Xepherus Reads

Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons !    When I heard that DC Comics was yet again re launching their titles I was   skeptical. I had   not been a fan of   the   New 52, and I was   not too impre ss ed with Convergence. But slowly I began to see bits and pieces of Rebirth begin to surface. One story that was surprising ly   riveting   was the   Final Days of Superman .     This story ran   in single issue form in   A ction Comics   #51-52,   B atman/Superman   #31-32,   Superman/Wonder Woman   #28-29, and   S uperman   #51-52.    All chapters were   written by Peter Tomasi and drawn by Mikel Janin, Ed Benes , Paul Pelletier, and Doug Ma hn ke .   As   the   story begins   we see a Man of Steel who has fought many battles and has faced   many odds. After a series of tests he knows that he   is now dying.   Ka...

Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons ,   The eff ects of the return of t he Pre-Flashpoint Superman w ere just the beginning. Elsewhere in t he New 52 Universe, the tales of one woman's journey away from the super hero game began kicking and screaming. And the broken memories of the former Teen Titans were triggered when a deadly fo e from the past returned. Highlighted areas denote my review links. Black Canary: Songs for Broken Gods and Superwomen       You don't become a mem ber of Barabara Gordon's super-group for nothin g. Former Bird of Prey Dinah Lance had gone through quite a lot in a short perio d of time. It all culminated to a fight with Batgirl, and the loss of all of her crime fighting equipment in a major fire. Confronting Gordon and helping her with removing a danger ous AI from the world (Batgirl #35-40), Dinah part ed ways amicably from her former team mate. In a daring twelve issue series of her own by writer, Bren...

Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons ,   DC Comics Rebirth b egan this past Summer, and it has taken   the   comics industry by storm.   T op-selling titles are revitalizing Wonder Woman, Batman, and Superman, and other heroes . An new and old readers are being treated to the storytelling   of old,   hearkening back to the   Silver Age . But to get here, DC Comics needed to begin to sort out decades of stor ies and reboo ts to figure out how   the Rebirth   initiative   would play out.   In an   unprecedented   move by writers and artists, DC Co mics began to weave a new and cohesive comics universe that acknowledge d almost every story   told in the past seventy-plus years. But first, an old friend needed to return.          Here are several storyli nes that paved   the   way to DC Universe Rebirth. Highlighted sections are linked to my reviews of these ev...