That's the point where Dr. House pops up and screams "Right, he's in his 20s, of course his brain can't be failing him! Let's cure him with cheese fries and pornography!" At which point someone says "Or we try angry, petty sarcasm." And throws House through a window. Whatever works really. Spoilers are in here somewhere. Probably.

In addition, Brubaker appears to be going the legacy route with I.F., which is OK, and showing us both sides of Danny's life. That's fine too. Honestly, the thing I liked best was the major threat he ran into near the end of the book. Pretty cool, even though I'm not sure I'm feeling David Aja's art. It's too, I don't know, scratchy? I can't really describe it. Either way, I'm on board for the time being. Just hope I can handle the "slow burn" style I've heard Brubaker's got. 3.6 out of 5.
The Punisher #41 - I still like Leandro Fernandez' art. I just wanted to mention that, because I don't think I have recently. Let's see, Punisher is captured. Yeah, that'll go well for the bad guys. Especially when Frank shows that his ability to conceal things inside himself would let him fit in at prison. Things go well, then they stop going well. Not much of what happens is a surprise. We're talking about reoccuring characters in a Garth Ennis Punisher book. Sooner or later, they all stop being "reoccuring".
The last page makes it pretty clear, someone is going to get messed up in the conclusion next month. Which is not really a big surprise. 3.3 out of 5.

Of course, even though they're together, they still aren't together. Raven doesn't seem to like anyone (Eddie reminds her of her dad, Miss Martian is too happy, cripes). I'm not really convinced Tim is a leader, whether because he's got too much "stay in the shadows from Bats", or he's just not up to it. Maybe now that Johns has his lineup, things will gel a bit. I don't know, given all the trust issues that seem to be going on here, I'd swear I was reading Suicide Squad. But Rose and Jericho trying to connect might be an interesting plot line, I don't know about the Kid Devil subplot that seems to be brewing. Hmm, there's a lot I don't know about. I do know it wasn't as solid of an ending as I'd hoped. 3.5 out of 5.
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I agree with you on Teen Titans.
Other than the fact that Miss Martian is more like Supergirl than Supergirl is these days (at least the one in the 21st century...sigh), it's just this somewhat morose team having disjointed, somewhat morose adventures.
And why should I care about Bombshell's betrayal when I don't even know who the @##$% Bombshell is???
I'm dropping this for Teen Titans Go!
Oh, and I thought Iron Fist was awesome but I'm hardly unbiased. :)
fotress: I think you just nicely summed up my problems with Teen Titans for me. Thank you.
And I'm sticking with iron Fist for at least a few more months. I mean, HYDRA doing their HYDRA thing? Gotta love that.
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