Comic Panel of the Week: Everyone Hates Charmy the Bee

No one likes Charmy and this was before he even had a voice actor.

Justice League Dark (2018) #2 Review

Wow it's been a while since I wrote a review for a single issue of a comic. Justice League Dark wasn't my favorite book to come out of the New 52 but out of the other Justice League books we got I think it was the most interesting. Although it was relatively popular, lasting at least 40 issues, I was surprised that they were bringing it back after the No Justice event. Even though I was less interested I decided to give the first issue a chance and it was okay, nothing spectacular. I wasn't even going to read this issue but after seeing my favorite Superhero Doctor Fate on the cover while at the comic store I decided to give it another chance. So did I make the right call? Let's find out.

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Just to catch you up from the first issue there is something wrong with magic and it has something to do with creatures called The Otherkind. In order to figure out what's going on Wonder Woman enlists the help of Zatanna as well as Swamp Thing, Detective Chimp, and Kirk Langstrom aka Man-Bat who form the new Justice League Dark. In this issue after finding out that whatever is going on is also affecting the Red (The energy that connects all living animals on earth) they decide to request the help of Doctor Fate and they travel to the Tower of Fate in Salem. When they arrive however Doctor Fate is acting strange and will only talk to Wonder Woman and Zatanna. They go to a different part of the tower and Doctor Fate starts to tell them the origins of Magic as well as a retconned origin for Nabu and the Lord's of Order where instead of being cosmic beings they are the first humans who learned to use and manipulate magic.

Meanwhile Langstrom and Detective Chimp are looking around the tower while waiting for the others to return when they find Khalid, the DCYou Doctor Fate, imprisoned in a pot that Langstrom accidentally breaks. He tells them that Kent hasn't been in control and that Nabu imprisoned him in the pot right before he shatters like the pot he was imprisoned in. Hopefully they didn't just kill him off because while Paul Levitz's Doctor Fate isn't my favorite run I like Khalid. Anyway back with the others Fate reveals that he is Nabu and he is behind the Otherkind. His reasoning is that magic is naturally chaotic and only by destroying it can there be order. Wonder Woman and Zatanna attack him but he flees as the world goes dark and the comic ends with the Otherkind finally arriving on this world.

I really enjoyed this issue and I am glad I gave it another chance since this was way better then the last issue. Before I talk about my thoughts however I think I should address the elephant in the room in that this storyline bears some resemblance to a story that was in Doctor Strange a year or two ago called the Last Days of Magic in which extra dimensional beings called the Empirikal are trying to destroy magic on earth. I would say this might be a coincidence since beside the core concept of the story the details and execution are different but while looking up stuff on this book earlier today I discovered that the first trade for this series is also titled the Last Days of Magic. So i'll let you decided if this is a rip-off or not.

I'm kinda pissed they made Doctor Fate a d!ck again however I think the execution was handled well and made sense for Nabu's characters. At least it was way better then in Injustice 2 where he decides Brainiac is right to blow up the earth. I just hope he dosen't go full villian and I hope he didn't kill Kent or Khalid. There was also a really good scene, that I didn't mention in the plot synopsis, between John Constantine and Swamp Thing that made me nostalgic for Alan Moore's run on Swamp Thing. I shouldn't forget to mention that the art was really good, Doctor Fate hasn't looked this cool in a while. Once again I should say that I really liked this issue, like alot of books since Rebirth it feels like the books I was reading when I started reading comics.

Comic Panel(s) of the Week: My Little Plastic Man

My Opinion on Richter Belmont Being Announced for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Richter Belmont was announced to be a playable character in the upcoming Super Smash Bros. Ultimate during today's Nintendo Direct, and I AM SO HYPED!!! From the title of this blog you can probably guess I'm a huge Castlevania fan. This is like a dream come true. If there was only one Castlevania character to be in Smash I figured it would be Simon since he's who everyone knows but if I had a choice it would of been Richter since Rondo of Blood is my favorite Castlevania game and naturally he's my favorite Belmont but I didn't think they would both be in the game. It was so nostalgia for me to see him again it reminds me of when I use to play Dracula X Chronicles on my PSP, and how I use to stay up after I was suppose to be In bed on school nights and play it. I can't wait to play Smash Ultimate now.

Judging from how hype everyone is right now it just goes to show you that if you have a crossover game people want to see cool characters that they have a connection to and that their not just functions, right Marvel Infinite. Sorry to all you Infinite fans I actually think it's the best fighting game to play out there right now but it does have alot of issues with it. Mostly stemming from Marvel's X-Men Vendetta but hopefully now that they own Fox they will cut that out.

I'm Rambling but it's been a while since I was this hyped for anything. I don't think I was even this hyped when Megaman came out. With this, the Netflix series, and Bloodstained Curse of the Moon it's been a good year to be a Castlevania fan. Anyway are there any characters announced for Smash that your excited about? Post a comment if you like? Is it obvious that I don't know how to end a post yet? This is The Mystery Theatre saying have a wonderful non-curse-filled night.