Some thoughts about Red Hood and the Outlaws #35

Roy Harper has been badly hurt but how did it happen?

Jason and Roy are still dealing with the ramifications of Starfire's actions and they're starting to doubt if she's okay but despite of their best efforts that might not be enough to help her.

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Some thoughts about Green Lantern: New Guardians #26

Kyle Rayner needs to save the future from an alien civilization but which one?

The Exurians have been steling important moments from different alternate timelines to create their paradise planet but now those alternate timelines have decide to strike back. Kyle will have to choose between destroy a perfect civilization or continue to see another getting ruined.

Some thoughts about Aquaman Annual #1

Aquaman and The Others are united again to face a new supernatural threat.

Morgane Le Fey has stolen Vostok's helmet so she can acquire its power and to prevent that from happening The Others will have to face their own worst fears and weaknesses and some of them may actually succumb to their influence.

Okay, some aspects from the original premise have been altered. At first this story's focus was going to be about a new owner of Vostok's helmet but now it has been changed to be about The Others battling against Morgane Le Fey, still, John Ostrander does a great job at portraying all these characters and their motivations. I'm serious, when The Others first appeared on Geoff Johns' Aquaman run they were a pretty cool concept but lacked some subtance and personality.

Now, Ostrander manages to inject their own voice and strenghts not only personality-wise but also in terms of their abilities, The Operative is a much more Batman-style paranoid soldier, The Prisoner is actually funny at times now and Ya'wara, well, you will know.

Geraldo Borges handles the art and it's simply amazing. He follows the same tone that Ivan Reis and Paul Pelletier have been developing on the main series and he does it wonderfully, full of detail a greatly looking. This man deserves more work.

This was obviously a set-up for the upcoming The Others ongoing series and so far it's a pretty promising premise. Well written, interesting direction and future, let's just hope they keep Borges on pencils.

Some thoughts about Aquaman #23.2: Ocean Master

The former king of Atlantis is finally free to recover his kingdom.

After spending a while in prison due to his invasion towards the surface world, Ocean Master is now able to go back to help his people but he will soon learn that the surface dwellers might also need him.

This is the second collaboration between Geoff Johns and Tony Bedard and I'm happy to say that this one is an improvement over the previous one. The portrayal of Ocean Master her is much more complex than in any previous incarnation, showing how he's a product of his culture which may make him cruel and cold in some cases but he may also be compasionate towards others.

Art duties belong to Geraldo Borges this time and he actually does a quite good job, some of the scenes and characters are pretty impressive. His style reminds me a lot of Eddy Barrows', I hope he's a lot more consistent though.

Anyway, really good issue. It's amazing how much Ocean Master's character has improved on the reboot.