FLASH #771 DC COMICS
An amazing tale seems to be getting cut short! Starting off strong with a visit to the Legion of Doom complete with Superfriends cartoon art style it was a shame to see 1 page sneak peeks of storylines that will never happen. I would especially liked to have seen both the Jesse Quick and the with Mopee! (Who is Mopee, I hear you cry! Don’t you remember the Heavely Helpmates from Flash #167 from February of 1967? No? What his cameo in Ambush Bug #3 from August of 1985?) But unfortunately, aside from the beautifully illustrated 1 pagers, we get nothing else. It’s almost as if the writer was instructed to cut it short so that the ending could be plopped into this year’s Flash Annual. And what are we getting for that big wrap up? More Golden Age greatness? A tear-jerking visit to the future with Wally’s kids? Nope, we end up back in Sanctuary and one of the most confussing and pointless storylines in recent history. Sigh! Started out great and just fizzled out. I give it a 7 out of 10 Grahams. 
THE GREAT GATSBY #1 CLOVER PRESS
This title is gifted in bring out the grumpy old man in me! (So get ready for a sermon!) Ted Adams and Jorge Coelho do a wonderful job of turning the classic F. Scott Fitzgerald story into comic form. The art work helps bring the story to life and really does it justice. Coelho does a magnificent job of capturing the times in his art. However, as a big time reader (you’re talking to a guy who has read not only the Great Gatsby but also War and Peace, and the Great Dialogues of Plato), I wonder if today’s society even reads any more. While I give full kudos to Clover Press for taking a trip into Classics Illustrated territory, I can’t help but feel that this book will be passed by by the majority of the public and if that person who does stop to pick this up realises that it is based on a literary gem. I would love nothing more than to hear someone picked this book up and was inspired to go to the library (those still exist don’t they?) and check out the source material! Sadly, I don’t think this is going to happen. This is a title with no bright eyecatching colors on the cover. It involves no one with super powers. No deadly horrors, no science fiction jet packs. No end of the universe as we know it stuff. It is about history and the everyday people who lived it. This is the America of 1922 and life back almost 100 years ago. You should be reading this book. I give it a 9 out of 10 Grahams. 
DOCTOR WHO MISSY #3 TITAN COMICS
An interesting premise that had great promise hits a bit of a snag three issues in. I have no doubt that the Roger Delgado version of the Master has already figured out what is really going on in this story but all of Missy’s flubs while playing the part of the Doctor are so blatently obvious that not allowing the readers in on the fact that the original (?) Master is onto her seems disrespectful. As the future unfolds for that Master, he shows very little concern about his future. And why after everything he’s experienced as Missy’s “companion”, he should run off to stalk the halls of 1970’s UNIT to mess with the Brigadier just doesn’t seem right. This one has lost a little footing and gets a 7 out of 10 Grahams.