new planet provided by Brainiac and outside the multiverse, the villain create for himself his own Silver Surfer, here called Telos. Once Brainic leave his planet in order to look for new doomed universes, Telos is left by the command of confront captured cities between each other. The point is: the one who survive, is worthy of inherit the planet. Meanwhile, Earth-2 main heroes are transported to the planet just by themself, because earth had just being destroyed by Dearseid. 

This is a story about Earth-2 characters, heroes who have not actually become theirself into it yet, but they have a road to go. As concern to Jay Garrick, Thomas Wayne, Alan Scott... they're the soul of the story and everything related to them are clearly the best stuff. Bad news: this is a hell of a disappointing event. The possibilities and hugeness of Convergence demanded something better with main line. Big and interesting fight have been relegated to the tie-ins. Actually that works in some lines, but there's no trace of it in the main story. There's a feeling of none taken chance over there. 

Visually, artists changing in the middle of the story does not affect too much to the final result. Indeed, we could say that, globaly, Convergence look is one of his strongest points, resulting with something colorful, dynamic and vivid, but certainly emotionless in episodes the book needed most.

At the end, what we have is a very funny and enjoyable comic book, who takes us to a very new and original world full of winks to the DC history. Lack of drama, and most important, relevance to the new upcoming universe, this Convergence, as much light as it is, only serve as a very good closing chapter to the New52 Earth-2 storyline, but nothing beyond that.

Friday, June 5, 2015

FIXING ARROW

It's been a while I've not written supid stuff over here such as Rey Harper becoming new Jason Todd in DC tv shows universe. Yeah, all of us have already guess how right I was about it. But, if that was a clever move, I disagree. I'm sure none of us liked the side-kick-changing from Roy to Thea. There's so many bad ideas coming from the writers on this third season that I can't take it any longer. I'm about to explode if the fourth season is going to be as bad as this last one. So, as a deliverance and something becoming regular, I'm about to tell you, all people in the world, but most specifically, CW's Arrow writers, how to fix the show:

1. Release Stephen Amell. Let him laugh, let him joke. Oliver Queen character is a big son of a bitch, but that doesn't exclude charisma, because at the end of the day he's more kind of a rogue. He can be dark, but also fun.

The lovely tie-arrow
2. Most important point: FIRE THAT HORRIBLE FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHER. He/she is terrible, I've seen nothing like this since Reeve's Superman. Character does a lot of unnecesary loop , use the bow on a pretty dumb way and he is fuckin' slow. Besides, that's enough for the tie-arrow wild card.

3. Romantic twist towards Laurel. I could have never imagine my self saying this but the show needs a li'l more romantic issues coming from the main character, and all of that hero-damsel thing doesn't work anymore with Felicity. They've made her silly this third season, she's not the sarcastic cad carachter anymore. Plus, Laurel is now at the same badass level as she is in the comics, now it's time for that weird relationship between her and Oli.

4. NO MORE FLASHBACKS. That's enough. I already know where the Arrow was, who trained him, why he's tormented, how he learned chinese, how he learnt how to torture...OK. Alright. Cause' this season flashbacks have been sooooo slow and soooo boring.

5. Oliver Queen back. And I mean he getting back the money, he adopting again the millionaire handsome alter ego. Let's se some versatility on the charachter.

6. The villain. This point is not so necesary, but the villain has to be again someone who take it personal. Thay've given us a curious and comic looking Ra's with lots of mythology. But the villain-hero conversations were too weak and repetitive. And with this, I come back to the previous point. Because a coming-back Oliver Queen who deals with the Star City (NOT Starling) jet set could find in the path some villains such as racism, corruption and people's hate.

7. And for the last: THE GOATEE!!