I'm sorry but this is too funny. DC sent out advanced issues of DC Universe #1, you know, the big ass issue written by Geoff "I'm Doing Movies Now" Johns, that reboots or rebirths the entire DC universe into some new amalgamation of Pre-52, New 52 and Post-52 Universes. It's funny because clearly they were very selective with who they fucking sent these too and yet someone said, "fuck it" and was so pissed off by the issue that they posted spoilers on the internet. Now I said no spoilers and I won't spoil it in the article because that should be your choice and any time you click on an article that gives you a spoiler cut off, let's be honest you end up reading on. So no, no spoilers here.
To be vague though I will say that it's both clever and overly complicated. Also... I think everyone is going to hate it. Yet sadly, I think I might just end up loving it. It's a very desperate, all or nothing, reboot. Sure they don't want to hear the words "reboot", but fucking hell... this is a reboot and an interesting one at that. Interesting enough that I'll probably go at midnight and buy the fucking thing. If you want to talk spoilers do so in the comments, but start with SPOILER since it's auto tweeted.
Wynonna and company cut through the zombies while she and her newest partner Valdez do a decent amount of bickering. It’s interesting to see a tough female character challenged by another tough female character. This makes their bickering a little bit more interesting as they plot to stop the zombie virus from spreading and gut the threats they come against.
Flash forward to 1804 and we are finally reunited with familiar faces. It’s good to see Lewis and Clark again, until you remember that in the last issue they committed a brutal genocide on a somewhat peaceful race of creatures. Up until that point it was easy to forget that their orders were to eliminate any threats to American Westward Expansion. The expedition comes across an opening and the ruins of the cabin that the 1801 crew had built for their winter stay. Lewis and Clark enter the cabin and in the fire place find a humanoid skull with one horn and one eye socket. This is the same type of skull that Jefferson himself had in his office back in the beginning of this comic. Clark looks at Lewis and says, “This is the spot”.
shakeup in the storytelling by at least the third issue. Where Judge Dredd succeeds is keeping the action moving and the pace of the comic alive, Joe would get tossed from one strange situation to another before even realizing how long he’s gone without sleep. The flow of the action, combined with the banter, the revelations of strange philosophies by several characters and the seeming randomness of it all makes for a strange tale with Judge Dredd in the middle of it all, trying to punch some sense into this new world. I can say this much, listening to Monster Magnet’s album